Memorial service on July 12, 2018 for Carlos Alberto Montijo, who passed away July 5th, 2018, preached by his son, Carlos E. Montijo, and pastor Joe Rosales at The Old Paths Christian Church.
Thank you all for your prayers and support. --Carlos
Carlos and Tim build a positive case for the Covenant of Works, discuss the relationship between Biblical and Systematic Theology, and throw down the gauntlet to New Covenant Theology proponents by proving it with a simple Bible phrase.
References (Recommended ones noted with a '+')
+The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology: A Comparison Between Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptist and Paedobaptist Federalism [Revised Edition] by Pascal Denault, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23827777
+Hodge's Commentary on Romans 5, http://www.reformed.org/books/romans/rom_5b_hodge.html
+Richard Barcellos, https://press.founders.org/shop/getting-the-garden-right/
+Grace Family Baptist Church's Sermon Series, "Covenant, Law, and Sabbath," https://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?sourceonly=true&currSection=sermonssource&keyword=gracefamilybaptist&subsetcat=series&subsetitem=Covenant%2C+Law%2C+and+Sabbath
+http://confessingbaptist.com/1689Federalism/2015/06/12/kingdom-through-covenant-review-sam-renihan/
-The Letter To The Romans by William Barclay, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6508761
-http://wv4g.org/2013/12/14/new-covenant-theology-interview-blake-white/
-Gentry & Wellum, https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/gentry-and-wellum-respond-to-kingdom-through-covenant-reviews
+Walter J. Chantry, https://www.chapellibrary.org/book/cove/covenants,-the--(works-&-grace
+Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, ed. James T. Dennison Jr., trans. George Musgrave Giger, vol. 1 (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 1992–97), 575–76 (8.3.6–8), http://heidelblog.net/2016/03/turretin-defended-covenant-works/
+https://accordingtochrist.com/
+"One consequence of this denial of the covenant of works is that if Adam was not a party to the covenant of works, as these men assert, then neither was Christ, the Second and Last Adam. Therefore, Christ could not, did not, and was not supposed to pay the debts of, and earn salvation for, his people. As the Second and Last Adam, Christ did not by his active and passive obedience fulfill the Law of God, pay the debts of his people, and merit their salvation. Thus the denial of the covenant of works is an attack on the justice of God: on the imputation of Adam’s sin to his children, on the active obedience and work of Christ, on the imputation of Christ’s active obedience and righteousness to believers. By denying that Adam and Christ, as federal heads of their respective races, were subject to the covenant of works before the court of God’s justice, not his grace, each Adam being required to fulfill the terms of the covenant, one failing miserably, and the other succeeding perfectly, the Neolegalists put all believers on probation, and make their salvation depend on their own evangelical obedience." (John Robbins, http://trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=113)
Carlos and Tim build a positive case for the Covenant of Works, discuss the relationship between Biblical and Systematic Theology, and throw down the gauntlet to New Covenant Theology proponents by proving it with a simple Bible phrase.
References (Recommended ones noted with a '+')
+The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology: A Comparison Between Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptist and Paedobaptist Federalism [Revised Edition] by Pascal Denault, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23827777
+Hodge's Commentary on Romans 5, http://www.reformed.org/books/romans/rom_5b_hodge.html
+Richard Barcellos, https://press.founders.org/shop/getting-the-garden-right/
+Grace Family Baptist Church's Sermon Series, "Covenant, Law, and Sabbath," https://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?sourceonly=true&currSection=sermonssource&keyword=gracefamilybaptist&subsetcat=series&subsetitem=Covenant%2C+Law%2C+and+Sabbath
+http://confessingbaptist.com/1689Federalism/2015/06/12/kingdom-through-covenant-review-sam-renihan/
-The Letter To The Romans by William Barclay, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6508761
-http://wv4g.org/2013/12/14/new-covenant-theology-interview-blake-white/
-Gentry & Wellum, https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/gentry-and-wellum-respond-to-kingdom-through-covenant-reviews
+Walter J. Chantry, https://www.chapellibrary.org/book/cove/covenants,-the--(works-&-grace
+Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, ed. James T. Dennison Jr., trans. George Musgrave Giger, vol. 1 (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 1992–97), 575–76 (8.3.6–8), http://heidelblog.net/2016/03/turretin-defended-covenant-works/
+https://accordingtochrist.com/
+"One consequence of this denial of the covenant of works is that if Adam was not a party to the covenant of works, as these men assert, then neither was Christ, the Second and Last Adam. Therefore, Christ could not, did not, and was not supposed to pay the debts of, and earn salvation for, his people. As the Second and Last Adam, Christ did not by his active and passive obedience fulfill the Law of God, pay the debts of his people, and merit their salvation. Thus the denial of the covenant of works is an attack on the justice of God: on the imputation of Adam’s sin to his children, on the active obedience and work of Christ, on the imputation of Christ’s active obedience and righteousness to believers. By denying that Adam and Christ, as federal heads of their respective races, were subject to the covenant of works before the court of God’s justice, not his grace, each Adam being required to fulfill the terms of the covenant, one failing miserably, and the other succeeding perfectly, the Neolegalists put all believers on probation, and make their salvation depend on their own evangelical obedience." (John Robbins, http://trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=113)
On this episode of Semper Reformanda Radio Tim welcomes Ryan Denton back to the podcast. Please join us as Ryan and Tim talk about street preaching and a biblical defense for the street preacher.
