Sermons About Promise
Hold On and Consider
Jesus has opened the veil into the holy places thru His death on our behalf. He also cleansed our hearts and bodies so we are welcome in God's presence. He is the fulfillment of God's promises, giving us hope. In light of this we are able to consider how to encourage one another as the New Covenant community
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An Old Man Follows God
Abraham left his home to follow God to the land he promised at an old age. He saw a glimpse of the promise, but did not possess it for himself. His multitude of children was 1 at the time of his death, yet he believed that God had fulfilled His end of the deal.
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Missional
God's promise to make Abraham great was not only for Abraham's sake, but for the sake of the world-that the world might be blessed through him. As the people of God, we have become part of God's promise. We must be looking for the ways that God might bless the world around us and through us.
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New: The Hope of Something Better
The promise of "a new you" is not an empty promise, but according to Paul in Romans 6, it is a promise fulfilled through the radical intervention of death and resurrection.
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The Amazing Jesus is Alive!
Our amazing Jesus reveals the authority of God. The soldiers were there to guard the dead man in the tomb who came back to life while the guards became like dead men. Jesus also offers the peace of God. The women were filled with peace and able to worship Jesus. And Jesus ushers in the promise of God. He promised victory over death and is preparing our eternal home.
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The Nature of Faith (Romans 4:13-25)
Paul references the promises of God to Abraham, the ultimate fulfillment of which is the restoration of fellowship with God and the establishment of God's kingdom in the new heavens and new earth. Abraham and his descendants will be heirs of the world. Paul clearly demonstrates that it was not obedience that secured this promise to Abraham, but Abraham's faith in God and God's grace toward Abraham. Works and reward are utterly opposed to faith and promises. Just as with Abraham, we do not inherit God's promises by obedience or lineage, but we inherit God's promises by faith in God. We too will experience restoration of fellowship with God, and will participate in his eternal kingdom!
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A Time for Every Matter
When it comes to the events and experiences of our existence, randomness does not rule. God does. He is the Sovereign over our seasons. The Teacher reminds us of this fact in Ecclesiastes 3, and the Cross reminds us that God's ordering is for the good of those who believe.
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Genesis: 16 The Beginning of Hope in the Promises of God: A Life of Abraham
This week Sarai and Abram take the promise of GOD into their own hands rather than trusting and waiting on GOD in HIS perfect time. Our couple take an episode from Desperate Tent Wives and break the covenant GOD gave us through marriage. Any sexual act outside of this union is wrong because it deconstructs the sexual function from being pro-creative, emotionally satisfying and God glorifying to being only emotionally satisfying without the commitment of the other two. We are a work in progress, there will be many times in our lives that our doubts, and our desires will get the best of us, even when we are trying to please God with our desires. There will be times when we will give in to the desire to try and please God through your own works, instead of allowing God’s promise to be fulfilled in you.
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Possessing the Promise
We have to possess the promise. God does certainly have big plans for this area, but we are going to have to possess the plan / promise. We do this not by natural means, not by flesh and blood, but by spiritual laws. So as we learn about them, they seem strange to our minds. When you go into the military, they spend time changing the way you think and act. They have to make you into a warrior. You no longer think of things the way you once did. You no longer act the way you once did. So too, are the things of God. They’re not natural, we don’t learn them naturally. Most things naturally are contrary to the Law of God.
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Abraham: Faith leaves the past behind.
Summary: Abraham was blessed because of his faith, not who he was. We are blessed today through faith, not who we are, where we come from, who our parents are, or anything else in the flesh. Abraham was a man of faith and of love. To get into the blessing that the Lord had for him, Abraham had to leave his family, his old way of doing things. For us to get into the place of blessing that God has for us there will need to be that separation also. Maybe not literally, but we need to separate from our old way of thinking and acting. Once we are born again, a transformation should take place. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always have what you’ve always had. Be brave enough to launch out when He says go, it will be better than you ever dreamed.
