(8) Christ’s First Witness: John the Baptist

I. The Content of the Witness
II. The Reception of the Witness
III. The Purpose of the Witness




Three Massive Modern Apostate Movements

THE LAST JUDGMENT
Finally, we believe, according to the Word of God, when the time appointed by the Lord (which is unknown to all creatures) is come, and the number of the elect complete, that our Lord Jesus Christ will come from heaven, corporally and visibly, as He ascended, with great glory and majesty to declare Himself Judge of the quick and the dead, burning this old world with fire and flame to cleanse it.
Then all men will personally appear before this great Judge, both men and women and children, that have been from the beginning of the world to the end thereof, being summoned by the voice of the archangel and by the sound of the trumpet of God. For all the dead shall be raised out of the earth, and their souls joined and united with their proper bodies in which they formerly lived. As for those who shall then be living, they shall not die as the others, but be changed in the twinkling of an eye, and from corruptible become incorruptible. Then the books (that is to say, the consciences) shall be opened, and the dead judged according to what they shall have done in this world, whether it be good or evil. Nay, all men shall give an account of every idle word they have spoken, which the world only counts amusement and jest; and then the secrets and hypocrisy of men shall be disclosed and laid open before all.
And therefore the consideration of this judgment is justly terrible and dreadful to the wicked and ungodly, but most desirable and comfortable to the righteous and the elect; because then their full deliverance shall be perfected, and there they shall receive the fruits of their labor and trouble which they have borne. Their innocence shall be known to all, and they shall see the terrible vengeance which God shall execute on the wicked, who most cruelly persecuted, oppressed, and tormented them in this world; and who shall be convicted by the testimony of their own consciences, and, being immortal, shall be tormented in that everlasting fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels …




The Moral Law of God

I. The Perfection
II. The Primacy
III. The Application




(7) The Son Shall Raise All the Dead

I. The Climactic Argument
II. The Appropriate Means
III. The Theological Significance




Submitting to Each Other

I. What This Means
II. How This Shows
III. Why Believers Do So




Idolatry’s Follies

I. Their Failure
II. Their Revenge
III. Their Call




The Ongoing Battle for the Sabbath

The great Synod of Dordt (1618-19) adopted six points regarding the Sabbath which, translated almost verbatim, read as follows:

In the fourth commandment of God’s Law there is a ceremonial and a moral element.
The rest on the seventh day after the creation, and the strict observance of this day with which the Jewish people were charged particularly, was ceremonial.
That a definite and appointed day has been set aside to the service of God, and that for this purpose as much rest is required as is necessary for the service of God and for hallowed contemplation, this element is moral.
The Sabbath of the Jews having been set aside, Christians are in duty bound to hallow the Day of the Lord solemnly.
This day has always been kept in the early Church since the time of the Apostles.
This day must be so consecrated unto the service of God that upon it men rest from all servile labours, except those required by charity and present necessities, and likewise from all such recreations as prevent the service of God.




Every Believer’s Ability to Admonish

I. The Amazing Truth
II. The Calling to Edify
III. The Needed Confidence




The Personal Testimony of the Saved Soul

I. Testimony: Of What
II. Testimony: To Whom
III. Testimony:  Why




(6) The Son’s Judgment

I. The Scope
II. The Source
III. The Sentence