2016-08
2016-08
Sunday Aug 28, 2016
“Loving the Truth”
Sunday Aug 28, 2016
Sunday Aug 28, 2016
“Loving the Truth” (2 John)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, August 28, 2016
2 John
1 The elder,
To the lady chosen by God and to her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I only, but also all who know the truth—2 because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever:
3 Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love.
4 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. 5 And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6 And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
7 I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. 9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. 11 Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work.
12 I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
13 The children of your sister, who is chosen by God, send their greetings.
1. Believers must love the truth (1–3).
a. We love the truth when we love its believers (1).
b. We love the truth when we defend its purity (1-2).
c. We love the truth when we remember its source (3).
2. Believers must live the truth (4–6).
a. Live the truth.
b. Live in love.
c. Live in obedience.
d. Living in truth, love, and obedience is not only our duty but is a demonstration that we are genuine children of God.
3. Believers must guard the truth (7–11).
a. In order to guard the truth, we must recognize error (7).
b. In order to guard the truth, we must not embrace error (8-9).
c. In order to guard the truth, we must combat error (10-11).
Main Idea: True believers love, live, and protect God’s truth.
Wednesday Aug 24, 2016
“Wise Child Training” Chapter 11
Wednesday Aug 24, 2016
Wednesday Aug 24, 2016
Opening Up Proverbs
A study by Jim Newheiser
“Wise Child Training” Chapter 11
Discipline Your Children
Why is discipline necessary?God has given the rod of discipline as a tool to remove folly from your child’s heart.Discipline is a test of your love for your child and your trust in God.How to carry out biblical disciplineDon’t misuse discipline.Apply both the rod and reproof.
Impart Wisdom to Your Children
Teach them.Education takes place in the home.The goal of parental instruction is to shape character.Formal and informal instruction
Children Should Honor Their Parents
Embrace discipline and instruction.Honor your parents in their old age.Bring joy to your parents.Honor your parents or else…
Why Are Some Children Wayward?
Does wise parenting guarantee wise kids?Why do kids turn out the way they do?
Conclusion:
Train your children in wisdom.
Sunday Aug 21, 2016
“Jacob Returns to the House of God”
Sunday Aug 21, 2016
Sunday Aug 21, 2016
“Jacob Returns to the House of God” (Genesis 35:1–29)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, August 21, 2016
Genesis 35:1–29 (NIV)
35 Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”
2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. 3 Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.” 4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. 5 Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them.
6 Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan. 7 There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth.
9 After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him. 10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel.
11 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants. 12 The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.” 13 Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.
14 Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. 15 Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel.
16 Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty. 17 And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, “Don’t despair, for you have another son.” 18 As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.
19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20 Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel’s tomb.
21 Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder. 22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it.
Jacob had twelve sons:
23 The sons of Leah:
Reuben the firstborn of Jacob,
Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.
24 The sons of Rachel:
Joseph and Benjamin.
25 The sons of Rachel’s servant Bilhah:
Dan and Naphtali.
26 The sons of Leah’s servant Zilpah:
Gad and Asher.
These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
27 Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. 28 Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years. 29 Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
1. Worshiping the one and only holy God (1–7).
a. Worship requires obedience (1, 6–7).
b. Worship demands allegiance and purity (2–5).
2. Honoring those deserving of honor (8).
3. Reaffirming God’s gracious promises (9–15).
4. Blessing in the midst of tragedy (16–20).
5. A house full of sinful sons (21–26).
6. Back home at peace (27–29).
Main Idea: Even though we experience trouble and hardship in this life, those who worship God exclusively and in purity may anticipate enjoying the blessings of God and the peace and rest that God brings to his people.
Sunday Aug 21, 2016
“Reality, not the Illusion”
Sunday Aug 21, 2016
Sunday Aug 21, 2016
“Reality, not the Illusion” (1 John 5:13–21)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, August 21, 2016
1 John 5:13–21 (NIV)
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
16 If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about that. 17 All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
18 We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them. 19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20 We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
21 Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.
1. Real Faith (13)
2. Confident Prayer (14–15)
3. Compassionate Intercession (16–17)
4. Divine Protection (18–20)
5. Loving Exhortation (21)
Main Idea: May we have a true faith, not an illusion of faith. And may we worship the true and living God, not a fake imitation.
Wednesday Aug 17, 2016
“Wise Words” Chapter 10
Wednesday Aug 17, 2016
Wednesday Aug 17, 2016
Opening Up Proverbs
A study by Jim Newheiser
“Wise Words” Chapter 10
Wise Words
Words are powerful.Words are limited.Words reveal what is in your heart.Don’t use your speech to destroy.Learn to speak with wisdom.
