Sunday Sermon: Have You Lost Your Cutting Edge?

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Have You Lost Your Cutting Edge?

“Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us. Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there.” And he answered, “Go.” Then one of them said, “Be pleased to go with your servants.” And he answered, “I will go.” So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, “Alas, my master! It was borrowed.” Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float. And he said, “Take it up.” So he reached out his hand and took it.”
— 2 Kings 6:1-7

We Are Debtors

  1. To Worship - Psalms 116:13-14

  2. To The Gospel - Romans 1:14

  3. To Charity - Romans 15:26-27

  4. To Vows & Offerings - Psalms 56:12

“I will run in the way of your commandments
when you enlarge my heart!”
— Psalm 119:32

Sunday Sermon: Do Not Faint In The Days of Adversity

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Do Not Faint In The Days of Adversity

“If you faint in the day of adversity,
your strength is small.
Rescue those who are being taken away to death;
hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it,
and will he not repay man according to his work?”
— Proverbs 24:10-12 (ESV)
“Behold, you have instructed many,
and you have strengthened the weak hands.
Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
and you have made firm the feeble knees.
But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;
it touches you, and you are dismayed.
Is not your fear of God[a] your confidence,
and the integrity of your ways your hope?
“Remember: who that was innocent ever perished?
Or where were the upright cut off?”
— Job 4:3-7 (ESV)

Sunday Sermon: Fear Not

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Fear Not

“Behold, the Lord God comes with might,
and his arm rules for him;
behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.”
— Isaiah 40:10 (ESV)

  1. Fear Not: It Is The Plan of God

  2. Fear Not: It is The Power of God

  3. Fear Not: We Have The Peace of God

“Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
— Matthew 1:18-21 (ESV)
“ 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 14:27 (ESV)
“For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility”
— Ephesians 2:14 (ESV)

Sunday Sermon: Responsibilities of a Watchman

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Responsibilities of a Watchman

  1. Proclaim the Time

  2. Watch the City

  3. Proclaim God's word

“This is God’s message to Edom:

Someone from among you keeps calling, calling to me: “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? How much time is left?” The watchman replies, “Your judgment day is dawning now. Turn again to God, so that I can give you better news. Seek for him, then come and ask again!”
— Isaiah 21:11-12 (TLB)
“O Jerusalem, I have set intercessors on your walls who shall cry to God all day and all night for the fulfillment of his promises. Take no rest, all you who pray, and give God no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes her respected and admired throughout the earth.”
— Isaiah 62:6-7

Sunday Sermon: Who Is This Jesus?

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Who Is This Jesus?

“ And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?””
— Matthew 21:10 (ESV)
“Then those who were at table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”
— Luke 7:49 (ESV)
“When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?”
— Luke 7:42 (ESV)
“Who is this who comes from Edom,
in crimsoned garments from Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
mighty to save.”

Why is your apparel red,
and your garments like his who treads in the winepress?

“I have trodden the winepress alone,
and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood spattered on my garments,
and stained all my apparel.”
— Isaiah 63:1-3 (ESV)