Category: Sermons
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Earthly Wisdom Versus Heavenly Wisdom
Not only is he the storehouse of all wisdom and knowledge. Christ—and his Word—is the wisdom that gives salvation, “able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” Therefore, those who are in Christ have “wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption.”
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Watchmen for God’s People
His blood was required of him by his Father in heaven—not because he failed in his watchman’s duties, not because he did not listen to God’s commandments—but because he willingly took the blood of his people’s sins on his hands. He was bloodied and murdered on account of his people’s wickedness—blood for blood, but his…
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Life is Fifteen Minutes of Vanity
The world is not in an endless, meaningless spin, but is swiftly moving to an end. Though “creation was subjected to futility,†or meaninglessness or vanity, it will be “set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.â€
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New Sermon Series: Ecclesiastes
“In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.” ~ Andy Warhol
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The Sixth Petition and Closing: “Lead Us Not into Temptation, But Deliver Us from Evil”
Because Jesus has defeated the devil on the cross, you too have overcome the devil, the world and the flesh, “For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.â€
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The Fifth Petition: Forgive Us Our Debts
When we pray the fifth petition, we are asking God not to account our sins to us, but to account it to Christ. We are trusting in God’s assurance that our sins are forgiven, and our spiritual debt completely cancelled because of Christ’s atoning work on the cross for us.
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The Shepherd Struck, the Sheep Scattered, the Sheep Refined
This is the only way that his scattered sheep will be found and re-gathered as one flock: Jesus the Good Shepherd, the Substitute Sacrificial Lamb for our sins, would have to willingly lay down his life for us, his scattered sheep.
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The Fourth Petition: “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread”
In Proverbs 30:8, there is a prayer that all of us will almost never pray, “Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me†(“daily bread,” NIV). It is very difficult for us to pray for just this day’s or next day’s provisions, but God can surely test…
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The Third Petition: “Your Will Be Done” (War of Wills)
“Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” May this be our prayer too, today until that glorious day when our Lord redeems us from our own sinful will, and gives us perfect, obedient will.
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The Second Petition: “Your Kingdom Come”
The kingdom is already here with us, “in our midst,†when Christ started preaching his gospel of repentance and salvation. But it is also not yet in its fullness and glory. This is because from Genesis 3:15 all the way to his Second Coming, the kingdom of the Seed of the woman will always be…