Sermons About Law
FLN News / New Lead Law
Homeschooling mom of eight Kate Estes is also a small business owner. She tells FLN News how the new lead law is impacting her.
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Living in Line with the Gospel
False gospels produce pride and fear which destroy community. The gospel (we are accepted by God thru faith in Jesus' work for us) produces humility and security as a foundation for Christian community.
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Sacred Salvation: Romans 10.1-13
We live in a pluralistic society pointing people to many different ways to get to heaven. Scripture speaks of one sacred salvation that is available to all people. It is the only way, the only truth and the only life. Jesus is our salvation and hope of heaven. Today we expose Romans 10.1-13 to see the beautiful salvation that we have in Jesus.
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Memo- Changes Coming In 600 Years
In this sermon Tom explains the contrasts between living under the old covenant (Law) verses the new covenant (grace). He asks the question, "did you enter into the covenant by birth or by conversion?", and elaborates on the differences. He concludes with some significant questions: "Are you living your faith, or someone else's?", & "Is the word of God in your heart and mind?"
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God's Initiative in Justifying the Sinner (Romans 8:3-4)
God has made all those who are in Christ to be righteous. The law proclaims God's righteous standards and convicts us of our sin. However, as much as it demands righteousness, it cannot produce righteousness in us. But what the law could not do, God did! He put his son to death so that we could be declared righteous through his death, and made holy by giving us the Holy Spirit. Christians are those who walk according to the spirit.
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Jesus in The Prophets
Over this Christmas season, we have been attempting to add some depth to the celebration of Advent by finding a rich foundation of God's plan for Jesus throughout the Old Testament. Two weeks ago we saw that Jesus was the word by which all existence came into creation. In addition, He upholds that existence by the word of His power. Last Sunday, we saw that Jesus was all that the law pointed to. - Instead of a human priest who enters into a human dwelling where God dwells, He is the perfect priest who enters into the presence of God. - Instead of human priest who offers up an offering of someone else's blood each year for the sins of the people, Jesus offers up Himself and His blood as a once and for all sacrifice that covers the sins from the foundation of the world to the end of the age. This week, as we conclude our study of Christ in the OT, we want to see how the prophets spoke of Christ. But to do that, we need to cover the time from Moses giving the law all the way through the kings of Israel to the prophets of God. Much like our telling of the story between the Garden of Eden and Mount Sinai, we will see that this story is not too pretty either. The people of God are wandering in the wilderness and are in need of water. They just keep whining and whining, so God tells Moses to give them some by speaking to a rock. But Moses gets so tired of their whining; he has a senior moment and strikes the rock in anger instead. The people get their water and Moses gets disciplined by God. God tells him he will never get to live in the promised land of God's people. So Moses dies and they bury him on a mountain that overlooks the Promised Land. It is sort of ironic and bitter. God places Moses' right hand man, Joshua, in charge of the people. God tells him that every place his foot steps, God will give to the people, and 3x times tells him not to be afraid. What happens? Well, despite God's strong promise, there is a strange story about the spies of the people being hidden by a prostitute and then God commands His people to march around Jericho 7 times in silence and then the walls come down and the people take the land. But as soon as the people move in, the scriptures say they broke faith with God. Apparently, a couple of guys took some items used in worship to sell them to the local pawnshop. God hands them over to defeat. This faith and sin cycle continues until Joshua dies and God institutes the time of the Judges who serve like prophets and police officers. Think God ordained, righteous Dirty Harry's. We get a colorful array of characters. - Deborah - the only female judge who leads Israel to defeat the Canaanites - Samson – a man with a penchant for long hair and loose women who somehow has the ability to tie 100 foxes tails together. He ultimately destroys an Old Testament equivalent of Yankee Stadium to enact the judgment of God. - Samuel - a judge and a prophet who would ultimately lead a rebellious people who rejected God as their king. The people were suffering from pagan envy and wanted to be like every other nation in the world with an earthly king. Unfortunately they get what they want and deserve. They get Saul, the first king of Israel. He is described as handsome and a head taller than everyone else. Whenever I think of Saul I think of Kronk from the Emperors New Groove: handsome and strong, neither smart nor godly. God takes the throne away from Saul after a string of disobedient and arrogant sins. First, Saul gets impatient and can't seem to wait for Samuel to offer a sacrifice. Saul offers one of his own. Later on God tells Saul to destroy everything in his invasion of the Amalekites, but instead Saul keeps some sheep for himself. Saul offers one of the all time great rationalizations when he says he was keeping the sheep to offer sacrifice God. Right. God got strips him of his throne and Saul eventually kills himself. So much for the first King of Israel God then gives the throne to a puny shepherd boy named David who goes on to be the great King of God's people. Before He gets there He kills a guy named Goliath with a slingshot...seriously. He ultimately gathers Israel together and leads them in Godliness. But one day he got fat and lazy, decided not to go to war with him men and instead decides to commit adultery and murder. God punishes him by taking his son from him but eventually he gives David another son, Solomon, who would go on to be the wisest man in the world. Unfortunately, Solomon has a penchant for land, slaves, money, and wives. God takes the throne from him and on on it goes through Israel's 19 kings. Finally, God issues the ultimate judgment on His people by decreeing that the godless, pagan nation of Babylon would destroy Jerusalem, the temple and take the people into captivity to be slaves once again. They remained slaves for nearly 50 years. God brings them back to Israel, it takes over 20 years for this temple to be restored. It was during the time of leading up, during and directly after the exile into Babylon that God sent His prophets to speak to His people, and then God goes silent. Nothing is heard for 400 years. It is during this time leading up to the exile, during, and return that we find the majority of the work of God's prophets. In it, let us explore and find our Savior.
