Vine & Branch Church Sermons

Marriage is the single most important earthly decision a person can make, and should be considered with care, intention, counsel, and humility.

The passage this week is Paul's letter to Titus, chapter 2:1-8. It goes over Godly Leaders, Older Men, Older Women, Young Women, Young Men and Bondservants. Today we are looking at it in context of our current series: Life Under the Sun, and seeing how it applies to each of these categories.

God created men and women equally in His image with a shared mandate (Represent-Reproduce-Redeem), yet with distinct design framework that together displays His glory (attributes).  

God's judgment on Israel was necessary to clear the way for the promised Davidic King, under whose rule people everywhere are brought in and permanently secured, giving belivers hope for the future.   

In Amos's five visions, God's prefect justice is clear: He gives fair warning, allows time to turn, shows mercy by relenting, and explains why judgement comes when repentance is refused.

False security in comfort and privilege, leads to spiritual numbness that invites judgement. God’s call for His church today to reject self-indulgent ease for a hope in God that produces repentance, obedience, and lives lived for His glory.

Main Point:In the heart of a book of judgement, Amos reveals the Father's dual strategy: relentless invitations of love and grace alongside clear warnings of the consequences of resistance - both designed to drive His people to seek the Lord and live.

Like a good father, God establishes firm boundaries for His people and leaves no ambiguity when discipline is required.

Failure to respond to God’s grace always results in self-focused worship, idolatry, and spiritual deception. The opposite of neglecting God’s grace is responding to it with a wholehearted, life-changing obedience.

Main Point:True worship is not a sunday show - it is a whole life response to God's redeeming grace that produces a redemptive community marked by justice, mercy, and obedience.

Points of the Sermon: 1. Amos and his Context2. The Lion Roars3. Zooming In: All nations are judged for their sin.4. What We Can Learn from God's People Who Went Before.

Points of the Sermon: 1. Amos and his Context2. The Lion Roars3. Zooming In: All nations are judged for their sin.4. What We Can Learn from God's People Who Went Before.

The world says youth must break free from the constraints of others to make evolutionary progress and elevate man. God says parents fear the Lord by teaching and passing on, and children fear the Lord by receiving that teaching and multiplying it, to make kingdom progress and elevate GOD!

We gather as the church to exalt Christ corporately confess out hope in Him, and stir up one another to love and good deeds.

Answers for the Hope: Know the Reason

Main Point: The integrity that guides our dealings is the fruit of the Fear of the Lord.

Main Point:To protect themselves and others from harm, believers should avoid hiring or entering into important, covenant relationships with those who lack the fear of the Lord. Don't deal with loose cannons.

In the fear of the Lord, the faithful worker diligently tends his responsibilities and his master’s interests and is rewarded, honored. and advances Gods Kingdom.

Main Point:Fear the Lord = The fear of the Lord is reverent awe of God's transcendent Holiness and authority that draws us close to Him rather than driving us away. It produces humble obedience, hatred of evil, a dread of resisting Him, and joyful refuge in Him; it is the starting point of true wisdom and the antidote to all other fears.

Defining the Fear of the Lord. The fear of the lord is reverent awe of God’s transcendent holiness and authority that draws us close to him rather than driving us away. It produces humble obedience, hated of evil a dread of resisting Him, and joyful refuge in Him; it is the starting point of true wisdom and the antidote to all other fears.

Main Point: God's people seek wisdom which results in work that brings righteousness, justice, and equity to our community and to the world.

THESIS: Everything worthwhile in life - and fruitfully navigating all of life - starts with rightly relating to God. KEY APPLICATION: Wisely interacting with oneanoter in the fear of the LORD to vuld God's Kingdom.

Main Point:The resurrection of Jesus Christ is of first importance because it validates the gospel we received, confirms we are justified by grace and dead to sin, and empowers us to abound in the work of the LORD.

Thesis: Jesus Christ is the true Passover Lamb, the living center of our Communion Celebration, and the great reality around which we orient our entire lives.

Thesis: Inseparably bound in Christ by Grace in his death and resurrection; we are dead to sin, and We are activated to righteousness.

Main Point: Because of God's grace we are counted as righteous by faith, where Christ's righteousness is applied to us. Now we can rejoice in hope as we live at peace with Him.

We deserve the wrath of God, and yet we have been declared righteous by His grace!

We can trust our bible that we hold today because God has divinely preserved it throuugh an overwhelmig abundance of manuscripts, enabling us to verify its accuracy, resolve variants, and experience its transformative power as it points us to Jesus Christ, the incarnte Word.

We can know that we have eternal life, that we are heard favorably by God, we can protect one another by prayer, and we can stay away from idols by our firm belief in Jesus as the Truth.

John calls us to obey the commands of God because we can, and because our obedience, empowered by the Spirit, demonstrates that we truly know God and love Him.

Jesus Christ – God come in the flesh, as the one and only Savior – is Scripture’s supreme center. By this we test every spirit, confess Him rightly, and overcome every falsehood, obstacle, and enemy by faith in the TRUTH.

We are learning to receive life as a gift – to join the Lord in doing good, and to enjoy the portion he has given us under the sun. this is the path of joy Ecclesiastes commends.

All is vanity under the sun outside of Christ. He gives us meaning. He is sovereign and always in control over all.

From the very beginning in Genesis, God created humanity to bring order out of chaos; (Order, fill, rest) living out the image of God in us as dominion-takers. (Genesis 1:28, 2:15, 18) The book of Proverbs overflows with wisdom of a better way-repeatedly affirming that purposeful planning is wise, diligence living is fruitful, and humble submission to God is essential.

The word “behold” commands reverent attention; to stop in our panic, fix our eyes on God’s revealed truth, take it in with wonder, trust His promises completely, and respond in obedient worship.

Who is this King we are worshipping? And how shall we worship Him?

Paradise Lost, Curse Promised, War Declared, and Hope Restored

Worship, harmony, and commitment are the focus of the church upholding Christ as supreme and His word as authoritative.

Reasons we are walking through our Church Confession:1. To help everyone one of us understand WHO we are as a church family- and WHY = Clarity & Unity2. To give you information so to confidently answer when someone asks, “So what kind of church is V&B anyway?”

Godly Culture fulfills both the Dominion Mandate and the Great Commission. It is our shared life, where all of us live the Word while teaching the Word – for God’s glory and the increase of the kingdom.

Creeds and confessions are tools – humble helpers that focus our attention on God, help us summarize biblical truth, distill it into memorable guidelines and exalt Christ as supreme!

Jesus is the creator, the sustainer, the upholder of all life, and supreme over all beings in heaven and on earth. He conquered sin, declared His work finished, and sits in authority at the right hand of God.

Because God has freed us from slavery to sin and guaranteed eternal life for us, we must live as model citizens; always devoted to good works that are profitable and excellent for humanity, patterned after God’s nature, and founded on the Gospel.

The Gospel is not merely that good news, which tells us that Jesus Christ came to bring salvation only, but also that he came to purify for Himself a People for His own possession who are ZEALOUS for good works.

Today we will see false leaders identified and a call to live purely and participate in protecting the church by discerning true leadership and false, and by following faithfully those who hold firm to the trustworthy word.

The Elders are primary models and teachers of God’s order, which is most evident in the household, displayed through character and built on God’s Word.