“Life Judicial”

You know, when a man receives a pardon from Government, he is said to receive his life. So it is here. This word is used in the same sense in [John 5:24], “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” In this verse, you will notice that life is opposed to condemnation, and it appears to mean justification. The same meaning may be attached to those words in the 20th chapter, 31st verse, “These are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, ye might have life through his name.” See also the first epistle of John, 5th chapter, 12th verse, “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son hath not life.” In this passage, life appears to be the pardon of all sin, and admission into the favour of God. And it is said in Proverbs, “He that findeth me findeth peace.” Now, Christ, when he stood in the midst of the Jews, knew that they were all under the sentence of the broken law, and he knew that he was to die for sinners: therefore, he said to them, “Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” In my hand there is a pardon: “The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins:” yet ye will not come to me. This is true among yourselves: He is as much here present as he was then. He has suffered, the just for the unjust. He has died for sinners, and now he offers you pardon. Why are ye not saved? The reason is, ye will not come to him, that ye might have life.

-Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1813-1843)

The Son of God, who is our Red Sea

[Our rebirth] does not happen by the physical water [of baptism] but by the sprinkling of the precious blood of the Son of God, who is our Red Sea, through which we must pass to escape the tyranny of Pharaoh, who is the devil, and to enter the spiritual land of Canaan. So ministers, as far as their work is concerned, give us the sacrament and what is visible, but our Lord gives what the sacrament signifies—namely the invisible gifts and graces; washing, purifying, and cleansing our souls of all filth and unrighteousness; renewing our hearts and filling them with all comfort; giving us true assurance of his fatherly goodness; clothing us with the “new man” and stripping off the “old,” with all its works.

Belgic Confession of Faith (1561), Article 34

Estudios sobre los Evangelios | Studies in the Gospels

Nos gustaría invitarle a un estudio bilingüe en español e inglés este día del Señor (domingo) a las 11:00 a.m. La reunión tendrá lugar en la Iglesia Presbiteriana Reformada, situada en 1870 Route 50, Tuckahoe, NJ. Debería durar entre 30 y 40 minutos y estudiaremos varios pasajes del Evangelio. ¡Nos encantaría que usted y su familia se unieran a nosotros!

Cantaremos un salmo métrico en español y, después de una oración, escucharemos una lección de 15-20 minutos sobre el pasaje que estamos estudiando, seguida de un debate con preguntas y respuestas. Habrá material impreso disponible para aquellos que deseen mejorar su comprensión del inglés o del español.

También tenemos previsto retransmitir estos estudios en directo por si no puede acompañarnos en persona. Acceda aquí para ver la retransmisión en directo. Si tiene alguna pregunta u observación durante el debate, envíe un mensaje de texto a Peter Rivera al 787-800-7839.

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“Of Baptism”

I. Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ,a not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible Church,b but also to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace,c of his ingrafting into Christ,d of regeneration,e of remission of sins,f and of his giving up unto God, through Jesus Christ, to walk in newness of life:g which sacrament is, by Christ’s own appointment, to be continued in his Church until the end of the world.h

a. Mat 28:19. • b. 1 Cor 12:13. • c. Rom 4:11 with Col 2:11-12. • d. Rom 6:5; Gal 3:27. • e. Titus 3:5. • f. Mark 1:4. • g. Rom 6:3-4. • h. Mat 28:19-20.

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