ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> July 6<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/assurance">Assurance</a>  </span></span><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 4:2–5; Romans 1:25; 1 John 5:19; John 12:31; Ephesians 2:2; Mark 3:28–30; James 4:4; 2 Corinthians 4:2–4; Romans 8:37; John 15:17–21; Matthew 16:15–19; John 8:32; Matthew 18:18; 28:18–20; Hebrews 2:14–17; 1 John 2:19–20<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><strong><sup>4</sup></strong>You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 1 John 4:4</p> <ul> <li>Those who are not from God deny Him instead, and “exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” (Rom. 1:25) — Either/Or</li> </ul> <h4><strong>I.  </strong>Conquerors & Overcomers</h4> <ul> <li>1 John 4:4 2—Law or Gospel? <ul> <li>The apostle showers God’s people, “my little children,” with gospel indicatives</li> </ul> </li> <li>What does <em>the world</em> mean in this passage? <ul> <li>Unregenerate society as a whole, which is influenced by the spirit of the antichrist that “is already in the world” (1 John 4:3) and lies under the power of the evil one (1 John 5:19)</li> </ul> </li> <li>Who is “he who is in the world”? <ul> <li>Satan</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h4><strong>II.  Haven’t the Antichrist and the antichrists overcome the world?</strong></h4> <ul> <li>John 16:33</li> <li>2 Corinthians 4:2–4</li> <li>There is no cosmic, dualistic struggle between God and the devil, Christ and Antichrist</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III. Haven’t the Antichrist and the antichrists overcome the church?</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Matthew 16:15–19</li> <li>What is the church? <em>taen ekklesian</em>, the called-out ones chosen by God</li> <li>Roman Catholic Church-State claims to the papacy, Peter as the 1st pope</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV. Amazing promise: No one and no thing—not Death, not the Devil, not any other power, nor anything else can ever prevail against us—God’s church, nor separate us from His greater love (Romans 8)</strong></h4> <ul> <li>1689 LBCF 26.3: “The purest churches under heaven are subject to mixture and error,1 [though] some have degenerated so much that they have ceased to be churches of Christ and have [instead] become 'synagogues of Satan'.2 Nevertheless, Christ has always had, and always will have to the end of time a kingdom in this world, made up of those who believe in him and profess his name.3” (1) 1Co 1:11; 5:1; 6:6; 11:17-19; 3Jo 1:9-10; Rev 2:1-3:22 (2) Rev 2:5, 1:20; 1Ti 3:14-15; Rev 18:2 (3) Mat 16:18; 24:14; 28:20; Mar 4:30-32; Psa 72:16-18; 102:28; Isa 9:6-7; Rev 12:17; 20:7-9</li> <li>The churches and people who fall away and become apostate do not belong to Christ, Christ did not “lose” them</li> </ul> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> June 29<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/discernment" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Discernment</a>  </span></span><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 4:1–4; Luke 11:23; 9:49–50; Acts 20:26–32; Hebrews 5:14; 2 Corinthians 11:13–15; Matthew 15:13–14; Revelation 3:17; 1 John 2:22–23, 18; Matthew 7:15<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><strong><sup>2</sup></strong>By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, <strong><sup>3</sup></strong>and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the <em>spirit</em> of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. 1 John 4:2–3</p> <ul> <li>To confess Christ is to deny Antichrist</li> <li>Law of Excluded Middle: Luke 11:23 and Luke 9:49–50</li> </ul> <h4><strong>I.  </strong>There are many false ways of relating to God, and “many false prophets have gone out into the world”</h4> <ul> <li>Acts 20:26–32</li> <li>Those who are in error are often completely unaware of their own biases and imbalances—self-deception</li> <li>They often assume that their errors/traditions are biblical, instead of carefully investigating them, instead of discerning all things, instead of testing every spirit</li> <li>Gresham Machen’s <em>Christianity & Liberalism</em>—Either/Or, Excluded Middle</li> </ul> <h4><strong>II.  Confession</strong></h4> <ul> <li>What does it mean to confess Jesus Christ who has come in the flesh?</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III. Repentance</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Repentance is a form of discernment, a rejection of lies and acceptance of truth</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV. What is “the <em>spirit</em> of the Antichrist” (v. 3)?</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Zeitgeist, spirit of the age, mindset that is of the Antichrist,<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"><strong>[1] </strong></a>allegiance</li> </ul> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1"></a></p> <p><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> Gordon H. Clark, <em>First John: A Commentary</em>, Trinity Paper, No. 2, 2nd ed. (The Trinity Foun

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> June 22<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/discernment" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Discernment</a>  </span></span><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 4:1–3; Acts 20:30; Hebrews 4:9–13; 5:9–14; John 7:24; 2 Peter 1:3–4; 1 John 2:18–25; Matthew 7:13–14<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><strong><sup>1</sup></strong>Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. <strong><sup>2</sup></strong>By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.... 1 John 4:1–2</p> <ul> <li>Discernment in a sense illustrates law and gospel: It is both a command (law), a daily necessity and duty that we all must practice constantly, as well as a good, gracious gift from God (gospel)</li> </ul> <h4><strong>I.  </strong>Discernment is definitional to the Christian—to be a Christian is to discern</h4> <ul> <li>Discernment is the mirror that allows us to see who we really are</li> </ul> <h4><strong>II.  How then do we grow in our discernment? In our ability to test every spirit?</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Discernment and sound judgment are closely related in Scripture, go hand in hand, frequently overlap</li> <li>You cannot judge righteously unless you first discern properly</li> <li>Grasping God’s Word, understanding it, requires discernment</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III. Beware—A lack of active, consistent, constant, daily discernment points to and leads to a lack of understanding</strong></h4> <ul> <li>It leads to forgetting things that we previously learned, even to a lack of desire to understand, “dullness of hearing” (Heb 5:11)</li> <li>Discernment is cumulative</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV. One of the main reasons we must have our “powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil” is because the devil and his antichrist spirit are master counterfeiters‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬</strong></h4> <ul> <li>One of the necessary qualities of biblical discernment—in addition to knowledge of Scripture and of sound doctrine—is logic</li> </ul> <h4><strong>V.  There are many, many erroneous ways of relating to God, many false claims to the true God</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Matthew 7:13–14</li> </ul> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a hre

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> June 15<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/discernment" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Discernment</a>  </span></span><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 4:1; Acts 20:30; 1 Timothy 4:1–3; 1 Kings 3:7–13; 11:1–6; Matthew 7:9–11; 1 Corinthians 12:7–13; 2 Timothy 2:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:21–22; James 1:5; Matthew 5:37<strong><br /></strong></p> <p>Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 1 John 4:1</p> <h4><strong>I.  </strong>“…to see…”</h4> <h4><strong>II.  Who or what are these “spirits”? Πνεύματα</strong></h4> <h4><strong>III. Discernment Defined</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Discernment, in part, is to “know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He gave us.” (1 John 3:24)</li> <li>Discernment is to “test the spirits to see whether they [too] are from God” (1 John 4:1)</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV. Does discernment really matter to God?</strong></h4> <ul> <li>King Solomon</li> <li>Wisdom is not “knowledge applied”</li> </ul> <h4><strong>V.  Discernment is a good gift from God</strong></h4> <ul> <li>1 Corinthians 12:7–13</li> <li>The gift of discernment is a blessing and benefit of our Union with Christ and His Spirit, the anointing of truth, whereby God equips us with His means to teach us the truth and distinguish it from error</li> </ul> <h4><strong>VI. Who then has the duty to discern, and how often must discernment be exercised?</strong></h4> <ul> <li>As “good soldiers of Christ” (2 Tim 2:3), we must know both our friends and our foes, allies and our enemies</li> </ul> <h4><strong>VII. Analogy of Scripture</strong></h4> <ul> <li>1 Thessalonians 5:21–22</li> <li>Discernment is a powerful weapon, and a lifestyle</li> </ul> <h4><strong>VIII. We discern good from evil, true teachers from false prophets, good churches from bad ones...</strong></h4> <ul> <li>“All congregations in the Christian Reformed Church in North America may allow women to serve in the office of minister, elder, deacon, or commissioned pastor.”<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a></li> <li>“God’s Chisel,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqGIHpiqkjg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqGIHpiqkjg</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotati

