TS&TT: The 1689 Confession: Christ the Mediator (Part 1)

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today on The Sword & The Trowel podcast, Tom Ascol and Graham Gunden continue in their series of walking through the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith. They introduce Chapter 8 on Christ the Mediator addressing the first paragraph on the doctrine of the person and work of Christ, especially in the Covenant of Redemption. Show Notes: Ready to plan your next event? Contact Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center: https://LYBCC.com Pre-Order "The Law for the Lawless": https://press.founders.org/shop/the-law-for-the-lawless/ Check out the Founders Study Center: https://study.founders.org/ Register for the 2026 National Founders Conference - Make Disciples: https://founders.org/conference/ Register for the 2026 National Founders Pre-Conference - Refreshed & Quickened: Stripping off the Burden of Egalitarianism: https://founders.org/preconference/ Pre-Order "Real Life in a Fallen World": https://press.founders.org/shop/real-life-in-a-fallen-world/ Founders Ministries: https://founders.org Support the Work of Founders: https://founders.org/give https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/https://twitter.com/FoundersMinhttps://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/ All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for this episode of The Sword and the Trial. Today, Pastor Tom and I talk about
0:04.6	chapter 8, paragraph one of the second London Baptist confession on Christ the mediator. We just get into
0:10.0	that first paragraph. There's a lot there when it concerns the doctrine of the person of Christ and
0:14.0	his work, especially the covenant of redemption. I hope it's a helpful conversation for you. Take a listen.
0:41.5	Welcome to The Sword and the Trial. The Sword and the Trial is a podcast of founders' ministries and founders exist for the recovery of the gospel and the Reformation of local churches. I'm Graham Gundin. I'm Tom Askell. And today's episode is brought to you by the Miller's Grove Soap Company. Great Christmas gifts for this time of year. Absolutely. And then also Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center up there in North Central Florida.
0:45.9	A wonderful place to come, especially during the winter when everywhere else is really cold.
0:49.5	It's beautiful weather. And you've taken your family up there at June last year. It's a beautiful setting. There's peacocks. There's lots of alligators.
0:54.1	Alligants. Yeah, just a lot of fun things to do
0:55.9	there. Good. Yeah, I hadn't been to Lake Yill in quite a while when I was first in Florida,
1:00.9	but not since it's been under the new management and leadership. I look forward to getting up there
1:05.3	myself sometime. Yeah, beautiful, beautiful facilities. Highly recommended. Well, today what we want to do
1:09.6	is we want to dive back into
1:11.6	the Second London Baptist Confession, and we are now on Chapter 8 of Christ the Mediator, which
1:17.6	is one of the more substantial chapters in the confession. I think it's 10 paragraphs, not the
1:23.5	longest chapter, but certainly there's a lot in there. So there's no way we're going to be able to cover it all today, but we'll get into as much
1:29.7	as we can today.
1:31.1	Yeah, it's been a chapter that we've camped out on in our church at different times.
1:35.0	You've taught through the confession most recently.
1:37.4	And this chapter, like the Bible, I mean, the Bible's focus is Jesus Christ.
1:42.8	It's the revelation of God in Christ
1:46.0	to the whole world, and everything else flows out of that. So this centrality of Christ is
1:53.1	prevalent in God's revelation, and the confession reflects that with the muscular nature of the way it puts together this doctrine
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