If you are interested in learning how to do street preaching and are considering full time evangelism then please consider contacting Ryan Denton through his website (christinthewild.com) or by emailing him at christinthewild@gmail.com.
Please Join Tim on this weeks episode of Semper Reformanda Radio as he goes over two passages of scripture that are often misunderstood by Protestants. The first is over Matthew 7:21-23 and the second is over James 2:19.
We encourage our listeners to listen to the the full sermon which Tim critiques in this episode.
I Never Knew You
For the full sermon by John Robbins click here
We also encourage our listener to read the book What Is Saving Faith by Gordon Clark.
In addition to the book by Gordon Clark we also encourage our listeners to read these related articles on the Trinity Foundation.
What Is It To Believe On The Lord Jesus Christ
R. C. Sproul on Saving Faith
Join Tim Shaughnessy and special guest Tom Juodaitis for this weeks episode of Semper Reformanda Radio as they talk apologetics and logic.
Join Tim Shaughnessy in this episode of Semper Reformanda Radio as he begins a study into Presuppositional Apologetics from a Clarkian perspective, namely Scripturalism.
Join Tim Shaughnessy in this week’s episode of Semper Reformanda Radio as he discusses the public education system and advocates for a better education option. Have you considered how anti-Christian the public education system really is? Are you aware of the new trends that are popping up in some schools which aim to indoctrinate your kids with the LGBT agenda?
Related to this podcast episode are several articles the listener is encouraged to read.
California school district says parents can’t pull kids from new LGBT sex ed
In this week’s episode, Timothy Kauffman continues with his discussion on the 2,300, the 1,290 and the 1,335 days of the 70th Week of Daniel. After summarizing our previous discussion on the 2,300 evening and mornings, and the 3 1/2 year period that was 1,290 days long, we proceed into a discussion the 1,335 days, and why there were an additional 45 days of difficulty for the Jews even after the 70 “weeks” were over, and the sanctuary had been cleansed and the altar had been rededicated. After completing the discussion on the 1,335 days, we turn our attention to Jesus’ warning in the gospels that the abomination of desolation foretold by Daniel would return within one generation. The abomination of desolation was a statue of Jupiter erected by Antiochus IV in 167 B.C., and within on generation of Jesus’ prophecy, the statue of Jupiter returned to Israel, and from that point the situation in Judæa began to deteriorate rapidly, just as Jesus had warned.
Join us for this week’s episode of Semper Reformanda Radio as Tim Shaughnessy interviews Pastor Patrick Hines about a sermon he recently preached titled John Pipers False Gospel. We find it remarkable that one of the main speakers at the Together for the Gospel Conference has been preaching a false Gospel and has not been called to account for this error. Paul warned the Ephesian Elders saying,
28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
29 I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;
30 and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
31 Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears.
32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” - Acts 20:28-32
We know that, in this modern age, we are not immune to the threat of false teachers arising from among our own selves and speaking twisted things to draw away disciples after them. We therefore want to echo Paul in warning others to be alert and we want to commend our listeners to God and the word of his grace.
Please also take the time to listen to Pastor Hines other messages on this topic.
In this episodes=, Tim Kauffman answers some questions from a listener about the books of the Maccabees and the historicist school of eschatology, and then introduces us to the concept of intercalation, the Jewish practice of adding an additional month to the calendar every few years, as well as the ancient Jewish practice of commemorating the Akedah, or the Binding of Isaac, or the “ashes of Isaac” on Rosh Hashanah. With these two key concepts of intercalation and the Binding of Isaac, we are able to pinpoint to the day exactly when the first armed conflict took place against the Jews and the Temple during the 70th week of Daniel, and with that information, we can show that there would have been 2,300 literal days from the time of the first assault on the temple on Rosh Hashanah in 170 BC until the rededication of the altar in 164 BC as prophesied in Daniel 8:14. Also, by understanding the concept of intercalation, we are able to show why a 3 1/2 year period in Daniel 12:7 is described as 1,290 days in Daniel 12:11, instead of the 1,260 as we might have expected. Using this information we are able to show that Antiochus the IV's decree to forbid sacrifices to anyone else but Jupiter would have occurred on the Ides of June, the Festival of Jupiter Invictus, in 167 BC., 1290 days prior to the rededication of the temple.