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> June 8<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/union-with-christ">Union with Christ</a>  </span></span><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 3:23–4:1; Ephesians 2:18; 1 Corinthians 1:30–31; Ephesians 1:3–6; Romans 8:32; James 1:27; Proverbs 7:7; Ecclesiastes 8:5; Hosea 14:9; Philippians 1:9–11<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><sup>24</sup>And the one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He gave us. <sup>1</sup>Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 1 John 3:24–4:1</p> <h4><strong>I.  </strong>Union with Christ</h4> <ul> <li>There is no tension between the renovative benefits of Christ and His forensic benefits, between objective and subjective benefits, or between the legal and the relational benefits</li> <li>Our Union with Christ also unites us to the entire Trinity</li> </ul> <h4><strong>II.  Summary of 1 John 3</strong></h4> <h4><strong>III. What is Discernment?</strong></h4> <ul> <li>1 John 4:1</li> <li>Discernment can mean different things in Scripture</li> <li> <p>“The term 'discern' in the Bible refers to the ability to perceive, distinguish, or judge something clearly and accurately. It involves a deep understanding and insight that goes beyond mere surface-level observation. Discernment is often associated with wisdom and spiritual insight, enabling individuals to differentiate between truth and falsehood, right and wrong, or good and evil…. Discernment is a recurring theme in the Scriptures, emphasizing the importance of spiritual insight and understanding. It is considered a gift from God, essential for making wise decisions and living a life that aligns with His will.”<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a><strong><a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"></a></strong></p> </li> </ul> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1"></a></p> <p><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> ‘Topical Bible: Discern’ <https://biblehub.com/topical/d/discern.htm> [accessed 8 June 2025].</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> June 1<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/union-with-christ">Union with Christ</a>  </span></span><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 3:22–24; Genesis 15:5; 1 Peter 1:13; Ephesians 1:3–6, 2:13–22; Romans 5:8–10, 8:32<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><sup>24</sup>And the one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He gave us. 1 John 3:24</p> <ul> <li>Our union with Christ, by faith in Him, being accepted as individuals through Him and in Him, and abiding in the anointing of His Spirit and of the truth, makes our good works pleasing in God’s sight—despite the reality that they may be “accompanied by many weaknesses and imperfections”—because “He looks upon them in his Son” (2LBCF 16.6).</li> </ul> <h4><strong>I.  </strong>Union with Christ</h4> <ul> <li>We are united to Christ in a, not universal, as in all men, but a corporate sense, as in, all the people of God</li> </ul> <h4><strong>II. The doctrine of Union with Christ can be complex, lots of facets, parts, pieces</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Big picture doctrine that encompasses many other doctrines, much like covenant theology</li> <li>The phrase “in Christ” in Scripture, in Him, through Him, with Him—Union</li> <li>“Union with Christ is not to be understood as a moment in the application of salvation to believers. Rather, it is…the way in which believers share in Christ in eternity [past] (by election), in past history [just history, includes OT saints] (by redemption), in the present (by effectual calling, justification, and sanctification), and in the future (glorification).”<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a></li> </ul> <h4><strong>III. Our Union with Christ was established “before the foundation of the world”</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Ephesians 1:3-6</li> <li><a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"></a>Elective or Decretal Union<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"></a> (Predestinarian)</li> <li><strong>“</strong>Biblical analogies include the union of a vine and its branches, the head and members of the body, a husband and wife within the bond of marriage, and the foundation and cornerstone of a building. Dabney noted that Scripture also compares the union of Christ and his people to the bond between the Father and the Son. Yet this analogy does not infer the deification of believers.”<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2">[2]</a></li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV.  We must get the biblical foundational priorities straight, properly ordered</strong></h4> <ul> <li>The legal and logical priority that grounds all of our benefits in our personal union with Christ is Christ Himself—His life and death, His active and passive obedience, and is what grounds our Union with Him, and is the foundation for everything we receive in Him</li> <li>Ephesians 2:13-22</li> </ul> <h4><strong>V.  Some claim that there is no priority between any of the salvific benefits that we receive in Christ</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Romans 5:8-10</li> </ul> <h4><strong>VI. The subjective (our experience) is based on the objective (God’s truth), not the other way around</strong></h4> <ul> <li>The best definition of Union with Christ fully embraces and encompasses everything that it means, all of its doctrines, because it’s really

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> May 25<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/faith">Faith</a>  </span></span><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 3:22–24; Mark 1:14; Matthew 3:8; Acts 26:20; John 6:29, 63; 5:46–47; Hebrews 11:8–10, 17–19; 1 Corinthians 2:16; John 8:51<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><sup>23</sup>And this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He gave a commandment to us. <sup>24</sup>And the one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He gave us. 1 John 3:23–24</p> <ul> <li>Our prayers must be informed and guided by Scripture, just as our faith must be informed and guided by Scripture</li> <li>We are commanded to first and foremost understand and believe the truth (Mark 1:14)</li> <li>Faith always comes first, then good works follow, then we do works “in keeping” with this saving repentance and faith (Mt 3:8, Acts 26:20)</li> <li>Obedience does not follow faith, because believing is the first act of obedience, even though our belief is not our good work—it is the work of God (John 6:29)</li> </ul> <h4><strong>I.  </strong><strong>There is no difference between believing “in the name of His Son Jesus Christ,” or believing in Christ, or believing Christ, or believing the words of Christ</strong></h4> <h4><strong>II. Do not be misled when people say that true faith is not believing things about Christ, but believing Christ Himself<br /></strong></h4> <h4><strong>III. Take Abraham as a prime example of faith, true faith<br /></strong></h4> <h4><strong>IV. Union with Christ<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>1 John 3:24 teaches us a universal union with Christ, but also a particular union with Him—a personal one, through faith—by His Spirit, His anointing</li> <li>"The New Testament does indeed teach a mutual indwelling of Christ and the believer. There is a very real sense in which minds interpenetrate. In I Corinthians 2:16 Paul asserts that 'we have the mind of Christ.' Christ dwells in us and we in him by our thinking and believing his doctrines. As John says in his Gospel 8:51, 'He who maintains my doctrine shall not see death, ever.'”<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p> <p><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> Gordon H. Clark, <em>First John: A Comme

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> May 18<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/law-gospel-distinction">Law & Gospel Distinction</a>  </span></span><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 3:22–23; Matthew 23:23; Psalm 37:1–9; Romans 8:32; Mark 1:14–15; Matthew 3:8; Acts 26:20; Hebrews 11:6<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><sup>22</sup>and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. <sup>23</sup>And this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He gave a commandment to us. 1 John 3:22–23</p> <h4><strong>I.  I</strong><strong>f God gives us whatever we ask for according to 1 John 3:22, then why do we not always get what we ask for?<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>It is not pious to obey one command (e.g., prayer) at the expense/neglect of another (e.g., study)—it is immature and sinful to neglect the whole counsel of God, or to have lopsided/imbalanced priorities and applications</li> </ul> <h4><strong>II. What does Jesus say about balance?<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>He rebuked the false, imbalanced piety of the scribes and Pharisees, Matthew 23:23: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the Law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.”</li> <li>Just as you cannot love aright without sound doctrine (the “weightier provision of the Law”—because we are commanded to first and foremost understand and believe the truth), so likewise, you cannot pray aright without the truth of sound doctrine</li> <li>Prayer is an outworking (orthopraxy) of our doctrine (orthodoxy)</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III. We must not pray for sinful things, nor with selfish/perverse motives</strong></h4> <ul> <li>James 4:1-12</li> <li>Prayer is relational, how we relate with God</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV. To pray rightly, in a manner that pleases God, you need knowledge, faith, humility, persistence, patience.<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>We worship and bow before God in prayer, to petition Him for help, grace, mercy, forgiveness, strength, support, provision, deliverance, blessings, good things</li> <li>Psalm 37:1–9</li> <li>God has given us everything already through our heavenly inheritance and union with Christ (Romans 8:32)</li> </ul> <h4><strong>V. What does it mean to “keep His commandments”?<br /></strong></h4> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="htt

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> May 11<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/prayer">Prayer</a>  </span></span><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 3:21–22; Ephesians 3:20–21; Romans 8:26–27; Matthew 6:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:17; Ephesians 6:18; Matthew 7:7–12; 1 John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 2:15; 2 Peter 1:2–3; Romans 8:32<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><sup>21</sup> Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; <sup>22</sup> and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. 1 John 3:21–22</p> <h4><strong>I.  This passage also distills for us the essence of prayer<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li><em>Baptist Larger Catechism</em>, Q175: “Prayer is offering our desires to God, for things agreeable to His will, in the name of Christ with the help of His Spirit, praising Him, confessing our sins, and thankfully recognising His mercies.”</li> <li>God works in us to pray, stirs us to pray, and, in our weakness, guides our prayer and intercedes with and for us in our prayers</li> </ul> <h4><strong>II.  If God gives us whatever we ask for, according to 1 John 3:22, then why do we not always get what we ask for?<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>Prayer is relational, a reflection of how we relate with God—not the other way around</li> <li>God does not pray to us—we pray to Him—He takes our prayers into consideration and answers them according to His sovereign decree (will) “in the works of creation and providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will,” which includes “His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing of all His creatures and all their actions to His own glory” (<em>Baptist Larger Catechism</em>, Q16, Q20).</li> <li>Prayer is a means of God’s grace, God answers our prayers and gives us what we ask for through various means, especially through God’s people and church, which administers the means of grace that God has given all of us, “particularly the Word, baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and prayer” (BLC Q143)</li> <li>Our theology of prayer and our prayer life—how we prioritize prayer in light of our other duties, our prayer habits, how we pray, what we pray, not just how often or how long we pray—are a reflection of our relationship with God, and of own spiritual condition/maturity</li> <li>Just as you cannot love aright without sound doctrine, so likewise you cannot pray aright without the truth of sound doctrine</li> <li>Prayer is an outworking (orthopraxy) of our doctrine (orthodoxy)</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III. Our Lord Jesus instructs us on what a healthy prayer relationship looks like with our Heavenly Father, as well as some of the things we are called to do “that are pleasing in His sight”</strong></h4> <ul> <li>We must recognize our own reality through God’s eyes, how He sees us—that we are needy children who should regularly ask our loving Father for good and needful things</li> <li>God has given us everything already—“He who indeed did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?” (Romans 8:32)</li> </ul> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</l

