2017-10
2017-10
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
"The Exodus" (Exodus 12:29-42)
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
"The Exodus" (Exodus 12:29-42)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday PM, October 22, 2017
Exodus 12:29–42 (NIV)
29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. 30 Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
31 During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested. 32 Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.”
33 The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. “For otherwise,” they said, “we will all die!” 34 So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing. 35 The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. 36 The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. 38 Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds. 39 With the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.
40 Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years. 41 At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions left Egypt. 42 Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for the generations to come.
1. God reveals his power and demonstrates his justice (vv. 29-30).
2. God is faithful to his promises (vv. 31-36).
3. God delivers his people (vv. 37-42).
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
“Dead to Sin, but Alive to God” (Romans 6:1–14)
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
Sunday Oct 22, 2017
“Dead to Sin, but Alive to God” (Romans 6:6–14)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, October 22, 2017
Romans 6:1–14 (NIV)
6 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
1. Can we keep sinning because God’s grace is so bounteous? No! (vv. 1–2)
2. Why can’t we keep sinning in light of God’s abundant grace? (vv. 3–11)
a. As believers, we have been united with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection (vv. 3–5).
i. God’s action: We died with Christ and will be raised like Him (vv. 4a, 5).ii. God’s intention: That we should live a new life (v. 4b).
b. In union with Christ, we have died to sin and have been made alive to God (vv. 6–11).
i. God’s action: Our old self was crucified with Christ (v. 6).ii. God’s intention: That we should not serve sin (vv. 6–7).iii. God’s action: We know that we will live with Christ (vv. 8–10).iv. God’s intention: So see yourselves in Christ Jesus as dead to sin but alive to God (v. 11)
3. God’s abundant grace does not give us permission to use our bodies however we like; rather, it teaches us to use our bodies to serve God and his righteousness (vv. 12–14).
a. Do not let sin reign (vv. 12–13a).b. Offer yourselves to God (vv. 13b–14).
Wednesday Oct 18, 2017
"A Praying Life" (chapters 22-23)
Wednesday Oct 18, 2017
Wednesday Oct 18, 2017
A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting WorldBy Paul E. Miller
“Hebrew Laments”: Relearning Desert Praying - Chapter 22
Understanding Laments
An ancient, long-forgotten way of praying.
A very biblical way of praying.
Laments are prayers for the desert: the times when we are living in the gap between reality and hope.
A lament connects God’s promises with our problem and gives voice to the seeming discrepancy between what God has said and what is actually happening in our lives.
The emptiness of the desert drives the power of a lament.
A lament doesn’t flee the desert (in denial); it fights the desert through prayer and faith.
The bleakness of the desert emboldens lament.
Laments might seem disrespectful in the way we voice our complaint to God, but in fact they are filled with faith—a raw, pure form of faith that simply takes God at his word.
There is no such thing as a lament free life.
If you are not lamenting, then you are not loving well. You haven’t allowed your heart to be broken by anything.
If you don’t lament over the broken things in your world, then your heart shuts down into cynicism.
Cynicism leads you away from God; lament pushes you into God’s presence.
Not lamenting leads to unbelief. You succumb to reality and lose hope.
One of the sure signs that we have wandered from God is if we stop lamenting.
We think laments are disrespectful; God says the opposite. Lamenting shows you are engaged with God in a vibrant, living faith.We live in a deeply broken world. If you aren’t lamenting to God, then you are slowly becoming cynical.
Nuclear Praying
We are confused by lament sometimes because we associate it only with grieving.
So we think of lament prayers in the same category as funeral dirges—a form of grieving with no expectation that anything will change.
By far, most laments are not prayers of surrender, grieving what cannot be changed, but a call to arms.
Lament prayers are the spiritual warfare equivalent of “going nuclear.”
You have no other option, so you reach for your most powerful weapon—your ability to cry out to the living God for help.
Lament draws us deeper into a praying life, because we pour out our hearts fully and authentically to God.
God often answers our laments in ways we don’t expect.
“Understanding How Laments Work” - Chapter 23
Why do laments feel so strange?
Laments were not strange to the ancient Israelites. The scriptures are filled with them. In fact, they even sang them.
The influence of Greek stoicism has subtly crept into our thinking. Stoicism resigned itself to the chaos of the world and didn’t have any hope for it getting better.
The Jewish and biblical worldview sees the world as broken but with the hope of transformation by God.
The Israelites lamented because they longed for a better world, the way the world was supposed to be.
They believed in a covenant keeping God, one who keeps his word.
That’s what makes laments so direct and “in your face.”
