Category: Preaching

Preaching, Thanksgiving

Daniel’s Gratitude

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Gratitude in a busy schedule

  • Daniel, as busy as he was running a nation, he made time to be grateful three times a day. he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. David did the same thing as a king, Psalm 55:17.
  • Now add to the busy schedule that the government comes down on Daniel making it illegal to publicly thank God. You’re not given why this was reasonable or what scientists were put before the king in order to make this law rational. But you can imagine the men convincing the king about this law had some argument and scientific data as to why this was a good policy to create.

Gratitude as a public testimony

  • Fear of people will prevent you from being publicly grateful for what the Lord has done in your life. Daniel’s options are he can either quit thanking God or be fed to the lions.
  • his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem…
  • But there is something else in here that needs to be noted. There is a supposed time frame on this ordinance – 30 days. Look at verse 7. Now, Daniel could’ve easily said I’ll wait until the 30 days are up, then resume my prayers.
    • But a man like that is not someone God can use. Daniel was used by God because he didn’t make those kind of compromising decisions.
    • Second, if Daniel had waited 30 days before resuming his prayer schedule, do you think that would’ve been the end of it? Of course not because the only purpose of the law was to get rid of Daniel. And if in 30 days they couldn’t get rid of Daniel, the same people who dreamed up this stupid law would come up with another plan.
  • John 12:42 – being afraid to be publicly thankful

Gratitude that is reasonable

  • Immutable is unchanging. Daniel wasn’t seasonal in his prayer and thanksgiving. He was consistent. But the trouble makes us think what in the world do I have to be thankful for?
    • In everything give thanks
    • We immediately think toward the exceptions. What about…?!
    • Bethany and Sarah illustration
      • Count your blessings before you get bitter. For every one reason you think you have to be bitter, you have 10 blessings that you’re not counting.
      • #1 – Suffering was limited.  Here is a soul that never experienced suffering.
      • #2 – We knew where Sarah went. To be with the Lord. David lost a child once and said, I will go to him, but he will not come to me.
      • #3 – We knew that we will see Sarah one day, forever.
      • #4 – We knew that she was in better hands.
      • When I thought about it, the only real problem I had was the pain of separation.  But everything else was taken care of by the Lord.
  • Reasonable to be grateful
    • Before you get bitter, count your blessings.
    • Trouble doesn’t change that. For every trouble there are ten blessings you and I could thank God for.
    • Acts 5:41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
Preaching, Teaching, Thanksgiving

Benefits of Gratitude

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Mental and emotional peace

  • Philippians 4:6-7
  • Leviticus 22:29-30 – sacrifice of thanksgiving
  • Psalm 105:1-3 …let the heart of then rejoice that seek the LORD.
  • Enjoyment of life by seeing what you have instead of coveting what you don’t
  • Gratitude focuses on what is, not what isn’t in John 6:5-11
  • Two psychologists, Dr. Robert A. Emmons of the University of California, Davis, and Dr. Michael E. McCullough of the University of Miami, have done much of the research on gratitude. In one study, they asked all participants to write a few sentences each week, focusing on particular topics. One group wrote about things they were grateful for that had occurred during the week. A second group wrote about daily irritations or things that had displeased them, and the third wrote about events that had affected them (with no emphasis on them being positive or negative). After 10 weeks, those who wrote about gratitude were more optimistic and felt better about their lives. Surprisingly, they also exercised more and had fewer visits to physicians than those who focused on sources of aggravation.

Moral reinforcement

  • Gratitude is an indication of morality. Published by the American Psychological Association in Gratitude has 3 functions that can be conceptualized as morally relevant: (a) a moral barometer function (i.e., it is a response to the perception that one has been the beneficiary of another person’s moral actions); (b) a moral motive function (i.e., it motivates the grateful person to behave prosocially toward the benefactor and other people); and (c) a moral reinforcer function (i.e., when expressed, it encourages benefactors to behave morally in the future). The personality and social factors that are associated with gratitude are also consistent with a conceptualization of gratitude as an affect that is relevant to people’s cognitions and behaviors in the moral domain. By McCullough, Michael E.,Kilpatrick, Shelley D.,Emmons, Robert A.,Larson, David B. Psychological Bulletin, Vol 127(2), Mar 2001, 249-266
  • Romans 1:20-25 – Moral degradation coupled with high self esteem
  • Psalm 100:4 (Psalm 100) – so the presence of God abandons the ingrate, but welcomes the grateful.

Maintains the right Spirit

  • Sanctifies and defends against seductive spirits
  • 1 Timothy 4:1-5
  • Thankfulness is the open hand that God can fill
  • Ephesians 5:18-21
Preaching, Thanksgiving

A Reason to be Grateful

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Text: Psalm 32

Blessings of forgiveness (vss 1-2)

  • This Psalm is written after David’s adultery with Bathsheba, and after he has Uriah murdered to cover up his sin. The guilt David carries weighs heavy on him for weeks and months. And it should.
  • If you say that Old Testament saints gained eternal life by keeping the law, you need to understand what you just read because you don’t understand the law or the righteousness of God. Under the law David is condemned. The man who commits adultery is to be put to death under the law. The man who commits murder is to be put to death under the law. David has done both. David, according to the law, according to his works, David is twice condemned to death.
  • Blessings of forgiveness are found in verses 1-2.
  • David concealed his guilt and didn’t want to deal with it for a while. But Bathsheba is pregnant and starting to show. Her husband is dead. This sin is getting harder and harder to hide. And about the time of the birth of the child, God sends a preacher to David to give him an opportunity to seek forgiveness. David realized how ignorant it is not to want the blessings of forgiveness.