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> May 4<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/assurance">Assurance</a>  </span></span><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 3:19–22; Proverbs 23:6–7; 2 Corinthians 5:1–4; Proverbs 3:5–7; Ephesians 3:20–21<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><sup>19</sup> And by this we will know that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him <sup>20</sup> in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things. <sup>21</sup> Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; <sup>22</sup> and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. 1 John 3:19–22</p> <h4><strong>I.  What Is the Heart?<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>You need the right source and the right cause for the right effect to follow—God</li> <li><strong>Proverbs 23:6–7:</strong> 6 Do not eat the bread of a selfish man, And do not desire his delicacies; 7 For as he calculates [thinks] in his soul [spirit/mind, H5315 נֶפֶשׁ nefesh], so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, But his heart [H3820 לֵב lev] is not with you.”</li> <li>NET Bible explains the Hebrew word lebab (Dt. 6:5): “Heb 'heart.' In OT physiology the heart was considered the seat of the mind or intellect, so that one could think with one's heart."59 Even the Greek word for "heart," kardia, used in Matt. 22, is translated as "mind" in other passages.”</li> </ul> <h4><strong>II.  Verses 19-20<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>Different possible ways of translating and consequently interpreting this difficult passage, but one typically makes the most sense, especially when taking into account the analogies of Scripture and of Faith—not just the immediate context, but the larger Biblical and doctrinal context as a systematic whole, and by rightly dividing, distinguishing the Word with the right tools—law and gospel distinction</li> <li><strong>Gordon Clark</strong>: “Some readers may find all this complexity and analysis not so much lacking as useless and tedious. Remember, however, that we are dealing with God’s Word, and that sincere devotion consists not in the superficial reading of a chapter a day but in the very serious consideration of what God meant. What some people call devotion is simply a shirking of responsibility.”<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a></li> </ul> <h4><strong>III. Verses 21-22<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>Even though John’s letter deals with weighty doctrinal matters and big-picture contrasts, and sometimes assumes that the reader is already familiar with large portions of Scripture and its doctrines, he also leaves simple reminders of truths we should already know</li> <li>Even though our justification is fixed, final, unchangeable, our assurance is not</li> <li><strong>1689 London Baptist Confession 18.4:</strong> In various ways true believers may have their assurance of salvation shaken, diminished, or interrupted. This may be because of their negligence in preserving it,<sup>1</sup> or by falling into some particular sin which wounds the conscience and grieves the Spirit,<sup>2</sup> or by some sudden or forceful temptation,<sup>3</sup> or by God withdrawing the light of his countenance and causing even those who fear him to walk in darkness and to have no light.<sup>4</sup> Yet believers are never destitute of the seed of God<sup>5</sup> and the life of faith, the love of Christ and the brethren, sincerity of he

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> April 27<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/the-christian-life">The Christian Life</a>  </span></span><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 3:14–18, 1 Corinthians 15:16–18, Romans 5:9–10, Romans 9:16, James 2:14–26, Ephesians 2:10, Galatians 5:6, Hebrews 11:6, Matthew 12:26–37, Colossians 4:6, Titus 1:9, Matthew 7:17–20, Ephesians 4:32– 5:2<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><sup>16</sup> By this we have known love, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.<sup>17</sup> But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? <sup>18</sup> Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. 1 John 3:16-18</p> <p><sup>9</sup> Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath <em>of God</em> through Him. <sup>10</sup> For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. Romans 5:9–10</p> <h4><strong>I.  When judging false doctrine, we must discern primary, secondary, tertiary issues<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>Primary: God, man, salvation, and His Word, some of which have been central to controversies in the early church (God, Trinity, Christology, Man / Pelagianism) and into the Reformation (Salvation, Man, Bible) and beyond</li> </ul> <h4><strong>II.  The beloved apostle continues admonishing us onto the next verse from the last part of verse 16<br /></strong></h4> <h4><strong>III. “For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.”<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>This hypocritical dead faith is not regenerated by the Spirit of God, who grants us repentance and faith, and works in us to perform good works.</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV. We must always remember the other side of this coin (faith without works is dead), that we <em>cannot</em> do good works unless we <em>first</em> have saving faith<br /></strong></h4> <h4><strong>V.  How much love for the brothers is required of us, to assure us that “we have passed out of death into life”?</strong></h4> <ul> <li>W. Arnot: “It is a straitening about [choking] that upper spring of faith that makes the [outflowing] streams of love fail in their channels.”</li> </ul> <h4><strong>VI. Love in Word, Deed & Truth<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li><strong>2 John 3:</strong> “Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, <strong>in truth and love</strong>.”</li> <li>You cannot divorce love from truth, because you cannot love apart from the truth</li> <li>True love “does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth” (1Co 13:6)</li> </ul> <h4><strong>VI. The Bible nowhere contrasts the head and the heart<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>Instead, it contrasts other types of hypocrisy: <ul> <li>Heart vs Mouth, Lips (Matt 15:7-9)</li> <li>Mouth vs Works, Actions (James 2:14ff., Titus 1:16)</li> <li>Heart vs Actions (James 2:14ff.)</li> <li>Inner Man vs Outer Man (Rom 7)</li> <li>Flesh vs Spirit (Gal 5, Rom 6-8)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p&g

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> April 20<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-topic"><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-14" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/seasoned-with-grace">Seasoned with Grace</a></span>  <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/resurrection">Resurrection</a>  </span></span><span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture: </strong>John 20:1–31, 1 Timothy 4:1–6, Exodus 12:25–27, John 1:29, Jude 1:5, Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 15:1–19, Luke 24:8–27, Romans 4:23–25, Romans 5:9–10, 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18, Matthew 27:51–54, Matthew 28:18–20</span></p> <h4><strong>I.   The Resurrection & the Counterfeits<br /></strong></h4> <h4><strong>II.  The Resurrection & Its Historical Reality<br /></strong></h4> <h4><strong>III. The Resurrection & the Old Testament<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>Whenever Christ appears in His resurrected body and the day is mentioned, it is always the first day of the week (Matthew 28:1, 9-10; Mark 16:9; Luke 24:1, 13, 15; John 20:19, 26).</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV.  The Resurrection & the Gospel<br /></strong></h4> <h4><strong>V.   What happened to the Disciples after Jesus died? Why didn’t they believe in the Resurrection of Christ at first?</strong></h4> <h4><strong>VI.  The Resurrection: Its Power, Importance & Significance</strong></h4> <h4><strong>VII. Resurrecting Our Assurance<br /></strong></h4> <p> </p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> April 13<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/the-christian-life">The Christian Life</a>  </span></span><strong>Scripture:</strong> 1 John 3:13–16, John 15:18–25, Hebrews 3:12–13, Romans 1:16, John 10:27–30, Ephesians 1:13–14, Philippians 2:12–13, Hebrews 11:6, 1 John 2:19, John 5:24, Galatians 5:6, Hebrews 12:24<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><sup>13</sup> Do not marvel, brothers, if the world hates you. <sup>14</sup> We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. The one who does not love abides in death. <sup>15</sup> Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. <sup>16</sup> By this we have known love, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 1 John 3:13–16</p> <h4><strong>I.  Worldly Hate</strong></h4> <h4><strong>II. 1 John 3:14 is a difficult verse at face value, but we can understand and distinguish it rightly (2Ti 2:15) with the analogies of Scripture/Faith, and the other means God has given the church to grow in her understanding (Law & Gospel Distinction, pastors, teachers, sound doctrine, etc.)<br /></strong></h4> <h4><strong>III. God is the one who gives us the gift of faith, which justifies us, and those who believe in Him have eternal life. Now! Already! You cannot lose it!<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>This is our initial assurance, and He is the one who keeps us to the very end</li> <li>God the Father chose us and gave us to Christ, Christ is the one who finishes (perfects) the good work that He began in us (Phil 1:6), which is the primary work of the Holy Spirit that has sealed us and guaranteed us for redemption (Eph 4:30, cf. 2Co 1:22, 5:5)—and these three are one</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV. If you do have “an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God” (Heb 3:12), and therefore do not and cannot love truly, because without faith it is impossible to please Him (11:6), then you were never saved to begin with<br /></strong></h4> <h4><strong>V.  How much love for the brothers is required of us, to assure us that “we have passed out of death into life”?</strong></h4> <ul> <li>What is the threshold for the lack of love that leads to “abiding in death”?</li> <li>The answer lies in the gospel promises and assurance, beautifully summed up in verse 16</li> </ul> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p> <p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> April 6<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/assurance">Assurance</a>  </span></span><strong>Scripture:</strong> 1 John 3:10–12, Isaiah 46:8–11, Genesis 4:4–14, Jude 1:10–13, Hebrews 11:4, Luke 11:49–50, 1 Kings 18:20–46, 2 Kings 2:11, Hebrews 12:24, 1 Timothy 2:2, Romans 12:1–3, Romans 15:4–6</p> <h4><strong>I.  Concluding Cain and reprobation, then God’s powerful Object Lesson of Righteousness in Abel’s brief life and death</strong></h4> <p><sup>10</sup> By this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifested: everyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, as well as the one who does not love his brother. <sup>11</sup> For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; <sup>12</sup> not as Cain, <em>who</em> was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. 1 John 3:10–12</p> <h4><strong>II. God’s Progressive Revelation of Scripture into the New Testament does not have anything good to say about Cain, while it does celebrate, honor, and praise Abel's life and death<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>Be sensitive to your own sin. Repent and confess it, whenever your conscience accuses you, a friend confronts you, the Spirit convicts you</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III. Cain is a clear object lesson in what we should not be and do, while Abel is an object lesson in what we should be and do<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>Abel was a righteous, God-believing, God-fearing man, who walked the straight path of the Lord in a quiet, humble, unspectacular way</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV. Abel was not a radical, Lordship Salvation guy that threw himself into full-time ministry, sold everything he had, and left it all to follow after God<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>Abel, his life and his death, continues to speak to us today</li> </ul> <h4><strong>V.  Abel’s death—his blood—signifies death, condemnation, and vengeance for sin and its consequences</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Abel was a normal, godly unspectacular shepherd, living a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity (1 Tim 2:2), and Jesus called him “righteous Abel”</li> </ul> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> March 30<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span>  <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/of-man">Of Man</a>  </span></span><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19"><strong>Scripture:</strong> 1 John 3:10–15, Psalm 1:1–6, Genesis 4:1–24, Genesis 37:3–4, Hebrews 11:4, Matthew 15:18–19, Matthew 5:21–22, John 7:7, Luke 11:46–52, Revelation 19:15, 2 Thessalonians 1:8–9, Isaiah 45:6–7<br /></span></p> <h4><strong>I.  This is the Cain and Abel overflowing cup that runneth over from the previous Lord’s Day, and broaden our horizons to the more general theme of “Brotherly Love & Hatred”</strong></h4> <p><sup>10</sup> By this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifested: everyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, as well as the one who does not love his brother. <sup>11</sup> For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; <sup>12</sup> not as Cain, <em>who</em> was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. <sup>13</sup> Do not marvel, brothers, if the world hates you. <sup>14</sup> We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. The one who does not love abides in death. <sup>15</sup> Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 1 John 3:10–15</p> <ul> <li>The pattern, <em>peripateo</em> of Cain’s life, his walk, his disposition, his lifestyle of sin, beginning with his lack of faith, continued on the crooked path of a hater and murderer, and a lack of repentance</li> <li>Cain’s sin matured to the point of bringing forth death, such that the first recorded human death in the entire history of mankind is Cain’s grisly murder of his own brother</li> </ul> <h4><strong>II. Cain hated and wanted to replace Abel, just as Satan and Antichrist hate and want to replace God and His Seed, just as the scribes and Pharisees hated and wanted to replace Jesus<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>Just as the World (unrepentant, unregenerate society) hates us and wants to replace us like sheep to be slaughtered (Rom 8:36), those of us who trust and follow Christ</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III. Even though God demonstrated kindness to Cain and, in a sense, disciplined him as a Father does, this does not mean that God loved Cain in an ultimate sense<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>God had no regard, not just for Cain’s offering, but for Cain himself either (Gen 4:5)</li> <li>You cannot truly understand and appreciate the beauty of God’s love unless you also understand the holiness, righteousness, and purpose of His sovereign hatred</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV. Was Cain eventually saved?</strong></h4> <ul> <li>“Then Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.” Genesis 4:16</li> </ul> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 84

