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Theology Matters

by Michael McEvoy

This podcast broadcasts the seminar lessons for Great Commission Baptist Church in Summerville, SC. The main teacher is Michael McEvoy.

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  1. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 41 - Questions 99, 100, and 101

    Lesson 41: Questions 99, 100, and 101 Last lesson introduced baptism as Christ’s ordinance for those professing repentance and faith. Questions 99-101 now ask: • What about believers’ children? • How should baptism be administered? • What obligations follow it? Christ determines baptism’s…

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  2. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 40 - Questions 96, 97, and 98

    Lesson 40: Question 96, 97, and 98 Last week, Questions 94-95 taught us how the Spirit makes the reading and preaching of God’s Word effectual to salvation, and how we should receive that Word with preparation, prayer, faith, love, and obedience. Today we turn from the Word to baptism and the...

  3. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 39 - Questions 94 and 95

    Lesson 39: Questions 94 and 95 The preceding lessons have established that faith and repentance are saving graces and that God ordinarily communicates the benefits of redemption through appointed outward means. Yet an important question remains. If many people read the Bible, hear preaching, or...

  4. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 38 - Questions 92 and 93

    Lesson 38: Questions 92 and 93 In Lesson 37, we saw that faith in Jesus Christ is the saving grace by which we receive and rest upon Him alone for salvation. Which raises an immediate question: what happens when a sinner truly comes to Christ? Salvation is by faith alone, but saving faith is…

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  5. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 37 - Questions 90 and 91

    Lesson 37: Questions 90 and 91 Question 89 left every sinner under a verdict from which he cannot rescue himself: every sin deserves God’s wrath and curse, both in this life and in the life to come. This raises the urgent question answered here: How can guilty sinners escape what their sins...

  6. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 36 - Questions 87, 88, and 89

    Lesson 36: Questions 87, 88, and 89 In Lesson 34, we completed the Ten Commandments with the 10th commandment, which forbids coveting, requires contentment with our own condition, requires a charitable spirit toward our neighbor, and forbids discontentment, envy, and inordinate desire for…

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  7. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 35 - Keep the 10 Commandments

    Lesson 35: Keep the 10 Commandments Over the past few weeks, we’ve been walking through the Catechism and how the Christian is to view the 10 commandments. Hopefully by now you’ve seen that the 10 commandments’ applications are often broader than most people think and reach the heart of what it...

  8. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 34 - Questions 84, 85, and 86

    Lesson 34: Questions 84, 85, and 86 In Lesson 33, we considered the ninth commandment. It requires us to maintain and promote truth between people and to preserve our own and our neighbor’s good name, especially in witness bearing. It forbids what harms truth or unjustly injures a reputation. The...

  9. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 33 - Questions 81, 82, and 83

    Lesson 33: Questions 81, 82, and 83 In our last lesson, we considered the eighth commandment: “Thou shalt not steal.” We saw that it requires the lawful procuring and furthering of our own and our neighbor’s wealth and outward estate, and forbids whatever unjustly hinders either. The eighth...

  10. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 32 - Questions 78, 79, and 80

    Lesson 32: Questions 78, 79, and 80 In our last lesson we considered the seventh commandment: “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” We saw that it requires the preservation of our own and our neighbor’s chastity in heart, speech, and behavior, and forbids all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.…

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  11. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 31 - Questions 75, 76, and 77

    Lesson 31: Questions 75, 76, and 77 In our last lesson we considered the sixth commandment. We saw that God forbids murder and requires “all lawful endeavours” to preserve our own life and the lives of others. The commandment therefore reaches beyond the outward act of murder to suicide, hatred,...

  12. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 30 - Questions 72, 73, and 74

    Lesson 30: Questions 72, 73, and 74 In our last lesson we considered the fifth commandment. We saw that God commands us to honor father and mother, and that this duty extends to every lawful relationship in which we are superiors, inferiors, or equals. We also saw that the commandment forbids...

  13. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 29 - Questions 68, 69, 70, and 71

    Lesson 29: Questions 68, 69, 70, and 71 In our last two lessons we considered the fourth commandment. We saw that God claims one whole day in seven as holy to Himself, that the first day of the week is the Christian Sabbath, and that the day is to be ordered around worship, rest, fellowship, and...

  14. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 28 - Questions 64, 65, and 67

    Lesson 28: Questions 64, 65, and 67 In our last lesson we considered the basics of the fourth commandment. We saw that God commands one day in seven to be kept holy to Himself, that the day is for worship, rest, fellowship, mercy, and necessity, and that the commandment forbids neglect, careless...

