Covenant Baptism
November 13, 2005
“Every
time we baptize an infant we bear witness that salvation is from God, that we
cannot do any good thing to secure it, that we receive it from His hands as a
sheer gift of grace, and that we all enter the Kingdom of heaven therefore as
little children, who do not do, but are done for.” ~B.B. Warfield
Profession of Faith/Church Membership Sunday
March 10, 2013
"The
covenant of grace is not a
fifty-fifty arrangement in which God promises you salvation providing that you
in your own strength give Him your heart. To be sure, you must exercise faith--God does not believe for you--but even that
faith is the gift of God and is included in the covenant promise. ('For it is by
grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is
the gift of God.' Eph. 2:8). In the covenant of grace God is everything. He
gives what He demands. It is God's covenant with man rather than merely a
covenant between God and man. It is a covenant established by God. He calls it
My covenant. ('And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.' Gen. 17:7)" ~William Hendriksen
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