Garden City Christian Union Church Sermons
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God: Revealed!
God has declared Himself to mankind through the creation. The fact that we exist points unmistakeably to a Creator who existed before it and is not of it and has the ability to create it. Common sense tells us that it did not make itself. That is logically impossible. Just this is enough information to make us accountable before God. Yet in His love He has taken another step and revealed Himself in a special way, through His Word. Even with this man still rebels against that revelation. We need more than just information about God. We need God! What is your response to God's revelation of Himself?
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The Lord Sustained Me
Have you ever really blown it? I mean really blown it big time and then the consequences set in. Usually at that point we resign ourselves to the idea that we are on our own. What would God want to do with someone like me? I am a wicked and sinful person. It is easy to develop that kind of attitude when we are justly suffering in the consequences of our own sin. Yet as we look at the third Psalm we see that as David was very much in this situation his response was to cry out to God and take real confidence in His grace and mercy. This is a lesson that we need to learn as well.
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Love's Confrontation
When John's account of Jesus' life and his suffering for sin was completed by his relating the resurrection it still was not over. The last chapter of his Gospel is the perfect capstone. After all, the Gospel is so much more than just a great story of sacrifice, it is the real benefit of that sacrifice the is demonstrated as Jesus seeks out Peter and brings him to the place of realizing the magnitude of his sin and the magnitude of Jesus' forgiveness. This is the part of the story that we need not just to hear but experience!
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Glory in This!
Living in a culture that has forgotten its God and being commanded to take the knowledge of God to them.... That is where Jeremiah was in about 600 BC and that is where we as Christians are at in 21st century America. What is it about God that we need to communicate to our culture? Is it really much different than Jeremiah's message? As we examine these two verses for Jeremiah 9 we will see that as God does not change, neither does fallen man and neither does our message.
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They Believed
As we see the women come to the tomb in John 20 it begins a flow of events that encompass a week as Jesus reveals Himself to His disciples. In the course of this time they realize that God had spoken of these events before hand through the Scriptures and through Jesus' own words to the disciples. It was when their experience was corroborated by the Word of God that faith became real. It is so important to realize this even for us as 21st century believers. Our faith must be what God says it must be. Faith in our faith is worthless, faith in God's Word is what saves.
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It is Finished But It Isn't Over
As we get to John 19:17 and Jesus is finally crucified we get to the heart of God's working with man. Here as Jesus says in verse 30 is the purpose for His coming into the world. One word in the Greek, tetelestai, signals that His mission has been accomplished. We read it in these words in our English Bibles, "It is finished!" These are the most important words ever uttered in all of human history. But we must ask, "What was finished?" What was God's plan, Jesus' mission?
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No King But....?
As we look closely at Jesus' trial in John 19, it was not He who was demonstrating guilt but those who had brought Him there. The pharisees and the officers of the Temple were committing the treason of which they accused Him to Pilate. Only rather than Caesar, they were committing treason against God Himself! We often consider our circumstances and forget our own allegiance to God. As with the Jews and Pilate who both had their issues to deal with, we too can get caught up in the moment, make rash decisions and even deny our God in the process. It is at these times that our true colors show. How do you handle your trials in life?
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False Prophets
False teachers and prophets have been around for millennia. Moses warned Israel about them just before they crossed over into the promised land. Peter, John and Jude warned the infant church that they were coming and that they should be on their guard. Today with the proliferation of media and the lax standards of the American church we have not lost the need to be on our guard against them. How do we as Christians view false prophets? What should our response to them be?
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Can You Handle the Truth?
Ever notice how sometimes we can get so wrapped up in our own situation that important things get pushed aside? As Jesus is brought before Pontius Pilate in John 18:28 it is at dawn and the Jews are pushy and anxious. Pilate is probably dragged out of bed and thrust into the middle of this tense situation. The Jews are ready to be done with Jesus, a mere troublemaker as they see Him through their eyes. (Eyes that are blinded by their personal and national welfare and their positions of power.) Pilate does some investigation and concludes that Jesus has really done nothing wrong yet due to the pressure of the situation he ultimately yields to the will of the Jews. What is it in your life that keeps you from recognizing the Truth of who Jesus is and yielding yourself to that rather than to your own situation?
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In The World
As Jesus prays for all who would believe through the words of the Disciples He says some amazing things, like "I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one." What? You mean to tell me that Jesus does not want me to have an easy life with no worries? Really?
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