2017-04
2017-04
Sunday Apr 23, 2017
“See the Signs” (Exodus 4:1-9)
Sunday Apr 23, 2017
Sunday Apr 23, 2017
“See the Signs” (Exodus 4:1–9)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, April 23, 2017
Exodus 4:1–9 (NIV)
4 Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”
2 Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”
“A staff,” he replied.
3 The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.”
Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. 4 Then the Lord said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. 5 “This,” said the Lord, “is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”
6 Then the Lord said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous—it had become as white as snow.
7 “Now put it back into your cloak,” he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.
8 Then the Lord said, “If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second. 9 But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.”
1. The One True God Has Power over the Animal Kingdom (2–5).
2. The One True God Has Power over Human Life, both to Destroy and to Heal (6–7).
3. The One True God Has Power over the Forces of Nature (vv. 8–9).
4. The One True God Has Called His Servant and Invested Him with Power to Demonstrate that He is the Lord’s Representative (1, 5, 8).
Sunday Apr 23, 2017
“Practice What You Preach” (Romans 2:17-24)
Sunday Apr 23, 2017
Sunday Apr 23, 2017
“Practice What You Preach” (Romans 2:17–24)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, April 23, 2017
Romans 2:17–24 (NIV)
17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; 18 if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; 19 if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? 24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
1. God’s Covenant People have been blessed with incredible privileges (17–20).
2. With incredible privilege comes the requirement of faithful responsibility (21–24).
3. Boasting in privileges without accompanying faithful responsibility leads to condemnation (2:3–6, 8–9, 12–13, 16).
Sunday Apr 16, 2017
“The Firstborn from the Dead”
Sunday Apr 16, 2017
Sunday Apr 16, 2017
“The Firstborn from the Dead”
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Easter Sunday AM, April 16, 2017
22 But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen-- 23 that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles." (Acts 26:22–23, NIV)
20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. (1 Co. 15:20–23, NIV)
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 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. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. (Colossians 1:15–20, NIV)
4 Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, 6 and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father-- to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen. 7 "Look, he is coming with the clouds," and "every eye will see him, even those who pierced him"; and all peoples on earth "will mourn because of him." So shall it be! Amen. (Rev. 1:4–7, NIV)
What does it mean for Christ to be “the first to rise from the dead,” “the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep,” or the “firstborn from the dead”?
1. What It Does Not Mean
a. It does not mean that Jesus was a created being who had a beginning.
b. It does not mean that Jesus is the firstborn of a family in a strictly literal, physical sense.
c. It does not mean that Jesus will be the only one to rise from the dead. There have been and there will be many more who will rise from the dead.
d. It does not mean that Jesus was the first in history to have died and then be resurrected from death. There were others brought back to life from death before Jesus’ resurrection.
i. Elijah resurrected the son of the widow of Zarephath (1 Kings 17:17–24).
ii. Elisha resurrected the son of the Shunammite woman (2 Kings 4:18–37).
iii. A dead man comes back to life when he touches Elisha’s bones (2 Kings 13:20–21).
vi. Jesus resurrected the son of the widow at Nain (Luke 7:13–15).
v. Jesus raised Jairus’s daughter from the dead (Matthew 9:25).
vi. Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11:43–44).
vii. Many saints were resurrected at the death of Jesus (Matthew 27:52–53).
2. What It Does Mean
a. Though Jesus was not the first in history to rise from the dead, he is the first to rise from the dead in the manner that he did. When Jesus rose from the dead, he rose with a resurrected, glorified body that will never die again.
b. Jesus is the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep in that he is the first of many who will follow him in rising from death into a resurrected, glorified, immortal existence.
c. Jesus is the firstborn from the dead in that he is the one who receives the honor and preeminence in the family of God.
3. What Is the Significance?
a. We have a loving, suffering Savior who gave himself for us to rescue us from our bondage to sin and its penalty of death.
b. We have a glorious, risen Sovereign who has conquered death and reigns as King over the whole world.
c. We have a holy, righteous Judge who is coming again to judge the world—vindicating his people and condemning the wicked.
d. We have a joyful, future Hope when all of Christ’s people will be raised at the last day to enter and enjoy immortal, eternal life.
Sunday Apr 09, 2017
“I AM WHO I AM” (Exodus 3:7-22)
Sunday Apr 09, 2017
Sunday Apr 09, 2017
“I AM WHO I AM” (Exodus 3:7–22)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, April 9, 2017
Exodus 3:7–22 (NIV)
7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12 And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”
13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’
“This is my name forever,
the name you shall call me
from generation to generation.
16 “Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt. 17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
18 “The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God.’ 19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. 20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.
21 “And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed. 22 Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.”
