Reminder on the Lord’s Day

Westminster Confession of Faith

Chapter 15: Of Repentance unto Life

1: Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace, the doctrine whereof is to be preached by every minister of the Gospel, as well as that of faith in Christ.

Duty, Honor, Country - General MacArthur

Duty. Honor. Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn… .

The unbelievers will say they are but words… . But these are some of the things they do. They build your basic character. They mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation’s defense. They make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid.

They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success; not to substitute words for action; not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm, but to have compassion on those who fall; to master yourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future, yet never neglect the past; to be serious, yet never take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

Westminster Confession of Faith - Adoption

CHAPTER 12 - Of Adoption
1. All those that are justified, God vouchsafeth, in and for his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption,a by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God,b have his name put upon them,c receive the Spirit of adoption,d have access to the throne of grace with boldness,e are enabled to cry, Abba, Father,f are pitied,g protected,h provided for,i and chastened by him, as by a father:k yet never cast off,l but sealed to the day of redemption;m and inherit the promises,n as heirs of everlasting salvation.o

(a) Eph 1:5; Gal 4:4-5
(b) Rom 8:17; John 1:12
(c) Num 6:24-26; Jer 14:9; Amos 9:12; Acts 15:17; 2 Cor 6:18; Rev 3:12
(d) Rom 8:15
(e) Eph 3:12; Heb 4:16
(f) Rom 8:15; Gal 4:6; Rom 8:16
(g) Ps 103:13
(h) Prov 14:26
(i) Matt 6:30,32; 1 Pet 5:7
(k) Heb 12:6
(l) Lam 3:31-32; Ps 89:30-35
(m) Eph 4:30
(n) Heb 6:12
(o) 1 Pet 1:3-4; Heb 1:14