Sermons by Bryan Crotts (Page 10)
For My Sake
Isaiah 43:22-28; Isaiah 44:1-5 So turn to Isaiah 43, 21. We’ll read 21 through 44, verse five. Actually, it’s verse 22 of chapter 43. It says, yet you did not call on me, O Jacob, but you have been weary of me, O Israel. You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings or wearied you with frankincense. You have not bought me sweet cane with…
Signs of Grace
2 Thessalonians 1:3-4 You can be seated. Turn in your copy of the scriptures to 2 Thessalonians 1, 3-4. As you’re making your way there, remember Paul, an apostle set apart by Jesus Christ. a minister to the Gentiles. He would go to a Jew first and then to the Gentiles and preach in the synagogues. And this is his second missionary journey. We studied those things in the book of Acts and we’re making our way through his letters…
Another Exodus
Isaiah 43:14-28 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 43 tonight. We’ll look at 14 to 21. I believe it says 28, but I chickened out on those other verses. So they’ll come next week. So Isaiah 43, 14 to 21, where we are in Isaiah, big picture is we’re past 1 through 39, which was the God yelling at all the nations section. Now we’re in 40 to 66, where God is in a thousand ways saying, this is how I’ll be…
A Second Letter
1 Thessalonians 1:1-2 Please be seated. Please turn in your copy of the scriptures to Second Thessalonians. Today, we’ll be looking at chapter one, verses one and two. So several years back, we began in Luke’s gospel. Luke wrote to Theophilus, his patron, to tell him all that Jesus had said and done. And then he wrote the book of Acts, which we also considered. He wrote the continuing work of Jesus through the apostles who were sent to the…
True Religion
Isaiah 43:8-13 Isaiah 43, beginning of verse eight. This is like a courtroom scene, and I think you’ll see it as kind of the witnesses are gathered and the testimony is required. This is God who says, bring out the people who are blind yet have eyes, who are deaf yet have ears. All the nations gather together, all the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to…
The New Covenant
Jeremiah 31; Luke 22:7-23 You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of the scriptures to Luke 22. Our reading will be 7 to 23. This is the Lord Jesus taking with his disciples for the last time the Passover meal. And as they are completing the Passover meal, he ends its regular use in the life of the ministry of God’s people. The shadow now ending and the substance being revealed on the next day, the Lord Jesus…
God Speaks Tenderly
Isaiah 43:1-7 Isaiah 43, one through seven. So Israel, you know, God’s been yelling at them, I’m going to punish you and all the rest. You know, you’re deaf, you’re blind, you’re hardheaded, you’re knuckleheaded, all those things. But now he’s going to comfort them in 43, one to seven. So we’ll take a peek at some of these terms of endearment. So Isaiah 43.1 says, but now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who…
Covenant With David
2 Samuel 7; Matthew 21:1-11 Our scripture will be Matthew 21. Speaking of Jesus’ triumphal entry, this pairs well with 2 Samuel 7. Of course, King David, King Solomon, and all the kings after would only point and they would show the great need for a righteous king. Perhaps you’ve been reading through Kings and Chronicles and king after king did what was evil in the sight of God. But ultimately, in Jesus Christ, we find the righteous one who…
Listening? Seeing?
Isaiah 42:18-25 Amen. Some of y’all are wondering the method to our madness. Usually, most often, the hymn we sing after prayer time is also the hymn we sing after the creed in the morning. I didn’t realize when we moved out of the sanctuary in August that we’d be so long away from our Psalter hymnal, and I miss it. But I was digging through this week and found that, which is one of the doxologies we used to…
Covenant With Moses & Israel
Exodus 20-24; Hebrews 12 You could be seated. Please turn in your copy of the scriptures to Hebrews chapter 12. Hebrews chapter 12, verse 18. As you’re making your way there, remember, for the last six or seven weeks or so, we’ve been thinking through the concept of covenant. Simply put, a relationship that God establishes with us and guarantees by his word or guarantees by his son, the Lord Jesus’ blood. These covenants in the scriptures are basically two.…
A Covenant for the People
Isaiah 42:1-13 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 42. Remember, we’re on the backstretch of Isaiah. We’re definitely past the halfway point, 66 chapters, I believe. But once we finished 39 and got into 40 forward, we are now looking forward to better days. The first 39 chapters, a lot of judgment, a lot of doom, a lot of gloom. This nation is going to get it. That nation’s going to get it. Israel’s going to get it. Judah’s going to get…
Covenant With Abraham
Galatians 3; Genesis 12-22 Galatians chapter three will read in its entirety several months back. I suppose it was last spring, maybe a year ago, we went through the book of Galatians and we got to this section where those who wanted to live by works and those who wanted to live by faith were at odds with one another in the church. And so Abraham is used here as a compare and a contrast. But there’s a couple, spots…