Sermons from March 2025
God is Not Forgetful
Isaiah 49:7-26 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 49 and we are going to look at verse seven and then eight through 13. I know it says through 26, but I’ve chickened out. So Isaiah 49, seven through 13, seven or seven stands alone in a sense. Remember, um, we’re in the second servant song last week. The servant gave a little fuss. I’ve labored in vain. I’ve spent my strength for nothing in vanity. My right is with the Lord and…
Pray for Us!
2 Thessalonians 3:1-5 Lord, we give you thanks that by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, holy men of old set these things down for our instruction, for our growth in grace. We pray that we would receive the word as it is, not the word of men, but the very word of God. May it be at work in each of us. May it convince and convert sinners unto salvation and comfort and build up saints in our most…
God’s Chosen Servant
Isaiah 49:1-6 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 49. I believe in your bulletin, it just says Isaiah 49, but our specific passage tonight will be verses one through six. So Isaiah 49, one through six in the book of Isaiah. Got two big breaks, chapters one to 39. Remember our funny way of saying it, chapters one to 39, God yells at all the nations. Every nation gets yelled at by God, one through 39. And then chapter 40 to 66,…
Comfort and Stability
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 Amen. You can be seated. Turn in your copy of the scripture to second Thessalonians chapter two. Today, we’ll look at the last two verses of this chapter. It’s a prayer. Some see it as a prayer. Some see it as a benediction, a declaration, and some see it as a well wish. Kind of think perhaps it’s got some of all three, a prayer to God for strength. a well-wish from Paul to the Thessalonians that…
Secure In Your Wickedness
Isaiah 46-48 So Isaiah 46, 47, and 48. 46 verse one says, Bell bows down, Nebo stoops. Their idols are on beast and livestock. These things you carry are born as burdens on weary beasts. They stoop, they bow down together. They cannot save the burden, but themselves go into captivity. Listen to me, O house of Jacob, as are all the remnant of the house of Israel. who have been born by me from before your birth, carried from…
Standing Firm By Holding Fast
2 Thessalonians 2:13-15 Amen, you can be seated. Turn to 2 Thessalonians chapter two. Today we want to look at verses 13 through 15. 2 Thessalonians chapter two, 13 through 15. Remember, this is Paul’s letter to a church he had to leave behind very quickly after the gospel took root. Had to leave after about three weeks. Lots of trouble, Jewish persecution, wrote them these two letters, sent Timothy, and eventually on another missionary journey does get to swing…
His Ways Are Not Our Ways
Isaiah 45:8-25 So as we prepare to read Isaiah 45, 8 to 25, remember Israel’s got two really big problems, or I should say Judah and Jerusalem. Israel, the northern tribes have been hauled off a while by Assyria into exile. But Jerusalem and Judah, they have two big problems. One is a spiritual problem. And only Jesus, the coming suffering servant, can save them from the spiritual problem, that’s sin. But they also have a geographical problem, and that’s…
Mystery of Lawlessness
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 You can be seated. Please take your copy of the scriptures. Turn to 2 Thessalonians 2, 1-12. We’re going to do round two on this passage. Last week, we looked at the encouraging side of it, which was that Christians ought to not be alarmed, not be shaken, not be deceived. not fall into the prey of the man of lawlessness or fall into the spirit of lawlessness, which was scaring the Thessalonian church. So today we…
Straight Licks With Crooked Sticks
Isaiah 44:24-45:7 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 44. We’ve got a couple of verses in 44. I know this looks all choppy and doesn’t make sense, but it really, really does. So 44, 24 through 28, and then the first seven verses of chapter 45. I think I’ve got this right in my head. The method to the madness in Isaiah is, Israel has two problems. They have a geographical problem. They’re not in the promised land. And why are they…
The Second Coming Has Not Come
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 Amen, you can be seated. Please turn in your copy of the scriptures to the book of 2 Thessalonians. Today we’ll look at chapter two, one through 12. So this week I flip-flopped. Usually I put a bunch of verses in, I chicken out, but this time I put a few in and I got bold. So we’re gonna look at two, one to 12, and I’m very sure, very confident that I will disappoint many of…