This was a sermon originally written for a class but preached at Sunday night service at my church. It has fond memories for me because of one response during the prayer time by an old man. My method of preaching is to write a stream of thought transcript, refine it, memorize it. This is not …
This was a sermon originally written for a class but preached at Sunday night service at my church. It has fond memories for me because of one response during the prayer time by an old man. My method of preaching is to write a stream of thought transcript, refine it, memorize it. This is not …
This was a sermon originally written for a class but preached at Sunday night service at my church. It has fond memories for me because of one response during the prayer time by an old man. My method of preaching is to write a stream of thought transcript, refine it, memorize it. This is not …
If one rejects the covenant of works it can cause all sorts of problems. You lose the legal nature to have Adam’s sin imputed to us and also Christ’s righteousness imputed to us. As Louis Berkhof states, They who deny the covenant of works generally base their denial in part on the fact that there …
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This was a sermon originally written for a class but preached at Sunday night service at my church. It has fond memories for me because of one response during the prayer time by an old man. My method of preaching is to write a stream of thought transcript, refine it, memorize it. This is not …
We will consider and respond to Murray’s reasoning for rejecting the Covenant of Works. As we saw, Murray did not like the word “works” because he thought it did not convey how he saw it, as God’s condescending to Adam as a gracious act. Murray also objected to the word “covenant” claiming that scripture does …
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This was a sermon originally written for a class but preached at Sunday night service at my church. It has fond memories for me because of one response during the prayer time by an old man. My method of preaching is to write a stream of thought transcript, refine it, memorize it. This is not …
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One who denies the Covenant of Works is John Murray (1898-1975). Murray was a reformed theologian and who did lot of good for the Christian faith. He was the president of Westminster Theological Seminary and was a faithful preacher and teacher of the scripture. He is known to be a Covenantal theologian, but he did …
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Everything specifically related to Jewish marriage under the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants, the commands against exogamy, and to be fruitful and multiply was intended to bring about the promised seed. The promised seed of the woman in His life death and resurrection has inaugurated the age to come, bringing believers into it as sons of …
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Now that we have defined our terms let us consider why the Covenant of Works is essential to understanding Original Sin. Even though the word “covenant” is not there, the elements are there. Michael Hortons states, “Even in Genesis 1–3 we recognize the features of a covenant that we have delineated: a historical prologue setting …
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