Madison Reformed Church

Renewed by the Holy Spirit, we are called in the 7th Commandment to avoid adultery and all sexual sin. This can be true of us because of how the Lord has acted toward us and for us, specifically in terms of his commitment to his people and especially through his purifying blood shed on the cross.

In this sermon on the 4th command, we learn that God's own eternal rest is the ground of our observance of the Sabbath, and that we apply the Sabbath to our lives in two main ways: (1) our weekly Lord's Day celebrations, and (2) our daily rest from evil works.

In this story from Mark 5, Jesus casts many demons out of a man whose life had been ruined. He was isolated, oppressed, and unclean. But Jesus dramatically reverses all that, and in doing so, he shows us what his cross has accomplished for all of us.

Although Jesus is setting captives free in his ministry, pretty much everyone has misunderstood him, a warning to us in our day too. In this passage from Marks' Gospel, we learn that misunderstanding the work of God leads to a failure to do the will of God. In other words, you can’t be a true disciple of Jesus and obey him if you don’t understand who he is or what he’s done.

Exod. 4:18–23
Job 37:14–24
Mark 14:32–36
Gal. 4:1–7
Prayer is one of the greatest privileges and struggles of the Christian life. It is a struggle because, as we say in the prayer of confession, “our minds are dark and are assailed by doubts.” Jesus has given us the Lord’s Prayer to help us. In this message, we learn that true prayer requires an “awakening” in us "that through Christ God has become our Father" (Q&A 120).