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Fellowshipmtz
by Clifford Davis
A distinctively different approach to learning the Bible! Exegetical and verse by verse!
Episodes
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John 8:12-24 - "Jesus is the Light of the World"
John 8:12-14 Still at the Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus drops yet another bombshell by declaring, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." Also very interesting: What does Jesus mean in verse 23 when He says, "You are of this…
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John 7:37-52: Jesus At The Feast of Booths, Part III
This sermon finishes out the story of Jesus at the Feast of Booths. As the crowds confront him, Jesus speaks of the Holy Spirit and demonstrates the value of finding salvation in him alone.
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John 7:12-36: Jesus At The Festival of Booths Part II
This is the second of three messages on the story of Jesus at the Festival of Booths. The Jews try to challenge the messianic identity of Christ through accusative questions. Jesus reminds them of his heavenly identity and the purpose of his ministry. *Our apologies for the buzzing noise during…
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John 6:60-71 (part 3) - "Offended or Following? Unbelieving or Believing?”
John 6:60-71 Pastor Cliff finishes his teaching on Jesus's important discourse about Himself being "the Bread of Life."
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John 6:22-66 (part 2) - The Will of the Father; the Accomplishment of the Son
John 6:22-66 (part 2) Last week we focused on key words, themes, and progressions. This week we (quickly) work through the narrative between Jesus and the large crowd of (fickle) disciples. Pro Tip: The two messages compliment one another. Earlier in the worship gathering, a relevant quote...
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John 6:22-66 (Part 1)
John 6:22-66 Jesus's "Bread of Life" discourse becomes the turning point from the apex of His popularity onto a road that leads to Calvary (His crucifixion). The single discourse with the crowd consists of five engagements (progressions). At the end of the day they (and we) must decide: Are we...
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John 6:14-21 - "It Is I; Do Not Be Afraid"
John 6:14-21 Sandwiched between the miracle of feeding the 5000 (6:1-15) and Jesus's teaching the next day culminating in His claim, "I am the bread of life" -- John narrates the how that night Jesus came to them walking on water during a windstorm (verses 16-21). At first glance it seems…
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John 6:1-15: Jesus Feeds The 5,000
Jesus feeding the 5,000 is one of his most well-known and encouraging miracles. This is such a significant miracle that it has been recorded in all four gospel accounts. We explore John's telling of this miraculous event and what his perspective has to teach us about Jesus as the Son of God.
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John 5:10-47: John's High View of Christ
The remaining portion of John 5 shows us the leaders of the Jews beginning to persecute Jesus and conspire about his eventual death. As Jesus responds, he asserts his own identity as the Son of God. Christ explains what it means for him to come from the Father, and he also provides undeniable…
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John 5:1-9: Jesus at the Pool of Bethesda
Jesus meets a suffering man beside the pool of Bethesda where the sickest in Jerusalem gather. Jesus grants the man a miraculous healing which enables him to walk right away. His experience allows us to see how Jesus meets his people in their hopelessness and ministers to them there. We also deal...
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John 4:43-54 - "Your son lives!" [and] "the man believed the word!"
John 4:43-54 In this passage we consider the apparent disparity between Jesus saying He has "no honor in His hometown," but upon His arrival, "the Galileans welcomed Him." But the main message that rings throughout the entire chapter is that living faith rests upon the word of Jesus/God, not upon...
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John 4: 25-42: The True Christ and True Spiritual Food
This sermon wraps up our preaching on the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman. We continue to consider how this conversation reveals the identity and purpose of Christ. As the unnamed woman believes on Christ and runs back to the village to tell everybody about him, the disciples return and…
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John 4:18: Jesus Is The Living Water
In John 4, Jesus walks into Samaria and meets the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. As their conversation commences, they will dialogue about living water, true worship, and spiritual food. This sermon covers their introduction to each other, as well as Christ being the living water as the first...
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John 3:22-36: John The Baptist Exalts Jesus
The goal of the Christian life is for Christ to increase and for us to decrease. While talking to his disciples, John the Baptist explains what this concept means and why Christ deserves all the glory from his people
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John 3:16-21 - God's Love for the World; Man's Hate of the Light!
John 3:16-21 God is entirely motivated by love in giving His "one and only" Son, but as it turns out, the world isn't interested in any provision for salvation. What now?
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John 3:9-15 - "So the Son of Man Must Be lifted Up" (part 2)
John 3:9-15 Nicodemus (and the Pharisees) don't understand "earthly things." They don't receive "their" testimony; they don't believe. What will Jesus do now? Jesus pulls a telling (and compelling) example of the basis (foundation) of new birth from Numbers 21 for Nicodemus's consideration...
