Preacher: Joel Fair
\nJohn 17:2-3
Pillar New Testament Commentary
\nv. 2b refers to the Father's gift, in eternity past, of authority over all humanity, on the basis of the Son's prospective obedient humiliation, death, resurrection and exaltation. It is nothing less than the redemptive plan of God, for the second part of the verse makes the purpose of this grant clear: it is that the Son might give eternal life to those the Father has given him.
Romans 1:1-6
\nPaul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, 3 concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ,
John 5:27
\nAnd he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
Matthew 11:27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
\n\nSinclair Ferguson
\nThe knowledge of God is the heart of salvation and all true spiritual experience. Knowing Him is what we were created for. It will occupy us throughout all eternity. In Scripture, it is almost equivalent to salvation. Jesus said that eternal life, or salvation, means knowledge of God: "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent" (John 17:3). To be a Christian is not a mindless experience, but involves Knowledge and understanding. It means a personal relationship and personal acquaintance with the Lord.
Deuteronomy 6:4
\nHear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
Jeremiah 9:23-24
\nThus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD.'
Jeremiah 29:11-13
\nFor I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
John 17:26
\nI made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."
1 John 2:4-6
\nWhoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
John 6:37
\nAll that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
Job 42:5-6
\nI had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nJohn 17:1
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
\nIf we had nothing but John 17 we would surely have more than enough to sustain us, because here our Lord has given us an insight into our whole position, and into everything that is of importance and of value to us while we are in this world of time. We can do nothing better, therefore, than to look at
\nthis prayer, and to consider what he has to say.
John 1:1-3
\nIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Hebrews 1:1-2
\nLong ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
Hebrews 4:14-5:1
\nSince then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
Thomas Manton
\nThe office of a mediator, or day's-man, is 'to lay his hand upon both,' Job 9:33; to treat and deal with both parties. Hitherto Christ hath dealt with men in the name of God, opening his counsel to us; now he dealth with God in the name of men, opening our case to him
Psalm 25:1
\nTo you, O LORD, I lift up my soul.
Psalm 103:19
\nThe LORD has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom
Psalm 121:1
\nI lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
Colossians 3:
\nIf then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Thomas Manton
\nWe may come with hope; we speak to our Father: but we must speak with reverence; we speak to our Father in heaven. When we lift up our eyes, and look upon that stately fabric, the awe of God should fall upon us.
John 13:31-32 31
\nWhen he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nColossians 3:18-21
Ephesians 5:22–24
\n22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
\n23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
\n24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Ephesians 5:2
\n2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 5:25–28
\n25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
\n26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
\n27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
\n28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Gospel Shaped Marriage
\nYou see, it was never possible for Jesus to serve as a mere illustration for Paul. There is much that is good, true, and beautiful about the analogy that Paul provides. But ultimately it is not the husband's duty to love his wife that Paul finds so profound. The mystery is that Christian marriage is given the honor of illustrating the gospel itself. What guilty person separated from God could have ever hoped that the Son of God would become a human being for our sake? What offender awaiting judgment and death could have ever dreamed that another would shed his blood in his place? How many who have a real sense of how awful we are truly think we can lose our guilty stains?
\nThe mystery is that somehow God loves us and sent his Son for us. The almost bewildering fact is that Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. And in that church are losers and failures of all sorts, including husbands.
Ephesians 6:1–3
\n1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
\n2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),
\n3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
Matthew 5:5
\n5 “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
1 Peter 5:5
\n5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Romans 12:10
\n10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Ephesians 6:4
\n4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Galatians 5:22–26
\n22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
\n23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
\n24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
\n25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
\n26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Ephesians 5:18–21
\n18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
\n19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,
\n20 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
\n21 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nColossians 3:15-17
Philippians 4:7
\n7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Psalm 51:6
\n6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
1 Corinthians 10:31
\n31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 5:20
\n20Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Ephesians 6:20
\n20 for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.
F. F. Bruce
\nThe Christian (whether of the apostolic age or any other generation), when confronted by a moral issue, may not find any explicit word of Christ relating to its particular details. But the question may be asked: “What is the Christian thing to do here? Can I do this without compromising my Christian confession? Can I do it (that is to say) ‘in the name of the Lord Jesus’—whose reputation is at stake in the conduct of his known followers? And can I thank God the Father through him for the opportunity of doing this thing?”
Psalm 9:1
\n1 I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
Psalm 28:7
\n7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
Psalm 44:8
\n8 In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah
Psalm 86:12
\n12 I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.
Psalm 118:29
\n29 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nColossians 3:12-14
John 15:12–17
\n12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
\n13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
\n14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
\n15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
\n16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
\n17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
Titus 2:11–14
\n11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,
\n12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
\n13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
\n14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
1 Thessalonians 4:7
\n7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.
1 John 3:1a (NIV)
\n1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!...
Galatians 5:22–24
\n22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
\n23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
\n24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Ephesians 4:1–3
\n1 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
\n2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
\n3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
1 John 4:10
\n10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
2 Corinthians 4:6
\n6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
John 15:5
\n5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nColossians 3:5-11
Isaiah 53:10–11
\n10 Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
\n11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
2 Corinthians 5:17
\n17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Romans 8:13
\n13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Colossians 2:11–12
\n11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
\n12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Romans 6:13–14
\n13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
\n14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Colossians 1:16
\n16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nLeviticus 23:15-22
Psalm 99
\nThe LORD reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!
\nThe LORD is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples.
\nLet them praise your great and awesome name! Holy is he!
\nThe King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
\nExalt the LORD our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!
\nMoses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel also was among those who called upon his name. They called to the LORD, and he answered them.
\nIn the pillar of the cloud he spoke to them; they kept his testimonies and the statute that he gave them.
\nO LORD our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
\nExalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the LORD our God is holy!
The Lexham Bible Dictionary
\n"holy” (קֹדֶשׁ, qodesh), which specifies the nature of the assembly as being set apart for God.
The Essence of the Old Testament: A Survey - Hindson &Yates
\nThe holiness of God is the dominant theological theme of Leviticus. God is pictured as an ever-present personal holy God who demands holiness from those who want to have a covenant relationship with Him. People, animals, and even plants are to be “holy” unto the Lord (Lev 11:44–45; 19:24), as are the priests, Levites, and the tabernacle equipment (Lev 21:6; 23:34; 27:9).
The Lexham Bible Dictionary
\nAtonement is one of the few theological terms with roots in the English language. It is the process by which two (typically estranged) parties are made “at-one” with each other. The Old Testament usually mentions atonement in the context of worship, primarily in reference to temple sacrifices. The word does not occur in the New Testament, but the concept is implied throughout—particularly in the metaphoric imagery used to describe the saving work of Christ.
R.C. Sproul
\nThe prefix ex means “out of” or “from,” so expiation has to do with removing something or taking something away. In biblical terms, it has to do with taking away guilt through the payment of a penalty or the offering of an atonement.
Psalm 35:13–14
\nBut I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
\nI went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.
Leviticus 23:29–30
\nFor whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people.
\nAnd whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people.
Leviticus 16:29–34
\n“And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you.
\nFor on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you. You shall be clean before the LORD from all your sins.
\nIt is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute forever.
\nAnd the priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father’s place shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments.
\nHe shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.
\nAnd this shall be a statute forever for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” And Aaron did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus 11:44–45
\nFor I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
\nFor I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”
Hebrews 9:11–15
\nBut when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
\nhe entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
\nFor if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
\nhow much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
\nTherefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Hebrews 9:24–28
\nFor Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
\nNor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own,
\nfor then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
\nAnd just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
\nso Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
1 John 1:7, 2:3
\nBut if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin...
\nAnd by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
1 Peter 1:15–16
\nbut as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
\nsince it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Romans 12:1
\nI appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
C. H. Spurgeon
\nCome, let us go home with the High Priest; let us clap our hands with joy, for he liveth, he liveth; the atonement is accepted, and we are accepted too; the scapegoat is gone, our sins are gone with it. Let us then go to our houses with thankfulness, and let us come up to his gates with praise, for he hath loved his people, he hath blessed his children, and given unto us a day of atonement, and a day of acceptance, and a year of jubilee. Praise ye the Lord? Praise ye the Lord!
Preacher: Bill Adams
\nLeviticus 23:15-22
Special Guest: Bill Adams.
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\nLeviticus 23:9-14
Deuteronomy 26:5–11
\n5 “And you shall make response before the LORD your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
\n6 And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor. 7 Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
\n8 And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders.
\n9 And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
\n10 And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O LORD, have given me.’ And you shall set it down before the LORD your God and worship before the LORD your God.
\n11 And you shall rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.
Psalm 67:6–7
\n6 The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us.
\n7 God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!
1 Corinthians 15:20–23
\n_ 20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
\n 21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
\n 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
\n23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
\n
Hebrews 13:12
\n12 So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.
\n
Hebrews 13:15
\n15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
\n
1 Corinthians 6:11
\n11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
\n
1 Peter 2:4–5
\n4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,
\n5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ._
Romans 12:1
\n1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nLeviticus 23:4-8
Four Truths to take away from the Feast of Unleavened Bread
\n\nLeviticus 23:4-8 - Feast of Unleavened Bread
\n\nMichael Thigpen
\nThe feast was to be a memorial of the Hebrews’ hasty departure, their waiting for and reception of salvation from Egyptian slavery after the final plague.
Numbers 28:23–24
\n23 You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a regular burnt offering.
\n24 In the same way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
Exodus 12:15–20 (ESV)
\n15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
\n16 On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.
\n17 And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever.
\n18 In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
\n19 For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.
\n20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”
Exodus 13:8
\n8 You shall tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
Exodus 13:14
\n14 And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ‘By a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
Exodus 13:16
\n16 It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes, for by a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”
Deuteronomy 16:3 (ESV)
\n3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.
Michael Thigpen
\nFirst and foremost, with its link to Passover and the departure from Egypt, unleavened bread reminded the Israelites of the immediacy of their salvation. To participate in God’s plan to transform them from Pharaoh’s slaves to his own people and nation, the Hebrews were required to launch out that very night, unprepared and totally dependent on God for the journey ahead. Waiting anxiously for the final plague to be over and for their promised protection to be realized, they ate the Passover and then carried out their unleavened dough on their backs (Ex. 12:34).
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nLeviticus 23:1-3
Exodus 20:8 (ESV)
\n8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Matitiahu Tsevat, The Basic Meaning of the Biblical Sabbath
\nMan normally is master of his time. He is free to dispose of it as he sees fit or as necessity bids him. The Israelite is duty-bound, however, once every seven days to assert by word and deed that God is the master of time. One day out of seven, the Israelite is to renounce dominion over his own time and recognize God's dominion over it. Every seventh day, the Israelite renounces his autonomy and affirms God's dominion over him. In the conclusion that every seventh day the Israelite is to renounce dominion over time, thereby renounce autonomy, and recognize God's dominion over time and thus over himself. Keeping the Sabbath is acceptance of the Kingdom and sovereignty of God.
Exodus 6:6-8 (ESV)
\n6 Say therefore to the people of Israel, 'I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. 7 I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.' "
Leviticus 26:12 (ESV)
\n12 And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
Genesis 2:1-3 (ESV)
\n1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
Preacher: Sam Powers
\nJohn 15:1-11
Special Guest: Sam Powers.
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\nEphesians 4:11-16
Sinclair Ferguson - Things Unseen Podcast
\nAn indicative is a statement of fact, “God loves you.” An imperative is a statement of command, “Love God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength.”...Now, here’s the important point in gospel grammar: God’s indicatives are always the basis for God’s imperatives.
Ephesians 1:7
\n7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
Ephesians 1:19–20
\n19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
\n20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
Ephesians 2:4–5
\n4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
\n5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Ephesians 2:13
\n13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 3:17–19
\n17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
\n18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
\n19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Acts 20:28
\n28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
Ephesians 4:4–7
\n4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—
\n5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
\n6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
\n7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
\nAs we look at this truth and test ourselves by it, how do we find ourselves as members of the Christian Church? A fatal tendency has come in to think and to say that the vast majority of people in the Church are meant to be entirely passive. Many seem to think of the Church as just a building to which they come to sit and listen to sermons and addresses, and in which they do nothing. This is a denial of the fundamental proposition that to every one of us is grace given in the Church and as parts of the body of Christ. Every one of us has a function, and we are not meant to be entirely passive. The whole secret of the working of the human body is that every part and particle has a particular function which it is meant to fulfil.
Edmund Clowney - The Church
\nAfter all, we take our livers for granted, but we fuss over our hair so that its minor role will be recognized.
Rediscover Church (Leeman & Hansen)
\nThe picture Paul provides for both Timothy and Titus is the slow, patient, day-to-day, repetitious work of seeking to grow people in godliness. An elder doesn't force but teaches, because a forced act of godliness is no godliness at all. A godly act is willfully chosen from a regenerate, new covenant heart.
Galatians 4:3
\n3 In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.
Galatians 4:19
\n19 my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!
John 17:22–23
\n22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
\n23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nPhilippians 1:1-11
Ephesians 1:15–16
\n15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
\n16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers
Colossians 1:3–4
\n3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
\n4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints
1 Thessalonians 1:2–3
\n2 We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers,
\n3 remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 John 4:9–10
\n9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
\n10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Ephesians 3:14–19
\n14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
\n15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
\n16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
\n17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
\n18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
\n19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
2 Peter 3:18
\n18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Deuteronomy 7:6
\n6 “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Psalm 138:8
\n8 The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Matthew 16:18
\n18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nRomans 3:27-31
John Calvin
\nWhere there is a coming to Christ, there is first found in him the perfect righteousness of the law, which becomes ours by imputation.
Romans 2:11
\n11 For God shows no partiality.
Romans 3:23
\n23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Deuteronomy 6:4
\n4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
John Piper
\nNow what does that mean? I think it means that what the moral law of God requires of us, we will do, if we pursue it by faith, as those who are already justified, and not by works, in order to be justified. If we get right with God first by faith alone, and then live in that freedom of love and acceptance and justification, we will be changed from the inside out and will begin to love the very things the moral law requires so that they become established in our lives—not as works of merit, but as the fruit of faith and the fruit of the Spirit.
Romans 1:5–6
\n5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
\n6 including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ,
Romans 16:25–27
\n25 Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
\n26 but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—
\n27 to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nRomans 3:21-26
Romans 1:18
\n18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
Romans 3:10
\n10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
John Piper
\n"Indeed, verse 26 says he would have been unrighteous, or unjust, in justifying sinners, if Christ had not been put forward as a propitiation by his blood: “so that he would be just. . . .” That is the basic issue. God’s righteousness is at stake. His name or reputation or honor must be vindicated. Before the cross can be for our sake, it must be for God’s sake."
Isaiah 53:4–7
\n4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
\n5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
\n6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
\n7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
Isaiah 53:10–12
\n10 Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
\n11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
\n12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
2 Corinthians 5:21
\n21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Romans 6:23
\n23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Hebrews 9:22
\n22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
"There is pow'r, pow'r, wonder-working pow'r
\nIn the precious blood of the Lamb."
Psalm 85:10
\n10 Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
Here Is Love
\n"Grace and love, like mighty rivers
\nPoured incessant from above
\nAnd Heaven’s peace and perfect justice
\nKissed a guilty world in love"
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nRomans 3:21-26
Galatians 2:15–16 (ESV)
\n15 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;
\n16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Hebrews 13:8 (ESV)
\n8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Romans 5:8 (ESV)
\n8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Revelation 13:8 (ESV)
\n8 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
Hebrews 9:12 (ESV)
\n12 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Hebrews 9:15 (ESV)
\n15 Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Hebrews 9:22 (ESV)
\n22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Hebrews 9:24 (ESV)
\n24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
Hebrews 9:26b–28 (ESV)
\n26 But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
\n27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
\n28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
John Murray (Redemption Accomplished and Applied)
\n"Vengeance is the reaction of the holiness of God to sin, and the covering is that which provides for the removal of divine displeasure which the sin evokes. … To propitiate means to “placate,” “pacify,” “appease,” “conciliate.” And it is this idea that is applied to the atonement accomplished by Christ."
John Murray
\n"Propitiation presupposes the wrath and displeasure of God, and the purpose of propitiation is the removal of this displeasure. Very simply stated the doctrine of propitiation means that Christ propitiated the wrath of God and rendered God propitious to his people."
Preacher: Sam Powers
\nRomans 3:1-8
Special Guest: Sam Powers.
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\nRomans 2:12-16
Genesis 17:7 (ESV 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting
\ncovenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Jeremiah 9:23-26 (ESV 23 Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, 24 but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD" 25 "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh- 26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are
\nuncircumcised in heart."
Deuteronomy 30:6 (ESV) 6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God
\nwith all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nActs 2:42-47
EVERYDAY MISSION | Daily lives of faith-filled obedience Gospel proclamation does not begin on the other side of an airplane flight or upon arrival to a soup kitchen. Gospel proclamation begins in the morning when your heart needs to hear the joy of salvation. Mission continues as we make known the Gospel to our households. It then moves into our neighborhoods and networks. It is as we live daily lives of faith-filled obedience for the sake of Christ and His Gospel that we will learn the meaning of Philippians 1:21-22, "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me."
\n\nActs 2:23-24 (ESV)
\n23 this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. 24 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
Colossians 3:16 (ESV 16)
\nLet the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. "The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's Word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belving the truth...
Deitrich Bonhoeffer - Life Together
\nThe Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother; his own heart is uncertain, his brother's is sure.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nRomans 2:12-16
James 1:22–25 (ESV)
\n22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
\n23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.
\n24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.
\n25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Romans 3:21–26 (ESV)
\n21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—
\n22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
\n23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
\n24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
\n25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
\n26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nRomans 2:5-11
Everyone will be judged by God for our works, a reward of eternal life and blessing for good works and an award of eternal wrath for evil deeds.
\n\nMartyn Lloyd-Jones
\nRomans 2:6-10 show the grounds of judgment and condemnation, not the way of salvation. They show that works can condemn, even if they cannot save.
Revelation 20:12–15 (ESV)
\n12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
\n13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.
\n14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
\n15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Romans 3:20 (ESV)
\n20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Romans 1:16–17 (ESV)
\n16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
\n17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Matthew 6:33 (ESV)
\n33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Ephesians 2:10 (ESV)
\n10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Romans 2:1-5
Romans 1:16-17 (ESV 16)
\nFor I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
Romans 1:21-25 (ESV)
\n21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and
\ntheir foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (ESV)
\n8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Psalm 139:7-12 (ESV)
\n7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night," 12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Luke 5:1-11
Luke 4:17–21 (ESV)
\n17 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,
\n18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
\n19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
\n20 And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.
\n21 And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
John 17:24 (ESV)
\n24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Luke 9:23–27 (ESV)
\n23 And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
\n24 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
\n25 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
\n26 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
\n27 But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.”
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Isaiah 42
HoR11 | The Servant of Yahweh | Isaiah 42
\nThe Pleasure of the Trinity - VS 1
\nThe Way of the Servant - VS 2-4
\nI AM YHWH - VS 5-9
Eugene H. Peterson, The Message
\n"For Isaiah, words are watercolors and melodies and chisels to make truth and beauty and goodness. Or, as the case may be, hammers and swords and scalpels to unmake sin and guilt and rebellion. Isaiah does not merely convey information. He creates visions, delivers revelation, arouses belief. He is a poet in the most fundamental sense—a maker, making God present and that presence urgent. Isaiah is the supreme poet-prophet to come out of the Hebrew people."
James M. Hamilton Jr., God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment
\n"Great books make great readers, and exposure to lofty thoughts is a challenging and inspiring experience. Loftier thoughts than Isaiah’s, recorded in chapters 40–66 of his prophecy, are scarcely to be found. In these chapters Isaiah draws out the implications of what it means for Yahweh to be the one true God, Maker of heaven and earth, and his expression of these ideas is piercing and transforming. Making one’s way through these chapters is like climbing a mountain: the experience is demanding and exhausting as the air thins, while the breathtaking beauty of the glory of God shines like clear Colorado sky."
