Pastor's Corner — Providence Presbyterian Church

The Morning Devotional for March 2, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 7.3

III. Man by his fall having made himself incapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a second,a commonly called the covenant of grace: wherein he freely offered unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in him that they may be saved,b and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto life his Holy Spirit, to make them willing and able to believe.c

The Morning Devotional: WCF 7.2

The Morning Devotional for March 1, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 7.2

II. The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works,a wherein life was promised to Adam, and in him to his posterity,b upon condition of perfect and personal obedience.c

The Morning Devotional: WCF 7.1

The Morning Devotional for February 28, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 7.1

I. The distance between God and the creature is so great that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him as their blessedness and reward but by some voluntary condescension on God’s part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.a

devotional, confessions, Westminster ConfessionWilliam HillFebruary 28, 2023covenant, condescend, Isa. 40, Psa. 113, Acts 17

The Morning Devotional: WCF 6.6

The Morning Devotional for February 27, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 6.6

VI. Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto,a doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner,b whereby he is bound over to the wrath of Godc and curse of the law,d and so made subject to death,e with all miseries spiritual,f temporal,g and eternal.h

The Morning Devotional: WCF 6.5

The Morning Devotional for February 24, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 6.5

V. This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated;a and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin.b

confessions, devotional, Westminster ConfessionWilliam HillFebruary 24, 2023sin, regenerate, devotional, Prov. 20, Eccl. 7, 1 John 1, Gal. 5

The Morning Devotional: WCF 6.4

The Morning Devotional for February 23, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 6.4

IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good,a and wholly inclined to all evil,b do proceed all actual transgressions.c

The Morning Devotional: WCF 6.3

The Morning Devotional for February 22, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 6.3

III. They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed,a and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.b

devotional, confessions, Westminster ConfessionWilliam HillFebruary 22, 2023sin, virgin birth, Psa. 51, Rom. 5

The Morning Devotional: WCF 6.1-2

The Morning Devotional for February 21, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 6.1-2

I. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit.a This their sin God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.b

The Morning Devotional: WCF 5.7

The Morning Devotional for February 20, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 5.7

VII. As the providence of God doth, in general, reach to all creatures, so, after a most special manner, it taketh care of his Church, and disposeth all things to the good thereof.a

devotional, confessions, Westminster ConfessionWilliam HillFebruary 20, 2023devotional, Amos 9, Isaiah 43, Matthew 16, Romans 8, providence, church

The Morning Devotional: WCF 5.6

The Morning Devotional for February 17, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 5.6

VI. As for those wicked and ungodly men whom God, as a righteous judge, for former sins, doth blind and harden,a from them he not only withholdeth his grace, whereby they might have been enlightened in their understandings and wrought upon in their hearts,b but sometimes also withdraweth the gifts which they had,c and exposeth them to such objects as their corruption makes occasion of sin;d and withal, gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan;e whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves, even under those means which God useth for the softening of others.f

confessions, devotional, Westminster Confession, videoWilliam HillFebruary 17, 2023devotional, Providence, Rom. 1, Deut 29, Mark 4, Matt. 13, GEn. 4, Lk. 22, Ex. 8

The Morning Devotional: WCF 5.5

The Morning Devotional for February 15, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 5.4

V. The most wise, righteous, and gracious God doth oftentimes leave for a season his own children to manifold temptations and the corruption of their own hearts, to chastise them for their former sins, or to discover unto them the hidden strength of corruption and deceitfulness of their hearts, that they be humbled;a and to raise them to a more close and constant dependence for their support unto himself, and to make them more watchful against all future occasions of sin, and for sundry other just and holy ends.b

The Morning Devotional: WCF 5.4

The Morning Devotional for February 15, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 5.4

IV. The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God so far manifest themselves in his providence that it extendeth itself even to the first fall, and all other sins of angels and men,a and that not by a bare permission,b but such as hath joined with it a most wise and powerful bounding,c and otherwise ordering and governing of them, in a manifold dispensation, to his own holy ends;d yet so as the sinfulness thereof proceedeth only from the creature, and not from God; who, being most holy and righteous, neither is nor can be the author or approver of sin.e

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