Sunday Sermon: Water Baptism

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Water Baptism

“John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”
— Luke 3:16 (ESV)

Baptism - Outward expression of the inward conviction

  • Righteousness of God

  • Great Commission of Jesus

  • Counsel of God

  • Apostolic Doctrine

  • Good Consciousness Towards God

  • To Join with Christ

  • To Put On Christ

  • United with Him in His Death, Burial and Resurrection

Sunday Sermon: He is Risen!

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He is Risen! Christos anesti!

“And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,”
— Luke 24:5-6 (ESV)

1) Power of Resurrection

- Stone : Rolled away

- Seal : Broken

- Soldiers : Trembled

- Satan : Defeated

- Sin : Lost the grip

2) The Peace of Resurrection

“On 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.”

3) Prospect of Resurrection

“Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

4) Purpose of Resurrection

GO OUT! - explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

Sunday Sermon: Passion Week - The Last Seven Days

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Passion Week - The Last Seven Days

Day 1 - Palm Sunday

“…And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

Day 2 - Cleaning Monday

“And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

Day 3 - Teaching Tuesday

In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.

When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?” And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

Day 4 - Worth it Wednesday

“Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.” But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me. In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

Day 5 - Passover and Past is over Thursday

Jesus Keeps Passover with His disciples, Institutes Lord's Table, Meaning of Broken Body and Shed Blood Prayer at Gethsemane, Arrest and trial

Day 6 - Forsaken Friday

“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.”

Day 7 - Silent Saturday

The calm before the storm

Sunday Sermon: Lords Table

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Lords Table

“He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters and tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ And he will show you a large upper room furnished; prepare it there.” And they went and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.”
— Luke 22:10-13 (ESV)