C. H. Spurgeon
\n"My text saith, 'Behold my servant'; and that matchless servant of God is to be beheld—not with the eye of sense, that were little worth, for men saw him in that way, and crucified him; but he is to be beheld with the eye of faith, and this is a noble sight; for those who look to him in that manner are lightened, and their faces are not ashamed. At the commencement of my discourse, I beseech you, dear brethren, to look to Jesus Christ the ever-living Worker. If you have been troubled and fretted by peering into these gloomy times and perceiving nothing that can raise your spirits, I pray you look about you no longer, but look up! There he sits at the right hand of God, even the Father, the appointed man, the glorious, chosen Deliverer. Behold him, and your fears and sorrows will fly away."
Michael Horton, Pilgrim Theology
\n"'In the doctrine of the Trinity,' wrote Herman Bavinck, 'beats the heart of the whole revelation of God for the redemption of humanity.' As the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, 'our God is above us, before us, and within us.' The doctrine of the Trinity—God as one in essence and three in person—shapes and structures Christian faith and practice in every way, distinguishing it from all world religions."
Isaiah 53:7 (ESV)
\n7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
Matthew 11:29 (ESV)
\n29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Isaiah 53:11 (ESV)
\n11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
C. H. Spurgeon
\n"Note well the spirit in which he works. He is gentleness itself, and that always: “A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.” You cannot work in hot haste in this spirit. Gentleness makes good and sure speed, but it cannot endure rashness and heat. We know reformers who, if they had the power, would be like bulls in a china-shop; they would do a great deal in a very short time. But the world’s best Friend is not given to quench and bruise. Here is a bruised reed, and it is of no use to anybody: you cannot even get music out of it, much less lean upon it; yet he does not break it. Here is a smoking flax, a wick with an offensive smell, containing very little heat, and no light; yet he does not put it out…..
\nThere stands the Crucified this day, upon the vantage ground, at the right hand of God, and he surveys the battle-field in calm expectancy until his enemies are made his footstool. Tender towards the weakest of the weak, and kind even to the unthankful and the evil, we may see in all this mercifulness the pledge of his success. 'He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he has set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.'"
Job 38:4–11 (ESV)
\n4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
\n5 Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
\n6 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,
\n7 when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
\n8 “Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,
\n9 when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,
\n10 and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors,
\n11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?
Isaiah 61:1–3 (ESV)
\n1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
\n2 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
\n3 to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Exodus 20:1-21
Song of Solomon 1:15–17 (ESV)
\n15 Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.
\n16 Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. Our couch is green;
\n17 the beams of our house are cedar; our rafters are pine.
Psalm 51:11–12 (ESV)
\n11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
\n12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
Deuteronomy 7:6–9 (ESV)
\n6 “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
\n7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,
\n8 but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
\n9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Jeremiah 17:13 (ESV)
\n13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.
Genesis 2:10 (ESV)
\n10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.
Psalm 65:9 (ESV)
\n9 You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.
Revelation 22:1–2 (ESV)
\n1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
\n2 through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Jeremiah 2:18 (ESV)
\n18 And now what do you gain by going to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
John 4:13–15 (ESV)
\n13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,
\n14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
\n15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Exodus 20:1-21
J. I. Packer
\nBecause Scripture calls God’s Ten Commandments “law” we assume they are like the law of the land, a formal code of dos and don’ts, restricting personal freedom for the sake of public order. But the comparison is wrong. Torah (Hebrew for “law”) means the sort of instruction a good parent gives his child. Proverbs 1:8 and 6:20 actually use torah for parental teaching.
Proverbs 1:8 (ESV)
\n8 Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
Psalm 1:1–2 (ESV)
\n1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
\n2 but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
Psalm 19:7–11 (ESV)
\n7 The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
\n8 the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;
\n9 the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
\n10 More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.
\n11 Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
Unfolding Grace
\nIsrael's journey is difficult after crossing the sea, not because of enemies like the Egyptians but because of their own ungrateful and unbelieving hearts. They grumble against the Lord when they are hungry and thirsty, even desiring to return to Egypt! Although they are freed from physical slavery, they require a deeper liberation of their hearts.
\nAt Mount Sinai they enter into a covenant relationship with the Lord. The storyline of Exodus to this point teaches a critical lesson about the relationship between God's grace and his commands. God does not say to the enslaved Israelites, "If you obey my commandments, I will rescue you." Just the opposite: he first rescues them by grace, then teaches them how to respond. First, gracious acceptance, then gracious guidance. It is God's heartfelt and gracious acceptance alone that can liberate the heart to love him.
\nGod's commands are also a gift. They show Israel how to fulfill its role as a "kingdom of priests" in the world. They show Israel how to live as a new humanity with a culture of love. They are to be a new Adam, representing God and reflecting his character in the world.
Genesis 1:27 (ESV)
\n27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Kevin DeYoung
\nThe law was a response to redemption not a cause of it. In one sense, the law shows us our sin and leads us to the gospel. But in another sense, law ought to follow the gospel just as the giving of the Decalogue followed salvation from Egypt. We obey God’s words not because we cower under threat of judgment, but because we stand confidently with our Deliverer and gladly accept his good rule for our life.
Jeremiah 31:31–34 (ESV)
\n31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
\n32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD.
\n33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
\n34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
1 Peter 1:14–16 (ESV)
\n14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
\n15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
\n16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Matthew 5:17 (ESV)
\n17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Mark 12:28–31 (ESV)
\n28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”
\n29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
\n30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
\n31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Romans 8:1–4 (ESV)
\n1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
\n2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
\n3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
\n4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Genesis 45:4-16, 50:15-21
Genesis 37:18–20 (ESV)
\n18 They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.
\n19 They said to one another, “Here comes this dreamer.
\n20 Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams.”
Genesis 39:3 (ESV)
\n3 His master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD caused all that he did to succeed in his hands.
Genesis 39:7–10 (ESV)
\n7 And after a time his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”
\n8 But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.
\n9 He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”
\n10 And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.
Genesis 39:21–23 (ESV)
\n21 But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
\n22 And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it.
\n23 The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s charge, because the LORD was with him. And whatever he did, the LORD made it succeed.
Genesis 40:8 (ESV)
\n8 They said to him, “We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.”
Genesis 41:25 (ESV)
\n25 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Thomas R. Schreiner, The King in His Beauty
\nHe (the Lord) had showered his grace on Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by making a covenant with them and showing them grace again and again. The preservation of the offspring clearly was the Lord’s work, for Abraham’s family survived despite barrenness, sin, stupidity, squabbles, and famine. Genesis teaches that the kingdom will come, for ultimately it depends upon the Lord. It will be realized through his promise rather than human virtue.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Genesis 1:15, 26–28
Isaiah 63:9 (ESV)
\n9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
Galatians 3:13 (ESV)
\n13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
A. W. Tozer
\nWhat comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
John 1:1–3 (ESV)
\n1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
\n2 He was in the beginning with God.
\n3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Colossians 1:15–17 (ESV)
\n15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
\n16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
\n17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
John M. Frame Salvation Belongs to the Lord
\nWhat does it mean to say that God made us in his image? First of all, we should not try to identify the image with something in us, maybe intellect, emotions, or will. The Bible doesn’t say that there is an image of God in man; rather, it says that man is the image of God. We ourselves—all that we are—are the image of God. Everything in us—intellect, emotions, will, even body—reflects God in some way. Think of standing in front of a mirror. The image reflects everything you present to the mirror, and everything in the image represents something in you. Of course, the mirror only reflects part of you, the front part and the outside, not the inside. But we image God far more profoundly: we reflect everything in God, and everything in us reflects God in some way.
2 Corinthians 5:20 (ESV)
\n20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Romans 8:16–17 (ESV)
\n16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
\n17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Genesis 8:1 (ESV)
\n1 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
Sidney Greidanus From Chaos to Cosmos
\nHow would God respond to this new rebellion? God had promised never again to send a flood that would destroy all flesh (Gen. 9:15). Yet, for the sake of his creation, God could not let humankind get away with their plan of relying on their ingenuity and unity for survival. The Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and they're confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city” (11:6–8). Wenham states that this is “the decisive divine intervention that reverses the tide of human history.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Romans 1:28-32
Romans 1:16–17 (ESV)
\n16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
\n17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Romans 1:18 (ESV)
\n18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
Romans 3:23 (ESV)
\n23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
Romans 3:10–12 (ESV)
\n10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
\n11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.
\n12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
Matthew 5:19 (ESV)
\n19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Romans 2:1–5 (ESV)
\n1 Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
\n2 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.
\n3 Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?
\n4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
\n5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
Luke 18:10–14 (ESV)
\n10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
\n11 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
\n12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’
\n13 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
\n14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Romans 5:8 (ESV)
\n8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 8:1–4 (ESV)
\n1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
\n2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
\n3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
\n4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Romans 1:24-32
Romans 1:21–23 (ESV)
\n21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
\n22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
\n23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Westminster Shorter Catechism
\nQ. 1. What is the chief end of man?
\nA. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.
Ephesians 4:17–19 (ESV)
\n17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
\n18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
\n19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
Galatians 5:19–21 (ESV)
\n19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
\n20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
\n21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:3–8 (ESV)
\n3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
\n4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
\n5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
\n6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.
\n7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.
\n8 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
2 Timothy 3:6–9 (ESV)
\n6 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
\n7 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
\n8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
\n9 But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.
Hebrews 11:1–3 (ESV)
\n1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
\n2 For by it the people of old received their commendation.
\n3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
Colossians 3:5–6 (ESV)
\n5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
\n6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
Colossians 3:3 (ESV)
\n3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Romans 8:12–17 (ESV)
\n12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
\n13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
\n14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
\n15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
\n16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
\n17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Romans 1:18-25
Colossians 3:5–6 (ESV)
\n5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
\n6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
Psalm 19:1–2 (ESV)
\n1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
\n2 Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.
"Idolatry is worshiping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that ought to be worshiped."
\n\nRomans 7:24-25a (ESV)
\n24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
\n25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
\nRomans 3:21–26 (ESV)
\n21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—
\n22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
\n23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
\n24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
\n25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
\n26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Ezekiel 36:22–27 (ESV)
\n22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.
\n23 And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
\n24 I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
\n25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
\n26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
\n27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Romans 1:18-23
Romans 1:1 (ESV)
\n1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
Romans 1:7 (ESV)
\n7 To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:15–17 (ESV)
\n15 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
\n16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
\n17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Romans 2:5 (ESV)
\n5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
Exodus 19:5–6 (ESV)
\n5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;
\n6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
"Paul, in another epistle, speaks about certain people 'having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof' 2 Tim. 3: 5. They talk about God, they seem to be interested in God, they might have prayed to God, but their lives were denying it, and therefore it was not real. You must never separate righteousness from godliness, or godliness from righteousness. These two things must always go together. There is no such thing as godliness without righteousness. I would, therefore, lay great stress and emphasis upon that."
\n\nExodus 20:3–6 (ESV)
\n3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
\n4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
\n5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
\n6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
"Because of human willfulness, people’s knowledge of God became clouded and their thinking became darkened. Without contact with God, the human heart loses contact with reality, misses the purpose of one’s existence, ignores God, and becomes ungrateful. People are supposed to glorify God as God but instead find all sorts of created objects to worship. Part of the wrath of God is revealed in humanity’s loss of intelligent thinking."
\n\n“That is why, my friends, it is almost a greater injustice to the cross to sentimentalize it than to deny it. If you do not see the wrath of God when you look at the cross of Calvary's Hill, it is very certain that you do not see the love of God either. It is there that you see the wrath of God revealed. What does it mean? It means that God's attitude towards sin is such that He cannot pretend He has not seen it. He cannot just say, 'Very well, I will not punish you'. God's attitude to sin demanded the death of His only begotten Son. God's hatred of it, His abhorrence of it, His determination to punish it, His righteous demand upon it was such that Christ had to come to this world, not to tell us that 'God is love' - God had said that repeatedly through the prophets and others: that was already known - but to bear the wrath of God against sin. God must punish sin. The cross proves that, the cross would never have happened but for that.”
\n\nPreacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 113
"This is both the last of a trio starting, “Praise the LORD!” (Hallelujah!), and also the first in the Egyptian Hallel. It is an exquisite and quite complex piece of Hebrew poetry, presenting “a theology of wonder which speaks of a God whose greatness goes hand in hand with his compassion for those most at risk in life.”
\n\n"A short run of psalms used at the yearly Passover begins here, and is therefore commonly known as the Egyptian Hallel (Hallel means Praise). Only the second of them (114) speaks directly of the exodus, but the theme of raising the downtrodden (113) and the note of corporate praise (115), personal thanksgiving (116), world vision (117) and festal procession (118) make it an appropriate series to mark the salvation which began in Egypt and will spread to the nations."
\n\n"In these calls to praise there is more than mere repetition. There is point in specifying the Lord’s servants and his name, since worship to be acceptable must be more than flattery and more than guess-work. It is the loving homage of the committed to the Revealed."
\n\n“And his glory above the heavens:” higher than the loftiest part of creation; the clouds are the dust of his feet, and sun, moon, and stars twinkle far below his throne. Even the heaven of heavens cannot contain him. His glory cannot be set forth by the whole visible universe, nor even by the solemn pomp of angelic armies; it is above all conception and imagination, for he is God—infinite. Let us above all adore him who is above all.
\n\n"The importance of large families in ancient Israel encouraged the belief that a barren wife was cursed by God; cf. Gen 16:4 f.; 1 Sam 1:5 f., 2:5; Luke 1:25."
\n\n1 Samuel 1:11 (ESV)
\n11 And she vowed a vow and said, “O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”
1 Samuel 1:15–18a (ESV)
\n15 But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the LORD.
\n16 Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation.”
\n17 Then Eli answered, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.”
\n18 And she said, “Let your servant find favor in your eyes.”
Ephesians 2:1–2 (ESV)
\n1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
\n2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
Ephesians 2:4–7 (ESV)
\n4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
\n5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
\n6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
\n7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 3:17–19 (ESV)
\n17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
\n18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
\n19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\n_Scripture: Psalm 19
"I take this to be the greatest poem in the Psalter and one of the greatest lyrics in the world. Most readers will remember its structure; six verses about Nature, five about the Law, and four of personal prayer. The actual words supply no logical connection between the first and second movements. In this way its technique resembles that of the most modern poetry. A modern poet would pass with similar abruptness from one theme to another and leave you to find out the connecting link for yourself. But then he would possibly be doing this quite deliberately; he might have, though he chose to conceal, a perfectly clear and conscious link in his own mind which he could express to you in logical prose if he wanted to. I doubt if the ancient poet was like that. I think he felt, effortlessly and without reflecting on it, so close a connection, indeed (for his imagination) such an identity, between his first theme and his second that he passed from the one to the other without realising that he had made any transition. First he thinks of the sky; how, day after day, the pageantry we see there shows us the splendour of its Creator. 'Then he thinks of the sun, the bridal joyousness of its rising, the unimaginable speed of its daily voyage from east to west. Finally, of its heat; not of course the mild heats of our climate but the cloudless, blinding, tyrannous rays hammering the hills, searching every cranny. The key phrase on which the whole poem depends is there is nothing hid from the heat thereof'. It pierces everywhere with its strong, clean ardour. Then at once, in verse 7 he is talking of something else, which hardly seems to him something else because it is so like the all-piercing, all-detecting sunshine. The Law is 'undefiled', the Law gives light, it is clean and everlasting, it is 'sweet. No one can improve on this and nothing can more fully admit us to the old Jewish feeling about the Law; luminous, severe, disinfectant, exultant. One hardly needs to add that this poet is wholly free from self-righteousness and the last section is concerned with his 'secret faults'. As he has felt the sun, perhaps in the desert, searching him out in every nook of shade where he attempted to hide from it, so he feels the Law searching out all the hiding-places of his soul." - C. S. Lewis
\n\n"If the glory of those who make things depends on the splendor of what they have made, how much glory is due to the creator of the world, the giver of life? Can we even begin the process of celebrating what the Creator has achieved in a way that befits what he has done? David sets himself that task in Ps 19, in which his admiration of God as Creator (19:1–6) is informed and guided by God’s word (19:7–9), which woos him to all that is good, true, and beautiful, refines his character, and makes him pleasing to the Lord (19:10–14)."
\nJames M. Hamilton Jr. - Psalms - Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary
Romans 1:19–20 (ESV)
\n19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
\n20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
"The creation has inspired awe and wonder in David, and he responds to God’s glory in creation by shaping language that celebrates what God has accomplished in making the world. God’s prowess inspires David’s unmatched poetry. David has carefully arranged a string of words meant to sparkle with the glory of the God he attempts to extol. That is to say, as beautiful as this psalm is, the point is not the beauty of the psalm but the wonder of the one it celebrates."
\nJames M. Hamilton Jr. - Psalms - Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary
Psalm 1:1–2 (ESV)
\n1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
\n2 but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
Psalm 119:9–16 (ESV)
\n9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
\n10 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
\n11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
\n12 Blessed are you, O LORD; teach me your statutes!
\n13 With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
\n14 In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.
\n15 I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.
\n16 I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.
"Perhaps the best one can do is to describe Psalm 19 as an instructional torah psalm. As McCann has accurately written, “Psalm 19 intends to teach.” What does it teach? It teaches that the Creator can be known about through creation, but the torah is the only way that one can know the personal God of Israel. And once one knows this God through torah, one can pray to God in a relational way."
\nRolf A. Jacobson - NICOT
"He is his Rock and Redeemer, both echoing the exodus complex of events, for God redeemed the people from Egypt and was their Rock in the desert experiences that followed (cf. Deut 32:4, 15, 18, 30–31)."
\nGeoffrey W. Grogan - Psalms - The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary
Hebrews 7:1–8 (ESV)
\n1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
\n2 and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.
\n3 He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.
\n4 See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils!
\n5 And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brothers, though these also are descended from Abraham.
\n6 But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
\n7 It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.
\n8 In the one case tithes are received by mortal men, but in the other case, by one of whom it is testified that he lives.
Hebrews 7:15–21 (ESV)
\n15 This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,
\n16 who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.
\n17 For it is witnessed of him, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”
\n18 For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness
\n19 (for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
\n20 And it was not without an oath. For those who formerly became priests were made such without an oath,
\n21 but this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever.’ ”
Hebrews 7:22–28 (ESV)
\n22 This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.
\n23 The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office,
\n24 but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.
\n25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
\n26 For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
\n27 He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.
\n28 For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 27
2 Chronicles 7:14 (ESV)
\nif my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Colossians 1:15,19-20 (ESV)
\nHe is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. ... For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
Romans 8:10–11 (ESV)
\nBut if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
1 Corinthians 15:20–22 (ESV)
\nBut in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
Romans 8:38–39 (ESV)
\nFor I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 36
Psalm 1:1–2 (ESV)
\nBlessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
\nbut his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
Rolf A. Jacobson, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament
\nIndeed, the sense of the entire first stanza is quite clear: it is a description of the wicked, who lack the proper interior quality of having the fear of God. This basic lack, in turn, leads the wicked one to manifest behaviors that are evil. The most important characteristic of the wicked one is that rather than fearing the Lord, this one is completely self-governed: before whose eyes there is no dread of God; who is self-deceptive, in whose eyes is the belief that personal sin cannot be found out and hated (vv. 1b–2). The notion here is that because the wicked person does not fear God, she deceives herself into thinking her sin will not be found out.
Proverbs 1:7 (ESV)
\nThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Jacobson, NICOT
\nPoetically, this stanza of praise is a masterpiece. In Hebrew, the stanza both begins and ends with a vocative use of the name Yahweh. The Lord literally—and figuratively—surrounds the psalmist’s praise.
Joel 3:18 (ESV)
\nAnd in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Valley of Shittim.
Psalm 17:15 (ESV)
\nAs for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.
C. S. Lewis
\nI believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else.