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> March 23<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span>  <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/of-man">Of Man</a>  </span></span><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19"><strong>Scripture:</strong> 1 John 3:10–15, Matthew 3:7–8, Titus 2:11–15, Proverbs 28:18, Genesis 4:1–11, Proverbs 3:9–12, Hebrews 9:22, Hebrews 11:4, James 1:13–15, 1 Corinthians 10:5–13<br /></span></p> <h4><strong>I.  Previously, we left off with John the apostle expounding for us the black and white, good and evil, light and darkness, God and devil, Cain and Abel contrasts <br /></strong></h4> <p><sup>10</sup> By this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifested: everyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, as well as the one who does not love his brother. <sup>11</sup> For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; <sup>12</sup> not as Cain, <em>who</em> was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. 1 John 3:10–12</p> <h4><strong>II. And love, true love—God’s love—is righteous because it is defined and conditioned by the Law and Logos of God</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Contrary to popular belief, God’s love is discriminating, selective, and exclusive</li> <li>God’s love always brings regeneration, and repentance, and sanctification, and all of Christ’s benefits</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III. God’s love and saving grace condition us and conform us to the image of His Son, and away from sin, from our fallen, wretched old man, away from the flesh (Rom 8:29)</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Love, and Righteousness, and Law, and Truth, and God and His glory—all go hand in hand</li> <li>Do not let the world, the flesh, the devil, or misguided, misled, or false Christians define what love is for you, or anything else for that matter</li> <li>God has given us His Spirit and His saving grace and sanctifying means of grace and of deliverance to both deal with our sin now, after we are saved, and “do righteousness” (practice/live, believe, speak, behave), beginning with the law and the gospel</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV. The following verses give us examples of a child of God and of the Devil, as object lessons</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Object lessons in the Bible are objects that teach us valuable, important lessons</li> <li>The objects in this case are the lives of Cain and Abel, illustrate for us what we should do (“live sensibly, righteously, and godly in the present age”) and not do (i.e., “denying ungodliness and worldly desires”), that we should not go the way of Cain, evil, the devil, but instead we follow Abel’s example of faith and godliness</li> </ul> <h4><strong>V.  What actually happened between Cain and Abel? Why were Cain’s deeds evil and Abel’s righteous?<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>Sin is personified here as insidious, gradual (subtle, seeks to entrap/ensnare us, deceitful), as restless, and constantly desiring to overpower/dominate us, even if it’s inch by inch</li> <li>Look at Cain’s sin progression, which reveals his walk</li> <li>“By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain" (Heb. 11:4)</li> </ul> <h4>VI. 1 John 3:12 points out Cain’s motive for murder—blind, baseless jealousy, “because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous”</h4> <ul> <

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> March 16<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span>  <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/the-christian-life">The Christian Life</a>   </span></span><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19"><strong>Scripture:</strong> 1 John 3:9–11, 1 Peter 1:23, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 1 John 4:8, Psalm 5:5, Psalm 7:11, Romans 13:8–10, Romans 5:8, Romans 6:1</span></p> <h4><strong>I.  The beloved apostle continues expounding for us the black and white, good and evil, light and darkness, God and devil, Cain and Abel contrasts<br /></strong></h4> <p><sup>7</sup> Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. <sup>8</sup> The one who does sin is of the devil, because the devil sins from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. <sup>9</sup> Everyone who has been born of God does not sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. <sup>10</sup> By this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifested: everyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, as well as the one who does not love his brother. <sup>11</sup> For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; <sup>12</sup> not as Cain, <em>who</em> was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. 1 John 3:7–12</p> <ul> <li>God’s Seed and Purpose (Providence) and the Devil’s Seed and Schemes ("works")</li> <li>The threefold sense of God's Seed</li> <li>We are regenerated by God, adopted by His fatherly love</li> </ul> <h4><strong>II.  By counterfeited contrast, the devil and his own, his seed, are diametrically opposed to God and His seed, and all that is true, good, and beautiful; pure, lovely, and excellent (Php 4:8)<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>3. The devil’s seed and works are, in sum: The devil’s anointing, a false anointing of lies and disobedience, sin and shame/guilt, and of overexposure (perversion, corruption)</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III.  Although these verses contain serious warnings against living in continual, unrepentant sin…<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>W.G.T. Shedd: “Holy inclination is inability to sin…. The [holy inclination] originates in the operation of the Holy Spirit upon [the believer’s will], while the [unbeliever’s sinful inclination] is self-determination [self-will] pure and simple [flesh], without any internal efficiency [power] of the Holy Ghost…. There is, consequently, a “slavery to righteousness,” as well as a “slavery to sin.” A [believer’s] will which, by regeneration, has been “powerfully determined” (Westminster L. C., 67) and inclined to holiness, is unable to sin, in the sense in which Christ intends, when he says that “a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit” (Mat. vii. 18); and in which St. John intends, when he asserts that the regenerate [believer] “cannot sin, because he is born of God” (1 John iii. 9). This does not mean, that the regenerate, while here upon earth, is sinlessly perfect, committing no actual transgression, and having no remainders of sinful inclination. See 1 John i. 8. But it means that the regenerate [believer’s] will is unable to sin in the manner of the unregenerate [unbeliever’s] will: i.e., <em>impenitently </em>and<em> totally</em>.”<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> March 9<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span>  <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/spiritual-warfare">Spiritual Warfare</a>  </span></span><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19"><strong>Scripture:</strong> 1 John 3:7–8, 2 Timothy 2:15, Galatians 3:11, Habakkuk 2:4, John 8:44, Genesis 3:4–7, 1 John 4:3, Acts 10:34–43, Romans 16:19–20<br /></span></p> <h4><strong>I.  Biblical commentators often disagree on how to outline this chapter, and most of this letter, because the letter has no <em>linear</em> progression/flow<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>The New Testament manuscripts generally do <em>not</em> contain punctuation or paragraphs</li> <li>Try to read them yourself and make sense of them, even if you know Greek!<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a></li> </ul> <h4><strong>II.  The best way to understand the flow of John’s first letter: to note the recurring patterns, themes, <em>categories</em> and <em>contrasts</em> that he emphasizes<br /></strong></h4> <p><sup>7</sup> Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. <sup>8</sup> The one who does sin is of the devil, because the devil sins from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. <sup>9</sup> Everyone who has been born of God does not sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. <sup>10</sup> By this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifested: everyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, as well as the one who does not love his brother. <sup>11</sup> For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; <sup>12</sup> not as Cain, <em>who</em> was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. 1 John 3:7–12</p> <ul> <li>Continues to draw out the recurring contrasts of sin and righteousness, holiness and unrighteousness, law and gospel, love and disobedience, God and the devil, <strong>God’s Seed and Purpose and the Devil’s Seed and Schemes</strong></li> <li>This passage, and this entire letter, makes constant use of the Analogies of Scripture/Faith—because the New Testament in general (later writings) makes use of all the earlier Old Testament writings, <em>as well as</em> contemporary NT writings</li> <li>Progressive Revelation: later revelation cumulatively explains and accounts for earlier revelation</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III.  1 John 3:8: The Devil, His Schemes, His Children<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>We do not become righteous by doing righteous things, which is both impossible and backwards, confusion of law and gospel</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV.  The Devil himself has <em>his own</em> anointing and incarnation<br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>The Devil’s anointing stems all the way back to “Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of <em>Eden</em>” (John Milton, <em>Paradise Lost</em>)</li> <li>It is a <em>false</em> anointing of lies and disobedience, sin and shame/guilt.</li> <li>The Antichrist is the Devil’s <em>false</em> incarnation of Christ, the <em>false</em> head of the church</li> <li>As our confession says (2LBCF 26.4):

