English-Tagalog Expositional Sermons

“There are actually two flavors of legalism expressly condemned in Scripture.[1] First is . . . the legalism of the Judaizers. The Judaizers wanted to make circumcision a requirement for salvation. . .[2] But another kind of legalism is the legalism of the Pharisees. It’s the tendency to measure spirituality by a list of manmade rules. . . . At the root of Pharisaical legalism is a belief that holiness is achieved by legal means—living one’s life by rigorous rules and restrictions. . . . Like the Judaizer’s brand of legalism, it brings people under a yoke of bondage Scripture has not placed on them.” —Phil Johnson

“Jesus turns a poor man’s lunch into a royal feast. This also points to God’s supply of manna in the wilderness (Exod. 16), and Elisha’s multiplication of twenty barley loaves to feed a hundred (2 Kings 4:42–44). Jesus’s miracle is two hundred times as great (Elisha multiplied the bread fivefold, Jesus a thousandfold). The one greater than Moses, greater than Elijah, is here.”—Grant R. Osborne

Question: What is your only comfort in life and in death?Answer: That I am not my own, but belong—body and soul, in life and in death—to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has delivered me from the tyranny of the devil.He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven; in fact, all things must work together for my salvation. Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, also assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and readyfrom now on to live for him. —Heidelberg Catechism, Question 1

"In a sentence, these three matters relate like a thing, an entry sign of the thing, and an ongoing sign of the thing. Though it’s not a perfect analogy, we might think of citizenship (a thing), a birth certificate (an entry sign of the thing), and a passport (an ongoing sign of the thing). Or think of membership on a team, signing the contract, and wearing the jersey."—Jonathan Edward

“What we have in Mark 5 is more than an exorcism and suicidal swine. We have a strong theological message. The Messiah, the Son of God, is not only here to redeem Israel. He is here to begin repossessing the Gentile nations as his own. Reclaiming the nations will require the defeat of the powers of darkness. Jesus’ exorcism of Legion begins that campaign—something he’ll complete when he returns.” —Michael Heiser

"God's plan for reaching the nations is not merely through gifted individuals or parachurch organizations, but through local churches. The local church is God's missionary institution. It identifies, equips, sends, supports, and, when necessary, recalls missionaries. Healthy missions begin with healthy churches and aim to establish healthy churches." —Andy Johnson

“When Jesus speaks to the wind and the sea ... they obey him. This is not merely a miracle; it is a revelation of who he is.”“The question is not whether he has authority over storms, but whether we trust him in them.”—John Piper

“The kingdom of God is advancing wherever Christ is honored, and the church is faithful. Jesus serves His people and expands His kingdom as the good news goes forth and lives are transformed.” —Mark Dever

“Jesus rules his church through his words and his ordinances. In baptism and the Lord’s Supper he marks off his people and continually calls them to repent and follow him.”—Jonathan Leeman

“The whole Bible is a picture of Christ. He is the sum and substance of it. Every text in Scripture points to him.”—Charles Haddon Spurgeon“We must read the Bible as a whole and see that it is the story of Christ. The Old Testament prepares for him, and the New Testament reveals him. He is the fulfillment of all that the Scriptures promise.”—Edmund Clowney

"If you are a sinner, you are the very person for whom Christ died. He did not come to call the righteous, but to seek and save that which was lost. Do not let your sense of unworthiness keep you back, for it is your very unworthiness that qualifies you for His mercy. To believe that He can forgive everyone else but you is a form of pride; humble yourself and accept that His grace is sufficient even for the chief of sinners."—Charles Spurgeon

“The authority of Jesus is the authority of God Himself. When He speaks, demons tremble and flee. When He commands, sickness departs. When He calls men to follow Him, they leave their nets and obey. His authority is not borrowed from human institutions nor derived from tradition; it belongs to Him by divine right. In Christ we see the King who rules not only over the church but over the entire created order.”—R.C. Sproul

“The good news is that the one and only God, who is holy, made us in his image to know him. But we sinned and cut ourselves off from him. In his great love, God became a man in Jesus, lived a perfect life, and died on the cross, thus fulfilling the law himself and taking on himself the punishment for the sins of all those who would ever turn and trust in him. He rose again from the dead, showing that God accepted Christ’s sacrifice and that God’s wrath against us had been exhausted. He now calls us to repent of our sins and to trust in Christ alone for our forgiveness. If we repent of our sins and trust in Christ, we are born again into a new life, an eternal life with God. Now that’s good news.”—Mark Dever

