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The Spiritual Blessings of God's Glorious Grace Towards His People: Part 5 Revelation
The Spiritual Blessings of God's Glorious Grace Towards His People: Part 4 Redemption
The Spiritual Blessings of God's Glorious Grace Towards His People: Part 3 Adoption
The Spiritual Blessings of God's Glorious Grace Towards His People: Part 3 Adoption
The Spiritual Blessings of God's Glorious grace towards his people P2
The Spiritual Blessings of God's Glorious Grace Towards His People: Part 1
God's Glory in All His Creation
Intro: Nicolas Cage stars in a movie that was released in 2000 called Family Man where he plays a wealthily, selfish investment broker who lives a promiscuous and narcissistic life as single man. But one night all that changes as he is ripped from his reality into this alternate universe. All the sudden,…
The Good News of the Resurrection: The Power of Eyewitnesses
What was the resurrection of Jesus like? Do you wonder what happened inside that tomb when he was raised? Did his skin start to glow with power from within? How did the wrappings come off only to be folded in their place? Was there a sound associated to resurrection of Jesus? There are no human eyewitnesses…
To the One WHo Trusts in Himself, the Judgment of God
What is the Good News? How might you concisely articulate the hope of Jesus Christ that you put your faith in? Simply put: Man rebelled against the holy God and deserves the just wages for their sin. But in God’s love, he decided to save sinners by sending his sinless and perfect Son into the world,…
Disorderly worship: Part 2
Review Today we are going to look at part two of the sermon series entitled, disorderly worship. We know that this study has been in the context of the Corinthian church, and it has been challenging to look at the application for New Testament churches today. This is a challenge, because, Paul spins…
Disorderly Worship: Part 1
Disorder Opening: We are diving back into our Study of first Corinthians 14, as Paul compares the use of tongues and prophecy in a Corinthian context. As we have seen and discussed at length, Paul is concerned, because the current the ends have begun to value the spiritual gift of speaking in tongues…
The Edification of the Church
Last week we started a journey looking at spiritual gifts in the church. We specified those spiritual gifts centering on the miraculous spiritual gifts or sign gifts that Paul deals with in the church in Corinth. Last week I made the case for the belief system called cessation ism, which holds to the…
Are Miraculous Gifts for Today?
Intro: There is a foundational truth in many sports. You have to often go backward to move the ball forwards. In soccer, you will often see a team reverse field, which means the ball is played back from the midfield to the defense to even the goalie, only to have the goalie send the ball up the opposite…
Love Outlasts!
Intro: We are now into the New Year and another holiday season has come and gone. Maybe in your preparation for that season, some of the fathers in here had to assemble a playset, doll house, or some gift that you received. It is the right of passage for many fathers to labor into the wee hours of the…
The King We Need (Part 2)
Review: Last week we looked at the passage in Isaiah that we are all familiar with this Christmas time. We focused on the beginning verses that were promises foretold by the prophet Isaiah about the great hope of Israel- the Messiah. This messiah was promised to come and bring blessing to his people…
The King We Need
In the 2012 movie, The Avengers, the Asgardian villan Loki addresses a crowd of people in a German setting as he forces them to kneel before him. Loki has come to rule this earth and his statement to these people was “humanity was made to be ruled. You crave subjugation.” While the writers of this movie…
Groaning for Glory
We come now to the final statements, made by the apostle Paul, in regards to love. Verse seven of chapter 13 could be looked at as summary statements about love that encapsulate those things that we have previously stated. It is important to note that these statements are written in a Chaistic structure.…
Love is...(4)
1 Corinthians 13:1–7 (NASB95) 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love,…
Love is... (3)
Review: 1-3 rebuke from Paul about the lack of love with elevation of spiritual gifts 4: first three aspects of love: love long suffers, long suffers with kindness and love is content #4 Be Humble 1 Corinthians 13:4–5 (NASB95) 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and…
Love is... (2)
Intro: Review: Deviod of Love defined love of God talked about it being in his nature defined those who lack love from God as not belonging to God. This could be the focus of Paul’s rebuke to the Corinthians background behind Paul’s rebuke is the prioritizing worldly things above love, even in the church.…
Love is...
