Episodes
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How will you get Righteous?
Intro Pyramids & Righteousness. I’m going to focus on Is 46:12-13 Quick Overview You might think that if the Babylonians are coming to defeath Israel (as God has promised) the surely their gods must be worth something right? Maybe they’re powerful? No. If you took their idols, they would go into...
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The Goodness of God's Sovreignty
Intro Teh Bible is unequivocal about God’s power and authority. It is absolutley clear. It does not hide it. The Scriptures clearly proclaim “God is Sovreign over everything” Now to what extent is God sovereign? What does it mean that God is sovereign? Is he sovereign like King Charles? Who is...
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The Path to Redemption
Intro The LORD Chooses His People (v1-5) “But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen! Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen. This is a comfort and a blessing Being chosen people…
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Who will save you?
Intro Fear not, for I am with you (v1-7) But now thus says the Lord , he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not...
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The Lord's Servants
Intro If you get an opportunity to evangelise a follower of Judaism a key place to go to is these later parts of Isaiah. There are many beutiful prophecies here that are directly fulfilled by Jesus who is the prophesied Servant. For some Jews, hearing about these things is eye opening because it...
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Fear Not
Intro Context - North Fallen, Judah threatened. Looking forward to what God will do in the future for his people. Poetic language, uses metaphore and similie. The passage has 4 main parts, but the 3rd part is longer and has sections of it’s own. It’s a longer chapter, so let me hit the main…
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New Heavens & New Earth
Intro Annecdote Recap History is going somewhere! Plan of Salvation Jesus returns Last Battle Resurrection Judgement Day and now... The World Destroyed and Remade - First Attempt The desctruction and renewing of the world has been attempted before. (not throwing shade) The World was made good…
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The Last Day
Intro Recap: Jesus is coming back to wrap up this world and bring in the next He’s coming after periods of tribualtion and rebellion, there could be more to come. Jesus will decend from heaven, his people will meet him in the air, and then he will come to the earth for Judgment day. Now as a...
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Is Jesus Coming Back?
Intro The end of the world is a facinating topic to delve into. The world ending is the subject of many a movie and book. The apocalyptic is irresistable for our consideration. The Materialist throws out his projection of the end of the world to a billion years, when the sun expands sufficiently…
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The Golden Rule
Text: 12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” ( Matthew 7:12 ESV) Main Point: Outside Christ the Golden Rule is crushing; Inside Christ the Golden Rule is freeing. Outline: Introduction Universality of the Golden Rule Rabbi...
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Life Manifest
Intro This letter, Written by John the Apostle (johannes) Probably written from Ephesus is modern day Turkyie Probably written later in his life to the church to encourage them in their faith. We’ll shortly see how he encouraged them. John wrote a Gospel and the Reveleation of Jesus Christ....
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Uncomfortable Christianity
Introduction Exegetical Point: Through providence Paul was protected and enabled to keep working for Jesus. Homiletic Point: Be ready to work in uncomfortable circumstances for Jesus. Where we’ve been: What happened before Paul was imprisoned? We’re jumping into Acts this morning. It’s always a...
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May God Equip You
Intro Closing out Hebrews Jesus is greater than the greatest things of Old Jesus fulfils the OT temple system, he’s our new High Priest We have been warned to remain faithful - 3 times We have been called to endurance under trial, to follow the example of the past Saints - the heroes of the…
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Things to Remember
Introduction We are coming to the end of Hebrews. Next week is our last Sermon! It’s taken us a couple years to get here. In this later part of this New testament letter we have been making our way through the “Hall of Faith” then dwelling on the way that Jesus, the author and perfecter of our...
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Eagerly Maintaining Unity
Intro As we have been praying, we see the trials and diffucylties that you face. We have also seen the sinful ways people treat the body of Christ, and so I felt that before God i had a responsibility to speak to these issues. As a pastor, a shepherd, I have to shepherd you toward righteousness....
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Unshakable Kingdom
Intro Two options. Two ways to live. Two Mountains For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. Recipients of a spiritual…
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Don't Grow Weary!
Intro Trees grown without wind are weak. Trees without wind collapse under their own weight, Wind causes thicker trunks, core strength, deeper roots and grow talkler. Everything about trees that make them better is caused by the stress of the wind. So if you ahte your tree, keep it out of the…
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Running with the Cloud
Intro End of the Hall of Faith Faith is active - these people lived it out and acted on the basis of God’s Word. But their faith was pointing somewhere - to a Hope that bouyed them along even when they suffered greatly. Have Faith in the midst of Suffering Women received back their dead by...
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What's in a name?
Introduction Let me tell you a story. This is a story that has been pieced together by reading letters from two Russian teenagers in 1960s Soviet Russia. Their names are Maria and Varia The two Russian teenagers had once been schoolmates in a Communist boarding school. Varia, a member of the...
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Hall of Faith: Samuel
Intro A reminder about the nature of our Christian faith: But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their...
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Hall of Faith: David
Intro What kind of faith are we talking about? There are a few figures who tower over the OT, namely Moses & David. We’ve talked about Moses in past weeks, but today we’re looking at David. Confusingly, it’s David before Samuel. As God likes to do, he subverts expectations by working in a through...
