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LESSON 01 Explain why biblical teaching should shape belief, worship, character, and judgment.
Study this lesson → LESSON 02 Establish Scripture as the final written authority while distinguishing inspiration, interpretation, translation, and textual transmission.
Study this lesson → LESSON 03 Provide a repeatable method for contextual reading, interpretation, cross-reference study, and faithful application.
Study this lesson → LESSON 04 Define major doctrinal terms accurately and show why clear language helps rather than replaces biblical understanding.
Study this lesson → LESSON 05 Present God’s holiness, eternity, sovereignty, goodness, justice, and love as the perfections of the one living God.
Study this lesson → LESSON 06 Explain one divine being, three distinct persons, and their united work without modalism or tritheism.
Study this lesson → LESSON 07 Explain the Father’s eternal relation to the Son, His sovereign care, and believers’ adoption through Christ.
Study this lesson → LESSON 08 Confess the Spirit’s deity and personhood and explain His work in revelation, conversion, holiness, gifts, and witness.
Study this lesson → LESSON 09 Distinguish God’s eternal purpose from providence, affirming His sovereignty without making Him the author of sin or treating human decisions as unreal.
Study this lesson → LESSON 10 Explain creation by God, a young-earth reading of Genesis, and God’s continuing government of His world.
Study this lesson → LESSON 11 Explain the image of God, embodied human dignity, moral responsibility, and the need for restoration in Christ.
Study this lesson → LESSON 12 Define sin by God’s will, explain its inward roots and universal reach, and direct conviction toward Christ.
Study this lesson → LESSON 13 Explain responsible human choice in creation, the fall, regeneration, and glory, distinguishing willing action from spiritual ability to save oneself.
Study this lesson → LESSON 14 Explain righteous divine judgment and personal responsibility without presenting God as impulsive or cruel.
Study this lesson → LESSON 15 Explain the enduring moral authority of God’s commandments, their fulfillment in Christ, and their proper use under grace.
Study this lesson → LESSON 16 Show how love for God and neighbor summarizes and directs obedience without canceling particular commandments.
Study this lesson → LESSON 17 Trace the covenants through Scripture and explain their unity in God’s saving purpose and their fulfillment in Christ.
Study this lesson → LESSON 18 Confess Jesus as the eternal Son incarnate, fully God and fully man, the promised Messiah and only Savior.
Study this lesson → LESSON 19 Explain Christ’s once-for-all substitutionary sacrifice, propitiation, and effective redemption of His people.
Study this lesson → LESSON 20 Explain the bodily resurrection, Christ’s continuing priestly ministry, and the believer’s access to God through Him.
Study this lesson → LESSON 21 Present the saving message of Christ’s person and work, repentance and faith, and the resulting life of discipleship.
Study this lesson → LESSON 22 Explain undeserved favor, God’s initiative in salvation, and grace that produces grateful obedience.
Study this lesson → LESSON 23 Present unconditional election in Christ, distinguishing God’s saving initiative from fatalism and speculation about hidden decrees.
Study this lesson → LESSON 24 Distinguish the outward proclamation of Christ from the Spirit’s effective inward calling while preserving the sincerity of the gospel invitation and the necessity of faith.
Study this lesson → LESSON 25 Explain the Spirit’s sovereign work of new birth and its relationship to faith, repentance, and changed life.
Study this lesson → LESSON 26 Explain turning from sin and trusting Christ as inseparable responses produced by God’s saving grace.
Study this lesson → LESSON 27 Explain participation in Christ’s saving benefits through living union with Him, without confusing believers with His divine person.
Study this lesson → LESSON 28 Explain God’s declaration of righteousness through faith in Christ, distinguished from sanctification and grounded in imputed righteousness.
Study this lesson → LESSON 29 Explain the removal of hostility through Christ and the resulting peace with God and fellow believers.
Study this lesson → LESSON 30 Explain release through a paid price, Christ’s blood as the ground of deliverance, and the believer’s new belonging.
Study this lesson → LESSON 31 Explain the believer’s gracious reception into God’s family, filial access, inheritance, and family likeness.
Study this lesson → LESSON 32 Define holiness through God’s character and consecration to Him, joining inward purity with obedient conduct while distinguishing divine commands from human religious additions.
Study this lesson → LESSON 33 Explain progressive growth in holiness through the Spirit, grounded in union with Christ and expressed in obedient effort.