It is a joy to be back with you today. Preaching God’s word. I have enjoyed our study on the Holy Spirit, and I have appreciated these few weeks off to refresh while learning from my brothers, who preached God’s word to us faithfully. We return now to our study of first Corinthians If you remember with…
The Person and Work of the Spirit of God: Part 2
Introduction and Review: We are going to look at part 2 of this series that I have entitled the person and work of the Spirit of God. Last week, we look at the Spirit of God and his work throughout history. We focused on his personhood as third person of the trinity and the equality He has in the godhead…
The Person and Work of the Spirit of God: Part 1
Intro: “Fifty-eight percent of people who identify as Christian do not believe the Holy Spirit is real. At least that is what the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University found in a study done in 2021. Nearly 70 percent of US adults self-identify as Christian, but many of them express…
Sovereign Design of the Body: Part 2
Review 1. Joined by one Spirit (12-14) A. Christ being our Head, we being body, as we belong to Him and one another B. The formation of that Body started in eternity past and was formed by the Spirit of God at conversion. 2. Composed with diverse purpose (15-27) Paul continues the discussion of the church…
The Sovereign Design of the Body: Part 1
Intro: Focus: Pauls wants the church to see the unification of all believers by the Spirit into Christ’s body so they strive for unity even among diversity. I. Joined into One Body A. God’s Picture of the Church (12) 12 For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the…
The Unity and Diversity of Gifts in the Church
Introduction: Seeking peace in conflict- unity. Not being fighters or flee-ing Church, family workplace of believers should seek peace and unity among one another Paul's message to the believers in Corinth is a message of unity. As he discusses these gifts that are given by the Holy Spirit, he wants…
The Great Spiritual Gift
Intro: My testimony How could the Spirit of God be living in me while I so blatantly live contrary to His unlimited power and influence? If the Holy Spirit indwells all believers, then his influence over them must be visible and apparent? In my life it was lacking. It was absent because my confession…
Christian Courage
Big Idea:God’s Faithful Promises Fuel Christian Courage Intro: Are you a courageous person? Do you consider yourself brave? Are you willing to stand when other people kneel to injustice and evil? Would you sign up to fight for freedom when others refuse out of fear? Problem: in our society that is composed…
The Lord of Compassion
Matthew 9:35–38 (NASB95) Introduction We're gonna take a break from our study in first Corinthians and look at a passage today in Matthew chapter 9. I was reminded this week as I drove around the city of Memphis about those around us who are in great need. We often times see these people and we struggle…
A Proper Order: God Ordained Headship
Introduction: New interpretations of the Bible, based on cultural issues: presuppositions of LGBTQ For example: Gen 19 and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. When angels appear as men go into the city to rescue Lot and his family, the men of Sodom seek to attack the men and act immorally towards them.…
A Final Word on Christian Liberty
1. Liberty in Christ is good as long as it is helpful Paul is concluding his comments on Christian liberty and we will spend our time today looking at the final verses of chapter 10. As we had looked before Paul is dealing with two issues in the Corinthian church in regards to Christian liberty. Christians…
Called to be Holy: Part 2
Intro: Raise your hand if you know what the FUZZBUSTER was? In 1968, a disgruntled recipient of a speeding ticket had the brain power to retaliate. Dale Smith from Ohio created a device with enough range to detect the x-band frequency of the radar used by police. It would then alert you to slow down…
Called to Be A Holy People
Intro: biblical counseling: questions about our parents to learn from their strengths and weaknesses re: marriage Paul is continuing his argument about Christian liberty and he will eventually return to the problem of the Corinthian church in regards to them abusing their liberty. Catch up: We have observed…
Supporting the Shepherds
20 years ago, after discussing and praying with my wife for many months, I walked away from secular employment to pursue the path the Lord was leading me down in vocational ministry. God had placed in me a love for the church and a passion to help people understand his revealed word. It has been the…
Hope for the Anxious Heart: Part 1
Intro Have you heard the story of the greatest deacon meeting that ever occurred? There was a group of men surrounding a table. There was holy conversation, the word of God was shared, their was gospel centered reflection on their lives, a hymn was sung, there was only one disgruntled person in the room,…
Brotherly Love and Liberty Applied: Part 2
My dad was saved in his early twenties by hearing the gospel from a baptist pastor after my dad attended a gospel singing at his church. Some of his early growth in his faith came from WCRV 640 AM radio and the preaching programs that were aired on that channel. He learned from men like RC Sproul, John…
Brotherly Love and Liberty Applied
Intro: Imagine you arrive at church today and you notice a large amount of people coming up to Pastor Stuart and offering their congrats. You begin to panic in your mind because maybe you missed an announcement. Maybe you were not listening in your previous conversation with him. You decide not to be…
The Promises Kept in the Risen Christ
Context: Paul and Barnabas have set out on their missionary journey. After making a few stops they arrive at Antioch of Pisidia. This is a different Antioch from the Antioch which was the early Christian church hub for international missions. This was a small town known on the Anthius River founded by…
A Final Word on Marriage
1. A Guide for Fathers 36 But if any man thinks that he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter, if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her marry. 37 But he who stands firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has authority over…
The Sovereign God Answers Prayer According to His Great Wisdom
A disclaimer on pre-marital counseling: training before we start our jobs, training before we drive a gasoline propelled 1500 lbs metal vehicle down the road at an average of 40+ miles and hour. But pre-marital training is often scoffed at by the world. 1. A Principle Proclaimed (v25-28) 25 Now concerning…
Striving for fruitfulness where God plants us!
