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The Gospel of Jesus Christ concerning the only comfort of the Church (Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 1)

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  2. foundational nothing. Breaching our scripture, thanks

  3. for. These words they want is found

  4. in Isaiah chapter 14 versus 111. I've been reading.

    Isaiah 14 chapter mention

  5. From St. Translation, I see a 40.

  6. Versus 1. Go for it.

  7. Go forward, my people says you're.

  8. Not sit entirely. Jerusalem and crying to her that

  9. her warfare descended that very night with these part of.

  10. That she has received. From the Lords and local for

  11. her. Since a voice rising wilderness.

  12. Prepares the way of the. Lord made straight into the

  13. desert highway. Park God, everybody should

  14. believe. Them and every morning and here

  15. he may go down, even ground shall come to level.

  16. And the rough places. Waiting.

  17. And the glory of the Lord something.

  18. Revealed an old fashioned sell seed.

  19. Together, but the model of the Lord has opened.

  20. A voice says crime and I said what should I crime?

  21. All fancy scraps. And all this beauties like

  22. flower. Grass weather.

  23. Flowers random. Breath of the Lord.

  24. Low, sunny. Show me the people are.

  25. Grass the grass, weather the flower.

  26. Fades, and the world of our God is that this will.

  27. Stand forever, go on all go and have a high mountain.

  28. Outside of hell, please you have your voice is strength all those

  29. in heaven of peoples lives up here.

  30. It is here to. The beholder God.

  31. Behold the Lord God comes. To mind and his.

  32. Arms rules for him. You is who are.

  33. Is with him. And his recommence before him.

  34. He will bend his. Flock like a shepherd, he will

  35. gather to launch his. Arms he will carry them in.

  36. His puzzles. And.

  37. Gently lead those that are young, and the Lord bless the

  38. rating of this world, You. Always live

  39. people outside. Remind me to send the words, say

  40. one, question one and. 2 They just say no big shape.

  41. Standard safety not having Southern.

  42. Pinal. Book.

  43. Are there any question in? Close one.

  44. Question. Number one, what is your only?

  45. Comfort. In life and in.

  46. Death. Answer.

  47. I have my. Own.

  48. So. Jesus Christ, He is so.

  49. For all my sins to be surprised by a second paper.

  50. Also. Personally.

  51. And not yeah. In fact.

  52. Together for Asia. Because I love him.

  53. Period as first male and makes me whole hearted be really angry

  54. before him what must. She.

  55. Know, live and die. In the joy of his comfort as

  56. her. 1st I'll make they are. How are you?

  57. How am I? Times significance.

  58. What's? On.

  59. Our hand and praised. The Lord.

  60. Are you learning my Lord happy land?

  61. How about having to put them on a same same?

  62. Time. I didn't mean and more people

  63. are also not my idea do. You wanna say so?

  64. Telepathy person, so please anything that I have seen more

  65. in court. Call my missus.

  66. I mean or at least station. Or sermon.

  67. I'll be delivering A sermon prepared by Reverend Clarence

  68. Stan. He is a.

  69. Pastor nervous. Don't post corner store manager.

  70. Reported shirts. Salton, Ontario, You know.

  71. How we begin. With the Lord's day.

  72. Of being. All Heidelberg and indeed I

  73. know. That is why some would say, in

  74. fact people my antiquated document.

  75. After all. 95 January 1958. The more often you said people

  76. by. The visas is 461 years now they

  77. wanna look in January language. Publish.

  78. Will I marry, you know fashion at this church?

  79. Does this all. Carries in non reflect the

  80. inside the ideal. Is only you or you know.

  81. I don't know really. Reformation for me today,

  82. Salvadorian and even. Demand, you know.

  83. Cannabis in reaching from him. Sunny sunny out.

  84. Ohh Indigo has an award that changed since then and present

  85. time that pregnant. Have been.

  86. Progressing our thinking and understanding and.

  87. Are these issues? Friend, that is 16th century.

  88. What about the mothers of which you might have nothing?

  89. Home failing? Yeah, you got along case you

  90. don't want it. What?