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John 3:1-9 - "Think You Know? You Must be Born From Above!" (part 1)
John 3:1-9 Nicodemus comes to Jesus with what he understands to be true. Jesus "answers" with information Nicodemus does not understand -- "unless one is born again [from above] he cannot see (or enter) the kingdom of God!"
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Psalm 110 - Guest Speaker: Dylan Ackley
Psalm110 Our church's own Dylan Ackley returns to the pulpit to teach/preach Psalm 110 (the Old Testament passage quoted more often than any other in the New Testament). The "LORD" (God the Father) welcomes King David's "Lord" (Jesus, the Son of God) to "sit at My right hand until I make Your...
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John 2:13-25: Jesus Cleanses The Temple
Jesus leaves Cana and continues on to Jerusalem for Passover. There, he finds the merchants and coin dealers conducting business in the temple which leads to Jesus clearing out the establishment and prophesying about his own resurrection. His actions and proclamation lead us to consider the right...
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John 2:1-11: The Wedding At Cana
The prologue of John claims Jesus is the Word. Jesus will prove his identity through seven signs in his public ministry. The first occurs in today's passage at the wedding in Cana. Jesus turns water into wine so we explore what this says about both his character and his death.
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John 1 :35-51 - First Disciples ("What are You Seeking?")
John 1:35-51 In John's gospel, Jesus's first spoken words are: "What are you seeking?" That question is as relevant today for moderns as it was in the first century!
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John 1:29 - "The Lamb of God Who Takes Away the Sin of the World!"
John 1:29 What is the significance of the Messiah being likened to a lamb? What does John mean to convey when he says the world's sin has been taken away? The first 5-7 minutes are missing from the audio. During those opening minutes John the Baptist was reintroduced to those listening. What did...
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John 1:19-34 - The Testimony of John
John 1:29-34 "Who is this John?" -- that's what the Pharisees in Jerusalem wanted to know, and so they dispatched a group of priests and Levites to find out! John denies he is the Messiah (Christ) or Elijah, or "the Prophet." So who is he then? John calls himself the "voice crying out in the...
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John's Prologue
This sermon finishes exploring John's prologue. The text describes what it means for Jesus to be the source of eternal life and how he shines the light of salvation into spiritual darkness. We especially considered how God personally and visibly took up residence among his people in the form of...
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Intro To The Gospel Of John
We began the Gospel of John today. It is our plan to go through the entire book from beginning to end. In this sermon, we looked at how the Apostle John is a credible witness to the life of Christ. We also began to discuss Jesus as the Word in John's prologue and noted the purpose of this gospel…
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Luke 24:36-49 - Physical, molecular, Resurrection!
Luke 24:36-49 This is the third resurrection scene in Luke's gospel (chapter 24). On Sunday evening Jesus *appears* to a larger group of followers who are gathered together in a locked room (for fear of the Jews). He makes it clear He is not a mere ghostly presence. He is very real -- and that is...
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Psalm 118 - Palm Sunday!
Psalm 118 Psalms 113-118 are commonly referred to as the (Egyptian) Hallel Psalms. It is widely held that Israelites sang these psalms in conjunction with Israel's feasts, especially Passover and Tabernacles. That being the case, these are probably the psalms Jesus sang with His disciples when…
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Hebrews 1:4-14: Christ Greater Than The Angels
Our church looked at Hebrews 1:4-14 in recognition of Lent for a second week in a row. The writer of Hebrews explains to us how Jesus is greater than the angels. The angelic host plays a major role in the Bible, but similar to humans, their greatest responsibility is to praise and glorify Christ.
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Hebrews 1:1-3: The Supreme and Worthy Christ
We are spending two weeks in Hebrews 1 to celebrate the worthiness of Christ during the season of Lent. Vv. 1-3 act as the introduction to this epistle in which the author argues that Christ is better than the Old Testament system. This sermon explores how Christ is greater than the prophets and...
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Genesis 12:1-9 - The LORD's Promises & Abram's Call
Genesis 12:1-9 We only "scratch the surface" of a passage of Scripture that runs particularly deep in Biblical theology and importance! I am grateful to be able to draw on insights from the likes of Bruce Waltke, Christopher Wright, and Duane Garrett in an attempt to highlight the significance of...
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1 Corinthians 11: 17-29: The Lord's Supper
We took a break from Genesis this week in order to explore the Lord's Supper. The service encompassed a sermon, reading, and hymn about communion, as well the actual observance of the ordinance. The recording has both the sermon and the communion reading. The sermon explores (via Paul's...
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Genesis 11:10-32 - Terah! (Introduction to Abram)
Interestingly the "toledah" in Genesis 11:27 (a word explained in the message) doesn't highlight Abram/Abraham, it highlights Abram's father, Terah! Understanding what we can about this family prepares us for Abram's call in chapter 12.
