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Title: Assurance in Our Sure High Priest (Heb 7:20-28)

Subtitle: Hebrews (2017-18)

Speaker: James Hakim

Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian

Event: Sunday - AM

Date: 1/21/2018

Bible: Hebrews 7:20-28

Length: 43 min.

Overview: The Lord stirs up our confidence and joy in Jesus-s priesthood by ordaining Him with an oath, ordaining Him forever, ordaining Him in glory, and ordaining Him perfectly.

A new MP3 sermon from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Receiving Christ by Faith at His Table (1Cor 11:23-29)

Subtitle: Lord's Supper Table Lessons

Speaker: James Hakim

Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian

Event: Teaching

Date: 1/21/2018

Bible: 1 Corinthians 11:23-29

Length: 5 min.

Overview: The Lord Jesus still feeds sinners and fellowships with them. At the Lord's Supper, we are to eat by faith and drink by faith, spiritually receiving Christ Himself in heaven.

A new MP3 sermon from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Apostolic Church 4: The Fall of Jerusalem and Staying on Mission

Subtitle: Hopewell 101

Speaker: James Hakim

Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian

Event: Teaching

Date: 1/14/2018

Bible: Matthew 24:1-44

Length: 43 min.

Overview: When the disciples make the mistake of confusing the Fall of Jerusalem with the return of Christ, Jesus warns them -Do not be deceived,- and proceeds to explain that these are very different--and in some ways opposite--events. He urges them not to be distracted from their mission but to endure unto the end. Their mistake continues to be made today, with the very result that Jesus warned against- believers being distracted from mission by obsession about predicting the end.

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Title: Church History 2 - Apostolic Church 2

Subtitle: Hopewell 101

Speaker: James Hakim

Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian

Event: Teaching

Date: 12/31/2017

Bible: 1 Corinthians 14:37; 2 Peter 3:15-16

Length: 52 min.

Overview: We continued to examine Holy Scripture's expected transition from the Apostolic Church to the Early Church, though the class bogged down again upon the issue of the cessation of new special revelation--something that the New Testament teaches us to expect with the completion of Holy Scripture.

A new MP3 sermon from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Assurance That Comes by Serving Saints and Savoring Scripture and Sacraments

Subtitle: Hebrews (2017-18)

Speaker: James Hakim

Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian

Event: Sunday - AM

Date: 12/31/2017

Bible: Hebrews 6:9-18; 1 John 4:19-5:2

Length: 39 min.

Overview: The Lord wants us to grow to a full assurance of faith, which we pursue by serving the saints out of love for His name, and by savoring His promises and oaths in the Word and sacraments.

A new MP3 sermon from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Church History 1 - Apostolic Church 1

Subtitle: Hopewell 101

Speaker: James Hakim

Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian

Event: Teaching

Date: 12/24/2017

Bible: Acts 6, Acts 15

Length: 36 min.

Overview: This week, in Hopewell 101, we began the unit on Church History. Beginning with the apostolic church and the transition from apostles and new revelation in a primarily Jewish church to deacons, elders, and a completed Bible, in a primarily Gentile church.

A new MP3 sermon from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: A Remedy for Scary, Sad Falling Away

Subtitle: Hebrews (2017-18)

Speaker: James Hakim

Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian

Event: Sunday - AM

Date: 12/24/2017

Bible: Hebrews 6:4-8, Matthew 7:21-23

Length: 40 min.

Overview: It is a scary and sad reality that there are church members who reach a place where it is impossible for them to repent. Scary because we won't know we've gotten to that point when we get there, and because of all of the knowledge, experience, and ministry that someone can have and still be unsaved. And it is even sadder than scary, because it shows that such an one doesn't care about Christ. Thankfully, the remedy is the life-giving, fruit-producing Word of Christ. If we would heed the warning, let us open our hearts wide and drink His Word in deep, having it permeate our thoughts, feelings, and choices. And let us make much of Him, His cross, and His glory-

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Title: Christ Uses Lord's Days to Bring Us into His Rest

Subtitle: Sabbath-Keeping

Speaker: James Hakim

Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian

Event: Sunday - AM

Date: 10/22/2017

Bible: Hebrews 4:1-10; Psalm 95

Length: 40 min.

