2017-03
2017-03
Sunday Mar 26, 2017
“Hearing Is Not Enough” part 2 (Romans 2:12-16)
Sunday Mar 26, 2017
Sunday Mar 26, 2017
“Hearing Is Not Enough” (Romans 2:12–16), part 2
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, March 26, 2017
Romans 2:12–16 (NIV)
12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) 16 This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.
On the last day, everyone will be judged based on their actual deeds (Rom 2:6, 11, 12).
Merely possessing or hearing the Word of God will not be an advantage on the Day of Judgment (Rom 2:13).
What will matter on the Day of Judgment will be actual deeds of righteousness, which will serve as evidence and fruit of Spirit-wrought faith (Rom 2:13).
5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. (Romans 2:5, NIV)
22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. (Romans 6:22, NIV)
14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. (Heb. 12:14, NIV)
12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation-- but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. 14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. (Romans 8:12-14, NIV)
7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. (Gal. 6:7-9, NIV)
Wednesday Mar 22, 2017
Titus 1:5–9
Wednesday Mar 22, 2017
Wednesday Mar 22, 2017
Titus 1:5–9Titus 1:5–9 (NIV) 5 The reason I left you in Crete was that you might put in order what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you. 6 An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient. 7 Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. 8 Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. 9 He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it. 5 Because of this I left you behind in Crete: that you might set in order (or, set right, correct) the things left unfinished and that you might appoint elders in every town, as I directed you, 6 if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having faithful (or, believing) children, not being accused of wild living or rebellion. 7 For it is necessary for an overseer to be above reproach as God's steward, not stubborn-willed (or, arrogant), not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not a bully (or, argumentative), not greedy for money, 8 but hospitable, loving what is good, self-controlled (in control of one's thoughts, thoughtful, prudent, measured), upright (just), holy (devout, pious), disciplined (in control of one's impulses and desires), 9 holding firmly to the faithful word as it has been taught, so that he will be able both to encourage (edify, exhort) with sound doctrine and to refute those who oppose it.1. The proper order of God’s church (5). a. Setting in order what is unfinished b. Appointing elders in every town
2. The proper qualities of the leaders of God’s church (6–9). a. Blameless in his home life i. The husband of one wife ii. Having faithful (or, believing) children b. Blameless in his personal conduct i. 5 Negative Qualities: 1. Not stubborn-willed or arrogant 2. Not quick-tempered 3. Not addicted to wine 4. Not a bully or argumentative 5. Not greedy for money ii. 6 Positive Qualities: 1. Hospitable 2. Loving what is good 3. Self-controlled (in control of one’s thoughts) 4. Upright – Just in his relationships with people 5. Holy – Devout in his relationship with God 6. Disciplined (in control of one’s impulses and desires) c. Faithful in sound doctrine and able to teach it i. Holding firmly to the faithful word as it has been taught ii. Able to teach it: 1. Able to encourage the saints with sound doctrine 2. Able to refute/persuade the ‘opponents’
Sunday Mar 19, 2017
“In God’s Time and in God’s Way” (Exodus 2:11-15)
Sunday Mar 19, 2017
Sunday Mar 19, 2017
“In God’s Time and in God’s Way” (Exodus 2:11–15)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, March 19, 2017
Exodus 2:11–15 (NIV)
11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”
14 The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”
15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.
1. The unfolding of God’s plan often seems very slow to us (11).
20 "At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child. For three months he was cared for by his family. 21 When he was placed outside, Pharaoh's daughter took him and brought him up as her own son. 22 Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action. (Acts 7:20-22, NIV)
2 Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint; heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony. 3 My soul is in deep anguish. How long, LORD, how long? 4 Turn, LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love. (Psalm 6:2-4, NIV)
4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. (Gal. 4:4-5, NIV)
28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. (Isa. 40:28-31, NIV)
2. We must identify with our God and his covenant people, even if that means trading the pleasures of the world for the temporary sorrows of this life (11).
24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. 25 He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. (Heb. 11:24-26, NIV)
3. In our pursuit of God and his kingdom, let us not rashly rush ahead of God’s timing and pursue the right things in the wrong way (12–15).
25 Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not. (Acts 7:25, NIV)
Sunday Mar 19, 2017
“Hearing Is Not Enough” (Romans 2:12-16)
Sunday Mar 19, 2017
Sunday Mar 19, 2017
“Hearing Is Not Enough” (Romans 2:12–16)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, March 19, 2017
Romans 2:12–16 (NIV)
12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) 16 This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.
Everyone will face the just judgment of God, whether they had access to the Word of God or not (12).
The level of access that people had to the Law of God will be taken into account on the Day of Judgment (12).
a. Gentiles (or those who have not had God’s revelation) who sin will be judged by God on the last day, but it will be in accordance with the amount of light/revelation/truth that they had received=the knowledge of God in nature.
b. Jews (or those who had access to God’s divine revelation) who sin will be judged by God on the last day, and it will be in accordance with the amount of light/revelation/truth that they had received=the Law.
c. The severity of judgment will be determined in proportion to the light of revelation received.
47 "The servant who knows the master's will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. 48 But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. (Lk. 12:47-48, NIV)
There is not a path of salvation on the basis of good deeds for Gentiles who have never heard God’s Word.
20 Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. 21 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. 24 But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you." (Matt. 11:20-24, NIV)
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
“The Birth of the Deliverer” (Exodus 2:1-10)
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
“The Birth of the Deliverer” (Exodus 2:1–10)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, March 12, 2017
Exodus 2:1–10 (NIV)
1 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. 6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
8 “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”
God provides a deliverer for his people in bondage (2:1–2).
