Heralding Truth
The teaching ministry of Covenant Hope Baptist Church in Memphis Tn. Where we herald the Truth of God to equip and edify the Church and evangelize the lost sheep, calling them to the Cross of Jesus Christ. Romans 1:16- 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.1 Corinthians 1:18- For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to is who are being saved it is the power of God.
Romans 5:1-5 Peace with God
Looking at true Christian Peace
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Romans 4:13-25 The Promise Through Faith Alone
We look not on the strength of Abraham’s faith, but on the strength of Abraham’s God.
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Isaiah 43:25 Pinnacle of Grace
Israel burdened Yahweh with sin, but Christ bore the burden of sin in His body on the tree. God does not remember the sins of His people against them because He remembered them upon His Son.
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Romans 4:9-12 When Was Abraham Declared Righteous?
Romans 4:9–12 is one of the clearest passages in Scripture against any notion that a covenant sign, religious ordinance, or outward badge can be the basis of justification. Paul’s entire argument is built upon the chronology: faith first, righteousness, sign afterward.
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Romans 4:1-8 Justification by Faith Alone
God does not simply pardon the guilty by overlooking sin; He justly justifies sinners through the righteousness of Another.
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Isaiah 43:8-13 “I Am He”
Isa 43:13 “Even from eternity I am He, And there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?”
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Romans 3:27-31 “The Law of Faith”
The Law reveals the righteousness that God requires; the Gospel reveals the righteousness that God provides.
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Romans 3:21-26 God is Just and The Justifier
Romans 3:21–26 reveals that God righteously justifies sinners apart from works by providing, through the sacrificial death of Christ, the very righteousness He requires.
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Isaiah 43:1-7 “I Am Yahweh”
Isaiah 43:1–7 first comforts Israel with the assurance that, though judgment is deserved, Yahweh has not abandoned His covenant people. The exiles would hear in this promise the certainty of literal return from captivity, for no direction of the earth could hold back those whom Yahweh had redeemed. Yet in Christ this promise expands to its fullest covenantal horizon: God gathers His elect from every nation, east and west, north and south. Therefore the church today, scattered throughout the world and often passing through many afflictions, is comforted by the same covenant truth — “You are Mine.” The God who redee...
Romans 3:9-20 “Nothing in my hands I bring..”
Rom 3:9 What then? Are we better? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;
Rom 3:10 as it is written, “THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;
Rom 3:11 THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD;
Rom 3:12 ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME WORTHLESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE.”
Rom 3:13 “THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN TOMB, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING,”...
Isaiah 42:18-25 “Hear you blind and deaf”
| Isaiah 42:1–4 | Isaiah 42:18–25
| The Servant brings justice | The servant is blind
| The Servant is faithful | The servant is deaf
| The Servant opens blind eyes | Israel itself cannot see
This prepares the reader for the distinction between:
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Romans 3:1-8 Entrusted with the Word
God remains faithful and accomplishes His purposes despite human unbelief—not because unbelief is good.
Just as Israel was entrusted with the oracles of God, so the visible church today is entrusted with the Word and the gospel. That privilege is real and weighty, yet it does not guarantee salvation. God remains faithful to His covenant purposes even when some within the covenant community are unfaithful, using the visible church as the means by which He accomplishes His redemptive work.
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Isaiah 42:10-17 A New Song
“Sing to Yahweh a new song, Sing His praise from the end of the earth!”
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Romans 2:17-29 Does the Walk Match the Claim
Paul is not denying Jewish privileges.
He is denying that privileges justify.
He is not denying the value of circumcision in its covenant context.
He is denying that circumcision saves apart from obedience.
He is not teaching that some sinners are justified by sincere law-keeping.
He is exposing the bankruptcy of relying on possession, profession, and ordinance while lacking inward reality.
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Romans 2:12-16 Written on the Heart
“Nothing speaks more terror to sinners, or more comfort to saints, than this, that Christ shall be the Judge.” -Henry
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Isaiah 42:5-9 “Yahweh is my Name”
God’s role as Creator is often invoked in Isaiah to ground confidence in His role as Redeemer.
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Isaiah 42:1-4 “Behold My Servant”
Isaiah 41 ends with silence and emptiness; Isaiah 42 begins with a voice and a Servant. This shows that God’s ultimate answer to fear, idolatry, and confusion is not merely power—but a Person.
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Romans 2:6-11 Matter of Facts
Romans 2:6–11 establishes that God will judge every person impartially according to their works, a standard that exposes the universal failure of humanity and prepares the way for the righteousness revealed in the gospel.
Romans 1–3 strips every person of excuse, confidence, and righteousness so that the only hope left is the righteousness of God revealed in the gospel.
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Isaiah 41:17-29 A Great Contrast
The idols must be nailed down so they do not fall, but Yahweh opens rivers in deserts. The idols cannot speak, but Yahweh speaks in such a way that even a child can hear. The difference is not small—it is the difference between life and nothingness.
