Sermons About Judgment
God is Just
While the justice of God is often neglected as one of His attributes, if we have experienced grace through Jesus Christ, then God's sin-destroying justice should cause us to rejoice in who He is and what He will do for His glory.
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Fixing Society, Step Three: The Call to Lead
As God calls and trains Samuel to replace Eli, the leader of the nation of Israel, we see how God calls and trains us to become leaders and influencers in our world today. The key to Samuel’s (and our) successful leadership is (1) to know God personally, and (2) to know his word. As we gain the experiential knowledge of these two things, we will be used to provide leadership in the areas of life and society that need to be healed and restored.
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Kingdom Hope
A look at the difficult and challenging parable of the tenants and the landowner. Who are we in the story?
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Fixing Society, Step Two: Church Leadership
As the second step toward healing the brokenness of society, God confronts the hypocrisy of the church, bringing severe judgment against its leadership. Eli and his sons are confronted, convicted, and cast out for their flagrant abuses of religious power. Hope begins to emerge from the brokenness of Israel’s leadership as Samuel’s quiet but faithful service demonstrates that God has plans to bring about the longed for healing and redemption of the nation.
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Fixing Society, Step Two: Church Leadership
As the second step toward healing the brokenness of society, God confronts the hypocrisy of the church, bringing severe judgment against its leadership. Eli and his sons are confronted, convicted, and cast out for their flagrant abuses of religious power. Hope begins to emerge from the brokenness of Israel’s leadership as Samuel’s quiet but faithful service demonstrates that God has plans to bring about the longed for healing and redemption of the nation.
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In His Wrath God Remembers Mercy
Great and Marvelous are the deeds of the Lord God Almighty. In His wrath he remembers mercy, in his judgement he remembers grace.
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The Phases of Life
The Phases of Life 1. Physical Birth. 2. Physical Death. 3. The Great White Judgment. Everyone, the saved and the lost will kneel before Jesus Christi during the Great White Judgment and give an account of their life. We are all sinners! Only those that repent of their sins and accept the free gift of salvation, provided by Jesus Christ and His sacrificial death on the cross, will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Everyone else will spend eternity in hell!
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Congratulations, You're Expecting: Love, Mercy, Justice Part 4
Now, many of you may know this, but in case you don’t, Amy and I have 3 children: 3 wonderful girls Meredith, Landry, and Emma. Now I can tell you what my initial reaction was when we found out that Amy was pregnant with each of them. I can tell you what it is like to be in the delivery, and I can even tell you what it is like to cut the cord. What I cannot tell you though is what it is like to find out that there is baby growing in my tummy. I can’t tell you the emotions that occur when that baby begins to grow and move, and I definitively cannot tell you what happens emotionally when you give birth. But scripture sure does speak about the concept of being pregnant or being in labor a whole lot. It is a metaphor that immediately strikes an image in your heart and mind whether or not you have ever been pregnant. Either way, towards that end, for anyone who has difficulty relating to scripture, I’ve enlisted the help of those who do know what scripture is talking about.. Here are a few examples from ladies in our church who shared with me via email what it was like to find out that they were pregnant. Great joy, followed by sadness as the child was miscarried after a only a few weeks into the pregnancy My response was joy, disbelief, amazement, panic, awe, and worry...all mixed together. Then I threw up. You don't want to use those words I'm your sermon! At first I couldn’t believe it when the nurse called & told me that I was pregnant & then I was very emotional & gave thanks to God for blessing me with a child. We even had one mom say that doctor got her due date horribly wrong and it made it look like she had been cheating on her husband. They soon got a new doctor. I must admit reading those responses was entertaining and hopefully they helped all of you to get a picture of what it means to be pregnant. Clearly, finding out you are pregnant and being pregnant are life changing and life altering occurrences. Not everyone person has the opportunity to experience pregnancy and in those situations, we trust that God has some other incredibly amazing experience reserved for us. Well, this week at Sovereign King in the book of Micah, we are going to see the prophet use this pregnancy and labor image to set the minds of God’s people to a sense of expectation. So, whether we have been pregnant, never been pregnant, or even pregnant right now, lets do our best to get in the mindset of waiting for something with expectation. With that, we will ask, what is it that God is asking us to look forward to with similar expectancy as a pregnancy?
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Love, Mercy, and Justice Part 2
The 5th amendment to the US Constitution affirms the right of every American citizen to own land, and it also affirms that no one can take that land from you without compensation…including the government. Owning land is one of the rights that is held dear in America. For the most part, America has been built on a premise that agrees with Delmarr O’Donnell from the movie “Oh Brother Where are Thou†when he says, “"You ain't no kind of man if you ain't got land†There is a general sense in America that you’ve made it once you finally can buy your own plot of dirt – even it is only .17 of an acre in a neighborhood where every house looks the same. Theoretically, if you own land in America, no one can take it away from you. Well in the OT, we see that God had given His people land and it was divided up among the 12 tribes of Israel. The land was theirs and their families and no one could take it away from them. You could sell that land if you wanted to, but every 50 years during the Year of Jubilee, all land returned to its rightful owner, so as you can imagine, not a lot of buying and trading of land occurred. You would imagine that the people of Israel viewed their owning of land a lot like most Americans do. They thought, “This is my land and no one can take it from me. It is my right to own it, and this is especially true because God gave it to me.†This was part of what made up their opinion and view of God. Now last week at Sovereign King, we talked about how the folks of Micah’s time didn’t always think correctly about God. They thought certain things about God that just weren’t true. For example, the people of God trusted their own devices and fortifications for security and they couldn’t imagine God thinking any thing of it. Well, last week, we saw God’s declaration of judgment against the people of God. We saw God saying that He would tear down the stone walls that His people had trusted in because they trusted those walls and not God. The people also engaged in immoral worship and they didn’t think God was going to do anything about that either. Last week, we saw God say that He would burn up all the profit that His people had earned from their illicit and immoral temple prostitution that had been rationalized as worship. Well, imagine what’s going to happen to the people of God when they think that no one can take their land from them. This week as we approach the next sermon in our Love Mercy Justice series, we are going to continue to see people with false presuppositions or ideas about God and we will see scripture expose them. These folks are very slow to change their presuppositions and despite God’s declarations against many of them, they continue to hold them tightly. So, I would like to ask a slightly different question in this sermon this week. The question I want to ask is this, “What hope do we have of changing our false presuppositions about God if we are so blind that we don’t see them?â€
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