2016-04
2016-04
Sunday Apr 24, 2016
"Esau Trades His Birthright" (Genesis 25:27-34)
Sunday Apr 24, 2016
Sunday Apr 24, 2016
"Esau Trades His Birthright" (Genesis 25:27-34)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, April 24, 2016
Genesis 25:27–34 (NIV)
27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. 28 Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. 30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.)
31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
33 But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left.
So Esau despised his birthright.
Sunday Apr 24, 2016
"Fellowship with God through Confession" (1 John 1:8-10)
Sunday Apr 24, 2016
Sunday Apr 24, 2016
"Fellowship with God through Confession" (1 John 1:8-10)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, April 24, 2016
1 John 1:8–10 (NIV)
8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.
1. Christians do not deny the presence of sin in their lives (vv. 8, 10).
2. Christians do not deny the presence of sin in their lives; instead they openly and continually confess their sins to God (v. 9).
Big Idea: Christians do not deny the presence of sin in their lives; instead, they honestly and continually confess their sins and receive the forgiveness that has been offered to us by God through Jesus Christ.
Christians do not cover-up; they confess.
Wednesday Apr 20, 2016
"The God Who Loves"
Wednesday Apr 20, 2016
Wednesday Apr 20, 2016
The God Who Is There
Written by D. A. Carson
“The God Who Loves” – Chapter Nine
Confused about God’s Love
If someone believes in God today, the one attribute they are likely to ascribe to God is love.However, the world’s definition of love—a love that is non-discriminating, non-judgmental is not the Bible’s picture of the love of God at all.God is also holy, righteous, true, and just.Any definition of God’s love that is true to the Bible must see that his love operates in full harmony with all of the other attributes of his being, without taking away from any of them.
Speaking of God’s Love
The Intra-Trinitarian love of GodGod’s general care and grace for all of creationGod’s moral, inviting, yearning love calling people to turn from sin and destruction.God’s love is sometimes described as selective.Once in relationship with his covenant people—the love of God may be spoken of in a conditional sense:“Keep yourselves in God’s love”Connected with obedienceA relational love (including discipline)
John 3:16-21
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. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 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. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 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.
God’s Love in John 3:16
In the Bible it is simply astonishing that God loves us.The measure of God’s love for us is Jesus.The purpose of God’s love for us is that we might have life.The means by which we come to enjoy this love and life is faith.
Sunday Apr 17, 2016
"The Lord Chooses Jacob" (Genesis 25:19-26)
Sunday Apr 17, 2016
Sunday Apr 17, 2016
"The Lord Chooses Jacob" (Genesis 25:19-26)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, April 17, 2016
Genesis 25:19–26 (NIV)
19 This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac.
Abraham became the father of Isaac, 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
21 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 22 The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.
23 The Lord said to her,
“Two nations are in your womb,
and two peoples from within you will be separated;
one people will be stronger than the other,
and the older will serve the younger.”
24 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. 25 The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau. 26 After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.
1. God provides for the continuation of his promises by supernatural grace (19-21).
2. God chooses the recipient of the promises by sovereign grace (22-23).
3. God's people must respond in faith to the outworking of God's sovereign plans (24-26).
Main Idea: Those who owe their existence to sovereign creation and divine election must be able to respond in faith and acknowledge the hand of God in the circumstances of life.
Sunday Apr 17, 2016
"Fellowship with God, Who Is Light" (1 John 1:5-7)
Sunday Apr 17, 2016
Sunday Apr 17, 2016
"Fellowship with God, Who Is Light" (1 John 1:5-7)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, April 17, 2016
1 John 1:5–7 (NIV)
5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
God is pure, uncorrupted Light (v. 5).We are deceiving ourselves and others if we claim to be in fellowship with God all the while we are walking in darkness (v. 6).Walking in the light with God provides assurance that we are in fellowship with Him, with other believers, and that our sins have been forgiven (v. 7).Main Idea: We have no basis for claiming that we are in fellowship with God or that our sins have been forgiven if we are not walking in the light.
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016
"The God Who Grants New Birth"
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016
The God Who Is There
Written by D. A. Carson
“The God Who Grants New Birth” – Chapter Eight
Our Ultimate Need
We are in rebellion against God.Instead of wiping out the whole race, God has mercifully chosen to save a remnant by grace.We deserve death, but God provided atonement-provisionally in animal sacrifices, but finally in Christ Jesus our Redeemer.We have rebelled, and God’s wrath is against us-we need to be reconciled to God.We need to be morally transformed, or we will just go on sinning.We need all of the effects of sin to be overcome and reversed.
The New Birth
The new birth is not a name change, a human decision, or a religious experience.The new birth is a powerful regeneration, by God himself, in the human life, such that those who are born again are necessarily transformed.
What Did Jesus Say?
