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Sermon - Joy and Judgement Leviticus 9

Joy and Judgement

Leviticus 9:22-10:3 & 1 Corinthians 3:10-15

Introduction

The first seven chapters of Leviticus talk about the different offerings or sacrifices that Israel was to make to God. Then in chapter 8 we see the beginning of the priesthood and the joyful work of Aaron and the priests. Their main role as Priests, was to act as mediators between a holy God and the people of Israel, particularly in the role of making those offerings and sacrifices. In fact, these Priests were the ultimate multi-taskers, as they seemed equally adept as butchers, doctors, teachers, quality assurors and public health inspectors! The passage we have in front of us today shows the culmination of this priestly ordination. Let us witness together a scene of great and exuberant joy!

 

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Sermon - God and His Church

God and His church!

As Christian Disciples, we declare that we believe in God! That's what we have been doing in our praises and testimonies! Somebody asked last week what I meant by a WOWFactor of God! Just that - testimonies of how great is our God. As Christian Disciples, we declare that we not only believe in the existence of God, but that we can know God personally! We declare that we can grow in our knowledge of this great and Almighty God who is infinite and beyond our limitations of space and time! This great and awe-inspiring God we trust, obey, follow and worship, amazing as it sounds, is personable and knowable. This God we worship is a personal God and not a remote being or an un-emotive statue to place on a shelf. More than that, this God wants to be known. So with that said, just who is God?

1. Who is God?

God's Natural Attributes

God's Moral Attributes

2. Our Relational Response

God desires to bring people back into relationship with Himself! To do so, God established a New Covenant! This Covenant has four main features:

• Justification - Sins will be forgiven and removed.
• Promised Holy Spirit - God will live inside people and they will be led by Him.
• Regeneration -God will renew & restore people.
• Restoration - God will be their God, and they will be His people.

The Church

Fellowship

Worship

Evangelism

Jesus' WOWFactor

As I close, here is my own WOWFactor about Jesus, the Son of God. My Jesus is unique, majestic, tender, wise, strong, and lovely. My Jesus, whom I seek to serve and obey in every facet of life. I often don't achieve it, but I know that when I fall and fail, I can ask for forgiveness and He will grant it from His wellsprings of grace and mercy. It is this Jesus whom I depend upon and personally know to be totally reliable in every way. When people let me down, turn away from me, discourage me, think wrongly off me, or incorrectly assume my motives.
This Jesus always picks me up. He never turns me away. He always encourages and embraces me. At the end of the day, I know that Jesus has been dependable, going ahead of me throughout the day! I give Him thanks. Amazing! This Jesus who died on a Roman cross two thousand years ago was the same Jesus who was raised from the dead, without decay, into newness of life and ascended to the right hand of the Father. What is more, this Jesus is coming back to gather His followers, to Himself. Jesus is coming back, but not as a baby this time. There will be no kitchy-kitchy koo factor this time. No! Jesus the Son of God, is coming back as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Are you ready?

Amazing! This God-man, Jesus, is coming back and He will do the most extraordinary thing. We read about it in Revelation 21:4 'He will wipe every tear from their eyes. Isn't that just the most amazing verse of Scripture? Picture the scene! Jesus Christ taking your face in His scarred hands and wiping away your tears - tears of suffering and tears of joy. You will say to yourself, it was all worth it - the trials, temptations, sufferings and experiences I have had for the sake of Jesus Christ my Master. Are you ready for Him?

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Sermon - Romans 8 - Freedom to live

Freedom to Live

Romans 8:18-39

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I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all-how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died-more than that, who was raised to life-is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:18-39)

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Christian Testimony - Steve

Glimpses 57- Stephen

This is the story of Stephen. He lives in Bournemouth and he shares how an encounter with Jesus changed is life from hatred, violence, cruelty and drug addiction... Come and hear!

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What is a Christian Testimony

Why I am a Christian?

 

The Apostle John, writing in 1 John 5:9-12 - "We accept man's testimony, but God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life."

Why Is It So?