  91. Kind of work and bye. What are the?

  92. Was it rather? Well, roundabout.

  93. Are you giving you a higher ohh we are old.

  94. Ohh the. Method and the vision of

  95. communism or the facts of calories and is outdated.

  96. They would go on. And he says amazing future by

  97. Leverkusen. You know, idea information has a

  98. remarkable. Durability.

  99. Are they I? Know but the book.

  100. Which put? Forward.

  101. Is is virtual confessions? I never paradism.

  102. Maybe same valuable document. Just I don't have international

  103. being the Bible is impossible in some place, but higher

  104. cannibalism is not improbable and.

  105. Therefore it has. Spun for revisions and in all

  106. these changes moving actually and.

  107. You can. Go as a faithful Confessions of

  108. the. Doctrine of this.

  109. Picture. Really.

  110. Summer formed churches. The church has followed in the

  111. Heidelberg. Athleticism and put all in a

  112. very wonderful summary than sitting.

  113. Down. That is the value in the

  114. function. Of the handle.

  115. Even so, I don't know what I did with this faithful confession.

  116. We name and we can tackle the issues on normal Gemma.

  117. Here is that the main screen in my spiritual confessions in his

  118. spiritual manner and applying completely in our life saving

  119. way. Sorry.

  120. But really nothing, you know I am hoping to reach then it is

  121. fully the. Population of the Word of God as

  122. we turn to the Lord, say one. Woman in the.

  123. World and our winner. We are struck again by the

  124. beauty of. These introductions Thursday.

  125. Those who want payments to summarise noncontent now books

  126. are looking. Bare.

  127. And he said, and introduces. A word.

  128. Which will resurface again and again knowing that named.

  129. The word. Homework.

  130. The first question, said the tone.

  131. For the whole. Room.

  132. I love you. Video.

  133. What is your? Only comfort in life.

  134. And that is where the constantly inquire as to what extent and in

  135. what way something benefits from offered us in a special way the

  136. values of us. Became known as the old people

  137. part. So as somebody called the help

  138. people, yeah, made them. Jesus Christ.

  139. Concerning the only. Comfort of insurance.

  140. I have it with us. Another one.

  141. What I mean is, this certainly is.

  142. Expressed concerning the reality.

  143. Of his homework or your own? And they are.

  144. Island. And not.

  145. At all for people. That will display the knowledge.

  146. Required. For the.

  147. Joy of this homework? Ohh Adam.

  148. Uncomfortable those. Maintenance started in India?

  149. That sounds important, since the writer of the validation could

  150. have easily chosen another. World.

  151. That you choice or use the word home form.

  152. Is that considered as purely coincidental?

  153. Alongside England. And all of secondary importance

  154. arriving there could indeed have.

  155. Chosen another word. Ohh, he didn't go.

  156. Home for? But I like not Ohh.

  157. I know. Nice.

  158. People I. I don't know ohh.

  159. Overseeing. About any word of comfort, but

  160. the world is also. A real world.

  161. And the concept of. Comfort.

  162. Is a spiritual one, and that is of breaking glass out of.

  163. The world offered. You say that homework literally

  164. means something with which to spread them.

  165. To spend it ourselves. Or our style?

  166. The word. Comfort is a press supposes.

  167. Belief or pain, Tribulation. Or being affliction.

  168. It responses the word there, and the comfort is then not a matter

  169. of othering. Viewers.

  170. As a consolation, your comfort is men as something that brings

  171. reality lasting relief. Which?

  172. Michelin upside and. With a.

  173. Real change. On.

  174. The present situation. And.

  175. Given about giving enough. Hope.

  176. Almost. Down.

  177. Suddenly. Ohh.

  178. Ohh. Like a new lives are born and he

  179. needed my living hahaha. And that's something.

  180. Ohh, I've decided. Falling by the sea.

  181. Small hole. Or small.

  182. Concord homework. 19 Society Where Can I working out person

  183. buying a real comfort when he does just one goal maybe.

  184. Ohh 1. Now over they go.

  185. Is that really about which they have?

  186. Oh, oh. Certainly Power.

  187. It is rather a quest about which they have great fear.

  188. Ohh, you don't have that sadly in no.

  189. Uncertain. Learns.

  190. There is a comfort. The guy is an even speak of only

  191. comfort and put someone down and.

