Sermon Outlines for July 2010
Our Diaconate lead us in Worship the last three weeks of July. There were no outlines provided.
The Cleanliness of Godliness
Mark 7:1-23
July 4, 2010
Question: Aren’t Christians just judgmental hypocrites?
Affirmation: Judgmental Religion has nothing to do with real Christianity
Religion
5So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, "Why don't Your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with 'unclean' hands?"
Mark 7:5
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"Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"? 22These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. 23Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.Colossians 2:21-23
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Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean.' "Mark 7:15
9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Jeremiah 17:9
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As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one;Romans 3:10
6He replied, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about
you hypocrites; as it is written: " 'These people honor Me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from Me. 7They worship Me in
vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.'
Mark 7:6-7
9And He said to them: "You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!
Mark 7:9
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The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." 15If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.Galatians 5:14-15
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For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.Matthew 5:20
Relationship
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You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.Romans 5:6
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For Christ died for sins once for all, the Righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit,I Peter 3:18
16I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 17For in the gospel righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."
Romans 1:16-17
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God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.II Corinthians 5:21
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.Galatians 5:22-26
Sermon Outlines for July 2009
Sermon Notes
The Alpha and The Omega
Revelation 22:12-16
July 12, 2009
Preached by Dr. R. Gary Heikkila
The message is an avowal of the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus: The Alpha (the beginning word, the beginning letter of the Greek alphabet) and the Omega (the concluding letter of the Greek alphabet). "The beginning and the ending," "the first and the last," "the all-inclusive revelation and reality of the being and existence," - all of God! This is a message on the deity, the exaltation, the honor of our living and glorified Lord (based on Revelation 22:12-16 and selected passages). It is an avowal of the omnipotence and immutability and eternity of our Lord Jesus. He is also the Alpha and the Omega of our salvation.
What is it to be saved -- is to be saved by the Lord Jesus.
What is it to be a Christian -- is to be a Christian in the Lord Jesus
What is it to have hope -- is to have hope in the Lord Jesus.
What is it to be forgiven -- is to be forgiven in the love and mercy of the Lord Jesus.
What is it to go to heaven -- is to see His dear and blessed face.
Sermon Outline
Freedom
New Ipswich Congregational Church
Preached by Stuart C. Nutter
Galatians 5:13-25 July 5, 09
Basic Concept: To be in Christ, is to be truly free and freedom finds its highest good in service.
1. WE ARE NOT BORN FREE.
Gal 4:3-8
2. WE ARE BORN AGAIN FREE.
John 8: 31; Col 2:12-15
3. THE SPIRIT KEEPS US FREE.
2 Cor 3:1717; Rom 6:16
4. FREEDOM PRODUCES COMMITMENT.
Gal 5:13-15,25
Think About It!
1 Peter 1:10-21
July 27, 2008
Rev. Stuart Nutter, Guest Minister
Purpose: This morning we are going to look at several important Biblical truths that are often overlooked or neglected.
1. There is more to prayer than petition.
Focus Verses - 1 Corinthians 14:14-15
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. So
what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my
mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.
2. Jesus did not come to make us better citizens of this world;
he came to make us citizens of a different world.
Focus Verse - 1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people
belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of
darkness into his wonderful light.
3. Every believer, in every generation, is faced with the same
creative challenge.
Focus Verse - 1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without
effect. No, I worked harder than all of them - yet not I, but the grace of
God that was with me.
4. If human history has a beginning, then it must have an
ending.
Focus Verse 2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass
away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the
earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.
"Victory Garden"
Galatians 5:16-26
July 20, 2008
Rev. Peter Wood
The more I try to produce the "Fruit of the Spirit" the worse
I do. Why?
"The Fruit of the Spirit" is the product of a day by day relationship with God.
Context
Rule of Bible Study: "A text out of context is a pretext."
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the One who called you by the
grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel - which is really no gospel at
all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying
to pervert the gospel of Christ.