  15. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 27 - Questions 62, 63, and 66

    Lesson 27: Questions 62, 63, and 66 In our last lesson we considered the third commandment. We saw that God’s Name must not be taken in vain, and that this commandment reaches far beyond obvious profanity. It requires the holy and reverent use of God’s names, titles, attributes, ordinances, Word,...

  16. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 26 - Questions 58, 59, 60, and 61

    Lesson 26: Questions 58, 59, 60, and 61 In our last lesson we considered the second commandment. We saw that God must be worshiped only as He has appointed, that His ordinances must be received, observed, and kept pure and entire, that worship by images or any other unauthorized way is forbidden,...

  17. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 25 - Questions 54, 55, 56, and 57

    Lesson 25: Questions 54, 55, 56, and 57 In our last lesson we considered the first commandment. We saw that God requires us to have no other gods before Him, which means we must know and acknowledge Him as the only true God and our God, and worship and glorify Him accordingly. We also saw that…

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  18. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 24 - Questions 50, 51, 52, and 53

    Lesson 24: Questions 50, 51, 52, and 53 In Lesson 23, we began to work through the Ten Commandments by considering the preface to the law. We saw that God identifies Himself as the Lord, the covenant God Who redeemed Israel out of bondage, and that His authority to command is grounded in Who He…

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  19. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 23 - Questions 47, 48, and 49

    Lesson 23: Questions 47, 48, and 49 In Lesson 22, we began our introduction to the Law of God. We saw that the duty God requires of man is obedience to His revealed will (Q44), that the rule God first revealed to man for his obedience was the moral law (Q45), and that the moral law is summarily...

  20. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 22 - Questions 44, 45, and 46

    Lesson 22: Questions 44, 45, and 46 In Lesson 21, we considered what happens to the wicked at death and at the day of judgment. We saw that the souls of the wicked are cast into the torments of hell at death, while their bodies lie in their graves until the resurrection and judgment of the great...

  21. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 21 - Questions 42 and 43

    Lesson 21: Questions 42 and 43 Last week’s lesson was heavy because Questions 39, 40, and 41 dealt with significant issues in the life of the believer: the benefits we receive now, what happens to believers at death, and what believers receive at the resurrection. This week’s lesson is also…

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  22. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 20 - Questions 39, 40, and 41

    Lesson 20: Questions 39, 40, and 41 In our last lesson we considered the saving benefits given to believers, who partake of justification, adoption, sanctification, and the benefits of salvation (Q35). We then considered justification as God’s gracious pardon in Christ (Q36), adoption as His...

  23. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 19 - Questions 35, 36, 37, and 38

    Lesson 19: Questions 35, 36, 37, and 38 In our last lesson we considered how the Holy Spirit applies the redemption purchased by Christ. We saw that we are made partakers of Christ’s redemption by the effectual application of it to us by His Holy Spirit (Q32), that the Spirit applies redemption…

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  24. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 18 - Questions 32, 33, and 34

    Lesson 18: Questions 32, 33, and 34 In our last lesson we considered Christ’s humiliation and exaltation. He humbled Himself in His low birth, His life under the law, His sufferings, His bearing the wrath of God, His cursed death, His burial, and His remaining under the power of death for a time...

  25. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 17 - Questions 30 and 31

    Lesson 17: Questions 30 and 31 In our last lesson we considered how Christ executes the offices of Prophet, Priest, and King for His people. As Prophet, He reveals to us, by His Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation (Q27). As Priest, He offers Himself once for all and ever lives to...

  26. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 16 - Questions 27, 28, and 29

    Lesson 16: Questions 27, 28, and 29 In our last lesson we considered the threefold office of Christ as our Redeemer. We saw that He executeth the offices of a Prophet, of a Priest, and of a King, both in His estate of humiliation and exaltation (Q26). That answer gave us the frame. These three...

  27. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 15 - Question 26

    Lesson 15: Question 26 In our recent lessons we have traced a careful path through the catechism. We considered Adam’s federal headship (Q15), the estate of sin and misery into which mankind fell and the sinfulness and misery of that fallen estate (Q16-22), and then the mercy of God in not…

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  28. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 14 - Questions 23, 24, and 25

    Lesson 14: Questions 23, 24, and 25 In Lesson 13 we considered the sinfulness and misery of the estate whereinto man fell. We saw that our ruin is not shallow. It consists in guilt, lack of righteousness, corruption of nature, and actual transgressions (Q21). We also saw that, by the Fall…

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  29. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 13 - Questions 21 and 22

    Lesson 13: Questions 21 and 22 In Lesson 12 we considered Adam as the federal head of mankind and saw that, in his first transgression, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation sinned in him and fell with him (Q19) and that the Fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery...