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What to teach in Sunday School?
Should we be teaching kids to obey the law or something else? What do we do with the Old Testament law? Is it antinomianism to not teach law to people?
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The Liberation of the Sinner (Romans 8:2)
Apart from the Spirit, our experience with the law is governed by our sin. Even though we may agree with the law in our minds, our slavery and bondage to sin causes us to disobey the law -- and in fact, sin allows itself to be incited by the law to greater disobedience, leading only to death. However, as those who are in Christ, we have the Holy Spirit at work in us, giving us life and empowering us to overcome sin. The Spirit sets us free from any power other than Christ that would rule over us. Unlike the unbeliever in Romans 7, the Christian is never said to be wretched; instead, the Christian is said to be a new creation, an overcomer, one who is free and victorious. As believers, the reason that we sin is not because we are still in bondage to sin; the reason we sin is because we refuse to walk in and find our strength in the Spirit. We will walk in victory as we walk in the Spirit.
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Jesus in the Law as seen from Exodus
As we continue our look at Jesus in the Old Testament this holiday season, this week, we are going to make a leap through Biblical history and find our way from the Garden of Eden to the giving of the Law of Moses at Mount Sinai. What lies between is the equivalent of a raw hamburger: a bloody mess. After the Garden of Eden debacle, God bars Adam and Eve from the paradise that they have ruined and sends them out. This is the short story of what happens next. --- Adam and Eve have two children, Cain and Abel. Cain kills Abel. --- Cain's great, great, great grandson is named Lamech. Lamech has a short fuse and kills a man because they got into a tussle and who knows where the local buffet for all we know. Lamech also has the distinction of being the first polygamist. --- Things get so bad on the earth that God says every man's heart and intention is evil. So he takes the one semi decent guy, Noah, and tells him to build a boat. Everyone makes fun of Noah when he tells them its going to rain and they say, "What is this rain you speak of?" God puts Noah and his family along with a gang of smelly animals in the boat and floods the earth killing everybody else. Good times. --- God makes a promise to Noah never to flood the earth again, and Noah celebrates by getting drunk one night and passing out in his tent naked. --- A few years later, all the people of the earth have a Led Zeppelin moment and build a stairway to heaven once again trying to be like God on their own terms. God knocks down their puny tower, makes scrambled eggs out of everybody's language and we seem to be right back to the mess we started. --- So God gathers a people to Himself. He starts with a guy that is old, sterile, and has a cranky unbelieving wife. His named is Abraham. --- Not believing that God keeps his word, they decided for Abraham to make a baby momma out of one of their slaves. --- Along the way, God destroys a place called Sodom because they had a morality that was so bad that it made Amsterdam seem like an Amish community. --- Finally, Abraham and his wife have a child the old fashioned way and God goes about creating a people from that son, Isaac. --- From there, God creates a people who grow and grow and grow. --- One of Abraham's relatives, a guy named Joseph with a fancy nancy coat eventually works his way from slave to assistant to head man in charge in Egypt and he saves all of God's people from a drought. --- So the people of God are like the Jefferson's and they move on up to the big house in the sky of Egypt. --- The problem is that they are incredibly fertile. They are start having a gaggle of kids, and the next leader of Egypt the Pharaoh decides to make a work force out of them with no pay. He makes them slaves. --- The groaning of God's people does not go unheard. So God raises up a cowardly, stuttering man named Moses to go to tell Pharaoh, "Let my people go." --- Pharaoh is more wise in business than He is the ways of God, and He is unwilling to release his entire workforce. --- God sends blood, frogs, locust, and every other manner of plague on Pharaoh. Still Pharaoh says nope. So God kills every first born male in the whole city except those of His people. --- Pharaoh finally lets them go but in a schizophrenic moment, decides to send his army after the people of God to kill them. --- God once again destroys his enemies by water as the people of God walk across dry land but Pharaoh's army drowns in the Red Sea. So the people of God gather together, and Moses goes up on Mount Sinai to meet with God so God can give them the law by which this new community is to live. While Moses is up on the mountain, the people grow impatient; they sell all their jewelry to goldforcash.com, make a calf, and start worshipping it. Moses in his anger breaks the Ten Commandments, burns the calf and takes the ashes grinds them up into a nasty ale and forces the people of God to drink it. God threatens to blot His people out of existence but instead extends grace to what He calls "an obstinate people." So here we are. God gives His ugly, obstinate, and unfaithful people a law. If Jesus is going to be about restoring the image of God in people, He has some work to do. As we begin to understand what Jesus would have to do with a bunch of laws that range from not eating shellfish to not working on the Sabbath, we need to understand the dedication made at the very onset.
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What can you expect as a believer when you take a stand in the public forum?
Kevin explores the letter from the Samaritans to King Artaxerxes and what the political attacks against Israel mean to Christians today.
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