Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church

Today, we come to 2 Samuel 8. Here, we are given a summary of how God gives His anointed King dominion in the world. What we see with David being brought to full measure and fulfillment in Christ as He takes dominion of the whole world. In Him, all nations are blessed.

Today with Q. 22, we are presented with a problem—how could God become flesh?

Today, we are continuing our hiatus from 2 Samuel to look at the resurrection of our glorious Lord, for that is on the minds of many as it ought to be every Lord's Day.

This week I want to focus on the second part of the answer to Q. 21 where it is emphasized that He is one person who is both God and man. Our scripture is John 1:1-18.

Last week, in view of our annual congregational meeting, we looked at how we may see good days as a congregation. We read from Proverbs 19:20-29 (which I already re-read today), where it tells us that we will see good days if we receive God's counsel and instruction—and I explained that the word translated instruction carries the idea of correction. Today, you might say that we are doing part two of last week's sermon. If part one was about how God uses His word to counsel and correct us. Part two is about the elders He gives to us in the church to impress that word upon us. He is so very kind to give them to each church, More specifically, He has been kind to give us a new elder, Andy Kubik, whom we ordain to this sacred office today. The scripture I have chosen is one that speaks of the work of the elders and of the high regard that you ought to have for them because of the work God has given them to do!

Last week, we also zeroed in on what God did and does to save us…He made a covenant of grace and promised to gather all things under a redeemer. Today, with question 21, we are going to look at who that redeemer is.

God gave David a covenant promise David that He would make David's house a forever dynasty with a forever thrown over a forever kingdom that would be forever be for God. Today we are going to look at David's response to this in 2 Sam 7:18-29.

The troubles we have in the world are on account of the fall. We did not have any of these miseries before we fell. It is God's punishment for sin to show us our wrong.