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Man’s Chief End I: Glorifying God
1 Corinthians 10:31 is a famous verse. It is the proof text of the famous first question of the Westminster Shorter Catechism: “What is the chief end of men?” As our children will know very well, the answer is “Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.”
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Man’s Chief End II: Enjoying God
Many years ago, when I was still a young boy, someone from Campus Crusade approached me. He said, “God loves you and offers a wonderful life for you,” and then he shared what he believed was the gospel with me.
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The Only Rule
The holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. They were like sailboats being driven by the wind to their destination.
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The Principal Points
Most of all, as we learn about God, let us fear Him and love Him. We see through the Scriptures that it is only through Christ that we may enjoy and glorify God.
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God’s Incommunicable Perfections
As we contemplate the fact that God is infinite, eternal and unchangeable, let us remind ourselves of the great distance between God and us.
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God’s Communicable Perfections
Ultimately, the knowledge of God is not merely to inform us about God. Instead, it enables us to relate to God—to praise him, to commune with Him, and to enjoy Him.
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The Alone Living and True God
This verse lends itself naturally to a threefold description of who the Lord Jehovah is: (1) He is the true God; (2) He is the living God; and (3) He is an everlasting King.
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The Triune God
If you believe in the Bible, you must believe in the doctrine of the Trinity. You cannot truly be a Christian if you do not believe in the Trinity.
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My Counsel Shall Stand
All who are generally regarded as Christian accept the doctrine of the Trinity, but not all believe this doctrine. I am referring to the sovereignty of God…
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God’s Work of Creation
Praise the Lord that though we are but dust, He has made us appreciate how He created the world so that we may glorify Him and enjoy Him forever.
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The Creation of Man
God ordered everything in our creation so that we may be brought to think about Christ when we think about our existence.
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The Providence of God
You are reading this sermon because God has ordained, from before the foundation of the world, that you should be doing so now.
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The Covenant of Life
Divine covenants are the relational mechanisms God has employed to bridge the distance between infinite God and finite man.
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What Is Sin?
Righteousness is not what people say of you or how honest or gentlemanly you are. To be righteous in God’s eye is to be perfectly aligned with God’s law.
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The Fall of Mankind
Adam’s sin resulted in sin and death for all mankind. You and I are sinners because of Adam’s sin. You and I deserve to die because of Adam’s first sin.
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The Children of God’s Wrath
If you know that you are a sinner, dead in trespasses and sin, know that you are bound for hell, and hear Christ calling, you are Lazarus. Christ is calling you: “Lazarus, come forth!”
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Chosen in Christ
We cannot save ourselves because all our righteous deeds are filthy rags in the sight of God. We cannot pay for our sins, nor can we win a place in heaven by good works. What hope, then, do we have?
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The Covenant of Grace
Thank God that the Messiah has come. We have eternal life because the covenant of grace has been fulfilled for us.
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The Redeemer
Do you recognise your need for a redeemer? Do you know the redeemer? Do you live as one who knows your redeemer?
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Our Only Mediator & Redeemer
Since the fall of Adam and the first proclamation of the gospel in Genesis 3:15, God’s people have been waiting for the Messiah, the Anointed One.
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The Son of God Became the Son of Man
Christ must take on human nature in the same way that all human beings take on their nature. As we are conceived in our mother’s womb, so it must be for Him.
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Christ, Our Prophet
Jesus Christ is the Word of God. That is, He is the revelation of God. He reveals God to us.
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Christ, Our Great High Priest
We need the Lord Jesus to be our Great High Priest because there is no way we can approach the holy heavenly Father otherwise.
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Christ, the King of Kings
If Christ is your King, glorify Him. Glorify Him individually, as families and as a church.
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The Humiliation of Christ
Christ, the Son of God, who is God Himself, emptied Himself and humbled Himself for the sake of all He came to represent.
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The Exaltation of Christ
When the Lord comes as triumphant Judge and King, every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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The Holy Spirit
Are you conscious of being led by the Spirit? If you are a son or daughter of God, you will be conscious of the Holy Spirit’s leading.
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Ye Must Be Born Again
Have you been born again? Some of us have assumed we are Christian because we prayed to receive Christ many years ago…
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The Lost Son & the Effectual Call
Because of what the Holy Spirit did, we were irresistibly drawn to Christ and found salvation in Him and reconciliation with the Father.
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The Lost Son & the Benefits of the Effectual Call
It is enough that my Father has received me for Christ, my elder brother’s sake. There is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus!
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Justified by Grace Through Faith
Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.
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Amazing Adoption
We are all adoptive children of God our heavenly Father, and Christ Jesus is our Elder Brother. We are all brothers and sisters to one another.
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The Mystery of Sanctification
Now, this is precisely what sanctification is about. It is essentially dying unto sin and growing in Christ-likeness!
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The Glow of the Golden Chain
The Lord is ready to bless every one of His children with assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.
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Blessings at Death
Let us learn to give much attention to the cultivation of the health of our soul as we wait upon the Lord for the day when our soul will be perfected for the glory of Christ.
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The Resurrection
The resurrection is part of the redemptive plan of God that centres on the Lord Jesus Christ. It is an inviolable fact that believers who die will rise again one day.
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The Whole Duty of Man
Though God requires of us perfect obedience, we can never be saved by our perfect obedience. Thank God for Christ Jesus our Lord who kept God’s revealed will for us perfectly.
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The Moral Law
Because the moral law has been given, all men are liable to be judged, and all men are guilty before God.