“No one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”“No one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.”“I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean” (Ezek 36:25)“I will put my Spirit in you” (v. 27)The new birth is bound up with the dawning of a new covenant that would be characterized by moral transformation and by the power and life of God to transform and renew.“Spirit gives birth to spirit.”“The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”We may not be able to explain exactly how the new birth comes about, but we can see its effects.Where there is genuine new birth, you always see the results.Where the new birth has genuinely come from God, you will see transformation-a changed life.Not perfection, but the beginning of life from God that shapes our existence in a new direction.Christianity is not about ritualism, religious practice, or self-directed morality.The new birth signals more than a profession of faith; it signals transforming power. The new birth transforms, because it is God’s work not ours.
Jesus’ Authority to Speak
“We speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen...No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.”Jesus can speak of the new birth, because it originates in heaven—where he is from.
How Jesus Brings New Birth
We provide the sin, death and destruction; God provides forgiveness and life.We receive life not by ritual or effort, but by looking to God’s salvation in faith.On his cross Jesus provided the means by which we have new birth.In John 3, eternal life is the product of new birth.If you have new birth, you have life, and this life is eternal.New birth causes us to see—looking to the crucified and risen Christ for eternal life.By his death we have life.
Sunday Apr 10, 2016
"Abraham's Final Days" (Genesis 25:1-18)
Sunday Apr 10, 2016
Sunday Apr 10, 2016
"Abraham's Final Days" (Genesis 25:1-18)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, April 10, 2016
Genesis 25:1–18 (NIV) 25 Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah. 2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. 3 Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan; the descendants of Dedan were the Ashurites, the Letushites and the Leummites. 4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanok, Abida and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.
5 Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac. 6 But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
7 Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years. 8 Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people. 9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, 10 the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah. 11 After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.
12 This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Sarah’s slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.
13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. 16 These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps. 17 Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people. 18 His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward all the tribes related to them.
Sunday Apr 10, 2016
"Fellowship with God Incarnate" (1 John 1:1-4)
Sunday Apr 10, 2016
Sunday Apr 10, 2016
"Fellowship with God Incarnate" (1 John 1:1-4)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, April 10, 2016
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched-- this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 We write this to make our joy complete. (1 John 1:1-4, NIV)
Wednesday Apr 06, 2016
"The God Who Becomes a Human Being"
Wednesday Apr 06, 2016
Wednesday Apr 06, 2016
The God Who Is There
Written by D. A. Carson
“The God Who Becomes a Human Being”: Chapter Seven
A God Who Is Coming
The prophets speak of a time when God would come to his people.The mystery is that sometimes this coming of God is also linked with the coming of a man, a Davidic kingThe little child is also the Mighty God, Everlasting Father (Is 9:6).
New Testament
Matthew and Luke: a child born of a virgin who is the “Son of God” come to “save his people from their sins.”Jesus is God’s solution to the sin problem begun in Genesis 3.
John 1:1-18
John’s gospel does not begin with the story of Jesus’ birth but by thinking about what the coming of Jesus means.Jesus is the eternal Word, the eternal God who became human and came to us.
John 1:1
OT understanding of “Word” God’s self-expressionGod’s revelationThe agent of God in creation The agent of God that comes to save and transform God’s people.“was with God” – God’s peer“was God” – God himself
The Three-in-One God
John’s Gospel helps us to understand the complexity of the eternal Triune God.Jesus is to be differentiated from God and yet at the same time is God.God (Father, Son, and Spirit) sharing eternal love before time.
John 1:2-13
The Word creates us: The agent of God in creationThe Word gives us light and life: The same light that brought life to creation brings eternal life to this world of corruption and death.The Word confronts and divides.Belief in Jesus by being born of God
John 1:14-18
The Word became a human being. Allusions to Exodus 32-34Tabernacle/TempleGloryGrace & Truth (Love & Faithfulness)Grace & LawSeeing God
Sunday Apr 03, 2016
"Preparing for the Future" (Genesis 24:1-67)
Sunday Apr 03, 2016
Sunday Apr 03, 2016
"Preparing for the Future" (Genesis 24:1-67)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, April 3, 2016
Preparing for the Future in Faith (1-9)Trusting in God's Guidance and Providence (10-27)Obediently Fulfilling Covenant Obligations (28-60)Blessed by the Faithful Covenant Lord (61-67)Main Idea: God will faithfully and providentially accomplish his covenant purposes, and he often is pleased to use the faithful and obedient actions of his followers to accomplish those purposes.
Sunday Apr 03, 2016
"A Letter for the Assurance of Faith" (1 John)
Sunday Apr 03, 2016
Sunday Apr 03, 2016
"A Letter for the Assurance of Faith" (1 John)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, April 3, 2016
1. How can I know that I am a Christian and that I am assured of eternal life with God?
a. The promises of God
b. The internal ministry/witness of the Holy Spirit
c. The fruit of the Spirit
2. The letter of 1 John is written primarily to give us a basis for our Christian assurance.
1 John 5:13 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.
3 Tests of Assurance in 1 John
a. The test of belief
b. The test of love
c. The test of obedience
Main Idea: My prayer is that this letter will draw us all into a real, living, and assured faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. This faith can be assured when we witness the presence of belief, love, and obedience in our lives by the grace of God.