A testimony is an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact. For the Christian Disciple, classically it is generally expressed as how they became a Christian Disciple. But I think it is more than just how, and should expressly include why you are a Christian Disciple. I wonder what is your testimony about how you became a Christian Disciple? When was the last time you thanked God for your testimony?

Have you even thought about your testimony of how you became a Christian Disciple? I am sure you have all heard kids in the supermarket yelling out "Why?" to their parents. We all have, I am sure, questions we want to know the answer to. Why? The question I am often asked is "You are a Christian. Why is it so?"

Why I am a Christian?

Now I could say that at the age of 12, we moved to a town on the coast of Australia, and was invited along to a local youth group and several weeks later, gave my life to Christ and became a Christian. Of course that is partly true. I can't even claim to be a Christian because I was raised in a Christian country. Australia was and is probably the second most secular country on this planet. Sure Australia has its moral base grounded in historic Christianity, but for the latter part of its history, Australia has been thoroughly secular and non-religious. Even if I had been raised in a country such as England, with Christian parents, that would also, only be partly true and I could have rejected Christianity as many people do. The reason that I am a Christian is not because I chased God, but rather He chased me. Unknown to me at the time, God was chasing me and following my every path with the urgency of a lover after the beloved, just as described in the Song of Songs 2:2-14.

God had been pursuing me

This piece of poetic Scripture speaks about the love that God has for his people, and the energy He puts in to calling his people to Himself. He is always reaching out, for all to return to His arms. As for me, it wasn't until I was a 12 year old that I heard that I needed to accept Jesus as my Lord and Saviour. Before that I didn't know I had to do anything with this Jesus. Jesus was only a curse word for me at the time. That or was just someone or something that the RE teachers bored me with at school. We are primarily Christians, not because we come to church services or just happened to have been born in a supposedly Christian country. We are primarily Christians, because God first chased and harried us into His arms. We are Christians, if you are one, because God first loved you. And as a tremendous lover, He beckons and calls people all the time to respond to His call, and back to Him. How does He chase us with His love? He chases each person differently, just as each Christian testimony is different.


Take for instance the Apostle Paul in Acts 8 & 9. God chased him through Paul's mind and his religious upbringing and education. Paul had known about God from his childhood. Paul was a righteous Pharisee who saw persecuting these ‘Christians' as his religious duty, so that he may somehow find favour with God. As Paul was gloating over the death of the martyr Stephen, God was pursuing Him, probably raising doubts in Paul's mind as to why Stephen would say at the point of death "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit and forgive them for what they do" (Acts 7:54-60). Surely doubts must have been raised in Paul's mind as he approved of this death (Acts 8:1).

Paul was also wrestling with his conscience. Externally he was a righteous man, a Pharisee of Pharisees. Yet when he internally examined himself and his heart, he found himself failing regarding covetousness, which is the last of the Ten Commandments. Then finally, Jesus himself makes a sudden and dramatic appearance before Paul and confronts him directly, "Why are you kicking against me? Why are you rejecting my advances?" (Acts 9) Paul's conversion to Christianity is often described as being sudden. But the only thing sudden about his conversion was this climatic appearance of Jesus. Just as that was true of Paul, it is true of me, just as it is true of all those who profess to call themselves a Christian Disciple.


I am a Christian Disciple not because of anything I have done, but rather because He first chased me, and because He first loved me. Jesus himself said "I came to seek and to save the lost" (Luke 19:10). If you are a Christian today, it is not because of anything you have done. It is because of the events at Christmas and Easter that you are a Christian, when God entered this world as a human baby and took all the necessary steps so that all people could have the choice to be His people or not.

In my more smug moments I used to congratulate myself for being a Christian. How proud I was that I, was a Christian and that God was a jolly lucky God that I had decided to follow Him. It was during one of my less self-deluded moments, that I examined myself and I found God pricking my conscience and correcting me, and I read the New Testament "For the Son of Man came, not to be served but to give His life as a ransom for many" (Mark10:45).

