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Chapter 27: Of The Sacraments (Part 3)

Speaker: Reverend Joseph Poon

Website: http://www.bpcwa.org.au/

DOWNLOAD WCF Chapter 27: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jjXoMKS0WszKuwwHGnDWWbhRqryWILEz/view

Introduction - (00:00)

QUESTIONS

Revision Q1. What are sacraments? - (02:12)

Revision Q2. What are their purposes? - (06:07)

WCF 27.3 - (14:29)

Q1. Explain the Latin word “sacramentum” from which it comes. How should this affect my thinking about it? - (15:32)

Q2. What is the difference between sacraments and ordinances? - (30:40)

Q3. Why is the understanding of the difference important? - (40:33)

Q4. Regarding the conferring of grace by the sacraments:

Q4. a) Give examples of the grace conferred by the sacraments. Explain them. - (58:45)

Q4. b) Describe the sequence of grace in relation to the sacraments? Why is it important to be clear in this? - (1:17:34)

Q4. c) What does this conferring of grace not depend on? (1:20:45) How do you explain 1 Peter 3:21 then for baptism? - (1:28:10)

Q4. d) What does this conferring of grace depend upon? How are these ensured? - (1:30:19)

Q4. e) Explain how grace is conferred. Give illustrations so that you truly understand. - (1:37:05)

WCF 27.4

Q5. What are the sacraments our Lord instituted? - (1:40:02)

Q6. What are the sacraments that the Roman Catholic church puts forth and what do sacraments mean in their teachings? What is wrong with their teachings about the sacraments? Does it make sacraments unbiblical? - (1:40:24)

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CHAPTER XXVII OF THE SACRAMENTS

1. SACRAMENTS are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace,1 immediately instituted by God,2 to represent Christ and his benefits, and to confirm our interest in him;3 as also to put a visible difference between those that belong unto the church and the rest of the world;4 and solemnly to engage them to the service of God in Christ, according to his word.5

1. Rom. 4:11; Gen. 17:7,10

2. Matt. 28:19; I Cor. 11:23

3. I Cor. 10:16; I Cor. 11:25-26; Gal. 3:27; Gal. 3:17

2. There is in every sacrament a spiritual relation, or sacramental union, between the sign and the thing signified; whence it comes to pass, that the names and effects of the one are attributed to the other.6

6. Gen. 17:10; Matt. 26:27-28; Tit. 3:5

3. The grace which is exhibited in or by the sacraments, rightly used, is not conferred by any power in them; neither doth the efficacy of a sacrament depend upon the piety or intention of him that doth administer it,7 but upon the work of the Spirit,8 and the word of institution; which contains, together with a precept authorizing the use thereof, a promise of benefit to worthy receivers.9

7. Rom. 2:28-29; I Pet. 3:21

8. Matt. 3:11; I Cor. 12:13

9. Matt. 26:7-8; Matt. 28:19-20

4. There be only two sacraments ordained by Christ out Lord in the gospel, that is to say, Baptism, and the Supper of the Lord; neither of which may be dispensed by any but by a minister of the word, lawfully ordained.10

10. Matt. 28:19; I Cor. 11:20,23; I Cor. 4:1; Heb. 5:4

5. The sacraments of the Old Testament, in regard of the spiritual things thereby signified and exhibited, were, for substance, the same with those of the New.11

11. I Cor. 10:1-4

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Westminster Confession of Faith Series

Bible Presbyterian Church of WA

Friday 22nd March 2019

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