Weight of guilt (vss 3-4)

  • The internal struggle and weight is real. And that guilt is often unleashed on innocent bystanders. You unleash the struggle inside you on someone else in blaming and accusing and berating them because it makes you feel a little better about your own guilt.
  • Guilt is the emotional desert. No more streams of living water, just dried up scorching heat under the holy hand of Almighty God.
  • David was very familiar with his guilt and why he carried it, as are you.

Forgiveness is applied (vs 5)

  • Forgiveness is not blindly applied everywhere, but it certainly is when a man or woman stops trying to hide their guilt before God.
  • Acknowledgement of sin is required by God for forgiveness
  • 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins. This is the acknowledgement of sin.
  • What if you’re already saved? If you’re married or have a friendship and you do them wrong or they do you wrong. Your acknowledgment of wrong is to simply restore a relationship that already exists. When I say sorry to my wife it’s not so that we can get married again, it’s just to restore fellowship that is lost in sin.

Godliness is seeking forgiveness when you’ve sinned (vs 6)

  • Universal application of God’s forgiveness in this manner.
  • In a time when thou mayest be found… The time that God could be found in David’s life was when God sent the preacher, Nathan, to preach to David to bring him either to repentance or to harden David’s heart.
  • Paul makes a reference to David’s forgiveness of sins in Romans 4:4-8.

Songs arise from forgiveness (vs 7)

  • Glory I’m Saved!
  • Redeemed how I love to proclaim it! I love to Tell the Story! Victory in Jesus!
Colossians, Preaching

Redeeming the Time (Colossians #59)

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Redeeming the Time

Text: Colossians 4:5

Redeeming the time is the opposite of wasting time

  • Idleness is God’s way of saying people have wasted their time. Idleness is one of the seductive evils of the world. A car that sits idle is burning fuel without doing anything.
  • Before you get too spiritual about this, stepping away and taking a break from work or labor is godly and good. The Lord worked 6 days and on the 7th He rested. Meaning, He didn’t work on day 7. So don’t say that if you’re not spending 24 hours a day, 7 days a week preaching the gospel then you’re wasting time. That’s not true, and that’s not true according to the Bible you say you believe. Now, with that said, most of you won’t fall into that category anyway, but the actual wasting of time is described a few times by God.
  • Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. If a man won’t work he shouldn’t eat. That was said in the New Testament.
  • Ecclesiastes 10:18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
  • Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
  • Proverbs 31:27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Redeeming the time is the purposeful use of time to God’s glory

  • There is a little more explanation of redeeming the time in Ephesians 5:14-17. Redeeming the time means walking circumspectly because evil is on every side. It’s like setting up security cameras all around to keep an eye on valuable things and to keep an eye on places people traffic. But the security cameras aren’t the point, they’re there to protect the business. A Christian’s posture is not defensive, it is purposeful and on the offence. A Christian walks in the light. The point of Christianity is not to be a security camera and sit around and watch for evil, the point of Christianity is good works to the glory of God. Watching for evil will assist a Christian in the purpose God has for His people, but steering clear of trouble is NOT the point of Christianity. In Ephesians 5:17 Paul says you’ve been given the will of God, so let’s get to it.
  • Matthew 5:14-16 – Glory of God in the world is good works
  • Ephesians 2:10 – Purpose in Jesus Christ is good works
  • 1 Timothy 3:1 – Pastoring is an example of a good work
  • 2 Timothy 3:16-17 – Equipped for good works
  • Titus 1:16, 2:7-14, 3:1 – Titus is the book that says the most about good works – 2:8 sound speech, so no filthy language and jokes. When you try to say something good about church or the Lord the hearer thinks the Lord is cool with your filth and consequently their filth as well.
  • 1 Peter 2:11-12 – Good testimony among men are good works
  • Hebrews 13:20-21
Genesis, Preaching

United Nations (Genesis #24)

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United Nations

Text: Genesis 11

The point of this chapter is to get to Abram, the next man God will use in His redemptive plan for mankind. Genesis 5 gets you from Adam to Noah – 10 generations – the man God will use. Then spends 5 chapters showing how Noah was used of God. Then Genesis 11 gets you from Noah to Abram, the next man God will use.

United nations

  • First of all, unity is not a bad thing. Unity around the things of God are wonderful! But when sinners unite to promote themselves it just leads to more sin, better ways to sin, and innovation that will increase sin.
  • Globalism, United Nations (League of Nations)
  • The purpose of this unity is stated in verse 4.
    • Reach up to heaven.
    • Make a name for ourselves.
    • Lest we be forced to become independent nations.
  • You were already told man’s imagination is only evil from his youth. Nothing in his imagination will be restrained.

Directed steps by the Lord

  • The Lord lays an obstacle in the path of man to prevent greater wickedness. Proverbs 16:9 A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. God makes it so if you’re going to do this evil, you’ll at least have to walk around this obstacle to get there.
  • Think about God confounding the languages and how an unbelieving world would interpret that event. It would not be attributed to God. There would be some material, physical explanation for it.
    • When God puts an obstacle in man’s way to make it more difficult for man to live godless lives, man has some explanation because he won’t attribute it to God.
  • Acts 17:26

Abram identified in the aftermath

  • Leadership is identified in the aftermath
  • They call the land Haran after Abram’s brother.
  • From this point on in Genesis Abram and his family become the focus of the Lord.
1 Samuel, Preaching

Renewing the Kingdom (1 Samuel #12)

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Renewing the Kingdom

Text: 1 Samuel 12

In 1 Samuel 11:14, after the Israelites defeat the Ammonites, Samuel says let’s go to Gilgal and renew the kingdom there. This chapter – 12 – is the sermon Samuel preaches to renew the kingdom. He doesn’t laud Saul though, or lift Saul up. Samuel instead reminds Israel that God was their king when they demanded that Saul be their king. This sermon serves as a fork in the road for Israel after a very bad political decision. The application comes at the very end of the chapter so we’ll move through the chapter quickly to get to the applied verses.

