Doctrine for Life
The Doctrine for Life Podcast presents weekly sermons from the preaching ministry of the Rev. Dr. Joel R. Beeke. Listen to these biblical, Christ-exalting broadcasts to experience the truth of God's Word for real life.
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Episodes
126 episodes
Mahanaim: Two Camps (Part 2)
How should Christians who believe in God’s sovereignty face impending challenges? This week, on Doctrine for Life, Dr. Joel Beeke continues his sermon on Jacob’s confrontation with a raging Esau in Genesis 32, encouraging us to face...
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Mahanaim: Two Camps
"And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.”—Genesis 32:1-2 This week, on Doctrine for Life, Dr. Joel Beeke b...
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Jacob's Commanded Exodus (Part 2)
"I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.”—Genesis 31:13 This week, on Doctrine for Life, Dr. Jo...
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Jacob's Commanded Exodus
“And the Lord said unto Jacob, 'Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.”—Genesis 31:3 This week, on Doctrine for Life, Dr. Joel Beeke calls us to walk by faith in the face of an uncertain fu...
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God Blesses Us Despite (Part 2)
“Christ may act the part of an enemy a little while. . . but it is to make way for acting His own part of mercy in a more seasonable time. He cannot restrain His compassion long.” —Richard Sibbes This week, on Doctrine for ...
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God Blesses Us Despite
“Everyone knows what is most pleasant to him, but God alone knows what is most profitable.” —Thomas Boston This week, on Doctrine for Life, Dr. Joel Beeke examines the story of Jacob and Laban, reminding us how God uses tri...
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God Transcends a Birth War (Part 2)
“God can make a straight line with a crooked stick, being righteous when He uses wicked instruments.” —William Gurnall This week, on Doctrine for Life, Dr. Joel Beeke continues his exposition of the convoluted family dynami...
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God Transcends a Birth War
“And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.” —Genesis 29:30 This week, on Doctrine for Life, Dr. Joel Beeke recounts the dramatic, dysfunctional rela...
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Jacob Meets and Marries Rachel (Part 2)
“God hath laid down in His Word, why He afflicts His people—namely, for their profit; for the purging away of their sins; for the reforming of their lives; and for the saving of their souls.” —Thomas Brooks This week, on Do...
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Jacob Meets and Marries Rachel
"Every day is filled up with neglects: neglect of prayer, neglect of reading, meditation, conference, heart-watching, grace-cherishing work; forget this duty, pass by another, cold, sleight, formal in all. This spoils the prosperity of souls.”&...
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A Ladder to Heaven (Part 2)
"And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” —Genesis 28:14...
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A Ladder to Heaven
"And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father,...
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Hope Despite Leaving Home (Part 2)
“And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; And give thee the blessing of Abraham.” —Genesis 28: 3-4 This week, on Doctrine for Life, Dr. Joel B...
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Hope Despite Leaving Home
“Sin is the most loathsome disease in all the world, and the most infectious. . . It pollutes the conscience, the ordinances, relations, persons, nations. If it were possible that one drop of sin could enter heaven, it would turn heaven into he...
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Blessing (Part 2)
"This is the duty of parents: to imitate God, to let instruction expound correction, and with a rod in the hand and a word in the mouth, to train up their children to life eternal."—Thomas CaseThis week, on Doctrine for Life, Dr. Joel Be...
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Blessing
"But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good."—Genesis 50:20This week, on Doctrine for Life, Dr. Joel Beeke recounts the infamous story of Jacob stealing Esau's birthright. Listen as Dr. Beeke reminds us ho...
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Being Fruitful in the Land (Part 2)
“Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.”—Ecclesiastes 5:19 This week, on Doctrine for Life, D...
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Being Fruitful in the Land
How can a Christian be faithful in the midst of prosperity? This week, on Doctrine for Life, Dr. Joel Beeke begins his sermon on the prosperity of Isaac in Genesis 26:12-33. To enjoy more resources from the pen and pulpit of Dr. Bee...
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God Reconfirms Covenant (Part 2)
“And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.”—Genesis 26:7 T...
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God Reconfirms Covenant
“Those that must live by faith need often to review and repeat to themselves the promises they are to live upon, especially when they are called to any instance of suffering or self-denial.”—Matthew Henry This week, on Doctrine for ...
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Esau Despises His Birthright (Part 2)
“And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?”—Genesis 25:32 This week, on Doctrine for Life, Dr. Joel Beeke continues his sermon on Genesis 25:27-34, warning us not to follow in E...
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Esau Despises His Birthright
“Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Lest there be any fo...
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God's Electing Purposes Shall Stand (Part 2)
"But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.”—Psalm 115:3 This week, on Doctrine for Life, Dr. Joel Beeke points us to God’s power over human activity as he continues His sermon on the birth of Jacob and ...
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