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Eschatology
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The Resurrection-Hope of the Righteous One
Psalm 16:7–11 opens a window into the mind of Christ according to his human nature, revealing the steadfast confidence that carried him through suffering, death, and into resurrection glory. The passage is not ultimately about David — as Peter and Paul demonstrate in Acts 2 and Acts 13 — but about the resurrection of the Holy One who, having rendered perfect obedience, could not be held by the grave. His secured resurrection grounds the believer's own resurrection hope and calls the unbeliever to repent and receive the forgiveness of sins and the imputed righteousness of Christ by faith alone. The sermon exhorts both believer and unbeliever to fix their gaze on the path of life Christ has opened — pleasures forevermore in the presence of God — as the only sufficient anchor through the dark providences of this present age.
The Freeness of the Priceless Feast, Part 2
Isaiah 55:3–13 unfolds in three movements: the ground of the gospel summons, the required response, and the guarantee attached to it. The ground is the covenant of grace itself — the sure mercies of David fulfilled in the person and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the covenant champion who secures abundant pardon for abundant sinners. The response calls for active, whole-souled seeking, calling, forsaking, and returning to the Lord while He may still be found. The passage closes with the guarantee that God's word never returns void and that Christ's saving work reverses the curses of Genesis 3, replacing thorns with cypress, expulsion with joyful leading out, and cosmic groaning with cosmic praise.
Christ's Precious Gem Collection
What does it mean that God's elect are described throughout Scripture as precious stones being gathered into a temple? This sermon traces the biblical-theological thread from the Garden of Eden through Solomon's temple, the Babylonian exile, Isaiah's restoration promises, and into Revelation 21, arguing that Christ — the greater Solomon and last Adam — is building his church by gathering his elect from among all the scattered nations. The identity of the precious gems is God's chosen people; their location is every tribe, tongue, and people; and the means of their gathering is the gospel of Christ, who has already bound the strong man and now commissions his people to mine for treasures in the darkness.
The Resurrection-Hope of the Righteous One
Psalm 16 is read through a christological lens, with the Apostle Peter (Acts 2) and the Apostle Paul (Acts 13) as the interpretive guides: David speaks here concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. The sermon traces the earnest petition of verse 1, the joyful contentment of verses 2–6, and the steadfast confidence to be treated in verses 7–11, showing how Christ's human dependence on the Father, his delight in the saints, his repudiation of idolatry, and his sufficiency in divine providence together constitute the resurrection-hope of the righteous one. The imputed righteousness of Christ, received by faith alone, is the ground on which David, and every believer in saving union with Christ, can share in that same hope. Hearers are called to imitate the Savior in prayer, meditation on Scripture, and a rightly ordered love that prizes God above every earthly portion.
The Psalmist's Cry in an Age of Deceit
Psalm 12 confronts the believer with a world of flattering lips, double hearts, and lying tongues — both outside and inside the professing church — and asks how the righteous can persevere when the foundations are being destroyed. The sermon argues that the psalm is preeminently the prayer of Christ in his earthly ministry, who faced this same godless opposition and who, as the incarnate covenant head, is the definitive fulfilment of verse 5's divine promise to arise and set the oppressed in safety. The contrast between the corrupt words of the wicked (verses 1–4) and the pure, tried word of God (verses 5–8) teaches that theology, prayer, and dependence upon Scripture are the appointed means by which the pilgrim church endures in a present evil age. Unbelievers are warned that the autonomy expressed in verse 4 — 'our lips are our own, who is Lord over us?' — leads to the judgment of God, and are called to kiss the Son before his wrath is kindled.
CTF 2026 - Session 1: God's Decree in the Puritan Confessions
The doctrine of God's eternal decree, far from being confined to a single chapter, runs as a unifying thread through the entire fabric of the three major Puritan confessions — the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Savoy Declaration, and the Second London Baptist Confession of 1677/1689. Drawing on Isaiah 46:8–11, this lecture traces how the divine decree undergirds Scripture's authority, creation, providence, the fall, the covenant of grace, the person and work of Christ, the ordo salutis, and the final judgment. Because the decree is simply God decreeing — an expression of His eternal, immutable, and holy will — the doctrine is inseparable from the classical Christian doctrine of God in His simplicity, sovereignty, and self-sufficiency. Believers are called to receive this doctrine humbly, to resist both the error of making God the author of sin and the error of bare permission, and to respond with worship as they watch the eternal decree unfold in history.
CTF 2026 - Session 4: Pastoral Sermon
Hebrews 2:10 frames the whole of redemptive history as God bringing many sons to glory through the sufferings of Christ, and this sermon traces that theme from the eternal decree of predestination through the means of grace in the present assembly to the consummation awaiting the saints. Drawing on John Owen's exposition of Hebrews, the 1689 London Baptist Confession's chapters on God and election, and John Calvin's theology of creation as a theater of divine glory, the sermon argues that God's eternal purpose is both ultimate — his own glory — and penultimate — the saints' participation in that glory. The congregation is urged to receive the Word, baptism, and the Lord's Supper as present foretastes of the glory to come, and to read creation itself as a stepping stone toward knowing and enjoying God rather than a terminus for the affections.
The Authority of Christ Over the Demons
Christ's authority over the demonic kingdom is the central demonstration Matthew presents in chapter 8, where two men reduced to a subhuman, tomb-dwelling existence are liberated by a single word from the Son of God. The passage exposes both the wretchedness of Satanic bondage — no glamour, only madness, nakedness, and self-destruction — and the sufficiency of Christ's power to deliver the most apparently irredeemable sinners. The sermon draws a direct line from the Gadarene demoniacs to Paul's confession in 1 Timothy 1:15, arguing that the same sovereign grace that rescues the most visibly ruined also reaches the self-righteous religious man who trusts in his own standing before God. Parents, youth, and all hearers are urged to flee the occult, resist the devil through gospel proclamation, and rest in the one whose word alone — 'Go' — dismantles the kingdom of darkness.