Destructive Speech
FlatteryLiesGossip and SlanderAngry speechQuarrelsome speechPerverse speechProud speechExcessive speechGod judges foolish speech.
Wise Speech
Exercise self-control.Speak with integrity.Build others up with your words.Develop excellence in your manner of speechGod values and rewards wise speech.
Conclusion
How can you change your speech?Christ speaks to you.
Sunday Aug 14, 2016
“Extreme Vengeance”
Sunday Aug 14, 2016
Sunday Aug 14, 2016
“Extreme Vengeance” (Genesis 34:1–31)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, August 14, 2016
Genesis 34:1–31 (NIV)
34 Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land. 2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her. 3 His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.4 And Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as my wife.”
5 When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he did nothing about it until they came home.
6 Then Shechem’s father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob. 7 Meanwhile,Jacob’s sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious, because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in Israel by sleeping with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.
8 But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem has his heart set on your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife. 9 Intermarry with us; give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves. 10 You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade in it, and acquire property in it.”
11 Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask. 12 Make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I’ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the young woman as my wife.”
13 Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob’s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor. 14 They said to them, “We can’t do such a thing;we can’t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us. 15 We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males. 16 The we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We’ll settle among you and become one people with you. 17 But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we’ll take our sister and go.”
18 Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. 19 The young man, who was the most honored of all his father’s family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. 20 So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to the men of their city. 21 “These men are friendly toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and trade init; the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours. 22 But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are. 23 Won’t their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us agree to their terms, and they will settle among us.”
24 All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.
25 Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male. 26 They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left. 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where their sister had been defiled. 28 They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields. 29 They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.
30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
31 But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
11. 1. Incomplete obedience and compromise with the world leads to troublesome consequences down the road.
2. 2. Self-interested sexual desire is not self-sacrificial love.
3. 3. Favoritism and unchecked narcissism lead to foolish and disastrous actions.
4. 4. Passivity in leadership creates a vacuum that is often filled by those not qualified to lead (5, 30–31).
5. 5. “Justice”accomplished through deception and violent vengeance is not righteous justice.
6. 6. Jacob’s sons profaned the sign of God’s holy covenant (circumcision) and used it as a ploy in their plot for revenge.
7. 7. The depth of human selfishness and deception is deep and dark.
8. 8. In the providence of God, God’s purposes and plans are always fulfilled, even if through the ungodly motives and actions of people.
Sunday Aug 14, 2016
“Genuine Testimony”
Sunday Aug 14, 2016
Sunday Aug 14, 2016
“Genuine Testimony” (1 John 5:1–12)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, August 14, 2016
1 John 5:1-12
1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6 This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 9 We accept human testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
1. The Genuineness of our Testimony of Spiritual Birth (1–5).
a. The one born of God believes that Jesus is the Messiah (1, 5).
b. The one born of God loves God (1, 2, 3).
c. The one born of God loves God’s children (1, 2).
d. The one born of God keeps God’s commands (2–3).
e. The one born of God overcomes the world through faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God (5).
2. The Genuineness of Christ’s Testimony as the Son of God (6–12).
a. The Three-fold Witness to the Genuineness of Christ’s Testimony (6–8):
i. The water
ii. The blood
iii. The Spirit
b. The Witness of God the Father to the Genuineness of Christ’s Testimony (9–12).
Wednesday Aug 10, 2016
“Financial Wisdom” Chapter 9
Wednesday Aug 10, 2016
Wednesday Aug 10, 2016
Opening Up Proverbs
A study by Jim Newheiser
“Financial Wisdom” Chapter 9
Financial Wisdom
Ø The theology of money
Ø Are the wise always wealthy?
A Balanced View of Money
Ø Money can be good.
Ø Money is dangerous.
Ø Godly wisdom is more important than wealth.
Ø Learn the secret of contentment.
Acquiring Money
Ø Work hard.
Ø Don’t compromise your integrity to gain wealth.
Ø Should Christians gamble and play the lottery?
Spending Money
Ø Give generously.
Ø Control your expenditures.
Ø Stay out of debt.
Ø Is it ever legitimate to borrow money?
Ø Don’t make yourself liable for the debt ofothers by co-signing.
Saving Money
Ø Anticipate future expenses.
Ø Accumulate wealth and invest wisely.
Ø Is it wrong to receive interest from others?
Ø Save so you can leave an inheritance to yourchildren.
Conclusion
Ø Make it your goal to be wise, not rich.
Ø You can’t take it with you.
Ø Remember Christ, who paid your debt.