  192. There. You were the only side down.

  193. Only I make sense. Some uniqueness of your power or

  194. exclusivity. Not comfortable?

  195. It's all over now, someone shirts and mannequin lama sama.

  196. Yeah. I think you would the government

  197. of anywhere as seven. Hello.

  198. Everything here. Allows you.

  199. One question and answer, and I'm assuming it's all positive.

  200. What are you doing now? Are you working?

  201. Now. You're not speaking here about

  202. you remote possibility and study salvation initially home the

  203. mining comfort. Is that God?

  204. May or may not only save me people.

  205. Thank you indeed yourself. I belong to Christ.

  206. He has paid my sin. He has set me free.

  207. He has preserved. Me.

  208. People are in confession. It is a solid confession the

  209. business and you can hold it. You can grab it.

  210. By the way, it is not a guessing game.

  211. Anymore it. Is confessed reality caravan for

  212. you having dinner here and people immediately that sat down

  213. dollar kind of dissent. Ohh, you born.

  214. Yeah, meet again, you know, much time doing nothing.

  215. It is sad. We have.

  216. Programmed salvation matchmaking.

  217. And. It is also most easy with us

  218. that when we endorse, suffer. With us and do so quickly.

  219. Well, my buggy sign into the mirror for his mother must be a

  220. mother. Of heart.

  221. And not a custom. Only.

  222. But lower state. Line and the rest.

  223. Of 50. People lower state.

  224. Not in Mumbai is 7. Fashion of the Church and of all

  225. its members, and all its members who are.

  226. Required to be leading. Members confess which?

  227. Certainly. The.

  228. Reality of their salvation in Christ Jesus.

  229. Would you think about those? One is the home version of the

  230. Church. And it's all members who are

  231. required to be leading members confess.

  232. Reese certainty the reality of their salvation.

  233. In Christ Jesus. That and he doesn't lies in

  234. anyways that involved people. I the downside.

  235. This is the key point here throughout the country, sent

  236. from Worsley one to Worsley because our salvation lies in

  237. price. It is.

  238. Real. And it is certain, Yeah, look,

  239. I'm all. Many.

  240. Were among us. Sometimes we are being accused

  241. of speeding please and inappropriate union salvation

  242. and size convention or is in good feelings and.

  243. To ourselves. And if that is the case, the

  244. home side led by obscure but being added saying I got this

  245. way in the garden. I can't understand.

  246. Cortana. My God.

  247. That is, in simply summarising what the?

  248. Word of God, it tells us. In no uncertain terms or you

  249. make an idea, and I know, namely, that in Christ there is.

  250. For all believers of fullness. Of redemption and that.

  251. We are today. All of it.

  252. When innovation of the WADA with the word confirm, it's just in

  253. the Bible. It is.

  254. Used to describe, you know, reconciliation, you remove the.

  255. Curse illness restoration. Of.

  256. Boy. That is always the one that

  257. somebody said government is not in your particular probably see

  258. it in a personal thing Bill and I that sitting down you know on

  259. some idea that one. Saying that is something.

  260. Say something ohh Lord call for my people.

  261. There are even 2 Jerusalem. And.

  262. Crying to her. That her.

  263. Warfare. Is ended that her iniquity.

  264. It's part of that she has received.

  265. From the Lord's hand bone for all her sins.

  266. Don't understand. I know that my couple hours.

  267. The girls. Has been taken away and all of

  268. us now being ready for the restoration of this.

  269. Family. We're getting married.

  270. In verse and relevance, behold, the Lord comes.

  271. With mind. His reward?

  272. Is with him, he will feed his flat like a shepherd.

  273. He will ride along. In his arm.

  274. The good people that. Of this comfort is forgiveness

  275. of sin. Removal.

  276. Of the curse and restoration of life.

  277. I'm gonna go. I love your body.

  278. Through the power. And the.

  279. Glory of God. Yeah, now Propecia do sizes.

  280. Of reporting. Concerning.

  281. Only 44. I will let you know.

  282. These. Privacy laws, the prophecy and

  283. essay affording it, fulfills that.