“Now after the death of these [Peter and Paul], Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, himself also transmitted to us in writing the things preached by Peter.”—Irenaeus (ca. 140-203)“The busy worker pictured in this Gospel was the mighty Servant of Jehovah who, as the Son of God, revealed His power over the visible and the invisible world. . . . Mark’s purpose was not merely to tell the story of a great religious teacher but to proclaim the coming of Jesus Christ as the saving event announced in the Hebrew prophets and expected in Judaism. His basic purpose was evangelistic, to win converts to the Christian faith.”—D. Edmond Hiebert

“Evangelical preaching ought to reflect our conviction that God’s Word is infallible and inerrant. Too often it does not. In fact, there is a discernable trend in contemporary evangelicalism away from biblical preaching and drift toward an experience-centered, pragmatic, topical approach in the pulpit.” ---John MacArthur

“Who is this person, pierced through, for whom the people mourn? The most natural reading of the Hebrew is that it is Yahweh himself: ‘They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn’ (12:10). At one level the ‘piercing’ can be understood metaphorically … But there is a more literal fulfillment, a more literal piercing (John 19:34, 37).”—D. A. Carson

"Life is unfair. But God is always good." - Tim Berrey

“Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.” —William Carey

“When Jesus died on the cross, he didn’t just save a bunch of individuals with no relation to each other; he died to save a people. … Jesus shed his blood so that we would become his blood-bought brothers and sisters, adopted as God’s children."- Aubrey Sequeira

“The Spirit’s intercession ensures that the prayers of believers, though weak and inarticulate, are always in harmony with God’s saving purposes.”—Thomas Schreiner

“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” —Matthew 6:33

“Jesus rules his church through his words and his ordinances. In baptism and the Lord’s Supper he marks off his people and continually calls them to repent and follow him.” —Jonathan Leeman

“The joy that Christmas brings is not finally in gifts, family, or traditions, but in the God who came to rescue us from our sins.”—John Piper

“Asgard is not a place; it’s a people.” —Odin

“Missions exists because worship doesn’t.” —John Piper

“Christ, the risen One who is greater than Jonah, brings salvation through judgment and mercy to his people, those inside and outside of Israel who call on his name. What is foreshadowed and illustrated in Jonah becomes reality in Christ.” —Bryan D. Estelle

“Safe?” Said Mr. Beaver, “Who said anything about safe? Of course he is not safe. He is a lion. But he is good. He is the King, I tell you.’- CS Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia

“He who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.’ I commonly observe that almost all men, whether good or bad, do loathe the proud, and love the humble.”—Richard Baxter

"Whate'er my God ordains is right: Here shall my stand be taken. Though sorrow, need, or death be mine, Yet I am not forsaken. My Father's care is 'round me there; He holds me that I shall not fall. And so to Him, I leave it allAnd so to Him, I leave it all." —Samuel Rodigast, 1675

"God's gracious love, notwithstanding its sovereignty, is neither whimsical nor arbitrary. God's grace is experienced only in terms of Christ. God loves His Son, and He loves those who by covenant belong to His Son. . . . . United to Christ, the Father loves us as He loves His Son and accepts us completely and unreservedly." —Michael P. V. Barrett

“You are going to hear a rumor one day that Voddie Baucham is no more. Don't you believe it. Don’t you believe it. Don’t you believe it. Because though I die, I will rise with Christ. It will not be the end of me, because Christ is raised and I too will be raised with Christ. Don’t you pity me. . . . You pity the one who has no absolutely hope because they have no resurrected Christ.”—Voddie Baucham

"Pastors, I beg you to consider what I have written here. I believe the Church—your church—is under attack. As shepherds, we must defend the sheep. We must repel the wolves. And yes, the wolves are many." —Voddie Baucham

“Like Balaam, false teachers use religion as a cloak for covetous practices. They know the right words to say, but their hearts are set on personal gain.” —Warren Wiersbe

“False teachers [are] not made outside Christianity. They are always bred in the church, half in and half out; but eventually they reject the truth and try to seduce others in their attempt to fulfill their self-gratification.” —John MacArthur

"Tignan mo, sa dulo ng lahat, yung ebidensya na nasa harap natin— yung confident na pagpupumilit ng unang mga Kristyano na talagang bakante ang libingan at tunay na nakita nila si Jesus, at dahil sa experience na iyon sila'y naniniwala, nabago ang mga pananaw nila sa buhay, at determinadong pinanghawakan nila ang mga paniniwala nila kahit sa harap ng kamatayan— ang ebidensyang ito ay maipapaliwang lamang ng nag-iisang posibilidad:Si Jesus ay talagang, tunay, pisikal, at historically na muling nabuhay mula sa kamatayan."

