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This is where you will find sermons and updates for our church. Our mission is to preach expository sermons focusing on the gospel of Christ. We are a church that is tied to the reformed tradition and seeks to submit to the scriptures so we walk in the Lord’s wisdom rather than our own.
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Zechariah promises that there will be a fountain that is opened. This fountain will open on the day of the Lord where the Lord will establish the true cleansing. The Lord will care for us, and the Lord will redeem. This fountain is the symbolism of the true definitive washing. Baptism is the sign of the time that is shown in covenant history.
Christ is seated in the heavenly tabernacle. He moves from the earthly to the heavenly. We are secured in Christ because he is the greater priest. He does not work in earthly tabernacle model, but in the heavenly tabernacle.
Christ is raised from the dead, he interacts with his disciples on the last mountain, and he goes to heaven. This would appear to be Christ leaving us and forsaking us. However, Christ assures us that he will be with us until the end of the age.
#greatcomission #matthewgospel #christianmotivation
We can think that Christians do not have a priest. We can think that we do not have a tabernacle. However, Hebrews assures us that we do have a priest and a tabernacle. Our problem is that we do not see them literally before our eyes so we assume we have neither. The joy we need to have is that our Lord is our priest and he presides in the heavenly tabernacle.
#hebrewssermons #hebrewsseries #expositorypreaching
The prophet Isaiah recounts the Lord's gracious work, and intercedes on behalf of God's people. We ultimate rest in God’s steadfast mercy. We are unfaithful, but He is faithful. We desire the potter to mold us as his redeemed.
Christ is superior, and we need to see that our joy, comfort, and consolation is found in him exclusively.
We know that the resurrection of Christ is essential for our resurrection. Our temptation as humans is to think that this is a future blessing. However, the Apostle Paul assures us that Christ's resurrection is for us right now. If Christ is not raised from the dead then we are still in our sins. Paul's point is that Abraham did not just look for a son, but he looked to the resurrection.
We might think that our Christian life has less meaning and less significance when we consider the visible religion. However, we forget the time of the patriarchs where they are looking to the promised Christ. They do not have the temple. So we might think that Israel has a greater experience. This is where Hebrews develops the argument showing that Melchizedek is superior to Levi because he is first, he is eternal, and Abraham paid a tithe from the spoils of war.
#hebrews #melchizedek #expositorypreaching
We know that before we can enter into the full bliss of heaven we need to be raised from the dead or enter heaven with a glorified body. We might wonder about our passage from this life to the life to come. Our temptation is to think maybe we go to sleep and enter a coma like state. We don't want to say that our soul needs to be more purified and so we wait for that process to finish. We enter heaven because of Christ's redemptive work. This is why we speak of the intermediate state. This is the state where our souls begin to taste our everlasting state, but not in the fullness because we have to wait for glory. This is why the saints in heaven are asking for Christ to return to make everything right.
#intermediatestate #tastingheaven #martyredsouls #soulsinheaven #revelationsermon
When we take an oath we take the oath in the Lord's name. The reason for this is because we need a judge who can peer into the heart. The judge knows what is right and wrong and the judge will ultimately administer justice. Now, as Christians we know that we are to be people of our word as we live our lives before the face of God. However, Hebrews reminds us that the Lord swears by himself because there is no one greater to enforce the oath. So we consider the nature of the oath and the promise that God has made and fulfilled giving us an anchor for our souls.
#hebrews #melchizedek #hebrewsseries #hebrewssermon
The Lord's gospel call is incredibly gracious. It is amazing that the Lord calls us to bow our knees before him, and to receive true everlasting life for the sake of Christ and his merits. It is easy to think that this call is only for the present time or maybe it is just for me. However, as we look at the book of Revelation we notice that the picture is much bigger than just my response to the Gospel. Our faith response to the Gospel not only unites us to the Trinitarian God, but also unites us to the Church universal. What a gracious God to give us such a taste our our beautiful redemption as we walk in the power of His Spirit.
#expositorypreaching #christisenough #revelation #gospel
Hebrews is a letter that encourages us to see the sufficiency of Christ. This is a letter that also exhorts us not to fall away from Christ. If we are not careful we might miss the context of the exhortation in Hebrews 5-6. We might doubt whether or not we really have Christ. There is certainly a call for self-examination, but there is also a rich conclusion we reach in this self-examination: Christ is sufficient.
