The Sovereign Reign of Christ Over Everything – Josef Urban
12/4/2011 (SUN) | Bible: Psalm 2; Acts 4:24-28
12/4/2011 (SUN) | Bible: Psalm 2; Acts 4:24-28
Was Jesus eternally preexistent? What does it mean that Jesus is ‘the firstborn of creation’? Why does it matter? Texts covered in this sermon: John 1:1-1, John 17:5, 1 John 1:1-3, Philippians 2:3-8, Isaiah 9:6, Colossians 1:15-20 and Revelations 3:14.
Are you as a branch abiding in Jesus the true vine and bearing fruit? Is the Father as the Vinedresser pruning you to make you even more fruitful? Who are the unfruitful branches, weak Christians or false professors?
Isaiah 55:1 “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. 3 Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
Luke 17:28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot–they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all– 30 so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
Is Galatians 5:17 a picture of the “normal Christian life that is full of failure” or is it just a picture of the Galatians when they were looking back to the law and not to Christ?
On two different occasions in the Gospels Jesus refers to Himself as a physician. This sermon examines how fitting that title is for Jesus and how He is greater than any other physician in the world.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16
Tim talks about how the Apostle John is someone in which we should imitate. Some very helpful insights are given on John’s attitude and humility that we should strive to imitate.
The perfect love, of the perfect Father, was poured out on the perfect Son; and Jesus says that He loves us with the same type of love! That is an unbelievable comparison!
Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. 7 For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. 8 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned. 9 Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things–things that belong to salvation.
Is the tithe a New Testament standard and is it just 10%?