Unbiased messenger (vss 1-5)

  • Samuel says this in verse 5.
  • Samuel is blameless and therefore objective in his judgment of the nation’s predicament.

Unalterable mess (vss 6-15)

  • God was your king when you demanded He give you a king as Samuel says in verse 12.

Undeniable manifestation (vss 16-19)

  • Samuel calls the LORD to confirm his sermon with the weather.

Underlying mandate (vss 20-25)

  • Renew your life by staying the course
    • Stay the course, don’t turn aside.
    • You’ve introduced a layer of authority into the nation before God was ready for you to have it, but the situation isn’t hopeless. Serve God. Continue doing what scripture prescribes.
    • Many here could look at your life and say I picked up some bad habits along the way or I’ve added something in my life that really hurts me when it wants to.
    • BUT remember, this is the renewing of the kingdom that Samuel talked about. It isn’t hopeless. It’s a reset. This year has probably been a RESET to most of you. Times like this give you a clearer picture of what’s actually important and what’s vain.
    • Don’t follow vanity. That has no profit and will not save (vs 21).
  • Renew your life by defending what God defends (vs 22).
    • The LORD will defend His name, His promises, and His ordinances
    • LORD help us for your name’s sake! Help us so Jesus Christ gets glory!
  • Renew your life by a personal commitment to prayer and sound doctrine (vs 23)
    • Sin to stop seeking the LORD
    • When did we get in our minds that serving God was the problem in our lives? When did we get in our minds that quitting on God was the solution to anything?
    • Where do you think an idea like that comes from?
    • Samuel shares his own resolve to prayer and sound doctrine from the scriptures.
  • Renew your life by considering what great things Jesus Christ has done for you (vs 24).
    • When I consider what Jesus Christ has done for me, that may mean there are some wrongs that need to be made right between you and someone else.
    • When I consider what Jesus Christ has done for me, that may mean there are some attitudes I need to get in check. Maybe it’s the way you treat your wife. Maybe it’s the way you treat your husband. Maybe it’s the way you treat a church member.
  • Renew your life so you aren’t consumed in sin (vs 25)
    • The LORD says Israel will be consumed and the thing they thought would save them will be consumed as well.
    • Let’s make this a time of renewal. Get the things right that need to be got right.
Matthew, Preaching, Teaching

The Savior and the Storm (Matthew #76)

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The Savior and the Storm

Text: Matthew 14:22-33

Clear direction (vss 22-23)

  • Constrained them to go is strong language.
  • The other side is a time apart. It’s where you can get with the Father to find strength to carry on.
  • I think of church as the “other side” sometimes; it’s a rest from the world. And if you ever wonder why pastors or Christians get a little frustrated when people claiming Jesus Christ bring the world into a sanctuary, it’s because we don’t have another place designated by God to get with our God.
  • I think of private time with the LORD as the “other side” as well. The LORD said when you pray, go into your closet. That means if you’ll talk to the LORD in private, He’ll know you’re not doing it as a show for others. And that you actually have a desire to get a hold of the Father.

Storm didn’t indicate sin (vss 24-25)

  • The storm wasn’t because of disobedience. In fact, this storm happened while the disciples were doing what they were told to do.
  • How many Christians feel the contrary wind and decide they are going in the wrong direction?
    • Sometimes a contrary wind does indicate the wrong direction. Unfortunately, wrong directions are more often slippery slopes, not contrary winds.
    • But it’s not the wrong direction when you’ve been given specific direction by God.
  • The LORD Jessus Christ is strolling on the same boisterous sea that’s been beating up the boat threatening to overturn it. See Job 9:8

Peace is the presence of God (vss 26-27)

  • Fear not is said so many times in the Bible it’s difficult to count them. That alone ought to give you comfort in our present turbulence. Hundreds of times in the Bible God says to His own people, don’t be afraid. Fear will keep you from doing what the LORD wants you to do and keep you from the blessings of the LORD.
  • Cheer up, put a smile on your face, be happy. It will improve your face value.
  • Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
  • Now the wind is still blowing when the LORD says this.

Foundation is Jesus Christ (vss 28-29)

  • This genuine miracle clarifies an incredible truth. It’s not the water that holds Peter up, it’s the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • You might think you need solid ground to stand on because you believe it is the ground that holds you up. It is Jesus Christ who is the foundation. It isn’t the water. It is the words of God.
  • Psalm 28:1 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
  • 1 Corinthians 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. All other ground is sinking sand.

Surprising the LORD (vss 30-31)

  • As soon as Peter thought the water was what held him up, he sank. As soon as he lost sight of the Lord Jesus Christ and feared because of the wind and waves, he was no longer held up by the Lord.
  • Lord, save me is a great prayer. Jesus helped Peter when he lost faith.
  • As surprised as Peter was, it is strange to find that Jesus is mutually surprised that Peter doubted. Look at Mark 6:6. The LORD is not surprised by storms, He’s not surprised by trouble, but If there is one thing the LORD is shocked at it is unbelief.

The Son of God (vss 32-33)

  • Worshipped with the confession that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
  • If you stay with it through the storm you’ll find a greater revelation of who Jesus Christ is. Guaranteed!
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Genesis, Preaching

The Nations (Genesis #23)

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The Nations

Text: Genesis 10

Nations have geographical boundaries

  • Verse 5 …in their lands…
  • Genesis 10:10 Erech is Iraq for instance. 

