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Clip: Breathtaking kindness! And the danger of rejecting the Son
Drawing from John 3 and John 6:37, this excerpt sets the grace of God in sending his Son against the solemn reality of condemnation for unbelief. The breathtaking condescension of the incarnation — that the only true God came down for sinners — is meant to produce humility, admiration, and worship. The appeal closes with the binary that brooks no middle ground: come to Christ and be saved, or die in your sins.
October 23, 2022 - Sunday School Confessional Study - 2LCF 21
Christian Liberty, as confessed in 2LCF chapter 21, encompasses freedom from sin's guilt, power, and punishment through the finished work of Christ, as well as freedom in worship and obedience under the New Covenant. The study traces the confession's three-fold account of expanded New Testament liberty — release from the ceremonial law's yoke, greater boldness of access to the throne of grace, and fuller communications of the Spirit — over against the identical substance of liberty enjoyed by Old Testament believers. Liberty of conscience is distinguished from Christian liberty proper: the former is a natural right grounded in the image of God, the latter a gospel privilege; both together guard against ecclesiastical tyranny, civil totalitarianism, and the demand for implicit faith. The session closes by warning that Christian liberty must never be perverted into licentiousness, but rather issue in joyful, cheerful obedience — serving the Lord without fear in holiness all the days of one's life.
June 26, 2022 - Sunday School Confession Study (2LCF 7)
The covenant of works and the covenant of grace are not competing arrangements but sequentially related covenants that together explain why Christ had to become a man, obey the law perfectly, and bear its curse. Working through 2LCF Chapter 7, this study traces the Creator-creature distinction that grounds the covenant of works, the fall that rendered humanity incapable of meeting its terms, and the covenant of grace wherein God freely transfers sinners from Adam's representation to Christ's through spiritual regeneration and faith. The Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants are examined as historical types that reveal but do not constitute the covenant of grace — a distinction with direct bearing on the Reformed Baptist rejection of paedobaptist covenant structures.
Wedding Stream
Paul's prayer in Ephesians 3:14–19 frames the theological heart of this wedding message: that the strength, knowledge, and fullness believers need for godly marriage flow entirely from what God has accomplished in salvation. The sermon moves from the doctrinal foundation of Ephesians 1–2 through the spiritual petitions of chapter 3, arriving at the practical marital responsibilities of Ephesians 5 — the wife's submission and respect, the husband's sacrificial love and leadership after the pattern of Christ and the church. Drawn from Luther's counsel and the creation account in Genesis, the message calls both husband and wife to reflect the mystery of Christ's covenant union with his bride in the daily conduct of their marriage.
Wednesday Night Bible Study (Feb 23, 2022) - 4th Commandment, Part V
This concluding session on the Fourth Commandment (Exodus 20:8-11) surveys the entire biblical-theological arc from creation through the new covenant, demonstrating that the weekly sabbath is a perpetual moral obligation rooted in creation and redemption, not a ceremonial shadow abolished at the cross. The lecture reviews the progression from Genesis 2, Exodus 16, and Sinai through the prophets, the ministry of Christ, apostolic practice, and Hebrews 4, before working through the 1689 LBCF chapter 22, paragraphs 7 and 8, on the Christian sabbath. Application addresses the threefold use of the law with respect to sabbath, answers objections from alleged anti-sabbatarian texts in Romans 14, Galatians 4, and Colossians 2, and closes by grounding sabbath keeping in the active obedience of Christ imputed to believers.
Clip: God isn't crippled, hindered, silent, or absent
The sovereignty of God over creation and providence is the proper ground of confident, bold prayer. Drawing on Acts 4 and Psalm 2, this excerpt shows how the apostolic church prayed not to a God diminished by circumstance but to the God who made and governs all things — including the threats of the Sanhedrin against the early church. The vantage point of God's absolute sovereignty is what makes petition coherent and emboldening rather than desperate.
Clip: How to pray for civil government during persecution
When facing governmental hostility, the church is called not only to endure but to pray with theological precision about civil authority. Drawing from Acts 4, 1 Timothy 2, Proverbs 21, and Psalm 74, this sermon excerpt identifies three legitimate petitions for civil government — redemption, restraint, and removal — and argues that each is grounded in Scripture and consistent with covenant love. The decisive application is that alongside praying outwardly for rulers, believers must pray inwardly for grace to respond rightly to persecution and oppression.
December 15, 2021 - Wednesday Night Bible Study - Exodus 20:7 & 3rd Commandment
The third commandment — 'You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain' — is examined through its prohibition, its rationale, and its positive demands. The names of God in Scripture are not arbitrary labels but revelatory vehicles disclosing his being, perfections, and covenant faithfulness; to misuse them is therefore to assault God himself. The sermon surveys specific violations — blasphemy, unlawful oaths, the manipulation of God's name for personal ends, misapplication of providence, and doctrinal heresy — before turning to the positive uses Scripture requires: reverent prayer, lawful oaths, proper worship, and a life of sincere profession that does not give occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme.
