Ransomed and Redeemed: The Two Kinds of Repentance

From the sermon series, “Ransomed and Redeemed: Rescued by God’s Grace.”

Sermon text: Exodus 9:13–10:20

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me. For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

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Ransomed and Redeemed: The Two Kinds of Repentance

Ransomed and Redeemed: Hard and Hallowed Hearts

From the sermon series, “Ransomed and Redeemed: Rescued by God’s Grace.”

Sermon text: Exodus 9:1–12

     Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me. For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them, behold, the hand of the LORD will fall with a very severe plague upon your livestock that are in the field, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.

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Ransomed and Redeemed: Hard and Hallowed Hearts

Ransomed and Redeemed: Ignoring Judgment and Salvation

From the sermon series, “Ransomed and Redeemed: Rescued by God’s Grace.”

Sermon text: Exodus 8:16–32

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, so that it may become gnats in all the land of Egypt.’” And they did so. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were gnats on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats in all the land of Egypt. (Exodus 8:16-17 ESV)

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Ransomed and Redeemed: Ignoring Judgment and Salvation

The Fear of the Lord

Sermon text: Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;
     fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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The Fear of the Lord

The Second Plague: Frogs?!

From the sermon series, “Ransomed and Redeemed: Rescued by God’s Grace”

Sermon text: Exodus 8:1–15

     Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Let my people go, that they may serve me. But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs. The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls. The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants.”

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The Second Plague: Frogs?!

The First Plague: Judgement in Blood

From the sermon series, “Ransomed and Redeemed: Rescued by God’s Grace”

Sermon text: Exodus 7:14–25

     Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go. Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent. And you shall say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness.”

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The First Plague: Judgement in Blood

Ransomed and Redeemed: Only God

From the sermon series, “Ransomed and Redeemed: Rescued by God’s Grace”

Sermon text: Exodus 7:1–13

     And the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment. The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.” Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the LORD commanded them. Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
     Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’” So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

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Ransomed and Redeemed: Only God

A Living Savior

From our 2013 Easter Sunday service.

Sermon text: Luke 24:1–12

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.” And they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.

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A Living Savior

Good Friday 2013: Words from the Cross

From our 2013 Good Friday service.

Sermon text:

Luke 23:34a

And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

Luke 23:43

And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

John 19:26-27

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

Matthew 27:46

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

John 19:28

After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.”

John 19:30

When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Luke 23:46

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.

For more on these sayings of Christ on the cross, see A.W. Pink’s The Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross (94pp PDF, free download @ Chapel Library)

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Words from the Cross

Ransomed and Redeemed: The Promised Land

From the sermon series, “Ransomed and Redeemed: Rescued by God’s Grace”

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Ransomed and Redeemed: The Promised Land