Intro: I want to grow things. It started with grass, now its transitioned to plants that produce something that I can consume. Its just this stage in life where my kids are growing up, moving out, and i guess i have to something else to invest my time into so that I might see growth. In my limited experience…
Marital Faithfulness to the Glory of God: Part 2
Intro: These passages regarding marriage in 1 Corinthians are so personal to me. If you don’t know, my mom abandoned my dad when I was 8 months old. When I came to maturity as a young person, I looked beyond my own selfish hurt and mourned for my dad. I cannot imagine the hurt he felt, with a young son…
Marital Faithfulness to the Glory of God
Intro: Review: I. The Command to Married Believers (vs. 10-11) A. Paul teaches how Marriage among Believers reflects Christ and the gospel In the end, the scope of the covenant of marriage is that God would be honored in his creation and his character would be reflected in those who love him. In the…
Celibacy: Another Gift from God
You most likely read or skim read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel, The Scarlett Letter in high school literature class. Hawthorne’s story of Hester Prynne is a tale of a married woman sent ahead to America as her husband finished up affairs. Thought to be dead after his delayed arrival to their new…
God's Gift in Marriage
Intro: Why did you get married? -Family Pressure -Social Pressure -Sexual longing -You want kids -You fell in love -You got in trouble -You wanted a tax break As beleivers, God desires for you to value and honor the covenant of marriage that he design at the creation of the world. Context: In Chapter…
Introduction to Habakkuk
Intro: Today’s passage asks the same type of question about the topic of prayer. This purpose of this passage is to instruct the follower of Jesus Christ on how to communicate to God in prayer. I want us to center our attention on 3 key elements to Effective prayer: Identity, Intimacy and Humility. I.…
The Gift of the Human Body
Intro : How do you response to gifts this Christmas? Thankfulness Care How does the giver feel when you don’t take care of the hard earned, well thought out gifts that have been given? Context: Paul is continuing to address sin in the Corinthian church and he is trying to pastor the hearts of the people…
God's Kingdom and our inheritance: Part 3
Intro review: God ‘s kingdom Inheritance five lists of those who do not inherit: sexually immoral (summary term) idolaters (idol of body and gratifying flesh) adulterers (not committed to the design of God between man and woman and those who lust after those whom they are not married to) effeminate homosexuals…
Part 2: God's Kingdom and Our Inheritance
Review: 1. Identifying the Inheritance of the Kingdom Identified God’s Kingdom Explained the Inheritance of God’s Kingdom 2. Identifying the Heirs of the Redemptive Kingdom Who Will and Will not Inherit the Kingdom? Paul gives us a list of 10 which is not comprehensive but specific! The first five in…
God's Kingdom and our Inheritance
Intro: Everyone would like that call from a lawyers office about the long lost uncle or aunt that you never knew that has left you millions in cash or acres of land in their last will and testament. Its a dream made in the movies…but its far from reality. Brothers Zsolt and Geza Peladi were homeless…
The Church's Spiritual Authority
Does this sound familiar: “"If you're in a dispute with another party and you can't seem to work things out, don't take the law into your own hands; you take 'em to court," This was the tagline stated by the host of the courtroom reality show in the 80-90’s called the People’s Court. Some of you will…
Striving for Holiness Through Church Discipline: The Application
Introduction Ermine (stoat) cold climate weasel that protects the purity of its coat. Review: The Need: (1-5) The Picture: (6-8) Purpose: The Church benefits from Paul’s words of application as we consider how to strive for holiness through Church Discipline. 1. The Recipients of Church Discipline Paul…
Striving for Holiness in Church Discipline: The Need
Intro: Where we have been: 1 Corinthians chapter 1-4 dealing with division in church due to arrogance and pride over man’s wisdom and knowledge Last two weeks: Paul defines gospel ministry for himself and all believers in the church Paul demonstrates the example of gospel ministry in admonishing the…
Admonition in the Church
Introduction : Years ago, I took a class in seminary entitled, Biblical Counseling with Dr Tim Seal. I took it because during my ministry as a Student Pastor at Ellendale Baptist, I felt ill-equipped with the biblical counseling cases that I faced among teens and their parents. I heard from fellow student…
