Sermon20130210

2 Corinthians 5:11-15 (NASB)
11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.
12 We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart.
13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.
14 For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;
15 and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.

Introduction:

Review:

Theme: Three implications from judgement so you will live for Christ rather than yourself.

I. We know the fear of the Lord vs.11

II. We take take action vv.11-13
A. Persuasion in evangelism
B. Persuasion of sincerity

III. We are controlled by Christ’s love for us. vv.14-15
A. This love was demonstrated in a substitutionary atonement.
B. This love leads to living for Christ.

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Sermon20130203

Uriel Novelo – guest speaker

Romans 1:1-16 (NASB)
1 Paul, a bond- servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
2 which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures,
3 concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh,
4 who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord,
5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for His name’s sake,
6 among whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ;
7 to all who are beloved of God in Rome, called as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout the whole world.
9 For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly I make mention of you,
10 always in my prayers making request, if perhaps now at last by the will of God I may succeed in coming to you.
11 For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established;
12 that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
13 I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that often I have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
14 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
15 So, for my part, I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Four reasons why not to be ashamed

1. It is the Power of GOD.
2. It is the Person of GOD.
3. It is the Passion of GOD.
4. It is the Promise of GOD.

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Sermon20130127

Theme: Seven future judgements which await man so you will be motivated to faithfully serve Christ during this life.

#1
Identity: The judgement seat of Christ or God
Time: After the Rapture , before Jesus’s Second Coming
Subjects: Christian of the church age.
Purpose: To determine rewards or penalties
Outcome: Rewarded to reign with Christ during his thousand year reign
Importance: If you die today this is the judgement to you will immediately face.

#2
Identity: The judgement of Jewish people alive at Christ’s second coming.
Time: At His second coming
Subjects: Jewish people allive when Christ returns
Purpose: To weed out the righteous Jews from the rebellious.
Outcome: The righteous Jews enter into the Kingdom
Importance: God deals with the Jews as promised.

#3
Identity: The judgement of the Nations, the sheep and goats judgement.
Time: At His second coming.
Subjects: The nations, gentile individuals who have survived the tribulation, those that have taken the mark of the beast. The goats.
Purpose: To determine their destiny based on how they treated the Jews and the 144000 witnesses during the tribulation.
Outcome: The sheep who performed acts of love enter into the 1000 tear millennial reign ofChrist on the earth, the goats who neglected to show the Jews love are sent into eternal punishment
Importance: Those unbelievers you know who live through the Great Tribulation will be present at this judgement

#4
Identity: The judgement of the martyred tribulations saints Rev 20:4
Time: Between the second coming of Christ and the beginning of the Millennial kingdom
Subjects: Jews and Gentiles martyred during the tribulation.
Purpose: To raise them to life
Outcome: They reign with Chris through his 1000 year reign.
Importance:

#5
Identity: The Old Testaments saints – Daniel 12: 1-2
Time: Between the second coming of Christ and the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom
Subjects: All the believing dead before Pentecost
Purpose:
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#6
Identity: The Judgement at the Great White Throne
Time: After the Millennial Kingdom
Subjects: All the unbelieving dead
Purpose:
Outcome: They will be cast into the Lake of Fire
Importance: All unbelievers will be finally judged. There is no escape!

#7
Identity: The Judgement of the Heavens and the Earth.
Time:
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Sermon20130120

Introduction:

Top 10 Human Fears
10 Loosing your freedom
9 Unknown
8 Pain
7 Disappointment
6 Misery
5 Loneliness
4 Ridicule
3 Rejection
2 Death
1 Failure

Review:
2 Corinthians 5:10 (NASB)
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Judgement – calamity brought on by God or man to address disobedience. Punishment.
Second sense, to engage in a judicial process.

Three Critical Events with judgements associated with them :
The Rapture
Jesus’s Second Coming
The Millennial Kingdom

Theme: Seven future judgements which await man so you will be motivated to faithfully serve Christ during this life.