Ephesians 3:14–19 (ESV)
\nFor this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Psalm 89:5–8 (ESV)
\nLet the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones! For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD, a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him? O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O LORD, with your faithfulness all around you?
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 2
J. V. Fesko, Songs of a Suffering King
\nAs we begin our study of Psalm 2, it is helpful to think of Jesus’ words to His brothers when they mockingly encouraged Him to go to the Feast of Tabernacles and reveal His identity to the world: “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil” (John 7:6–7). If we put Jesus’ statement to His brothers together with Psalm 1, we see the natural reaction that develops in Psalm 2. In other words, Jesus, the righteous man, contrasts with the world, which is filled with those who hate the instruction of the Lord—the people who walk, stand, and sit in the counsel of the wicked. Jesus’ righteousness reveals the wickedness of those in the world, and when He does so, they naturally respond with hatred. In this sense, the contrast between the righteous man and the wicked, the two ways, becomes the messianic conflict in Psalm 2.
Psalm 46:6–7 (ESV)
\nThe nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
\nThe LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Psalm 14:1 (ESV)
\n1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.
Psalm 29:10b (ESV)
\nthe LORD sits enthroned as king forever.
Psalm 89:14 (ESV)
\nRighteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
Revelation 19:15–16 (ESV)
\nFrom his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
Hebrews 12:28–29 (ESV)
\nTherefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.
Acts 10:42–43 (ESV)
\nAnd he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead. To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
Isaiah 30:18 (ESV)
\nTherefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
1 Corinthians 6:9–11 (ESV)
\nOr do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Isaiah 9:6–7 (ESV)
\nFor to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Micah 5:2 (ESV)
\nBut you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
Psalm 34:8 (ESV)
\nOh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 1
James Boice - Psalms
\nIt stands as a magnificent gateway to this extraordinary ancient collection of Hebrew religious verse.… It is a text of which the remaining psalms are essentially exposition.
J.V. Fesko - Songs of a Suffering King
\nWe often hear that the world is not black and white and that there are many gray areas, but the psalmist entertains no such ideas. He presents the two ways and, in a sense, introduces a conflict between them and the people who choose them throughout the rest of the Psalter
Matthew 7:13–14 (ESV)
\nEnter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Pharrell Williams - Happy
\nClap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
Jeremiah 17:7–8 (ESV)
\nBlessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.
Psalm 46:4 (ESV)
\nThere is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.
Exalting Jesus in Psalms 1–50
\nWhat then does a spiritually prosperous life look like? To answer, we can restate verse 1. Such a person walks in the advice of the godly, he stands in the pathway of the righteous, and he sits in the company of the hopeful. He studies the Word. He acts with wisdom. He is devoted to God’s will. This life is the truly prosperous life.
Derek Kidner - TOTC Psalms
\nChaff is … the ultimate in what is rootless, weightless … and useless
Romans 3:10 (ESV)
\nas it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
Romans 3:23 (ESV)
\nfor all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Luke 24:44 (ESV)
\nThen he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”
J. V. Fesko - Songs of a Suffering King
\nHow is anyone righteous? The answer comes from the earliest chapters of the Bible when God declared Abraham righteous by faith in the promise of the Redeemer to come—because of his faith in Jesus (Gen. 15:6). Christ was the One who did not walk, stand, or sit in the counsel, path, or seat of the wicked. Christ delighted Himself in the law of His heavenly Father; not only was He completely obedient to it but he also meditated upon it day and night. Jesus told His disciples: “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work” (John 4:34).
2 Corinthians 5:17–21 (ESV)
\nTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
John 15:4–5 (ESV)
\nAbide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
J. V. Fesko - Songs of a Suffering King
\nIn Luke 6:43–44 He says, “For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.” This imagery reappears in the closing chapters of the Bible and symbolizes none other than Jesus Christ, our Great High Priest, the last Adam, who stands in the midst of His heavenly Father surrounded by the saints, the righteous people of God, those who are planted by the river of life and yield the fruit of the Spirit in season. Rejoice that Jesus Christ is the blessed and righteous man and that He—by His life, death, resurrection, and ascension—makes us what we have been declared by faith alone in Him: a righteous and fruit-bearing people.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Romans 1:16-17
Romans 3:21–26 (ESV)
\nBut now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time , so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Genesis 3:14–15 (ESV)
\nThe LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
Isaiah 56:1 (ESV)
\nThus says the LORD: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my righteousness be revealed.
Timothy Keller
\nThis is an unparalleled claim, as the word “revealed” shows—no one would ever know of it, find it, or guess it, unless God showed it through his word. Right standing is received from God, offered to us by his Son.
Hebrews 1:1–3a (ESV)
\nLong ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.
Colossians 1:19–20 (ESV)
\nFor in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
David Peterson
\nRighteousness is certainly an attribute of God, but the term is used to describe how God acts to establish justice for his people and put them right with himself.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV)
\nFor our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Philippians 3:8–9 (ESV)
\nIndeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith
1 John 4:8–10 (ESV)
\nAnyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Romans 1:16-17
Timothy Keller, Romans 1–7 for You
\n_1. The gospel, by telling us that our salvation is free and undeserved, is really insulting! It tells us that we are such spiritual failures that the only way to gain salvation is for it to be a complete gift. This offends moral and religious people who think their decency gives them an advantage over less moral people.
1 Corinthians 1:18 (ESV)
\nFor the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Hebrews 12:1–2 (ESV)
\nTherefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
2 Corinthians 4:3–6 (ESV)
\nAnd even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 6:14 (ESV)
\nBut far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Luke 9:26 (ESV)
\nFor whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
2 Timothy 1:8–12 (ESV)
\nTherefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.
Citizens "Hide No More"
\nI can spend my life pretending
\nThat I'm better off alone
\nBut I'm never really living
\nIf I'm never fully known
\nYeah and it may take forever
\nBefore I'm finally whole
\nI don't wanna hide no more
\nThere's a power in me
\nI don't wanna hide no more
\nAnd it's setting me free
1 Peter 4:13–16 (ESV)
\nBut rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Romans 1:8-15
Philippians 1:3–11 (ESV)
\nI thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Colossians 2:6–7 (ESV)
\nTherefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
Romans 1:16 (ESV)
\nFor I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Matthew 16:18 (ESV)
\nAnd I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Luke 24:1-12
1 Corinthians 15:3–4 (ESV)
\nFor I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
1 Corinthians 15:5–8 (ESV)
\nand that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
Romans 1:3–4 (ESV)
\nconcerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
Genesis 1:28 (ESV)
\nAnd God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Hebrews 1:3–4 (ESV)
\nHe is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
Romans 4:23–25 (ESV)
\nBut the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
2 Timothy 2:11–13 (ESV)
\nThe saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.
1 Peter 1:3–5 (ESV)
\nBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Corinthians 15:54–57 (ESV)
\nWhen the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 11:25–26 (ESV)
\nJesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Romans 1:5–7
Romans 1:16–17 (ESV)
\nFor I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Ephesians 2:1, 4–9 (ESV)
\nAnd you were dead in the trespasses and sins ... But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Acts 26:16–18 (ESV)
\nBut rise and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you, delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles—to whom I am sending you to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Matthew 28:18–20 (ESV)
\nAnd Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Martin Luther
\nWe are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
Timothy Keller, Romans 1–7 for You
\nThis is an obedience that comes from faith—that springs from a wholehearted trust in Jesus, God’s Son. Obedience flows out of faith; it is a consequence of saving faith, not a second condition for salvation.
R. Kent Hughes - Preaching the Word
\nWhat would we be like if we saw ourselves as God-owned, our task as preaching the resurrected Christ, and everything in life as a matter of grace?
Galatians 5:24 (ESV)
\nAnd those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Jeremiah 31:3 (ESV)
\nthe LORD appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
R. Kent Hughes - Preaching the Word
\nWe are not called because we are saints, but we are saints because we are called. And as saints we are set apart for holiness. Thus, we are in continuity with the saints of all the centuries and are in continuity and unity with each other.
2 Chronicles 6:32–33 (ESV)
\nLikewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house, hear from heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.
Psalm 25:11 (ESV)
\nFor your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great.
Psalm 79:9 (ESV)
\nHelp us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name’s sake!
1 John 2:12 (ESV)
\nI am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Romans 1:3-4
Romans 1:16–17 (ESV)
\nFor I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
John 1:1–2 (ESV)
\nIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
Romans 9:5 (ESV)
\nTo them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
John 14:1, 6–7 (ESV)
\n“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me...Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Jeremiah 23:5 (ESV) Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
\n\nLuke 22:22 (ESV)
\nFor the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!
1 Corinthians 15:12–17 (ESV)
\nNow if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
1 Corinthians 15:20–22 (ESV)
\nBut in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
Paul David Tripp - Do You Believe?
\nEvery point of the theology of Scripture, when rightly understood, leads us to the cross of Jesus Christ. Now, you may think, “Paul, how do you get from the words ‘Let us make man in our image’ to the hill of Calvary?” The answer is that the image of God is most powerfully expressed and most fully seen in the Son of God, the Son of Man, Jesus Christ. On earth, in the flesh, Jesus stands before us as the ultimate image bearer. In him the image is not dented or damaged in any way. In him we see God’s image in perfect expression in every decision, every word, every thought, every desire, and every aspect of his character, all spotlessly righteous. It is an amazing, important, and life-changing thing to behold.
Matthew 1:21 (ESV)
\nShe will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.
Psalm 146:10 (ESV)
\nThe LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!
1 Corinthians 15:23–28 (ESV)
\nBut each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
Exodus 6:7 (ESV)
\nI will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Romans 10:9 (ESV)
\nbecause, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Romans 12-16
Romans 12:1–2 (ESV)
\nI appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 5:1–2 (ESV)
\nTherefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Mark 9:2–3 (ESV)
\nAnd after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them.
Romans 3:10 (ESV)
\nas it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
Romans 3:23 (ESV)
\nfor all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 3:24–25a (ESV)
\nand are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.
Martyn Lloyd Jones
\nIt doesnt matter how gifted you are, if you are difficult to get along with, your gifts are of no value
Romans 13:1 (ESV)
\nLet every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
Romans 13:7–8 (ESV)
\nPay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
1 John 4:7–8 (ESV)
\nAnyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Matthew 5:17 (ESV)
\n“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Romans 14:7–9 (ESV)
\nFor none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Romans 14:15–19 (ESV)
\nFor if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died. So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
Romans 14:23 (ESV)
\nBut whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
Romans 15:5–7 (ESV)
\nMay the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
Romans 1:7 (ESV)
\nTo all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 16:25–27 (ESV)
\nNow to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Romans 9-11
The gospel on the GROUND is the personal redemptive implication of the gospel. Through this lens we come to understand the means of salvation – the gospel power. Gospel on the ground points to REGENERATION – JUSTIFICATION – SANCTIFICATION – GLORIFICATION in the life of the believer in Christ.
\n\nThe gospel in the AIR is the historical redemptive implication of the gospel. It is the story line of Scripture. Through this lens we come to understand the reason for salvation — the gospel purpose. Gospel in the air tells the story of God in CREATION – FALL – REDEMPTION – RESTORATION
\n\nRomans 5:1–2 (ESV)
\nTherefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Tim Chester & Steve Timmis - Total Church
\nGod is at the center of the gospel word. Yet much of evangelism tends to place people in that position. The gospel becomes skewed toward me and how Jesus meets my needs. But the gospel Jesus proclaimed is about God exercising his life-giving rule through his Messiah for his Glory
Romans 8:31–33 (ESV)
\nWhat then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
Jeremiah Fyffe
\nThese are images of the effort of man to strive for righteousness. To go up to heaven or, perhaps, by some penance, descend is to reject the reality of the gospel. Jesus is the one who has come down from heaven. And Jesus is the one who has triumphed over death. Righteousness is the result of God’s work, not ours.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Romans 1-4
Romans 1:4 (ESV)
\nand was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
Romans 1:11 (ESV)
\nFor I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—
Romans 1:16–17 (ESV)
\nFor I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Romans 1:18 (ESV)
\nFor the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
Romans 1:28–32 (ESV)
\nAnd since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Romans 2:1–2 (ESV)
\nTherefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.
Romans 2:9–11 (ESV)
\nThere will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality.
Romans 2:13–16 (ESV)
\nFor it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Romans 2:28–29 (ESV)
\nFor no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.
Romans 3:1–4 (ESV)
\nThen what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.”
Romans 3:20–23 (ESV)
\nFor by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 3:28 (ESV)
\nFor we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Romans 4:3–5 (ESV)
\nFor what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Romans 4:10–11 (ESV)
\nHow then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised. He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Romans 4:16 (ESV)
\nThat is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Romans 4:20–25 (ESV)
\nNo unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Romans 1:1-2
Romans 13:13–14 (ESV)
\nLet us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
Philippians 3:3–11 (ESV)
\nFor we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Galatians 1:14–17 (ESV)
\nAnd I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers. But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone; nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
Luke 6:12–13 (ESV)
\nIn these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles:
2 Corinthians 12:11–12 (ESV)
\nI have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing. The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.
1 Timothy 1:15–16 (ESV)
\nThe saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
1 Corinthians 7:22–23 (ESV)
\nFor he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ. You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men.
Acts 2:10 (ESV)
\nPhrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,
Luke 24:26–27 (ESV)
\nWas it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
Galatians 1:11–12 (ESV)
\nFor I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man’s gospel. For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: 1 John 5:6-21
John 1:32–34 (ESV)
\nAnd John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”
Mark 15:39 (ESV)
\nAnd when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
Luke 23:39–43 (ESV)
\nOne of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
1 John 4:2–3 (ESV)
\nBy this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
Mark 1:9–11 (ESV)
\nIn those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
John 5:36 (ESV)
\nBut the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
John 1:1–5 (ESV)
\nIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 17:20–23 (ESV)
\n“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: 1 John 5:1-5
John 3:1–8 (ESV)
\nNow there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Ezekiel 36:25–28 (ESV)
\nI will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
R. C. Sproul - What Does It Mean to Be Born Again?
\n"After God makes us alive, then we must become involved. We must believe, repent, and seek after the things of God. But before God makes us alive, we are unable to do these things. We need God to take the initiative to change the disposition of our hearts, quickening our souls so that we can respond by embracing Christ and fleeing to Him in repentance....
"I am suggesting, following the thinking of Augustine and other giants of the Christian faith, that regeneration is not just God standing apart from us and trying to persuade us to come to Him, but God coming inside of us. He invades the soul, because there has to be a substantive change in the heart before we can come to Christ. In order for us to desire the things of God, we have to be made alive, and to be made alive requires a sovereign act of God."
1 John 2:29 (ESV)
\nIf you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
1 John 3:9 (ESV)
\nNo one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
1 John 4:7 (ESV)
\nBeloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 Peter 1:3–4 (ESV)
\nBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,
Ephesians 2:4–5 (ESV)
\nBut God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Romans 8:35 & 37 (ESV)
\nWho shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?... No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
1 Corinthians 15:56–57 (ESV)
\nThe sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV)
\nTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: 1 John 4:7-12
1 John 3:1 (NIV)
\nSee what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Romans 6:23 (ESV)
\nFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John Piper, “The New Birth Produces Love”
\nLove is from God the way heat is from fire, or the way light is from the sun. Love belongs to God’s nature. It’s woven into what he is. It’s part of what it means to be God. The sun gives light because it is light. And fire gives heat because it is heat. So John’s point is that in the new birth, this aspect of the divine nature becomes part of who you are. The new birth is the imparting to you of divine life, and an indispensable part of that life is love. God’s nature is love, and in the new birth that nature becomes part of who you are.… When you are born again, God himself is imparted to you. He dwells in you and sheds abroad in your heart his love. And his aim is that this love be perfected in you. Notice the phrase “his love” in verse 12. The love that you have as a born again person is no mere imitation of the divine love. It is an experience of the divine love and an extension of that love to others.
John 3:16–18 (ESV)
\n“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Romans 5:8 (ESV)
\nbut God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Ephesians 3:17–19 (ESV)
\nso that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
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Preacher: Matt Hardy
\nScripture: 1 John 3:1-24
Romans 6:9–14 (ESV)
\nWe know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Matt Hardy
\n_"Our knowledge of God and His word, leads to a love that leads to a life of obedience." _
C. H. Spurgeon
\n"There is a radical distinction between the gracious and the graceless, and this comes out in their works: the one works the works of God and the other the works of the devil."
Psalm 57:1–3 (ESV)
\nBe merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by. I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me. He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!
Genesis 3:15 (ESV)
\nI will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
2 Timothy 1:10 (ESV)
\nand which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
John 10:10 (ESV)
\nThe thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 5:24 (ESV)
\nTruly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 4:23–24 (ESV)
\nBut the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 15:9–14 (ESV)
\nAs the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.
Preacher: Matt Hardy
\nScripture: 1 John 2:1-29
1 John 1:10
\nIf we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Romans 3:23
\nfor all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 3:22-25
\n_the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ
\nJesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. _
John Stott
\n_It is abiding in him that enables me to live like him. I don’t do it in my strength. I do it in His! I don’t have to be like him to be assured, I want to be like Him and am assured. We cannot claim to abide in Him unless we are like him. But as we abide in Him we will be like him because we will know him _
John 15:5
\nI am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, (walking like
\nJesus) for apart from me you can do nothing.
Leviticus 19:18
\nYou shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.
John 13:34-35
\nA new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
John Stott
\n_Love is as old as the sun and as new as the dawn _
John 8:12
\n_Jesus says “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. _
Corinthians 2:2
\n_For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified _
1 Corinthians 15:56-57
\nThe sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the
\nvictory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Special Guest: Matt Hardy.
","summary":"Part two of the sermon series In The Light","date_published":"2023-01-08T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/37bea423-3e1d-4bc5-8fcb-26b2bfeda80e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":23628880,"duration_in_seconds":2605}]},{"id":"5b64f6b6-0475-49d0-9f76-9e40a5c5ae44","title":"The Christ of Christianity | 1 John 1:1-10","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/itl01","content_text":"Preacher: Joel Fair\nScripture: 1 John 1:1-10\n\n1 John 5:20–21 (ESV)\nAnd we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. Little children, keep yourselves from idols.\n\nJohn 17:21 (ESV)\nthat they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.\n\n1 John 2:24 (ESV)\nLet what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.\n\nJohn 15:11 (ESV)\nThese things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.\n\nJohn 1:4–5 (ESV)\nIn him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.\n\nLeviticus 17:11 (ESV)\nFor the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.\n\nHebrews 9:14 (ESV)\nhow much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.\n\nRevelation 5:9 (ESV)\nAnd they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,\n\nJohn 1:17–18 (ESV)\nFor the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.\n\nCitizens \"Light of your grace\"\n\"In the light of Your grace You end my darkness In the light of Your grace My burdens lose their weight In the light of Your grace You lift my head up In the light of Your grace My sin is washed away\"\n ","content_html":"Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: 1 John 1:1-10
1 John 5:20–21 (ESV)
\nAnd we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
John 17:21 (ESV)
\nthat they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
1 John 2:24 (ESV)
\nLet what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.
John 15:11 (ESV)
\nThese things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
John 1:4–5 (ESV)
\nIn him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Leviticus 17:11 (ESV)
\nFor the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.
Hebrews 9:14 (ESV)
\nhow much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Revelation 5:9 (ESV)
\nAnd they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
John 1:17–18 (ESV)
\nFor the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.
Citizens "Light of your grace"
\n"In the light of Your grace You end my darkness In the light of Your grace My burdens lose their weight In the light of Your grace You lift my head up In the light of Your grace My sin is washed away"
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Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Luke 2:10-12
Luke 2:10–12 (ESV)
\nAnd the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
Paul David Tripp - Do You Believe?