December 8, 2021 - Wednesday Night Bible Study - Exodus 20:4-6 & 2nd Commandment
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December 1, 2021 - Wednesday Night Bible Study - Exodus 20:1-3 (1st Commandment)
Exodus 20:3 — 'You shall have no other gods before me' — is expounded through both its prohibitions and its positive demands. The first commandment condemns atheism, polytheism, syncretism, idolatry, sorcery, and heresy, while positively requiring the knowledge, love, fear, obedience, trust, and worship of the one true and living God alone. The sermon draws on Romans 1:18-32 to show that ungodliness — disordered thinking about God — is the root from which all societal unrighteousness springs. The sermon closes with a call to repentance, to flee to Christ as the remedy for every violation of this commandment, and to cultivate the knowledge of God as the chief guard against idolatry in its ancient and modern forms.
October 20, 2021 - Wednesday Night Bible Study: Exodus 16:1-36
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Wednesday Night Bible Study - Exodus 13:1-22 (Sept 29, 2021)
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2nd London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689) - Sunday School Study - August 29, 2021
What does it mean that God is 'without body, parts, or passions'? This study works through Chapter 2, Paragraph 1 of the Second London Baptist Confession of 1689, examining the perfections of God under three classical categories: divine incorporeality (God has no body), divine simplicity (God is not composed of parts), and divine impassability (God does not undergo emotional change). By grounding each doctrine in Scripture and the church's historic theological grammar — including the distinction between proper and improper predication, accommodation, and anthropomorphism — the exposition argues that God's transcendence over every creaturely category is not a cold abstraction but the very foundation of confident worship and unshakeable assurance for his people.
2nd London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689) - Sunday School Study - July 18, 2021
The self-authenticating authority of Scripture cannot be separated from sound principles for reading it. This 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith Sunday school study works through chapter one, paragraphs five through ten, drawing out the hermeneutical principles the divines embedded there: the scope of Scripture (all glory to God through Christ), the sufficiency of Scripture (confined to God's glory, man's salvation, faith, and life), the perspicuity of Scripture (salvation truths are plain even to the unlearned), and the availability of Scripture in translation. The session also addresses textual criticism, the transmission history of the biblical manuscripts, and the distinction between necessary inference and explicit statement as sources of scriptural authority. Hearers are called to come to the biblical text with humility, the illumination of the Spirit, and a due use of ordinary means rather than intellectual pride or lazy avoidance.
Wednesday Night Bible Study (Exodus 11:1-10) - June 23, 2021
Exodus 11 presents the announcement of the tenth and decisive plague upon Egypt, the death of the firstborn, through which God simultaneously crushes Egyptian tyranny and liberates his covenant people Israel. The chapter is examined in three movements: the announcement of the plague with its accompanying promises of liberty and prosperity (vv. 1–3), the description of the plague emphasising God's immediate and sovereign action (vv. 4–8), and the rebellion of Pharaoh as the occasion for the multiplication of God's wonders (vv. 9–10). The sermon presses beyond the historical narrative to show how the destruction of God's enemies is inseparable from the blessing of God's people — a pattern running from Exodus through Joshua to Revelation — and grounds both divine sovereignty and human responsibility in the theological framework of the 1689 Second London Confession chapters 3 and 5.
2nd London Baptist Confession (Chapter 1) - June 20th
What makes Christian faith in the Bible something more than a blind leap? Working through the first five paragraphs of Chapter 1 of the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, this exposition unpacks Sola Scriptura under three headings drawn from the Confession's opening line: the certainty, sufficiency, and infallibility of Holy Scripture as 'the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience.' The sermon establishes that the Bible's authority rests on God himself as its author — not on church tradition, human reason, or self-referential claim — and that full persuasion of its divine origin comes through the inward testimony of the Holy Spirit (2LCF 1.5). Rational evidences — manuscript attestation, historical reliability, eyewitness testimony to the resurrection, and the fulfillment of prophecy — are presented not as the ground of faith but as means to bolster the believer's confidence and equip him to give a reasoned defense of the hope within him.
Bible Study - Exodus 5
Exodus 5 narrates the first confrontation between Moses and Aaron and Pharaoh, ending not in liberation but in intensified oppression and blame directed at the very messengers God had sent. The chapter exposes a recurring pattern in the life of the covenant community: when God's promised deliverance does not come immediately, his people tend to murmur against his instruments rather than wait upon his sovereign hand. Drawing on John Calvin's commentary, the study identifies six reasons God permitted things to grow worse before they grew better — including the demonstration of divine power, the testing of his people's patience, and the inexcusability of Pharaoh's hardness — and calls believers to feed on the promises of God so that faith produces courage rather than cowardice.