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> March 2<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025 </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span><span class="sermon-topic"><strong> Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/the-christian-life">The Christian Life</a> </span></span><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19"><strong>Scripture:</strong> 1 John 3:4–8, Romans 7:7, Romans 6:1–2, Hebrews 12:2, Romans 13:8–10, John 14:21–24, Matthew 24:36–40, Galatians 5:14, James 2:8, 1 Corinthians 13:6, 1 Corinthians 2:16<br /></span></p> <h4><strong>I.  Today’s sermon will build on the foundation that was laid last Sunday<br /></strong></h4> <p><sup>6</sup> No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or has come to know Him. <sup>7</sup> Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. <sup>8</sup> The one who does sin is of the devil, because the devil sins from the beginning. The Son of God was manifested for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:6–8</p> <ul> <li>Understanding sin—knowing <em>what</em> sin is in general, <em>our</em> sins in particular, how we relate to and deal with sin, before <em>and</em> after our conversion, is an integral, indispensable part of the very gospel that saves us, and of our sanctification</li> </ul> <h4><strong>II.  Last time we started to unpack verse 6. How do we make proper sense of it?<br /></strong></h4> <p><strong>Romans 6:1–2<sup>:</sup></strong><sup>1</sup> What shall we say then? Are we to <strong>continue in sin [living in]</strong> so that grace may increase [abound]? <sup>2</sup> <strong>May it never be! [Why?]</strong> How shall we who died to sin still live in it?</p> <ul> <li>Sinners will <em>continue</em> in sin, believers will not</li> <li>Important and necessary for us to grasp the big picture—the whole counsel of God, Analogies of Scripture and Faith, because there are several other doctrines that are prerequisite for understanding this verse properly: of salvation in general, of regeneration, of the flesh, of sanctification, etc.</li> <li>The gospel deals with and <em>resolves</em> our sin in a complete, final, ultimate, eschatological, it-is-finished sense, once and for all sense</li> <li>We nevertheless understand that, in a not-yet sense, we still war against sin and our flesh</li> <li>You do war against sin, right? Romans 7? Galatians 5?</li> <li>Sin no longer rules over us! We now strive to not sin, and we repent when we sin, we mortify sin, put sin to death</li> <li>We cannot deny that true believers may still “fall into serious [grievous] sins,” as Scripture teaches us and our 1689 Baptist Confession summarizes for us, “through the temptations of Satan and the world, the power of the corruption remaining in them, and neglect of the means for their preservation [and deliverance], and may even continue in them for a time. In this they incur God's displeasure, grieve his Holy Spirit, have their graces and comforts impaired, have their hearts hardened and their consciences wounded, and hurt and offend others, and bring present chastisement [discipline] upon themselves. Yet [nevertheless] they will [in time] renew their repentance and be preserved through faith in Christ Jesus to the end." (17.3)</li> <li>We must balance all of these bookend doctrines</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III.  What does “doing righteousness” look like? What is Righteousness?<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a></strong><strong><br /></strong></h4> <ul> <li>1. The answer lies in the latter part of verse 7: “...ju

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Feb<span class="sermon-listing-detail"> 23, 2025 </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/sin">Sin</a> </span></span><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19"><strong>Scripture:</strong> 1 John 3:4–6, Romans 5:1–6, 1 Corinthians 15:1–3, Romans 3:19–20, Romans 1:18–25, Romans 1:32, 1 John 1:8–9, 1 Thessalonians 5:22, Psalm 119:11</span></p> <h4><strong>I.  1 John 3:4-6</strong></h4> <p><sup>4</sup> Everyone who does sin also does lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. <sup>5</sup> And you know that He was manifested in order to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin. <sup>6</sup> No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or has come to know Him.</p> <h4><strong>II.  The Analogies of Scripture/Faith give us more insight into what sin is, and its relation to the Law of God<br /></strong></h4> <p><strong><em>Catechism for Young Children: A Baptist Revision</em>, Q. 28. What is sin? </strong><strong>A.</strong> Sin is <strong>any</strong> <strong>want [lack]</strong> of conformity <strong>unto, or</strong> <strong>transgression [breaking, violation]</strong> of <strong>the law of God.</strong></p> <p><strong>Q. 29. What is meant by want [lack] of conformity? A.</strong> <strong>Not</strong> being or doing what God <strong>requires</strong>.</p> <p><strong>Q. 30. What is meant by transgression? A.</strong> Doing what God <strong>forbids</strong>. [<strong>Lawlessness</strong>]</p> <h4><strong>III.  In order to know what sin is, we must know what the Law is</strong></h4> <p><strong>Where then is the Law [of God] summarized [and comprehended]? A:</strong> The moral law is summarized in the Ten Commandments, which were delivered by the voice of God on Mount Sinai and written down by Him on two stone tablets.[1] The first four commandments establish our obligations to God and the remaining six our obligations to human beings.[2] [1] Dt 4:13, 10:4; Ex 34:1-4; Ro 13:8-10; Ja 2:8-12 [2] Mt 22:37-40, 19:17-19 (Q91 of <em>The Baptist Larger Catechism</em>)</p> <p><strong>Q92: What is the sum of the Ten Commandments? A:</strong> The sum of the 1st four commandments containing our duty to God is, to love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our strength, and with all our mind.[1] The sum of the six commandments which contain our duty to man is, to love our neighbor as ourselves,[2] and to do to others what we would have them to do to us.[3] [1] Lk 10:27; Mt 22:37-40 [2] Mt 22:39 [3] Mt 7:12<strong><br /></strong></p> <h4><strong>IV.  What then is the remedy for this sin, this violation of God’s Law, which condemns all of us? How should we then <em>deal</em> with our sin?</strong></h4> <p>We must <em>first</em> know <em>ourselves</em> and our sin truly, we must know <em>God</em> truly, and what He has <em>truly</em> done for us. </p> <p>We need to see our sin: “The first part of Christ’s physic [remedy for sin] is eye-salve (Acts 26:18) [sight of sin]. It is the great thing noted in the prodigal’s repentance: ‘he came to himself’ (Luke 15:17). He saw himself a sinner and nothing but a sinner. Before a man can come to Christ he must first come to himself [and to his sin]. Solomon, in his description of repentance, considers this as the first ingredient: ‘if they shall bethink themselves’ (1 Kings 8:47). A man must first recognize and consider what his sin is, and know the plague of his heart before he can be duly humbled for

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Feb<span class="sermon-listing-detail"> 16, 2025 </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/adoption">Adoption</a> </span></span><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19"><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 3:1–3, 1 John 2:23–24, Romans 8:29–32, Hebrews 12:5–11, 1 John 1:9, John 1:17, Galatians 4:4–7, Matthew 7:7–12</span></p> <h5><strong>I.  As the letter progresses, these crescendos keep compounding, keep building up into something glorious! Into a glorious reality, a glorious gospel <em>indicative</em></strong></h5> <h5><strong>II.  Our Adoption as Sons: Verses 1a and 2-3</strong></h5> <h5><strong>III.  God <em>first</em> foreknows us, but justification is the beginning of the <em>how</em>—how He <em>accomplishes</em> and <em>applies</em> our redemption</strong></h5> <h5><strong>IV.  <em>Now</em> God <em>calls</em> us <em>His</em> children</strong></h5> <h5><strong>V.  “What manner of love is this?” That the Father has given us?</strong></h5> <p><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun Superscript SCXW65515402 BCX0" data-fontsize="12">1</span></span> <span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">See how great a love the Father has given to us, </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">that we would be called children of God</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">; and we are</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0"> [already</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">]</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">. For this </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW65515402 BCX0">reason</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0"> the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun Superscript SCXW65515402 BCX0" data-fontsize="12">2</span></span> <span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">Beloved, </span></span><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">now</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0"> we are children of God</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">&l