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Isaiah 41:17-29 A Great Contrast
The idols must be nailed down so they do not fall, but Yahweh opens rivers in deserts. The idols cannot speak, but Yahweh speaks in such a way that even a child can hear. The difference is not small—it is the difference between life and nothingness.
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Romans 2:1-6 Are You the Man!?
As we move into Romans chapter 2, Paul turns from the openly rebellious sinner to the one who judges him. While chapter 1 exposes the depravity of those who suppress the truth, chapter 2 warns the self-proclaimed righteous not to rest in their judgment of others. The Jew, entrusted with the Law, and even the moral Gentile who lacks it, are both accountable before a God who judges impartially. The backdrop of this entire argument is the holy, holy, holiness of God. Therefore, the great danger is this: that in rightly recognizing the sin of others, one fails to examine his own...
Isaiah 41:10-16 “Do Not Fear”(the irrationality of a Christian’s fear)
In this text we are encouraged through the command of Yahweh God to His people to not fear. Also we discuss the irrationality of God’s covenant people to fear anything in this earthly life.
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Isaiah 41:8-10 Because He has chosen, “Do Not Fear”
Because God has chosen His people, taken hold of them, and not rejected them, the command “Do not fear” follows necessarily. Fear is inconsistent with covenant identity grounded in divine election.
God Almighty—the One who is self-existent, sovereign over all, needing nothing and dependent on no one—has, in His perfect and unchanging love, chosen a people for Himself. He has taken hold of them and has not rejected them. Therefore, they do not need to fear. Not because they are strong, but because they are His.
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Romans 1:24-32 The Suppression of Truth Leads to intellectual and Moral decline
God’s wrath for the suppression of Truth, gives over the unbeliever to intellectual and moral decline.
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Isaiah 41:5-16 The Contrast of The World’s Fears and God’s People’s Comfort
When fear grips the human heart, we instinctively look for something bigger than ourselves to save us. The nations strengthen their idols, Saul seeks a medium, Ahaz runs to Assyria, and Israel builds a golden calf. But the servant of Yahweh hears a different word: “Do not fear, for I am with you.”
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Revelation 8:1-5 Prayer Sanctified by Christ
And exposition of Revelation 8:1-5
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Romans 1:24-25 God gave them over…
Because they “exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the likeness of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over….”
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Isaiah 41:1-4 Yahweh holds court
This “trial” answers the despair of 40:27–31. Israel thinks God has “passed by” their case; Isaiah begins 41 by showing that God is actually convening court over the whole world.
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Romans 1:18-23 The suppression of the Glory of God
God’s wrath is the righteous response of a holy God toward those who exchange His glory for idols and refuse to glorify or give Him thanks.
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Isaiah 40:29-31 “Hope in Yahweh”
“Yet those who hope in Yahweh will gain new power.” (Isa 40:31, LSB)
Everything in chapter 40 exists to make that sentence rational.
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Romans 1:16-17 The Power of The Gospel
The gospel is not merely the announcement that sinners are forgiven; it is the revelation that God remains perfectly righteous while declaring the unrighteous righteous through faith in His Son.
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Romans 1:8-15 Faith Proclaimed, Prayers Offered, Debt Acknowledged
Romans 1:8-15 Faith Proclaimed, Prayers Offered, Debt Acknowledged
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Isaiah 40:25-26 oh, that the people of God would live by Truth
Every failure addressed in Isaiah 40—idolatry, fear of rulers, despair, impatience—flows from measuring reality without reference to God’s incomparable being. He is “The Holy One”
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Romans 1:6-7 “The Called”
Who called
Who are the called
Called to who
Called to what
Called from what
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Isaiah 40:22-24 The incomparable Majesty of God cont.
Isaiah emphasizes that Yahweh God transcends all creation. Idols, by contrast, are dependent upon man for their form, their meaning, and their worship. Yahweh needs nothing from man, and this truth is testified through His sovereign act of creation and the enduring word He has graciously given. Also that God does constantly govern all His creation.
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Romans 1:5-7 “obedience of Faith” *Ice storm addition*
In the middle of an ice storm we go live to look at the beautiful truth of the obedience of holiness by sinners saved by God’s amazing Grace.
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Isaiah 40:18-21 The folly of idolatry
Whether poor or rich they make images to worship. Calvin says that Isaiah, “shews that all men are carried away by strange madness, and that even though they have not the means, still they desire to have something excellent for the worship of their gods……for God is not present with us by an idol, but by his word and by the power of his Spirit;”
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Romans 1:3-6 The incomparable Son of God
The incomparable Christ by The Holy Spirit revealed His power as God in resurrection
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Romans 1:1-7 The good news accomplished by the eternal Son
Romans begins by showing us that the gospel comes from God, centers on Christ, and produces obedient faith.
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Isaiah 40:12-17 Yahweh God is incomparable
An expository sermon through Isaiah 40:12-17 Isaiah shows that Yahweh stands alone as God—unmatched in power, dependent on nothing, and beyond comparison.
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