Wednesday Jun 27, 2018
The Prophecy of Isaiah - Lesson 6: "Isaiah's Vision and Call" (Isaiah 6:1-13)
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Sunday Jun 24, 2018
“Valuing Human Life” (Exodus 20:13)
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
“Valuing Human Life” (Exodus 20:13)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday PM, June 24, 2018
"You shall not murder. (Exod. 20:13 NIV)
1) The Giver of the Commandment
2) The Reason for the Commandment
3) The Meaning of the Commandment
4) The Exceptions to the Commandment (or Its Wrong Applications)
5) The Extension of the Commandment (or Its Appropriate Applications)
Main Idea: The Sixth commandment is a prohibition against the unlawful taking of a human life, but merely refraining from killing another human being is not our full obedience to this command. This command requires love for our fellow man that abstains not only from physical violence but also anger and malice toward one another.
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
“God’s Electing Purpose” (Romans 9:10–13)
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
“God’s Electing Purpose” (Romans 9:10–13)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, June 24, 2018
Romans 9:6–13 (NIV) 6 It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” 8 In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. 9 For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.” 10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. 11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: 12 not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” 13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
1. Israel Not Israel
2. Promise Not Parents
3. God’s Power Not Human Plans
4. Grace Not Worthiness
a. Not the worthiness of ancestryb. Not the worthiness of positionc. Not the worthiness of good worksd. Not the worthiness of future faith
5. God’s Electing Purpose Not Anything Else!
God’s Purpose:
a. Originates with Godb. Eternal and Unchangeablec. Predestined and Settledd. All-encompassing and Universale. Operates by Grace not Meritf. Works in Concert with Electiong. Issues in a Gracious, Effectual Calling
Sunday Jun 17, 2018
“God, the Righteous Father” (Psalm 146)
Sunday Jun 17, 2018
Sunday Jun 17, 2018
“God, the Righteous Father” (Psalm 146)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, June 17, 2018 (Fathers’ Day)
Psalm 146 (NIV)
1Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, my soul. 2I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. 3Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save. 4When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing. 5Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God. 6He is the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them— he remains faithful forever. 7He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free, 8the Lord gives sight to the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous. 9The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked. 10The Lord reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the Lord.
1. A Father Worthy of Praise
a. Communal Praise (“Praise the Lord” – Plural Imperative)b. Personal Praise (“Praise the Lord, my soul.” – Singular Imperative)c. Enduring Praise (“All my life”… “As long as I live.”
2. A Father You Can Depend On
a. The frustrating situation of those who depend on human strength:
i. The illusion of human power and influence (even of princes).ii. The frailty of mortal human beings.iii. The disappointment of unfulfilled plans and promises.
b. The blessed situation of those who depend on God their Father:
i. The certainty of Divine power.ii. The endurance of the eternal.iii. The hope of unfailing plans and promises.
3. A Father Who Does What Is Right
a. Upholding justice for the oppressed.b. Demonstrating compassion for the afflicted.c. Offering love to the righteous.
4. A Father to the Fatherless
a. A gracious host to the foreigner.b. A father to the fatherless.c. A husband to the widow.d. A just judge to the wicked.
5. A Father Who Lives Forever
a. A never-ending life.b. A never-ending kingdom.
Main Idea: The Lord is a Father worthy of praise because he is a father you can depend on, one who always does what is right, serving as a father to the fatherless, forever and ever.
Isaac Watts:
I'll praise my Maker while I've breath;and when my voice is lost in death,praise shall employ my nobler powers.My days of praise shall ne'er be pastwhile life and thought and being last,or immortality endures.
How happy they whose hopes relyon Israel's God, who made the skyand earth and seas with all their train;whose truth forever stands secure,who saves the oppressed and feeds the poor,and none shall find God's promise vain.
The Lord pours eyesight on the blind;the Lord supports the fainting mindand sends the laboring conscience peace.God helps the stranger in distress,the widowed and the parentless,and grants the prisoner sweet release.
I'll praise my Maker while I've breath;and when my voice is lost in death,praise shall employ my nobler powers.My days of praise shall ne'er be past while life and thought and being last,or immortality endures.
Wednesday Jun 13, 2018
The Prophecy of Isaiah - Lesson 5: The Lord's Vineyard (Isaiah 5)
Wednesday Jun 13, 2018
Wednesday Jun 13, 2018
“The Lord’s Vineyard”Isaiah 5:1–30
1. A Song about a Vineyard (5:1-7)
a. The song’s characters
1) The singer: Isaiah, the Prophet2) The vineyard owner: the Lord3) The vineyard: Israel/Judah
b. The Song’s Meaning
1) The Lord created and owns the vineyard (Israel/Judah) (v. 1)
Isaiah 5:1 I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.
2) The Lord expended great care and effort in planting the vineyard (Israel/Judah) (v. 2)
Isaiah 5:2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.
3) The Lord intended to reap a harvest of good fruit (righteousness and justice) from the vineyard (Israel/Judah) (vv. 3–4, 7)
Isaiah 5:3 “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. Isaiah 5:4 What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad? Isaiah 5:7 The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.
