Reformation Baptist Church

Why do we worship on Sunday if the Sabbath is on Saturday? Throughout the world, the vast majority of Christian denominations hold worship services on Sunday. However, if you ask professing Christians what caused Sabbath worship to move from the last day of the week to the first, most would either say the Sabbath is unrelated to Sunday worship or point to tradition. But there are important biblical reasons why the Sabbath changed from Saturday to Sunday. It's important first of all because Christ said that if you teach someone to disobey one of the least commandments, you will be least in the kingdom of heaven and the Sabbath is one of the ten commandments. But it's important because the Sabbath is about the rest we have in Christ. It is the day our risen Lord provides for his people so that they can be set apart from the world and all its cares, and go forth to do the work that Christ's atonement made possible. Some of the confusion surrounding the Sabbath is related to a misunderstanding of Israel's place in scripture. Israel's whole calendar was built around Passover and Pentecost and their observance and the Sabbaths around them were set every year based on the day of the week , but because Israel and their observances were a type pointing forward to Christ and his fulfillment, all of their Passovers and Pentecosts and their calendar that changed yearly were nothing more than shadows. There has only been one Passover that caused sins to be forgiven. There has been only one Pentecost where the Spirit of God inhabited his people. And their fulfillment caused the Sabbath to be set from that day forth. Please join us as we consider this important topic.

Paul is now summarizing the righteousness of faith. You have to confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead. These words are often twisted to mean just say you believe and pray a prayer and you can know that you are saved. This week, we will consider what these words actually mean and some of the implications of them.

Because it's the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of our country, Joshua Horn talks about the driving forces in the ideological background of our movement towards independence.

Roger Boutin talks through a fundamental part of the Great Awakening and an important figure who is responsible for the push towards the reshaping of colonial thinking.

After using Hosea and Isaiah to make his argument, Paul now moves on to Moses. He starts by restating the Old Covenant that Israel made at Mt. Sinai which was that if you do everything in the law, you will be saved and contrasts that with what Moses says about faith. Faith causes a shift, so it is not your work. You do not think that you or men need to drag the word down from heaven so it is accessible. You or men do not need to bring the word up from the deep, so you can have access to it. Salvation by faith is believing that God sent His Word to us so it is near us and in our mouths and in our hearts. Those are the words of faith rather than salvation by works. Which leads to you need to profess with your tongue the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead. You need to understand that Christ is with you and in you in order to be saved.

After arguing forcefully that Gentiles do not need to become Jews, but rather that Jews to be saved need to have the same faith as the Gentiles. Trusting in their works will not save them. Paul then reaffirms his care for his people and his desire that they would be saved. He explicitly says for them (as he does for himself in Acts), their problem is not that they are lacking in zeal. There are many people who have zeal to serve God, but zeal without knowledge is worthless. Their zeal earns them nothing with God or their works would be what makes them righteous. Instead, their zeal is producing their own self-righteousness thinking that they are fine with God. These were who Christ was speaking to when He said that He came to those that need a physician.If your are certain that your own righteousness will save you, then you will not listen to Christ. But knowing Christ and having the righteousness that comes from faith means that you know that your righteousness could never make you acceptable to God.

Circumcision was established by God to identify specific earthly promises to Abraham and his descendants and to the nation that would come from him and through which the Messiah would come. Specifically, it was a sign that Abraham would be the father of many nations, and that through Israel, Jesus the Christ, the seed, would be born. Circumcision also pointed toward a greater spiritual reality in that while physical circumcision could not achieve any real constraint of sin and caused God to have no obligation to save anyone, circumcision of the heart was only for the sons of God. But as is often the case with the earthly types that God institutes, because of sin, physical circumcision is often taught to have direct spiritual significance. In the New Testament, there were Jews who tried to tie circumcision directly to salvation to the point where Peter was caught up in their lies and had to be publicly rebuked by Paul. This is also a distinct disagreement between Presbyterians and Reformed Baptists where Presbyterians associate circumcision with baptism and by implication apply the promises of the baptism of Jesus Christ to unbelieving children and from it a form of belonging or covenant membership within the church. We believe that this Presbyterian view of the relationship between circumcision and baptism is contrary to scripture. (We are even more opposed to the views of circumcision and baptism that lead to paedocommunion and to the teachings called Federal Vision)Please join us as we discuss the nature of circumcision and the purposes to which God appointed it. Production of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NCPermanent Hosts - D

Paul sums up his argument paraphrasing Scripture from Isaiah 8 and Isaiah 28 to show that God had always promised that He would judge Israel and Judah. That He would scourge them and only leave a remnant and that remnant would be those who would attain righteousness not through the law but through faith. To those who are trying to attain righteousness through the law, Christ was a stumbling block as Isaiah had clearly said. Christ is a stumbling block that will cause them to be snared and taken. Through Christ their covenant with death will be annulled. They will be trampled down.

While the Lindsay Clancy case has captured the nation's attention, we want to ask a very specific question: Is "Not Guilty by reason of insanity" a biblical verdict? God's word spends a great amount of time talking about justice and righteousness, so this should matter to us. Are we judged for our intent or for our actions, and does being under great mental strain or pressure free us from guilt under God's law?Thumbnail image by Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger via APTimecodes00:00 Lindsay Clancy04:20 Your Eye Shall Not Pity18:08 The Cry of Innocent Blood25:02 Punishing Demoniacs32:34 Doing Our Will41:14 Putting Out the EvilProduction of Reformation Baptist Church of Youngsville, NCPermanent Hosts - Dan Horn, Charles Churchill and Joshua HornTechnical Director - Timothy KaiserTheme Music - Gabriel Hudelson

Paul again quotes from Isaiah with an even stronger rebuke to Israel and Judah pointing out that except for the remnant that God would have done to them what He did to Sodom and Gomorrah. Isaiah was specifically prophesying to Judah and not to Israel. God was saying that Jerusalem would have been treated as Sodom or Gomorrah if God had not appointed a remnant from there. The Jews are thinking that they are special people because they were delivered from Egypt and Paul is saying that was never true. It was always about extracting a remnant. What makes a people the people of God is that God worked righteousness in them.