  284. Environmentalism. The privacy they can in fact

  285. have. By Jamie back.

  286. Is this in terms of the one who's going in?

  287. Why are you prepared so? Israel and here witness of.

  288. Price and now the love God. And pace always in the world.

  289. So that is the fulfillment of. Prophecy.

  290. Those. Anything or any price, there is

  291. forgiveness. Removal of.

  292. Curse and restoration of life in this. 1st.

  293. Thursday, the church confesses what it has in Christians,

  294. According sadly, Monica, now innovative, steps away in a

  295. simple and yet profound violence that something small.

  296. I am not my own, but belong alien soul both in life and in

  297. death to my beautiful. Saviour Jesus Christ.

  298. I will completely sign Finances, expressly little Body and soul.

  299. It means. You'll come one the person

  300. speaking on the line of his God. Jesus has all the rights to my

  301. life and. Yes, taking responsibility

  302. signing. Boy as saying, boy barking, all

  303. that. You not having me Afghan?

  304. Sacking voice. Number by and somebody on my.

  305. People. Equals feels your responsibility

  306. for my life. I placing me through some care

  307. nothing about me, the Almighty Father, and by giving me His

  308. Holy Spirit, so that I may be, I believe, outside now.

  309. It is. This space or place for us.

  310. And. What's in us?

  311. The power of the vitamin. Yeah, I can say that I belong.

  312. To Jesus Christ. It is a great reality.

  313. People are not. Happy I didn't have.

  314. To do it on my own. And I don't have, you know,

  315. reflection and supreme. Nah.

  316. Nah, I didn't have. To do it on my own.

  317. I have that left on myself. I had no idea the power of

  318. little one, but in the hands. Of the Lovely Shepherd.

  319. I'll see you all how it God is in emphasises that Christ has

  320. set you and me free, sitting on all.

  321. The power of the devil. My eyes and all.

  322. The power. It is not a being too positive.

  323. Or make all the power. That's not safeguarding, but.

  324. Still have much? Power in our lives causing us to

  325. sin. Yes, indeed, Satan does

  326. influence our lives to see but. He.

  327. Has no. Control over us.

  328. He had determine our destiny and regulate.

  329. The outcome? In.

  330. Mobile, therefore you. Can see I can say that all

  331. things. Must work together for.

  332. My salvation. That's how my iron just not

  333. working. Anymore.

  334. I have meaning and combination. We are inseparable.

  335. From the love of God. Whereas I think my.

  336. Missus. Masking.

  337. The hand. Admit that God's.

  338. Use all things for our internal. Benefit believers will inherit.

  339. The Earth so the best that I didn't.

  340. Work from the sun the preserving care of.

  341. The Father. And the renewing.

  342. Power. Of the bully spirit, here we.

  343. Confess that right now. Yeah, I belong.

  344. To Christ. You belong to Christ.

  345. We are not hanging in the air, we're done and a touch, but we

  346. belong to prize who applies to us the fullness.

  347. Of God's friends. This is not my only or.

  348. This is my only and my very special.

  349. Component. Diego Comfort or values of

  350. conformable I can not help. You don't know whether all kinds

  351. of storms. I can bear all burdens and

  352. overcome all disappointed men. This is what made me.

  353. Strong fills. Me with hope for the many.

  354. This is not a dream reality. It is not a possibility but a

  355. certainty. Dial places.

  356. Pass This is an one of the higher learning.

  357. Values and the level of faith. Of our confessions.

  358. Read about. We need again explore.

  359. Your vast expands have an impression.

  360. In 52 weeks and order 50. Golden State, but we always.

  361. Do. So in the certainty.

  362. Of our. Only power.

  363. And so we need they experience the.

  364. Joy of discomfort, so. We come to the second point,

  365. which is the nice and required for enjoyable.

  366. Discomfort. Have you gone Ramadan?

  367. I'm having. Problem for.

  368. You first question answered. Ask him again.

  369. We understand that being being unable elaborate.

  370. Or. It needs more working.

  371. Out or explaining. Each other and I am second

  372. question in the long serving on what do you need.

  373. To know. In order to live and die in the

  374. joy. Of his own work.