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Hall of Faith: Gideon, Barak, Samson & Jephthah
Intro Hall of Faith - Faith is for the preservation of our souls Faith is assurance - because it is based on the word of God Faith leads to God’s commendation! We have been making our way through many examples of believers expressing faith down through salvation history. Many of these examples…
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Resurrection
Intro Death is inescapable Most of us start learning this as children. - pets, relatives, etc. Once the dog dies, they never come back. But then as we age it becomes more and more confronting - we notice our parents are staring to look a bit whethered, they’re not as active as they used to be. We...
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Hall of Faith: Rahab
Intro We have many heroes of the faith, and many of them are deeply flawed characters, with awful backstories. Time and again the Bible gives us examples of outsiders and exiles and the lowly who are rescued by the Lord and brought into his people. Humanly speaking they’re the kind of people that...
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Hall of Faith: Moses
Intro We’re in the hall of faith - taking note of people from across the Bible who show us what it looks like to live by faith. Today we’re looking at the life of Moses - plus a little extra. Moses life gets a lot of airtime, because he led the peopl of Israel through one of their most important...
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Hall of Faith: Joseph
Story of Joseph Jacob desired to marry Rachel, but he was tricked into marrying Rachel’s sister Leah first. As consolation to Leah (being basically an unwanted bride), God gave her a bunch of children before Rachel. There was also a bunch of shinanigans with surrogate mothers that i’m not going…
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Gifts of Grace
Intro We live in a community of all kinds of different people. And we need all kinds of different people. It starts with the distiction between the sexes - male/female but we extend from there. Our communities need differences - We need farmers, farmers for meats and for plants. We need trademen…
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Hall of Faith: Isaac & Jacob
Intro We act on promises for the future: If I do these courses I will receive my certification If I work for you, you will pay me If I marry you, you’ll remain faithful Now sometimes these promises are upheld, but sometimes they are not. Sometimes the school moves the goalposts on you or goes…
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Abraham & Sarah
Intro We are not those who shrink back from God and are destroyed, but those who have faith and preserve our souls. So what is faith? What does it look like? Well it’s not blind hope, i can tell you that much straight up. This si not the soppy “just gotta have faith” of a poorly written movie.…
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Keep your Confidence
Intro Every so often we run into passages that seem to be at odds with something that we read in another part of the Bible. This is one of those passages. The careful reader will have come across several places where we are very clearly told that God’s people, his chosen people, his special…
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Draw near
Intro We have started to make our way through the hall of faith. There’s good stuff in there. But! We missed a bit from where we left off in Hebrews 10 last year. Lets go back! I knew that these two passages required some time and attention, so I put it off till I could do a halfway-decent job of...
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Guts of the Gospel
Intro What is your natural tendancy when it comes to the Chrristian life? Grace, grace grace, to the exclusion of truth and law? (Antinomian) Work, work, work your way into God’s good books? (legalist) Knowledge, understanding and theology? Jesus is my invisible boyfriend? As we go into the new...
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Simeon's Song
Intro Comforting sights? The proper response to the incarnation of the messiah is praise & celebration Mary’s Song, Elizabeth’s exaltation Zechariahs Prophesy Angel’s song Magi’s gifts & worship Today: Simeon’s Song and The coming of the messiah was long anticipated, and in God’s plan he had kept…
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Angel's Song
Intro We looked at Mary’s song, and now we’re looking at the Angel’s song. The angels, Mary, Zechariiah the preist, simeon and anna, they all show us that the proper response to the incarnation of God the Son is to praise and celebration. That’s why Christimas is endorsed, whether or not Jesus…
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Mary's Song
Intro Today’s passage starts, not in Luke 1 as we read but rather much, much earlier. To understand the context, we must go back, back, past the Prophet Malachi, past Isaiah, past king David and even past the budding nation of Israel to two people hanging out in a garden with God. As you well…
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Voices of Comfort
Intro Where do you find comfort when the going gets tough? Or more to the point, how do you find comfort when it’s clear that God is directly causing your suffering? We’re entering into a section of Isaiah that does just that, speaking to a people who are going to suffer the punishment of God for...
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Humility leads to Deliverance
Intro 2700ish years ago Narratives about events in Judah (southern kingdom) Ch 40 gets back into the classic prophetic literature. Ch 36-39 are this story block in the middle of Isaiah that sets the backdrop for the whole book. These two little stories Sickness, Prayer & Deliverance Around the…
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Because you have Prayed
Intro Let me tell you a story. A Story that was prophesied. A Story of war and battle, of death and victory. Of danger and deliverance. This is the story of King Hezekiah and Jerusalem facing the Assyrian horde. Harried and oppressed they faced an army of vast proportions, a military threat that...
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They shall see the majesty of our God
Intro Isaiah, ancient book of prophecy 2700 years ago, 700 years before Jesus lived. I’ll explain why that’s important soon. The Desert Rejoices ! A breath of fresh air! Compare with the end of 34 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;...
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Seven Letters to Seven Churches
Exegetical Purpose: Jesus writes to encourage, chastise and warn his churches as representatives of the Church universal. Homiletic Purpose: To encourage, chastise and warn the church at Flooding Creek. Introduction Have you ever had an employee review? You know, maybe when your probation ends or...
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Day of Vengeance
Intro Laura and I have quite distinct tastes in movies. We fit the stereotype - where she is much more likely to pick a “chick-flick” and I’m going to pick a war movie or other action flick. It so happened that Laura & I were talking about the Trojan war this week, and I convinced Laura to try…
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