Boasting in Christ
Intro: Humanism Manifesto: The chief end of man is man! Secular Humanist Popular secular humanists: Karl Marx, John Dewey, BF Skinner Humanist Manifesto written in 1933 summarizes the tenets of belief of humanist. Notice with me how dominant these principles are in our culture. Man is self-existing (deny…
Kindom Construction: Building Christ's Church
Intro: -God’s speaks to humanity in his reveled word and he speaks in ways that the human mind can understand his words with clarity. Therefore throughout the scripture, The HS is using word pictures and analogies from our earthly realm to teach us. He does this to communicate heavenly truth to earthly…
A Spirit-Led People 1 Cor. 3:1-9
1. Unity in the Church is from the Spirit (vv.1-4) A. Cutting away the bad spots Paul introduces for us the reality of the flesh and Spirit in the life of a believer. He is talking to the church, those whom “have been called into the fellowship of his Son (1:9). Paul is not calling into question their…
God's Wisdom Revealed: Behold the Spirit’s Work Part 3
Part 1 Look at the reception of the preaching of God’s word- those who are saved by God’s grace and those who reject the message of the gospel. Part 2 The question had to be answered why? Why do people receive and reject this message of Christ’s good news? The answer is an invisible work of God through…
God's Wisdom Revealed: Behold the Unseen (part 2)
1. Spiritual Realities about God’s wisdom 1 Cor 2:6-10 Those who receive the message of Christ mature predestined (work of redemption and its recipients) for our glory (in Christ, we are elevated as world, in Adam is decimated) Those who reject the message do not understand the mystery (eyes do not see,…
God's Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit
Introduction: Although the comparisons will be made for many years into the future, Ice Storm 1994 still seemed to be a greater event than the recent ice storm we had this past year. I know the data states that more people lost power this year than in 1994, but 94’s storm seemed more chaotic on this…
Preaching for the Glory of God
Intro: F3, workout F3 Name is Part-timer I belong to a work out group of men that work out each week here in the Memphis area. It is peer-led, free workouts that encapsulate three main objectives, Fitness, Fellowship and Faith. Every workout last 45 minutes and every workout ends with a time of devotion…
When Nobodies Encounter Jesus
Intro: Being called a nobody infringes upon the self-love mantra of our society today. Allie B Stuckey _book on self love 23 And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever…
Wise in Christ/Fool to the World (part 2)
Review: 1. The Dividing line of the gospel Distinction between the wise and the fool: The message of the cross/ Not just the message of salvation… but all that God has revealed to us. It is offensive and brings division among the unyokedness of the lost and the saved. 2. The Divine Judgment of Human…
Wise in Christ/Fool to the world
JRR Tolkien penned the world renowned Lord of the Rings. In his imagination, he created fabulous lands and creatures within with their own ethic, language, and purpose. One kingdom of creatures was the dwarfs. These were not the Snow White, dumpy, goofy creatures from Disney. These were the short, but…
Unity in the name of Jesus
As I was growing up my dad was a strong man. As a fireman, he worked out with weights and he also spent a good deal of his life at the French Riviera Spa ( a local gym in the 70-80s). He told me a story one time when he was working out at the gym and a guy near him torn his bicep muscle working out.…
Christ's Work in the Church: The Calling of God (Part 2)
Review: His thankfulness is because of God’s work through Christ in his church. Therefore, in our time today, we are going to look at a few ways Paul is thankful for the work of Christ in the church. He writes in v 4, 4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given…
Christ's Work in the Church: The Calling of God
Paul begins his letter by introducing himself as a good letter writer would. His letter would be read to the church group that was addressed in the letter but it was also circulated to other churches as well. Imagine a association of churches publishing articles of doctrinal importance from the associational…
The Church at Corinth: Struggling to be IN but not OF the world
An Introduction to the Letter Our study today is the first in our expositional study of the book of 1 Corinthians. As a matter of study, it is important to always look back at the letter itself and gain and understanding of the scope of the book, its purposes, it audience, etc. To accomplish this task,…
