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Passage: 1 Peter 4
Living for God’s will
Living with purpose
Rejoicing in suffering
Podcast: Covenant Presbyterian Church
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Covenant Community – Big Day In 2025 (Day 2)
/RSS FeedPassage: Acts 2:1-13
Speaker: Ian Smith
Event: Covenant Big Day In 2025 (Day 2)
Jeremiah 31:31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah
Ezekiel 37 valley of dry bones
1. What do we mean by “new” when we talk about the new Covenant?
Ezekiel 36:26-27 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
2. What difference does the new covenant make?
Pentecost
Acts 2:4, 8-11 tongues
Acts 2:42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching
Acts 2:42 to the breaking of bread.
Acts 2:39 This promise is to you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.
Gentiles
Children
Baptism
The Lord’s Day
Priesthood
Sacrifice
The People of God
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Covenant God – Big Day In 2025 (Day 1)
/RSS FeedPassage: Genesis 15
Speaker: Ian Smith
Event: Covenant Big Day In 2025 (Day 1)
Outline
Covenant
Noah
Genesis 6:18 But I will establish my covenant with you …
Eden
Genesis 3:15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head and you will strike his heel.
Abram
Gen 12:1-3 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonours you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Abram’s doubt Gen 15
Covenant Sign (Circumcision) – Genesis 17:11
Passover
Temple – 2 Samuel 7
New Covenant – Jeremiah 31:31-14
God’s Spirit – Ezekiel 37
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Hope That Makes Us Fearless
/RSS FeedPassage: 1 Peter 2:11-3:7
Two Distinct Titles: God’s Elect, Exiles Scattered
The Call to Submit
1 Peter 2:11-3:6
How Wives can be Fearless in Submission
… hope not in the husband but in God
… what submission is not
Husbands and the Call to be Considerate
The Profound Mystery, Marriage in Eternity
Ephesians 5:31-32
To the husbands, ask yourselves
To the wives, ask yourselves
To the Bride of Christ, ask ourselves
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Truth on Trial
/RSS FeedPassage: Acts 22:30-23:35
1. Fighting for the truth invites opposition
2. Fighting for the truth comes with Christ’s support
3. Fighting for the truth is always worth it
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Thy Kingdom Come
/RSS FeedPassages: Daniel 2:17-47
Introduction
1. Prophecy is one of the great proofs for the authority of Scripture as the
Word of God. Only the sovereign God could reveal this.
2. We live in times which are discouraging and fearful, and so Christians need to have a rock to stand upon, to be sure of the King and His everlasting kingdom.
1. The Four Kingdoms
The dream concerned a great image (2:31-35). But what does it all
Mean?
1. The gold head represents the Babylonian empire (vv.36-38). It collapsed in
539 B.C.
2. The silver chest and arms represent the Medo-Persian empire (v.39a).
3. The bronze belly and thighs represent the Greek empire (v.39b).
Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C., and his empire broke into four parts.
4. The legs of iron and clay represent the Roman empire (vv.40-43). It appeared to be very strong but was divided between east and west.
2. The Kingdom of Christ
The fifth kingdom is portrayed as a little stone which would become a great
mountain – Dan. 2:34; Psalm 118:22; Matt.21:42-44; 1 Peter 2:6-8. The fifth
kingdom did come during the time of the Roman empire (see Luke 2:1 for
Caesar Augustus, 31 BC-AD 14); and Luke 3:1 for Tiberius, AD 14-37).
(1) This kingdom is divine (v 45)
The stone was cut out of the mountain without hands. It is no human achievement.
(2) This kingdom is world-wide (v 35)
Note Revelation 7:9-10 and 11:15. In 604 B.C. who could have foreseen it?
(3) This kingdom is everlasting (v 44)
So be it, Lord, Thy throne shall never,
Like earth’s proud empires, pass away,
Thy kingdom stands and grows forever,
Till all Thy creatures own Thy sway. – John Ellerton, 1826-93
(4) This kingdom is certain (v.45).
3. Some New Testament Applications
(a) Christ spoke of His mission in terms of repentance as the kingdom of
heaven is near – Matt.4:17;
(b) Christ’s kingdom is not of this world – John 18:36.
(c) We are not to fear – Luke 12:32.
The kingdom is divine, worldwide, everlasting and certain. This puts
everything into a gospel perspective.
Do you know the King?
Are you a member of the kingdom that the King has won?
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Judgment and Hope
/RSS FeedPassage: Isaiah 1:1-20
God’s frustration
God’s disgust
God’s tenderness
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Steadfastness, a Virtue
/RSS FeedPassages: 1 Peter 2, 5:10-11
Boat with ballast
Steadfastness and BAU
Gospel Truths
- Holy purpose
- Prestigious status
- Delight of God
Applications
- Crave
- Cultivate