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Saturday Sermon for Week 11-09
Dan relates and experience when as a young patrol officer, he was involved in an auto accident in which a young woman was killed. His reoccurring question in the aftermath was "where was God" in this event. In Ephesians, Paul says that God is always with us, and that by His mercy and grace we are made alive in Christ.
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My Brother's Keeper?
Last week at Sovereign King, we talked about living with a sense that God might do great things among us. I even went so far as to describe that feeling as a holy despair that God might not. Those great things of God require of us a necessary Godliness so that we might best be used by God when those opportunities arise. We also talked about the fact that if we aren't preparing for Godliness, then we assume that God will do not great things among us, and He probably won't. And the hope was that we would be radically transformed in the image of Christ this year. I encourage you all to pray with a holy despair that God would do great things among us. Despair that God might pass us by. We should love each other and our community with a radical love that causes people to be uncontrollably attracted to this community but ultimately to Jesus Christ. This week, John continues describing what the life of Godliness does and does not look like, and John is going to use the story of Can and Abel to help frame that picture. Towards that end, I think it is helpful to remind ourselves about the story of Cain and Abel. Abel was a kind hearted but more than likely a pretty smelly shepherd, and his brother, Cain was more than likely an athletic, young farmer. Well, the time came for both of them to make an offering to God. Cain brought the fruit of the ground and Abel brought the firstborn of his flock. Now when you read Genesis 4, we see that God found favor in Abel's offerings and not in Cain's. Maybe Cain didn't bring the best of the fruit of the ground. Maybe he only brought brown bananas and moldy peaches. But we know that Abel found favor before God because giving the first born is always a step of faith. Giving the first born says, "I have no guarantee of another sheep giving birth, but I will give this one that I have to God in faith. Essentially, Abel's offering required faith. Cain's didn't. (Always another reminder that if what we give doesn't hurt it a bit, it ain't faith). God ultimately rejects Cain's offering, so Cain decides to go off and pout about it essentially becoming the world's first bratty child. God, ever gracious and patient, gives Cain this ominous warning. He says, "Cain, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is to overtake you. You however, must overtake and rule it." What startling words. Sin is like an intruder hiding in your house waiting to seize you and rob you. Sin is the dark character of every horror movie ever written sitting just out of sight but just within your reach. However, Cain could not get beyond the jealousy he had over his brother, so sin ruled Cain and Cain murdered his brother Abel. Cain wanted to be good and righteous on his terms and not God's. He wanted to offer God His second best and have that count as if it was his first. God confronted him and asked, "Where is your brother Abel?" Cain response was, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The obvious answer was, "Yes, you are your brother's keeper." So, with that story as our backdrop, this week we are going to ask two questions as they relate to what Godliness looks like: -- What does it look like for you to be your brother's keeper? -- What does that look like specifically at Sovereign King Church?
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Eternal Security
Once saved; always saved: John 3:1: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29: My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30: I and my Father are one.
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The Trajectory of Your Parenting
The goal of our parening must always be to bring, in every way and any circumstance, our children to Jesus Christ.
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A DIVINE FORERUNNER FOR JESUS
This message is a true examination of what marks a person that has repented according to John the Baptist in Luke 3:8. It is a shock to some that all three facets have to deal with material possessions as well as our lifestyle in the examples he gives us. This message is extremely straight forward but also very convicting.
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The Mystery - Part 5
Paul says in Ephesians 3, "surely you have heard..." The Mystery has been revealed and yet to many it is still a mystery. In Paul's day it was more common, but today many have denied its existence. In this series, we will explore the deeper things God has revealed in this Mystery. We do not intend to exhaust the inexhaustible, we hope to introduce the Mystery.
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The Mystery - Part 4
Paul says in Ephesians 3, "surely you have heard..." The Mystery has been revealed and yet to many it is still a mystery. In Paul's day it was more common, but today many have denied its existence. In this series, we will explore the deeper things God has revealed in this Mystery. We do not intend to exhaust the inexhaustible, we hope to introduce the Mystery.
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The Mystery - Part 3
Paul says in Ephesians 3, "surely you have heard..." The Mystery has been revealed and yet to many it is still a mystery. In Paul's day it was more common, but today many have denied its existence. In this series, we will explore the deeper things God has revealed in this Mystery. We do not intend to exhaust the inexhaustible, we hope to introduce the Mystery.
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