\n"What needed to be done, no human being could do. What needed to be done, God would have to do in a triad of glorious miracles of grace: the incarnation of the Son, his perfect life and acceptable sacrifice, and his resurrection victory. It is only in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus that the tension is ended. In Jesus God’s perfect justice and forgiving mercy kiss. So a substitute was needed, a second Adam, who would live the righteous life that the first Adam sadly failed to live. It is important to note that the substitutionary work of Jesus Christ did not begin with his suffering and death, but with his birth."
John 4:42 (ESV)
\nThey said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
Titus 2:13 (ESV)
\nwaiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
Mark 8:29 (ESV)
\nAnd he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”
Philippians 2:9–11 (ESV)
\nTherefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Luke 2:25-35
Luke 2:25–35 (ESV)
\nNow there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law, he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said, “Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.” And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him. And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.”
Isaiah 40:1 (ESV)
\nComfort, comfort my people, says your God.
Isaiah 61:1–2 (ESV)
\nThe Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
John 3:16–17 (ESV)
\n“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Romans 1:16–17 (ESV)
\nFor I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
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Preacher: Chris Cerveny
\nScripture: Luke 1:67-79
Special Guest: Chris Cerveny.
","summary":"Part 1 in the Advent 2022 Sermon Series","date_published":"2022-12-04T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/1196a52a-b814-4ba5-baed-65108dc28ad0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":20536912,"duration_in_seconds":2379}]},{"id":"ef2a5311-9f50-486a-b16c-7d879183c2ca","title":"The Angels Song, Peace | Luke 67-79","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/advent2022","content_text":"Preacher: Joel Fair\nScripture: Luke 67-79\n\nLuke 2:13–14 (ESV)\nAnd suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”\n\nIsaiah 9:6–7 (ESV)\nFor to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.\n\nMalachi 4:5–6 (ESV)\n“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”\n\nEphesians 2:11–22 (ESV)\nTherefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.\n\nColossians 1:19–20 (ESV)\nFor in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross\n\nTony Merida, Exalting Jesus in Ephesians\n\"Historically Christ died on the cross. It was public and visible. It was not on a hill far away from the sight of people. His death would be like crucifying someone today in a shopping mall. Theologically Christ died on behalf of sinners. He bore our punishment. He took our place that we might be declared righteous. We receive the benefits of forgiveness, righteousness, and new life. Experientially, we encounter the effect of the cross by our union with Christ. Notice it is “in Christ Jesus” that we experience the benefits of His shed blood (v. 13). There was a past event that is experienced in the present. This is what gives us peace with God and with others today.\"\n\nJohn 14:25–27 (ESV)\n“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.\n\nJohn 17:22–23 (ESV)\nThe glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.\n\nEphesians 4:1–3 (ESV)\nI therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.\n\nJohn 20:19–21 (ESV)\nOn the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” ","content_html":"Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Luke 67-79
Luke 2:13–14 (ESV)
\nAnd suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
Isaiah 9:6–7 (ESV)
\nFor to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Malachi 4:5–6 (ESV)
\n“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
Ephesians 2:11–22 (ESV)
\nTherefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
Colossians 1:19–20 (ESV)
\nFor in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross
Tony Merida, Exalting Jesus in Ephesians
\n"Historically Christ died on the cross. It was public and visible. It was not on a hill far away from the sight of people. His death would be like crucifying someone today in a shopping mall. Theologically Christ died on behalf of sinners. He bore our punishment. He took our place that we might be declared righteous. We receive the benefits of forgiveness, righteousness, and new life. Experientially, we encounter the effect of the cross by our union with Christ. Notice it is “in Christ Jesus” that we experience the benefits of His shed blood (v. 13). There was a past event that is experienced in the present. This is what gives us peace with God and with others today."
John 14:25–27 (ESV)
\n“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
John 17:22–23 (ESV)
\nThe glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Ephesians 4:1–3 (ESV)
\nI therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
John 20:19–21 (ESV)
\nOn the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Titus 3:3-7
Thomas Merton
\nBut the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God's love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God.
Psalm 145:9 (ESV)
\nThe LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.
Psalm 31:19 (ESV)
\nOh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!
\\John 3:16 (ESV)
\nFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Psalm 136:3 (ESV)
\nGive thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Hosea 11:4 (ESV)
\nI led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.
Psalm 145:17 (ESV)
\nThe LORD is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.
John Piper
\nGod loves to lavish kindness on us. The bigger your conception of God, the more amazing this is. God is the creator of the universe. He holds the galaxies in being. He governs everything that happens in the world, down to the fall of a bird and the change in your hair color. He is infinitely strong and wise and holy and just. And Paul says, he is kind. And because of this kindness we were born again. Let your very existence as a Christian tell you every hour of every day: God is kind to you.
Ephesians 2:10 (ESV)
\nFor we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Titus 2:11–14 (ESV)
\nFor the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Titus 3:1 (ESV)
\nRemind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
Psalm 25:6 (ESV)
\nRemember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
Ephesians 2:4–7 (ESV)
\nBut God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 1:15 (ESV)
\nHe is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Ezekiel 36:25–28 (ESV)
\nI will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly
\nIt is one thing, as a child, to be told your father loves you. You believe him. You take him at his word. But it is another thing, unutterably more real, to be swept up in his embrace, to feel the warmth, to hear his beating heart within his chest, to instantly know the protective grip of his arms. It's one thing to hear he loves you; it's another thing to feel his love. This is the glorious work of the Spirit.
Romans 8:16–17 (ESV)
\nThe Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Brennan Manning
\nWe should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Malachi
Micah 3:8 (ESV)
\nBut as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
Jeremiah 7:23 (ESV)
\nBut this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
Malachi 1:2a (ESV)
\n“I have loved you,” says the LORD.
Jeremiah 31:3 (ESV)
\nthe LORD appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
Malachi 1:11, 14b (ESV)
\nFor from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.
Malachi 1:8–9 (ESV)
\nWhen you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the LORD of hosts. And now entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With such a gift from your hand, will he show favor to any of you? says the LORD of hosts.
Deuteronomy 6:4–9 (ESV)
\n“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Malachi 1:10 (ESV)
\nOh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand.
Revelation 3:15–16 (ESV)
\n“ ‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
Ezekiel 11:19–20 (ESV)
\nAnd I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
John 17:25–26 (ESV)
\nO righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
Romans 3:21–26 (ESV)
\nBut now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Preacher: Bill Adams
\nScripture: Zechariah
Special Guest: Bill Adams.
","summary":"Part 11 of the Sermon Series: The Book of Twelve","date_published":"2022-11-06T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/a5174184-97fa-4ff3-bcdc-6c2b91787563.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":21161152,"duration_in_seconds":2644}]},{"id":"df494b16-5126-4848-9b67-fed9176a0706","title":"Haggai","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/bot10","content_text":"Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe\nScripture: Haggai\n\n\nSOWING TO ETERNAL JOY\nCONSIDER YOUR WAYS: SOWN MUCH, HARVESTED LITTLE\nCONSIDER YOUR WAYS: THE PLEASURE OF THE LORD\n\n\nMatthew 6:30b–33 (ESV)\nO you of little faith! Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.\n\nGalatians 6:7–8 (ESV)\nDo not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.\n\nProverbs 21:17 (ESV)\nWhoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; \nhe who loves wine and oil will not be rich.\n\n1 Peter 1:3–4 (ESV)\nAccording to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,\n\n1 Peter 1:6 (ESV)\nIn this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials\n\nTitus 3:3–5,7 (ESV)\nFor we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures … But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us … so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.\n\nIsaiah 65:17, 22 (ESV)\nFor behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.\nThey shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.\n\nUnknown\nSince [God] does not need [creation], its whole reason for being must lie in its own goodness; He has no use for it; only delight.\n\nTim Chester\nThe world is more delicious than it needs to be. We have a superabundance of divine goodness and generosity.\n\nEphesians 1:7–8 (ESV)\nIn him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight\n\nPsalm 147:10–11 (ESV)\nHis delight is not in the strength of the horse, \nnor his pleasure in the legs of a man, \nbut the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, \nin those who hope in his steadfast love.\n\nPsalm 149:4 (ESV)\nFor the Lord takes pleasure in his people; \nhe adorns the humble with salvation.Special Guest: Jeremiah Fyffe.","content_html":"Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
\nScripture: Haggai
Matthew 6:30b–33 (ESV)
\nO you of little faith! Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Galatians 6:7–8 (ESV)
\nDo not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Proverbs 21:17 (ESV)
\nWhoever loves pleasure will be a poor man;
\nhe who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
1 Peter 1:3–4 (ESV)
\nAccording to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,
1 Peter 1:6 (ESV)
\nIn this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials
Titus 3:3–5,7 (ESV)
\nFor we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures … But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us … so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Isaiah 65:17, 22 (ESV)
\nFor behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.
\nThey shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Unknown
\nSince [God] does not need [creation], its whole reason for being must lie in its own goodness; He has no use for it; only delight.
Tim Chester
\nThe world is more delicious than it needs to be. We have a superabundance of divine goodness and generosity.
Ephesians 1:7–8 (ESV)
\nIn him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight
Psalm 147:10–11 (ESV)
\nHis delight is not in the strength of the horse,
\nnor his pleasure in the legs of a man,
\nbut the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him,
\nin those who hope in his steadfast love.
Psalm 149:4 (ESV)
\nFor the Lord takes pleasure in his people;
\nhe adorns the humble with salvation.
Special Guest: Jeremiah Fyffe.
","summary":"Part 10 of the Sermon Series: The Book of Twelve","date_published":"2022-10-30T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/df494b16-5126-4848-9b67-fed9176a0706.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":22930624,"duration_in_seconds":2865}]},{"id":"dc329574-1320-4e26-9812-2c3847f5b2d2","title":"Zephaniah | The Day of the Lord","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/bot09","content_text":"Preacher: Joel Fair\nScripture: Zephaniah\n\nHebrews 1:1–2 (ESV)\nLong ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. \n\nPsalm 14:1–3 (ESV)\nThe fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.\n\nZephaniah 1:17–18 (ESV)\nI will bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.\n\nExodus 34:14 (ESV)\n(for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),\n\nZephaniah 2:3 (ESV)\nSeek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.\n\nPsalm 27:5 (ESV)\nFor he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.\n\nColossians 3:3 (ESV)\nFor you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.\n\nZephaniah 3:17 (ESV)\nThe LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.\n\nHebrews 1:3–4 (ESV)\nHe is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.","content_html":"Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Zephaniah
Hebrews 1:1–2 (ESV)
\nLong ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
Psalm 14:1–3 (ESV)
\nThe fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
Zephaniah 1:17–18 (ESV)
\nI will bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.
Exodus 34:14 (ESV)
\n(for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
Zephaniah 2:3 (ESV)
\nSeek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.
Psalm 27:5 (ESV)
\nFor he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.
Colossians 3:3 (ESV)
\nFor you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Zephaniah 3:17 (ESV)
\nThe LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Hebrews 1:3–4 (ESV)
\nHe is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Habakkuk
Romans 1:16–17 (ESV)
\nFor I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Isaiah 55:8–9 (ESV)
\nFor my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Romans 5:6–8 (ESV)
\nFor while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Hebrews 11:1 (ESV)
\nNow faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Revelation 21:3–4 (ESV)
\nAnd I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
The ESV Study Bible Notes
\n"Habakkuk saw the rapid progress of Judah’s moral and spiritual deterioration and this deeply troubled him. Yet God’s response puzzled him even more, for “how could a good and just God use a more wicked nation to punish a less wicked one?” God makes it clear that both nations are to be judged and appropriately punished for their evil acts. Although Habakkuk may not fully understand, he has learned to rely totally on the wisdom and justice of God to bring about the proper resolution in ways he could never have imagined."
Habakkuk 2:4 (ESV)
\n“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
Preacher: Matt Hardy
\nScripture: Jonah
2 Kings 14:-23-27
\nIn the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher. For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel. But the LORD had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
C.H. Spurgeon
\n“What struck me forcibly was not that he got angry, nor that he threw something when he was angry, but that when he was angry there was always something at hand to throw.
Proverbs 16:33
\nThe lot is cast into the lap,
\nbut its every decision is from the LORD
Matthew 12:38-40
\nThen some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth
Romans 8:28
\nAnd we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Psalms 86:15
\nBut you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
Micah 7:18
\n"Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.“
Matthew 12:41
\nThe men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here
ESV Study Bible Notes
\nFrom a temporal perspective, God responds to human action; from an eternal perspective, God chooses the means (human repenting) as well as the end (divine relenting).
Proverbs 3:11-12
\nMy son, do not despise the Lord's discipline
\nor be weary of his reproof,
\nfor the Lord reproves him whom he loves,
\nas a father the son in whom he delights.
Micah 7:18
\n"Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love."
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Nahum
Exodus 34:6–7 (ESV)
\nThe LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Nahum 3:1 (ESV)
\nWoe to the bloody city, all full of lies and plunder— no end to the prey!
Nahum 2:13 (ESV)
\nBehold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.
Nahum 2:3–5 (ESV)
\nThe shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished. The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning. He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up.
Nahum 3:8 (ESV)
\nAre you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?
Nahum 2:6–8 (ESV)
\nThe river gates are opened; the palace melts away; its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts. Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!” they cry, but none turns back.
Nahum 2:9 (ESV)
\nPlunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things.
Nahum 2:2 (ESV)
\nFor the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and ruined their branches.
Nahum 1:15a (ESV)
\nBehold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace!
Psalm 91:1–2 (ESV)
\nHe who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
Psalm 91:9–10 (ESV)
\nBecause you have made the LORD your dwelling place— the Most High, who is my refuge— no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent.
Psalm 91:14–16 (ESV)
\n“Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name. When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
Deuteronomy 6:4–6 (ESV)
\n“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.
Romans 3:9–18 (ESV)
\nWhat then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Romans 3:21–26 (ESV)
\nBut now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Preacher: Chris Cerveny
\nScripture: Joel
Special Guest: Chris Cerveny.
","summary":"Part 4 of the Sermon Series: The Book of Twelve","date_published":"2022-09-18T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/8c23d2f0-3ca3-4382-ad15-c37c471c3f2d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25504384,"duration_in_seconds":3187}]},{"id":"33a3a2a0-efe1-44d8-8234-9659f6050dc1","title":"Obadiah | Brothers","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/bot03","content_text":"Preacher: Joel Fair\n_Scripture: Obadiah _\n\nGenesis 25:19–28 (ESV)\nThese are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham fathered Isaac, and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the LORD. And the LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.” When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb. The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau. Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau’s heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents. Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.\n\nGenesis 27:36–42 (ESV)\nEsau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?” Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: “Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high. By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you grow restless you shall break his yoke from your neck.” Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.” But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.\n\nDeuteronomy 2:1–8 (ESV)\n“Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as the LORD told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir. Then the LORD said to me, ‘You have been traveling around this mountain country long enough. Turn northward and command the people, “You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful. Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. You shall purchase food from them with money, that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink. For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.” ’ So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. “And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.\n\nJeremiah 49:14–17 (ESV)\nI have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: “Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle! For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among mankind. The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle’s, I will bring you down from there, declares the LORD. “Edom shall become a horror. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.\n\nPsalm 137:7–8 (ESV)\nRemember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!” O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!\n\nPsalm 133:1–3 (ESV)\nBehold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the LORD has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.\n\nRomans 12:9–21 (ESV)\nLet love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.\n\nRomans 4:13 (ESV)\nFor the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.\n\nCorinthians 5:21 (ESV)\nFor our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.\n ","content_html":"Preacher: Joel Fair
\n_Scripture: Obadiah _
Genesis 25:19–28 (ESV)
\nThese are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham fathered Isaac, and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the LORD. And the LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.” When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb. The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau. Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau’s heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents. Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Genesis 27:36–42 (ESV)
\nEsau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?” Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: “Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high. By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you grow restless you shall break his yoke from your neck.” Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.” But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
Deuteronomy 2:1–8 (ESV)
\n“Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as the LORD told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir. Then the LORD said to me, ‘You have been traveling around this mountain country long enough. Turn northward and command the people, “You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful. Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. You shall purchase food from them with money, that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink. For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.” ’ So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. “And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.
Jeremiah 49:14–17 (ESV)
\nI have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: “Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle! For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among mankind. The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle’s, I will bring you down from there, declares the LORD. “Edom shall become a horror. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.
Psalm 137:7–8 (ESV)
\nRemember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!” O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!
Psalm 133:1–3 (ESV)
\nBehold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the LORD has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
Romans 12:9–21 (ESV)
\nLet love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 4:13 (ESV)
\nFor the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Corinthians 5:21 (ESV)
\nFor our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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Preacher: Joel Fair
\n_Scripture: Hosea 1 _
Martin Luther
\n“They (the prophets) have a queer way of talking, like people who, instead of proceeding in an orderly manner, ramble off from one thing to the next, so that you cannot make head or tail of them or see what they are getting at.”
Exodus 4:11–12 (ESV)
\nThen the LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”
Micah 3:8 (ESV)
\nBut as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
Jeremiah 7:23 (ESV)
\nBut this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
Hosea 12:7–9 (ESV)
\nA merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress. Ephraim has said, “Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.” I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
Ray Ortlund
\n“If Yahweh is the husband of his people, then their lapses from faithfulness to him may properly be regarded as the moral equivalent to whoredom.”
Hosea 13:1–4 (ESV)
\nWhen Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died. And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, “Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!” Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window. But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
Hosea 4:1–2 (ESV)
\nHear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land; there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Hosea 4:6 (ESV)
\nMy people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
Hosea 11:1–4 (ESV)
\nWhen Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.
Hosea 11:8–9 (ESV)
\nHow can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.
Hosea 14:1–3 (ESV)
\nReturn, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. Take with you words and return to the LORD; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips. Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.”
Romans 3:21–26 (ESV)
\nBut now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Hosea 14:4–9 (ESV)
\nI will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them. I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon; his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon. They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow; they shall flourish like the grain; they shall blossom like the vine; their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon. O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit. Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
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Preacher: Matt Hardy
\n_Scripture: Mark 16:9-20 _
Special Guest: Matt Hardy.
","summary":"Part 60 of the Sermon Series: On the Road with Jesus | A Study in the Gospel of Mark","date_published":"2022-08-21T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/56e156ae-5669-4192-8746-7eb6f7cc5dd0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":24076288,"duration_in_seconds":3009}]},{"id":"810fa32e-c2f3-4024-a0ba-fce1cc3d3eef","title":"Mark 16:1–8 | The Resurrection","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/mark59","content_text":"Preacher: Joel Fair\n_Scripture: Mark 16:1–8 _\n\nLuke 24:5b (ESV)\n“Why do you seek the living among the dead?\n\n1 Corinthians 15:3–8 (ESV)\nFor I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.\n\nJohn 21:15–19 (ESV)\nWhen they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.” (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.”\n\nMark 8:31–33 (ESV)\nAnd he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”\n\nMark 9:31–32 (ESV) \nfor he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.” But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.\n\nMark 10:32–34 (ESV)\nAnd they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him, saying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles. And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”\n\nActs 2:24 (ESV)\nGod raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.\n\nJames R. Edwards, The Gospel according to Mark, The Pillar New Testament Commentary\nThe Crucified One, says the angel, has been raised! The angel invites the women to see the place where they last saw the body of Jesus (15:47). The references to the place of his burial and to Jesus as the crucified one are of crucial importance. The women are not directed to a mystical or spiritual experience or to a numinous encounter. They are directed specifically to Jesus, who died by a crucifixion they witnessed, was buried in a place they witnessed, and now has been resurrected. The verbs in v. 6 refer to both sides of the Easter event. The announcement of the divine emissary establishes an inseparable continuity between the historical Jesus and the resurrected Jesus. The one whom the angel invites them to know is the one whom they have known. The announcement of the angel is literally the gospel, good news, and the place from which the gospel is first preached is the empty tomb that both received and gave up the Crucified One. A new order of existence is inaugurated. The NIV reads, “ ‘He has risen!’ ” but the Greek is more precise, “ ‘He was raised.’ ” “Risen” could suggest that Jesus arose on his own, but “was raised” rightly implies that he was resurrected by God. At this moment and in this place the women are witnessing “the kingdom of God come with power” (9:1).\n\nEphesians 2:1, 4–6 (ESV)\nAnd you were dead in the trespasses and sins... But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,\n\nRomans 4:24–25 (ESV)\nbut for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.\n\n1 Corinthians 15:12–17 (ESV)\nNow if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.\n\nActs 17:30–31 (ESV)\nThe times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”\n ","content_html":"Preacher: Joel Fair
\n_Scripture: Mark 16:1–8 _
Luke 24:5b (ESV)
\n“Why do you seek the living among the dead?