#selfexamination #expositorypreaching #hebrews #apostasy
Christians can struggle with assurance. We can struggle with whether or not we really have the Holy Spirit. Some people say that we need to have an experience similar to pentecost to know that we have the Spirit. Others say that is a one time event. We look at the Spirit working in our salvation. We see that the Apostle Paul teaches us that the Spirit applies Christ's blessings. If we take hold of Christ by faith we have the Spirit.
#holyspirit #lifeinchrist
Christ is God and man. Christ took on human flesh, lived a perfect life, and now is in glory. We are earthlings from the dirt, we are fallen, and we are by no means perfect. We are works in progress suffering and struggling through this world. In fact, Hebrews communicates that we are in the wilderness time of testing. This is all true, and somehow Christ is a priest who really knows our struggle. He knows this struggle without sin. How can Christ really know us when he is God and man joined together in one person? How can Christ be a credible priest when he resides in heaven? Hebrews affirms these truths, but also assures us that Christ is a superior priest.
#hebrews #christisenough #melchizedek #christispriest
Jesus lives up this his name. His name means Yahweh Saves. Jesus enters history to save his people from their sins. This is why Christ has to be born an infant in order to live a perfect life to be presented as the perfect sacrifice.
John is the prophet who announces Christ's arrival. His privilege is that he sees the fulfillment of his word. He is a prophet of reformation to call Israel back to her king. John is frustrated because his mission does not bear the fruit that John hoped it would bear. John realizes that his prophecy is correct, but in order for Christ to bring glory he must first suffer. Christ's mission parameter in this age is Isaiah 61 rather than the full har maggeddon battle that John expected.
The apostles' creed teaches that Christ is sitting on the right hand of God. We might think that this makes Christ distant from the Lord. We might think that Christ being distant has no advantage for us today. However we can be assured that as Christ is in heaven we will overcome. We might experience discouragement in our current existence, but we know that we will prevail because Christ has overcome.
#expositorypreaching #righthandofGod #christinheaven #christaspriest #christisenough
(Preached 12.4.2022)
It is easy for us as Christians to see Christ as distant, detached for us, and seated in an unattainable place. This is probably part of the struggle for the church who originally receives this exhortation. We learn from Hebrews 4 is that our redemption is opposite of this perception. We have a savior who can understand our struggle, a priest who is watching over us, a priest who invites us to draw near, and a priest who can understand our struggle. The beauty of this is that our priest is our king. He rules us, but not in tyranny. He has sacrificed himself, has been raised from the dead, and now represents us in the most holy place. Let us draw near to him in boldness and confidence. It is not because we are worthy, but because we have been made worthy in Christ.
(Preached 12.4.2022)
The Lord promises to walk with us and to be present with us until the end of the age. We would like this to mean that we have visible access to Christ. Our best scenario is that wego to his earthly residence, knock on his door, and personally bring our requests to him. However, this is not what Christ does. He goes to heaven, sits at the right hand of the father, and assures us that this is the best thing for us. Once again we are reminded that this is a problem with our perspective and not a problem with the Lord's provision. We need to see that Christ's ascension into heaven guarantees our place, he prays in the heavenly temple, he guarantees that our glorified flesh is fit for heaven, and he sends the Holy Spirit uniting us to him. These are just a few of the benefits of Christ's ascension that we consider in our sermon.
(Preached 11.27.2022)
#christascended #doctrinalpreaching #expositorypreaching #christisenough #christisrisen
Hebrews assures us that Christ's work is enough for us to enter into heaven. There is a rich comfort that our priest-king has overcome. It is even more comforting that we overcome in him. This is assuring, but then we hear this exhortation that we are to strive to enter his rest. We can turn this into a discouraging burden, but when we look closer we are challenged to hold fast our confession. We are to confess that Christ is our priest king, he is our redeemer, and we proceed in the confidence of our Melchizedekian-priest-king securing our sabbath rest.
#melchizedek #christisenough #sabbathshalom #sabbathstriving #expositorypreaching
(Preached 11.27.2022)
We are a bible believing church in the Belgrade, MT. We are a Reformed Protestant church who desire to build one another up in love as we sojourn under the sun.
