We continue to study the life of Jacob and see the danger of worldliness that always accompanies God’s pilgrim people while in this world. We need to ask this question, “How can we be separate from the world and live holy lives?” We see in this account how God, in his providence, used the vengeance…
Sermons from September 2020
We will continue in Matthew chapter 12 with this strange description of demonic activity and a warning Jesus gave to the people of Israel. We will consider why he tells this story and what he wants us to learn from it. The text is Matthew 12:43-45. We will consider these three points.1. The Failure of moralism.2.…
Psalm 2:1-12
Matthew 27:32-46
We will continue with the life of Jacob and see his peaceful encounter with Esau. This encounter was the event that Jacob dreaded the most about his return to the promised land. But after his encounter with the Angel of the Lord at Penuel, this encounter becomes anti-climactic. We need to consider how all our…
How should we understand the desire for signs and wonders? Is this something we should cater to? In the morning sermon, we continue in Matthew 12 to consider Jesus’ response to the unbelief of the Jews. Jesus denounces the request for a sign as one that comes from an “evil and adulterous generation” (v. 29).…
We will look in more detail at the spiritual warfare of the church as it is described in Revelation 12. This chapter is intended to be an encouragement for the “church militant.” While we are living in this world, we belong to the church militant. But we also belong to the “church victorious” in Christ.…
In Matthew 12:33-37 Jesus exposes the hearts of men by calling attention to the words that we speak. We all speak careless words and don’t think much of it. Here, Jesus tells us that words matter and they matter eternally. We will consider these three points: 1. Words matter because they reveal hearts. 2. Words matter because…