  30. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 12 - Questions 19 and 20

    (Sorry for the audio; I had to use phone audio in the middle for about 10 minutes.) Lesson 12: Questions 19 and 20 In Lesson 11 we considered the Fall itself. We saw that our first parents did not continue in the estate wherein they were created, but fell by sinning against God (Q16), defined sin...

  31. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 11 - Questions 16, 17, and 18

    Lesson 11: Questions 16, 17, and 18 In our last lesson we considered two truths that must be held together. Q14: God governs all His creatures and all their actions in His most holy, wise, and powerful providence. Q15: In the estate wherein man was created, God entered into a covenant of life…

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  32. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 10 - Questions 14 and 15

    Lesson 10: Questions 14 and 15 In our last questions we considered God’s work of creation and the creation of man. We saw that the world is not self-made but God-made, spoken into being by His word, and declared “very good” (Genesis 1:31). We also saw that mankind is not an accident or an animal...

  33. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 09 - Why Use Confessions? - Guest Speaker: Tadd Smoak (March 8, 2025)

    Guest Speaker: Tadd Smoak Why Creeds & Confessions? Shortly after we moved to Summerville, a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses showed up at our door. Two ladies, humbly dressed and smiling, gave a presentation from Psalm 37. The thesis of their speech was from verse 29 that “the righteous will…

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  34. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 08 - Questions 12 and 13

    Lesson 8: Questions 12 and 13 Last time we considered how God not only decrees all things from all eternity, but also carries out His decree in real history, especially through His works of creation and providence. Today we focus on creation itself, and then on man as God’s image-bearer. Question...

  35. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 07 - Questions 10 and 11

    Lesson 7: Questions 10 and 11 In Lesson 6 we asked who God is. We saw that: He is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being and all His perfections There is but one only, the living and true God This one God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the same in essence, equal in power and...

  36. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 06 - Questions 7, 8, and 9

    Lesson 6: Questions 7 , 8, and 9 In lessons 3, 4, and 5, we stood together on the “front porch” of the catechism. We saw that God is the first and chiefest Being (Q1), that everyone ought to believe there is a God (Q2), that He has made Himself known in creation and conscience, and that He speaks...

  37. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 05 - Questions 5 and 6

    Lesson 5: Questions 5 and 6 In Lessons 3 and 4 we saw that God is the first and chiefest Being (Q1), that everyone ought to believe there is a God (Q2), and that He has not left Himself without witness. The light of nature in us and the works of God around us plainly declare that there is a God,...

  38. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 04 - Questions 3 and 4

    Lesson 4: Questions 3 and 4 In our first two lessons we asked what a catechism is, why it is worth our time, and how this particular Baptist Catechism is structured. In Lesson 3 we began the catechism itself and saw that God is the first and chiefest Being, and that everyone ought to believe…

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  39. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 03 - Questions 1 and 2

    Lesson 3: Questions 1 and 2 This is our first “real” catechism lesson after two weeks of introduction. We have asked what a catechism is, why we should use one, how it relates to Scripture and to confessions of faith, and how this particular Baptist Catechism is structured. Now we begin at the...

  40. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 02 - Catechism Use and Structure

    Lesson 2: Catechism Use and Structure This week I want to turn from the “what” and the “why” to the “how.” If a catechism is a biblically-shaped, historically-tested tool for teaching the core doctrines of the faith, then how do we actually use that tool in real life? What might it look like for...

  41. Baptist Catechism - Lesson 01 - Introduction to Catechism

    Lesson 1: Introduction to Catechism This year, Lord willing, we are going to walk together through The Baptist Catechism, a late-17th-century summary of Christian doctrine that stands alongside, and grows out of, the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith. Before we start memorizing and…

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  42. Psalm 78: Building Beyond Our Timeline

  43. Christmas 2025: The Incarnation

    A study of the Incarnation to answer the following questions: Why did Christ have to become a man? How did He become a man? What does this mean for our salvation and for our life as Faithful Israel in Fallen Babylon?

  44. Proverbs - Lesson 13 - Remembering the Path

  45. Proverbs - Lesson 12 - Christ the King and the Way of Righteousness

  46. Proverbs - Lesson 11 - The Excellent Wife - Wisdom Embodied

  47. Proverbs - Lesson 10 - Anger, Restraint, and the Rule of the Spirit

  48. Proverbs - Lesson 09 - Sexual Ethics

  49. Proverbs - Lesson 08 - Kingship, Justice, and the Politics of Righteousness

  50. Proverbs - Lesson 07 - Work, Wealth, and Wisdom in the World

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