Nations have linguistic boundaries

  • Verse 5 …every one after his tongue…
  • By their language. Tongues are languages and dialects according to 10:5.

Nations have common family names

  • Verse 5 …after their families…
  • O’Malley, Hernandez, etc

Nations are called Gentiles

  • Isaiah 9:1 and Matthew 4:15
  • 1 Corinthians 10:20, 12:2, Ephesians 2:11-13, 3:1, 6, 8, 4:17
  • Psalms 9:17, Sodom and Gomorrah was an example to the nations of how God would handle their wickedness according to Jude 7 and Matthew 25:31-46 (my brethren interpreted in Matthew 12:46-50)
  • Proverbs 28:2
  • One nation under God
    • Genesis 12:2
    • Deuteronomy 9:4-6
    • Isaiah 11:10, 42:1, 6
    • Isaiah 40:12-17
    • Romans 9:30
1 Samuel, Preaching

Anointing By God’s Spirit (1 Samuel #13)

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Anointing by God’s Spirit

Text: 1 Samuel 11

Intimidation by the enemy (vss 1-3)

  • Coiling serpent
    • Nahash means serpent which is appropriate since this general is characteristic of the devil. Enemy hisses at Israel.
    • The enemy finds his prey. The men of Jabeshgilead failed to show up to battle previously. It was during a civil war in Israel 250 years before this time when the men of Jabeshgilead were characterized as cowardly because they failed to put down national social unrest caused by sex perverts and sodomites.
    • The enemy knew the this group of people didn’t have the stomach to fight so he planned his attack here.
  • Compromise with the devil
    • These weak Israelites try to compromise with this devil. Nahash, the wicked general, says the condition is that I put all your eyes out. In other words, how about I make you all blind for the rest of your miserable lives. For fear of their lives, these Israelites bargain for time.
    • Compromise with the devil is the path to bondage and the inability to serve God.

Indwelling by God’s Spirit (vss 4-11)

  • Crisis is broadcast
    • Messengers come return to tell what’s going on in Jabesh.
    • The people are horrified to hear it.
  • Character of God imparted to Saul
    • The LORD is furious at this enemy and He’s equally frustrated with His own people who are cowering in the presence of the enemy. What the LORD does is unique; Saul gets a taste of God’s perspective on this situation. When the Bible says the Spirit of God came upon Saul it means Saul began to see things the way God sees them, He begins to feel the way God feels about the situation. This happens because God gives His Spirit to Saul so Saul will get a taste of His perspective on this.
    • Why doesn’t God just rain down fire on His enemies? He could, but here’s why He doesn’t. The LORD just answered Israel’s demand for a king. The LORD is not going back on that decision. Israel has the leadership they want and God will now work through that throne in Israel.
      • Leadership matters. If 2020 taught you nothing else it should teach you that leadership actually matters.
      • This week I heard Christians say I’m going to keep serving God no matter who is president. That sounds real noble, but tell that to the Israelites under Pharaoh in Egypt. GOD had to tell Pharaoh, Let my people go so that they may serve me. Pharaoh said, Nah. Don’t pretend like leadership doesn’t make a difference. We have a very hypocritical way of pretending leadership doesn’t affect us when we don’t like it, but relying heavily on it when we do like it. Paul said you need to pray for those in authority for the express purpose that you might have religious liberty where you live. He said that in 1 Timothy 2:1-4. 
  • Command is given
    • With wisdom from God, Saul now leads Israel. By God’s Spirit Saul does three things:
    • He RALLIES the Israelites with a reasonable argument. If you don’t fight for your brethren now, the enemy will eventually take what you have too.
    • He ENCOURAGES those in the fight with help from those he’s assembled.
    • He ORGANIZES the troops into fighting units.
    • Make no mistake about this, it is the Spirit of God that gets credit for the victory here. BUT, Israel will not see it that way.

Identifying the source of strength

  • Credit given to Saul – Israel credits Saul for victory. But Saul credits the LORD, and rightly so.
  • Credit given to God
    • Early on the LORD will sometimes give the victory so you know it’s Him doing the work. Then there comes the day when He wants you to make the decision to rely on Him.
    • Zecheriah 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
    • You and I need the Spirit of God and the blessing of God.
  • Coronation of the king… again
    • Samuel does something interesting in verse 14. Let’s renew the kingdom under victorious circumstances since the first time Saul was announced he was hiding. Here’s a second chance.
    • Saul was anointed with oil the first time and presented to the people. Now he’s been anointed by the Spirit of God, and that’s the one that will make the difference.
Matthew, Preaching, Teaching

Feeding the Five Thousand (Matthew #74)

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Feeding the Five Thousand

Text: Matthew 14:15-21

This is the same feeding 5000 found in all four gospel accounts. It is the same event where the young boy has the five loaves and two fish. Matthew doesn’t record those details, nor does he record what the Lord said to the multitude the day after he fed them. John records that in John 6 when Jesus said He is the Bread of Life. Many in Moses’ day ate bread in the wilderness just like you did and they eventually died. Then Jesus Christ emphasized that He is the Bread of Life and if any man eats His flesh and drinks His blood he’ll never die. And when the multitude heard that they started leaving. 

The Good Shepherd fed the Israelites in the wilderness with manna when they were redeemed from Egypt. Now he fed the 5000 with 2 barley loaves and 5 fish, and He will feed His flock in the wilderness one more time in the future in Revelation 12:5-6, 13-14.

Let’s consider the feeding of the five thousand.

