Churches in Elizabethtown

“You see, when you look at the family tree of Jesus in Matthew chapter one, you're gonna see a long list of names. It'll be really small. You're not gonna be able to read it, but that list, it starts with Abraham and it's carried on through Isaac and through Jacob. But what I want you to see is that it is a dark, dark family tree filled with bad people who all need a savior, filled with evil people who all need a redeemer. It's a family tree of broken people that God refuses to give up on.”

“In Hebrews 10, we're reminded that we're healed by Christ. He has sprinkled us with his blood. He has washed us pure. And it's a sure hope that we have when we confess our sin to him because God is faithful and he has promised that he will remove our sin, that he sees us as clean in him. So let us stir up one another towards the reminder of the good things we have in God and the good things we're to do as people of God because the day is coming and that day references the coming of Christ when he returns and the assurance is that when he comes again, he will judge and either we will be covered by his loving sacrifice or we're gonna be doomed by our evil deeds.”

“this proves two things to us as followers of Jesus. Number one, that if Jesus has power over death, then Jesus certainly has power over whatever it is that you and your family are going through right now. Number two, Jesus is a God of resurrection. He turns dead things into alive things. And so if you feel like your family tree is dead, then Jesus and only Jesus can revive your family.”

“Because healing is real, the healing journey that God might want to take you on, it starts when you begin the forgiveness journey. A different way of saying that, your healing can begin when you start to forgive. But Brock, you don't know what they did to me. You do not get it. They don't deserve it. I know. I know they don't deserve it, but neither did you.”

“We have hope today because sin doesn't get the last word. Jesus does. The next blank in your book is that Jesus conquers sin. You see, when you look at the family tree of Jesus in Matthew chapter one, you're gonna see a long list of names. It'll be really small. You're not gonna be able to read it, but that list, it starts with Abraham and it's carried on through Isaac and through Jacob.”

“Hosea continues with his bread and oven metaphor and he speaks of Northern Israel being like a cake that's not turned. That's where the half baked title for the sermon comes in. Unturned bread would have been overbaked on one side and underbaked on the other. It's a sad analogy. It's a bread that's good for nothing. And such was God's people. They should have stood as a beacon of truth so that the nations around them would get a glimpse of who God really is. But instead, they looked basically the same as the people around them.”

“The rulers and authorities being disarmed aren't the kings and princes of the Old Testament nations. When when the New Testament talks about those princes and those in authority, it's talking about the devil and his minions. It's this reality that we fight against the devil. The devil brings accusations against us. He says you're unhealed, you're unstirred, you're unturned. It reminds God of the ways that you failed him and you deserve his wrath because the devil comes to steal and kill and destroy. But Jesus comes to give us victory over the world, the flesh and the devil.”

“Do you know that in the time of the fall of the Northern Kingdom Of Israel, the most common way for the next king to be on the throne was by assassination? It was a violent time. Kings were killed so the next king would be put in place and sometimes that was less than years apart. And the people who were celebrating the king one day were destroying him the next, evil abounded. And the concluding verse of that section says, all their kings have fallen and none of them calls upon me.”

“The faithfulness of God is on display in the book of Joshua and as we've been going through the book we have kept some questions before us the questions that the book of Joshua has been answering are these is God going to really lead his people into their land of rest and would the people really obey God and be led into their land of rest the land was promised them by God through their father Abraham and so the question was would God fulfill that promise yes he did but as we've been thinking about the rest that the people are being led into we're asking are they going to fulfill the promise would they really be led into the land there was some stumbling along the way in the book of Joshua but yes they did obey the Lord now as we've been going through this book though it's not just been thinking about the Lord's work with the old testament nation of Israel we've been thinking about how God deals with uswe've been thinking about the rest that God leads us into. We also, as believers, as people in Jesus Christ, find our rest in God. No, it's not a rest in a land. It's a spiritual rest.”

“So when we struggle with the question like, what's going on in this world? The book of Joshua can give us help because it reminded us that God is really in control.And we're told to walk toward his rest.If we struggle with knowing what to do in this journey of faith, the book of Joshua is helpful for that too because Joshua helps us know more of who God is.It teaches us something about walking in his ways and teaches us to be strong and courageous in our faith, in our own walk, in our journey in this life.And if we struggle to know where God is, when this life wears us down and we begin to wonder if God knows or even cares about our trouble, the book of Joshua reminds us that God does care. He's with his people.God does what he says he will do.He does not forget his promises.”