Theological term
Divine Immensity
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2LBC - Chapter 2 - Of God and the Holy Trinity
What does it mean that God is one, simple, immutable, immense, and triune — and why does any of it matter for Christian worship? This confession study works through the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith Chapter 2 ("Of God and the Holy Trinity"), tracing the three movements of the chapter: God's essential glory in paragraph 1, God's transcendent relations in paragraph 2, and God's triune majesty in paragraph 3. Along the way, foundational interpretive principles for speaking rightly about God are established — the legitimate use of logical consequences from Scripture, the necessity of extra-biblical vocabulary to guard biblical truth, and the reading of anthropomorphic language according to the meaning rather than the letter. The session closes with a direct application: the doctrine of God is not speculative labor but the very foundation of communion with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and of the creature's comfortable dependence upon him.
Bible Study - Numbers 12:1-16
Numbers 12 records the rebellion of Miriam and Aaron against Moses, ostensibly over his Cushite wife but in reality a challenge to his God-given authority as Israel's unique covenant mediator. The passage establishes a hierarchy of prophetic revelation — vision and dream to the prophets, but face-to-face speech to Moses — which God himself defends by immediately judging Miriam with leprosy. Moses' humility and intercessory prayer on behalf of his accusers point forward typologically to the greater Mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ, who alone bears the full weight of God's people and speaks face-to-face with the Father.
2LCF Chapter 4 - Of Creation
Creation is not a brute fact but a deliberate act of the undivided Trinity — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — for the manifestation of His eternal power, wisdom, and goodness. This study of 2LCF Chapter 4 traces what creation is (all things not God, made ex nihilo and from previously created matter), who created (the triune God whose immutability and eternality mean creation produced no change in Him), and what man is within creation (a being made male and female, bearing reasonable and immortal souls, the image of God in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness). The chapter culminates in the covenant of works: man was not created in covenant but was brought into covenant by God's voluntary condescension, establishing the pre-fall communion whose loss in Adam and recovery in the second Adam frames the entire remainder of the confession.
Paul at the Areopagus
Paul's sermon at the Areopagus (Acts 17:22–34) is an unapologetic proclamation of the exclusive lordship, unbounded glory, and all-sufficient independence of the one living and true God over against the multiplicity of Athenian idols. The sermon traces Paul's argument through four movements — the prelude, the proclamation proper, the mercy extended, and the Athenian reception — grounding each in the prophetic witness of the Old Testament. The idols of Athens are shown to be dependent, spatially confined, and utterly without refuge, while Yahweh is immense, uncircumscribable, and the source of all life, breath, and existence. Hearers are pressed to abandon the folly of any idolatry, old or modern, and to believe on the risen Christ before whom all will be judged.
The Vision of the Unrivaled Majesty, Part 1
Isaiah 6:1–7 presents a vision of the pre-incarnate Son of God seated on a throne, high and lifted up, attended by seraphim whose sixfold wings signal both the unapproachable holiness of God and the modesty proper to creatures before their Creator. The sermon works through three headings — the vision of the unrivaled majesty, the appropriate response of the son of Amoz, and (deferred to the evening service) the blessed atonement from the altar — arguing that God's holiness is not merely ethical sinlessness but the awful ontological contrast between the divine being and all created existence. The congregation is exhorted to come before God in worship with the sobriety and reverence that such a vision demands, and the unconverted are called to flee to Christ before that same glory becomes the ground of their condemnation.