Problem

  • Situation: It’s dinner time, these people need to go find themselves something to eat. This is the normal end to the day. The disciples just simply see the day coming to a close and sending everyone home until tomorrow. But oh how the LORD can take a normal day and turn it into something beyond what we could think or ask.
  • Solutions
    • Man’s solution is to send the people away. Let them go buy food for themselves.
    • The LORD says GIVE them food. Man says we don’t have enough money to buy them food. See John 6:5-7.
    • Little is Much When God is in it. In fact throughout the Bible the little things, the remnant, that’s really all the matters to God. He said to Abraham if there’s a handful of righteous people in Sodom I’ll spare it.

Principle

  • With my help, give them something to eat. Zechariah 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
    • Joshua marched around the walls of Jericho and they fell down.
    • Hezekiah prayed and 185,000 Assyrian soldiers were killed right outside the walls of Jerusalem in one night.
    • Israel escapes Egypt and walks through the Red Sea on dry ground but the armies of Egypt are drowned when they try to do the same. Israel didn’t fire a single shot.
    • Gideon took 300 men, clay pots, candles and trumpets to gain victory over an innumerable amount of Midianites.
  • The LORD must shake His head at me and at us for our faithlessness. We believe He’s the Creator of the earth and the cattle on a thousand hills, but when He says GIVE we question whether He’s going to have the resources to do the job.
  • Or when He says GO we wonder whether the opportunity is actually right.

Process

  • How did the Spirit of God work through the Lord Jesus Christ? Here’s the LORD’s method. There is no magic spell. Whatever happens in verse 19 is sufficient to transition from not even close to enough to feed the crowd to an overabundance.
  • BLESSED what was given. He set it apart and designated it for service to God.
  • BRAKE what was given. If it isn’t broken it can’t be multiplied. Do you want the LORD to use you? Probably not. It’s going to require breaking. This is the thing no one asks for. We’d love to see the miracle, but we don’t want the breaking required. This is not “name it, claim it” faith. 2 Corinthians 1:3-5.
  • GAVE to his disciples to give to others. The only thing that can be given is what’s been blessed and broken. Jesus Christ is the broken Shepherd saying this is my body, broken for you. And that body of Jesus Christ is distributed through preaching for centuries and over the face of all the earth. The giving is a logistical matter. This is how the multiplication works. God gives gifts so God can do His work through more people and multiply His work.
  • The people ate, were filled, and they TOOK UP twelve baskets full. After the disciples distributed the baskets to the people they went back around and gathered up the leftovers. Look at what Jesus says about that in John 6:12-14.
Preaching, Psalms

The God of Jacob is Our Refuge

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Text: Psalm 46

The musical notation for the psalm says A Song upon Alamoth which is the plural form of alma or virgin. So the instruction is for a choir of chaste virgin girl’s choir to about God being a refuge.

David writes this psalm while hiding in a cave from Saul. He thinks about the cave as a refuge like God as a refuge.  And just like bunkering down until the storm passes over, David hears the Lord say, Be still, and know that I am God.

There are three stanzas to this song.  They are broken up by the word Selah in verses 3, 7, and 11.  Each stanza describes another aspect of God as a refuge.

Refuge is where the storm has no power (vss 1-3)

  • The LORD is a help in trouble. But He’s not just a help, He’s a PRESENT help. He’s not just a PRESENT help, He’s a VERY PRESENT HELP! Because of that, he’s removed the spirit of fear (verse 2).
  • Fears meet their match in the Lord. David mentions several potentially worrisome events that will not be able to encroach of those who have made God their refuge.
  • All the scary events and loud crashing that accompany a storm are just noise when you’ve taken refuge in the Rock that is higher than you. The only power of the storm is the noise it makes and the intimidation through sound. But actual power is lost when it comes in contact with the Refuge.
  • God is a very present help
    • “A” but not ‘Your” help unless you grab hold of his promise through faith.
    • Visiting with a lady about her losing her husband and losing her faith. Impossible to explain going to church doesn’t offer hope of help unless you put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and set your affections on things above.

Refuge is where joy is found (vss 4-7)

  • Provision is made here.  It is a fixed place of provision.
  • Notice in verse 5 where God is there is stability, but the heathen raged against God in verse 6 and were swept away in the storm
  • Matthew 7:21-27 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
  • Swept up in the culture that made a profession of faith, but never had any.

Refuge is where you wait (vss 8-11)

  • Behold… Here’s how you get into the refuge.
  • Be still… Sometimes it’s not about taking steps, but taking refuge. Sometimes it’s about trusting God with your time, friendships, money, relationships, and that’s how you take refuge.
Genesis, Preaching

Jesus Christ is Like Noah’s Ark (Genesis #22)

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Jesus Christ is like Noah’s Ark

Text: Genesis 6-8

Make thee an ark…

  • Grace of God came through an Ark & Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 1:4)
  • Application: God makes provision to avoid judgment on sin.

The ark was built in the open, was not hidden

  • 2 Peter 2:5… the ark was preached about and disregarded
  • Hebrews 11:7… Noah condemned the world
  • Application: the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ was public
  • Titus 2:11.. appeared to all men                            

Pitch it within and without with pitch (6:14)

  • The Ark was completely sealed
  • All in Jesus Christ are sealed (Eph. 4:30)
  • Application: The kids asked why no water seeped into the ark? The ark was tossed around on the waves in the and pushed about, but the wrath of God never touched those onboard…likewise the flames of hell will never touch the believer

This is the fashion which thou shalt make it of…(6:15)

  • The Ark was not beautiful, it was a vessel made to bear the wrath of God
  • Jesus Christ was not made to be beautiful but to bear the wrath of God (Isa. 53:2)
  • Application: Salvation is God’s plan, not yours. 

but with thee will I establish my covenant… (6:18)

  • promises of God to those IN the ark
  • promises of God to those IN Jesus Christ (Eph. 3:6, 11)
  • everything you get from God you get through Jesus Christ
  • the promises are in the Ark, you can get on board or stay off

to keep them alive with thee… to keep them alive…(6:19-20)