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Feb<span class="sermon-listing-detail"> 9, 2025 </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/adoption">Adoption</a> </span><span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 2:29– 3:3, Hebrews 5:13–14, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Matthew 5:48, John 17:3, John 15:18–19, Galatians 1:10</span></span><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19"><br /></span></p> <p><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun Superscript SCXW65515402 BCX0" data-fontsize="12">1</span></span> <span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">See how great a love the Father has given to us, </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">that we would be called children of God</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0"> [this great gift of God’s adoptive love!]</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">; and we are</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0"> [already,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0"> gospel i</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">ndicatives--</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">Mark them well</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">]</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">. For this </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW65515402 BCX0">reason</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0"> the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun Superscript SCXW65515402 BCX0" data-fontsize="12">2</span></span> <span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">Beloved, </span></span><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">now</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0"> we are children of God</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">, and </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65515402 BCX0">it</span></span><span class=&q

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Feb<span class="sermon-listing-detail"> 2, 2025 </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series: </strong><a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic: </strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/law-gospel-distinction">Law & Gospel Distinction</a> </span><span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 2:27–29, 1 John 2:1, 1 John 3:7, Matthew 7:17–20, 1 John 3:18, James 2:17–18, 1 John 3:2–3, John 5:24–25</span></span><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19"><br /></span></p> <p>27 And as for you, the anointing whom you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as He has taught you, abide in Him. 28 And now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He is manifested, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming [before His presence]. 29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who does righteousness has been born of Him. 1 John 2:27–29</p> <p>“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. 25 Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live." John 5:24–25.</p> <p><strong><em>The Baptist Larger Catechism</em>, Q143: What are the outward and ordinary means by which Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption? </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>A:</strong> The outward and ordinary means by which Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption are His ordinances, particularly the Word, baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and prayer; all of which are made effectual to the elect for salvation. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:42-47; 1 Timothy 4:16; 1 Corinthians 1:21; Ephesians 5:19-20; Ephesians 6:17-18</span></p> <p><strong>Q144: How is the Word made effectual to salvation? </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>A:</strong> The Spirit of God causes the reading—and especially the preaching—of the Word to enlighten,[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">1]</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> convince, and humble sinners.[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">2] </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Spirit drives sinners out of themselves and draws them to Christ;[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">3] </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">He conforms them to His image[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">4] </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and subdues them to His will;[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">5] </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">He strengthens them against temptations and corrupting influences;[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">6] </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and He builds them up in God’s grace[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">7] </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and establishes their hearts in holiness and comfort through faith to salvation.[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">8]</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></p> <ol> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nehemia

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Jan<span class="sermon-listing-detail"> 26, 2025 </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series: </strong><a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic: </strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/means-of-grace">Means of Grace</a> </span><span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 2:27, 1 John 1:1, John 5:45–47, John 14:6, 1 Corinthians 14:20, 1 John 3:18–24, 2 Peter 1:3–4, Romans 3:4, Ephesians 4:4–16</span></span><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19"><br /></span></p> <p>27 And as for you, the anointing whom you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as He has taught you, abide in Him. 28 And now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He is manifested, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. 29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who does righteousness has been born of Him. 1 John 2:27–29</p> <p><strong><em>The Baptist Larger Catechism</em>, Q143: What are the outward and ordinary means by which Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption? </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>A:</strong> The outward and ordinary means by which Christ communicates to us the benefits of redemption are His ordinances, particularly the Word, baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and prayer; all of which are made effectual to the elect for salvation. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:42-47; 1 Timothy 4:16; 1 Corinthians 1:21; Ephesians 5:19-20; Ephesians 6:17-18</span></p> <p><strong>Q144: How is the Word made effectual to salvation? </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>A:</strong> The Spirit of God causes the reading—and especially the preaching—of the Word to enlighten,[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">1]</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> convince, and humble sinners.[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">2] </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Spirit drives sinners out of themselves and draws them to Christ;[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">3] </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">He conforms them to His image[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">4] </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and subdues them to His will;[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">5] </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">He strengthens them against temptations and corrupting influences;[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">6] </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and He builds them up in God’s grace[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">7] </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and establishes their hearts in holiness and comfort through faith to salvation.[</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">8]</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></p> <ol> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Nehemiah 8:8; Acts 26:18; Acts 17:11-12; Psalm 19:8</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 1 Corinthians 14:24-25; 2 Chronicles 34:18-19, 26-28; Jeremiah 23:28-29; Hebrews 4:12</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Acts 2:37-41; Acts 8:27-39</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 2 Corinthians 3:18; Colossians 1:27</

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Jan<span class="sermon-listing-detail"> 19, 2025 </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic: </strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/end-times">End Times</a> </span><span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 2:20–27, 2 Timothy 2:13, John 8:51, Psalm 27:1–2, 1 John 4:4, 1 Corinthians 14:8, Galatians 1:10, Hebrews 5:14, 2 Peter 3:18</span></span><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19"></span></p> <p>But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. <sup>21</sup> I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth. <sup>22</sup> Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. <sup>23</sup> Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. <sup>24</sup> As for you, let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. <sup>25</sup> And this is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. <sup>26</sup> These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you. <sup>27</sup> And as for you, the anointing whom you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as He has taught you, abide in Him. 1 John 2:20-27</p> <h3><strong><span data-contrast="auto">In light of all “these things” that have been written to us, you may have heard the saying that eschatology is only of secondary or tertiary importance</span></strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Wrong: Eschatology</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> is </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">not</span></strong> <strong><span data-contrast="auto">always</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> a matter of secondary/tertiary importance</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559738":120,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li> <li><strong><span data-contrast="auto">This is confusing and misleading,</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> because it’s </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">one thing</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> to have different views of the eschatological </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">millennium</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> (premillennialism, postmillennialism, amillennialism), but it’s </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">another</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> thing to have </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">different</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> views </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">of the final judgment and of antichrist, more consequential</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559738":120,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li> <li><strong><em><span data-contrast="auto">Especially</span></

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Jan<span class="sermon-listing-detail"> 12, 2025 </span> <span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong> Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> </span><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19"><span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/doctrines-of-grace">Doctrines of Grace</a> </span> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> 1 John 2:20–26, 1 John 1:1–5, John 8:51, John 3:16, 2 Peter 3:14–18, 2 Corinthians 12:7–10</span></span></p> <p>But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. <sup>21</sup> I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth. <sup>22</sup> Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. <sup>23</sup> Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. <sup>24</sup> As for you, let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. <sup>25</sup> And this is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. <sup>26</sup> These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you. 1 John 2:20-26</p> <ul> <li><strong>Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf</strong> was the <strong>founding bishop of the Moravian church,</strong> who had an <strong>authoritarian</strong> temperament and hyper-Pietistic compulsion,<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a> which led to <strong>many</strong> <strong>imbalances, extremes, and excesses.</strong></li> <li><strong>He advocated Rigid</strong><strong> Pietism, </strong>downplaying <strong>objective doctrine</strong> in favor of subjective experience and emotion, and in this case inappropriate sensuality, and a rigorous monastic-style mystical worship, followers practically lived in church every single day</li> <li><strong>Famous for saying:</strong> <ul> <li><em>Preach the gospel, die and be forgotten.</em></li> <li>Only atheists attempt to comprehend God with their mind.</li> <li><em>I have one passion, it is He. Only He.</em></li> <li>I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.</li> <li><em>Missions, after all, is simply this: Every heart with Christ is a missionary, every heart without Christ is a mission field.</em><a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2">[2]</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>“He allowed women to preach, to hold office, and to be ordained. <strong>Anna Nitschmann</strong>, the leader of <strong>the Single Sisters</strong> and later Zinzendorf’s second wife, seems to have functioned as a bishop among the women.”<a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3">[3]</a></li> <li><strong>He took age-segregated worship to an even further unbiblical extreme</strong> by organizing his followers to also <strong>live</strong> in <strong>age/gender-specific groups</strong> rather than with nuclear family<a href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4"><sup>[4]</sup></a></li> <li>He <strong>oversexualized</strong> Christian theology, worship and hymns, with sensual <strong>“Blood and Wounds Theology”</strong></li> <li><strong>Zinzendorf proclaimed <em>all</em> souls to be female, including men’s, presumably to avoid the charge of homosexuality when the men “worshiped” Christ, and subsequently, the son of Zinzendorf proclaimed that the men were <em>actually</em> female and therefore eligible t