A lament connects God’s past promise with my present chaos, hoping for a better future.
A Template for Laments
Isaiah 63-64 as a pattern:Many laments begin with an emotional dump.
Laments believe in a big, sovereign God. Isaiah believed so strongly in God’s sovereignty, he blames God.
After the initial passionate overflow, Isaiah connects the reality of Israel’s desolate state with the hope of God’s power. He believes in a God who is near, acting in time & space.
Isaiah remembers God’s previous acts of power: you’ve done this before, do it again!
Laments are full of faith affirming the greatness of God: “no eye has seen a God besides you…”
Laments drive us to patiently endure and wait on God.
Laments point us to repentance. God is not the problem, we are.
Isaiah submits, pleading with God to act on their behalf.
Isaiah begins the lament naked before God, pouring out his heart.
Then he reinterprets those feelings in the reality of God.
In a kind of spiritual pilgrimage, he begins feisty, in God’s face, then he slowly reveals his faith and his heart.
Isaiah’s faith drives the lament.God is sovereign and can do something.
God is love and wants to do something.
God is a covenant-keeping God and is bound by his own word.
Isaiah doesn’t stop asking because he doesn’t stop believing.
Like Jacob, he wrestles with God. He doesn’t accept the status quo.
Thinking a Lament
Laments are passionate, but they are also well-reasoned arguments.
Isaiah begins by making a case that God is all-powerful.
He argues with God based on his past dealings with Israel.
Isaiah then moves to confession, knowing that God is bound to act when his people repent and confess.
He argues based on the honor of God’s name connected to Jerusalem.
Are Laments Disrespectful?
That’s the wrong question. The question is, “What is on your heart?”
What is driving the lament?
What is so striking about biblical laments, is that God almost never critiques them. He delights in hearing our messy hearts.
At the end of the book of Job, God honors feisty Job with his demanding laments and rebukes the three friends who have been critiquing Job.
Cautions with Counterfeit Laments
Be careful that laments don’t slip into complaining.
What’s the difference?A lament is directed toward God; complaints are often directed toward others.
A lament is faith; a complaint is rebellion.
A lament submits.
A lament always circles back to faith.
What does it feel like to pray a lament?
Often it is our anxieties that fuel lament.
We take our cares to a God who hears and acts.
Take hold of God and pull.
Pray the psalms back to God.
As we finish lamenting, we are quiet. There is nothing more to say or do—so we wait.
Sunday Oct 15, 2017
“The First Passover” (Exodus 12:1–28)
Sunday Oct 15, 2017
Sunday Oct 15, 2017
“The First Passover” (Exodus 12:1–28)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday PM, October 15, 2017
Exodus 12:1–28 (NIV)
12 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. 4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 9 Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.
12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance. 15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.
17 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. 18 In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. 19 For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel. 20 Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”
21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. 22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. 23 When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
24 “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants. 25 When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. 26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ 27 then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’ ” Then the people bowed down and worshiped. 28 The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.
"Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29, NIV)
1. God liberates his people and gives them a new beginning (1–2).
2. God redeems his people by means of sacrifice (3–11).
a. The sacrifice is chosen (3).b. The sacrifice is representative (3–4).c. The sacrifice is blameless (5).d. The sacrifice is prepared (3, 6) [10th day selected/14th day slain].
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. (Galatians 4:4-5, NIV)
e. The sacrifice is slain (6).
11 For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life. (Leviticus 17:11, NIV)
f. The sacrifice is expiatory (7, 21–22). g. The sacrifice is redemptive (8–11) [leads to deliverance].h. The sacrifice is propitiatory (12–13, 23).
3. God delights in being remembered and celebrated by his people (14–20, 24–28).
6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch-- as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Corinthians 5:6-8, NIV)
Main Idea: God’s redemption of his people is to be remembered and celebrated from generation to generation.
Sunday Oct 15, 2017
“Dead but Alive” (Romans 6:1–14), Part 2
Sunday Oct 15, 2017
Sunday Oct 15, 2017
“Dead but Alive” (Romans 6:1–14), Part 2Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, October 15, 2017
Romans 6:1–14 (NIV)
6 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
1. The true preaching of justification by grace through faith alone often results in misunderstanding by those who would seek to abuse it for licentiousness (1).
2. But the grace of God does not give us a license to sin (2).
3. No, the grace of God has delivered us from the reign of sin and death and has brought us into the reign of righteousness and life (2b-5).
a. Our break with the old life of sin, judgment, and death is so complete that it can be described of as a death (2b–4).
i. What does “dead to sin” in Romans 6 mean? [See Tim Keller, Romans 1–7 for You.]
