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1Sam #16 From Goliath's Pulpit 1Sam 17
April 08, 2024 04:13 - 88.9 MBToday's gospel instalment- 04-07-2024-- --Sermon Title -s-- 1. David slews Goliath, 2. Give me a man, 3. The gospel from Goliath's pulpit-- --Text- 1Samuel17-- --1. Gospel telling from the Old Testament stories is most wonderful, but it is fraught with potholes by reason of poor hermeneutics.--2. To glean and make sense of the stories, a Christ centered, gospel centered hermeneutic must be used.--3. I argue that much of the New Testament teaching is there in the Old, but hidden in story form....
1Sam # 15 Samuel anoints David 1Sam 15 & 16
April 01, 2024 04:11 - 83.6 MBToday's Gospel installment- 04-01-2024--Text- 1 Samuel 15 - 16--Message Title- 1. God rejects Saul, 2. Samuel anoints David, 3. God's Spirit leaves Saul, 4..The gospel according to Saul and David in the transition..--1..A happy resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus CHRIST to all who name Christ according to His Truth..--2...Saul's reign over Israel must come to an end, not because God hated Saul necessarily, but for a much greater reason..--3..David must ascend the throne. This David who ...
ROM # 49 Summary & Closing of Romans 8
March 25, 2024 03:35 - 82.1 MBToday's Gospel installment - 03-24-2024-Rom - 49 Summary and closing of Romans 8..--1..Will revisit all the doctrines presented in Romans 8 from verse 1 to 39..--2..It has been a lot of teaching of very foundational gospel material that is worth revisiting-recapping on..--3..Context is very important to understand the larger arguments and this for any subject matter.-4..Romans 8 does not begin in Romans 8..It is a build up from Chapter 7, which is a carry over from Romans 6 and you can go bac...
ROM # 48 Who and what shall separate ROM 8: 31-39
March 18, 2024 02:54 - 83.7 MBToday's Gospel installment- 03-17-2024--MESSAGE Title- Who and what shall----Text - Romans 8 vs 32-37--1..God has expounded the matter of His sovereign decrees in the salvation of His people..--2..And essentially to say the elect, foreloved, predestined and justified are the safest people forever, no matter what life throws at them, which things are in God's hands..--3..And they are safe because God is for them.. And because He is for them, who shall bring a charge or condemn----4.The answer ...
ROM # 47 If God be for us Rom 8 vs 28-34
March 11, 2024 02:39 - 74.8 MBToday's gospel instalment- 03-10-2024--Message title- If God be for us--Text- Romans 8 vs 28-34--1..Lots of God's absolute sovereignty teaching in all matters of salvation..-2..We will revisit His decrees in salvation, their unfolding and what or how that should mean or be understood in the light of all the gospel parts.-3..If you were blessed by the ALL THINGS FOR GOOD message from 2 weeks ago, this one is exactly on the same level of treatment, if not a little deeper..-4..Salvation is groun...
1Sam # 13 Saul & Jonathan Gospel Testimony 1Sam 13-14
March 04, 2024 03:46 - 68.9 MBText- 1Samuel 13 - 14-1..We are back to 1Sam again to continue from where we left off..-2..And we don't go anywhere, where we can't preach Christ...-3..I continue to contend that the scriptures do indeed testify of Christ and His work..-4..I also contend as the Lord taught that if God does not open the understanding one can not see how these stories in the Old Testament relate to Christ..-5..I contend that God didn't give the Old Testament stories so that we may do Moralistic teaching or a ch...
ROM # 46 All things for good Rom 8 vs 27-30
February 26, 2024 03:06 - 78.6 MBTitle- 1. All things work out for good, 2. God's eternal and sovereign decrees-- -- Text- Romans 8 vs 28-30--1. All things work out for good to those who love God.--2. But there is a context. What is the good that is in view----3. Who are these who love God and how do they begin to love Him----4. They are those who are called according to God's purpose.--5. But what is the calling-- Is it speaking of a gospel call or is speaking of something else----6. What is God's purpose-- And how does it ...
ROM # 45 The Holy Spirit Pt 2 Rom 8 & John 16
February 19, 2024 03:05 - 79.4 MBTitle- 1. The Holy Spirit work, 2. The Holy Spirit and security of salvation.--Text- John 16 vs 5-15, Romans 8---1. We continued on our Holy Spirit identity and work in the light of the gospel.--2. The Holy Spirit is God and is in some places called the Spirit of God or the Spirit of Christ.--3. He is not an -it- like some electromagnetic force. He is full deity.--4. Just like God the Father and Son, He also participated and participates in the salvation of God's people.--5. God has revealed ...
ROM # 44 The Holy Spirit and His work Rom 8 :26-27
February 12, 2024 04:52 - 64.2 MB1. The Holy Spirit is God and as such is involved in the work of salvation.-2. His work is not what reconciles a sinner to God. That was the work of God the Son, who was made surety and substitute, thus righteousness and holiness.-3. However, the Holy Spirit comes in the wake of the accomplished redemption to indwell as many were ordained to eternal life.-4. He comes in the wake of their justification to bring testimony of that fact in faith and repentance through the gospel.-5. It is He who ...
BSGCC # 148 Mt Everest and God's suffering Servant Isaiah 49 vs 1-11
February 05, 2024 03:43 - 87.2 MBSermon Title-s-- 1. BSGCC - 144 Mt Everest and God's suffering servant--Text- Isaiah 49 vs 1-11--1. The Lord Jesus spoke anticipatively of His coming and His work through the Prophet Isaiah and in fulfilment of Cyrus, who was a type of Christ.--2. He came as God's suffering, but Faithful Servant who had a mission and a message.--3. He was prophesied on the heels of Judah's captivity and promised restoration from their Babylonian captivity and the rebuilding of Jerusalem.--4. The suffering Ser...