“Peter observed that those who are not practicing these virtues have forgotten their baptism and their forgiveness of sins. In other words, they are not living as forgiven sinners. They are behaving like unconverted people. … If members of the church are living immoral lives, they bear witness that forgiveness of sins means little to them” —Tom Schreiner

“Simon, Simon, behold Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers” —Luke 22:31-32

“We have now reached the last summit of the mountain chain of Psalms. It rises high into the clear azure, and its brow is bathed in the sunlight of the eternal world of worship. . . . The poet-prophet is full of inspiration and enthusiasm. He stays not to argue, to teach, to explain: but cries with burning words, “Praise him, Praise him, Praise ye the Lord.”—Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“This is the God who makes his people sing in thanksgiving, contrition, petition, lament, and reflection. Taken together, these psalms indicate the kind of relationship that God wants his people to have with him. It is deeply authentic, not the kind of religion characterized by mumbo jumbo, merely formal religious duties, self-importance, and religious arrogance, all of it carefully masking a stinking hypocrisy. The intensity of the psalms conspires to underscore that God cannot be deceived by religious rituals. He wants his image-bearers to enjoy a real relationship with him, the true and living God.”  —D. A. Carson

“When Christians unite around something other than the gospel, they create community that would likely exist even if God didn’t. As a modern-day tower of Babel, that community glorifies their strength instead of God’s.” —Jamie Dunlop

“Whatsoever number of millions of millions of years we can imagine before the creation of the world, yet God was infinitely before those; he is therefore called the ‘Ancient of Days’ (Dan 7:9), as being before all days and time and eminently containing in himself all times and ages. . . . All created things are new and fresh, but no creature can find out any beginning of God: it is impossible there should be any beginning of him.”—Stephen Charnock

"Hast Thou not bid me seek Thy faceAnd shall I seek in vain?And can the ear of sovereign graceBe deaf when I complain?No still the ear of sovereign graceAttends the mourner's prayerOh may I ever find accessTo breathe my sorrows there."—Anne Steele (1717-1778)

“God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him. God’s design to pursue his own glory turns out to be love. And our duty to pursue God’s glory turns out to be a quest for joy.” —John Piper

"‘How rich a treasure we possess in Jesus Christ, our Lord.His blood, our ransom and defense; His glory, our reward.The sum of all created things are worthless in compare,For our inheritance is Him whose praise angels declare." —Matt Boswell and Matt Papa

"I want you to indulge yourselves in this most rare… delight of sorrow at the feet of Jesus,-not sorrow for unpardoned sin, but sorrow for pardoned sin, sorrow for that which is done with, sorrow for that which is forgiven, sorrow for that which will never condemn you, for it was laid on Christ long ago, and is put away for ever. It is this sweet sorrow that I want you to indulge. Up with the sluices, then, brethren and sisters, and let these sacred streams of sorrow flow forth." — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"If every evil be let loose from Pandora's box, yet is there hope at the bottom. This is the grace that swims, though the waves roar and be troubled. God is unchangeable, and therefore his grace is the ground for unshaken hope. If everything be dark, yet the day will come, and meanwhile hope carries stars in her eyes; her lamps are not dependent on oil from without, her light is fed by secret visitations of God." —Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Come what may, if famine should devastate the land, or calamity destroy the city, 'I shall not want.' Old age with its feebleness shall not bring me any lack, and even death with its gloom shall not find me destitute. I have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because 'The Lord is my shepherd.' The wicked always want, but the righteous never; a sinner’s heart is far from satisfaction, but a gracious spirit dwells in a palace of content." —Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“The degree of our peace of mind is tied to our prayer life (Phil. 4:6-7). This not because prayer is psychologically soothing, but because we address a prayer-answering God, a personal God, a responding God, a sovereign God whom we can trust with the outcomes of life's confusions. And we learn, with time, that if God in this or that instance does not choose to take away the suffering, or utterly remove the evil, he does send grace and power. The result is praise; and that, of course, is itself enjoyable, in exactly the same way that lovers enjoy giving each other complements.” —D .A. Carson

“‘Is he—quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.’‘That you will, dearie, and no mistake,’ said Mrs Beaver. ‘If there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most or else just silly.’‘Then he isn’t safe?’ said Lucy.‘Safe?’ said Mr Beaver; ‘don’t you hear what Mrs Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.’”—C. S. Lewis

“As Christians, our first response to Ps 1 is to bless the Lord Jesus, to see how he did what we fail to do, and through that to begin to imitate him in his delight in the Scriptures, meditating upon them, and thereby enjoying God’s presence.” —Jim Hamilton