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Genesis 11:1-9: The Tower of Babel
The sin of mankind continues at the Tower of Babel. This display of man's arrogance brings about God's divine retribution as he disperses them and confuses their languages. Yet, our gracious God ultimately redeems Babel through Jesus Christ and the event of Pentecost.
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Genesis 10: The Table of Nations
We are now at a point in Genesis to begin exploring God's plan to redeem the nations and make a people for himself. Genesis 10 details the individuals and nations who descend from the sons of Noah. Yet, the passage is more than a list of names. It serves a crucial part of God laying the…
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Genesis 9:18-29 - Noah's Drunkenness, Canaan's Curse, Shem & Japheth
Genesis 9:18-29 Some years after the disembarking from the ark we have one final story regarding Noah: he's drunk and uncovered inside his tent. Ham sees his father condition and (apparently) finds it amusing. Further dishonoring his father, he goes out to tell his brothers. All of this ends with...
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Knowing the Time - Romans 13:11, part 2
Romans 13:8-14 The conclusion to last Sunday's message on "knowing the time." This week's emphasis is on "waking up" to what God has saved us for!
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Knowing the Time - Romans 13:11 (Part 1)
Romans 13:11 reads: "Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed." Correctly knowing the time requires knowledge of the "nowness" of salvation. Or stated negatively, it is impossible to rightly…
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1 Thessalonians 5:12-22: The Gospel Shaped Church
Christians just celebrated Advent and now await the second coming of Christ. The Apostle Paul offers instructions to the church at Thessalonica as to how they must live faithfully and obediently until the day the Son of God comes back. We consider his exhortations for ourselves as a local church...
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Zephaniah - "Wait for Me," declares the LORD
Zephaniah 1-3 This message combines two themes of Advent (Joy & Peace) since winter weather prohibited us from meeting on the third Sunday of Advent. An informative & delightful overview of Biblical prophecy in general and of Zephaniah in particular.
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Micah 7 - Who Is a God Like You?
Micah 7 This week's Advent theme is "Love" and to explore that we turn (again) to the minor prophet of Micah. Micah concludes his prophetic letter by celebrating God's merciful character in "pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of His inheritance."
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Micah 5:1-5: The Ruler to be Born in Bethlehem
We began our observation of Advent with the theme of hope. Micah 5:1-5 offers a word of encouragement to Israel in a time of sin and injustice. The titular prophet speaks of the coming Son of God who will bring hope to a broken and weary world. This passage allows us to see Christ as the perfect...
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Genesis 9:1-17: God's Covenant With Noah
God brought about a second creation event through the flood. Since God favors Noah, he enters into a covenant with him once his family leaves the ark. In this sermon, we explore how the covenant with Noah demonstrates that God loves to bless his people.
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Genesis 8 - "God Remembered Noah"
Genesis 8 The chapter opens with such a wonderful declaration: "But God remembered Noah..."
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Noah's (Global?) Flood - Genesis 7
Genesis 7 Was Noah's Flood global or regional (as some scholars have advocated recently)? Spoiler alert (and I won't leave you guessing as to my own persuasion): I don't think the details in chapter seven are at all ambiguous about the extent of the flood.
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Noah & the Flood in God's Greater Narrative
Genesis 6-9 Today we briefly "step back" from the slower verse-by-verse format in order to make observations pertaining to the "big picture" of this very important narrative, along with it's relationship to Christian baptism and the Lord's Supper.
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Genesis 6:9-22: God's Instructions to Noah
We have now reached the flood narrative in Genesis. In this sermon, we look at God's instructions to Noah about building the ark. This passage is more than just a set of technical instructions. It shows us amazing and encouraging truths about God establishing his covenant, keeping his promises,...
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Genesis 6:3-9 - God's Spirit Withdrawn, but Noah Finds Grace
Genesis 6:3-9 The LORD "saw" that the wickedness of man was great and the LORD "regretted [repented]" that He had made man, so He determines to "blot out" what He has created -- but Noah found favor (grace)!
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Genesis 6:1-4 - "Sons of God Took As Wives the Daughters of Men"
Genesis 6:1-4 The consensus among Bible commentators is that this passage is the most difficult to interpret (with certainty) in all of Genesis. There are three main viewpoints (with some variations within each viewpoint). We begin by looking at the advancing context in Genesis, we briefly…
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Genesis 5:21-32: Adam's Descendants to Noah Part II
We continued to consider the genealogies in the early part of Genesis. For this week, we looked at the descendants of Adam from Enoch to Noah. The sermon emphasized the importance of living by faith according to the example of Enoch in a world of death and suffering.
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A distinctively different approach to learning the Bible! Exegetical and verse by verse!
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