1. It does not mean (either wrong or insufficient or not appropriate to the context of Romans 6):
a. That we no longer want to sin or that sin no longer has any power or influence over us.b. That we no longer ought to sin; sin is now inappropriate for the Christian.c. That we are moving slowly away from sin; sin is weakening in us.d. That we have renounced sin; at some moment we disavowed sinful behavior.e. That we are no longer guilty of sin; our sins cannot condemn us for they are pardoned in Christ.
2. What “dead to sin” does mean in Romans 6:
a. We are no longer under the “reign”—the ruling power—of sin. Sin still has power, but it can no longer force its dictates on you.
b. And, our entrance into the new life of grace, righteousness, and life is so complete that it can be described of as a resurrection (4b–5).
Main Idea: Our union with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection means that sin no longer has power over the believer and is no longer welcome in the life of the believer.
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017
"A Praying Life" (chapter 21)
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017
A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting WorldBy Paul E. Miller
“Unanswered Prayer: Understanding the Patterns of the Story” - Chapter 21
Disappointment
Having specific prayers that are not answered in the way that we desire or expect is a challenge to our faith.
Prayer makes us more dependent and more vulnerable to disappointment.
The problem, however, is not with God but with our own expectations and the gap between those expectations and the story that God is weaving.
In the Desert
Living in the gap between expectation and reality can be like living in a spiritual desert.
Every part of our being wants to close the gap between hope and reality.
Trying to close the gap and escape the desert leads to either denial, determination, or despair.
Denial
Denial is the approach we take when we are filled with hope but we are in self-denial about the reality of the situation.
So, we close the gap between hope and reality by envisioning unreality.
We fail to come to grips with the true nature of the situation. We think it is not happening or it must be some mistake. But living in unreality doesn’t lead to spiritual maturity.
Determination
Some try to close the gap between hope and reality with sheer determination of will.You have faced enormous obstacles before and overcome them, and you are going to do the same with this.
You invest energy, money, time, resources into fixing the problem.
You seek to become the answer to your own prayer request.
But this often adds to the suffering.
Despair
Despair is the result of losing hope.
People close the gap between hope and reality by downgrading their hope to match the reality of the situation.
Stopping hoping is a way to minimize the hurt.
Despair removes the tension between hope and reality, but it leads to cynicism, which kills the soul.
Back to the Desert
Denial, determination, despair—these are not the way to live as people of faith.People of faith live in the desert—in the gap between hope and the present reality.
Abraham “in hope believed against hope” (Rom. 4:18).
Abraham did not ignore reality, but he trusted and hoped in God and his promises.
Life in the Desert
The hardest part of being in the desert is that there is no way out. You don’t know when it will end. There is no relief in sight.
God in his wisdom customizes deserts for each of us.
God led Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Israel, David, etc. into, through, and then out of the desert.
Jesus walked through the desert for us looking to the joy set before him.
Feeling like the Father has turned his face against you is the heart of the desert experience.
It’s very tempting to survive the desert by taking the bread of bitterness offered by Satan—to maintain a wry, cynical detachment from life, finding a perverse enjoyment in mocking those who still have hope.
But refusing Satan and trusting God is the path Jesus took, and so should we.
Thriving in the Desert
God takes everyone he loves through a desert.
It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden.He humbles us and breaks our will and our self-sufficiency.
He kills off our idols.
He leads us to helplessness that is so crucial to the spirit of prayer.
Suffering burns away the false selves created by cynicism, pride, or lust.
You stop caring about what people think of you.
The desert is God’s best hope for the creation of an authentic self.
Desert life sanctifies you. You don’t realize you are changing, but after a while you are different.
Things that used to be important no longer matter.
In the desert, you learn your real thirsts – what really matters.
The desert becomes a window to the heart of God. He gets our attention in the desert.You cry out to God so long and so often that it cuts a deep channel of communication between you and God.
Without realizing it, you have learned to pray continuously.
The best gift of the desert is God’s presence.
Desert Blossoms
In the desert, God humbles us and makes us more like his Son.
Unexpected outcomes and blessings come out of trials like desert blossoms.
Our lives can take unexpected turns and end up in much better places in the end because of the routes through the desert.
Kept from Harm
When we don’t receive what we pray for or what we desire, it doesn’t mean that God isn’t acting on our behalf.
Rather, he’s weaving his story.
“Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in thanksgiving” (Col. 4:2).
Watchfulness alerts us to the unfolding drama in the present.
It looks for God’s present work as it unfolds into future grace.
