Sermons

Observing Creation Mandates: Respect and Purity (1 Timothy 5:1-2)

 

Mark 3:31-35. Bonhoeffer refers to four creation mandates for all humanity: labour, marriage, government, and the Church as the community of believers.

  1. Pastoring men.
    1. Older men. The KJV has ‘elder’ but it is not referring to a man with the office of elder but an older man.
      • Lev.19:32. Calvin
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Enter Satan and his Onslaught (Job 1:6-22)

 

Satan only appears four times in the Old Testament – Genesis 3; 1 Chronicles 21:1; Zechariah 3:1; and Job 3. The exchange in Job 1:6-12 is never revealed to Job.

  1. Satan aims at one possible weak spot.
    • read 1:6-11. On the mission field, ‘rice Christians’ are those who gather
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Responding to the Gospel (Acts 13:42-52)

 

George Whitefield: “If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed… In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.”

  1. THE GOSPEL DIVIDES AS IT DEMANDS A RESPONSE
    • The people of Antioch in Pisidia are divided in their
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Job Blessed and Godly (Job 1:1-5)

 

Luther called it ‘magnificent and sublime as no other book of Scripture’. Calvin preached 159 sermons on it during 1554-1555. Joseph Caryl gave 424 lectures on it over 24 years.

  • it is mostly poetry but still historical – see Ezekiel 14:14, 20; and his age in Job 42:16; and
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Preaching in the Synagogue (Acts 13:13-41)

 

Gospel preaching in book of Acts Sermon # 2, Paul’s first recorded.

Start of 1st Missionary journey, Barnabas & Paul set apart. Journey thru Cyprus now Antioch in Pisidia. It’s the Sabbath & so the Synagogue.

An invitation

  1. Preaching from Scripture – Redemption History leads to Jesus v16-31
    • The
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Looking Unto Jesus (Hebrews 12:1-2)

 

Christ is both our example and our substitute – read 1 Peter 2:21-24. Hebrews 12:1 is ‘the epilogue to the former chapter’ (Calvin).

  1. Sin is the great hindrance in the race of faith.
    • 12:1. The witnesses could be spectators to the race, but more likely they are those who
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Faith that Suffers (Hebrews 11:35b-40)

 

In verses 30-35a faith overcomes, bur in verses 35b-40 faith suffers adversity. Robert Bruce: ‘We learn that faith does not always bring a temporal deliverance, nor is a temporal deliverance ever promised, so no one can claim from God what his word has not guaranteed.’ Read Acts 12:1-3, 7 …

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Growing in the Word (1 Timothy 4:11-13)

 

The emphasis is clearly on the Word of God understood and applied.

  1. Dwell on biblical teaching and godliness.
    • 4:11. The ‘these things’ could look back to verses 6-10, but it is probably looking ahead, as in the paragraphing of the ESV and NIV. Paul wants Timothy to persevere and
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Faith that Overcomes (Hebrews 11:30-35a)

 

for weakness, note 11:35b-40 and 2 Cor.12:10. For victory, see 11:30-35a and 1 John 5:4-5.

  1. The obedience of those with faith.
    • 11:30. The command is strange for Joshua; same with Gideon, where he is reduced to 300 men. But faith obeys.
  2. The imperfection of those with faith.
    • 11:31. Calvin:
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Exercising Godliness (1 Timothy 4:6-10)

 

Calvin: ‘As we know, most people soon tire of things which are beneficial to them’ … ‘Yet men, alas, are always craving novelty.’

  1. Be nourished by good doctrine.
    • 4:6. Timothy was trained in Scripture from an early age – 2 Tim.3:15. Daniel the prophet read the Scriptures – Daniel
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