  375. In the joy of his own work. It says those are older version

  376. of your own translation starting with.

  377. That in this cohort we may live in die happy.

  378. It is always. Like comfort, I played only

  379. great joy at being so. Happiness Theresa May 1st from

  380. that in the Lord's Day one. You have a confession, is having

  381. impression right? And it is available in a joyous

  382. way, I think the one they found their form fate.

  383. Rather depressing and Reformed Church for services.

  384. And spirit and soul, in fact, avoiding them because.

  385. They're saying also that some. People everything necessary on

  386. saying that the Lewis and that the Luda.

  387. But you do. You know the power that has not

  388. really understood a thing. Of the true reform of passion,

  389. we have the most happy and joyous state.

  390. Of all. You go ahead and be laughing.

  391. That's. All nothing like he was joining

  392. the lab and now, but this is the third being.

  393. By the content of our faith, they should have something for

  394. you. Easy in a way.

  395. But then you come on my somebody that highway the weather in

  396. England, you our joy beginning the base away I.

  397. Have a serious like. So thinking also happens.

  398. Sign phone for comfort. I see your guidance and East

  399. London but. You know this was somewhere.

  400. And I knew, you know, that building was so much each other

  401. in 13 versus 20 to 21 he's speaking about.

  402. You don't work. Tonight, I mean do something.

  403. Wrong. Sing.

  404. Have you done very, very big versus?

  405. Hey, here's the ward. And they need to be receiving.

  406. The joy. Yet he has no room in himself

  407. but indoors. For a little while and.

  408. When segregation and. Persecution or persecutions?

  409. Arises on the account of. War.

  410. Immediately impose away. Every.

  411. Single. Joy, that's certainly

  412. disappeared. After all, there is no debt, no

  413. growth in the being. The seed does not take.

  414. Any good? Now there was so.

  415. Much tribulation in persecution. About that during the 16th

  416. century, honey, you would have to pay.

  417. For giving. In a way, that was possession

  418. and that made. Communities.

  419. Perhaps some of them die Marker where there is the joy of this

  420. offer. Ohh, better now number.

  421. It had no Saudi Arabia is more than we cannot supplies here

  422. with a simple thing. But must rather. 8.

  423. People. We have a happy and grace

  424. compassion would be compiling play something.

  425. I love them both for the OHH that is, if we are building our

  426. joy under all. Circumstances.

  427. We must have a certain knowledge and necessary language.

  428. Ohh yeah. And look at these monies.

  429. You know, we might have. Expected something else for.

  430. Instance medium size to live and die in the joy.

  431. Of discomfort. We think mean love in hope.

  432. So denial, sacrifice, etcetera does not deny that we need all

  433. those things in our scenario. But because of your service

  434. process knowledge, what do you mean you know?

  435. I don't know. You say hello.

  436. There are these which we will need to know.

  437. Gold stealing my boy. My love.

  438. Nothing. What?

  439. Decided that it is. So important to stress that this

  440. knowledge is that just a matter of knowing a few lateness, a few

  441. facts. It is not a matter of learning

  442. few things by heart is memorising long memories.

  443. I'm getting the same. What is your only comfort in

  444. running? Knowledge means having things in

  445. your heart in the Bible, the power of good.

  446. To know. It is always known infinitely by

  447. being. With all your environment,

  448. you'll. Learn that the noise involved

  449. with the entire person solely spurious.

  450. That we should have no few facts, only a minimum of facts.

  451. That is the only other personal second question I believe in and

  452. you must know. That.

  453. My sin and misery are made, that I am delivered, and that I am

  454. thankful. I must know.

  455. How? Great.

  456. My skin and my missing are How am I?

  457. Delivered. And how I am to be thankful.

  458. For such. Deliverance India that on the

  459. other samples how angle we must know how the inner workings that

  460. greater depth some of my life that is necessary values.

  461. For Christians who wish to. Survive, he decided.

  462. Hang on, Power. I mean ohh.

  463. Sparrow. Yeah.

  464. Ohh God yeah very long. And how they they have a real

  465. God with their either meets that little verses wouldn't bother

  466. that much. Running alone.

