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Pascal Deneau
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The Children of Covenant Liberty
Galatians 4:21–31 presents two covenants through the allegory of Hagar and Sarah, and Paul's argument cuts to the heart of the Judaizing error: those who desire to be under the law have failed to hear what the law itself says about the promise. The Old Covenant, a legal covenant given to the physical posterity of Abraham, produces only bondage; the Covenant of Grace, secured by Christ, produces free heirs of the promise. The sermon draws on Nehemiah Cox, John Spilsbury, and Romans 9 to argue that Abraham's two distinct posterities — one of flesh, one of promise — cannot be conflated without damage to justification by faith alone, with direct implications for Reformed Baptist covenant theology and the proper recipients of baptism.
2LCF Chapter 7 - Of God's Covenant
The doctrine of God's covenant is not merely one column in the architecture of systematic theology — it is the architecture itself, the organizing and unifying principle of the entire Bible. This session works through 2LCF Chapter 7, examining the ground of covenant necessity in the creator-creature distinction, the nature of God's voluntary and revelatory condescension, the occasion and provisions of the covenant of grace, and the progressive revelation of that covenant from the protevangelium to its formal ratification in the New Testament. The distinctively Baptist formulation — using 'revelation' rather than 'administration' — reflects the conviction that the covenant of grace was not formally and properly a covenant until Christ ratified it in his blood, a distinction with direct bearing on the doctrine of baptism and the composition of the church.
Of Baptism (2LCF29)
Baptism, as confessed in chapter 29 of the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (2LCF), is examined here as a divine and mediatorial ordinance instituted by Jesus Christ for the New Testament church. The exposition grounds the doctrine of baptism in a web of interconnected doctrines — Scripture, the covenant of grace, effectual calling, union with Christ, and the regulative principle of worship — demonstrating that believers' baptism by immersion is the necessary conclusion of consistently applied Reformed theology. The confession's fourfold structure is traced: what baptism is, to whom it is properly administered, in what element, and by what mode, with sustained argument from Romans 6, Galatians 3, Mark 16, and Matthew 28 that only professing believers are lawful recipients of the ordinance.