Galatians 1:6-7
You foolish Galatians! Who bewitched you? Before your very eyes
Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. I would like to learn
just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law or by
believing what you heard? Are you so foolish? After beginning with
the Spirit, you are now trying to attain the goal by human effort?
Galatians 3:1-3
Doing it ourselves
I do not understand what I do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what
I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is no longer I
myself who does it, but it is sin living in me.
Romans 7:15-17
Bearing Fruit
What a wretched man! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
Thanks be to God - through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Romans 7:24-25
I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in Me and I in him,
he will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing.
John 15:5
How? First: Crucify the sinful nature.
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in
me. The life I live in the body I live by faith in the Son of God, who
loved me. Galatians 2:20
If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and
follow Me.
Matthew 16:24
How? Second: Keep in step with the Spirit.
And I will ask the Father and He will give you another Counselor (Paraklete:
One who walks along side).
John 14:16
He has shown you, O man, what is good and what does the LORD requires of you?
To act justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
Genesis 5:24
"Bird's Eye View"
Ephesians 1:18-23
July 13, 2008
Rev. Peter Wood
Where do I fit in the "Big Picture"?
God wants us to understand the power we weald as Christians.
Enlightened
Once more Jesus put Hi hands on the man's eyes. Then his eyes were
open and he saw everything clearly.
Mark 8:25
First Gift: The Hope
For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and
blameless in His sight. In love He predestined us to be adopted as His
sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the pleasure of His will - to the
praise of His glorious grace, which He freely gives us in the One He loves.
Ephesians 1:4-6
Second Gift: The Inheritance
Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the
inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.
Colossians 1:12
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great
mercy He has given you new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil
or fade - kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power
until the coming salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 1:3-5
Third Gift: His Power
And in the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe.
These in accordance with the working of the strength of His might.
Ephesians 1:19 NASB
And how tremendous is the power available to us who believe in God. That
power is the same Divine energy which was demonstrated in Christ when He raised
Him from the dead and gave Him the place of supreme honor in Heaven - a place
that is infinitely superior to any conceivable command, authority, power or
control and which carries a Name far beyond any name that could ever be used in
this world or the world to come.
Ephesians 1:1921 Phillips
The church is Christ's body, the completion of Him who completes all things
everywhere.
Ephesians 1:23 TEV
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the One who is
in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4:4
Declaration of Dependence
2 Chronicles 7:4
July 6, 2008
Rev. Peter Wood
Who?
"I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the
hands of the Almighty, and of this, His almost chosen people, for
perpetuating the object of that great struggle."
Abraham Lincoln, February 21, 1861
My God-defined people
2 Chronicles 7:14 MSG
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people
belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of
darkness into His wonderful light.
1 Peter 2:9
"America is a nation with the soul of a church."
GK Chesterton, 1922
"The reason that Christianity is the best friend of Government is because
Christianity is the only religion that changes hearts."
Thomas Jefferson
What?
Some trust in chariots and some in horses, But we trust in the Name of the
LORD our God.
Psalm 20:7
1) Humble Themselves
Humble yourself before the Lord, and He will lift you up.
James 4:10
"It is the duty of nations as well as of men to won their dependence upon the
overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble
sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and
pardon."
Abraham Lincoln, 1863
2) Pray and Seek the LORD's face
Turn back to me
2 Chronicles 7:14 CEV
3) Repent
Turn from their wicked ways
2 Chronicles 7:14
He that conceals his sins does not prosper, But he that
confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Proverbs 28:13
"The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles
of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society."
Martin Luther King Jr., 1963
Result
When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, He had
compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction He had threatened.
Jonah 3:19
Elisha saw this and cried out, "My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen
of Israel!"
2 Kings 2:12
Now Elisha was suffering from the illness from which he died. Jehoash king
of Israel went down to see him and wept over him. "My father! My father!"
he cried, "The chariots and horsemen of Israel!"
2 Kings 13:14