2013-06
2013-06
Wednesday Jun 26, 2013
“The Justice of God” The Message of Amos – Cameron Jungles 06-26-2013
Wednesday Jun 26, 2013
Wednesday Jun 26, 2013
Sunday Jun 23, 2013
Foundation of Fruit Baring - Cameron Jungles 6-23-2013 PM
Sunday Jun 23, 2013
Sunday Jun 23, 2013
Foundation of Fruit Baring - Cameron Jungles 6-23-2013 PM
Sunday Jun 23, 2013
“Fruit-bearing and the Christian Life” - Cameron Jungles - 6-23-2013
Sunday Jun 23, 2013
Sunday Jun 23, 2013
Sunday Jun 23, 2013
John 3 v31-36 - Cameron Jungles - 6-23-2013 AM
Sunday Jun 23, 2013
Sunday Jun 23, 2013
John 3:31-36 - Cameron Jungles - 6-23-2013 AM
Sunday Jun 23, 2013
Friday Jun 21, 2013
Sunday Jun 16, 2013
John 3:22–30 - Cameron Jungles - 6-16-2013
Sunday Jun 16, 2013
Sunday Jun 16, 2013
“Christ Must Become Greater”: John 3:22–30 (Eastside
Baptist/Sun AM/June 16, 2013)
John 3:30
He must become greater; I must become less.”
1. John humbly
submitted himself to the will of God.
·
John understood his dependence on Divine
grace.
John 3:27
To this John replied, "A person can receive only what
is given them from heaven.
·
John willingly embraced his role in preparing
the way for Jesus.
John 3:28
You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the
Messiah but am sent ahead of him.'
John 3:29
The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends
the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the
bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.
·
John humbly accepted his decreasing
popularity and influence.
John 3:26
They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who
was with you on the other side of the Jordan--the one you testified
about--look, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
John 3:27
To this John replied, "A person can receive only what
is given them from heaven.
·
John laid down his life in service to Christ.
John 3:24
(This was before John was put in prison.)
Matthew 14:3-4
Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in
prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for John had been saying
to him: "It is not lawful for you to have her."
Matthew 14:5
Herod wanted to kill John, but he was afraid of the people,
because they considered John a prophet.
Matthew 14:6-7
On Herod's birthday the daughter of Herodias danced for the
guests and pleased Herod so much that he promised with an oath to give her
whatever she asked.
Matthew 14:8
Prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me here on a
platter the head of John the Baptist."
Matthew 14:9-10
The king was distressed, but because of his oaths and his
dinner guests, he ordered that her request be granted and had John beheaded in
the prison.
Matthew 14:11
His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl,
who carried it to her mother.
Matthew 14:12
John's disciples came and took his body and buried it. Then
they went and told Jesus.
Mark 8:34
Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and
said: "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up
their cross and follow me.
Mark 8:35
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but
whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.
Matthew 23:8
"But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' for you have one
Teacher, and you are all brothers.
Matthew 23:9
And do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one
Father, and he is in heaven.
Matthew 23:10
Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one
Instructor, the Messiah.
Matthew 23:11-12
The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who
exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be
exalted.
2. So that, Jesus
Christ would be glorified.
John 3:29
The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends
the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the
bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.
John 3:30
He must become greater; I must become less.”
Colossians 1:18
And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the
beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might
have the supremacy.
Philippians 2:9
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him
the name that is above every name,
Philippians 2:10
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven
and on earth and under the earth,
Philippians 2:11
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to
the glory of God the Father.
Main Idea
We must willingly offer ourselves in humble self-sacrificing
service, so that our Lord Jesus Christ may be exalted in all things.
Romans 12:1
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of
God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to
God--this is your true and proper worship.