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Genuine Faith in Salvation and Suffering Part 2
Religion is often used as a means of obtaining material blessings in this life like wealth, success, protection, health, and a good family, and when that religion fails to provide us with these things we lose faith in it. The Apostle Peter wrote to remind us that our hope doesn’t lie in such present circumstances but in the eternal realities promised to us in heaven, and we can put our faith in these promises because they were bought for us by the death of Jesus on the cross. This hope helps us to endure the trials and suffering that come in this life because they prove that our faith is genuine and prepare us for the blessings that will be ours when we see Jesus face to face.
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Genuine Faith in Salvation and Suffering Part 1
The Apostle Peter reminds us that we have a great source of hope because God has promised a pure, eternal inheritance for those who believe in Him. This great inheritance has been secured for us because Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and rose from the grave to prove beyond a doubt that He was in fact God in the flesh. The historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is rock solid and we can put our trust in the God who made it happen. Fixing our thoughts on the hope that we have in heaven will help us to endure the suffering that we go through in this life.
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No
As we see the real essence and power of saying no, we see that it isn’t just about limiting our options; no is all about freeing us up to say an even bigger and better yes.
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Genesis 12:1-9 The Beginning of Hope in the Promises of God: A Life of Abraham
God called Abram (“Exalted Father”) to make his name great on His terms. This story is the lynchpin connecting point between the history of humanity and the history of God’s elect; the history of the curse, and the history of the blessing. What’s interesting to see in this story, as well as the story of the whole bible, is God’s sovereign intent for His people and the world. He is not a tribal deity, and His “Chosen” do not exist for themselves, but for His glory and His mission, and it is also important to note that we will all be surprised who God’s “Elect” are!
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Yes
Life is full of options. Yet all the choices we make and decisions we face ultimately come down to just two small words—yes and no. We are the sum total of our yeses and nos. As we see God’s view of this word based on Matthew 5:37, we see the power and potential “yes” really has. When we are willing to back up our yeses with commitment, life will take on a new direction of purpose and meaning.
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The Promised Child
After 25 years of waiting the promised son arrives to Abraham and Sarah. In this sermon learn how God is faithful to keep His Word.
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The Promise Received
In spite of what our world thinks or does, the fact of the matter is that Christmas is all about God's promises. (Part 3 of a 3-part series)
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Covenant Christmas
We tend to think that the Christmas story started in Bethlehem, it actually started in the Garden of Eden.
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The Promise Conceived
Are promises made to be broken? We live in a world filled with broken promises, but the good news is God never breaks His promises. In fact, the reason we can have Christmas is because God kept His promise. (Part 2 of a 3-part series)
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The Promise Believed
Understanding "The Promise" of God is imperative to understanding the true meaning of Christmas. "The Promise" is first proclaimed after Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden. However, "The Promise" is actually sprinkled throughout the Old Testament Prophesies about the coming of the Messiah, the Savior, the Son of God. (Part 1 of a 3-part series)
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The Hope of Rejoicing
Genesis 3:13-15; Is. 9:2-7; Ezekiel 34; John 10:7-27 Today is the First Sunday of Advent. Traditionally, on this day we begin our intentional reflection on the amazing miracle that is the Incarnation of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And because the coming of Jesus into this world as a baby was promised at the beginning of time, it is appropriate to remind ourselves of that promise, and of the hope that it provided throughout the Old Testament era.
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Becoming People of Faith -- The Covenant, Pt. 4 -- God's Promises
In God's repetition, clarification, and expansion of His promises to Abraham we learn that He gives promises so that we can live lives of Faith -- trusting His promises.
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The Promise of God
Hope's sermon today, the First Sunday of Advent, is taken from 1 Samuel 4:1-11, We must make room in our hearts for Jesus and we must make room in Christmas for Christ. Approx 15 min.
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Walking In The Glory Light Of The The Lord
What we trust in, have confidence in and what we expect for blessing in our life are determining factors in how our life will be seen by others as well as well as how fulfilled we will be in our lives. Knowing how to walk in the glory light of the Lord can produce the kind of life Abraham was experiencing when Abimelech remarked that what ever Abraham was doing, God was with him.
