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Will The Real Christ Please Stand Up?
Listen to sermon : Will The Real Christ Please Stand Up?In the second half of John 7, everyone in Jerusalem has a theory about Jesus, and John lets readers watch them guess wrong. Jesus settles it by standing up and speaking for himself. He comes from the Father, though the crowd thinks…
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Seeking to Do the Will of the Father
Listen to sermon : Seeking to Do the Will of the FatherJohn 7:1-24 shows why people who knew the Scriptures well still rejected Jesus. His brothers urged him to show his works at the Feast of Booths and win the world’s notice, because they did not believe in him. The crowd muttered about…
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By Faith, Apart from Works
Listen to sermon : By Faith, Apart from WorksRomans 3:20-28 answers how a sinner can stand righteous before a holy God. This Reformation Day sermon explains that justification in this passage is a legal verdict. God, the judge in the courtroom of heaven, declares a person righteous, and that verdict…
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To Whom Shall We Go?
Listen to sermon : To Whom Shall We Go?John 6:60-71 records the day many of Jesus’ disciples stopped following him. This sermon shows that the hard saying about eating his flesh and drinking his blood was a deliberate shock. Jesus pressed the picture of bread until it broke, so that…
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Eternal Life Through Living Bread
Listen to sermon : Eternal Life Through Living BreadIn John 6:41-59 the crowd grumbles at Jesus’ words, because no one comes to him unless the Father draws him. Jesus calls himself the living bread from heaven, and he gives his flesh on the cross for the life of the world.…
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The Holy One, and the Lowly Heart
Listen to sermon : The Holy One, and the Lowly HeartIsaiah 57:14-21 calls a backslidden people to prepare the way back to God by removing every obstruction. In Isaiah’s day the obstruction was idolatry. The human heart still makes idols of family, career, and settled church habits, and sin stands in the…
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Who Can Come?
Listen to sermon : Who Can Come?The crowd crossed the sea to find Jesus, but they came for another free meal, and he called them to labor for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man gives. When they asked what works they must…
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A Monument, a Name, and a Place for the Outsider
Listen to sermon : A Monument, a Name, and a Place for the OutsiderIsaiah 56 promises the foreigner and the eunuch, outsiders under the old covenant, a monument and an everlasting name in God’s house when they join themselves to the Lord and keep his Sabbaths. The Sabbath is both a creation ordinance binding on…
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It Is I; Do Not Be Afraid
Listen to sermon : It Is I; Do Not Be AfraidAfter Jesus withdrew from the crowd that wanted to make him king, his disciples rowed into the dark against a rough sea without him, a picture of everyone who tries to row toward God in his own strength. Jesus came to them…
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Christ the Abundant Provider
Listen to sermon : Christ the Abundant ProviderWith a Passover crowd of five thousand men coming toward him, Jesus tested Philip by asking where they could buy bread. Philip counted denarii and Andrew counted five barley loaves and two fish, and both measured the task against their own resources…