2015-12
2015-12
Sunday Dec 20, 2015
“The Lord Our Righteous Savior” (Jeremiah 23:5–6; 33:14–16)
Sunday Dec 20, 2015
Sunday Dec 20, 2015
“The Lord Our Righteous Savior” (Jeremiah 23:5–6; 33:14–16)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, December 20, 20155 "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. 6 In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The LORD Our Righteous Savior. (Jer. 23:5-6, NIV)14 "'The days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will fulfill the good promise I made to the people of Israel and Judah. 15 "'In those days and at that time I will make a righteous Branch sprout from David's line; he will do what is just and right in the land. 16 In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in safety. This is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteous Savior.' (Jer. 33:14-16, NIV)1. He is a Branch from the line of David.2. He will be called the LORD = the covenant name of God. 3. He will be called the Righteous One. 4. He will be called the Savior. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." (Matt. 1:21, NIV)Main Idea: Jesus, the child born in Bethlehem, is the long awaited Son of David, our Righteous Savior, and God in the flesh…. Let us Worship and Adore Him!
Wednesday Dec 16, 2015
"Fruitful Labor" (1 Thessalonians 2:17-3:6)
Wednesday Dec 16, 2015
Wednesday Dec 16, 2015
"Fruitful Labor" (1 Thessalonians 2:17-3:6)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchWednesday PM, December 16, 2015
1 Thessalonians 2:17–3:13 (NIV)
17 But, brothers and sisters, when we were orphaned by being separated from you for a short time (in person, not in thought), out of our intense longing we made every effort to see you. 18 For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, did, again and again—but Satan blocked our way. 19 For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you? 20 Indeed, you are our glory and joy.
3 So when we could stand it no longer, we thought it best to be left by ourselves in Athens. 2 We sent Timothy, who is our brother and co-worker in God’s service in spreading the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith, 3 so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. For you know quite well that we are destined for them. 4 In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know. 5 For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith. I was afraid that in some way the tempter had tempted you and that our labors might have been in vain.
6 But Timothy has just now come to us from you and has brought good news about your faith and love. He has told us that you always have pleasant memories of us and that you long to see us, just as we also long to see you. 7 Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and persecution we were encouraged about you because of your faith. 8 For now we really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord. 9 How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you? 10 Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith.
11 Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus clear the way for us to come to you. 12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. 13 May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
"The King's Highway" (Isaiah 35)
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
"The King's Highway" (Isaiah 35)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday PM, December 13, 2015
Isaiah 35:1–10 (NIV)
35 The desert and the parched land will be glad;
the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like the crocus, 2 it will burst into bloom;
it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon;
they will see the glory of the Lord,
the splendor of our God.
3 Strengthen the feeble hands,
steady the knees that give way;
4 say to those with fearful hearts,
“Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come,
he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution
he will come to save you.”
5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
6 Then will the lame leap like a deer,
and the mute tongue shout for joy.
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
and streams in the desert.
7 The burning sand will become a pool,
the thirsty ground bubbling springs.
In the haunts where jackals once lay,
grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.
8 And a highway will be there;
it will be called the Way of Holiness;
it will be for those who walk on that Way.
The unclean will not journey on it;
wicked fools will not go about on it.
9 No lion will be there,
nor any ravenous beast;
they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed will walk there,
10 and those the Lord has rescued will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away. From a desert to a garden (1-2, 6b-7).From fear to courage (3-4).From sickness to health (5-6a).From impurity to holiness (8-10a).From sorrow to joy (10b).Main Idea: The future hope of God’s people is an eternal place of sustenance, strength, wholeness, purity, and joy in the presence of God.
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
"Angels and Shepherds" (Luke 2:8-20)
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
"Angels and Shepherds" (Luke 2:8-20)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, December 13, 2015
Luke 2:8–20 (NIV)
8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”
16 So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17 When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18 and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. 19 But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. God’s grace is revealed to ordinary, lowly people (8-9).God’s grace dispels fear and brings joy (10).God’s grace is accomplished through historical events in time and space (11, 15-16).God’s grace comes in the most unexpected ways (12).God’s grace is announced with the highest fanfare (13-14).God’s grace glorifies himself and brings peace to us (14).God’s grace should be proclaimed by those who have received it (17-18, 20).
Wednesday Dec 09, 2015
"Sharing the Word and our Lives" (1 Thessalonians 2:7-16)
Wednesday Dec 09, 2015
Wednesday Dec 09, 2015
"Sharing the Word and our Lives (1 Thessalonians 2:7-16)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchWednesday PM, December 9, 2015
1 Thessalonians 2:1–16 (NIV)
2 You know, brothers and sisters, that our visit to you was not without results. 2 We had previously suffered and been treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, but with the help of our God we dared to tell you his gospel in the face of strong opposition. 3 For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you. 4 On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts. 5 You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed—God is our witness. 6 We were not looking for praise from people, not from you or anyone else, even though as apostles of Christ we could have asserted our authority. 7 Instead, we were like young children among you.
Just as a nursing mother cares for her children, 8 so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well. 9 Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you. 10 You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed. 11 For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, 12 encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
13 And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe. 14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews 15 who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone 16 in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.
Sunday Dec 06, 2015
"Impatient Faith" (Genesis 16:1-16)
Sunday Dec 06, 2015
Sunday Dec 06, 2015
"Impatient Faith" (Genesis 16:1-16)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday PM, December 6, 2015
Genesis 16 (NIV)
16 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; 2 so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”
Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. 4 He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.
When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. 5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”
6 “Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
7 The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. 8 And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”
“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
9 Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” 10 The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”
11 The angel of the Lord also said to her:
“You are now pregnant
and you will give birth to a son.
You shall name him Ishmael,
for the Lord has heard of your misery.
12 He will be a wild donkey of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward all his brothers.”
13 She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.” 14 That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
15 So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael. Main Idea:
When
we ignore God’s Word and impatiently take matters into our own hands, the
consequences are devastating.
Sunday Dec 06, 2015
"The Season of Joy"
Sunday Dec 06, 2015
Sunday Dec 06, 2015
"The Season of Joy"Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, December 6, 2015This is a Season of Joy...1. Because God has remembered and has had compassion on the desperate condition of his people.2. Because God has come to save his people.3. Because God has shown mercy to the humble and lowly.4. Because God has been faithful to all of his covenant promises.5. Because the day of our final salvation is drawing near.6. Because in Christ every season is a season of joy.
Wednesday Dec 02, 2015
"A Genuine Message Proclaimed with Genuine Motives" (1 Thessalonians 2:1-7a)
Wednesday Dec 02, 2015
Wednesday Dec 02, 2015
"A Genuine Message Proclaimed with Genuine Motives" (1 Thessalonians 2:1-7a)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchWednesday PM, December 2, 2015
1 Thessalonians 2:1–7 (NIV)
2 You know, brothers and sisters, that our visit to you was not without results. 2 We had previously suffered and been treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, but with the help of our God we dared to tell you his gospel in the face of strong opposition. 3 For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you. 4 On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts. 5 You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed—God is our witness. 6 We were not looking for praise from people, not from you or anyone else, even though as apostles of Christ we could have asserted our authority. 7 Instead, we were like young children among you.