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1689 Second Baptist Confession of Faith Highlighted

Simon Wartanian | 28,425 views | 17,012 words | 1:29:18 hours | 16 November 2014 22:30

...ally fall from the state of grace, but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved, seeing the gifts and callings of God are without repentance, whence he still begets and nourisheth in them faith, repentance, love, joy, hope, and all the graces of the Spirit unto immortality; and though many storms and floods arise and beat against them, yet they shall never be able to take them off that foundation and rock which by faith they are fastened upon; notwithstanding, through unbelief and the temptations of Satan, the sensible sight of the light and Love Of God may for a time be clouded and obscured from them, yet he is still the same, and they shall be sure to be kept by the power of God unto salvation, where they shall enjoy their purchased possession, they being engraven upon the palm of his hands, and their names having been written in the book of life from all eternity.

John 10:28-29; Phil. 1:6; 2 Tim. 2:19; 2 Peter 1:5-10; 1 John 2:19
Ps. 89:31-32; 1 Cor. 11:32; 2 Tim. 4:7
Ps. 102:27; Mal. 3:6; Eph. 1:14; 1 Peter 1:5; Rev. 13:8

This perseverance of the saints depends not upon their own free will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the free and unchangeable Love Of God the Father, upon the efficacy of the merit and intercession of Jesus Christ and union with him, the oath of God, the abiding of his Spirit, and the seed of God within them, and the nature of the covenant of grace; from all which ariseth also the certainty and infallibility thereof.
1. Phil. 2:12-13; Rom. 9:16; John 6:37,44
2. Matt. 24:22, 24, 31; Rom. 8:30; 9:11, 16; 11:2, 29; Eph. 1:5-11
3. Eph. 1:4; Rom. 5:9-10; 8:31-34; 2 Cor. 5:14; Rom. 8:35-38; 1 Cor. 1:8-9; John 14:19; 10:28-29
4. Heb. 6:16-20
5. 1 John 2:19-20, 27; 3:9; 5:4, 18; 2 Cor. 1:22; Eph. 1:13; 4:30; 2 Cor. 1:22; 5:5; Eph. 1:14
6. Jer. 31:33-34; 32:40; Heb. 10:11-18; 13:20-21

And though they may, through the temptation of Satan and of the world, the prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of means of their preservation, fall into grievous sins, and for a time continue therein, whereby they incur God’s displeasure and grieve his Holy Spirit, come to have their graces and comforts impaired, have their hearts hardened, and their consciences wounded, hurt and scandalize others, and bring temporal judgments upon themselves, yet shall they renew their repentance and be preserved through faith in Christ Jesus to the end.
1. Matt. 26:70, 72, 74
2. Ps. 38:1-8; Isa. 54:5-9; Eph. 4:30; 1 Thess. 5:14
3. Ps. 51:10-12
4. Ps. 32:3-4; 73:21-22
5. 2 Sam. 12:14; 1 Cor. 8:9-13; Rom. 14:13-18; 1 Tim. 6:1-2; Titus 2:5
6. 2 Sam. 12:14f; Gen. 19:30-38; 1 Cor. 11:27-32
7. Luke 22:32, 61-62; 1 Cor. 11:32; 1 John 3:9; 5:18

Chapter 18: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation [Return] [Commentary]

Although temporary believers, and other unregenerate men, may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions of being in the favour of God and state of salvation, which hope of theirs shall perish; yet such as truly believe in the Lord Jesus, and love him in sincerity, endeavouring to walk in all good conscience before him, may in this life be certainly assured that they are in the state of grace, and may rejoice in the hope of the glory of God, which hope shall never make them ashamed.
1. Job 8:13, 14; Jer. 17:9; Matt. 7:21-23; Luke 18:10-14; John 8:41; Eph. 5:6-7;...

