Heritage Reformed Congregation
School in Jordan Station

Living in Light of thePassion of Jesus ChristNothing in history was as radical as the passion or the suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ. Dear believer, since Christ has radically suffered and died for our sins, shouldn't we radically live for Him?Paul puts it this way in Philippians 2:5: 'Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.The Nature of Justifying FaithJustifying faith is not a simple assent to the truths of the gospel. Being God, Christ came to this earth as a man to suffer and die on the cross for sinners who despise Him, reject Him, and even crucify Him. It is because of our sins that Christ had to suffer and die on the cross. Judas knew the Scriptures, and without doubt assented to the truth of them when he was a zealous preacher of the gospel; but he never had so much as one ounce of justifying faith in his soul.Even Judas' master, the devil himself - one far enough, I suppose, from justifying faith - assents to the truth of the Word.