Ptr. Jess Erasquin
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God Is a Consuming Fire
A survey of God’s holy fire in judgment, from Sodom and Nadab and Abihu to Uzzah and the ark, calling believers to worship with reverence and awe.
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Covering for Shameful Nakedness
From Genesis 3, a look at how Adam and Eve’s shame was covered by God’s provision, not their own effort.
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God or Chance
When the ark of God fell into Philistine hands and ‘the glory had departed from Israel,’ the events that followed force the question: was any of it mere chance, or was the sovereign hand of God at work the whole time?
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What is Reality?
Pilate asked Jesus, ‘What is truth?’ – not realizing that Truth itself stood before him.
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The Theology of Work
Work did not begin with the curse; it began as part of God’s good design, a dominion mandate believers now fulfill through Christ for the sake of His kingdom.
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The New Creation
Adam’s fall dragged the whole creation into futility and decay; this sermon traces its hope forward to the promised new heavens and new earth, when ‘the former things will not be remembered.’
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Glorification
Glorification is the final link in the golden chain of redemption: already God’s children, believers will one day be conformed fully to the glorified Christ.
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The Day of Atonement: Yom Kippur
The Day of Atonement pictured the costly, once-a-year covering for Israel’s sin, a shadow fulfilled once for all in Christ.
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Sanctification
Justification does not change us morally; sanctification is the process by which Christ’s righteousness bears fruit in us, because we serve the Holy One who called us.
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Protoevangelium: The First Gospel
The 10th MITWS traces the ‘first gospel’ of Genesis 3:15 through the long war between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent to its fulfillment in Christ, pictured beforehand in the Day of Atonement.
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The War Between Two Seeds
From the promise of a woman’s offspring who would crush the serpent’s head, to the dragon’s defeat in Revelation, this message traces the one long war between two seeds that frames the whole Bible.
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Protoevangelium: The First Gospel
The first promise of a Savior comes right after the Fall — this sermon traces the ‘war between two seeds’ from Genesis 3:15 all the way to its fulfillment in Jesus Christ.