1 Corinthians 15:3–8 (ESV)
\nFor I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
John 21:15–19 (ESV)
\nWhen they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.” (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.”
Mark 8:31–33 (ESV)
\nAnd he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
Mark 9:31–32 (ESV)
\nfor he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.” But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
Mark 10:32–34 (ESV)
\nAnd they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him, saying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles. And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”
Acts 2:24 (ESV)
\nGod raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
James R. Edwards, The Gospel according to Mark, The Pillar New Testament Commentary
\nThe Crucified One, says the angel, has been raised! The angel invites the women to see the place where they last saw the body of Jesus (15:47). The references to the place of his burial and to Jesus as the crucified one are of crucial importance. The women are not directed to a mystical or spiritual experience or to a numinous encounter. They are directed specifically to Jesus, who died by a crucifixion they witnessed, was buried in a place they witnessed, and now has been resurrected. The verbs in v. 6 refer to both sides of the Easter event. The announcement of the divine emissary establishes an inseparable continuity between the historical Jesus and the resurrected Jesus. The one whom the angel invites them to know is the one whom they have known. The announcement of the angel is literally the gospel, good news, and the place from which the gospel is first preached is the empty tomb that both received and gave up the Crucified One. A new order of existence is inaugurated. The NIV reads, “ ‘He has risen!’ ” but the Greek is more precise, “ ‘He was raised.’ ” “Risen” could suggest that Jesus arose on his own, but “was raised” rightly implies that he was resurrected by God. At this moment and in this place the women are witnessing “the kingdom of God come with power” (9:1).
Ephesians 2:1, 4–6 (ESV)
\nAnd you were dead in the trespasses and sins... But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Romans 4:24–25 (ESV)
\nbut for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
1 Corinthians 15:12–17 (ESV)
\nNow if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
Acts 17:30–31 (ESV)
\nThe times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
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Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 15:16-32
Genesis 3:15 (ESV)
\nI will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
Revelation 5:9–12 (ESV)
\nAnd they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.” Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”
Mark 10:33–34 (ESV)
\nsaying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles. And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”
Kent Hughes - Preaching the Word
\n"Jesus underwent limitless pain. The March 21, 1986 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association carried the most complete medical review of Christ’s crucifixion ever published in a medical journal. In it the authors detail the pain endured by the weight of the body hanging from nails which damage the medial nerves and tear at the tarsals, the respiratory torture, the cramping, and the pleurel effusions, concluding that “Death by crucifixion was in every sense of the word excruciating, literally ‘out of the cross.’” Their assessment remarkably justifies C. S. Lewis’ description and deduction made in 1960:
He creates the universe, already foreseeing—or should we say “seeing”? There are no tenses in God—the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the medial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath’s sake hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is a “host” who deliberately creates His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and “take advantage of” Him. Herein is love. This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves."
Philippians 2:4–8 (ESV)
\nLet each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Hebrews 2:9–10 (ESV)
\nBut we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.
Hebrews 4:14–16 (ESV)
\nSince then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Romans 16:13 (ESV)
\nGreet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; also his mother, who has been a mother to me as well.
Mark 8:34–38 (ESV)
\nAnd calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
Luke 23:39–43 (ESV)
\nOne of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Mark 10:34 (ESV)
\nAnd they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”
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Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 14:53-72
Hebrews 12:2 (ESV)
\nlooking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Isaiah 53:7 (ESV)
\nHe was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
John 14:6 (ESV)
\nJesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 15:1 (ESV)
\n“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
John 11:25–26 (ESV)
\nJesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Timothy Keller Jesus the King
\n"In both of Jesus’s biblical allusions here (“Son of Man” from Daniel 7:13, and “at his right hand” from Psalm 110:1), the Messiah comes as a judge. Everybody in the room—all of the ruling council of the Sanhedrin—knows who the Son of Man is. In Daniel 7, the Son of Man comes from the throne of God to earth in the clouds of heaven to judge the world. And the clouds of heaven are not the same as the clouds of earth, just water vapor. These clouds are the shekinah glory, the very presence of God. Therefore by replying as he does, Jesus is saying: “I will come to earth in the very glory of God and judge the entire world.” It’s an astounding statement. It’s a claim to deity."
John 5:24 (ESV)
\nTruly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV)
\nFor our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Colossians 3:1–4 (ESV)
\nIf then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Mark 14:38 (ESV)
\nWatch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Ezekiel 36:26 (ESV)
\nAnd I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
John 8:32 (NIV)
\nThen you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 14:26-42
Zechariah 13:7 (ESV)
\n“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me,” declares the LORD of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.
John 18:1–2 (ESV)
\nWhen Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
Matthew 6:9–13 (ESV)
\nPray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil."
John 3:16–17 (ESV)
\nFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Ephesians 5:2 (ESV)
\nAnd walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV)
\nFor our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Mark 8:31 (ESV)
\nAnd he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Romans 8:12–17 (ESV)
\nSo then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 14:22-25
Psalm 23:5–6 (ESV)
\nYou prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
\nSurely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Revelation 1:5–6 (ESV)
\nand from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Timothy Keller - Jesus the King
\n_ “Just as the first Passover was observed the night before God redeemed the Israelites from slavery through the blood of the lambs, this Passover meal was eaten the night before God redeemed the world from sin and death through the blood of Jesus.” _
Isaiah 53:6–12 (ESV)
\nAll we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
John 1:29 (ESV)
\nThe next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Timothy Keller - Jesus the King
\nThe presider would use words from Deuteronomy 26 to bless the elements—the bread, the herbs, the lamb—by explaining how they were symbolic reminders of various aspects of the early Israelites’ captivity and deliverance. For example, he would show them the bread and say, “This is the bread of our affliction, which our fathers ate in the wilderness.”
\nJesus was the presider at this Passover meal with the disciples, and Mark recounts what happened when Jesus raised the third cup…
\nImagine the astonishment of the disciples when, blessing the elements and explaining their symbolism, Jesus departs from the script that has been reenacted by generation after generation. He shows them the bread and says, “This is my body.” What does that mean? Jesus is saying, “This is the bread of my affliction, the bread of my suffering, because I’m going to lead the ultimate exodus and bring you the ultimate deliverance from bondage.”
John 6:53–58 (ESV)
\nSo Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”
Matthew 26:28 (ESV)
\nfor this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
James Edwards - The Gospel According to Mark
\n“Finally, the phrase “ ‘poured out for many,’ ” although it is symbolized in the pouring of the wine, becomes reality not in the wine of the Upper Room but in Jesus’ death on Golgotha. Obviously, neither baptism nor any other rite is a prerequisite for the meal; the only prerequisite at this meal is need. Mark is the only Gospel writer who adds, “and they all drank from it.” The “all” echoes throughout the remainder of the chapter, recalling both the grace of Jesus and the failure of the disciples: they “all drank” (v. 23), they “all [swear allegiance to Jesus]” (v. 31); but they “all fall away” (v. 27), and they “all fled” (v. 50). The original Last Supper is attended by traitors (v. 18) and cowards (v. 50); it a table not of merit but of grace!”
Revelation 19:6–9 (ESV)
\nThen I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”
Daniel Akin
\n“Jesus brings things to a close by refusing to drink the fourth and final cup. It is the cup of consummation and life in the promised land of God. For that cup He will wait. First, He must drink to the last drop the cup of God’s wrath and justice. Apart from it, no cup of blessing would be possible.”
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 14:12-21
Exodus 12:1–14 (ESV)
\nThe Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast."
Mark 11:2–3 (ESV)
\nand said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’"
Daniel L. Akin - Exalting Jesus in Mark
\nThe two disciples did as they were instructed. They also would have prepared the Passover lamb that symbolized their deliverance from slavery and redemption out of Egypt. Little did they know that an even greater Passover was unfolding as Jesus prepared Himself to be sacrificed as our Passover Lamb (1 Cor 5:7). John the Baptist had declared, “Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). Jesus is indeed this Passover Lamb, and He is in complete control of the events leading to His death. The cross did not catch Him off guard. No, it was a divine appointment scheduled, as Peter would write, “before the foundation of the world” (1 Pet 1:20). Jesus knew down to the last detail what was happening, and He joyfully embraced it (Heb 12:2). Such confidence in God’s will should inspire us to trust Him even when the road of life may be difficult, painful, even deadly. Our God is in control!
1 Corinthians 5:6–8 (ESV)
\nYour boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
John 1:29 (ESV)
\nThe next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Psalm 41:9 (ESV)
\nEven my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
Walter W. Wessel - The Expositor’s Bible Commentary
\n To betray a friend after eating a meal with him was, and still is, regarded as the worst kind of treachery in the Middle East.
Isaiah 53:10–12 (ESV)
\nYet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
Hebrews 9:11–14 (ESV)
\nBut when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
John 10:17–18 (ESV)
\nFor this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”
John 12:1–8 (ESV)
\nSix days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial. For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”
1 John 4:19 (ESV)
\nWe love because he first loved us
Ephesians 1:7–10 (ESV)
\nIn him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Genesis 17:7–8 (ESV)
\nAnd I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”
Tim Keller
\nWe are not to love Jesus instrumentally, in order to get things from Him, like health, wealth, and happiness. We are to love Jesus aesthetically, for the sheer beauty of who He is and what He has done. The disciples had not reached the spiritual level of this woman. They believed Jesus was the Messiah and that he in some way was going to liberate them, but their devotion to him was still calculated and limited. There was a limit to what they thought appropriate to give him.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 13:32-37
Matthew 28:18–20 (ESV)
\nAnd Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
2 Peter 3:7–13 (ESV)
\nBut by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Mark 10:45 (ESV)
\nFor even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Revelation 21:1–8 (ESV)
\nThen I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.
Matthew 25:14–30 (ESV)
\n“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 13:14-31
Daniel 11:31 (ESV)
\nForces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.
Isaiah 13:10 (ESV)
\nFor the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.
Isaiah 34:4 (ESV)
\nAll the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.
Daniel 7:13–14 (ESV)
\nI saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
Mark 9:1 (ESV)
\nAnd he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 13:1–13
Exodus 7:8–13 (ESV)
\nThen the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’ ” So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.
1 Kings 18:36–40 (ESV)
\nAnd at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.” Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God.” And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.
John 1:1–5, 14 (ESV)
\nIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.... And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
2 Peter 1:19–21 (ESV)
\nAnd we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 6:16 (ESV)
\nWhat agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Mark 10:14–15 (ESV)
\nBut when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
Hebrews 12:1–2 (ESV)
\nTherefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Preacher: Chris Cerveny
\nScripture: Mark 12:38–44
Special Guest: Chris Cerveny.
","summary":"Part 47 of the Sermon Series: On the Road with Jesus | A Study in the Gospel of Mark","date_published":"2022-05-15T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/bf54a2a6-9c64-4c28-b409-d3cb841a2843.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":21201424,"duration_in_seconds":2399}]},{"id":"4076df5a-44f4-4a29-bcdd-4d0fd4234b1b","title":"Mark 12:35-40 | Final Words of Correction","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/mark46","content_text":"Preacher: Joel Fair\nScripture: Mark 12:35-40\n\nMark 2:17 (ESV)\nAnd when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”\n\nIsaiah 11:1 (ESV)\nThere shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, \nand a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.\n\nJeremiah 23:5–6 (ESV)\nBehold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’\n\nPsalm 110:1 (ESV)\nThe Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”\n\nC. H. Spurgeon\nHow greatly should we prize the revelation of his private and solemn discourse with the Son, herein made public for the refreshing of his people!\n\nColossians 1:15–20 (ESV)\nHe is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. \nFor by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. \nAnd he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. \nAnd he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. \nFor in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, \nand through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.\n\nMatthew 23:2–3 (ESV)\nThe scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.\n\nMatthew 23:27–28 (ESV)\nWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.\n\n1 Peter 5:5-7 (ESV)\nLikewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.\n\nMicah 6:8 (ESV)\nHe has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?\n\nMark 10:45 (ESV)\nFor even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.","content_html":"Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 12:35-40
Mark 2:17 (ESV)
\nAnd when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Isaiah 11:1 (ESV)
\nThere shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,
\nand a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
Jeremiah 23:5–6 (ESV)
\nBehold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’
Psalm 110:1 (ESV)
\nThe Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”
C. H. Spurgeon
\nHow greatly should we prize the revelation of his private and solemn discourse with the Son, herein made public for the refreshing of his people!
Colossians 1:15–20 (ESV)
\nHe is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
\nFor by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
\nAnd he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
\nAnd he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
\nFor in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
\nand through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
Matthew 23:2–3 (ESV)
\nThe scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.
Matthew 23:27–28 (ESV)
\nWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
1 Peter 5:5-7 (ESV)
\nLikewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Micah 6:8 (ESV)
\nHe has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Mark 10:45 (ESV)
\nFor even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Acts 20:17-38
Philippians 4:11–13 (ESV)
\nNot that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
1 Thessalonians 2:9–10 (ESV)
\nFor you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.
1 Corinthians 11:1 (ESV)
\nBe imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Ephesians 2:1–10 (ESV)
\nAnd you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Revelation 2:4 (ESV)
\nBut I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
Preacher: Chris Cerveny
\nScripture: Mark 12:28-34
Special Guest: Chris Cerveny.
","summary":"Part 45 of the Sermon Series: On the Road with Jesus | A Study in the Gospel of Mark","date_published":"2022-04-24T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/9ad72419-30ac-46b6-b83a-3adc63903e29.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":23652448,"duration_in_seconds":2672}]},{"id":"ed317b12-842d-4033-b91b-9cfcd0487018","title":"Mark 12:18-27 | God of The Living","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/mark44","content_text":"Preacher: Joel Fair\nScripture: Mark 12:18-27\n\n\nA Hypothetical Question \nYou are Wrong\nThe Power of God\n\n\nKent Hughes - Preach The Word Commentary on Mark\nAt the heart of their trick question was the custom of Levirite marriage: If a man’s married brother died, he must marry the widow (cf. Deuteronomy 25:5, 6). This was an ancient custom which existed long before the Law, and its neglect brought the scandal of Judah and Tamar (Genesis 38:6–10). Its purpose was to keep a family from dying out, and to keep family wealth intact.\n\nDeuteronomy 25:5–10 (ESV)\nIf brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. And if the man does not wish to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’ Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, ‘I do not wish to take her,’ then his brother’s wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’ And the name of his house shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.’\n\nGenesis 38:6–11 (ESV)\nAnd Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD put him to death. Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.” But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother’s wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. And what he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and he put him to death also. Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, till Shelah my son grows up”—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father’s house.\n\nRuth 4:9–12 (ESV)\nThen Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon. Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.” Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem, and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the LORD will give you by this young woman.”\n\nMark 2:17 (ESV)\nAnd when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”\n\nJohn 11:25–26 (ESV)\nJesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”\n\n1 Corinthians 15:12–14 (ESV)\nNow if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.\n\n1 Corinthians 15:1–8 (ESV)\nNow I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.\n\n1 Peter 1:3–5 (ESV)\nBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.","content_html":"Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 12:18-27
Kent Hughes - Preach The Word Commentary on Mark
\nAt the heart of their trick question was the custom of Levirite marriage: If a man’s married brother died, he must marry the widow (cf. Deuteronomy 25:5, 6). This was an ancient custom which existed long before the Law, and its neglect brought the scandal of Judah and Tamar (Genesis 38:6–10). Its purpose was to keep a family from dying out, and to keep family wealth intact.
Deuteronomy 25:5–10 (ESV)
\nIf brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. And if the man does not wish to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’ Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, ‘I do not wish to take her,’ then his brother’s wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’ And the name of his house shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.’
Genesis 38:6–11 (ESV)
\nAnd Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD put him to death. Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.” But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother’s wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. And what he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and he put him to death also. Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, till Shelah my son grows up”—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father’s house.
Ruth 4:9–12 (ESV)
\nThen Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon. Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.” Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem, and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the LORD will give you by this young woman.”
Mark 2:17 (ESV)
\nAnd when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
John 11:25–26 (ESV)
\nJesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
1 Corinthians 15:12–14 (ESV)
\nNow if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:1–8 (ESV)
\nNow I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
1 Peter 1:3–5 (ESV)
\nBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 12:13–17
Bart Ehrman
\nBest known are the divine honors paid to rulers of the Roman Empire, starting with Julius Caesar. We have an inscription dedicated to him in 49 BCE (five years before he was assassinated) discovered in the city of Ephesus, which says this about him: Descendant of Ares and Aphrodite
The God who has become manifest (θεὸν ἐπιφανῆ)
And universal savior (σωτῆρα) of human life”
Jeremiah 31:33–34 (ESV)
\nFor this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
2 Corinthians 1:21–22 (ESV)
\nAnd it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us,
22 and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
Genesis 1:26–27 (ESV)
\nThen God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
1 Peter 2:13–17 (ESV)
\nBe subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
Romans 13:1–7 (ESV)
\nLet every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 12:1–12
Isaiah 5:1–7 (ESV)
\nLet me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Genesis 1:28 (ESV)
\nAnd God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
1 Kings 19:1–3 (ESV)
\nAhab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
Hebrews 11:36–38 (ESV)
\nOthers suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Mark 6:25–28 (ESV)
\nAnd she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.” And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her. And immediately the king sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s head. He went and beheaded him in the prison and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.
James Edwards - Pillar New Testament Commentary
\nThe son differs from the slaves in several important respects: they are many, he is unique; they are hirelings, perhaps even themselves property, he is the heir; they are forerunners, he is the last and final word of the father. Above all, the son is “beloved.” The word recalls Abraham’s love for Isaac (Gen 22:2), Jacob’s love for Joseph (Gen 37:3), God’s love for Israel (Isa 5:1), and especially the Father’s love for “the beloved Son” at the baptism (1:11). The reference to the “beloved son” (Gk. huion agapēton) in the parable recalls only one other relationship in the Gospel, that of Jesus and the Father (1:11; 9:7). In the story of the sending of the son Jesus is speaking of his own unprecedented role in the history of Israel.
James 3:1 (ESV)
\nNot many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
Psalm 118:22–24 (ESV)
\nThe stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Isaiah 53:10 (ESV)
\nYet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
John 3:16–21 (ESV)
\nFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 11:27-33
Mark 1:22&27 (ESV)
\nAnd they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.... And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”
Mark 2:8–12 (ESV)
\n_ And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic— “I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.” And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”_
Mark 4:41 (ESV)
\nAnd they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
Mark 3:14–15 (ESV)
\nAnd he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach
15 and have authority to cast out demons.
Mark 6:7 (ESV)
\nAnd he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
James Edwards - Pillar
\nThe “chief priests, scribes, and elders” were the three groups that comprised the Sanhedrin, although in this instance they represent a delegation from the Sanhedrin rather than the entire council. The Sanhedrin, a buffer organization between Rome and the Jewish nation, was composed of seventy-one members who held near complete freedom in religious matters and restricted power in political matters.
Mark 1:9–11 (ESV)
\nIn those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
Colossians 1:15–20 (ESV)
\nHe is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 11:12-26
C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
\n“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."
Isaiah 56:1–8 (ESV)
\nThus says the Lord: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my righteousness be revealed. Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.” Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.” For thus says the Lord: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant, I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. “And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant— these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.” The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares, “I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered.”
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\nJeremiah 7:1–15 (ESV)
\nThe word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’ “For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever. “Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord. Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel. And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer, therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of Ephraim.