Wednesday Jun 12, 2013
“Judgment and Salvation” The Message of Joel - Cameron Jungles 6-12-2013
Wednesday Jun 12, 2013
Wednesday Jun 12, 2013
“Judgment and Salvation”: The Message of Joel (Eastside
Baptist/June 12, 2013/Wed PM)
The Message of Joel
Ø Setting
and Context
Ø Structure
& Message
Ø Important
Themes
Ø “Jesus
Lens” and New Testament Application
Setting and Context
Ø Little
knowledge of author
Ø Uncertain
historical setting
o Late
pre-exilic after fall of Israel, before fall of Jerusalem
o Post-exilic
after rebuilding of temple and Jerusalem walls
Ø Implications
for interpretation
Structure & Message
Ø Superscription
(1:1)
Ø Locust
plague (1:2-12)
Ø Lament
(1:13-20)
Ø Impending
Invasion (2:1-11)
Ø Call
to Repent (2:12-17)
Ø Restoration
(2:18-32)
Ø Judgment
& Salvation (3:1-21)
Locust Plague (1:2-12)
Ø Judah/Jerusalem
Ø Described
as a past event
Ø Figuratively
described as invading army (1:6)
Ø Complete
agricultural devastation
Ø Results
in famine and depression
Joel 1:4
What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten;
what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young
locusts have left other locusts have eaten.
Joel 1:12
The vine is dried up and the fig tree is withered; the
pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree-- all the trees of the field--are
dried up. Surely the people's joy is withered away.
Call to Lament (1:13-20)
Ø Lament
and Sorrow expressed through fasting and mourning
Ø Lamenting
a past event
Ø Locust
plague appears to be a portent of a yet coming judgment from God (Day of the
LORD) (1:15).
Joel 1:13
Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who
minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister
before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from
the house of your God.
Impending Invasion (2:1-11)
Ø Described
as future event
Ø Locusts
or human armies?
Ø Recent
locust invasion used to figuratively describe future Day of the LORD judgment
Ø Will
Day of LORD bring judgment or blessing?
Joel 2:11
The LORD thunders at the head of his army; his forces are
beyond number, and mighty is the army that obeys his command. The day of the
LORD is great; it is dreadful. Who can endure it?
Call to Repent (2:12-17)
Ø Repent
from the heart!
Ø No
specific sins listed
Ø Repentance
of all the people – no one exempt
Ø God
is compassionate and may relent and bring blessing.
Ø For
the sake of God’s Name!
Joel 2:12-13
"Even now," declares the LORD, "return to me
with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning." Rend your
heart and not your garments…
Joel 2:16
Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together
the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. Let the
bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber.
Joel 2:17
…Let them say, "Spare your people, LORD. Do not make
your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should
they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God? '"
Restoration (2:18-32)
Ø Repentance
leads to restoration
Ø Reversal
of locust devastation
Ø Abundance
of food and wine
Ø Future
blessing of outpouring of the Holy Spirit (DoL).
Ø Universal
blessings – salvation beyond Israel’s borders
Joel 2:18
Then the LORD was jealous for his land and took pity on his
people.
Joel 2:19
The LORD replied to them: "I am sending you grain, new
wine and olive oil, enough to satisfy you fully; never again will I make you an
object of scorn to the nations.
Joel 2:28
"And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all
people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions.
Joel 2:29
Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my
Spirit in those days.
Joel 2:30
I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood
and fire and billows of smoke.
Joel 2:31
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
Joel 2:32
And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be
saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the
LORD has said, even among the survivors whom the LORD calls.
Judgment & Salvation (3:1-21)
Ø Future
judgment of the nations for their mistreatment of God’s people (described as
warfare)
Ø God’s
people saved and protected during final judgment
Ø Kingdom
peace and prosperity
Joel 3:2
I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley
of Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my
inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the
nations and divided up my land.
Joel 3:16
The LORD will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the
earth and the heavens will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for his
people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
Joel 3:18
"In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the
hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A
fountain will flow out of the LORD's house and will water the valley of
acacias.
Important Themes
Ø Day
of the LORD
o Not
a single event
o Locust
plague is type/shadow of future Day of LORD.
o God’s
decisive intervention for blessing and/or judgment
o Israelites
not spared judgment if in rebellion against God
Ø Covenant
(Deuteronomy)
o Locust
plague is covenantal curse (Deut 28:22, 38-42).
o God’s
chastening of his people
o God’s
zeal and faithfulness to bless and restore his people
o Restoration
through repentance
Ø “Telescoping”
of Prophecy
o Locust
plague symbolic (and also part) of Day of the LORD, linked to future, climactic
Day of LORD.
o Restoration
of land/crops after locusts symbolic of future peace/prosperity and outpouring
of Spirit in Kingdom of God.
“Jesus Lens” and Application
Ø Judgment
and Salvation meet at the Cross of Christ.