Further Reading
Ø The Total Money Makeover: Classic Editionby Dave Ramsey
Ø Money, Possessions, and Eternity by RandyAlcorn
Ø Christians in an Age of Wealth: A BiblicalTheology of Stewardship by Craig Blomberg
Ø Rethinking Retirement by John Piper
Ø Radical by David Platt
Sunday Aug 07, 2016
“Jacob and Esau at Peace”
Sunday Aug 07, 2016
Sunday Aug 07, 2016
“Jacob and Esau at Peace” (Genesis 33:1–20)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, August 7, 2016
Genesis 33:1–20 (NIV)
33 Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants. 2 He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear. 3 He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
4 But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept. 5 Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked.
Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
6 Then the female servants and their children approached and bowed down. 7 Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.
8 Esau asked, “What’s the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?”
“To find favor in your eyes, my lord,” he said.
9 But Esau said, “I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”
10 “No, please!” said Jacob. “If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have received me favorably. 11 Please accept the present that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.” And because Jacob insisted, Esau accepted it.
12 Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way; I’ll accompany you.”
13 But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die. 14 So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”
15 Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my men with you.”
“But why do that?” Jacob asked. “Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.”
16 So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir. 17 Jacob, however, went to Sukkoth, where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is called Sukkoth.
18 After Jacob came from Paddan Aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in Canaan and camped within sight of the city. 19 For a hundred pieces of silver, he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent. 20 There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.
Main Idea: In spite of our fears and failures, God is faithful to his promises, answers prayer, and rescues his people in time of need.
Sunday Aug 07, 2016
“We Love Because God Loves”
Sunday Aug 07, 2016
Sunday Aug 07, 2016
“We Love Because God Loves” (1 John 4:7–21)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, August 7, 2016
1 John 4:7–21 (NIV)
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
1. True Believers Love God and People (6–10).
2. There is an inseparable connection between God’s love for us and our love for other people (11–12).
3. There is an inseparable connection between faith in Jesus Christ and love for other people (13–16).
4. There is an inseparable connection between our love for other people and our confidence that we belong to God (17–18).
5. There is no connection whatsoever between love for God and hatred of other people (19–21).
Main Idea: “If God loves us then we will love others, because God’s love for us is transformational and effective, resulting in our love for God and for other people.”
Wednesday Aug 03, 2016
“Wisdom at Work” Chapter 8
Wednesday Aug 03, 2016
Wednesday Aug 03, 2016
Opening Up Proverbs
A study by Jim Newheiser
“Wisdom at Work” Chapter 8
The Theology of Work
Ø God works
Ø His image-bearers work
Ø The fall corrupted work and labor
Ø Christ is reversing the effects of the fall
Ø Work is meaningful and significant before God.
Don’t Be a Sluggard
Ø Characteristics of a sluggard:
o The sluggard is lazy
o The sluggard delights in sleep and recreation
o The sluggard lacks initiative
o The sluggard procrastinates
o The sluggard is self-deceived
o The sluggard is looking for easy money
o The sluggard is a destructive force
Ø God has ordained severe consequences forsluggard behavior
Ø Don’t provide material aid to sluggards
Be Diligent
Ø Characteristics of the wise worker:
o He works hard
o Takes initiative and works well withoutsupervision
o Prepares for the future
o Patiently pursues success
o A good steward of his resources
o Performs duties with excellence and artistry
Ø God rewards the diligent
o Will enjoy financial success
o Enjoy success and fulfillment in his vocation
o Enjoy the fruit of labor
o Will be rewarded at the final judgment
Ø Proverbs does not promote communism
Ø Warnings to the diligent:
o Work is only good when exercised under God’slordship.
o Don’t make an idol out of work.
Exhortations to Various Classes of People
Ø Young people should establish habits of diligencefrom an early age.
Ø Homemakers should remain faithful in their work.
Ø Older people should continue working.
Ø Don’t be a spiritual sluggard.
Conclusion
Ø God has given you work to do for his glory.
Ø God gives you rest.
Ø Further reading on work/vocation
o Work Matters by Tom Nelson
o Every Good Endeavor by Tim Keller
o The Gospel at Work by Traeger and Gilbert
o Business for the Glory of God by WayneGrudem
Sunday Jul 31, 2016
“Acknowledging Christ”
Sunday Jul 31, 2016
Sunday Jul 31, 2016
“Acknowledging Christ” (1 John 4:1–6)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, July 31, 2016
1 John 4:1–6 (NIV)
4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
4 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. 5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
1. God’s people must exercise discernment (1).
2. God’s people agree with the Holy Spirit’s witness regarding Jesus’ person (2–3).
3. God’s people will experience the victory of God, even though they face the world’s opposition (4–5).
4. God’s people agree with the true apostolic witness regarding Christ (6).
Main Idea: Those who belong to God and truly have God’s Spirit within them will acknowledge the truth about Jesus Christ, that He is God and Man and our Savior and Lord.