Sermons About Rebellion
Song of the Great King
Jesus is the Messiah that God has put forth to fulfill His plans and purposes to restore creation, and us, to our original design.
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Obedience
God demands absolute obedience but the natural man only rebels against his Creator. The Lord Jesus Christ fully obeyed and His obedience and righteous standing can become ours through saving faith.
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Unstoppable Pt. 11 - A Faithless People's Faithful God
The overarching theme of the Bible, from cover to cover, is that God is faithful when his people are unfaithful. Time and time again, despite humanity's repeated wanderings and rebellion, God demonstrates his heart to forgive and lead his people, even when they choose to leave him.
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Acts 5 Rebellion
God makes it clear that He not only cares for the width of the church but the depth of the church. He does so by removing the hypocrisy out of our lives so that we will live rebellious powerful lives against Satan and the world.
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Ask of the Lord
Judah and Israel had ceased "asking of the Lord" and had instead turned to their vain idols, lying diviners, and false dreams causing them trouble because they no longer had a shepherd to lead them. Does this hint of familiarity for us today? Shouldn't this be a warning for us?
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Broken - Pt. 2 - What's the Big Idea?
Why would God choose to use our pain, failures, and struggles, rather than simply removing them from our lives? What's he up to when he allows us to go through seasons of brokenness, and why is it necessary at some point for every one of us?
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Ehud the Judge
The book of Judges is characterised by a common cycle in Israel of rebellion, retribution, rescue and repentence, followed by a return to rebellion and the repetition of the cycle. Each time the nation rebels, God sends a 'judge' to be their rescuer. Each of the judges is an unlikely figure and each method of rescue equally unlikely. Perhaps this points to the ultimately unlikely figure of Jesus as the servant King, and the ultimate rescue in the form of apparent failure on the Cross. God's ways are not our ways, and He chooses methods that seem to our human eyes to be folly. But God is sovereign and knows better than any of us what He is doing! Here's the test we should apply: Which way is my life moving - towards Jesus, or away from Him?
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Introduction to Judges
The book of Judges covers the period lasting approximately 430 years between the death of Joshua and the period of the Kings, notably including David. During this period, the people Israel had no clear leader, so lost their spiritual way, forgetting God and what He had done for them. From time to time God showed his compassion on his people by raising up a Judges to rescue them, but each time the respite was temporary and when the Judge died the people would turn even further away from the Lord. The episodes described by Judges leads us to ask three things: 1. Do we know God and what He has done for us? 2. Do we recognise God's outrageous compassion on His people? 3. Are we prepared to live the lives that God calls us to?
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