Peter C. Craigie - Jeremiah - Word Biblical Commentary
\nIn a rhetorical fashion, the prophet invites the throngs of pilgrims at Jerusalem’s temple to take a pilgrimage to Shiloh and see what happened there. It too had been a place where God’s presence was established, but now it was in ruins. The reason for ruin was equally clear to the prophet, for its demise was “because of the evil of my people” (v 12). A temple or shrine, in other words, which was the symbolic location of God’s presence among his people, provided no absolute security; God could be driven out of his temple by evil, and when that happened, sooner or later the place would collapse in ruin. Thus, Jeremiah drew upon the resources of contemporary “archaeology” to drive home his point; the stones and ruins of Shiloh, only a few miles north of Jerusalem and known no doubt to the prophet’s audience, had a story to tell.
John Piper - Bloodlines
\nOver and over, Jesus shows that the people of God will no longer be defined in an ethnic way.… The new people that he is calling into existence is defined not by race or ethnicity or political ties, but by “producing the fruit of the kingdom.” This will mean a new global family made up of believers in Christ from every ethnic group on the planet. And it will mean that those who love that vision will work toward local manifestations of that ethnic diversity. Jesus is the end of ethnocentrism—globally and locally. Not color but faith in Christ is the mark of the kingdom. But it is a mighty long journey. And the price is high. Jesus was on the Calvary road every step of the way. He knew what it would finally cost him. It would cost him his life. But his heart was in it. To the end.
1 Peter 2:4–8 (ESV)
\nAs you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
Matthew 6:5–15 (ESV)
\n“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Tim Keller - Jesus the King
\nThere is a final irony to all of this. Jesus, who unites such apparent extremes of character into such an integrated and balanced whole, demands an extreme response from every one of us. He forces our hand at every turn in the story. This man who throws open the gates of his kingdom to everyone, then warns the most devout insiders that their standing in the kingdom is in jeopardy without fruitfulness, is forever closing down our options. This man who can be weakened by a touch in a crowd on his way to bring a little girl back from the dead is a man you dare not tear your eyes from. (And we haven’t even yet witnessed the true depths of his restraint or the heights of his power.)
He is both the rest and the storm, both the victim and the wielder of the flaming sword, and you must accept him or reject him on the basis of both. Either you’ll have to kill him or you’ll have to crown him. The one thing you can’t do is just say, “What an interesting guy.” Those teachers of the law who began plotting to kill Jesus at the end of this episode in the temple—they may have been dead wrong about him, but their reaction makes perfect sense.
Please don’t try to keep Jesus on the periphery of your life. He cannot remain there. Give yourself to him—center your entire life on him—and let his power reproduce his character in you.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 11:12-26
Luke 3:7–9 (ESV)
\nHe said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
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\nHebrews 13:8 (ESV)
\nJesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
John 15:1–6 (ESV)
\n“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
\nKent Hughes - Mark: Jesus, Servant and Savior - Preaching the Word
\nThe reason Jesus cursed the barren fig tree was because he wanted it to become a visual parable of what was happening to Israel. In actuality he honored that tree, making it the most useful tree that ever grew! It was, and is, a tree from which thousands have learned about themselves and turned back to God. If one soul has been made to consider its life through that tree, it did not wither in vain.
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\nGalatians 5:16–26 (ESV)
\nBut I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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\nRomans 6:20–23 (ESV)
\nFor when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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\nColossians 1:9–14 (ESV)
\nAnd so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
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\nJames 3:13–18 (ESV)
\nWho is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
\n1 Peter 4:6–11 (ESV)
\nFor this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does. The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Tim Keller - Jesus the King
\nThere is a final irony to all of this. Jesus, who unites such apparent extremes of character into such an integrated and balanced whole, demands an extreme response from every one of us. He forces our hand at every turn in the story. This man who throws open the gates of his kingdom to everyone, then warns the most devout insiders that their standing in the kingdom is in jeopardy without fruitfulness, is forever closing down our options. This man who can be weakened by a touch in a crowd on his way to bring a little girl back from the dead is a man you dare not tear your eyes from. (And we haven’t even yet witnessed the true depths of his restraint or the heights of his power.)
He is both the rest and the storm, both the victim and the wielder of the flaming sword, and you must accept him or reject him on the basis of both. Either you’ll have to kill him or you’ll have to crown him. The one thing you can’t do is just say, “What an interesting guy.” Those teachers of the law who began plotting to kill Jesus at the end of this episode in the temple—they may have been dead wrong about him, but their reaction makes perfect sense.
Please don’t try to keep Jesus on the periphery of your life. He cannot remain there. Give yourself to him—center your entire life on him—and let his power reproduce his character in you.
Preacher: Ryan Fast
\nScripture: Acts 8:26-31
Special Guest: Ryan Fast.
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\nScripture: Mark 10:32-52
Mark 8:31 (ESV)
\nAnd he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.
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\nMark 9:31 (ESV)
\nfor he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.”
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\nIsaiah 53:10–12 (ESV)
\nYet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
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\nDaniel 7:13–14 (ESV)
\n“I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
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\n1 Peter 4:13 (ESV)
\nBut rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
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\nActs 12:1–3 (ESV)
\nAbout that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. He killed James the brother of John with the sword, and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread.
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\nJohn 14:15 (ESV)
\nIf you love me, you will keep my commandments.
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\nJohn 17:14 (ESV)
\nI have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 10:17-31
Bonhoeffer - The Cost Of Discipleship
\nThe young man seeks an answer to his question. The answer is: Jesus Christ. The young man wanted to hear the word of a good master, but now he has to recognize that this Word is actually the man himself whom he is questioning. The young man is standing before Jesus, the Son of God. The full encounter is present. The only choices are yes or no, obedience or disobedience. The young man’s answer is no. He went away sadly; he was disappointed and had lost his hope, but he still could not abandon his past. He had a lot of property. The call to discipleship here has no other content than Jesus Christ himself, being bound to him, community with him. But the existence of a disciple does not consist in enthusiastic respect for a good master. Instead, it is obedience toward the Son of God.
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\nHebrews 13:5 (ESV)
\nKeep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
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\nJames Edwards - PNTC The Gospel According To Mark
\nJesus does not teach or uphold poverty as an ideal, but he does, as here, regard the awareness of need that results from poverty as a blessing. The greatest enemies to faith and obedience are self-satisfaction and pride, and nothing removes those bulwarks more effectively than poverty....To be sure, wealth is a potential danger to faith. Wealth is not categorically condemned by Jesus, however. Neither the unnamed woman of 14:3–9 nor Joseph of Arimathea (15:43; Matt 27:57) is either questioned or condemned in Mark, although both are wealthy. For this man wealth is an actual danger, as it doubtlessly is for most disciples, for it prevented him from doing the one thing necessary for salvation. Wealth can and often does exist in other than material forms. Anything that causes disciples to forget their poverty and childlikeness before God and that prevents them from following Jesus Christ—this, too, is a camel before the eye of a needle.
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\nMark 9:23 (ESV)
\nAnd Jesus said to him, “ ‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
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\nPhilippians 2:4–8 (ESV)
\nLet each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
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\nActs 2:42–47 (ESV)
\nAnd they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
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\n1 Peter 4:12–19 (ESV)
\nBeloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And “If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?” Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
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\nMatthew 7:12–14 (ESV)
\n“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
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Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 10:13-16
Genesis 48:8–10 (ESV)
\nWhen Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he said, “Who are these?” Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them.” Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
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\nPsalm 70:4 (ESV)
\nMay all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you! May those who love your salvation say evermore, “God is great!”
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\nMark 9:36–37 (ESV)
\nAnd he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”
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\nMark 9:42 (ESV)
\nWhoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
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\nMark 1:15 (ESV)
\nand saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
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\nEphesians 2:8–9 (ESV)
\nFor by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
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\nEdwards PNTC The Gospel According to Mark
\nWe are not innocent and eager, but slow, disbelieving, and cowardly. In this story children are not blessed for their virtues but for what they lack: they come only as they are—small, powerless, without sophistication, as the overlooked and dispossessed of society. To receive the kingdom of God as a child is to receive it as one who has no credits, no clout, no claims.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 9:42-50
John 1:12–13 (ESV)
\nBut to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
1 Corinthians 8:8–13 (ESV)
\nFood will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV)
\nFor our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
John Owen, The Mortification of Sin
\nDo you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
\nCostly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: 'Ye were bought at a price', and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us. Above all, it is grace because God did not reckon his Son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up for us. Costly grace is the Incarnation of God.
Romans 12:1–2 (ESV)
\nI appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
\nScripture: Mark 9:30-41
Isaiah 53:8–12 (ESV)
\nBy oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
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\nPhilippians 2:8–11 (ESV)
\nAnd being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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\nPhilippians 2:3–7 (ESV)
\nDo nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
James Edwards in Pillar
\nAt no point does the way of Jesus diverge more sharply from the way of the world than on the question of greatness. Jesus does not exactly repudiate prominence and greatness, but he redefines them. The challenge is to be great in things that matter to God. Nothing is greater in God’s eyes than giving, and no vocation affords the opportunity to give more than that of a servant (10:43).
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Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 9:14–29
Mark 1:15 (ESV)
\nand saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Mark 6:7, 12-13 (ESV)
\nAnd he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits... So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent. And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them.
John 20:30–31 (ESV)
\nNow Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
John 10:10 (ESV)
\nThe thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
2 Peter 1:5–8 (ESV)
\nFor this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Tim Keller - Jesus the King
\nThis man asks Jesus, “Would you heal my son?” And Jesus says, “Everything is possible for him who believes.” That is, “I can do it if you can believe.” The father responds, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”—that is, “I’m trying but I’m full of doubts.” Then Jesus heals the man’s son. This is very good news. Through Jesus we don’t need perfect righteousness, just repentant helplessness, to access the presence of God.
Charles Spurgeon
\nPrayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer- pray till you can pray.
Acts 16:31 (ESV)
\nAnd they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household."
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Revelation 21:1-6
2 Peter 3:13 (ESV)
\nBut according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Isaiah 65:17–19 (ESV)
\nFor behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people to be a gladness. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress.
Isaiah 35:10 (ESV)
\n_ And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away._
Leviticus 26:11–12 (ESV)
\nI will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.
12 And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
John 1:14 (ESV)
\nAnd the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Luke 2:10–14 (ESV)
\nAnd the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.” And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
Hebrews 2:9 (ESV)
\nBut we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
Robert Mounce - NICNT
\nEternal blessedness is couched in negation because the new and glorious order is more easily pictured in terms of what it replaces than by an attempt to describe what is largely inconceivable in our present state.
Psalm 73:26 (ESV)
\nMy flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
1 John 5:20 (ESV)
\nAnd we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Hebrews 9:15 (ESV)
\nTherefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
1 Corinthians 6:9–11 (ESV)
\nOr do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 27:1-5
C. S. Lewis
\nThe books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
Matthew 13:44–46
\nThe kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Alexander Pope
\nAgain, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it. "One master passion in the breast.
Like Aaron’s serpent, swallows up the rest.
Charles Spurgeon's Notes on Andrew Gray in “Gospel Contrasts and Parallels.”
\nAnother thing, which we may call an element of beauty in God, is the combination of his various attributes in one harmonious whole. The colours of the rainbow are beautiful, when taken one by one: but there is a beauty in the rainbow, which arises not from any single tint; there is a beauty in it which would not exist if the several hues were assumed in succession—a beauty which is the result of their assemblage and collocation, and consists in their blended radiance. In like manner do the several perfections, which co-exist and unite in the nature of God, produce a glorious beauty. Holiness is beautiful; mercy is beautiful; truth is beautiful. But, over and above, there is a beauty which belongs to such combinations and harmonies as the Psalmist describes, when he tells us, “Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.” “Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep,” etc.
Psalm 85:10
\nSteadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
Psalm 36:5–6
\nYour steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
Isaiah 33:17
\nYour eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar.
Isaiah 53:2–3
\nFor he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Colossians 1:19
\nFor in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
John 14:9
\nJesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
John 17:24
\nFather, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Augustine of Hippo
\nToo late did I love you, O Beauty, so ancient, and yet so new! Too late did I love you! For behold, you were within, and I without, and there did I seek you; I, unlovely, rushed heedlessly among the things of beauty you made. You were with me, but I was not with you. Those things kept me far from you, which, unless they were in you, were not. You called, and cried aloud, and forced open my deafness. You gleamed and shined, and chased away my blindness. You exhaled odours, and I drew in my breath and panted after you. I tasted, and hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.
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Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Acts 17:16–34
N.T. Wright Simply Christian
\nThe Christian explanation of the renewed interest in spirituality is quite straightforward. If anything like the Christian story is in fact true (in other words, if there is a God whom we can know most clearly in Jesus), this is exactly what we should expect; because in Jesus we glimpse a God who loves people and wants them to know and respond to that love. In fact, this is what we should expect if any of the stories told by religious people—that is, the great majority of people who have ever lived—are true: if there is any kind of divine force or being, it is at least thinkable that humans would find some kind of engagement with this being or power to be an attractive or at least interesting phenomenon.
F.F. Bruce NICNT
\nBut there was in Athens a venerable institution, the Court of the Areopagus, which exercised jurisdiction in matters of religion and morals. This aristocratic body, of venerable antiquity, received its name from the Areopagus, the “hill of Ares” (the Greek god of war), southwest of the Acropolis, on which it traditionally met... Its traditional power was curtailed with the growth of Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., but in Roman times its authority was enhanced and it commanded great respect. Before this body, then, Paul was brought, not to stand trial in a forensic sense, nor yet to be examined with a view to being licensed as a public lecturer, but simply to have an opportunity of expounding his teaching before experts.
Kent Hughes Preach The Word
\nPaul began dialoguing with anyone who would talk, and he found three groups of hearers—those who were religious (“the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks”), street-variety pagans, and intellectual philosopher-types called “Epicurean and Stoic philosophers.” The latter two groups represented the competing philosophies of the day. The Epicureans believed that everything happens by chance, and death is the end—extinction with no afterlife. They believed there are gods, but those gods have nothing to do with the world. They were practical agnostics who believed pleasure is the chief end of man and that a simple lifestyle is the most pleasurable. The Stoics were pantheists, believing that everything is god and that whatever happened to them was their destiny. Consequently, they sought to live with apathy and detachment—fatalistic resignation. Together, these two philosophies represented the popular pagan alternatives for dealing with the plight of humanity apart from Christ. Epicureanism? Simple lifestyle. Stoicism? Apathy. Both were highly intellectual, and both lacked divine validation. How would they respond to the gospel Paul preached?
1 Peter 5:7
\ncasting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Ephesians 2:10
\nFor we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Revelation 12:10
\nAnd I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Genesis 1:26–27
Paul Tripp - Do You Believe?
\n'Like God' is an amazing thing to declare. 'Made in his image' is a profound announcement. But these are the things God immediately declares upon creating Adam and Eve. In those words he is defining their identity and the utter uniqueness of their relationship to him. Adam and Eve are not just part of the catalog of creatures that God made. They are above, they are special, and they are christened with a dignity that separates them from everything else. We must not ever forget this foundational definition of who human beings are. With these words God names the intrinsic worth of people. This worth is never earned and cannot be taken away. To be human is to have dignity and worth because you carry the image of God himself.
Psalm 139:13–16
\nFor you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
John 17:20–23
\nI do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Paul Tripp - Do You Believe?
\nGod designed this little one to be able to know him, relate to him, love him, talk to him, and worship him. These capacities separated Adam and Eve from the rest of creation as they did this little one that I held in my hands. She was made for God, she was made to live with God, she was made to listen to God, she was made to obey God, and she was made to offer her heart to God in awe, wonder, and worship. Human spirituality is at the core of who human beings are, why they were made, and what should motivate how they live. Humans were designed with a catalog of spiritual capacities. The ability to think, the capacity to give and receive communication in language, the ability to feel a range of emotions—from love to hate and everything in between—and the motivation to worship were all designed by God because human beings were made to “live and move and have our being” in him (Acts 17:28).
Psalm 95:6
\nOh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
N. T. Wright - Simply Christian
\n... Because you were made in God’s image, worship makes you more truly human. When you gaze in love and gratitude at the God in whose image you were made, you do indeed grow. You discover more of what it means to be fully alive. Conversely, when you give that same total worship to anything or anyone else, you shrink as a human being. It doesn’t, of course, feel like that at the time. When you worship part of the creation as though it were the creator himself—in other words, when you worship an idol—it may well give you a brief ‘high’. But like a hallucinatory drug, it achieves its effect at a cost. And when the effect is over, you are less of a human being than you were to begin with. That is the price of idolatry.
2 Corinthians 5:17–21
\nTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Jeremiah 23:1–8
N. T. Wright Simply Christian
\nOur passion for justice often seems like that. We dream the dream of justice. We glimpse, for a moment, a world at one, a world put to rights, a world where things work out, where societies function healthily, where I not only know what I ought to do but actually do it. And then we wake up and come back to reality. But what are we hearing when we are dreaming that dream?
Psalm 100:3
\nKnow that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
echariah 7:8–11
\nAnd the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.
N. T. Wright Simply Christian
\nYou don’t have to teach children about fairness and unfairness. A sense of justice comes with the kit of being human. We know about it, as we say, in our bones.
Zechariah 6:12–13
\nAnd say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: for he shall branch out from his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD. It is he who shall build the temple of the LORD and shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule on his throne. And there shall be a priest on his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.”'
Isaiah 9:6–7
\nFor to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Philip Ryken
\nBack in chapter 5, God promised that he would forgive his people if Jeremiah could find just one good man. The prophet searched high and low. He walked up the streets and down the alleys, but he could not find even one man to be righteous for the people.
In chapter 23, Jeremiah finally finds his man. This Good Shepherd, this Son of David, this Wise King will be righteous for his people. In some way—perhaps even beyond Jeremiah’s comprehension—the goodness, integrity, and moral perfection of the Righteous Branch would belong to God’s people. His righteousness would be credited to their account.
Luke 1:32–33
\nHe will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.
1 Peter 2:10
\nOnce you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
N. T. Wright
\n“The prophet Isaiah, in line with several Psalms and other biblical passages, had spoken of God’s coming kingdom as the time when (a) God’s promises and purposes would be fulfilled; (b) Israel would be rescued from pagan oppression; (c) evil (particularly the evil of oppressive empires) would be judged; and (d) God would usher in a new reign of justice and peace. Daniel had envisaged a coming time when the monsters (i.e. the pagan empires) would do their worst, and God would vindicate his people to set everything straight. The world was to be turned the right way up at last. To speak of God’s kingdom arriving in the present was to summon up that entire narrative, and to declare that it was reaching its climax. God’s future was breaking in to the present. Heaven was arriving on earth.”
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 9:2-13
Exodus 33:18–23
\nMoses said, “Please show me your glory.” And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” And the LORD said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.”
1 Kings 19:9–18
\nThere he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” He said, “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.” And he said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the LORD.” And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper. And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” He said, “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.” And the LORD said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place. And the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha put to death. Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
Malachi 4:4–6
\n“Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
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\nHebrews 3:1–6
\nTherefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
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\n Tim Keller Jesus the King
\n"One thing is clear to the disciples, though. By speaking of his resurrection here, Jesus is again pointing to his death. Remember that when Jesus told them, “I’m the Messiah, but I’m going to suffer and die,” Peter rebuked Jesus. Here again Peter and the others push back, but this time they’re a little more cagey: “Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?” they ask. The Old Testament book of Malachi prophesied that Elijah would return before the great Day of the Lord, when God will appear and make everything right. So the disciples are saying, “Hey, we just saw Elijah up there. The Day of the Lord must be near! Why all this talk about death? Elijah is here.” Jesus lays them flat: “I tell you, Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him.” Jesus is saying, “The Elijah that the prophet was pointing to was John the Baptist, and he has suffered and died. Elijah has come and gone.” And he repeats that “it is written that the Son of Man must suffer much.” Just as Elijah’s coming was a herald of the Lord’s coming, so Elijah’s execution (John the Baptist had been beheaded by Herod) is a herald of the Lord’s execution."