John Owen's Case For Particular Atonement

Simon Wartanian | 13,327 views | 15,628 words | 1:22:53 hours | 21 March 2017 23:01

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... the passage. Just like in the golden chain of redemption, those who are foreknown (i.e., fore-loved and fore-chosen), are the same group who are predestined, called, justified and glorified. None of those who are foreknown gets to miss any part of the chain. In the same way, the chain in Romans 8:33-34 is that of Christ dying for the elect, the same group in Romans 8:29-30, Christ rising for the elect and Christ interceding for the elect. Owen writes on this passage:

That he died for all and intercedes only for some will scarcely be squared to this text, especially considering the foundation of all this, which is (verse 32) that Love Of God which moved him to give up Christ to death for us all; upon which the apostle infers a kind of impossibility in not giving us all good things in him; which how it can be reconciled with their opinion who affirm that he gave his Son for millions to whom he will give neither grace nor glory, I cannot see.^[5] (book I, chapter 7)

Dr. Owen obviously does not neglect to take a look at the book of Hebrews in connection to this subject, as it largely deals with the priestly office of our Savior and His priestly work on our behalf. We have tried to exegete some passages from the book of Hebrews in connection to the atonement below. The reader is referred to the chapter^[6] for the rest of the passages which he surveys (e.g. Heb. 7:24-25; 9:11-13; 10:19-22).

The Fruits of Christ’s Intercession

The fruits of Christ’s intercession is the application of the work of redemption to those for whom it was intended. It is the granting of the gift of faith, it is the calling, justification, adoption, sanctification and all the countless graces of God poured out upon us.

In Romans 8:32, Paul argues from the death of Christ that God will certainly “with him [Christ] graciously give us all things”. Since God went to such ways to demonstrate His glory and redeem us, what doubt can we have that He will not give us all good things which He intended for His glory and our good? This is in the immediate context of Christ’s intercession. Christ intercedes before the Father on behalf of those for whom He offered Himself, that the benefits of His work may be applied to them. That through the intercession of Christ, God does indeed graciously give us all things that we need.

In John 17, the great High Priestly Prayer, the Lord Christ intercedes before the Father on behalf of those who were given to Him, in direct opposition to “the world” (John 17:9), i.e., those who were not given to Him. Right before offering His great sacrifice, the Lord Jesus, our great High Priest, finds it necessary to explicitly say that His intercession is certainly not for the world, but only those given to Him. In the same chapter, Christ’s prays...

that His own may be kept in the Father’s name and from the evil one (John 17:11, 15);
for the sanctification of His church in the truth of God’s Word (John 17:17, 19);
for the union of Christ’s universal church in the Trinity (John 17:20-23);
for them seeing His glory and the love which the Father has for the Son (John 17:24);
that the love which the Father has for the Son may be in them (John 17:26).

Hebrews 7:25 tells us that Christ “is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.” The basis for the fact that He is able to save them to the uttermost, or “save completely” (NET), “save fo...

1689 Baptist Confession Chapter 5: Of Divine Providence - Commentary

Simon Wartanian | 15,482 views | 5,231 words | 0:28:11 hours | 04 March 2015 21:17

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...b, and when all his fortunes are restored, his family comes to him and it is said that “they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him” (Job 42:11). Not only does Job acknowledge that his suffering and this evil has come from God, without being in sin (Job 1:21-22; 2:10), but the Author Himself credits the evil and suffering that came upon Job and His suffering ultimately to God. We know that Satan was in the background also, but Job acts as if he does not even exist and doesn’t say a word about him!

Even the persecution which comes upon the people of God is for their good since nothing can separate them from the Love Of God and in all these things they show themselves to be more than conquerors (Rom. 8:28-39). In Daniel 11:35, it is said, whatever time this speaks about is irrelevant, what matters is the principle communicated, that “some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time.” There is a reason for the stumbling of the wise, i.e., the righteous. It is not so that they may fall from the faith, or that they may be destroyed, rather, that they may be purified under the fires of persecution and have their faith confirmed to them.

