Thank you for joining us for this conversation today on the Sword and the Trial. Today, Pastor Tom and I talk about chapter 8, paragraph 2 of the Second London Baptist Confession on Christ's the Mediator. We get into a lot of different ancient heresies and some of the ways in which those heresies have come to fruition today. Very complex stuff, but very helpful, I think, as well. I hope it is helpful to you. Take a listen. Welcome to The Sword and the Troll. 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. In today's episode is brought to you by Lake

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highly recommended. But today, what we're going to do is we are going to finally get back into chapter eight of the Second London Baptist Confession. Last time we were in the confession,

we were in paragraph one of chapter eight. Now we're in paragraph 2, and chapter 8 is on Christ the mediator.

So we're getting into some Christology today, which I have always considered Christology to be perhaps some of the more difficult and complex topics within Christian theology.

It's crucial, without a doubt, and the statements that need to be made can be made

simply.

But whenever you start saying, okay, what does it mean to have two natures in one person?

What does it mean to be a very God of very God and yet true man?

Those things, they have confounded people with big brains.

And so I'm grateful for the confession, the succinctness with which it states these things. And you

can see the Orthodox foundation that from the creedal tradition that arises in this chapter of the

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