4) Instead, he received only bitter fruit (distress, bloodshed) from his vineyard (Israel/Judah). (4, 7)5) The Lord will leave his vineyard (Israel/Judah) to be devastated by the elements (enemies) (vv. 5-6)
Isaiah 5:5 Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled. Isaiah 5:6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”
2. The Vineyard’s Harvest of Bitter Fruit (5:8-24)
a. Oppressive Landowners (8-10)1
Isaiah 5:8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land. Isaiah 5:9 The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing: “Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants. Isaiah 5:10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine; a homer of seed will yield only an ephah of grain.”
b. Pursuers of Drunken Revelry (11-12)
Isaiah 5:11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine. Isaiah 5:12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord, no respect for the work of his hands.
c. God Testers (18-19)
Isaiah 5:18 Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes, Isaiah 5:19 to those who say, “Let God hurry; let him hasten his work so we may see it. The plan of the Holy One of Israel— let it approach, let it come into view, so we may know it.”
d. The Morally Twisted (20)
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
e. The Self-Exalted (21)
Isaiah 5:21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
f. The Immoral Opportunists (22-23)
Isaiah 5:22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks, Isaiah 5:23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent.
3. The Destruction of the Vineyard (13-17, 24-30)
a. Appropriate judgment: loss of land, hunger, thirst (13)
Isaiah 5:13 Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; those of high rank will die of hunger and the common people will be parched with thirst.
b. Total judgment in divine action: death, humbling, ruination (14–17)
Isaiah 5:14 Therefore Death expands its jaws, opening wide its mouth; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers. Isaiah 5:15 So people will be brought low and everyone humbled, the eyes of the arrogant humbled. Isaiah 5:16 But the Lord Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts. Isaiah 5:17 Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture; lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich.
c. Appropriate judgment: speedy disaster (24a) repays the call for the Lord to hasten (19); acquiescing in sin (18, 20) issues in helpless collapse into judgment (24bcd)
Isaiah 5:24 Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
d. Total judgment: The Lord summons the invincible foe (Assyria) (25–30)
Isaiah 5:25 Therefore the Lord’s anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised. Isaiah 5:26 He lifts up a banner for the distant nations, he whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Here they come, swiftly and speedily! Isaiah 5:27 Not one of them grows tired or stumbles, not one slumbers or sleeps; not a belt is loosened at the waist, not a sandal strap is broken. Isaiah 5:28 Their arrows are sharp, all their bows are strung; their horses’ hooves seem like flint, their chariot wheels like a whirlwind. Isaiah 5:29 Their roar is like that of the lion, they roar like young lions; they growl as they seize their prey and carry it off with no one to rescue. Isaiah 5:30 In that day they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the sun will be darkened by clouds.
1 The subpoints for verses 8-23 come from Bryan E. Beyer, Encountering the Book of Isaiah.
Sunday Jun 10, 2018
“No Stone Left Unturned” (1 Samuel 7:1–14)
Sunday Jun 10, 2018
Sunday Jun 10, 2018
“No Stone Left Unturned” (1 Samuel 7:1–14)Venlon Bradford (Pastor of Old Union Baptist Church, Bear Creek, AL)Sunday PM, June 10, 2018Ebenezer – A Stone of Help
1 Samuel 7:1–14 (KJV)
And the men of Kirjath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the Lord.
2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord. 3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. 4 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only. 5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the Lord. 6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh. 7 And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines. 8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the Lord our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines. 9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord: and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel; and the Lord heard him. 10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel. 11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Beth-car. 12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. 13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. 14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
Main Idea: When it comes to the spiritual welfare of his people, God leaves no stone unturned.1. A Cleaning Up (vv. 1–6).2. A Looking Up (vv. 7–8).3. An Offering Up (vv. 9–11).4. A Setting Up (v. 12).5. The Outcome of It All (vv. 13–14).
Sunday Jun 10, 2018
"The Perfect Work of a Perfect Savior" (Philippians 1:6)
Sunday Jun 10, 2018
Sunday Jun 10, 2018
"The Perfect Work of a Perfect Savior" (Philippians 1:6)Venlon Bradford (Pastor of Old Union Baptist Church, Bear Creek, AL)Sunday AM, June 10, 2018
1. Commencement: The Work of Grace Commenced
KJV Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
2. Continuation: The Work of Grace Continued
KJV Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
3. Completion: The Work of Grace Completed
KJV Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Sunday Jun 03, 2018
“Honoring Authority” (Exodus 20:12)
Sunday Jun 03, 2018
Sunday Jun 03, 2018
“Honoring Authority” (Exodus 20:12)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchJune 3, 2018 Sunday PM
Exodus 20:12
"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you."
1. Who is this command addressed to?
2. What does this command mean?
3. What is the promise associated with this command?
4. What does the NT say about this command?
5. How should we apply this command?
Main Idea: “As Christians, we must honor God by honoring the authorities he has providentially placed in our lives.”
Sunday Jun 03, 2018
“Who Is the True Israel?” (Romans 9:6–9)
Sunday Jun 03, 2018
Sunday Jun 03, 2018
“Who Is the True Israel?” (Romans 9:6–9)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, June 3, 2018
Romans 9:6–9 (NIV) 6 It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” 8 In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. 9 For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”
1. An unexpected turn of events: Gentiles are being saved, but most Jews are rejecting their Messiah.
2. The problem of God's faithfulness: has God reneged on his Word?
3. The solution to the perceived problem of God’s faithfulness is a proper understanding of God's ways of grace: not all who are Israel are Israel.
4. The historical illustration of God's ways of grace: the promised seed is through Isaac not Ishmael. There are physical descendants who are not spiritual children.