God protects and delivers the deliverer from death (2:3–4).
God providentially guides the deliverer to an unlikely caregiver (2:5–6).
God prepares the deliverer for his future mission in the palace of his people’s captors (7–10).
Main Idea: In God’s perfect providential timing, he accomplishes his redemptive purposes by raising up a deliverer for his people.
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
“The Impartial Justice of God" (Romans 2:6-11)
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
“The Impartial Justice of God” (Romans 2:6–11)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, March 12, 2017
Romans 2:6–11 (NIV)
6 God “will repay each person according to what they have done.” 7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. 8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. 9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 11 For God does not show favoritism.
The judgment of God is completely just and impartial (vv. 6, 11).
a. It is just because God’s judgment is rendered to each according to the same standard—each one’s deeds/works (v. 6).
b. It is impartial, because God’s judgment does not consider whether someone is Jew or Gentile or any other race or class of people (v. 11, also 9–10).
The just and impartial justice of God leaves every human being with two, and only two, potential destinies (vv. 7–10).
a. Those who reject the truth and do evil will receive eternal judgment and wrath (vv. 8–9).
b. Those who embrace the truth in repentance and persevere in good works will receive eternal life (vv. 7, 10).
Main Idea: There are no exceptions to the fairness of God, so I really must repent.
Wednesday Mar 08, 2017
"Greetings from Paul" (Titus 1:1-4)
Wednesday Mar 08, 2017
Wednesday Mar 08, 2017
Titus 1:1–4 (NIV)
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to further the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness—2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, 3 and which now at his appointed season he has brought to light through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior,
4 To Titus, my true son in our common faith:
Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
“Preservation through Persecution” (Exodus 1:8-22)
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
“Preservation through Persecution” (Exodus 1:8–22)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, March 5, 2017
Exodus 1:8–22 (NIV)
8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”
11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and worked them ruthlessly. 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.
15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, 16 “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.” 17 The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. 18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”
20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”
God’s people may face times when our kindness is repaid with ingratitude and jealous hostility (8–10).
God’s people may face times of intense trial and persecution (11, 13–14).
God’s people can be assured of his continued preservation through persecution (12).
God’s people must act wisely and courageously to honor God’s law, even when it defies man’s law (15–19).
God’s people who act faithfully and courageously will receive abundant blessing from the Lord (20–21).
God’s people may face the most intense suffering and persecution just before the Lord comes to their aid to deliver them (22, cf., 13–14).
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
“Hypocrites and Finger-Pointers” (Romans 2:1-5)
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
“Hypocrites and Finger-Pointers” (Romans 2:1–5)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, March 5, 2017
Romans 2:1–5 (NIV)
2 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. 2 Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3 So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment? 4 Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?
5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.
Wrongly judging others in hypocrisy (1).
Wrongly thinking we don’t deserve judgment, while others do (2–3).
Wrongly thinking we deserve God’s kindness, while others don’t (4).
Wrongly assuming our own righteousness, oblivious to our own hard hearts that will lead us to condemnation (5).
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
"Chapter 16: Hoping" and Epilogue
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
Wednesday Mar 01, 2017
Walking with God through Pain & Sufferingby Tim KellerChapter 16: HopingRevelation 21:1–4 (NIV) 1 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” ⦁ There is nothing more practical for sufferers than to have hope.⦁ At the end of the Bible, we have the ultimate hope promised to the people of God—a material world in which all suffering is gone— “every tear wiped from our eyes.”⦁ Revelation was written to people who were experiencing great suffering in the form of Roman persecution.⦁ What did John offer his readers in the midst of suffering and persecution?⦁ John gave them the ultimate hope—a new heavens and new earth that was coming.⦁ This future hope motivated the early believers to maintain their faith and even forgive their tormentors.⦁ The Christian faith grew and spread through persecution, because their hope was anchored to their future salvation.⦁ Human beings are hope-shaped creatures.⦁ The way you live now is controlled by what you believe about your future.⦁ If you believe in a judgment day and a new heavens/new earth, it will radically shape how you live in the present, including how you deal with suffering.⦁ Hope in our own efforts will fail us, but God’s future program—his eternal kingdom—will not fail us.⦁ Future hope must be anchored in faith to the literal promises of God, trusting that the future will unfold as God has said it will.⦁ If the early persecuted Christians could find hope in these future promises, then how much more should we, whose suffering is much less intense than theirs?⦁ Jesus endured the cross and its suffering so that we might have the hope of eternal life with God.Epilogue: 10 action steps1) We must recognize the varieties of suffering. a) Brought on by wrong behavior: bring guilt and shame b) Betrayals and attacks by others: bring anger and resentment c) Universal forms of loss that occur to all: bring grief and fear d) Large scale natural disasters e) Horrendous evil: bring confusion and/or anger at God2) We must recognize differences in temperament between ourselves and other sufferers.3) We need to make room for weeping and true lament. Be honest with God and yourself about your sorrow.4) We need to be trusting God’s wisdom and his love in the midst of our grief.5) We need to be praying, bringing our complaints, struggles, and requests.6) We must be disciplined in our thinking, meditating on God’s truth.7) We should be willing to do some self-examining.8) We must be reordering our loves. Suffering reveals that there are things we love too much, or we love God too little in proportion to them.9) We should not neglect community. Suffering is isolating. The church is a community of support and encouragement.10) Some forms of suffering—particularly those due to our own failures or the mistreatment of others—require skill at receiving grace and forgiveness from God, and giving grace and forgiveness to others.
Romans 8:18–25 (NIV)
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.