Sermon Notes

INTRODUCTION     Exodus 20:1-4,7-8,12-20 1 And God spoke all these words, saying:   2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.   3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.   4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image — any likeness of anything

  God is Our Gracious Provider        Exodus 16:2–15 ESV Before we go to our text …  Something Apostle Paul said …   1 Corinthians 10:11 …  11 Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our [c]admonition[instruction], upon whom the ends of the ages have come.     Which “things” are

INTRODUCTION A.  God has revealed Himself.  Why?   To make Himself known.  B.  Why?  Why would God want to make Himself known?  One word — RELATIONSHIP.  God wants to be known because He wants a genuine relationship … and that requires that we know Him.   C.  Over the past few weeks, we have been reflecting on

                    BIBLE READING    Exodus 12:1–14 (ESV) 1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 “This month shall be for you the beginning of months.  It shall be the first month of the year for you.  3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the

  SERMON        INTRODUCTION   A.  We have prayer meetings on Thursdays … many repeat requests  B.  Those many repeat requests can cause one to wonder if God is aware … or why He has not answered … or, IF He has answered, what that answer is … Yes, No, Not yet??  Where is

  INTRODUCTION  Some keep the Sabbath … b/c … God rested on the 7th day …  Genesis 2:1-3  Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which

INTRODUCTION   QQQ … “When Christ is in the vessel, you can smile at the storm.”   Where did that saying come from?  What inspired it?  What does it mean?  According to one of my favourite theologians, Dr. Google AI: The phrase comes from a popular Christian children’s song and hymn. The full line is, “With Christ

INTRODUCTION Two weeks ago … the title of the sermon was “Wanted: Dead, But Alive”.  The point was that God wants us dead to sin, but alive to Him … being “dead to sin” means being “free from the power of sin” … NOT that we can’t/won’t sin, BUT that we are able to resist

  OBSERVATION … What does the text say?    Romans 6:12-23    12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as [d]instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin

  INTRODUCTION    A.  Think of a WANTED poster … like the ones seen in westerns … with the caption “WANTED – Dead OR Alive”.     B.  In this case, however think of the caption as saying … “WANTED — Dead, BUT Alive”.   C.  That’s the title of my sermon for today … It may