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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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Our Lord arrives in Jerusalem with a remarkable reception. The people praise him as the Lord he is, they throw down their cloaks, and it seems that Christ is able to take the city by storm. However, Christ runs through the temple overturning tables, and driving people out of the temple. Why does Christ react this way? What does the temple tell us about the state of God’s people in this time?
When we are saved by grace it might seem counter intuitive to say we are called to bring forth good works. How can we be saved by grace, but at the same time bringing forth good works? How do we cultivate these good works? Do these works make us worthy to enter into the presence of God? How does one become a member of God’s temple, and bring forth good works?
Christ commands us to pray, “Our Father who art in heaven.” This is not something that initially seems comforting to us earth dwelling Christians. If God is in heaven while we are here on earth how can His heavenly dwelling be a benefit to us? However, Christ is teaching us to pray this prayer so this is something good. So, what we are we missing? What is the bigger picture that we so often fail to see as struggling humans? How is our praying to our Father in Heaven far more comforting than we could imagine?
The reality is that Christians are a people set apart unto the Lord and called to honor the Lord as His redeemed people. This notion of living for another being is something that just is so contrary to worldly wisdom. The world desires that we live out and have our best life right now. So, why would we seek to honor the Lord and live for Him instead of self? How is living for the Lord something is actually a way more gratifying way to live than living for self?
I hope that we can agree that the ultimate splendor of Jerusalem was not the buildings, but ultimately that the Lord dwelt in the midst of the city. If you were an Israelite in the ideal times of Israel it must have been reassuring to see the temple and know that the Lord was in Israel’s midst. This is not necessarily a bad desire, but when can this desire be sinful? When can the Lord withdraw His presence from His people? Why would the Lord withdraw His presence from us? How can that ultimately be a good thing for a time no matter how tragic and painful it might be?
When we see Christ going into Jerusalem it seems that He has some anger management issues. First, He curses a tree that did not bear fruit. Second, he overturns tables in the temple and has what appears to be a tantrum. How can these things make a credible point? Why curse a tree out of anger and overturn the temple? Is the stress of the cross getting to Christ or is there more?
Sometimes as church members in America we can think that life is about me living for the Lord. This is not necessarily a bad thing as we should all individually want to live for the Lord. This is a mindset that really robs Christians of a great and higher understanding of the church. So, what is the bigger picture of the church? How does the Holy Spirit bless the church moving us beyond just a radical individual understanding of His blessings?
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.