1. The God Who Is Compassionate (v. 7).2. The God Who Rescues (v. 8).3. The God Who Sends (vv. 9–10).4. The God Who Is Patient and Gracious (v. 11).5. The God Who Is Present (v. 12).6. The God Who IS (vv. 13–14).7. The God Who Remembers (vv. 15–17).8. The God Who Is Victorious (vv. 18–20).9. The God Who Transforms (vv. 21–22).
Sunday Apr 09, 2017
“The Entrance of the King” (Matthew 21:1-16)
Sunday Apr 09, 2017
Sunday Apr 09, 2017
“The Entrance of the King” (Matthew 21:1–16)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017
Matthew 21:1–16 (NIV)
21 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away.”
4 This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:
5 “Say to Daughter Zion,
‘See, your king comes to you,
gentle and riding on a donkey,
and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
6 The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on. 8 A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted,
“Hosanna to the Son of David!”
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
10 When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”
11 The crowds answered, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”
12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.
“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,
“‘From the lips of children and infants
you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”
1. The Divine King (1–3)
2. The Promised King (4–5)
3. The Humble King (5–7)
4. The Honored King (8–11)
a. Hosanna to the Son of David!
b. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
c. Hosanna in the highest heaven!
5. The Righteous King (12–13)
6. The Rejected King (14–16)
7. The Suffering-Redeemer King
Wednesday Apr 05, 2017
Titus 1:10–16
Wednesday Apr 05, 2017
Wednesday Apr 05, 2017
Titus 1:10–16
Titus 1:10–16 (NIV)
10 For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group. 11 They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach-- and that for the sake of dishonest gain. 12 One of Crete's own prophets has said it: "Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons." 13 This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith 14 and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth. 15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. 16 They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.
Outline:
Faithful shepherds who know and love sound doctrine are needed (9):
Because false teachers are prevalent (10).
Because false teachers are smooth talkers who are actually rebellious, lazy, greedy, liars (10–12).
Because false teachers must be silenced and rebuked to prevent their destructive influence on Christian homes and churches (11).
Because some false teachers (or their followers) may be able to be reclaimed through rebuke and sound teaching (13–14).
Because God’s people must be protected from false teachers who are beyond reclaiming as evidenced by their corrupted minds and consciences (15–16).
Sunday Apr 02, 2017
“Called by Fire” (Exodus 3:1-10)
Sunday Apr 02, 2017
Sunday Apr 02, 2017
“Called by Fire” (Exodus 3:1–10)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, April 2, 2017
Exodus 3:1–10 (NIV)
3 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
And Moses said, “Here I am.”
5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
1. God brings Moses to his holy mountain (v. 1).
2. God appears to Moses in a holy fire (vv. 2–3).
3. God calls Moses on holy ground (vv. 4–6).
4. God reveals his holy compassion for his people (vv. 7–9).
5. God commissions Moses with a holy calling (v. 10).
Main Idea: God is a holy God, who summons his servants to fulfill a holy calling: rescuing those in bondage from their oppression to become God’s holy people for his glory.
Sunday Apr 02, 2017
“The Law of Creation and Conscience” (Romans 2:14-16)
Sunday Apr 02, 2017
Sunday Apr 02, 2017
“The Law of Creation and Conscience” (Romans 2:14–16)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday, April 2, 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 has an innate sense of right and wrong built into them by their Creator God (vv. 14–15; 1:18–20, 24–27).
a. This “natural moral law” is available in Creation and Conscience and is not dependent on having heard the Law of God or the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
b. This “natural moral law” exists, because people sometimes, inconsistently obey it.
c. This “natural moral law” has been attested by many cultures and civilizations throughout human history, giving evidence to its existence.
d. This “natural moral law” is attested to by the human conscience when it either excuses our behavior or condemns our behavior.
This innate sense of right and wrong will leave everyone without an excuse for their sin on the Day of Judgment (vv. 14–15, 12a; 1:20).
20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-- his eternal power and divine nature-- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. (Romans 1:20, NIV)
The occasional and inconsistent obedience of pagans to the natural moral law of God will serve as further condemnation on those who had access to God’s Word and did not obey it (vv. 12b–15).
46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? (Matt. 5:46-47, NIV)
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father's wife. (1 Co. 5:1, NIV)
21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? 24 As it is written: "God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you." (Romans 2:21-24, NIV)
Everyone will be perfectly and exhaustively judged by God through Jesus Christ on the last day (v. 16).
10 "I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve." (Jer. 17:10, NIV)
11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. (Heb. 4:11-13, NIV)
21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him. (John 5:21-23, NIV)
29 "Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone-- an image made by human design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead." (Acts 17:29-31, NIV)
5 Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God. (1 Co. 4:5, NIV)
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. (2 Co. 5:10, NIV)