Archives for July 2014

To Prepare for Lord’s Day Worship, 20 July 2014

20 July 2014 — 10 AM Worship

Scripture:	Exodus 20:12
Sermon:	Honour God’s Authority In Your Relationships
Hymns:	“O For a Thousand Tongues” (TH 164)
	John 3:14–17 (TH 506)
	“Glory to God” (TH 379:4)
	“I Need Thee, Precious Jesus” (TH 497)

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20 July 2014 — 3 PM Worship

Scripture:	1 Samuel 25
Sermon:	The Flawed, the Bad, and the Beautiful
Hymns:	Psalm 138 (TH 88)
	“O Jesus, I Have Promised” (TH 654)
	“Great is Thy Faithfulness” (TH 32)
	“Praise Ye the Father” (TH 107)

Grace, Faith, and Good Works

11-July-14 by Pastor Larry Wilson

Justification and Sanctification

Larger Catechism 77 (paraphrased into modern English)

Q. “In what ways do justification and sanctification differ?”

A. “Even though justification and sanctification are inseparably joined together,
yet they do differ.

In justification, God imputes the righteousness of Christ to us.
In sanctification, his Spirit implants grace in us and enables us to exercise it.

In justification, God pardons our sin.
In sanctification, God subdues our sin.

In justification, God sets all believers equally and perfectly free in this life from the revenging wrath of God so that we will never fall into condemnation.
In sanctification, God’s work is neither equal in all believers, nor is it perfect in any in this life; instead, it keeps growing up to perfection.”

How are justification and sanctification alike?

1. Justification and sanctification are inseparably joined together. There is no such thing as justification without sanctification, nor is there such a thing as sanctification without justification. If you receive one, you also receive the other.

2. God is the Author and Worker both of justification and of sanctification.

3. God grants both justification and sanctification as free gifts of his grace in Christ.

How are justification and sanctification different?

Justification is:	Sanctification is:
1. God’s once-for-all act of free grace *for* us; it is his changing our legal status.	1. God’s ongoing work of free grace in us; it is his changing our personal character.
2. A once-for-all act by which the Father imputes Christ’s righteousness to us (i.e., counts it as ours).	2. An ongoing work by which the Holy Spirit implants and works Christ’s grace in us.
3. A once-for-all act by which God forgives all our sin.	3. An ongoing work by which God subdues all our sin.
4. Total and equal in all believers.	4. Different in degree in different believers.
5. Complete and perfect in this life.	5. Incomplete and imperfect in this life.
6. God’s judicial verdict by which he sets us free from condemnation and awards us eternal life.	6. God’s transforming work by which he delivers us from our sins and grants us growth into Christ’s likeness.

To Prepare for Lord’s Day Worship, 13 July 2014

10-July-14 by Pastor Larry Wilson

13 July 2014 — 10 AM Worship

Scripture:	Exodus 20:8–11, Isaiah 58:13–14
Sermon:	“The ‘Market Day’ For Your Soul”
Hymns:	“Safely Through Another Week” (Tune: Dix)
	“This is the Day” (TH 389)
	“New Graces Ever Gaining” (TH 392:5)
	“Come, Let Us Join With One Accord” (TH 393:1–3)

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13 July 2014 — 3 PM Worship

Scripture:	1 Samuel 24
Sermon:	“Do Not Be Overcome By Evil, But Overcome Evil With Good”
Hymns:	“Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” (TH 457)
	“O Grant Us Grace” (TH 141:5)
	“Psalm 46” (TH 40)
	“All Praise and Thanks to God” (TH 98:1)

Why I’m not going to stop being a born-again Christian

05-July-14 by Pastor Larry Wilson

Kirsty Birkett writes:

There’s an article going around, available here, in which a woman writes about her fall away from conservative Christianity. Once a keen teen, she came to grief when studying religion at Yale – grief, literally, it seems; though she no longer believes in Christianity, she genuinely misses the relationship she once had with Jesus. But, she says, that’s where her study of the Bible led her. Her academic education in the Bible convinced her that it was anything but the Word of God. How sad.

However, I think there are a number of things we could comment on about Jessica’s account of the journey to her current view: that the Jesus she once knew is, basically, imaginary, and the Bible not true.

Orthodox Presbyterian Church

Archives for July 2014

To Prepare for Lord’s Day Worship, 20 July 2014

Grace, Faith, and Good Works

Justification and Sanctification

To Prepare for Lord’s Day Worship, 13 July 2014

Why I’m not going to stop being a born-again Christian

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