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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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The Return of the King
In His final hours with His disciples, Jesus promised that even though He was going away, that He would return again. He said He was going to prepare a place for us in His Father's house, that He would come to take us to His Father's home. It was a well-known wedding custom of the day.... A groom would announce his intentions to marry, and then return to his father's home to build on a room where he and his new bride would live. When the room was finished, he would come to the bride's home and escort her back for their wedding celebration. As in many of the stories we've looked at this summer, this weekend's parable comes in response to a question. The disciples asked: "...what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" (Matthew 24:3). The text, and the surrounding context leaves us with the challenge: Will I be watching and waiting when the King returns? Key Passage: Matthew 25:1-12
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Abraham: He Believed God...
Genesis 12-22 The story of Abraham has two strands running through the entire narrative: Abraham's faith and God's amazing faithfulness. From the time that God called Abram out of Ur and gave him great promises, Abram believed God and obediently lived out his faith. Often struggling to believe, Abraham always put his trust in God in the end. God faithfully provided the promised seed to Abraham…the seed from which the Messiah would come and one day rescue God's people and rebuild His kingdom.
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Know Where You've Been
How can we be confident of God's faithfulness? The proof is in the past--we have a record of God's continual protection and provision in our personal and collective memories. Just as Caleb and Joshua knew that God would sustain them as they entered the promised land because God had already delivered them from Egypt and provided along the way, so we can look back on our own lives and see how God's hand is always at work. We don't have to know where we're going but where we've been!
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A Little R&R
Redeeming Ruth Part 8 “A Little R & R” Ruth 3:1-2 1. True rest is made available through a remarkable proposal. This rest: • Was of a certain nature • Was to meet a critical need 2. True rest becomes a reality through a fulfilled promise. This rest promises to find • Hope • Help • A Home 3. True rest involves a relationship with a special person. This person was to have the right: • Reputation • Relationship • Resources • Resolve
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The Open Kingdom
The mystery of the kingdom can only be unlocked through being with Jesus as a disciple. In these parables, Jesus invites us to understand the way of the kingdom, the promise of the kingdom, and the magnitude of the kingdom.
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The Story of God - Promise
Third part in the story of God series, this talk looks at the the promises given to Isreal and how we are to understand this part of the big story.
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A glimpse of a gospel church
Pastor Geoff Findlay with the final sermon in our series from Romans: Far from being a boring list of names of people we don’t know, this final chapter provides us with a glimpse of a gospel church in action. Here is a real church with real people with real names. This reminds us that that we are not only a church with a mission, we are a church of people – people in whom God takes a vital interest.
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The New Covenant
Jeremiah wasn't just a bullfrog, he was the weeping prophet of God. Who was this man and why was he weeping? What impact did he have when he was alive? How does this apply today? A Biblical covenant is a binding relationship that God promises to bless and His people promise to obey.
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Praying for fire before praying for rain
Ken Stebbins presents the 4th sermon in our Elijah: Man of Prayer series. Elijah lived in a nation which followed mixed religions, leading to false prayer to false gods. Elijah began with true, "effective" prayer accompanied by repentance which "avails much": upon seeing God's power in the fire on Mt Carmel, the people turned back to Him and put away their idolatry.
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The Fifth Commandment (Exodus 20:12)
God's command to honor our parents is a responsibility we carry not just as children, but for our whole life.
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Luke 1:1-56 - Faith Like Mary
The Book of Luke starts out with an account of how God sent an angel to announce the coming of the promised Messiah. He came to a small rural town and told a young engaged virgin named Mary that she would become pregnant and give birth to the Messiah. This was no less difficult to believe then as it is now, but Mary trusted that what God had promised would happen and that He would lead her through the difficult pregnancy she would go through. She is an example for us to learn from as we read about God’s promises in the Bible that Jesus can save us from our sins if we put our trust in Him.
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New Creation & the Fullness of Time
Paul has argued fiercly in his letter to the Galatians that in the death and resurrection of Jesus everything has changed- most notably that God's people are no longer marked by obedience to the Mosaic law, but rather they are a New Creation. This new creation, this people marked by genuine faith are the true children of Abraham, the children of promise.
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