1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, Chapter 2.3 The Triune God

The Text Matthew 28:16–20 (CSB) The eleven disciples traveled to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshiped, but some doubted. Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you....

February 8, 2023 · 19 min · Joseph Louthan

1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, Chapter 2.2 The Sufficiency of God

The Text Romans 11:33–36 (CSB) 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments and untraceable his ways! 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? 35 And who has ever given to God, that he should be repaid? 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things....

January 25, 2023 · 26 min · Joseph Louthan

1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, Chapter 2.1 The Attributes of God

The Text Psalm 97:9 (CSB) For you, LORD, are the Most High over the whole earth; you are exalted above all the gods. The Chapter The Lord our God is but one only living and true God; whose subsistence is in and of himself, infinite in being and perfection; whose essence cannot be comprehended by any but himself; a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions, who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; who is immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, every way infinite, most holy, most wise, most free, most absolute; working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will for his own glory; most loving, gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; the rewarder of them that diligently seek him, and withal most just and terrible in his judgments, hating all sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty....

January 11, 2023 · 50 min · Joseph Louthan