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> <span class="sermon-listing-detail">Jan 5, 2025 </span> <span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong> Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span><span class="sermon-series sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/end-times">End Times</a> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> 1 John 2:18–24, 2 Corinthians 11:12–15, 2 John 1:7, Galatians 1:6–9, 2 Thessalonians 2:1–12, Daniel 7:8, Revelation 13:18</span></span><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19"><br /></span></p> <p><strong>CORRECTION: </strong>I misspoke when I said that the highest blasphemy in <strong>Islam</strong> is to <em><strong>deny</strong> </em>that God had a Son—<strong>what</strong> <strong>I meant was the opposite:</strong> the highest blasphemy in Islam is to <em><strong>claim</strong> </em>that God had a Son, <strong>and it is found in <a href="https://www.clearquran.com/112.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Surah 112</a>, not 114</strong>: “In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. 1 Say (O Prophet), “He is Allah, the One. 2 Allah, the Absolute. 3 <strong>He begets not, nor was He begotten</strong>. 4 And there is none comparable to Him.””</p> <p>Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared. From this we know that it is the last hour. <sup>19</sup> They went out from us, but they were not <em>really</em> of us; for if they were of us, they would have remained with us; but <em>they went out</em>, so that it would be manifested that they all are not of us. <sup>20</sup> But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. <sup>21</sup> I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth. <sup>22</sup> Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. <sup>23</sup> Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. <sup>24</sup> As for you, let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. 1 John 2:18–24</p> <p><strong>The Council of Trent, “On Justification,” CANON IX</strong>: “If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified; in such wise as to mean, that nothing else is required to co-operate in order to the obtaining the grace of Justification,…let him be anathema.”<br /><strong>CANON XX:</strong> “If any one saith, that the man who is justified and how perfect soever, is not bound to observe the commandments of God and of the Church, but only to believe [faith alone]; as if indeed the Gospel were a bare and absolute promise of eternal life, without the condition of observing the commandments; let him be anathema.”</p> <p><strong>1689 Baptist Confession 26:4</strong>: “The Lord Jesus Christ is the Head of the church <strong>[the <em>only</em> Head!],</strong> in whom, by the appointment of the Father, all power for the calling, institution, order or government of the church, is invested in a supreme and sovereign manner <strong>[<em>exclusive</em> manner]</strong>;<a href="https://1689londonbaptistconfession.com/all-chapters/#0_7">7 </a>neither can the Pope of Rome in <strong><em>any</em> sense be head thereof</strong>, <strong>but is <em>that</em> antichrist [singular]</strong>, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself in the church against Christ, and all that is called God; whom the