  • the Ark was life
  • Jesus Christ is life (John 14:6, 10:10)

Take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten… (6:21)

  • No one on the ark starved or dehydrated
  • you will not hunger or thirst in Jesus Christ (John 6:35)

Come thou and all thy house into the ark… (7:1)

  • the Ark was entered by invitation of God
  • God makes the same invitation for Jesus Christ (Matt. 11:28)
  • Notice also “all thy house” just like Acts 16:31

Entering the ark meant leaving this world behind

  • God did not tell them when or even if they’d come out of the ark
  • Following Jesus Christ means leaving this world behind (Luke 9:62 & 2 Tim. 2:4)

the Lord shut them in… (7:16)

  • the Lord shut them in the ark
  • the Lord shuts us in Jesus Christ (John 10:28)

and the waters increased, and bare up the ark and it was lift up above the earth (7:17)

  • the Ark had to be lifted up
  • Jesus Christ had to be lifted up (John 12:32)

and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark (7:23)

  • the Ark was the only method of salvation
  • Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation (Acts 4:12)

God remembered Noah, … and all that was with him in the ark (8:1)

  • God remembered those in the Ark
  • God remembers those in Jesus Christ (Hebrews 6:10)

and the ark rested in the seventh month on the seventeenth day of the month (8:4)

  • When the work was done, the ark rested. Application: Hebrews 1:3

the ark rested… (8:4)

  • the ark had a definite task to do and after completion it rested
  • Jesus Christ set out with a certain task and rested after it was finished (Heb. 10:11
1 Samuel, Preaching

Equipping Saul for Service (1 Samuel #12)

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Equipping Saul for Service

Text: 1 Samuel 10

Calling (vs 1)

  • Saul will be given an influential and admirable job by the LORD. He’ll be set apart by the LORD to serve on the throne of Israel. That throne is reserved for the LORD Jesus Christ, but Saul will put on it nonetheless.
  • Saul’s anointing doesn’t make Saul right. It doesn’t even make Saul God’s choice. But because of Israel’s demands, and because God’s name is on the nation of Israel, God is going to put His blessings on a man that has no business with them. 
  • (If you want to know the difference between Israel and America, Brazil, Germany, Peru, and every other nation is this, God’s name is on the nation of Israel, but His name is not on any other nation. And He’ll treat Israel in a way that He won’t treat any other nation.)

Confidence (vss 2-8)

  • Samuel tells Saul:
    • At Rachel’s grave you’ll find two men who will confirm that the donkeys are found and your dad is looking for you.
    • In the plain of Tabor you’ll see three men who will give you two loaves of bread.
    • In the hill of God you’ll find people worshipping. You’ll take part in their worship service and the Spirit of the Lord will move you to preach.
    • Then you’ll go to Gilgal and I’ll meet you there in a week.
  • The Lord does these things for Saul to dissolve his doubts about being king and give him courage knowing the LORD is in this and willing to help him. When the LORD speaks about future events in order to provide confidence in His word He is detailed. This isn’t the psychic hotline or horoscope vague generalities.

Changed heart (vss 9-16)

  • Change of heart comes as a result of the events happening that Samuel said would happen. That gave Saul reassurance that the LORD was in it and his heart goes from fearful to encouraged. But it won’t last.
  • Mountain top experience quickly turns into real life.
  • Saul will suffer chronic discouragement. After the Lord encourages his heart, he just doesn’t desire the things of God and worries more about his perception among the people.

Crown to oversee God’s inheritance (vss 17-25)

  • As I’ve said God never intended Israel to have any other king but the LORD Jesus Christ. The fact that the LORD is willing to put a throne in Israel at this time doesn’t make it a good thing and the LORD says that in verse 19 (God protested this in 8:6-9, see also 12:12, 19).
  • It would be funny if it weren’t so sad. The Lord gives Saul a crown to oversee the flock of God. But Saul is hiding in verse 22.

Companions in the face of opposition (vss 26-27)

  • Notice that there were some supporters there because they wanted to help Saul.
  • There were some detractors who were on the wrong side of God, but correct in their assessment of Saul.

Conclusions

  • The LORD will take up a cause for His name’s sake.
  • Blessings don’t mean you’re right with God.
Matthew, Preaching, Teaching

Compassionate Shepherd (Matthew #74)

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Compassionate Shepherd

Text: Matthew 14:13-14

One of the most endearing qualities of the Lord Jesus Christ is compassion. Several times Matthew records this description of the Lord’s compassion on a needy, wandering crowd (Matthew 9:36, 15:32, 20:34).

Compassion knowing the sin in these peoples’ lives

Good Shepherd feeds the flock

  • Isaiah 40:10-11
  • John 21:15
  • 1 Peter 5:2-4

Good Shepherd marks the flock

  • Mark in the ear
  • John 10:3, 16, 27

Good Shepherd manages the field

  • Make the field fit – Luke 23:14, the Lord did not give unbelievers an excuse to blaspheme God
  • Romans 2:24
  • 1 Timothy 6:1
  • Titus 2:5

Good Shepherd protects the flock

  • From predators – Acts 20:29-31 – spiritual predators
  • From disease – 2  Timothy 2:14-18 – spiritual disease

Good Shepherd stimulates healthy reproduction

  • Acts 2:47, 5:12-14, 11:22-24

Good Shepherd sacrifices himself for His sheep

  • In John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

Good Shepherd lives to make his flock productive

  • Hebrews 13:20-21
Colossians, Preaching

Praying (Colossians #58)