A World of Knockoffs: False Teachers Part 2
Review of last sermon: I. Deceptive Intrusion We looked at the way in which Peter and all the NT writers, most importantly, Jesus himself identifies the deceptive qualities of False prophets and teachers. They are called wolves…in sheep clothing or as we laid out last time, they are psuedo-didaskos (teachers…
A World of Knockoffs: False Teachers
You have heard the term pseudo used in our English language. Pseudonym is a fictitious name that authors use to disguise themselves when they write. Psuedo scientist is referred to when a person refers to himself/herself as a scientist when in fact they are not. Pseudoscorpion is an arachnid with pincers…
A World of Knockoffs: False Gospels
Intro: I read a story this week of a family who were involved in a tragic car accident taking the lives of 3 adults and 4 children in 2008 as they traveled from Dallas to Mexico. The Associated Press reported, “A sport utility vehicle carrying eight people from Texas plunged off an unfinished bridge…
A World of Knockoffs: False Conversions Pt. 2
Intro: Piltdown Man Have you ever heard the story of the Piltdown man. In 1912, workers were digging at a location in Piltdown England, near Sussex, when they discovered some bone fragments that were strangely human. They turned those bones over to a local scientist named Charles Dawson. Dawson soon…
A World of Knockoffs: False Conversion Part 1
I want to begin a short series called The World of Knockoffs. When anything from food, clothing, movies, technology gains popularity, then some version of a knockoff is created to profit off of its counterpart’s successes. Usually a logo is similar but changed just a bit. For example, in China you can…
A Better One-Jesus and the New Covenant
Intro: Conclusion to our series on Covenants Author of Hebrews: Unknown, speaks of direct revelation from the Lord 2:3 although form and style are unclear as to who wrote it. It was most likely written in and around 65-69 AD since the writer mentions the current operation of the Temple and levitical…
Be Strengthened in Doing Good for the Lord!
Recap: Living as Exile for our Faithful God: Highlighting God’s providence and faithfulness to his covenant people FIRST WAVE: Jewish exiles return under Zerrubabbel 539 BC Temple foundation is laid 537 BC Temple work resumes after stoppage 520 BC Temple work completed 516 BC Events of Esther Occurs…
A Reason To Sing for Joy!
One of the many talents I have is singing songs based on phrases people say. My kids and wife experience this more than most…because I don’t want people to feel bad after hearing my vocal abilities. But in any given conversation, if you speak a phrase that I recognize as a lyric from a song… I just might…
Renewed by God's Grace
Intro: Recommitment in 80’s youth ministry. As a child of the 80’s my experience in youth groups included lots of camps experiences with our music, emotion stirring, and weak theology and biblical teaching. I didn’t know it at the time, but these ingredients were a big problem for the church and they…
Biblical Covenants: Davidic
Review : Creation covenant: Cut/Made with Adam Established with Noah Abrahamic Covenant Israel’s Covenant Cut with Israel at Sinai Davidic Covenant New Covenant Who is David? Youngest son to Jesse Part of tribe of Judah Great-grandmother was Ruth ( Ruth 4:22 ) Shepherd and musician Known in his youth…
Biblical Covenants: Part 2
Intro: Binding on your bible is like the Covenants we find in the bible. Progressive revelation: God’s process of revelation whereby He, by his spirit and through the revealed word, exposes a deeper and richer understanding of himself as time progresses so that what we know at the conclusion of his revelation…
A Confesssion of God's Greatness
Do you appreciate your capacity to remember? Memory is a gift of God many don’t appreciate until it diminishes. Memory is a blessing to see the good God has done. It aids us in our worship of Him. Memory leads to oral tradition to writing so that history continues to tell the story of God work in this…
God's Holy City: Part 2b
Why do you come to church? Why do you get yourself together on a Sunday, interrupt the flow of your day, get out of those PJ’s, turn off the TV, to come each week? Some people would say there are a million ways to spend your Sunday that are more important than going to church for two hours. Students,…
Compassion in a World of Cruelty
We are gonna finish chapter 5 with some closing remarks regarding the compassionate character of Nehemiah in contrast to the corruption of the nobles and officials who we looked at last week. This message is simply Compassion in a world of Cruelty. Cruelty is the DNA of our enemy while compassion is…