Brea Center Baptist Church Sermons
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Total Sermons: 69
Total Amens: 32
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2 Samuel 12 - Reconciliation and Greater Grace
God has planned a work in creating and redeeming a people for Himslef. God is seeking and reconciling sinners to himself by grace. David ... all » was reconciled to God in 2 Samuel 12 through the revelation of sin. David experienced reconciling grace and learned that 1) God is seeking sinners, 2) God has a effective strategy to bring repentance, 3) God disciplines with furios grace, 4) God give eternal forgiveness, 5) God gives greater grace to bring one to trust him more. Christians must realize that God will not let them stay in a state of sin. God can over come our rebellion effectively. The secular person will never have the assurance of forgiviness of their guilt until they experience furious grace that will bring them to faith in God through Jesus Christ. Watch and listen to this exposition of 2 Samuel 12.
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2 Samuel 11 - Flesh, Blood, and Fidelity
This is the famous narrative of David adultery with Bathsheba and murder of Uriah her husband. In the preceding 2 chapters David had delt with those inside Israel (Mephibosheth) and those outside Israel (Hanan) with covenant Kindness and loyalty. One would see David's leadership as one where fidelity was the driving value of his kingdom administration if it were not for Chapter 11. In this chapter David show his divided loyalties between his own desires and his loyalty to God. Fidelity to God in David's life only went so far it seems. You can learn much about your fidelity to Christ from understanding where you compartmentalize your life to keep Christ's Lordship from intruding too closely. We also see ways of growing in our fidelity to Christ's Lordship including 1) Don't slack off prusing God through his Word, 2) Don't prusue earthly success to control circumstances, 3) Don't prusue safety in life apart from following Christ, and 4) Don't think you will grow without a heart that is absolutely surrendered to Christ's Lordship. This narrative should teach all believers that they can fall into sin just as easily as David did if we don't prusue fidelity with God in all things regardless of the cost. Listening to this sermon will help you see the importance of fidelity as you follow Christ as His disciple.
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2 Samuel 10 - Dealing with Foreign Folly
2 Samuel 10 falls between some of the greatest Stories of David's life - his kindness shown to Mephibosheth (Jonathan's son) and David's adultery with Bathsheba. In chapter 10 the narrative is a highlight of battles with the Ammonites. David sends an envoy to the Ammonite King express condolences for the death of King Hanun's Father Nahash, whose army had been defeated by Saul in 1 Samuel 11. David must have had some reason for showing loyality (such as covenant made). King Hanun regests David's good will and tries to fight Israel but with no success. If fact Israel's commanders - brothers Joab and Abishai were much more humble in their strategy and saw the Ammonites flee before them. This passages shows our redemption in that we reject the gracious offer of God because we are actually enemies of God like the Ammonites. Winning the battle in ourlives is only found in accepting God's way of salvation. When we reject God's gracious offere we prove incapable of saving ourselves. All our own efforts to save ourselves are futule. Only in Chirst Jesus is there salvation for anyone. May we see that unlike the Ammonites we need to humble ourselves and trust in Jesus and his death for the payment for our sins. For Christians we need to be humble enought (like Joab) to say in our hearts "may the LORD do what seems good to Him" rather than asking God to do what we want all the time. This is the essence of saving faith that endures the difficult times in living.
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2 Samuel 9 - Covenant Kindness
It is easy to be two-faced in our socieity today. It is easy to forget (on purpose) promices that are made because our circumstances change and it is to our advantage to forget promices when we think there are no bad consequences. This is the position David was in, but David made sure that he fulfilled his coveant with Jonathan by showing kindness to Mephibosheth. Normally kings and leaders would eleminate any leaders or family of a former rival kingdom, and thus Mephibosheth had something to fear in coming into King David's presence. But David in the all important verse 7 shows a coveant kingdness that not only protects Mephibosheth's live but provides for him in land and food and gives a great position (eating at the kings table). today We understand from David's covenant with Jonathan that God's covenant with us provides benefits in we can have security in living, abundance in living, and dependence in living. We are totally dependent on the covenant Kindness of God in providing our security in salvation from sin. Since we are sinners we are actually an enemy of God and lame in our spiritual ability to save ourselves. God saves those like Mephibosheth that do not rely on their own reasources but trust in God's covenant with us.
