Lesson # 89—The Word of God is Effectual aaa Shorter Catechism Q & A #89 Q. How is the word made effectual to salvation? A. The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching of the word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up ...
Guard Against Negligence The Eighth Commandment Love for neighbor requires active concern for their property and full restoration of any loss we may cause. Exodus 22:6 “If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire ...
Redeemed in Christ! January 9, 2011 Lesson: Isaiah 44:21–23 Key Verse: Isaiah 44:22 aaaa Introduction The Gospel of our Lord and Savior is being preached in every nation, congregations belonging to Christ being discipled in the glorious Word of God. The hearing of the people of God has to be first tuned ...
Chosen to Serve January 16, 2011 Lesson: Acts 9:1–22 Key Verse: Acts 9:15 aaa Introduction The book of Acts is a revelation of the Holy Spirit's work with people, with the souls of those who have transgressed, repented, and believed. There are also the souls of those who rebel and forever know the ...
In Christ We are Healed January 30, 2011 Lesson: Isaiah 53:1–12 Key Verse: Isaiah 53:5, 11 aaa Introduction We are familiar with the phrase, “Suffering Servant.” God reveals His Son as the Servant who was “despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” (Isa. 53:3). The suffering was ...
Out of Every Nation January 23, 2011 Lesson: Isaiah 49:1–7 Key Verse: Isaiah 49:6 aaa Introduction The theme of the book of Isaiah is “Salvation is of The Lord!” The sin of the nation is recorded in Isaiah 4:1: “Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that ...
The Word of our God January 2, 2011 Lesson: Isaiah 40:1–11 Key Verse: Isaiah 40:8 aaa Introduction As there is no other Name (Jehovah God) under heaven whereby we are saved, there is no other written Word whereby we are comforted. This Word, written, is not of men but of God. We have ...
A Call to Stewardship The Eighth Commandment Exodus 20:15 “You shall not steal.” Deuteronomy 5:19 “‘And you shall not steal.’” All things have been created to serve God’s purposes in bringing glory and honor to His Name (Ps. 119:89-91). God distributes His blessing among men as He will, to whom He will, and in the proportion ...
Stealing The Eighth Commandment You shall not steal The Commandment God is sovereign in the disposition of blessings, and He calls each of us to exercise proper stewardship over what He has entrusted to us and to respect and preserve the stewardship of others. We must not, by stealing in any way, ...
Divorce The Seventh Commandment 7.4 Regulate divorce Deuteronomy 24:1-4 “‘When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her ...