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Diversity From Unity - Spiritual Gifts [Sermon]
Annapolis, Maryland, USA September 2024 Romans 12:3-8 (ESV) 3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 4 For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; 7 if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; 8 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. 1. Who I Am Alone There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which everyone in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads about girls or drink, or even that they are cowards. I do not think I have ever heard anyone who was not a Christian accuse himself of this vice. And at the same time, I have very seldom met anyone, who was not a Christian, who showed the slightest mercy to it in others. There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others. The vice I am talking of is Pride. - CS Lewis, Mere Christianity, “The Great Sin” 2. Who We Are Together a. There Are Many Parts with Different Functions b. The Parts Are Parts Of Each Other 3. What We Do Together a. Use the _____ b. Lead with _____ c. Serve with _____ d. Gifts and ______ Acts 21:8 On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist , who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. 2 Tim 4:5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist , fulfill your ministry. Ephesians 4:11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelist s, the shepherds and teachers,
The Submissive Storyteller - Telling Your Story [Sermon]
Timonium, Maryland, USA September 2024 1. Paul the _____________ Acts 22:3-4 (ESV) “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day. I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women 2. Paul the _______________ Acts 22:1-21 Acts 26:9-23 Romans 15:23 But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you." Cross connections Earth-side stories Heaven-side stories 3. Paul the _________________ 1 Corinthians 4:11 (NIV) To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. Galatians 6:17 … I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. Philippians 1:12 I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel Colossians 1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake #evangelism #story #paul #prayer #persecution #conversionstory #conversion #resurrection
The Transition to Traveler - The Second Coming of Jesus [Sermon]
Timonium, Maryland, USA July 2024 Luke 18:1-8 ESV 1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” 6 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7 And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? 8 I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” Luke 17:22–37 22 And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. 23 And they will say to you, ‘Look, there!’ or ‘Look, here!’ Do not go out or follow them. 24 For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. 25 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. 26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— 30 so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back. 32 Remember Lot's wife. 33 Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it. 34 I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. 35 There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.” 37 And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.” 1. The Fact of the Parousia John 14:1-3 ESV “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 2. A Delay in the Parousia Luke 18:6 ESV And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7 And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? 8 I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. 2 Peter 3:8-9 ESV But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. Matthew 24:42 ESV Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. 3. Active Waiting - What to Do During the Waiting Period a. The Prominence of Prayer 18:1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. b. The Fortification of Faith Luke 18:8 Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” Romans 14:12 ESV So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. ESV Rev 1:5-7 ESV Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him… of God.
Mustards and Monarchs - Freedom in the Kingdom of God [Sermon]
Timonium, Maryland, USA July 2024 Matthew 13:31-34 ESV 31 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” 34 All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable. 1. The Grand Story 1 Samuel 8:7 ESV And the Lord said to Samuel, … they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. 2. Description With Pictures Matthew 4:17 ESV From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” 3. Comparative Greatness 4. Characteristics of the Kingdom of God a. Freedom from Natural Evil Mark 4:39-41 And [Jesus] awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm… And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?” b. Freedom from Moral Evil Matt 12:28 But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. 5. Citizenship in the Kingdom of God John 3:3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.
The Sound of Sheep - The Deception of Devotion [Sermon]
Annapolis, Maryland, USA June 2024 1 Samuel 15:10-26 (ESV) 10 The word of the Lord came to Samuel: 11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night. 12 And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.” 13 And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you to the Lord. I have performed the commandment of the Lord.” 14 And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?” 15 Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.” 17 And Samuel said, “Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel. 18 And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ 19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?” 20 And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the Lord. I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction. 21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.” 22 And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord?Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.23 For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry.Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,he has also rejected you from being king.” 1. The Mission Exod 17:14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” 2. The Perception a. In Immaterial Entities 12 And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.” b. In Material Things 3. The Evaluation 4. The Application a. In Immaterial Entities b. In Material Things The disease of self runs through my blood
It's a cancer fatal to my soul
Every attempt on my behalf has failed
To bring this sickness under control
Tell me, what's going on inside of me?
I despise my own behavior
This only serves to confirm my suspicions
That I'm still a man in need of a savior
- DC Talk, Jesus Freak , In the Light, 1995 Phil 2:5-8 Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Gospel Call
From The Beauty of the Gospel [Sermon] https://www.anushjohn.com/post/beauty-of-the-gospel #gospelcall #gospel #invitation #loveofgod
Justification
From The Beauty of the Gospel [Sermon] https://youtu.be/fcTLD-JatXQ https://www.anushjohn.com/post/beauty-of-the-gospel
The Work of God
From The Beauty of the Gospel [Sermon] https://www.anushjohn.com/post/beauty-of-the-gospel #workofgod #buddhism
Human Interaction with the Holy Spirit
From Overview of God and the Trinity [Sermon] https://www.anushjohn.com/post/overview-of-god-and-the-trinity From Overview of God and the Trinity [Sermon] https://www.anushjohn.com/post/overview-of-god-and-the-trinity