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2 Samuel 8 - Kingdom Stewardship
David had to take responsibillity of expanding the kingdom in God's willing plan. He defeated national around him including Moab (a place where the king gave Davi's parents asslyum during his escape from Saul). We learn that kingdom living involves convlict before victory. We are called to be stewards and fight for the kingdom in this way. In this spiritual battle we are ordered to consecrate and dedicate everything we receive including our own lives to God. In the end steward ship in this Chapter is a lesson is what it takes to serve and lead in the Kingdom of God.
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2 Samuel 7:18-29 - Stand on God's Promise
David does the only think he can do after such great promices are give in the first half of Chapter 7 - He worships the Covenant God. That is what we should do in times where we don't often see the promises of God in reality. We tend to only trust promises that we can really see with our own eyes. David first responds to the only God who does all according to his own will. Then in vv. 23-24 David worship for the benefits of Israel, and finally he prayes back God's promises to God. We all can learn from David;s reaction to God merciful promises. In difficult times we to can turn to God and worship and pray back God's promises to Him.
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2 Samuel 7 - Getting to Know the Covenant God
We all live and drift from foundational principles that we once believed. Every Christian (and non-Chirstian) must deal with this issue of "drift." 2 Samuel 7 deals with God's covenant to David which becomes a foundational underpinning to the New Covenant that We depend upon for our relationship with God. David is drifting to other man-centered ways of living. He thinks he knows what glorifies God and desires to build God a house. But God rebuffs that by putting the priority back on revealtion over human reason. We cannot start our understanding of God with human reason. God gives David and us his reason for not wanting a house at this time - namely his desire to give rest for his people. He says that I am not like pagan gods that require a house to be build before I will promise blessing in the future. God is the God of all grace. In the End we learn that neigher Death, or sin, or Time will nullify God's promises in the Davidic Covenant (which is unlike God's rejection of Saul). The cure for our drifting is to focus our lives on the God of the Covenant rather than just the covenant itself.
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2 Samuel 5 - Kingdom Collage
The author here pastes together 4 different episodes fragments (Promise, Vision, Compromise and Victory) showing the establishment and ... all » confirmation of the Davidic Kingdom. The events in this chapter are not placed in chronological order but are included because they all emphasize the necessity in knowing the King of the kingdom. We learn that the character of God applies to all areas of Biblical faith. Today we need to learn that what is central to the kingdom is God Himself and not life enhansements that the kingdom provides. This passage will help you preach a God-centered Gospel of the Kingdom of God instead of trying to get decisions for the kingdom by selling life enhansements which tend to be man-centered.
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2 Samuel 4 - Men without Godly Discernment
Since Abern is now dead, Ishbosheth looses his courage, but is still the last hinderence to the unifying of the Davidic Kingdom. 2 of Ishbosheth's raiders (Baanah & Rechab) take advantage of situations and murder Ishbosheth in his bedroom for the purpose to receiving a good position or posh government jobs in David's regeim. They tempt David to thank them for the diliverance of a gracious God, by bringing the head of Ishbosheth to him. David exhibits good discernment and has Baanah and Rechab's extremities cut off and executed. David will soon assume the promised kingdom but this text teach us that no injustice can establish the Kingdom of God.
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2 Samuel 2:12-3:39 - Promise Rules
David is still waiting on God to fulfill His promise of a kingdom. He has shown humility in inquiring of God (2:1-8) about where the kingdom show start out. Now Abner has set up Ish-bosheth as the king of Judah in a rebellious move. This passage (2:12-3:39) shows the failure of Abner and Joab in their attempts set up a kingdom contrary to God's. We will look at 3 wrong ways to seeking God's kingdom, and then will be encouraged to trust that God's promises will prevail over the desires of men. This will encourage us to always seek God's Kingdom in Chirst first before all others. (Matthew 6:33)
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