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New City Catechism Lesson 14

New City Catechism Lesson 14

Big Idea – What we learned about today God created Adam and Eve with the ability to perfectly keep his law. Sin now prevents the law from being kept. Bible Lesson – Romans 5:12-21 (ESV) 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where…

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New City Catechism Lesson 13

New City Catechism Lesson 13

Big Idea – What we learned about today The law of God has been kept perfectly only by Jesus. No other human has, is, or willbe able to keep God’s law. Bible Lesson – Romans 3:9-20 (ESV) 9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, 10 as it is written:“None is righteous, no, not one;11 no one understands;no one seeks for…

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Sunday Recap for 021620 – Christ the Stumbling Block from Romans 9.30-33

Sunday Recap for 021620 – Christ the Stumbling Block from Romans 9.30-33

Sunday, February 16, 2020, Evident Grace looked at Romans 9.30-33:   9.30 What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; 31 but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. 32 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,…

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Sunday Recap for 020920 – God is Sovereign Part Three

Sunday Recap for 020920 – God is Sovereign Part Three

Sunday, February 9th, 2020, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at Romans 9.25-29:   Romans 9. 25 As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’” 26 “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”   27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number…

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Sunday Recap for 020220 – God is Sovereign Part Three

Sunday Recap for 020220 – God is Sovereign Part Three

Sunday, February 2, 2020, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at Romans 9.14-24:   Romans 9. 14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! 15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this…

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Sunday Recap for 01.19.20 The Sovereignty of God Part Two

Sunday Recap for 01.19.20 The Sovereignty of God Part Two

Sunday, January 19, 2020, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at Romans 9.6-13:   Romans 9.6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, 7 and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of…

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Sunday Recap for 011220 God’s Sovereignty Part One

Sunday Recap for 011220 God’s Sovereignty Part One

Sunday, January 12, 2020, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at Romans 9.1-5:   Romans 9.1 I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong…

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Sunday Recap for 010520 – Seeking God’s Will in 2020

Sunday Recap for 010520 – Seeking God’s Will in 2020

Sunday January 5th, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at James 4.13-17:   James 4. 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills,…

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Sunday Recap for 121519 – Glorifying God in Our Prayers

Sunday Recap for 121519 – Glorifying God in Our Prayers

Sunday, December 15, 2019, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at Luke 2.8-20: Luke 2. 8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. 10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will…

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Sunday Recap for 120819 – God is at Work in Your Prayers

Sunday Recap for 120819 – God is at Work in Your Prayers

Sunday, December 8, 2019, Evident Grace looked at Luke 1.57-80:   Luke 1. 67 And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,   68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people 69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, 70 as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, 71 that we should…

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