Bible Study - Exodus 8
Exodus 8 records the second, third, and fourth plagues against Egypt — frogs, lice, and flies — each following a recurring pattern: divine command, Pharaoh's refusal, the plague's execution, a show of compliance, and a return to hardness of heart. The plagues are not merely natural disasters but a direct assault upon the gods of Egypt, demonstrating that Yahweh alone is the true and living God in the midst of the land. The hardening of Pharaoh's heart is an act of divine justice against an already guilty sinner, not arbitrary cruelty, and the distinction God draws between Goshen and Egypt anticipates the covenant blessing that separates his people from those under his wrath. The repeated failure of miracles to produce repentance in Pharaoh — even when his own magicians confess 'this is the finger of God' — establishes that new birth, not spectacle, is what makes a believer.
Bible Study - Exodus 7
Exodus 7 presents the reassurance of Israel's deliverance, the opening sign before Pharaoh, and the first plague — the turning of the Nile to blood. The sermon works through God's sovereign purpose in hardening Pharaoh's heart, arguing that this was an act of righteous judgment upon an already-guilty idolater, not arbitrary cruelty, and that the ten plagues constitute a direct assault upon the gods of Egypt to vindicate God's elect and instruct Egypt in who the Lord truly is. The satanic origin of the magicians' counterfeit signs is examined through Deuteronomy 13, Deuteronomy 18, 1 Samuel 28, Matthew 24, and 2 Thessalonians 2. Romans 9:14–18 frames the theological conclusion: God's sovereignty in hardening and in showing mercy is absolutely righteous, and every act of judgment against God's enemies is simultaneously a mercy toward his people.
Bible Study - Exodus 6
Exodus 6 presents God's twofold answer to Moses' complaint — a promised demonstration of divine power through the coming plagues, and a covenant-grounded confirmation of Israel's deliverance. God's seven-verb declaration in verses 6–8 unfolds the promises of redemption, adoption, and land, each rooted not in Israel's merit but in Yahweh's oath-bound faithfulness. The genealogy of Moses and Aaron grounds the deliverers in ordinary Levitical flesh, underscoring that the exodus belongs entirely to divine sovereignty. The chief application pressed throughout is that the people of God must never allow the weight of affliction and suffering to silence their trust in the covenant word of the living God.
Bible Study - Exodus 4
Exodus 4 continues the call narrative begun in chapter 3, tracing Moses' repeated reluctance to accept the commission to deliver Israel from Egypt and God's patient, sovereign response to each objection. God confirms Moses' authority through three authenticating signs — the rod becoming a serpent, the leprous hand, and water turned to blood — not as ends in themselves but as instruments to authenticate Moses as God's spokesman, consistent with the function of signs throughout Scripture. The chapter's second half traces Moses' return to Egypt, including the judicial hardening of Pharaoh's heart as an act of divine justice rather than injustice, Israel's identification as God's firstborn, and the concluding scene of Israel's elders bowing in worship upon receiving Moses and Aaron's testimony. The sermon calls hearers to find comfort in the absolute sovereignty of God over nature, disease, human speech, and pagan rulers, and to let that knowledge shape reverent, joyful corporate and private worship.
Bible Study - Exodus 3
Exodus 3 presents the burning bush theophany as a revelation of the character of God before it is a commission to Moses. The passage is expounded under three headings: the commission given to Moses (vv. 1–12), the revelation of the divine name Yahweh (vv. 13–15), and the instructions given to Moses concerning Israel and Pharaoh (vv. 16–22). The divine name 'I AM WHO I AM' discloses God's self-existence, eternality, immutability, and covenantal faithfulness — attributes that must frame corporate worship and undergird the believer's confidence in affliction.
Free Grace Baptist Church - February 23, 2020 AM
Acts 14:19–28 concludes Paul and Barnabas's first missionary journey with two contrasting realities: savage persecution in Lystra and the faithful, tenacious continuation of gospel ministry through stoning, return visits to hostile cities, and the appointment of elders. The sermon argues that tribulation is not incidental to Christian discipleship but is the appointed path into the kingdom of God, pressing the congregation to match — and exceed — the zeal of the gospel's enemies in commitment to its proclamation. Particular attention is given to the apostolic pattern of not only making disciples but strengthening, confirming, and providing ordained leadership for those already saved.
Free Grace Baptist Church - February 19, 2020 Bible Study
Genesis 42 records the first meeting between Joseph and his brothers in Egypt, a narrative dense with divine providence, unresolved guilt, and the hidden hand of God directing events toward an end no human agent could have devised. The brothers' anguished confession — 'we are truly guilty concerning our brother' — illustrates that length of time neither diminishes sin nor lightens the conscience, and that only the blood of Christ can do what twenty years of elapsed time cannot. The chapter is traced through three movements: the brothers sent to Egypt, their two audiences with Joseph, and their return to Canaan — each segment demonstrating that God overrules the choices of sinful men to accomplish his redemptive purposes for his covenant people.
