Brea Center Baptist Church Sermons
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Total Sermons: 69
Total Amens: 32
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2 Samuel 18.1-19.8 - A Sad Victory
This is the final battle that determines who is king. David's men defeats Absalom and kills him contrary to David's request and command. While Joab may have been disobedient in this action, he is still acting more like a king that David, who is passive. David finally receives the news about the death of Absalom and morns for his son. His morning actually hurts the troops and demoralizes Israel in the process. One will benefit from this narrative when one places it and the sad vistory with the emphasis on David's guilt and solution in grace of God in Christ.
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Luke 18:1-8 - The Right Kind of Faith
For a church to become a biblical community and make biblical disciples, the members need to cultivate an eternal prepsective and a right view of God's gracious actions. In this passage Jesus exhorts his disciples to endure, after rebuking and warning the pharisees about his second coming at the end of chapter 17. This explicitly sets the context of the passage on the second coming of Christ (not a secret rapture). The basic questions that is being asked is "Will God Find faith on earth when he comes again? Will the warnings of Jesus to remember Lot's wife, to keep the heart fixed on Christ, and to not love the world secure the faith of the disiciples? Will they endure to the end?" How can we endure to the end and don't become like Lot's wife - who was too much in love with this world to go all the way with Christ? Jesus tells His disciples not to loose heart but keep praying because God is ready to answer. Our problem with praying is that good things in life and normal beneficial activities in life can make us just as insensitive to the reality of God as gross things in life. Our heart can grow cold to Christ easily. The point of the passage is not to say that Jesus is an unjust judge, but to show his disciples the willingness of God to vindicate His elect when they pray. If an unjust judge will grant a persistant widow her request how much more will God (who is never unjust) be willing to vindiate his elect!
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Luke 1:26-38 - God Breaks In
This passage Marry receives the message that she will give birth to the Creator of the world - Jesus. One can ask 2 basic questions in this passage: 1) How did God break into this world because he exists seperate from this world, and 2) Who is this God who breaks into this world? The reader realizes from the start that God inpregnates marry by the Holy Spirit to provide a sinless human nature for Christ as well as the right linage to the throne of David. The God who breaks in is Christ Jesus and is the savior of all mankind. The amazing thing about this miracle is that God breaks in to save sinners who are in rebellion from Him. This even call the incarnation is truely an intersection of grace and mercy in God's plan of remption.
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John 1:14-18 - God Made Flesh
God is about revealing himself in history. His activity in history reveals who he is and what he is like. The story of the Divine Word -the creator of teh Universe became man for the purpose of living with us and relating to us.
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Matthew 1:18-23 - God With Us
This passage details the account of the angel of the Lord appearing to Joseph to explain why Mary is pregnant. In the vision the angel informs Joseph that though this pregnancy is unconventional, it is also Divine, and ultimately glorious. Joseph is reminded that all that was about to take place was a fulfillment of prophecy that the Redeemer would be born in this way, adn that He would indeed be Immanuel- "God with us".
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2 Samuel 17 - God's Kingdom Cannot Fail
In the 17th Chapter of 2 Samuel we are drawn into the espionage and the ntelligence reporting of Hushai of Ahithophel's plan to destroy David and his followers. Like the main theme of the book we see God sovereignty over the choices and affairs of me when the inspired writer in vese 14 reveals to us that God Himself had ordained (willed, chosen) to defeat the counsel of Ahithophel so that He might bring harm upon Absalom. If you are a christian you can take confort in the will of God by 1) understanding the different meanings for "will of God," 2) seeing every event of your life as a comonent of God providential plan, 3) beliving that God in pursuing His glory is also pursuing your greatest good. We see examples of God's providential destruction of Ahithophel, protection of the informate priests (Jonathan and Ahimaaz), and the provision for David and his mighty men. Without a belief in the sovereign and providential hand of God, no one would have any confort in this life or the next. Listen and be prepared to praise God almighty!
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2 Samuel 16 - In the Presence of My enemies
In fleeing from Absalom Daid meets 3 enemies that want to harm David (Zibah, Shimei, and Ahithophel). Through out these narratives David maintains peace and shows us that even in the case of maniptuation (Zibah), cursing (Shimei), and betrayal (Ahithophel) that looking at all event from God's point of view and seeing them as a component of God sovereign plan helps us to have supernatural peace.
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2 Sameul 15 - The Politics of Impatience
Absalom leads a consiracy to take over the throne of Israel from David by becoming impatienct with God and his will. His Scheme seems to work as David decides to feel Jerusalem. The Author brings out the teme of impatience with God in this chapter through the following contrasts: 1) a Me-First Strategy vs. a Humble Strategy, 2) Godless Ambition vs. Self Sacrifice, 3) Rebellion vs. Submission, and 4) a Selfish Perspective vs. a Honest Perspective. One will learn that being impatient with God is like catching a knife on the wrong end - it will hurt. Like David Jesus crossed the Brook of Kidron to pray and accept the will of God. Are you more like Absalom or David and Ittai when it comes to your trust in the will of God? Listen and find out.
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2 Samuel 14 - The Manipulators
This narrative in 2 Samuel 13 illustrates how manipulation causes delimas in one life. Joab used an lady actor to try to get David to bring back Absalom, and it worked to a degree. With Absalom back, but not allow in the royal house, Absalom also manipulates Joab to get a hearing with King David - His father - by burning Joab fields. All this put King David in a difficult delima of doing what was right judicially in executing his son, Absalom, and showing mercy and grace to the son that he loved. David chose neither but tried to carve out a middle ground because he could not uphold justice and show mercy at the same time. But what David could not do God has done in his Son - Jesus Christ. God fully satisfied his justice in the death of Christ and also show grace and mercy to men.
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2 Samuel 13 - All in the Family
In this chapter one must deal with the godless depravity of 4 men, especially in the narrative of Amnon's rape of Tamar, his half sister. In Amnon we see lust without love bringing about rape, in Jonadab we see a man of wisdom without principles planning this rape, in David we see anger without justice in failing to punish rape and murder, and in Absolom's we see hatred without restraint in the murder of his half brother, Amnon. David's family is receiving God's punishment of 2 Samuel 12:11 because of his sin in his relationship with Bathsheba and Uriah. From 2 Samuel 13 we see the struggle of godlessness in that it produces double-mindedness because it doubts God's Word, foolishness because it denys greater profit, and humanism because it rejects Christ's Lordship. This chapter is an exhortation that a godly life is of great benefit to one who sanctifies Jesus Christ as Lord.
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