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  Exodus 20: 8 " Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day.  Therefore  the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.   Many people don’t realize  that when the Ten Commandments were given at Sinai, this was not the first time they came into existence . When God gave them to Moses it  was not an  iteration , it was a  reiteration . In a very real sense these Moral Laws had always been in existence because they were a description of the character of God and therefore a model for the character of the people of God.  Now some may say at this point,  “O k we can see how God doesn’t

  The doctrine of the perseverance of the saints is a key tenet of Reformed theology . However, oftentimes it is  a  more  controversial one  outside of the Reformed camp  or misunderstood in what it expresses .  What I hope you will come to find is that the perseverance of the saints is a great comfort and reassurance that meets you where you have been, where you are now, and where you will be in the future.  In a world where hope continually seems to be lost, may you find hope in the One who works in you to persevere to the end.    An  oversimplified  way to explain this  doctrine  is  to say  that if one has faith, they will never lose it, but if one  “ loses ”  it, they do not truly have faith.  Additionally , t he saints  that are persevering , as expressed in the New Testament, are all those among God’s elect who have truly been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit.   In looking at this doctrine, it  is helpful to see how the Westminster Assembly (from whic