Free Grace Baptist Church - February 16, 2020 AM
Acts 14:8–18 records Paul and Barnabas at Lystra, where the healing of a congenitally lame man provokes the pagans to identify the apostles as Zeus and Hermes and prepare to offer sacrifice. The sermon works through three movements: the miraculous healing and the greater spiritual reality it signifies, the apostles' repudiation of the attempted worship, and Paul's positive proclamation of the Living God to a fully pagan audience. Central to the exposition is the doctrine of divine impassibility — grounded in Paul's declaration that the apostles are 'men of like passions' and the obvious implication that the true God is not — which the preacher traces through the 1689 Second London Confession, Numbers 23:19, 1 Samuel 15:29, Malachi 3:6, and James 1:17, arguing that a God who changes states cannot be the unfailingly just, merciful, and forgiving God the gospel requires. The congregation is exhorted to repent of idolatry in all its modern forms, to study the doctrine of God rather than settle for a domesticated deity, and to trust the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ as the only way of escape from wrath.
Free Grace Baptist Church - January 26, 2020 AM
Acts 14:1 records that Paul and Barnabas 'so spoke' in Iconium that a great multitude believed — but what accounts for that result? This exposition grounds the success of apostolic preaching in the sovereign election of God (Acts 13:48; 16:14) while insisting that God has ordained preaching as the indispensable means to call his elect to faith. Drawing on Romans 10:14-17, 1 Corinthians 1:21-25, and 2 Timothy 4:1-8, the sermon argues that faithful gospel preaching — Christ crucified, delivered with conviction, rebuke, and exhortation — is not optional for the church but is the very instrument God has appointed for the salvation of sinners from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation. The application presses the congregation to pray earnestly for the Lord of the harvest to raise up and send out qualified preachers, and to receive the preached word with the seriousness that faith-producing hearing demands.
Livestream - Baptism: Pete Visscher
What distinguishes the New Covenant from the Old, and why does that distinction determine who should be baptized? Preaching through Hebrews 8, this sermon argues that the New Covenant is categorically superior to the Old: it is unbreakable, it internalizes the law of God in the heart, it secures the saving knowledge of God for all its members, and it guarantees the forgiveness of sins as an essential rather than incidental feature. Because every member of the New Covenant possesses these realities by grace, baptism belongs exclusively to those who give credible evidence of faith and repentance — not to those who are merely externally connected to a covenant community, as was possible under the Old Covenant administration.
Free Grace Baptist Church - December 29, 2019 PM
Hosea 11:1–11 sets before us the indictment of Israel as a wicked, ungrateful son who responded to the Father's covenant love with relentless idolatry, earning the just sentence of Assyrian exile. Yet the passage turns on the sovereign mercy of God, whose holy love — not Israel's repentance — is the sole ground of restoration. The sermon traces the typological arc from the Exodus through the exile to Matthew 2:15, arguing that Jesus Christ is the true Israel, the obedient Son called out of Egypt, who absorbs the exile his people deserve and so secures their passage through the final judgment. The application is that false worship earns the displeasure of a holy God, while those who cling to Christ alone — justified by his merits, not their own — shall never be handed over.
Free Grace Baptist Church - December 8, 2019 PM
The fourth commandment's Sabbath obligation does not terminate at the cross but continues in the New Covenant, transferred from Saturday to Sunday on the basis of Christ's resurrection and the theology of Hebrews 4. Working through the ministry of Christ, the resurrection, and apostolic practice, the sermon argues that one day in seven devoted to God's worship is a perpetual moral principle, that the positive element (the specific day) shifts from the seventh to the first day, and that the weekly Lord's Day functions as a typological down-payment pointing God's people toward the eternal Sabbath rest yet to come. Believers are exhorted to receive the Sabbath as a gift from God, to avoid both legalism and antinomianism in its observance, and to rest their Sabbath-keeping upon the active obedience of Christ imputed to them by faith alone.
Free Grace Baptist Church - December 8, 2019 AM
Paul's sermon in Acts 13:38–43 culminates in a call to believe on Israel's Messiah for the forgiveness of sins and justification by faith alone — two benefits that flow not from human merit or moral reform but through the blood of Christ. The sermon traces the biblical theology of forgiveness from the Psalms and prophets through the apostolic preaching in Acts, demonstrating that the deepest need of every sinner is not social or economic remedy but reconciliation with a holy God. Faith itself — the empty hand that receives these blessings — is a gift granted by the God who delights in mercy. Hearers are exhorted to look to Christ alone, to receive the forgiveness that God does not merely tolerate but delights to give, and to rest upon him for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of the covenant of grace.