Overview: Introduction- What was God doing in the wilderness- Saving them- What is God doing here this morning- Saving us- Bringing us into His rest-----1. The way to enter- faith. -- a. Every age of the church has heard the gospel. It-s always been all about entering God-s rest, God-s joy, God-s blessedness through Christ.-- b. Recipe -1- hearing the gospel by itself. Result- failing to enter rest.-- c. Recipe -2- hearing the gospel with faith. Result- entering His rest.----2. What rest- God-s Next-world Life of Blessedness-- a. What Adam looked forward to but didn-t achieve. v4-5 teach us that Ps 95-11 explains Gen 2-2. But we get more than Adam lost. We come from far lower -sin and misery- than he began to far higher than he would have achieved -union with Christ-.-- b. What Moses- generation lost by their rebellion -not the land-. v6 teaches us that God-s promise is not empty, so there are at least -some- who must enter.-- c. Not Joshua-s rest. v8 makes it plain that this rest is literally out of this world. Joshua gave them earthly property, power, prosperity.-- d. and What was still in the future at the time of David----3. Enjoyed in prospect via weekly Sabbaths -v9- until we leave this life -v10-. This is the -Today- of Psalm 95-a special day, for a special event, in which the Holy Spirit does a special work----Conclusion- By faith, let us cling to Christ who has secured for us that eternal blessedness with God. By faith, let us cling to Christ as He addresses us in His Word, holding before us the promise of that eternal happiness with God. By faith, let us cling to Christ as He powerfully works upon us by His Word, preparing us for that eternal happiness with God-

A new MP3 sermon from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: The Foundation of Christian Maturity is the Basics of Christ

Subtitle: Hebrews (2017-18)

Speaker: James Hakim

Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 12/17/2017

Bible: Hebrews 6:1-3; Ephesians 5:25-27

Length: 54 min.

Overview: Introduction- The duty of pressing onto maturity. Therefore, the necessity of the right foundation. The foundation is Christ Himself. The elementary principles are very specifically elementary principles of Christ. ----1. Justification-- a.Repentance from dead works -cf. Rom 7-9-. The law says that you-re dead -cf. Rom 3-20, Isa 64-6-- You have no righteousness of your own.-- b. Faith toward God. The gospel is that God provides unto us His own righteousness -cf. Rom 1-16-17-.----2. Sanctification -- a. Instruction about washings -masculine, not neuter, means -washings--. Cleansing not only from the penalty of sin, but also its power and ultimately its presence -cf. 1John 1-7-9, Ephesians 5-25-27--- b. Laying on of hands. Ordination of elders, specifically -e.g. 1Tim 5-17-22-. God-s plan for our washing is His Word, especially as employed by our elders -cf. Heb 13-7, 17--- c. Note well- we are given the privilege -duty- of participation here, but it still depends not upon us but upon the Lord -cf. Phil 2-12-13-----3. Glorification-- a. Resurrection of the dead. The final piece of what Christ has earned for us.-- b. Eternal judgment. Christ-s second -it is finished--this time about His work in us- that not only has His righteousness been counted for us, but that His work in us has also been finished, wherefore He now welcomes us into the final and full and forever enjoyment of all that He has won for us----Conclusion- How Firm a Foundation, Ye Saints of the Lord-

A new MP3 sermon from Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Biblical Doctrine of Church Membership 1

Subtitle: Hopewell 101

Speaker: James Hakim

Broadcaster: Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian

Event: Teaching

Date: 11/19/2017

Length: 41 min.

Overview: This week, we only got as far as discussing some of the reasons that biblical church membership has fallen upon hard times, while examining especially how the differences in commonly held presuppositions from those of Scripture.----Hopewell 101 Study Class, November 19, 2017---Membership-----1. Personal relationship vs corporate relationship--2. Neglect of the -corporateness- of the ordinances of the church is a symptom of consumerism. Service involves not just doing things but being something.--3. Christ-s commitment and ours--a. To whom did Christ commit Himself- The Lord is not ashamed of His church-but our age is endemic with people and congregations who are--b. In and among whom do we commit ourselves to Him---c. Unanimous testimony of the New Testament- to belong to the body of Christ means, in all cases, to belong to a local body of Christ. Christ only has one expression of His church on earth- assemblies -local congregations, assemblies of elders-