Study this lesson → LESSON 34 Explain the biblical definition, source, purpose, imperfection, acceptance, and reward of good works without confusing them with the ground or instrument of justification.
Study this lesson → LESSON 35 Distinguish the ground, means, fruit, and standard of salvation so that grace and obedience are not treated as enemies.
Study this lesson → LESSON 36 Explain God’s preservation of believers and their Spirit-enabled continuance in faith, repentance, and obedience.
Study this lesson → LESSON 37 Explain assurance grounded in Christ’s promise, confirmed by the Spirit and the fruits of faith, without morbid introspection.
Study this lesson → LESSON 38 Explain prayer to the Father through the Son in the Spirit, including praise, confession, petition, intercession, and submission.
Study this lesson → LESSON 39 Explain resistance to the world, flesh, and devil through truth, faith, prayer, obedience, and Christ’s victory.
Study this lesson → LESSON 40 Provide a biblical account of lament, endurance, divine comfort, and future hope without simplistic explanations of pain.
Study this lesson → LESSON 41 Explain releasing vengeance, truthful repentance, restitution, wise boundaries, and the patient rebuilding of trust.
Study this lesson → LESSON 42 Explain the universal body of Christ and the responsibilities of a visible local covenant community.
Study this lesson → LESSON 43 Explain direct access to God through Christ and the shared calling to worship, witness, and service.
Study this lesson → LESSON 44 Explain qualified, accountable leadership and corrective discipline that protects the flock and seeks restoration.
Study this lesson → LESSON 45 Explain congregational responsibility under Christ and voluntary cooperation without unaccountable independence.
Study this lesson → LESSON 46 Explain baptism as Christ’s commanded sign of repentance, faith, and union with His death and resurrection.
Study this lesson → LESSON 47 Explain remembrance, proclamation, fellowship, self-examination, and hope in the meal instituted by Christ.
Study this lesson → LESSON 48 Present the biblical case for seventh-day observance as grateful obedience, with rest, worship, mercy, and joy.
Study this lesson → LESSON 49 Explain whole-life worship, gathered fellowship, and practical service under the authority of Christ.
Study this lesson → LESSON 50 Distinguish spiritual character from abilities and explain the loving, discerning exercise of gifts today.
Study this lesson → LESSON 51 Explain liberty under God’s word, the need to inform conscience, and the limits of human authority over belief.
Study this lesson → LESSON 52 Provide a method for handling disputed applications with conviction, informed conscience, voluntary restraint, and mutual love.
Study this lesson → LESSON 53 Distinguish ordinary truthfulness, solemn oaths, and vows; explain the Reformed Baptist reading of Jesus’ prohibition while acknowledging the conscientious Christian objection to all oath-taking.
Study this lesson → LESSON 54 Present biblical marriage and sexual faithfulness alongside equal dignity, sacrificial responsibility, singleness, and protection from abuse.
Study this lesson → LESSON 55 Explain responsible use of work, possessions, time, abilities, and creation under God’s ownership.
Study this lesson → LESSON 56 Explain civil authority under God, responsible citizenship, religious liberty, and principled limits to obedience.
Study this lesson → LESSON 57 Explain the Great Commission, clear gospel proclamation, patient persuasion, baptism, and teaching obedience.
Study this lesson → LESSON 58 Explain a truthful, reasoned, gracious defense of Christian belief grounded in Scripture and centered on Christ’s resurrection.
Study this lesson → LESSON 59 Explain how to test teaching, distinguish serious error from secondary disagreement, and respond without gullibility or needless hostility.
Study this lesson → LESSON 60 Distinguish death, the believer’s presence with Christ, the intermediate state, and the future bodily resurrection.
Study this lesson → LESSON 61 Affirm the personal, visible, glorious return of Christ and the watchful, faithful life it requires.
Study this lesson → LESSON 62 Explain bodily resurrection, continuity and transformation, and the certainty of final freedom from corruption.
Study this lesson → LESSON 63 Explain God’s impartial final judgment, the seriousness of exclusion from His kingdom, and salvation through Christ.
Study this lesson → LESSON 64 Explain eternal life as knowing God through Christ now and sharing His presence in the completed redemption to come.
Study this lesson → LESSON 65 Explain the final renewal of creation, God’s dwelling with His people, and the holy hope that shapes present life.
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