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The Ten Commandments
The Moral Law alone is applicable to all men, in every place and at all times.
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The Greatest Commandments
Christ shows us how to keep the commandments and how to love. He shows us that it is possible to keep the law perfectly and to love perfectly.
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The LORD, our God, and Redeemer
We are bound not only by duty but also by gratitude to keep the commandments.
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No Other GODs
God has spoken: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”. In this article, we consider the First Commandment in six simple propositions…
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Worship Acceptably
In this article, we look at the second commandment.
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Honour the LORD’s Name
In this article, we go through the Third Commandment as the WSC teaches us
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The Holy Sabbath
May the Lord help us to delight in the Sabbath of the Lord and seek both to keep it holy and to delight in it to the glory of God and Christ, our Creator and Redeemer, for the good of our body and soul.
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Keeping the Sabbath Holy
May Christ, the Lord of the Sabbath, be greatly exalted as we seek to make it known to the world that we belong to Him by making His day a delight.
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Honour Whom Honour Is Due
Our Shorter Catechism teaches us that the Fifth Commandment has to do with our relationship with superiors, inferiors and equals.
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Murder Not!
We shall see how the sixth commandment is much more than commonly understood, a prohibition of homicide.
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Flee Adultery!
Cast your burden and guilt on the Lord Jesus Christ. He can heal you of your guilty conscience, and He alone can forgive you. But go and sin no more.
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Steal Not!
If we understand what is required in the Eighth Commandment, then we will realise that none of us can claim to have never stolen.
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Be Honest!
May I remind you that the devil is the father of lies? Those who do not find it essential to tell the truth at all times are, no doubt, held captive by the devil.
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Be Content!
Learn to deal with the remnant of covetousness, beloved brethren and children, so that you will be prepared for heaven, wherein all the things you covet in this life will be useless.
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Filthy Rags
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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Striving To Enter the Kingdom
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
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The Gift of Faith
Our faith is not alone. It is a saving faith, for by this faith, we obtain life, even a life of good works for the glory of God. Glory to the Father!
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The Gift & Duty of Repentance
What is Repentance unto Life? There are five steps involved in repentance unto life or true repentance. Steps that the prodigal son took in his repentance.
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The Means of Grace
The means of grace are essential for our spiritual growth. They are not optional. They are not to be used in a mechanical and faithless fashion.
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Faith Comes by Hearing
Are you receiving the word as good ground, and so hear Christ speaking to you and grow in holiness and comfort? Or are you a wayside, stony ground or thorny ground?
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Signs And Seals
How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation? What is a sacrament? Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?
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Baptism
Through our Lord’s Great Commission and other related texts, we see the What, Why, How, Who and When of baptism.
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Covenant infant Baptism
Our Shorter Catechism, Question 95 asks, “To whom is baptism to be administered?” We see how the Scriptures supports the answer in the Shorter Catechism
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The Lord’s Supper
The Lord’s Supper is an essential ordinance of the Lord. With each Lord’s Supper we observe, we are nearer to the coming again of our Lord.
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Preparation for the Table
What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord’s supper? Our Shorter Catechism summarises these biblical instructions for us.
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What is Prayer?
What is prayer? How to pray? Why pray? These are questions that few of us will ask when we become Christians.
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The Complete Guide for Prayer
We can’t pray effectually until we know how, what and when God wants us to pray in His Word. What is God’s complete guide for prayer? It is the whole word of God!
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How We Ought not to Pray
Prayer must not be for show. Remember that your primary audience is God, who knows your heart better than you do. Your primary audience is not those who are joining you in prayer.
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Our Father Which Art in Heaven
WSC 100 of 107 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.…
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Hallowed Be Thy Name
WSC 101 of 107 …Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name Matthew 6:9 WSC 101. What do we pray for in the first petition? A. In the first petition (which is, Hallowed be thy name1) we pray, That God would enable us and others to glorify him in all that whereby he…
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Thy Kingdom Come
WSC 102 of 107 …Thy kingdom come Matthew 6:10a WSC 102. What do we pray for in the second petition? A. In the second petition (which is, Thy kingdom come1), we pray, That Satan’s kingdom may be destroyed;2 and that the kingdom of grace may be advanced,3 ourselves and others brought into it, and kept…
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Thy Will Be Done
WSC 103 of 107 Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven Matthew 6:10b WSC 103. What do we pray for in the Third Petition? A. In the Third Petition—(which is, thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven1)—we pray, That God, by His grace, would make us able…
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Give us This Day Our Daily Bread
WSC 104 of 107 Give us this day our daily bread Matthew 6:11 WSC 104. What do we pray for in the fourth petition? A. In the fourth petition (which is, Give us this day our daily bread 1) we pray, That of God’s free gift we may receive a competent portion of the good…
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Forgive us our Debt
WSC 105 of 107 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors Matthew 6:12 WSC 105. What do we pray for in the fifth petition? A. In the fifth petition—(which is, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors1)—we pray, That God, for Christ’s sake, would freely pardon all our sins;2…
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Lead Us Not into Temptation
WSC 106 of 107 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil Matthew 6:13 WSC 106. What do we pray for in the Sixth Petition? A. In the Sixth Petition—(which is, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil1)—we pray, That God would either keep us from being tempted…
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For Thine is the Kingdom
WSC 107 of 107 For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen Matthew 6:13b WSC 107. What doth the conclusion of the Lord’s Prayer teach us? A. The conclusion of the Lord’s Prayer—(which is, for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever, amen1)—teacheth us to take…
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