The Scource of Love

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The Scource of Love

1 John 4:7-16 The Source of Love If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 John chapter 4, beginning in the 7th verse. We’re continuing to make our way through this book, and we've really come to a culminating passage. John has a lot more to say, but he's come back in the passage we're going to read today to the subject of love as a test of authentic Christian experience and profession for at least the third time in this book, and he has combined it with the idea of rightly believing in the truth of God's word as to who Jesus is. The last time we were together looking at 1 John 4:1-6, we saw his emphasis again being on the confession that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh and is from God–we see that in verse 2 of 1 John 4. And now he immediately…

Dealing With Sin (2)

1 John 2:1-2Dealing With Sin (2) Turn with me to 1 John, and look at chapter 1 before we begin to look at chapter 2. If you don't have your Bibles, the pew Bible is available to you, and 1 John is towards the end of the New Testament right before the book of Revelation and before the book of Jude and, of course, 2nd and 3rd John, and so right towards the end of the Bible. We've been working through the book of 1 John, and we've said that in the end of chapter 1 of the book of 1 John, John is addressing some false teaching in the Christian Church about the issue of the place of sin in the Christian life. If you look at verses 6, 8 and 10 in 1 John 1, you will see him address three specific false teachings which are being noised abroad in the churches to which he is writing. They…

A Sweet Smell For the Lord

Exodus 30:1-38A Sweet Smell for the Lord If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn to Exodus chapter 30. Let's begin with reading Exodus chapter 30: 1-10. “Moreover, you shall make an altar as a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit, it shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding all around it. And you shall make two gold rings for it under its molding; you shall make them on its two side walls-on opposite sides-and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it. And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them…

Preparations for Priests

Exodus 29:1-46Preparations for Priests We have been looking at this section of Exodus that runs from Exodus 24 through 40, with one interruption in 32, 33, and 34. This whole passage has to do with the right worship of God. Now you maybe wondering about that interruption, we’ll get there early next year God willing. And that interruption is about wrong worship. So the whole of the end of Exodus is about worship, both right and wrong. And so we find this series of connected chapters focusing on…

Mobile Sanctuary

Exodus 27:1-21Mobile Church That brings us to Exodus 27. So if you have your Bibles look with me there. “Our Lord and our God teach us from Your word this night of Christ and of Your worship. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.” I want to point you to three things. Exodus 27 divides into three parts. Verses 1-8 describe the altar of sacrifice. That altar of sacrifice was called different things. For instance, in the very first verse of the next chapter, it's called the altar of bronze,…

Putting Others First, As Jesus Did

Romans 15:1-6 Putting Others First, As Jesus Did Dr. Derek Thomas Turn with me if you would to Romans chapter 15 as we try and pick up in the exposition of Romans. Coming now this evening to chapter 15 and verses 1 through 6. Hear the word of God. “Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves. Each of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification. For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, ‘ THE…

The Lord’s Passover

The Lord's PassoverExodus 12:1-13 If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 12. For the next two weeks, our attention will move away from the plagues, and even the final plague which was introduced last week, and we will focus instead on the institution of the Passover, which is described throughout Exodus 12. The bulk of this great chapter is devoted to this important Old Testament sacrament. Tonight we will be focusing on the first verses of Exodus 12.…

The Instrument by Which We Receive the Righteousness of…

Romans 3:27-31 Faith: The Instrument by Which We Receive the Righteousness of God If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 3. We’ve been in Romans 3:21 through 26 for the last few weeks as we have meditated upon this glorious doctrine of justification by grace through faith. And just as Isaiah, before he gives us that beautiful presentation of the gospel of grace which he begins to unfold for us in the 30’s and especially in Isaiah 40 and on. He gives us…

God, in the Gospel of His Son

Romans 3:21-26 (3) Atonement and Justification If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Romans, chapter 3, as we continue to look at this great passage from Romans 3:21-26 in which Paul begins to set forth the good news. Over and over we’ve said in Romans 1 and 2, and the first part of Romans 3 from Romans 1:18 to Romans 3:20, that Paul has been establishing the good news, by explaining the bad news. He has told us that we are all in need, that we all stand condemned, that…

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