Theological term
Judgment
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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.
Free Grace Baptist Church - March 28, 2018 Bible Study
This Bible study works through the fall of Jerusalem as recorded in 2 Kings 25, tracing the Babylonian conquest, the destruction of the temple, the deportation of the people of Judah, and the provisional governorship under Gedaliah. The session draws out the covenantal significance of the temple's destruction — that the visible symbol of God's presence among his people had been removed — while pressing toward the hope embedded even in judgment, that God's promise to his people and to the line of David was not finally extinguished. Listeners are urged to pray for those in positions of governing authority and to trust that God's redemptive purposes persist beyond catastrophe.
1 Kings 20
1 Kings 20 presents the beginning of the end for Ahab, Israel's most wretched king, as God delivers him twice from Syrian armies he had no right to expect to defeat — not because Ahab sought God, but because God sovereignly extended unsolicited, unmerited grace to a rebel. The chapter's true climax arrives in the closing parable of the prophet (vv. 35–43), which functions as Ahab's 'thou art the man' moment: having freed Ben-Hadad, whom God had appointed to utter destruction, Ahab pronounces his own condemnation. The study presses the application that defective theology — whether Syrian paganism that compartmentalizes God by geography, or modern versions that shrink His sovereignty — carries serious consequences, and that God's patience with wretches like Ahab must not be mistaken for indifference to rebellion.
The Olivet Discourse, Part 13
Matthew 25:1–13, the Parable of the Ten Virgins, confronts every professing Christian with a single urgent question: are you genuinely prepared to meet the returning bridegroom, or merely carrying a torch with no oil? The sermon works through the parable's three movements — the expectation, the delay, and the arrival of the bridegroom — arguing that wise and foolish in Matthew's Gospel denote real versus nominal faith, not intellectual capacity. Preparedness for Christ's return cannot be borrowed from another person's faith, transferred through family religion, or deferred to a more convenient season; it is a matter of personal possession of Christ by grace through faith. Hearers are called to examine whether their profession is backed by genuine, persevering possession of the Lord Jesus, and to flee to the bridegroom before the door is shut.