§6 The Providence of God as it relates to the Wicked

As for those wicked and ungodly men whom God, as the righteous judge, for former sin doth blind and harden; 1 from them he not only withholdeth his grace, whereby they might have been enlightened in their understanding, and wrought upon their hearts; 2 but sometimes also withdraweth the gifts which they had, 3 and exposeth them to such objects as their corruption makes occasion of sin; 4 and withal, gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan, 5 whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves, under those means which God useth for the softening of others. 6
1. Rom. 1:24-26, 28; 11:7-8
2. Deut. 29:4
3. Matt. 13:12; 25:29
4. Deut. 2:30; 2 Kings 8:12-13
5. Ps. 81:11-12; 2 Thess. 2:10-12
6. Ex. 7:3; 8:15, 32; 2 Cor. 2:15-16; Isa. 6:9-10; 8:14; 1 Peter 2:7-8; Acts 28:26-27; John 12:39-40

His providence does not only concern and extend over the elect, but also the reprobate. God doth blind and harden (e.g., Rom. 1:24, 26, 28) them as punishment for former sin and withholdeth His (saving) grace from them, although they are never without His common grace. Grace is by definition unearned and undeserved. He does them no wrong by withholding His grace. In punishing and blinding them, He is giving them what they deserve for their wickedness and sin against Him. Not only that, but He sometimes even withdraweth the gifts which they had (Matt. 13:12; 25:29) and gives them over to their sin, as punishment (e.g., Rom. 1:24, 26, 28). When God gives them over to their sin, they in return harden themselves against God and although those same means God uses to the softening of others. Those means harden the reprobate even more while softening others, even among the reprobate when God blesses His people through godless people or vice-versa (e.g., Gen. 39:5, 21-23).

He is God, the Righteous, the Most High, the Most Holy and Pure. He cannot stand in the presence of sin. He hates all sin, but not only the sin but the sinner himself too (e.g., Ps. 5:5-6). To punish the wicked, God gives them more freedom in their sins and does not restrain them as He does the elect. Hel...

1689 Baptist Confession Chapter 27: Of the Communion of Saints

Simon Wartanian | 12,538 views | 4,813 words | 0:25:13 hours | 06 March 2015 23:08

The 1689 Second Baptist Confession Of Faith Confession Commentary Reformed Baptist Chapter 27 Of The Communion Of Saints Fellowship Christian Love Union With Christ

... an organic union:

We are united with Christ as His body (1 Cor. 12:27; Rom. 12:5), God’s Temple (Eph. 2:20-22; 1 Pet. 2:4-5), husband and wife (Eph. 5:29-32); the Vine and its branches (John 15:5).

It is a vital union:

Christ’s resurrection life becomes the dominating principle in our own lives (Gal. 2:20; 4:19; Col. 3:3-4; Rom. 8:10; 2 Cor. 13:5).

It is a Spiritual union:

An intimate union mediated by the Spirit of Christ (Rom. 8:9-10; Eph. 3:16-17; 1 Cor. 6:17; 12:13; 2 Cor. 3:17-18; Gal. 3:2-3).

It is an indissoluble union:

Nothing can separate us from the Love Of God in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom. 8:1, 28-39; Matt. 28:20; John 10:28).

It is an intimate and inscrutable union:

So intimate that the most intimate of human unions is modeled after it (Eph. 5:29-32).

It is a reciprocal union:

It is a two-sided union and relationship (John 14:23; 15:4-5; Gal. 2:20; Eph. 3:17).

It is a personal union:

Every believer is personally united to Christ (John 14:20; 15:1-7; 2 Cor. 5:17; Gal. 2:20; Eph. 3:17-18).

It is a transformational union:

By this union, we are gradually changed into the image of Christ through the new life and the Holy Spirit which He has given us (Rom. 6:4-11; Gal. 2:20; Col. 1:24; 2:12; 3:1; 1 Pet. 4:13).

For the previous section, I’ve been greatly indebted to A. H. Strong^[10] and Louis Berkhof.^[11]

Conclusion

In short, we learn that God “has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places” (Eph. 1:3). John Murray observes concerning our union with Christ:

