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Postmillennialism
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2LCF Chapter 32 - Of the Last Judgment
The biblical doctrine of the Last Judgment—its nature, purpose, and practical relevance—is examined through 1689 LBCF Chapter 32. God has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness through Jesus Christ as covenant mediator, to manifest both His mercy in the eternal salvation of the elect and His justice in the eternal damnation of the reprobate. Romans 9 grounds the theocentric purpose of judgment in God's sovereign disposition of mercy and wrath, while 2 Thessalonians 1 supplies the apostolic warrant for the believer's rejoicing in divine justice. The session concludes with an overview of the major millennial positions and their hermeneutical foundations, urging the church to let eschatology produce holiness, consolation, and gospel urgency rather than pride or speculation.
2LCF Chapter 32 - Of the Last Judgement
2 London Baptist Confession of Faith Chapter 32 examines the doctrine of the Last Judgment under three heads: the concept of the Day of Judgment (its divine appointment, its agent in Christ, and its comprehensive scope over angels and all humanity), the goal of that day (the manifestation of God's mercy in the eternal salvation of the elect and his justice in the eternal damnation of the reprobate), and its practical relevance (deterring sin, consoling the afflicted people of God, and keeping believers watchful). The session concludes with a survey of the three millennial positions and four interpretive approaches to the book of Revelation, explaining why the Confession deliberately avoids resolving those disputes in order to function as a broad consensus document. The consistent ethical burden throughout is that contemplation of the coming judgment should shape present conduct: purifying the elect, driving evangelism, and giving the suffering saints confidence that divine justice will prevail.
The Hope of the Nations
Psalm 67 frames both the church's need for God's mercy and the church's missionary calling to the nations as inseparable realities. The psalmist's threefold petition — mercy, blessing, and communion with God for the church — is the ground from which prayer for the salvation, worship, and righteous governance of the nations flows. Drawing on the Aaronic blessing, the Abrahamic covenant, and the New Testament's Great Commission, the sermon argues that the church's received grace creates an inescapable obligation to proclaim that grace to the ends of the earth. The closing application calls the congregation to corporate prayer, support of the missionary enterprise, and fidelity to the gospel message as the only means God has ordained for the hope of the nations to be realized.
2LCF Chapter 31 - Of the State of Man After Death, and of the Resurrection of the Dead
2 London Baptist Confession chapter 31 surveys the state of the soul between death and the final resurrection, and the resurrection of both the just and the unjust. The chapter distinguishes the intermediate state — in which the souls of the righteous are immediately with Christ in paradise while the souls of the wicked are cast into hell — from the final resurrection, when body and soul will be reunited and raised to honor or dishonor. The sermon refutes soul sleep, limbus patrum, limbus infantum, and purgatory as departures from Scripture, arguing that purgatory is an affront to the finished atonement of Christ. Hearers are called to find comfort in the bodily resurrection, to resist Gnostic tendencies that denigrate the body, and to embrace the simplicity of biblical eschatology rather than elevating millennial schemes to tests of orthodoxy.
Thy Kingdom Come
The second petition of the Lord's Prayer — 'Thy kingdom come' — presses the believer to understand what the kingdom of God actually is before praying for it with any intelligence. This sermon traces three biblical dimensions of the kingdom: God's universal providential reign over all things, the already-present kingdom of grace inaugurated at Christ's first coming, and the not-yet consummated kingdom of glory awaiting his return. With that theological foundation laid, the sermon moves through concrete, structured applications for how the individual believer, the local church, and the wider world ought to be brought before God under this single petition.