We preach Christ crucified
Friday, April 26, 2024
Scripture: Jeremiah 45:1-5 [toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”] Sermon notes This chapter contains a personal message from God to Baruch in which He both rebukes and encourages His servant. How tender the Lord is to such! Baruch had acted as Jeremiah’s […]
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 1:5 Sermon notes The Apostle lists a series of evidences that these believers were certainly the elect of God. This solid, irrefutable proof of God’s sovereign saving mercy. The work of the Holy Ghost in power to apply the gospel, v5. The saving power of the Holy […]
Scripture: Romans 15:4 Sermon notes The Christian and his Bible #7: Our comfort The Bible is described here as a comfort. The word is one that indicates encouragement and support. It is not simply a kind of ‘cheering up’ that we might need on occasion. Comfort is the tangible communication […]
Scripture: Matthew 4:8-11 Sermon notes This text records one of the three specific instances of temptation that the Saviour faced at the hands of the devil. In Luke’s account the order in which these temptations are recorded is slightly different. As the great representative of His people, Christ submits to […]
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 1:1 Sermon notes The letter before us was written by Paul from Athens where Paul had arrived very soon after leaving Thessalonica. See Acts 17:10-15, 1Thess 3:2. It was written to the congregation but clearly addressed to the oversight, 5:25-27. The human penmen were Paul, Silas and […]
Scripture: Acts 17:1-10 Sermon notes At 50 miles west of Philippi on the coast of Macedonia lay the city of Thessalonica. Paul had arrived in that city fresh from the trouble of Philippi and spent just a few weeks—three Sabbath days, v2—in establishing the congregation that he later writes two […]
Scripture: Joshua 23:1-16 Sermon notes Joshua is now an old man and feels that he is soon to die, v2, 14. Towards the end of his life he convenes two national assemblies, the first of which is recorded in this chapter, where he addresses the elders of the people. He […]
Scripture: Matthew 16:13-28 Sermon notes This passage evidences the struggle between wisdom and folly in the Christian life. It is the battle between the flesh and the spirit that every true Christian knows. How quickly radical spiritual change can come. Likely within a matter of only minutes Peter abandons the […]
Scripture:Matthew 16:13-28 Sermon notes The initial confession of Christ made by Peter, v16, is immediately followed by further teaching from the Saviour, v21. It is this development of the Divinely given wisdom that prompts Peter’s foolish outburst in v22. The wisdom granted by the Father to His children is designed […]
Scripture: Joshua 22:1-9 Sermon notes Studies in Joshua #31 The events recorded here occur when the land has been conquered and the tribes have been allocated their inheritances. A number of years have passed since their entrance to Canaan. The tribes which had inherited on the other side of Jordan […]