Biblical Grace and the Exclusion of Boasting - Pastor Patrick Hines Reformed Podcast

"It is not the gospel of Christ or glad tidings of salvation to sinful men as such, though the preacher should all his life discourse of the person, natures, and offices of Christ; or of His birth, life, obedience, suffering, death, resurrection, ascension, sitting at God’s right hand, intercession, and coming to judgment; or of His merits and purchase, • Unless that the preacher truly state the nature of His surety-undertaking for us, the substitution of Himself in our room and stead, as the second Adam; • Unless he truly state His relation to the new covenant of grace as mediator, surety, and administrator of it; His relation to sinful men as their appointed Savior, offered and given to them in the gracious declarations, promises, and invitations of God; His relation to His people as their spiritual head and husband; as their only righteousness before God their judge; as the source of their sanctification by His blood sprinkled on their conscience, to free them from the law—or broken covenant of works, as the strength of sin—and purge their conscience from dead works to serve the living God; and by Himself and His Spirit dwelling in them, as a vital principle of holiness, enabling them to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

• Unless he truly represent the perfect freedom of God’s sovereign grace in the offers of the gospel and show that therein Christ (as a savior, husband, and portion) and eternal life of holiness and happiness (as completely purchased by and lodged in Him) are freely—without any regard to their good resolutions, sincerity, repentance, or good works as the cause—presented, offered, and urged on men as sinners, even the chief;

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