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> <span class="sermon-listing-detail">Dec 29, 2024  </span> <span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong> Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  </span><span class="sermon-series sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span>  <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/end-times">End Times</a>  </span><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 2:18–23, John 10:27–28, James 2:26, Titus 1:16, 2 John 1:7, 1 John 4:1–3, 2 Corinthians 11:12–15, 2 Thessalonians 2:1–12</span></span></p> <p><sup>In the words of William Tyndale, the English Reformer whom God used to translate the Bible into English, and who was eventually betrayed and burned at the stake at the behest of King Henry VIII and the Pope: <strong>“…it is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist</strong>; that is to say, them which with their false doctrine and violence of sword enforce to quench [to suppress] the true doctrine of Christ. And as thou canst heal no disease, except thou begin at the root; even so canst thou preach against no mischief, except thou begin at the bishops [of Rome].” </sup></p> <p><sup>18</sup> Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared. From this we know that it is the last hour. <sup>19</sup> They went out from us, but they were not <em>really</em> of us; for if they were of us, they would have remained with us; but <em>they went out</em>, so that it would be manifested that they all are not of us. <sup>20</sup> But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. <sup>21</sup> I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth. <sup>22</sup> Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. <sup>23</sup> Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. 1 John 2:18–23</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Dec 22, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-14" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/seasoned-with-grace">Seasoned with Grace</a></span><span class="sermon-topic"><strong>  Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/christmas">Christmas</a> </span> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> Galatians 4:1–6, Isaiah 9:6, Genesis 3:14–15, Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:18– 2:12, Luke 2:19–33, James 1:17–18, Romans 5:15–17</span></span></span><sup><br /></sup></p> <p><strong>CORRECTIONS:</strong> I misspoke at around 00:14:00 when I said that God is not the Father. I meant to say that Jesus is not the Father in reference to <strong>Isaiah 9:6</strong>, where the Messiah is identified as the "Eternal Father," or, rather, the Father of Eternity. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all equally God: one in essence, three in Persons. I also misspoke at around 00:33:44 when I said that Jesus was born a sinner like everyone else. I meant to say that Mary was born a sinner like everyone else.</p> <p>Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave although he is owner of everything, <sup>2</sup> but he is under guardians and stewards until the date set by the father. <sup>3</sup> So also we, while we were children, were enslaved under the elemental things of the world. <sup>4</sup> But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, <sup>5</sup> so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. <sup>6</sup> And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” Galatians 4:1–6</p> <p>For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father [Father of Eternity], Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 (LSB)</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://cpmfiles1.com/thorncrowncovenant.church/grotto-nativity-baby-jesus-lifesite-680wide.jpg" alt="grotto nativity-baby-jesus-Lifesite-680wide" width="510" data-width="75" /></p> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Dec 15, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  </span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span>  <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic: </strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/assurance">Assurance</a>  </span><span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 2:19–21, Acts 20:25–32, Revelation 2:1–3, 1 Corinthians 11:17–19, Mark 4:3–20, 2 Timothy 1:15–18, 2 Timothy 4:14–18, Matthew 16:13–17, Galatians 4:3–9</span></p> <p><span class="text 1John-2-19"><span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19">They went out from us, but they were not <em>really</em> of us; for if they were of us, they would have remained with us; but <em>they went out</em>, so that it would be manifested that they all are not of us.</span> <span id="en-LSB-30571" class="text 1John-2-20">But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.</span> <span id="en-LSB-30572" class="text 1John-2-21">I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth. 1 John 2:19-21</span></span></p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Dec 8, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a>  </span> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span>  <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/law-gospel-distinction">Law & Gospel Distinction</a>  </span><span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> 1 John 2:18–19, Jude 1:17–19, Acts 20:25–32, Titus 1:9, 2 Timothy 4:2, John 10:24–29</span></p> <p><span id="en-LSB-30569" class="text 1John-2-18">Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared. From this we know that it is the last hour.</span> <span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19">They went out from us, but they were not <em>really</em> of us; for if they were of us, they would have remained with us; but <em>they went out</em>, so that it would be manifested that they all are not of us. 1 John 2:18-19 </span></p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> <span class="sermon-listing-detail">Dec 1, 2024  </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a></span>  <span class="sermon-series sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span>  <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/end-times">End Times</a>  <strong>Scripture:</strong> 1 John 2:17–19, Ecclesiastes 12:13–14, Jude 1:17–19, 2 John 1:7, 1 John 4:1–3</span></p> <p><span id="en-LSB-30568" class="text 1John-2-17">And the world is passing away, and <em>also</em> its lusts, but the one who does the will of God abides forever.</span></p> <p><span id="en-LSB-30569" class="text 1John-2-18">Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared. From this we know that it is the last hour.</span> <span id="en-LSB-30570" class="text 1John-2-19">They went out from us, but they were not <em>really</em> of us; for if they were of us, they would have remained with us; but <em>they went out</em>, so that it would be manifested that they all are not of us. 1 John 2:17-19<br /></span></p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Nov 24, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-1" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/god-uses-luthers-flawed-pen">God Uses Luther's Flawed Pen...</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/reformation">Reformation</a> </span> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/1%20Tim%203.15;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="1 Tim 3.15" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">1 Timothy 3:15</a></span></span></span></p> <p>...but in case I am delayed, <em>I write</em> so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth. 1 Timothy 3:15</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="__1__">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="__1__">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Nov 17, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-1" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/god-uses-luthers-flawed-pen">God Uses Luther's Flawed Pen...</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/reformation">Reformation</a> </span> </span></span><span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Mark%201.14%E2%80%9315;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Mark 1.14–15" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Mark 1:14–15</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Rom%201.16%E2%80%9317;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Rom 1.16–17" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Romans 1:16–17</a></span></p> <p>Now after John had been delivered up <em>into custody</em>, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:14–15</p> <p>For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it <em>the</em> righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous will live by faith.” Romans 1:16–17</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Nov 10, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-1" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/god-uses-luthers-flawed-pen">God Uses Luther's Flawed Pen...</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/reformation">Reformation</a> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Matt%204.17;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Matt 4.17" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Matthew 4:17</a></span></span></span></span></p> <p>From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4:17</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Nov 3, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-6" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/the-protestant-reformation">The Protestant Reformation</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/reformation">Reformation</a> </span> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Gal%202.14%E2%80%9316;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Gal 2.14–16" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Galatians 2:14–16</a></span></p> <p>But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before everyone, “If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how <em>is it that</em> you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews? “We <em>are</em> Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles; nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified. Galatians 2:14–16</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Day:</strong> Oct 28, 2024  <span class="sermon-speaker"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-18" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/evangelism">Evangelism</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/roman-catholicism">Roman Catholicism</a> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Rom%201.16;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Rom 1.16" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Romans 1:16</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Isa%2053.10;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Isa 53.10" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Isaiah 53:10</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Heb%2010.10%E2%80%9314;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Heb 10.10–14" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Hebrews 10:10–14</a>, <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/1%20Cor%2015.1%E2%80%9311;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="1 Cor 15.1–11" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">1 Corinthians 15:1–11</a></span></span></p> <p><span id="en-ESV-23745" class="text Matt-18-20"><span class="woj">Open air bilingual preaching and gospel protesting at a local Roman Catholic church that was celebrating the feast day of St. Jude. Many were listening intently. Someone had called the police on me again like the previous year. When the police showed up they assumed I was being rioutous, but when they soon realized that I was just preaching and exercising my 1st amendment right of free speech, they eventually left. Also had good gospel conversations with some of the people who had attended.</span></span><span class="text Matt-18-20"><span class="woj"><span id="en-ESV-29992" class="text Heb-3-13"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Oct 27, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-5" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/halloween-vs-reformation-day">Halloween vs Reformation Day</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/halloween">Halloween</a> </span> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Eph%205.11;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Eph 5.11" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Ephesians 5:11</a></span></p> <p>And do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even expose them. Ephesians 5:11</p> <p>Topics include the Protestant Reformation and Andreas Karlstadt; how to winsomely protest the evils of Halloween with salt and light; the spirit of Halloween; indulgence; history, church history, apologetics, and discernment in response to Allie Beth Stuckey's <em>Relatable</em> interview of <em>Cultish</em> hosts in "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNXAfjy5Z3k" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Real History of Halloween</a>"; failure to see with spiritual eyes; witchcraft; Halloween in the media; what saith the Scriptures?; distinguishing the sacred from the profane; "redeeming" Halloween; ignorance as an excuse for sinning.</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Oct 20, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-5" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/halloween-vs-reformation-day">Halloween vs Reformation Day</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/halloween">Halloween</a> </span> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Eph%205.11;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Eph 5.11" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Ephesians 5:11</a></span></p> <p>And do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even expose them. Ephesians 5:11</p> <p>Topics include Halloween contrasted with fasting and Christianity; Biblical balance without compromise; pagan and religious corruption in "holidays"; holiness and separation; origin, definition and purpose of Halloween; Roman Catholic appropriation of paganism.</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Oct 13, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-7" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/self-denial-fasting">Self-Denial & Fasting</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/fasting">Fasting</a> </span> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Matt%206.16%E2%80%9318;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Matt 6.16–18" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Matthew 6:16–18</a></span></p> <p>Topics include proper biblical fasting; how and when to fast; health, diet, exercise benefits of fasting; disciplining our bodies through self-denial; whether you should tell people that you are fasting; fasting comprehensively to "deprive the flesh of its fuel"; parallels between fasting as a vow and the Lord's Day; fasting as spiritual warfare; recommended resources on fasting.</p> <p>“Now whenever you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites <em>do</em>, for they neglect their appearance so that they will be noticed by men when they are fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. “But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face so that your fasting will not be noticed by men, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees <em>what is done</em> in secret will reward you." Matthew 6:16–18</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Oct 6, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-7" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/self-denial-fasting">Self-Denial & Fasting</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/fasting">Fasting</a> </span> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Matt%206.16%E2%80%9318;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Matt 6.16–18" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Matthew 6:16–18</a></span></p> <p><sup>Topics include Jesus' rebuke of hypocritical traditions of the Pharisees; man's first sin; taking care of ourselves; sexual sin in churches; how not to fast; fasting vs dieting; fasting as an end in itself; avoiding dangers before and after a fast, length of a fast; personal exceptions to and limitations of fasting; intermittent fasting.<br /></sup></p> <p><sup>11</sup> “<em>It is</em> not what enters into the mouth <em>that</em> defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.” <sup>12</sup> Then the disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?” <sup>13</sup> But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted. <sup>14</sup> “Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” <sup>15</sup> Now Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain the parable to us.” <sup>16</sup> And Jesus said, “Are you still lacking in understanding also? <sup>17</sup> “Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and goes into the sewer? <sup>18</sup> “But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man. <sup>19</sup> “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false witness, slanders. <sup>20</sup> “These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.” Matthew 15:11-20</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Sept 29, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-7" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/self-denial-fasting">Self-Denial & Fasting</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/fasting">Fasting</a> </span><span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Matt%204.1%E2%80%9311;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Matt 4.1–11" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Matthew 4:1–11</a></span></p> <p><sup>1</sup> Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. <sup>2</sup> And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry. <sup>3</sup> And the tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” <sup>4</sup> But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’” <sup>5</sup> Then the devil took Him into the holy city and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, <sup>6</sup> and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will command His angels concerning You’; and ‘On <em>their</em> hands they will bear You up, Lest You strike Your foot against a stone.’” <sup>7</sup> Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’” <sup>8</sup> Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; <sup>9</sup> and he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.” <sup>10</sup> Then Jesus said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.’” <sup>11</sup> Then the devil left Him; and behold, angels came and <em>began to</em> minister to Him. Matthew 4:1–11</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Sept 22, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-7" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/self-denial-fasting">Self-Denial & Fasting</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/fasting">Fasting</a> </span><span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/1%20Cor%209.24%E2%80%9327;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="1 Cor 9.24–27" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">1 Corinthians 9:24–27</a></span></p> <p><sup>24</sup> Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but <em>only</em> one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. <sup>25</sup> Now everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then <em>do it</em> to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. <sup>26</sup> Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; <sup>27</sup> but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified. 1 Corinthians 9:24–27</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Sept 15, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-7" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/self-denial-fasting">Self-Denial & Fasting</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/self-denial">Self-Denial</a> </span> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Luke%209.23%E2%80%9325;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Luke 9.23–25" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Luke 9:23–25</a></span></p> <p><sup>23</sup> And He was saying to <em>them</em> all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. <sup>24</sup> “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. <sup>25</sup> “For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself? Luke 9:23–25</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Sept 8, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-8" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/know-your-enemy:-the-world-the-flesh-the-devil">Know Your Enemy: The World, the Flesh, the Devil</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/mortification">Mortification</a> </span> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Rom%208.1%E2%80%9339;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Rom 8.1–39" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Romans 8:1–39</a></span></p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p> <p>Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Sept 1, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-8" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/know-your-enemy:-the-world-the-flesh-the-devil">Know Your Enemy: The World, the Flesh, the Devil</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic: </strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/spiritual-warfare">Spiritual Warfare</a> </span> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture: </strong><a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Rom%206.19%E2%80%93%207.25;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Rom 6.19– 7.25" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Romans 6:19– 7:25</a></span></p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Aug 25, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-8" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/know-your-enemy:-the-world-the-flesh-the-devil">Know Your Enemy: The World, the Flesh, the Devil</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic: </strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/spiritual-warfare">Spiritual Warfare</a> </span> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Rom%206.12%E2%80%9318;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Rom 6.12–18" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Romans 6:12–18</a></span></p> <p><sup>12</sup> Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, <sup>13</sup> and do not go on presenting your members to sin <em>as</em> instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members <em>as</em> instruments of righteousness to God. <sup>14</sup> For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. <sup>15</sup> What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! <sup>16</sup> Do you not know that when you go on presenting yourselves to someone <em>as</em> slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? <sup>17</sup> But thanks be to God that <em>though</em> you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were given over, <sup>18</sup> and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. Romans 6:12–18</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Aug 18, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-8" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/know-your-enemy:-the-world-the-flesh-the-devil">Know Your Enemy: The World, the Flesh, the Devil</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/mortification">Mortification</a> <span class="sermon-verse"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Rom%206.6%E2%80%9314;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Rom 6.6–14" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Romans 6:6–14</a></span></span></p> <p><sup>6</sup> knowing this, that our old man was crucified with <em>Him</em>, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; <sup>7</sup> for he who has died has been justified from sin. <sup>8</sup> Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, <sup>9</sup> knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. <sup>10</sup> For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all, but the life that He lives, He lives to God. <sup>11</sup> Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. <sup>12</sup> Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, <sup>13</sup> and do not go on presenting your members to sin <em>as</em> instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members <em>as</em> instruments of righteousness to God. <sup>14</sup> For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Romans 6:6–14</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Aug 11, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-8" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/know-your-enemy:-the-world-the-flesh-the-devil">Know Your Enemy: The World, the Flesh, the Devil</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/mortification">Mortification</a> </span><span class="sermon-scripture sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Rom%206.8%E2%80%9314;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Rom 6.8–14" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Romans 6:8–14</a></span></p> <p><sup>8</sup> Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, <sup>9</sup> knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. <sup>10</sup> For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all, but the life that He lives, He lives to God. <sup>11</sup> Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. <sup>12</sup> Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, <sup>13</sup> and do not go on presenting your members to sin <em>as</em> instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members <em>as</em> instruments of righteousness to God. <sup>14</sup> For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Romans 6:8–14</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="sermon-speaker"><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> Aug 4, 2024  <strong>Preacher:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> </span></span><span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-8" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/know-your-enemy:-the-world-the-flesh-the-devil">Know Your Enemy: The World, the Flesh, the Devil</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/mortification">Mortification</a> </span> <span class="sermon-scripture sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Scripture:</strong> <a class="rtBibleRef" href="https://ref.ly/Rom%206.1%E2%80%937;nasb95?t=biblia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reference="Rom 6.1–7" data-version="nasb95" data-purpose="bible-reference">Romans 6:1–7</a></span></p> <p><sup>1</sup> What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? <sup>2</sup> May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? <sup>3</sup> Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? <sup>4</sup> Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. <sup>5</sup> For if we have become united with <em>Him</em> in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be <em>in the likeness</em> of His resurrection, <sup>6</sup> knowing this, that our old man was crucified with <em>Him</em>, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; <sup>7</sup> for he who has died has been justified from sin. Romans 6:1–7</p> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave <br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a></p>