Ø Judgment
precedes restoration.
Ø Christ
took our judgment that we might be saved.
Ø Christ
inaugurated the new age and poured out the Spirit.
Ø The
blessings of salvation and the gift of the Spirit are now for all people –
“whoever calls on the name of the Lord.”
Ø There
is still a future, climactic Day of the LORD coming.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens
will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the
earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.
2 Peter 3:11
Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of
people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives…
Ø After
this Day of the LORD, there will be a time of restoration, peace, and joy as
Joel predicted.
Ø God
loves his covenant children enough to discipline them.
Hebrews 12:5
And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement
that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, "My son, do not
make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
Hebrews 12:6
because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he
chastens everyone he accepts as his son."
Sunday Jun 09, 2013
John 3:16-21 - Cameron Jungles - 6-9-2013
Sunday Jun 09, 2013
Sunday Jun 09, 2013
“Jesus Came to Save”: John 3:16-21 (Eastside Baptist/Sun AM/June 9, 2013)
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:17
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:18
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
John 3:19
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
John 3:20
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
John 3:21
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
1. The world is steeped in darkness and desperately needs salvation.
John 3:19
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
John 3:20
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
2. Without salvation the world stands condemned.
John 3:18
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them.
3. In love, God sent his Son to save the world.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:17
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
4. The only way to escape the darkness of sin and condemnation is through faith in Jesus, God’s Son.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:18
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
John 3:21
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
Wednesday Jun 05, 2013
“God’s Unfaithful Bride”: The Message of Hosea - Cameron Jungles- 5-5-2013
Wednesday Jun 05, 2013
Wednesday Jun 05, 2013
“God’s Unfaithful Bride”: The Message of Hosea
(Eastside Baptist/June 5, 2013 Wed PM)
The Message of Hosea
Ø Setting and Context
Ø Structure
Ø Message
Ø “Jesus Lens” and New Testament Application
Setting and Context
Ø Divided Kingdom
Ø Ministry to Israel (Ephraim)
Ø 760 to 722 B.C.
Ø Reign of Jeroboam II
Ø Social and Religious Context
Ø Geopolitical Context
Structure
Ø Superscription (1:1)
Ø Hosea’s Unfaithful Wife (1:2-3:5)
Ø Hosea’s Messages of Warning (4:1-14:9)
Message of Hosea
Ø Hosea’s marriage is a picture of God’s relationship to Israel.
Ø The book is an exploration of the tension between God’s love for his covenant people and the need to punish their covenantal unfaithfulness.
Message of Hosea
Ø Repeated Cycle:
o Describing rebellion
ü Alliances, injustice, idolatry, failure of religious ritual
o Announcing judgment
ü Destruction by Assyrians
o Promising restoration
ü Reunification, Messiah
Hosea 11:12
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, Israel with deceit. And Judah is unruly against God, even against the faithful Holy One.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on the wind; he pursues the east wind all day and multiplies lies and violence. He makes a treaty with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
Hosea 12:7-8
The merchant uses dishonest scales and loves to defraud. Ephraim boasts, "I am very rich; I have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity or sin."
Hosea 12:7-8
The merchant uses dishonest scales and loves to defraud. Ephraim boasts, "I am very rich; I have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity or sin."
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
Hosea 13:2
Now they sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver, cleverly fashioned images, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of these people, "They offer human sacrifices! They kiss calf-idols!"
Hosea 13:4
"But I have been the LORD your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me.
Hosea 13:5
I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of burning heat.
Hosea 13:6
When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me.
Hosea 13:7
So I will be like a lion to them, like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
Hosea 13:9
"You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your helper.
Hosea 13:16
The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open."
Hosea 14:1
Return, Israel, to the LORD your God. Your sins have been your downfall!
Hosea 14:2
Take words with you and return to the LORD. Say to him: "Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say 'Our gods' to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion."
Hosea 14:4
"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.
Hosea 1:10
"Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'children of the living God.'
Hosea 1:11
The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together; they will appoint one leader and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.
Hosea 3:5
Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days.
“Jesus Lens”
Ø Jesus is the Husband of his church that he redeemed.
Ø Jesus is faithful, when we are not.
Ø Under Jesus, a restoration people is being gathered from every tribe (Israel, Judah, and Gentiles).