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Praying

Text: Colossians 4:2-4

Diligence in prayer

  • Continue in prayer…
  • Father’s house a house of prayer. The altar of incense in the tabernacle was the illustration of prayer. It was supposed to stay lit all day and night, everyday. And in that you see that prayer is like keeping a fire going. It must be tended to. There must be a constant supply of fuel.
  • As the duty of the priest in the tabernacle so it is the duty of every child of God.
  • 1 Samuel 12:23
  • Acts 12:5
  • Romans 1:9
  • 2 Timothy 1:3

Defense in prayer

  • …and watch in the same…
  • Watch in prayer means prayer can be a defence. Use prayer as a watch. Use prayer as a lookout, like a security guard.
  • Matthew 26:41 watch and pray so you don’t fall into temptation
  • This implies prayerlessness invites temptation and sin.
  • Luke 21:34-36
  • You like prayer as a means of getting things. But prayer can be like hiring a security guard. This is important to the next point here. Paul wants prayer that a door would be open. Open door doesn’t mean temptation goes away. So prayer is also a means of overcoming temptation that stands by the open door.

Divine resources made available in prayer

  • Prayer as a means of opening doors for the purpose of preaching the gospel
  • An open door of utterance to preach Christ.
    • 1 Corinthians 16:9 open door is not without adversity
    • 2 Corinthians 2:12
  • Prayer invites the resources of God in heaven. In prayer God gives man the privilege to direct him. The Father wants Jesus Christ to be made known to all. He uses preaching to do that because He’s given man a will and a choice to make his own decisions. So when a man’s will lines up with God’s plan, it gives God an opportunity to work.
  • There are very few people who want to do the will of God. When the rare soul that wants to serve God decides to serve God they find there is much opposition to it.
Genesis, Preaching

Noah’s Faith (Genesis #21)

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Noah’s faith

Text: Hebrews 11:7

  • Abel was confirmed to be righteous and then was killed by his brother because of his faith
  • Enoch was taken away and never saw death because of his faith.
  • Noah will survive judgment as a result of his faith.

Faith cometh by hearing the word of God

  • Being warned of things not seen as yet…
  • Noah believed God about something he’d never seen before.
  • It’s a possibility that it had never rained before on the earth according to Genesis 2:5, but the earth had certainly never flooded like this before.
  • You believe in Hell? You’ve never seen it. You believe in Jesus Christ? You’ve never seen Him. You believe in an incorruptible body? You’ve never seen it.

Faith is substance of things hoped for and evidence of things not seen

  • Moved with fear because of God’s weather forecast.
  • So Noah put to practice (practical) his faith. The evidence that Noah trusts God is the ark he builds.
  • Let me illustrate something about us: Does the government lie to you? Does the weatherman get it wrong sometimes? But you know if the government says bored up and leave town because a hurricane is coming you’ll board up and either leave town or start storing water. I’m not saying that’s bad, but I’m illustrating the point. We are more in tuned with the warnings from people we know lie or at least get it wrong than we are with a God we say CANNOT lie.
  • People want the effects of God’s work – survive the flood – but they don’t want God telling them what to do with their lives – build an ark.
    • And they didn’t want to be told to build an ark because they didn’t want to believe that God was going to judge them for their sin.
    • Noah’s abnormal lifestyle was based on what God said – REMEMBER THAT.  It would be ridiculed, mocked, and ignored.
    • People don’t see godliness as practical.
    • 1 Timothy 4:8 … godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
  • I can hear them trying to talk Noah out of things.
    • Noah, if you keep working on that boat, your kids are going to miss out on so much. Noah, if you keep working on that boat you’ll never have any fun. You’ll never enjoy life.
    • It’s not like Noah didn’t want to enjoy life, or didn’t want his kids to live normal lives, or didn’t want to enjoy family life. He knew whatever happened is only temporary and ultimately condemned if he didn’t make his life different for a period of time.
  • People want to survive the flood but they don’t want a God telling them to build an ark.

Faith that justifies

  • …by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
  • Noah gets messed up after the ark in Genesis 9, but he’s already become the heir of righteousness which is by faith.
  • Romans 1:17, 3:22, 4:5, 4:9, 4:11, 4:13, 9:30.
1 Samuel, Preaching

The People’s King (1 Samuel #11)

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The People’s King

Text: 1 Samuel 9

The day begins as everyday in Saul’s house. Saul wakes up and has a list of farm chores to do. Maybe breakfast, maybe not? Saul is starting his day when his dad, Kish, says some of the donkeys are loose. Kish tells Saul to take someone with him to herd the donkeys. Now, I’m going to stop here and point out the irony the LORD provides. Israel has become stubborn as a mule. They demand a king because they reject the LORD. So the LORD makes sure the man Israel is looking to rule them, Saul, is trying to herd a bunch of stubborn donkeys. Much like he will try to herd a stubborn nation. He will be unsuccessful at both.

Saul has no leadership qualifications, just physical attributes to go off of (vss 1-10)

  • His family is very wealthy as noted in verse 1.
  • His physical appearance is better than any other man in Israel according to verse 2. He is also the tallest man in Israel. Apart from those qualities, Saul doesn’t have any leadership or spiritual qualities.
  • Saul’s wealthy family and physical appearance are enough to make him the candidate of the people.
  • Saul’s servant leads Saul to Samuel because otherwise Saul has no dealings and no idea who Samuel is. Saul’s personal life is far removed from the work of God. When the servant brings up getting help from Samuel, Saul’s concern is that Samuel’s services will cost too much (vs 7). In a family like Saul’s, money is the main thing.

Saul is not familiar with serving God (vss 11-14)

  • Saul and his servant run into some women and ask them where the prophet is. Saul doesn’t seem to know who Samuel is or what Samuel does. It is a feast day, one of the one’s prescribed by Moses, but Saul is unfamiliar with the entire thing.
  • Saul has been making money working on his dad’s farm, but hasn’t a single spiritual inclination toward God in his life.

