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This feed broadcasts the latest sermons and Sunday schools from Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Novato, CA. Our sermons seek to exposit Scripture, preaching Christ and the cross, and understanding the impact and demand of the Word on our lives. Church, Novato, Marin, Hankins, Sermon, Christian, OPC, San Rafael Rev. W. Reid Hankins Rev. W. Reid Hankins info@trinityopcnovato.org no no http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2012/01/22/redemption-applied-adoption/ http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2012/01/22/redemption-applied-adoption/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:55:51 +0000 Pastor Reid Hankins http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/?p=1592 http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2012/01/22/redemption-applied-adoption/feed/ 0 0:37:43 Adult Sunday School class led by Rev. W. Reid Hankins at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 1/22/2012 in Novato, CA. This week we continued a series going through the book Redemption Accomplished and Applied by OPC Minister and Professor John Murr[...] Adult Sunday School class led by Rev. W. Reid Hankins at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 1/22/2012 in Novato, CA. This week we continued a series going through the book Redemption Accomplished and Applied by OPC Minister and Professor John Murray. This week we completed considering Part II, Chapter 6, on Adoption. Rev. W. Reid Hankins no no http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2011/01/30/abba-father/ http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2011/01/30/abba-father/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:32:41 +0000 Pastor Reid Hankins http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/?p=1204 http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2011/01/30/abba-father/feed/ 0 0:36:57 Sermon preached on Romans 8:12-30 by Rev. W. Reid Hankins during the Morning Service at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 1/30/2011 in Novato, CA. Rev. W. Reid Hankins, M.Div. Romans 8:12-30 2/30/11 “Abba, Father!” Next week we will [...] Sermon preached on Romans 8:12-30 by Rev. W. Reid Hankins during the Morning Service at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 1/30/2011 in Novato, CA. Rev. W. Reid Hankins, M.Div. Romans 8:12-30 2/30/11 “Abba, Father!” Next week we will begin a new sermon series through 1 Peter. Before we began that, I wanted to take another week off and deal with the topic of prayer. A few weeks back as we started out the new year, I called us to really think about discipleship this year. To really take serious this year your discipleship. Often when we think about discipleship, we probably think about what we are learning. About learning the teachings of Christ. Well, certainly Jesus taught about prayer. But he taught about it, so that we would do it. Prayer is one those most fundamental spiritual disciplines that disciples do. Following Christ includes praying like he taught, and even praying like he himself did. I think for most of us, this is something we need to ever continue to grow in. We need to ever grow in our prayer life. Of course one of the things that Jesus particularly taught us about our prayer life was to approach God as our Father. That’s how the Lord’s Prayer starts out, “Our Father.” This is an emphasis we see quite a bit in the New Testament. It stands out, because it was not an emphasis in the Old Testament. Certainly we can see how God was a Father to his people in the Old Testament, and yet that’s just not a focus in Old Testament prayer and worship. Jesus and the apostles in the New Testament, very much bring this out. In the era where the grace of God is so clearly revealed, his adoption of his people as his children is a part of that revealed grace. And that’s what we find in our passage today. This passage teaches about adoption, and relates that to our prayer life. And related to this, it also discusses Christian suffering. We’ll consider these interrelated topics today, with the overall focus to understand how our adoption as sons and daughters of God encourages our prayer life. That’s what I want us to leave today with: to be encouraged in how being a child of God affects our prayer. I think most Christians recognize, in some sense, the value of prayer. And yet I think many of us also find our prayer life lacking in what we know it could be. It’s my hope to encourage us today; to think about not only God’s call for us to pray, but about how his Spirit is at work in us, to grow us in our prayer life, as his children. Let’s begin first this morning by thinking about our adoption. Theologically, we affirm that when we become a Christian, that God adopts us into his family. We see that teaching in this passage. Verse 14 calls us sons of God and verse 16 calls us children of God. But the verse in between tells us in what sense we are his sons and his children. Verse 15, “For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” Verse 15 is talking about a change that took place right at the beginning of our Christian life. Before we became a Christian, we were not in this sense sons of God. We were not his children. But at that initial point of faith in Christ, we underwent a status change. We usually talk about that change in terms of justification: that when we first turned in faith to Christ, we found forgiveness of sins, and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness. At that point of initial faith, in a legal sense before God, we had a change of standing. We suddenly went from being seen as a condemned sinner, to being seen as a righteous believer. That’s our justification. But verse 15 reminds us of another change of status that happened at the same time. We were adopted. God adopted us as his children. In the Greek, this word for adoption that we see in verse 15 is a legal term. It c[...] Romans Rev. W. Reid Hankins no no http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2009/10/11/honor-your-father-and-mother/ http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2009/10/11/honor-your-father-and-mother/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:13:57 +0000 Pastor Reid Hankins http://www.novatoopcsermons.org/?p=499 http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2009/10/11/honor-your-father-and-mother/feed/ 0 0:36:34 Sermon preached on Deuteronomy 5:16 by Rev. W. Reid Hankins during the Morning Service at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 10/11/2009 in Novato, CA. Manuscript: Honor Your Father and Mother Sermon preached on Deuteronomy 5:16 by Rev. W. Reid Hankins during the Morning Service at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 10/11/2009 in Novato, CA. Manuscript: Honor Your Father and Mother Deuteronomy Rev. W. Reid Hankins no no http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2008/08/31/westminster-shorter-catechism-34/ http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2008/08/31/westminster-shorter-catechism-34/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:27:15 +0000 Pastor Reid Hankins http://www.novatoopcsermons.org/?p=118 http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2008/08/31/westminster-shorter-catechism-34/feed/ 0 0:34:21 Topic: Westminster Shorter Catechism Question 34 Author: Rev. W. Reid Hankins, M.Div. Adult Sunday School at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 08/31/2008 in Novato, CA. Topic: Westminster Shorter Catechism Question 34 Author: Rev. W. Reid Hankins, M.Div. Adult Sunday School at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 08/31/2008 in Novato, CA. Rev. W. Reid Hankins no no