  467. The Sudan no, no, no. Hello baby does.

  468. But sadly, why? Jesus had become.

  469. And how he has saved us, They didn't know.

  470. And the idea they probably thought they gave much about the

  471. issue, just as there are seeing. The other day so.

  472. The singer does not. Interest answer.

  473. Weather. Answers and they may.

  474. Know that they. Should somehow serve God.

  475. Please don't ask me such details because and you got so evasive

  476. when discussing details or not. I think of ourselves how to

  477. remain was. For such deliverance for that

  478. one. Salvation is beyond them, soul.

  479. Read it as. Superficial listening, which

  480. doesn't really know at all and I don't think they crunch time,

  481. they simply drops away. And drops out.

  482. You don't need to enthusiasm that matters that.

  483. The first. Toy.

  484. Is simple. 1 These small people aren't keep the joy of this

  485. comfort and leave everything in the happiness of salvation.

  486. Then we will have to know. How to know that.

  487. I don't know. How?

  488. Not only in the head, that was in the heart by any.

  489. Modern poses, he starts. Emails that probably isn't

  490. sermons remains so important and the best.

  491. For. Service now.

  492. What time he Long Island tonight?

  493. As several. And his small Ironically, you

  494. know, to buy communism, bridging prevents insurers from banning.

  495. Supervision. Enforces us anything, the whole

  496. doctrine of salvation and then just come.

  497. With some parts. Faithful dynamism.

  498. Preaching prevents superficial Christianity, for it forces us

  499. to be deeply into the richness of the.

  500. Christian. Faith it is.

  501. Worse state consequences. For our lives.

  502. Ohh happy. Love you.

  503. Love you. Not in this world.

  504. We will be amaze the wonderful miracle deliverance.

  505. How life? Works this out in Christ.

  506. Will never cease to amaze US apples.

  507. I know Hassan. Only then.

  508. We will leave God. Service.

  509. He deserved answers, and then we will study his.

  510. Word. Unceasingly, what are you

  511. thinking in order For some wisdom in the regions and

  512. combinations are there. 10 as we grow.

  513. It is necessary knowledge our joy is deepening the land.

  514. Informality again in our joy in the unique cohort.

  515. More and more money than I did, yeah.

  516. Your boss. Will see.

  517. Love you love. Thank you more and more unless

  518. he has a battle. Be joyful circle, Lord.

  519. And you know the money. I'm not happy.

  520. Add more. Our joy remains joy in the

  521. unique comfort that we love in life and.

  522. Then Jesus Christ, our Lord, A everybody gone through the old

  523. Heidelberg. With the message that it is

  524. always visible. I own own language.

  525. There is a new message and market.

  526. We will go through it looking for anything.

  527. Sweet throw. In order.

  528. To retain our Christian joy. Inside even Dark World.

  529. We go through in. Order to.

  530. Grow in the lives and in the certainty of.

  531. The only comfort. And we will eat into it again 52

  532. Lords day so that our fate is deepen Lumia mission and our joy

  533. remains and soda in all the trials of life we never.

  534. Lose our Christian Horner? Very.

  535. Handsome boy, my Emma. And then I'm going.

  536. Into the only company. Adding the rain a name on it

  537. down by having our missing our deliverance and.

  538. Our parents and. I had important permanent some.

  539. 130 it also. Says that our missing out of the

  540. depths of sadness, and since then our collaboration with our

  541. less part. Of 40 hour our gratitude that.

  542. Day space in there go. Something.

  543. Will you marry me? Ohh.

  544. I'm having those around. 50. Rupees.

  545. Ohh, we know that Sad and unhappy Aladdin.

  546. E-mail. Ohh speak to God.

  547. I never said I need that. I need a bloody nanny Marquita.

  548. Handsome man Annie Masalan. Notice.

  549. I'm getting faster. I don't want to see that Go on

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  551. I'm not saying. Amanda.

  552. Good morning. My 11:00 so that's what I need

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  554. the rules are. By the way, by Salaam as.

  555. A corporate person? Hello.

  556. Good. Morning in 91 Ohh.

  557. I mean, yeah, Sabbath. I'm with you now.

  558. You working have I'm having. So now the time come from me and

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