We thus see that union with Christ has its source in the election of God the Father before the foundation of the world and it has its fruition in the glorification of the sons of God. The perspective of God’s people is not narrow; it is broad and it is long. It is not confined to space and time; it has the expanse of eternity. Its orbit has two foci, one the electing Love Of God the Father in the counsels of eternity, the other glorification with Christ in the manifestation of his glory. The former has no beginning, the latter has no end. Glorification with Christ at his coming will be but the beginning of a consummation that will encompass the ages of the ages. “So shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thess. 4:17). It is a perspective with a past and with a future, but neither the past nor the future is bounded by what we know as our temporal history. And because temporal history falls within such a perspective it has meaning and hope. What is it that binds past and present and future together in the life of faith and in the hope of glory? Why does the believer entertain the thought of God’s determinate counsel with such joy? Why can he have patience in the perplexities and adversities of the present? Why can he have confident assurance with reference to the future and rejoice in hope of the glory of God? It is because he cannot think of past, present, or future apart from union with Christ.^[12]

All praise, thanks, honor, and glory be to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit!

§2 Holy Fellowship And Communion

Saints by profession are bound to maintain an holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God, and in performing such other spiritual services as tend to their mutual edification; 1 as also in relieving each other in outward things according to their several abilities, and necessities; 2 which communion, according to the rule of the gospel,...

Limited Atonement, Definite Redemption - Scripture List & Case

Simon Wartanian | 8,093 views | 6,400 words | 0:32:47 hours | 23 March 2014 20:51

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... for all people[7], 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us[8] to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

1Jn 4:9-10 In this the Love Of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1Pet 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us[9] to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 19 in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, 20 because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.

Rev 5:9-10 And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, 10 and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.”

Rev 13:7-8 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation, 8 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.

Jesus intercedes only for His own

Rom 8:34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

Heb 7:25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

Heb 9:24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

1Tim 2:5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

1Jn 2:1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

Jesus actually accomplishes salvation, Jesus saves

Rom 3:21-26 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Rom 4:22-25 That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” 23 But the words “it was counted to him” were not ...

1689 Baptist Confession Chapter 12: Of Adoption - Commentary

Simon Wartanian | 11,702 views | 2,439 words | 0:12:42 hours | 04 March 2015 21:56

The 1689 Second Baptist Confession Of Faith Confession Commentary Reformed Baptist Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve Adoption Children Of God

...m>bodies. Our redemption and adoption with all its privileges and graces will be final and complete on the last day when the Lord raises us up unto glory, to have a body like His (1 John 3:2; Phil. 3:21). Our adoption will be known to everyone on the last day and we will receive our glorified body when our redemption is final and complete.

Conclusion

Dr. Waldron defines adoption as—

Adoption is a change in legal status from that of slave to that of son of God which takes place by faith at the moment of union with Christ, but will be publicly revealed at the resurrection. It is an act of God’s free grace flowing from the electing Love Of God and Father in eternity and the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit in time, and immediately confers the Spirit of adoption and the privilege of being one of God’s heirs, as well as other privileges, obligations and liabilities.^[2]

Thank You, Father, for Your marvelous and amazing grace toward us, who were children of wrath and now made children of the living God.

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

(1 John 3:1)

Footnotes

^ Many Scriptural references have been supplied by Samuel Waldron’s Modern Exposition of 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith which was apparently supplied by the Westminster Confession of Faith 1646.
^ Sam E. Waldron. A Modern Exposition Of The 1689 Baptist Confession Of Faith. (Darlington: Evangelical Press, 2013). p. 208, footnote references removed.

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Preservation of the Saints - Scripture List

Simon Wartanian | 20,024 views | 3,263 words | 0:16:33 hours | 23 March 2014 22:28

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...quo;s hand.

Rom 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the Love Of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Eph 1:13-14 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

Eph 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Heb 7:25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

Heb 10:14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

God causes His sheep to persevere in the faith

Jn 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

1Cor 6:11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

1Cor 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Phil 2:12-13 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

1Thess 5:23-24 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.

Heb 13:20-21 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Jude 24-25 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

Perseverance of the Saints

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Mt 10:21-22 Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, 22 and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Mt 24:12-13 And because lawlessness will be increased, ...

Welcome To The Staunch Calvinist

Simon Wartanian | 16,029 views | 547 words | 0:02:57 hours | 08 March 2014 16:57

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...logy; critique of Premillennialism)

Of The Last Judgment (Endless punishment in Hell contra Annihilationism)

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