This week Tim Kauffman walks us through the final week of Gabriel’s prophecy, showing that the Seventieth Week of Daniel was to follow the Sixty Two weeks, just as Gabriel prophesied, rather than following the Sixty Nine Weeks as is traditionally assumed. Tim Kauffman walks us through the seven year confirmation of a covenant between the Jews and the gentiles, during which the people, the city and the sanctuary in Jerusalem were re-desolated, including a decree in the middle of the week prohibiting sacrifices, and finally, the recovery of the Temple Mount by the Jews, followed by the cleansing of the sanctuary in accordance with Daniel 8:14 and the rededication and anointing of the “most holy”—the altar—in accordance with Daniel 9:24 and the Lord’s instructions in Ezekiel 43. All of this happened under the old covenant in a Mosaic, Levitical context, just as Daniel foretold.
In addition to Tim Kauffman’s teaching here we would also like to recommend his blog Out of His Mouth to our listeners.
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This week Tim Kauffman walks us through the Seventy Weeks prophecy in Daniel 9 showing that Gabriel actually states that the Seventy Weeks are cut up, or divided, and then proceeds to describe them as cut up and divided into three separate sets of Weeks. Historically, eschatologists have tried to put the sevens back together again to make them fit Christ, but instead we ought to do as Gabriel did, which is leave them cut up. When we cut them up the way Gabriel did, we find that each set of weeks has its own starting point and its own fulfillment under the Mosaic covenant, ultimately leading us to the identification of the Abomination of Desolation that Jesus said would return within one generation as a sign of Jerusalem’s impending destruction. In addition to Tim Kauffman’s teaching here we would also like to recommend his blog Out of His Mouth to our listeners.
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Join Tim Shaughnessy and Tim Kauffman for this weeks episode of Semper Reformanda Radio as Tim Kauffman leads us once again in our discussion on eschatology. In addition to Tim Kauffman’s teaching here we would also like to recommend his blog Out of His Mouth to our listeners.
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Join Tim Shaughnessy and Tim Kauffman for this weeks episode of Semper Reformanda Radio as Tim Kauffman leads us once again in our discussion on eschatology.
In addition to Tim Kauffman’s teaching here we would also like to recommend his blog Out of His Mouth to our listeners.
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Join Tim Shaughnessy and Tim Kauffman for this weeks episode of Semper Reformanda Radio as Tim Kauffman leads us once again in our discussion on eschatology. Our text for this week is Jeremiah 24:5-7.
5 "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. 6 I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not pluck them up. 7 I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
In addition to Tim Kauffman’s teaching here we would also like to recommend his blog Out of His Mouth to our listeners.
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Join Tim Shaughnessy and Tim Kauffman for this weeks episode of Semper Reformanda Radio as Tim Kauffman leads us once again in our discussion on eschatology and the book of Daniel.
In addition to Tim Kauffman’s teaching here we would also like to recommend his blog Out of His Mouth to our listeners.
Also be sure to take advantage of Reformation @ 500 book sale by going to the Trinity Foundation book store. You can find many of the books at 50% off, but this promotional sale ends on December 31st so take advantage now.
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Join Tim Shaughnessy and Tim Kauffman for this weeks episode of Semper Reformanda Radio as Tim Kauffman leads us in our discussion on eschatology and the book of Daniel. Our primary text for this week is Daniel 8:9-12.
9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
In addition to Tim Kauffman’s teaching here we would also like to recommend his blog Out of His Mouth to our listeners.
Also be sure to take advantage of Reformation @ 500 book sale by going to the Trinity Foundation book store. You can find many of the books at 50% off, but this promotional sale ends on December 31st so take advantage now.
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Join Tim Shaughnessy and Tim Kauffman for this weeks episode of Semper Reformanda Radio as Tim Kauffman leads us in our discussion on eschatology and the book of Daniel. Our primary text for this week is Daniel 11:29-31.
29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.
30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.
31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
In addition to Tim Kauffman's teaching here we would also like to recommend his blog Out of His Mouth to our listeners.
Also be sure to take advantage of Reformation @ 500 book sale by going to the Trinity Foundation book store. You can find many of the books at 50% off, but this promotional sale ends on December 31st so take advantage now.
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