Saul is not familiar with the man of God (vss 15-24)

  • When Saul finally meets Samuel he doesn’t know who Samuel is. He is oblivious to God’s work. That seems pretty oblivious considering Samuel is the man responsible for delivering Israel out of the hands of the Philistines and guiding Israel for years now.
  • The LORD never intended Israel to have any king but the Lord Jesus Christ. The only reason Israel is being given a king now because they have rejected their heavenly king and have demanded a visible head over them (see 1 Samuel 10:19, 24, 12:19).
  • The LORD accommodates Israel by giving them what they want. According to verse 20 Israel apparently already had someone in mind to be their king. Verse 20 says just as your dad’s heart was on his lost animals so Israel’s heart is on a king.
  • Government shall be upon his shoulders… Samuel gives the shoulder for Saul at the feast (vss 23-24).

Saul is unfamiliar with God’s word (vss 25-27)

  • The best leadership is godly leadership. Godly leadership comes from knowing God, which Saul doesn’t at this time.
  • The LORD still tries to help Israel’s king so he can in turn help the nation. But that will prove to be futile. The Lord tries time and again to help Saul. He will put His Spirit on Saul for a time, but that won’t last.
  • When you read 1 Samuel chapters 8-12, you can see the LORD’s frustration with the nation of Israel and His attempts to guide the nation through a man that has no qualifications to be God’s king. This chapter is not about God’s sovereignty in having Saul meet up with Samuel because of lost donkeys. This chapter is God’s frustration and making sure some donkeys are lost until Saul meets Samuel.
Matthew, Preaching, Teaching

Death of John the Baptist (Matthew #73)

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Death of John the Baptist

Text: Matthew 14:3-12

This Herod is Herod the tetrarch, son of Herod the Great. This is not the Herod that killed the babies when Jesus was born. This is the Herod that would send Jesus back to Pilate before the crucifixion in Luke 23:7-12, 15. This is possibly the Herod that had James killed in Acts 12. Which would make him the same Herod that was eaten by worms while giving a majestic speech in Acts 12. Acts 13:1 Saul (Paul) is apparently part of Herod’s palace.

Conviction of sin (vss 3-4)

  • It’s one thing to preach about sin, but another thing to preach about your sin
  • Herod persecutes John because his girlfriend doesn’t like John’s preaching. Herodias doesn’t like John preaching against her relationship with Herod.
  • People have convictions about relationships where they have no convictions about truth. Herodias has strong feelings about her relationship with Herod such that the truth and God’s opinion about her relationship will be bulldozed by her feelings. When the voice of truth speaks to HER sin, her response is to silence the voice – kill him!
  • You need Jesus Christ because of your sin. If when your SIN is pointed out you protest, you can’t be saved by Jesus Christ until you actually have sin.
  • Babylon Bee headline – “Woman Unsure Why She Needs Jesus After Preacher Spends 30 Minutes Telling Her How Amazing She Is”

Fear of man (vs 5)

  • Herod fears everyone but God. He was afraid of the people, afraid of his wife, afraid of John the Baptist coming back to life, afraid of his conscience, but not afraid of God.
  • Proverbs 29:25
  • Principles are made slave to pressures. Environment  that is not conducive to the truth

Foolish obligations (vss 6-9)

  • Herod makes a promise while everyone is having fun at this party. He opens his mouth and says something stupid that has consequences beyond what he wanted.
  • Get you overextended or compromised so you are entangled with affairs of someone else in an unwise way.
  • He wants to get you tied to a sinking ship.

Giving place to the devil (vs 10)

  • John the Baptist is beheaded because Herodias didn’t like his preaching. This man is going to die in prison because Herodias was angry.
    • Uncontrolled emotions bring ruin – Proverbs 16:32
    • Uncontrolled emotions become sin – Proverbs 29:22
    • Uncontrolled emotions become idols
      • You do what you can to nurse that feeling. Herodias nurses this hatred.
      • How about anger in this case? Justify revenge. Payback consumes your thoughts.
    • Uncontrolled emotions affect physical health
    • Uncontrolled emotions affect social reputation – Proverbs 21:19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
  • Now, remember the people view John as a prophet. Herod originally doesn’t kill John because of the political backlash. So you know when Herod has John killed he has to give some storyline to the people about why John has been killed.
  • Convenient day means it was convenient to get John killed (Mark 6:21)

Correct your expectations (vss 11-12)

  • This is absolutely terrible what happens to John. And when you consider the reason that it happened, because some influential woman was offended it makes it even worse. But it should serve to focus your understanding of Christ’s promises. And it should serve to give you a more clear and true expectation in this life. With a right perspective it’ll toughen your mind up. It’ll keep you from getting bitter and depressed because of unreasonable expectations.
  • When John the Baptist said Christ must increase, but he must decrease, being imprisoned and murdered by the state was not what John had in mind.
Colossians, Preaching

The Lord Rewards (Colossians #57)

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The Lord Rewards

Text: Colossians 3:24-25

Faith is believing God rewards

  • Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
  • Proverbs 25:21-22 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: 22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
  • Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
  • Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

Faithlessness is looking for rewards from somewhere, someone else

  • Believing God is the rewarder is the opposite of being a man pleaser. See Matthew 6:1,5,16
  • John 12:42-43 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: 43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
  • You might ask if a person can be saved if they are still menpleasers because you know and I know you’re going to stumble on this. Peter did and Paul got on to him.

Reward of the inheritance

  • 1 Peter 1:3-5
  • Galatians 3:18
  • Ephesians 1:14

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