 

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Archive 2023 June

Archive June 2023

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https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement3/

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https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement5/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg11/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg12/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/glimpses058/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/issues-troubles/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/pod-113/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/pod-psalm-117/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/pod-psalm-14/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/pod-psalm-28/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/pod-psalm128/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/psalm148/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/sermon-acts20/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/sermon-romans6/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/sermon20200913/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/testimony-greg-richardson/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/wow-word-04-father-god/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg01/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg02/

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https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg08/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg09/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg10/

 

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http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/49kee/PartakePOD-Psalm028.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/7c4f92/PartakeTestimony_GregRichardson.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/7j47/PartakePOD-Psalm148.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/exadef/Partake_Issues06.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/hvn23g/PartakePOD-Psalm113.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/iga4tj/DGR_Sermon_Romans6.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/ta7th/PartakePOD-Psalm014.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/w2chb8/Glimpses58.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/x6jzed/PartakePOD-Psalm128.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/yukp/PartakePOD-Psalm117.mp3

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/3q5nfy/PBC20170625-Acts20.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/amgwp0/Partakers-Atonement04.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/c9ec0h/Partakers-Atonement03.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/eyx5kx/WW04_FatherGod.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/fyiadp/DIWG03.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/g7tnju/DIWG02.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/geqqw4/DIWG11.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/hjnc7k/DIWG01.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/htigze/Partakers-Atonement01.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/i7appa/DIWG07.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/jn73pw/DIWG10.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/t9aa0v/Partakers-Atonement05.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/tu4ia6/DIWG05.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/u62g6g/DIWG04.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/wel9na/DIWG08.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/wewhkb/Partakers-Atonement02.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/xuvm84/DIWG12.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/yl3b8w/DIWG09.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zjknwy/Sermon-Psalm94-APrayerOfAnger.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zqyouz/DIWG06.mp3

 

Archive - Atonement series

Archive - Atonement series

A series of 5 podcasts concerning that big Bible Word, Atonement.

Podcast Edition Link

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement1/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement2/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement3/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement4/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement5/

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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/htigze/Partakers-Atonement01.mp3

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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/c9ec0h/Partakers-Atonement03.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/amgwp0/Partakers-Atonement04.mp3

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Atonement 5 – Atonement is At-One-Ment

Atonement 5

Conclusion: Atonement is At-One-Ment?

Today we continue our series of 5 podcasts concerning that big Bible Word, Atonement. We seek to explore what conclusions we can make concerning Jesus Christian, Atonement and people today.

We will look at 6 blessings and consequences because of the atonement and our acceptance of it: Atonement sealing; Atonement peace; Atonement reconciliation; Atonement salvation; Atonement gathering and Atonement life to come.

Come and listen to find out more!

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Atonement 4 – Atonement and Jesus Christ

Atonement 4

Atonement and Jesus Christ

Today we continue our series of 5 podcasts concerning that big Bible Word, Atonement, and continue to link to Jesus Christ.

As we sum up the atonement for sin because of Jesus, let’s look very briefly at just four words in our quest to explain and explore atonement. Remember, that the Church has been discussing this for the last 2000 years and will probably continue discussing it, trying to work it out until the Lord Jesus comes again.

We shall look at amazing expiation, satisfying propitiation, precious redemption and sufficient substitution. These 4 words can be summed up by the phrase Atonement love.

Atonement love is good news! When was the last time that you, as a Christian, told somebody else of this love

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Atonement 3 – Atonement Today (Romans 3:21-26; Hebrews 10:1-10)

Atonement 3

Atonement Today (Romans 3:21-26; Hebrews 10:1-10)

Today we continue our series of 5 podcasts concerning that big Bible Word, Atonement.

21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood – to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished 26 – he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. (Romans 3:21-26)

Here we see in Romans, that salvation is for all who believe, regardless of who they are and regardless of social status and stature. Salvation is through faith alone by grace alone to any person of any age or nation, who put their trust in God alone through Jesus Christ alone. Jesus Christ alone and through His atoning sacrifice on the cross. Declared righteous before God the Father, because of atonement through God the Son, Jesus Christ and Him alone.

In the podcast today we look at questions such as: what does Atonement mean for us today? What does Atonement have to do with salvation?

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