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\n2 Peter 1:16–21
\nFor we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,” we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
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\nHebrews 1:1–4
\nLong ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 8:31–9:1
Daniel 7:13–14
\nI saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
Rankin Wilbourne & Brian Gregor
\nJesus is God’s response to suffering. God became human, and being fully human he suffered. God submitted to the same constraints of all suffering flesh: hunger, thirst, fatigue, temptation, and death ... Hebrews 2:9 tells us that Jesus tasted death for all. Those who suffer can know that God is not a distant, dispassionate observer but a God who endured suffering and death himself. The cross is God’s solidarity with human suffering.
Isaiah 53:10–11
\nYet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Hosea 6:1–3
\nCome, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him. Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.
Hebrews 2:9–10
\nBut we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.
1 Corinthians 2:1–5
\nAnd I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Deitrich Bonhoeffer
\nThe cross is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering which every man must experience is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. It is that dying of the old man which is the result of his encounter with Christ. As we embark upon discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ in union with his death—we give over our lives to death. Thus it begins; the cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise god-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.… But it is the same death every time—death in Jesus Christ, the death of the old man at his call. Jesus’ summons to the rich young man was calling him to die, because only the man who is dead to his own will can follow Christ. In fact every command of Jesus is a call to die, with all our affections and lusts. But we do not want to die, and therefore Jesus Christ and his call are necessarily our death as well as our life. The call to discipleship, the baptism in the name of Jesus Christ means both death and life.
Philippians 1:29
\nFor it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake
1 Peter 4:12–14 & 19
\nBeloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 8:27-30
Mark 6:14–16
\nKing Herod heard of it, for Jesus’ name had become known. Some said, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead. That is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.” But others said, “He is Elijah.” And others said, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.” But when Herod heard of it, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised.”
Malachi 4:5–6
\n“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
James Edwards
\nNo OT personality held such fascination for first-century Judaism as Elijah. The reason lay not in his deeds, for the accomplishments of other OT figures— Abraham, Moses, David, even Joshua—exceeded Elijah’s. The reason lay in the report that Elijah had been taken bodily to heaven (2 Kgs 2:11) where he was believed to oversee the deeds of mortals, to comfort the faithful and help the needy, and, above all, to return as forerunner of the great and terrible Day of the Lord (Mal 3:1; 4:5–6).
Mark 4:41
\nAnd they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
Matthew 16:13–20
\nNow when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.
Jeremiah Fyffe -
\nThe focus of the messianic prophecy was on the result and not the means. They were looking for fruitful results without Jesus’ faithful means.
Ben Witherington
\nPeter is indeed the representative of the Twelve, but he represents both their insight and their blindness, with this pericope revealing both sides of this reality. By calling Jesus Messiah, Peter sees Jesus as God’s anointed, and so most blessed, one. But there appears to have been little or no expectation in early Judaism that Messiah would come and suffer. Peter obviously doesn’t understand Jesus’ messianic vocation yet, and Mark, for his part, wants to make evident that until one understands who Jesus is, one cannot understand why he had to die. Thus Peter’s confession, while true, is not the whole truth about Jesus.
C.S. Lewis -
\nI am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. . . . Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 8:1-26
Mark 1:14-15
\nNow after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Luke 17:20-21
\nBeing asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed, 21 nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you."
Isaiah 61:1-3
\nIsaiah 35:5-6
1 Peter 1:8-9
\nThough you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
Hebrews 11:1
\nNow faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Romans 1:16 & 17
\nFor I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith."
Romans 10:8-13
\nBut what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 7:31–37
PNTC James Edwards
\nThe presence of mogilalos in v. 32 links our story unmistakably to the Isaiah quotation. Since Mark is writing for Roman Gentiles, he only infrequently appeals to OT proof texts. On the few occasions when he fortifies his literary architecture with OT reinforcements, however, they are load-bearing beams. .... The allusion to Isaiah 35 is of supreme significance for Mark’s presentation of Jesus, not only because the restoration of speech to a mogilalos signals the eschatological arrival of the Day of the Lord but also because the desert wastelands of Lebanon (Isa 35:2) will receive the joy of God. The regions of Tyre and Sidon are, of course, precisely the Lebanon of Isaiah 35. Jesus’ healing of this particular mogilalos in the Decapolis becomes the firstfruit of the fulfillment of Isa 35:10, that Gentile Lebanon will join “the ransomed of the Lord [and] enter Zion with singing”! Salvation thus comes to the Gentile world in Jesus, who is God’s eschatological redeemer from Zion. As we have noted before, the only categories adequate for Mark to describe the person and work of Jesus are ultimately the categories of God. Once again, as in the story of the Syrophoenician woman (7:24–30), “salvation is from the Jews” (John 4:22).
\nPsalm 121:1-2 "I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:1-2
\nI lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Acts 3:18-21 - 18
\nBut what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled. 19 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, 20 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, 21 whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.
Tim Keller in Kings Cross
\nIsaiah says the Messiah will come to save us “with divine retribution.” But Jesus isn’t smiting people. He’s not taking out his sword. He’s not taking power; he’s giving it away. He’s not taking over the world; he’s serving it. Where’s the divine retribution? And the answer is, he didn’t come to bring divine retribution; he came to bear it.
Mark 10:45
\nFor even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Isaiah 35:9-10
\nNo lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there. 10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 6:53-7:23
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 6:45–52
Psalm 46:1
\nGod is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Exodus 3:17
\nGod said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
Job 9:8&11
\nwho alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;…Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
John 14:6 - 6
\n_Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. _
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 6:7–13
Mark 3:13-15
\nAnd he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach and have authority to cast out demons.
Exodus 12:11
\nIn this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.
Luke 22:35
\nAnd he said to them, “When I sent you out with no moneybag or knapsack or sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”
Acts 13:48-52
\nAnd when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region. But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district. But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and went to Iconium. And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
Mark 9:48
\nwhere their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.
2 Cor 5:20
\nTherefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Mark 6:30
\nThe apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 6:1–6
Isaiah 53:1-3
\nWho has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
1 Peter 2:6-8
\nFor it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
Philippians 2:5-8
\nHave this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Philippians 2:9-11
\nTherefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Mark 1:15 - The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.
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\nScripture: Mark 5:21–43
Hebrews 12:1-2
\nTherefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Augustine
\nFlesh Presses, Faith Touches
Ephesians 2:8
\nFor by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.
Galatians 2:20
\nI have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Ephesians 5:14b
\nAwake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 5:1–20
Ephesians 6:12
\nFor we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Pillar Commentary
\nThus Jesus meets a man with an unclean spirit living among unclean tombs surrounded by people employed in unclean occupations, all in unclean Gentile territory.
Philippians 2:9-11
\nTherefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Revelation 3:9
\nBehold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you.
Matthew 5:42
\nGive to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
The Great Commission of Matthew 28
\nGo therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 4:31-35
Mark 1:15
\nThe time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.
Mark 2:17
\nAnd when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Proverbs 16:6
\nBy steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: 1 John 1:5-10
2 Samuel 22:31
\nThis God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
Psalm 99:5
\nExalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!
David Allen
\nGrammatically this is the strongest way to express emphatic negation. Not only is God light, but there is absolutely no darkness, not one scintilla of darkness (moral imperfection) in him. In him is no shade, speck, or stain of moral imperfection. In him is no fault, failure, or falsehood. In him is no deceit, deviation, or dishonesty. Physical darkness is a terrible thing. “There is no distance in darkness. Darkness is limitation, darkness is imprisonment; there is no jail with walls so thick and impenetrable as darkness.” Darkness is an apt metaphor to describe sin. Unlike my heart and your heart where the light of the gospel shines, but where sometimes there may be pockets of sin that we allow to go unchecked, God in his character and nature possesses no moral imperfection whatsoever.
John 12:44-46
\nWhoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
Ephesians 2:10
\nFor we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
1 Peter 1:14-16
\nAs obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
David Allen
\nIf we say we have fellowship with God, yet our life is lived in the darkness of sin and not in the light of truth, we are liars and are not “doing” the truth. It is interesting that in John 3:21 John records Jesus speaking of the one who “does what is true.” Jesus says such a person “comes to the light.” John picks up on both concepts of “light” and “doing the truth” from Jesus and uses them here in his letter.
Romans 12:1-2
\nI appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
John 8:12
\nI am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
Hebrews 13:20–21
\nNow may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: 1 John 1:1-4
Colossians 1:15,19-20
\nHe is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation…. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
1 Peter 1:20-21
\nHe was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
John 15:5
\nI am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:9-11
\nAs the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
Charles Spurgeon
\nWhat an evidence of our Savior’s deep attachment to His people that He is not content with having made their ultimate salvation sure, but He is anxious concerning their present state of mind! He delights that His people should not only be safe, but happy; not merely saved, but rejoicing in His salvation. Hear this, people of God! The object of the revelation of Jesus Christ is that you may have joy—indeed, that you may have a heart full of joy, and that you may know what full joy means. Here below, we get but drops and dashes of joy unless we are brought into fellowship with God through Jesus Christ; then, we have the very joy of God in our souls. Oh, the delight of it! Oh, that you could all know it to the full!
Colossians 3:9-10
\nDo not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
James K.A. Smith
\nOur wants and longings and desires are at the core of our identity, the wellspring from which our actions and behavior flow.
Citizens
\nO the joy to be, joy to know
\nIt's when I decrease, You fill up my soul
\nWhat a joy to see, joy to hold
\nIt's when You increase, I want nothing more
Preacher: Justin Serra
Special Guest: Justin Serra.
","summary":"Part 8 of the Fight for Joy Series: Our prayer is that we, as pastors from the CrossPointe family of churches, will bring the wisdom of Christ and his gospel to bear upon these patterns of sin that so often appear in our lives.","date_published":"2021-07-25T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/fe277102-7ba0-4c42-a210-1999c5b9e690.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":22642720,"duration_in_seconds":2503}]},{"id":"a225dcc2-20f7-44ac-9c76-cbd127ab3f96","title":"The Hollow Foolishness of Envy","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/fightforjoy07","content_text":"Preacher: Joel Fair","content_html":"Preacher: Joel Fair
","summary":"Part 7 of the Fight for Joy Series: Our prayer is that we, as pastors from the CrossPointe family of churches, will bring the wisdom of Christ and his gospel to bear upon these patterns of sin that so often appear in our lives.","date_published":"2021-07-18T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/a225dcc2-20f7-44ac-9c76-cbd127ab3f96.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":69738626,"duration_in_seconds":2041}]},{"id":"6ee746b1-c9b4-4d7d-b8a9-633a469e9dfb","title":"The Folly of Pride","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/fightforjoy06","content_text":"Preacher: Chris CervenySpecial Guest: Chris Cerveny.","content_html":"Preacher: Chris Cerveny
Special Guest: Chris Cerveny.
","summary":"Part 6 of the Fight for Joy Series: Our prayer is that we, as pastors from the CrossPointe family of churches, will bring the wisdom of Christ and his gospel to bear upon these patterns of sin that so often appear in our lives.","date_published":"2021-07-11T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/6ee746b1-c9b4-4d7d-b8a9-633a469e9dfb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":20776624,"duration_in_seconds":2452}]},{"id":"c4f9e801-e731-43f0-902b-ca681c4dcd54","title":"Proverbs 6:20-35 | The Alluring Folly of Lust","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/fightforjoy05","content_text":"Preacher: Joel Fair\nScripture: Proverbs 6:20–35\n\n\nWalk in the Instruction of the Father - Vs 20 - 24\nWhat is Lust? - Vs 25-35\n\n\nWhy do we have sexual desire?\nLust Versus Love\n\nWhat is Joy? - Jesus Loves\n\n\nPsalm 16:11 - You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.\n\nJohn Piper on why God gave us sexual desires\nGod created human beings in his image — male and female he created them, with capacities for intense sexual pleasure, and with a calling to commitment in marriage and continence in singleness. And his goal in creating human beings with personhood and passion was to make sure that there would be sexual language and sexual images that would point to the promises and the pleasures of God’s relationship to his people and our relationship to him. In other words, the ultimate reason (not the only one) why we are sexual is to make God more deeply knowable. The language and imagery of sexuality is the most graphic and most powerful that the Bible uses to describe the relationship between God and his people — both positively (when we are faithful) and negatively (when we are not).\n\nJames 1:14-15\nBut each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.\n\nWilliam Arnot, Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth: Illustrations of the Book of Proverbs\nThe difference between an unconverted man and a converted man is not that one has sins and the other has none; but that the one takes part with his cherished sins against a dreaded God, and the other takes part with a reconciled God against his hated sins.\n\nRay Ortland\nIf only evil were always ugly, life would be simpler. If only everything were color-coded to make it obvious, if only there were warning labels on all the poisons. But in this world disaster can be attractive. ‘Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light’ (2 Corinthians 11:14). He is magnificent. But does the magnificent devil know how to build a relationship? He seems so successful, but does he know how to live? The truth is, he is a fool, and he wants to make us his fools as we step on his well-concealed land mines.\n\nTim Keller\nWhen over the years someone has seen you at your worst, and knows you with all your strengths and flaws, yet commits him- or herself to you wholly, it is a consummate experience. To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.\n\nEphesians 3:14-19\nFor this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.","content_html":"Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Proverbs 6:20–35
Psalm 16:11 - You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
\n\nJohn Piper on why God gave us sexual desires
\nGod created human beings in his image — male and female he created them, with capacities for intense sexual pleasure, and with a calling to commitment in marriage and continence in singleness. And his goal in creating human beings with personhood and passion was to make sure that there would be sexual language and sexual images that would point to the promises and the pleasures of God’s relationship to his people and our relationship to him. In other words, the ultimate reason (not the only one) why we are sexual is to make God more deeply knowable. The language and imagery of sexuality is the most graphic and most powerful that the Bible uses to describe the relationship between God and his people — both positively (when we are faithful) and negatively (when we are not).
James 1:14-15
\nBut each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
William Arnot, Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth: Illustrations of the Book of Proverbs
\nThe difference between an unconverted man and a converted man is not that one has sins and the other has none; but that the one takes part with his cherished sins against a dreaded God, and the other takes part with a reconciled God against his hated sins.
Ray Ortland
\nIf only evil were always ugly, life would be simpler. If only everything were color-coded to make it obvious, if only there were warning labels on all the poisons. But in this world disaster can be attractive. ‘Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light’ (2 Corinthians 11:14). He is magnificent. But does the magnificent devil know how to build a relationship? He seems so successful, but does he know how to live? The truth is, he is a fool, and he wants to make us his fools as we step on his well-concealed land mines.
Tim Keller
\nWhen over the years someone has seen you at your worst, and knows you with all your strengths and flaws, yet commits him- or herself to you wholly, it is a consummate experience. To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
Ephesians 3:14-19
\nFor this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Preacher: James Repp
Special Guest: James Repp.
","summary":"Part 4 of the Fight for Joy Series: Our prayer is that we, as pastors from the CrossPointe family of churches, will bring the wisdom of Christ and his gospel to bear upon these patterns of sin that so often appear in our lives.","date_published":"2021-06-27T12:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/9d7f5ee0-2c47-4bf2-aa1f-1b5a630af4dc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":15700048,"duration_in_seconds":1845}]},{"id":"7e50d64d-fa85-4d68-a7d1-57db400d848c","title":"Proverbs 23:19-21 | The Folly of Feeding Our Consuming Appetite","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/fightforjoy03","content_text":"Preacher: Joel Fair\nScripture: Proverbs 23:19-21\n\n\nThe Folly of Feeding Our Consuming Appetite\nA Consuming Appetite\nThe Void Left By Dissatisfaction\nA Satisfied Soul\nFrom Consumption to Contribution\n\n\nProverbs 23:19-21\nHear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way. Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.\n\nProverbs 13:25\nThe righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked suffers want.\n\nDeuteronomy 21:18-21\nIf a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.\n\nEcclesiastes 6:7\nAll the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.\n\nProverbs 19:23\nThe fear of the LORD leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.\n\nPsalm 107:9\nFor he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.\n\nJeremiah 31:14\nI will feast the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, declares the LORD.\n\nMatthew 11:16-19\nBut to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, “ ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.\n\nDeuteronomy 21:22-23\nAnd if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.\n\n2 Cor 8:8-9\n_I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich _\n\nIsaiah 55:1-2\nCome, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.\n\nGospel Partnership Manual\nIn response to the gospel we will leverage our time, talent and treasure to further the mission of God for the glory of God. At CrossPointe we are calling all of our partners to a life of contribution (stewardship). This fleshes itself out in three distinct, yet overlapping areas of our lives: time, talent and treasure. To steward something is to realize that it is not ours, but has been given by God to use for the benefit of others. As the gospel works in us, we get the opportunity to have the gospel work through us and to experience the joy that comes from a lifestyle of contribution\n\n1 Corinthians 10:31\nSo, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.","content_html":"Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Proverbs 23:19-21
Proverbs 23:19-21
\nHear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way. Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
Proverbs 13:25
\nThe righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked suffers want.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
\nIf a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Ecclesiastes 6:7
\nAll the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.
Proverbs 19:23
\nThe fear of the LORD leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.
Psalm 107:9
\nFor he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.
Jeremiah 31:14
\nI will feast the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, declares the LORD.
Matthew 11:16-19
\nBut to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, “ ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.
Deuteronomy 21:22-23
\nAnd if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
2 Cor 8:8-9
\n_I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich _
Isaiah 55:1-2
\nCome, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.
Gospel Partnership Manual
\nIn response to the gospel we will leverage our time, talent and treasure to further the mission of God for the glory of God. At CrossPointe we are calling all of our partners to a life of contribution (stewardship). This fleshes itself out in three distinct, yet overlapping areas of our lives: time, talent and treasure. To steward something is to realize that it is not ours, but has been given by God to use for the benefit of others. As the gospel works in us, we get the opportunity to have the gospel work through us and to experience the joy that comes from a lifestyle of contribution
1 Corinthians 10:31
\nSo, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Proverbs 29-22
Psalm 14:1-3
\nThe fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
Hebrews 10:24
\nAnd let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works
Proverbs 15:18
\nA hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention
Romans 2:1
\nTherefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Proverbs 14:29
\nWhoever is slow to anger has great understanding
Exodus 34:6-7
\nThe LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Romans 3:21-26
\nBut now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
From the Valley Of Vision
\nIf traces of Christ’s love-artistry
\nbe upon me, may he work on
\nwith his divine brush until
\nthe complete image be
\nobtained and I be made a
\nperfect copy of him, my Master.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Proverbs 9
Tabletalk Magazine
\nWisdom is a virtual synonym for righteousness in the book of Proverbs—the prologue tells us these proverbs are given for wisdom and righteousness
Leland Ryken
\nWisdom is skill for living.This implies that wisdom focuses on practical daily living and ties in the author's task of observing life and human experience.
Deuteronomy 10:12-20
\nAnd now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul... You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear.
Psalm 53:1
\nThe fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.
Hebrews 12:1-2
\nTherefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 4:30-34
Genesis 1:27-28
\nSo God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 12:1-3
\nNow the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Isaiah 10:20-21
\nIn that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on him who struck them, but will lean on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
Mark 10:42-45
\nAnd Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
1 Peter 2:9-10
\nBut you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Revelation 7:9-10
\nAfter this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 4:26-29
The Unconnected
\nThe Growing Seed
\nThe Harvest
Pillar New Testament Commentary
\nOne could never imagine the conclusion from the beginning. Such is the kingdom of God.
Pillar New Testament Commentary
\nGod does not hurl the kingdom as Poseidon does his thunderbolt. God plants it as a seed, present even now in the ministry of Jesus, hidden and imperceptible, but portending both a harvest and judgment.
New Testament Commentary - William Hendriksen
\nThis parable stresses God's sovereignty as displayed in the matter of man's salvation and its effect in every sphere of life.