Watch for the story God is weaving in your life.
Don’t leave the desert, until God leads you out of it.
“The best is yet to come.”
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
“Final Warning” (Exodus 11:1–10)
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
“Final Warning” (Exodus 11:1–10)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday PM, October 8, 2017
Exodus 11:1–10 (NIV)
11 Now the Lord had said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely. 2 Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.” 3 (The Lord made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.)
4 So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. 5 Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. 6 There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be again. 7 But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.’ Then you will know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. 8 All these officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that I will leave.” Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh.
9 The Lord had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you—so that my wonders may be multiplied in Egypt.” 10 Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his country.
1. The LORD is just and will execute judgment on his enemies (vv. 1, 4–6).22 Then say to Pharaoh, 'This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son, 23 and I told you, "Let my son go, so he may worship me." But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.'" (Exodus 4:22–23, NIV)2. The LORD is faithful and will completely fulfill his covenant promises (vv. 2–3).13 Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. (Genesis 15:13–14, NIV)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." (Exodus 3:21–22, NIV)3. The LORD is the one and only true God who puts to shame all false gods (vv. 4–5).4. The LORD is gracious and treats his people differently from the world (vv. 6–7).5. The LORD is righteous and will vindicate his people before the world (v. 8).6. The LORD is sovereign and directs the events of history for the furtherance of his own glory (vv. 9–10).Main Idea: The LORD displays his justice, faithfulness, uniqueness, grace, and glory by judging his enemies and rescuing his people.
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
“Dead but Alive” (Romans 6:1–14), Part 1
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
Sunday Oct 08, 2017
“Dead but Alive” (Romans 6:1–14), Part 1Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, October 8, 2017
Romans 6:1–14 (NIV)
6 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
1. The super-abounding grace of God does not open a door of freedom to go on living in sin (1–2a).
The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, (Romans 5:20, NIV)
2. On the contrary, our break with the old life of sin, judgment, and death is so radical that it can be described of as a death (2b–4a).
a. We are no longer under the condemnation of sin and its penalty of death.b. We are no longer under the power and dominion of sin.
i. Because we are united with Christ.ii. Being united with Christ, his death on the cross was our death.iii. Being united with Christ, his burial was our burial.iv. So, Christ conquered the reign of sin and death over us when he died on the cross for us.v. This new standing and transfer from the realm of sin and death to the realm of grace and life is applied to us at our conversion – represented by baptism.
3. And, our entrance into the new life of grace, righteousness, and life is so complete that it can be described of as a resurrection (4b–5).
Main Idea: Our union with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection means that sin no longer has power over the believer and is no longer welcome in the life of the believer.
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
“Dark, Dark Darkness” (Genesis 10:21–29)
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
“Dark, Dark Darkness” (Genesis 10:21–29)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, October 1, 2017
Exodus 10:21–29 (NIV)
21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness spreads over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.” 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. 23 No one could see anyone else or move about for three days. Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.
24 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the Lord. Even your women and children may go with you; only leave your flocks and herds behind.”
25 But Moses said, “You must allow us to have sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the Lord our God. 26 Our livestock too must go with us; not a hoof is to be left behind. We have to use some of them in worshiping the Lord our God, and until we get there we will not know what we are to use to worship the Lord.”
27 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to let them go. 28 Pharaoh said to Moses, “Get out of my sight! Make sure you do not appear before me again! The day you see my face you will die.”
29 “Just as you say,” Moses replied. “I will never appear before you again.”
Darkness as Psychological Judgment.
Darkness as Warning of Impending Death and Destruction.
Darkness as Symbol of the Un-Creation of Egypt.
Darkness as Demonstration of YHWH’s Mighty Power and Supremacy.
Darkness as the Condition of Pharaoh’s Heart.
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
“Death through Adam, Life through Christ” (Romans 5:12–21)
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
Sunday Oct 01, 2017
“Death through Adam, Life through Christ” (Romans 5:12–21)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, October 1, 2017
Romans 5:12–21 (NIV)
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—
13 To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law. 14 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.
15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! 16 Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. 17 For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!
18 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
20 The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
We are either in Adam or in Christ; those are the only two options (12–21).
In Adam we are sinners condemned to death; in Christ we are justified, declared to be righteous (18–19).
Under Moses our sins were magnified; in Christ grace is magnified (20).
In Adam we were enslaved under the tyranny of sin and death; in Christ by grace we reign with him in life (17, 21).
Main Idea: “The combined power of sin, law, and death is defeated by the superabounding power of grace and righteousness in the Lord Jesus Christ.”