Sermons About Good-will
The Best Use of Our Lives
The Bible is very clear that God put you here on earth to learn to love Him and to learn to love other people. Life is one giant lesson in love. If you are ever going to be the person you are capable of being you must learn to really love God and really love other people.
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Advent: Peace 2008
What we need with God is shalom. We need peace with Him. We need our hearts to raise the white flag and surrender. We need the war between us to end. And that is exactly what Jesus was sent here to accomplish for us. He came as the ultimate olive branch. He came as the dove of God. He came as the very Prince of Peace. Since this is the case, what we see today is that it isn’t so much a need for God to prove His love to you more than He has by sending the gift of His Son, but our learning of and understanding what He’s done for us brings us this peace. In other words, the more you realize that God’s favor rests upon you (v. 14), the more you’ll experience peace. The favor of the only eyes in the universe that matter is calling you to great joy at this good news. God desires that we would join the angels in crying out to God, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace.†And we could finish this by saying, “because God’s favor rests on us—on me!â€
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Hope
During the Christmas season lots of themes begin to fill the air: Love, Joy, Peace, Good Will, Good News, etc. We invite you to come as we seek to learn each week what the Bible teaches about these themes and how they can impact our lives today.
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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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