New Testament Commentary - William Hendriksen
\nIt had been active before but results had not been in great evidence. But now men and women, old and young, educated and unlettered, rich and poor, jubilantly confess their faith and show this in their lives. The Spirit is working mightily, always in connection with the Word, the gospel.
Isaiah 55:11
\nso shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Joel 3:13
\nPut in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.
James 5:7-8
\nBe patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
New Testament Commentary - William Hendriksen
\nSince it is true, therefore, that the power to sprout and grow has by God been embedded in the seed, and man can do nothing about this - after scattering the seed, all he can do is sleep and rise, sleep and rise - the harvest is assured. Christ's kingdom, his royal reign, shall expand and shall one day reveal itself in all its splendor.
1 Corinthians 3:6
\nI planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 4:21-25
Psalm 18:28
\nFor it is you who light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness.
Psalm 36:9
\nFor with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.
Psalm 118:27a
\nThe LORD is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us.
\nPsalm 119:105
\nYour word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
John 8:12
\nAgain Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
1 John 1:5
\nThis is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
2 Corinthians 4:4-6
\nIn their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:9
\nBut you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Revelation 22:5
\nAnd night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
John 3:16-21
\nFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.
Psalm 90:8
\nYou have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
Matthew 5:16
\nIn the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 4:1-20
Mark 3:14
\nAnd he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach
Psalm 119:11
\nI have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Isaiah 55:10-11
\nFor as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Matt 10:34-39
\nDo not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Hosea 10:12
\nSow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
Ezekiel 11:19-21
\nAnd I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.
Galatians 5:22-24
\nBut the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
1 Corinthians 3:7
\nSo neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Titus 1:1-9
Gospel of Grace & Godliness
\n2 Corinthians 8:16-17; 23-24
\nBut thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same earnest care I have for you. For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest he is going to you of his own accord. … As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for your benefit. And as for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ. So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.
Charles Spurgeon
\nThe gospel is something like an illustrated paper. The preacher’s words are the letterpress, but the pictures are the living men and women who form our churches. And like when people take up such a newspaper, they very often do not read the letterpress, but they always look at the pictures—so in a church: Outsiders may not come to hear the preacher, but they always consider, observe, and criticize the lives of the members.
Romans 12:4-5
\nFor by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 3:7-35
Pillar New Testament Commentary
\nThe status of insider or outsider is determined by one’s proximity and receptivity to Jesus.
Pillar New Testament Commentary
\nDiscipleship does not consist in what disciples can do for Christ, but in what Christ can make of disciples.
Kent Hughes
\nWhat he did mean was that there is a deeper kinship than flesh and blood, a spiritual kinship which is characterized by obedience to the Father
Pillar New Testament Commentary
\nThe disconcerting reference that Jesus “is out of his mind” reminds Mark’s readers that the religious authorities are not alone in their mistaken apprehensions of Jesus. Their opposition is the more explainable, for as outsiders they may be victims of ignorance, false reports, jealousy, or misguided zeal. The opposition of insiders is more troubling, for Jesus’ associates ought to be advocates, not adversaries. The very ambiguity of Mark’s wording, “the ones of him,” is a calculated reminder that those closest to Jesus may indeed oppose him, and that proximity to Jesus—even blood relationship or being called by Jesus—is no substitute for allegiance to Jesus in faith and following.
John 14:6-7
\nJesus says “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him."
Matthew 16:16-18
\nSimon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Matthew 7:21-23
\n“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Mark 8:33
\nBut turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.
\n"
Mark 3:35
\nFor whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.
Philippians 1:6
\nAnd I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 2:18–3:6
James Edwards
\nThe required fast on the Day of Atonement lasted a full twenty-four hours, whereas voluntary fasts as a rule extended only from dawn to dusk. Although not a legal requirement except in one instance, fast- ing had become in Jesus’ day a prerequisite of religious commitment, a sign of atonement of sin and humiliation and penitence before God, and a general aid to prayer. The rabbis often referred to fasting as “an affliction of the soul,” thereby designating it as a characteristic and sacrificial act of piety.
Luke 18:9-14
\nHe also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
John 16:20
\nTruly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
Matthew 5:17
\nDo not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Genesis 2:1-3
\nThus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
J. Woodhouse
\nMore than that, we may sense that God’s Law is intended to serve, not hinder, the coming of God’s kingdom. It is possible, as the Pharisees of Jesus’ day would prove again, to oppose God’s king in the name of obedience to God’s Law!
R. C. Sproul
\nThe hypocritical religious authorities provoked Him to anger. The Greek word Mark uses here is not the word used for simple annoyance or even righteous indignation. It is the word for fury. Jesus was outraged that the religious leaders cared more about their traditions than the welfare of a suffering human being. But His anger was mixed with pain. Mark tells us that Jesus was grieved in His soul at the hardness of their hearts. In other words, He had compassion for them, too.
Colossians 3:1-4
\nIf then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Preacher: Chris Cerveny
\nScripture: Mark 2:13-17
Special Guest: Chris Cerveny.
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\nScripture: Mark 2:1–12
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 1:40-45
Leviticus 14:1-9
\n\nLeviticus 14:19-20 - Atonement
\n\nMark 10:45
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\nScripture: Mark 1:29–39
Jesus Heals V29-34
\n\nPreach the Word Commentary
\nNote the manner in which Jesus healed her. Luke says in the parallel account that he stood over her and rebuked the fever (Luke 4:39). (Matthew 8:15) says he touched her. Here in Mark we read that he took her by the hand. Thus, we have a composite picture of Christ standing close to her bed, taking her by the hand, rebuking the fever, and gently raising her up before Peter and his wide-eyed friends.
Jesus Prays V35
\n\nPW Kent Hughes
\nE. Stanley Jones once described prayer as a “time exposure to God.” He used the analogy of his life being like a photographic plate which, when exposed to God, progressively bore the image of God in keeping with the length of exposure.
Jesus Proclaims V36-39
\n\nMark 10:45
\nFor even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\n\nRhythms of Mission - https://crosspointecoast.com/2021/01/globalmissionrhythms/
\n\nMatthew 28:18-20
\nAnd Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Luke 10:16
\n“The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
Mark 1:14b-15
\n....Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Romans Road to Salvation
\n\nJames 1:22-25
\nBut be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - The Cost of Discipleship
\nOnly he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
James 2:17-18
\nSo also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 1:14-20
Mark 10:45
\nFor even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Luke 14:26
\nIf anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Revelation 5:9
\nAnd they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.”
If we follow the King we will be called to give up everything to receive one thing—Jesus!
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\nScripture: Mark 1:12-13; Matthew 4:1-11
1 Corinthians 10:13
\nSince therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
Jesus is satisfied! - Temptation feeds off our lack of satisfaction
\n\nHebrews 2:17-18
\nTherefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Hebrews 4:14-16
\nSince then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 2:14-15
\nSince therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Mark 1:1-11
Malachi 4:5-6
\nBehold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.
Isaiah 53:11
\nOut of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
R C Sproul
\nThe Spirit anointed the human nature of Jesus. We tend to think that Jesus performed His miracles in His divine nature. Actually, He performed them in His human nature through the power of the Holy Spirit given to Him at His baptism. It was there that God empowered Jesus to fulfill the mission He had been given.
Col 2:11-12
\nIn him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Titus 3:4-7
\nBut when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Colossians 3:1-4
We apologize that the sermon did not record on Sunday. Instead we have posted the sermon as it was preached the previous week at the Pineda congregation.
\n\nPreacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
\nScripture: Colossians 3:1-4
2 Timothy 1:8–9
\n… God, who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
2 Timothy 1:9–10
\n… grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel
Romans 8:11
\nIf the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Galatians 2:20
\nI have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Romans 8:16–17
\nThe Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Romans 8:15
\nyou have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
1 John 3:2
\nBeloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
Peter O’Brien
\nOur heavenly life will be fully manifest in all its glory when Christ who embodies it appears at his Parousia. We too who share his life will share his glorious epiphany. What is now secretly present shall be revealed when Christ shall appear.
Joseph Lightfoot
\nThen you also will appear with him. The veil which now shrouds your higher life from others, and even partly from yourselves, will then be withdrawn. The world which persecutes, despises, ignores now will then be blinded with the dazzling glory of the revelation.
Cornerstone
\nWhen He shall come with trumpet sound,
\nOh, may I then in Him be found;
\nIn Him, my righteousness, alone,
\nFaultless to stand before the throne.
Special Guest: Jeremiah Fyffe.
","summary":"John Murray — Redemption Accomplished and Applied\r\nunion with Christ is . . . the central truth of the whole doctrine of salvation. . . . It is not simply a phase of the application of redemption; it underlies every aspect of redemption”","date_published":"2021-01-24T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/17896c84-af46-4ebe-9aa7-f77954a3602a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":18559504,"duration_in_seconds":2069}]},{"id":"4639e4ef-941e-46d6-b36f-f9a3578c2f79","title":"Colossians 3:1-4 | Justification","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/hiddenwithchrist01","content_text":"Preacher: Joel Fair\nScripture: Colossians 3:1-4\n\n\nIf… \nWho is Christ? - Col. 1:15-20 & 2:9-15\nHow are we hidden in Christ? - Gal. 2:20\nBefore The Throne Of God Above\n","content_html":"Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Colossians 3:1-4
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 134
Vs 1&2 - You Bless The Lord
\n\nKidner
\nBut the exchange is quite unequal: to bless God is to acknowledge gratefully what he is; but to bless man, God must make of him what he is not, and give him what he has not
Vs 3 - The Lord Bless You
\n\n1 Peter 2:4-6 The Church as the Priesthood
\n\nHebrews 12:22-24 Jesus the Blessing from Zion
\n\nCharles Spurgeon
\nThe first two verses stir us up to bless Jehovah, and in the last verse Jehovah’s blessing is invoked upon the people. Oh to abound in blessing! May blessed and blessing be the two words which describe our lives.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 133
A.W. Tozer
\nHas it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become ‘unity’ conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.
Have you sought unity instead of Christ?
\nHave you disregarded or ignored unity?
\nHow do we both desire AND patiently wait for the church to grow and mature?
Preacher: James Repp
\nScripture: Psalm 132
Special Guest: James Repp.
","summary":"James K. A. Smith — \"Imagine a refugee spirituality, an understanding of human longing and estrangement that not only honors those experiences of not-at-homeness but also affirms the hope of finding a home …. The immigrant is migrating toward a home she’s never been to before. She will arrive in a strange land and, in ways that surprise her, come to say, “I’m at home here,” not least because someone is there to greet her and say, 'Welcome home.' The goal isn’t returning home but being welcomed home in a place you weren’t born, arriving in a strange land and being told, 'You belong here.'\"","date_published":"2020-12-20T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/f6adcc86-33d7-494a-ab0a-93f9b2db45bd.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25036218,"duration_in_seconds":2073}]},{"id":"6e6ea0d4-7d6b-461c-9d28-dced0c19cb85","title":"Psalm 131 | A Calm & Quiet Soul","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/journey11","content_text":"Preacher: Joel Fair\nScripture: Psalm 131\n\n\nv1 - Humbled Heart\nv2 - A Calm & Quiet Soul\nv3 - Enduring Hope\n\n\nCharles Spurgeon\nIt is one of the shortest Psalms to read, but one of the longest to learn.\n\n1 Timothy 6:6\n\nPhilippians 4:11-13","content_html":"Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 131
Charles Spurgeon
\nIt is one of the shortest Psalms to read, but one of the longest to learn.
1 Timothy 6:6
\n\nPhilippians 4:11-13
","summary":"James K. A. Smith — \"Imagine a refugee spirituality, an understanding of human longing and estrangement that not only honors those experiences of not-at-homeness but also affirms the hope of finding a home …. The immigrant is migrating toward a home she’s never been to before. She will arrive in a strange land and, in ways that surprise her, come to say, “I’m at home here,” not least because someone is there to greet her and say, 'Welcome home.' The goal isn’t returning home but being welcomed home in a place you weren’t born, arriving in a strange land and being told, 'You belong here.'\"","date_published":"2020-12-13T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/6e6ea0d4-7d6b-461c-9d28-dced0c19cb85.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":21240612,"duration_in_seconds":1597}]},{"id":"8cf4d232-549c-46d4-aba6-7a7c10eda354","title":"Psalm 130 | Cry Out in Hope & Wait for the Lord","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/journey10","content_text":"Preacher: Joel Fair\nScripture: Psalm 130\n\n\nI Cry Out for Forgiveness Vs 1-4\nWait for the Lord! Vs 5-6\nOur Hope is in the Lord, Our Loving Redeemer Vs 7-8\n\n\nJob 10:14\n\nPsalm 143:2\nFree, full, sovereign pardon is in the hand of the great King: it is his prerogative to forgive, and he delights to exercise it. Because his nature is mercy, and because he has provided a sacrifice for sin, therefore forgiveness is with him for all that come to him confessing their sins. The power of pardon is permanently resident with God: he has forgiveness ready to his hand at this instant - Charles Spurgeon\n\nIsaiah 26:8-9\n\nColossians 1:13-14\n\nTitus 2:11-14","content_html":"Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 130
Job 10:14
\n\nPsalm 143:2
\nFree, full, sovereign pardon is in the hand of the great King: it is his prerogative to forgive, and he delights to exercise it. Because his nature is mercy, and because he has provided a sacrifice for sin, therefore forgiveness is with him for all that come to him confessing their sins. The power of pardon is permanently resident with God: he has forgiveness ready to his hand at this instant - Charles Spurgeon
Isaiah 26:8-9
\n\nColossians 1:13-14
\n\nTitus 2:11-14
","summary":"James K. A. Smith — \"Imagine a refugee spirituality, an understanding of human longing and estrangement that not only honors those experiences of not-at-homeness but also affirms the hope of finding a home …. The immigrant is migrating toward a home she’s never been to before. She will arrive in a strange land and, in ways that surprise her, come to say, “I’m at home here,” not least because someone is there to greet her and say, 'Welcome home.' The goal isn’t returning home but being welcomed home in a place you weren’t born, arriving in a strange land and being told, 'You belong here.'\"","date_published":"2020-12-06T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/e2b101e5-36c7-4ae9-8dd4-a2f2840cd000/8cf4d232-549c-46d4-aba6-7a7c10eda354.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":15905623,"duration_in_seconds":1616}]},{"id":"3cfd985f-6b9c-45ab-b436-e4aecee0290e","title":"Psalm 129 | Righteous Lord of Grace & Wrath","url":"https://cpcoastcape.fireside.fm/journey09","content_text":"Preacher: Joel Fair\nScripture: Psalm 129\n\n\nThe Lord Preserves His People\nThe Lord is Righteous\nThe Lord Punishes the Wicked\nJesus - Justice & Mercy\n\n\nPsalm 124:1&2\nIf it had not been the Lord who was on our side— let Israel now say—\nif it had not been the Lord who was on our side when people rose up against us,\n\nR. L. J. Hubbard\nIn the invitation, let Israel say, we hear a liturgist encouraging fellow worshipers to testify in the “I” form. The sufferings of the individual and of the community are thus seen together. The oppression of the individual is seen in the context of the corporate body, and national suffering is understood on the level of the individual. The testimony (vv. 1–4) of Israel that we have been “struck down, but not destroyed” (cf. 2 Cor. 4:9) is one that has applied to them since their youth as a people: from their beginnings in Egypt and the exodus, through the exile and restoration, to their troubles and perseverance in the postexilic period. Their history is one of resilience.\n\n1 Peter 2:9\nBut you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.\n\nPsalm 89:14\nRighteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.\n\nStephen Yuille says, in his book Longing For Home, that we have five errors in thinking that make it extremely difficult to grasp these psalms. I want to give you his five points and a quick synopsis of each because I found this extremely helpful in processing these last verses\n\n2 Thessalonians 1:5-10. \nThis is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.","content_html":"Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 129
Psalm 124:1&2
\nIf it had not been the Lord who was on our side— let Israel now say—
\nif it had not been the Lord who was on our side when people rose up against us,
R. L. J. Hubbard
\nIn the invitation, let Israel say, we hear a liturgist encouraging fellow worshipers to testify in the “I” form. The sufferings of the individual and of the community are thus seen together. The oppression of the individual is seen in the context of the corporate body, and national suffering is understood on the level of the individual. The testimony (vv. 1–4) of Israel that we have been “struck down, but not destroyed” (cf. 2 Cor. 4:9) is one that has applied to them since their youth as a people: from their beginnings in Egypt and the exodus, through the exile and restoration, to their troubles and perseverance in the postexilic period. Their history is one of resilience.
1 Peter 2:9
\nBut you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Psalm 89:14
\nRighteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
Stephen Yuille says, in his book Longing For Home, that we have five errors in thinking that make it extremely difficult to grasp these psalms. I want to give you his five points and a quick synopsis of each because I found this extremely helpful in processing these last verses
\n\n2 Thessalonians 1:5-10.
\nThis is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 127-128
God Calls Us To Faithful Labor & Promises Fruitful Blessing
\n\nEphesians 2:8-10
\nFor by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Luke 12:22-31
\nAnd he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.
Ephesians 2:8-10
\nFor by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
John 15:5
\nI am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
1 Cor 15:58
\nTherefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Stephen Whitmer “Unless God Works, We Work In Vain”
\nKnowing that God works in and through us gives us confidence and boldness to be more, not less, active in the good works he has planned for us.
Charles Spurgeon The Treasury of David
\nHappy is the man who hits the golden mean by so working as to believe in God, and so believing in God as to work without fear.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 126
The Fortune Restored is God Himself
\n\nExodus 15:1–2
\nThen Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying,
\n“I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
\nthe horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
\nThe Lord is my strength and my song,
\nand he has become my salvation;
\nthis is my God, and I will praise him,
\nmy father’s God, and I will exalt him."
Habakkuk 3:17–19
\nThough the fig tree should not blossom,
\nnor fruit be on the vines,
\nthe produce of the olive fail
\nand the fields yield no food,
\nthe flock be cut off from the fold
\nand there be no herd in the stalls,
\nyet I will rejoice in the Lord;
\nI will take joy in the God of my salvation.
\nGod, the Lord, is my strength;
\nhe makes my feet like the deer’s;
\nhe makes me tread on my high places.
\nTo the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.
Galatians 6:9–10
\nAnd let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
James 1:2–4
\nCount it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Psalm 122:1
\nI was glad when they said to me,
\n“Let us go to the house of the Lord!”
Psalm 4:6–7
\nThere are many who say, “Who will show us some good?
\nLift up the light of your face upon us, O Lord!”
\nYou have put more joy in my heart
\nthan they have when their grain and wine abound.
Zechariah 2:10
\nSing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the Lord.
Hebrews 12:1–2
\nTherefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Luke 22:41–44
\nAnd he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and knelt down and prayed, saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Ephesians 1:11–14
\nIn him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Revelation 19:6–8
\nThen I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out,
\n“Hallelujah!
\nFor the Lord our God
\nthe Almighty reigns.
\nLet us rejoice and exult
\nand give him the glory,
\nfor the marriage of the Lamb has come,
\nand his Bride has made herself ready;
\nit was granted her to clothe herself
\nwith fine linen, bright and pure”—
\nfor the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.
Romans 5:1–5 ESV
\nTherefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 125
A.W. Tozer - The Knowledge of the Holy
\nWhat comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
Psalm 48:1–3
\nGreat is the Lord and greatly to be praised _
\n_in the city of our God!
\nHis holy mountain,
\nbeautiful in elevation,
\nis the joy of all the earth,
\nMount Zion, in the far north,
\nthe city of the great King.
\nWithin her citadels God
\nhas made himself known as a fortress.
Hebrews 12:22–24
\nBut you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
Psalm 139:5
\nYou hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
Matthew 24:9–14
\nThen they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
John 15:4-11
\nAbide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 124
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 123
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 122
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Psalm 121
Preacher: Joel Fair
\nScripture: Hebrews 10:19-25