sermons – Page 32 – Christ the Truth

With week 7 the text has some extra stuff about how 'taking up our cross' is not payback for the way Christ had to take up His! It's the very essence of our liberation.

A few on the course have prayed to receive Jesus this week. Please pray that they would know His presence and protection as they take their first steps with Christ.

The Church in the Wilderness 9

GlenOctober 25, 20099 Comments

Over the past 6 weeks I've been preaching on the Church in the Wilderness.

We are just like the Israelites - saved from the kingdom of darkness, saved through the waters of baptism, headed for our promised hope. But in between we are in a time of testing, hardship and discipline.

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We're no longer in Egypt. But we're not yet in the promised land either. Instead we must go through many troubles to enter the kingdom of God.

In the meantime we have the assurance of His blood, empowerment by His Spirit, provision for every need, guidance for the day and a Leader who, unlike Moses, has made it into the promised hope as our Fore-runner, Champion and Priest.

It's not an attempt to plumb the depths of Exodus and Numbers. It's really just trying to get our expectations for the Christian life straight. We are in the Wilderness. Christ is in the Promised Land. We are in Him.

Co-ordinating those truths in our hearts and minds is a large part of living wisely in this overlap of the ages.

Here are the sermons:

Introduction: What's the wilderness all about? (1 Cor 10; Deut 8).

Text. Audio.

Passover: The LORD's salvation through judgement (Exodus 12-13).

Text. Audio.

Red Sea: Not just sheltered - brought out (Exodus 14-15).

Text. Audio.

Provision: He gives us today our daily bread (Exodus 16-17).

Text. Audio (first half of sermon audio missing).

Presence: The LORD is with us (Numbers 9; Genesis 15).

Text. Audio.

Leaders: Moses falls short but Jesus is our great Joshua (Num 27; Heb 3-4).

Text. Audio.

Whitefield on The LORD our Righteousness

GlenOctober 23, 2009Leave a comment

Lex Loizides quotes Whitefield's oft repeated sermon: The LORD our righteousness.

‘Alas, my heart almost bleeds! What a multitude of precious souls are now before me! How shortly must all be ushered into eternity! And yet, O cutting thought! Was God now to require all your souls, how few, comparatively speaking, could really say, ‘the Lord our righteousness!’

‘…You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins. For are you sinners? So am I. Are you the chief of sinners? So am I. Are you backsliding sinners? So am I. And yet the Lord (for ever adored be his rich, free and sovereign grace) the Lord is my righteousness.

Come then, O young man, who (as I acted once myself) are playing the prodigal, and wandering away afar off from your heavenly Father’s house, come home, come home, and leave your swine’s trough. Feed no longer on the husks of sensual delights: for Christ’s sake arise, and come home!

‘Your heavenly Father now calls you. See yonder the best robe, even the righteousness of his dear Son, awaits you. See it, view it again and again.

‘Consider at how dear a rate it was purchased, even by the blood of God. Consider what great need you have of it. You are lost, undone, damned for ever, without it. Come then, poor, guilty prodigals, come home…’

Do check out Lex's blog, he's taking us through the Great Awakening in such a heart-warming and exciting way.