#1
Identity: The judgement seat of Christ or God
Time: After the Rapture , before Jesus’s Second Coming
Subjects: Christian of the church age.
Purpose: To determine rewards or penalties
Outcome: Rewarded to reign with Christ during his thousand year reign
Importance: If you die today this is the judgement to you will immediately face.

#2
Identity: The judgement of Jewish people alive at Christ’s second coming.
Time: At His second coming
Subjects: Jewish people allive when Christ returns
Purpose: To weed out the righteous Jews from the rebellious.
Outcome: The righteous Jews enter into the Kingdom
Importance: God deals with the Jews as promised.

#3
Identity: The judgement of the Nations, the sheep and goats judgement.
Time: At His second coming.
Subjects: The nations, gentile individuals who have survived the tribulation, those that have taken the mark of the beast. The goats.
Purpose: To determine their destiny based on how they treated the Jews and the 144000 witnesses during the tribulation.
Outcome:
Importance:

#4
Identity: The judgement of the Martyred tribulations saints
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#5
Identity: the old testaments saints
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#6
Identity: the judgement at the great white throne
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#7
Identity: the judgement of the heavens and the earth.
Time:
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Sermon20130113

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Sermon20130106

Introduction:

2 Corinthians 5:1-5
1 For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven,
3 inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.
4 For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.
5 Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.

Theme: Three interrelated factors concerning our dream body so we will wait expectantly for the future.

I. We are assured of this heavenly body vv. 1-3

What we attain

Three Characteristics of this body:

a. A body God provides – it is certain
b.
c. A body to cover our naked spirit

II. We are burdened while in our earthly body vs 4

What we experience

III. We are prepared for this body by God vs.5

What we receive

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Sermon20121230

Acts 2:42-47
42 They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
43 Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles.
44 And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common;
45 and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need.
46 Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart,
47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.

Introduction:

Theme: Five elementary steps for greater unity so people will be drawn to faith in Christ

Acclimate yourself to partaking the public means of grace – vs. 42

Four Commitments:

1. Commitment to the apostles teaching
2. Commitment to fellowship
3. Commitment to breaking bread together
4. Commitment to prayer

Be in awe of what God is doing among us -vs. 43

Cultivate community – vs. 44

Demonstrate generosity -vs. 45

Enjoy the fellowship of other believers – vs. 46

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Sermon20121223

Introduction:

Theme: Two results that arise from God’s gift of His Son so we might rejoice in becoming a part of His family.

Galatians 4:4-7
4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
6 Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “ Abba! Father!”
7 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

What God did: Four important aspects of sending His Son
1. The Timing
Royalty
Religiously
Culturally
Politically

2. The Person

3. The Manner

4. The Dispensation

I. Result: The redemption of His people vs.5a

II. Result: The adoption of His Sons vv.5b-7

Conclusion :

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Sermon20121216

Introduction:

Theme: Three aspects of His first coming to appreciate so you will eagerly anticipate His second.

I. His first coming commenced our initial salvation and enriched us for service, His second will confirm us to the end.

1 Corinthians 1:4-8

4 I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,
5 that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge,
6 even as the testimony concerning Christ was confirmed in you,
7 so that you are not lacking in any gift, awaiting eagerly the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
8 who will also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

II. His first coming provided for us a new citizenship, His second will provide for a new and glorified body.

Philippians 3:20-21
20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.

III. His first coming secured the sacrifice for our sins, His second will secure our final salvation.

Hebrews 9:28
so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

Conclusion:

1. Titus 2:12-13

12 instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,
13 looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,

2. John 3:2-3

2 this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “ Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

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Sermon20121209

2 Corinthians 4:16-18
16 Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.
17 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,
18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Introduction:

Theme: Three transcendent principles for your Christian life so you won’t live in the now.

I. The body that’s passing is not the person who’s lasting …..so accept the inevitable and focus on the inconceivable vs.16

II. The trials you face are only for a season but the reward is forever. …..so learn to weigh your temporal trials in light of eternity vs.17

III. The things that you see are not the things that will last……so quit looking at what you see and start looking at what you can’t vs.18

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