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Ø From Hosea 1:6, 9; 2:23
Romans 9:23
What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory--
Romans 9:24
even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
Romans 9:25
As he says in Hosea: "I will call them 'my people' who are not my people; and I will call her 'my loved one' who is not my loved one,"
Romans 9:26
and, "In the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'children of the living God.'"
“Jesus Lens”
Ø Under the New Covenant, God’s grants what we need to be made right with him (Jesus).
Ø Under the New Covenant, God also grants the indwelling Spirit so we can live for him in faithful obedience.
Application
Ø We should be compelled to love our God who loved us first with an everlasting love.
Ø We will not be satisfied with religious rituals.
Ø Our love for God will move us to true worship and obedience.
Sunday Jun 02, 2013
Sunday Jun 02, 2013
Read the Bible for Life by George Guthrie
“Reading the Bible with the Church” Chapter 16
(Eastside Baptist/Sun PM/June 2, 2013)
Biblical Illiteracy
Only 9% of “born-again” Christians have a worldview shaped by Bible.
Only 16% of church goers read Bible daily.
Only 37% say Bible has made any significant impact in life.
God-centered Reading
Bible is not a self-help manual or encyclopedia that answers all my questions about my issues in this world.
Bible is about God. It is the story of what God is doing from creation to new creation.
Information Overload
Biblical illiteracy is directly related to our being distracted by worldly amusements.
By grace, we need to see that worldly amusements never truly satisfy; true joy comes from God through his Word.
Not tidbits, the Big Story
Our culture is losing the ability to track with longer stories.
Biblical literacy improves when we better understand the big picture story of the Bible and our place in it.
Biblical Worldview
Our way of thinking and our view of life needs to be deeply shaped by the Scriptures.
We need to see that the Scriptures relate to every area of our lives, not just church on Sunday.
Romans 12:2
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Theology and the Church
Church needs to hunger for theology because it leads to a knowledge of the greatness and goodness of God.
ü Systematic Theology
ü Biblical Theology
The Bible in Worship
Scripture infused songs/prayer
Public reading of Scripture
Expository Preaching
ü Focus on the text’s meaning
ü Hearing the Bible in context
ü Following the Bible’s storyline
ü The Whole Counsel of God
Concluding Thoughts
We want to know and love the Word so that we can know and love God.
We want our knowledge of the Word to lead to change of thoughts/affections and change of actions.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Sunday Jun 02, 2013
The Lord’s Supper: Past, Present, and Future - Cameron Jungles - 5-2-2013
Sunday Jun 02, 2013
Sunday Jun 02, 2013
The Lord’s Supper: Past, Present, and Future
Date: June 2, 2013
Speaker: Pastor Cameron Jungels
Text: 1 Corinthians 11:23-32
Prelude
Announcements/Prayer
Hymn # 202 – All Hail the Power (all 4) (Stand)
Scripture Reading – 1 Corinthians 11:23-32
Introduction – Pastor Cameron
Main Idea: The Lord’s Supper is a ceremony that encompasses the whole of this age.
I. The Lord’s Supper anchors the church to the past.
A. It is a reminder of his incarnation.
Scripture – John 14:6-9
Hymn # 88 – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (All 3 Verses) (Sit)
B. It is a reminder of his passion.
1. It reminds us that his passion was substitutionary.
Scripture – Isaiah 53:4-6
2. It reminds us that his passion was violent.
Scripture – Leviticus 17:11
3. It reminds us that his passion was ordained.
Scripture – Acts 2:22-24
Hymn #141 – The Old Rugged Cross (all 4) (Sit)
II. The Lord’s Supper purifies the church in the present.
A. The privilege of participation: It is for those in fellowship with the body.
Scripture Acts 2:41–42
B. The responsibility of participation: It is a time of self-examination.
Distribution of the Bread (Jesus Paid It All)
Distribution of the Cup (There is a Fountain)
Hymn # 175 – “Man of Sorrows,” What a Name (All 5 Verses) (Stand)
III. The Lord’s Supper orients the church to the future.
A. Our expectation is for his return.
Scripture – Titus 2:11-14
B. Our satisfaction will be his reign.
Scripture – Revelation 21:1-4
Hymn # 161 – Crown Him with Many Crowns (All 4 Verses) (Stand)
Benediction – Numbers 6:24-26