BSGC Rom # 43 Unwillingly subjected to vanity Rom 8 vs 18-25
January 29, 2024 04:04 - 68.9 MBSermon Title -s-- 1. Unwillingly subjected to vanity, 2. Suffering and future glory, 3. God's purpose in the vanity of the creature.--1. The elect have been justified in Christ and that means they have been placed above condemnation.--2. And these are they walk according to the Spirit.--3. But their union with Christ is not just positively in their justification, but in suffering. They have been spared from condemnation, but not from suffering.--4. Suffering is part and parcel of the glory ro...
ROM # 43 Unwillingly subjected to vanity Rom 8 vs 18-25
January 29, 2024 02:56 - 69.9 MBToday's gospel instalment- 1-28-2024-Text- Romans 8 vs 18-25-Sermon Title -s-- 1. Unwillingly subjected to vanity, 2. Suffering and future glory, 3. God's purpose in the vanity of the creature.-1. The elect have been justified in Christ and that means they have been placed above condemnation.-2. And these are they walk according to the Spirit.-3. But their union with Christ is not just positively in their justification, but in suffering. They have been spared from condemnation, but not from s...
ROM # 42 Heirs & co-heirs with Christ Rom 8 vs11-17
January 22, 2024 03:09 - 78.2 MB1. The elect are justified by reason of being in Christ and Christ dying for them.-2. They are they who walk according to the Spirit.-3. And walking by the Spirit means they have Holy Spirit indwelling them.-4. And their walk is characterized by their setting their mind on things above -Christ-, considering their own righteousness as loss and dung.-5. Now Paul says this standing before God brings about a host of exhortations and commands for those who are saved.-6. They are to order themselve...
Rom # 41 The righteous Requirement of the Law Rom 8 vs 1-10
January 15, 2024 03:19 - 81.4 MB1. What is the solution to the hopelessness presented in Romans 7 by Paul, about the relationship between Law and Sin----2. The problem ultimately came to the question, who shall deliver me from this body of death----3. The question needed an answer from a who and from what-- Paul said, thank God for Jesus Christ, our Lord. --4. Why-- because there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ.--5. WHY-- Because the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ has made me free from the ...
BSGC Phil # 1 Put it to my account Philemon 1
January 08, 2024 04:01 - 66.5 MBTitle-s-- 1. Put that on my account, 2. Begotten while in my chains, 3. The runaway sinners--1. God never tires from preaching the gospel.--2. The book of Philemon is a gospel letter. It is couched on the doctrines of God's salvation.--3. God determined to preach Christ again through this story of a run-away slave, Onesimus.--4. In his escape God caused Onesimus to stumble upon Paul in Rome where Paul was a prisoner.--5. And Paul still in chains preached the gospel to Philemon and as it were ...
Kenya # 5 Remove his filthy garments Zechariah 3
December 31, 2023 18:55 - 99.6 MBRemove the filthy garments from him, 2. A filthy garment problem, 3. I have removed your iniquity from you, 4. The robes of vindication, 5. Iniquity removed in one day.--1. We continue to contend that the Old Testament is a testimony of the Lord Jesus and His work of salvation.--2. And where the Lord is found there must also be a gospel testimony to be gleaned.--3. And in this vision of Zechariah God came and preached the matter of the work of our Lord Jesus Christ in the justification of His...
Kenya # 4 Mrs Potiphar and the gospel mystery Gen 39
December 28, 2023 18:49 - 74.1 MBTitle-s-- Mrs. Potiphar and the gospel mystery, 2. How did Mrs. not get condemned, 3. The doctrine of imputation-the hall mark of God's gospel--1. The story of Joseph and Mrs. Potiphar is one of the most familiar albeit scandalous story of the Old Testament as is the story of David and Bathsheba.--2. Unfortunately, much of Christendom has not looked at this story and such scandalous stories as gospel testimonies. Instead, they have been used as treatises on moralism, which is far from the pro...
Kenya Con # 3 The dream and its interpretation Dan 2
December 27, 2023 05:50 - 76.2 MBThe dream and its interpretation, 2. A strange thing that the king requires, 3. I have found a man from the captives of Judah.--1. We enter into another gospel instalment that I preached in Nairobi Kenya at Tassia.--2. We opened the Conference -Let these go their way Conference- with a message on God's righteousness from Romans 3.--3. And we continued to build and expand on the matter of what it is that God requires for the salvation of a sinner. And this is VERY IMPORTANT given the rampant c...
Kenya Con # 2 Let these go their way John 18
December 24, 2023 18:00 - 90.9 MBMessage Title- Let these go their way--1. The Lord Jesus was getting ready to be crucified and as He was taken to trial He continued to preach the gospel.--2. Apostle John preached the same theology that Paul expounded but in story form.--3. As Jesus was arrested, He said to the soldiers, if they were taking Him, then -these- his disciples should be set free-LET THESE GO THEIR WAY.--4. And that was one of the best gospel words that have been uttered in the bible. Jesus was saying, if He is ta...
Kenya Conf # 1 God's righteousness revealed Rom 3: 9-31
December 17, 2023 21:44 - 83.2 MBMessage Titles- 1. All under sin, 2. God's righteousness revealed, 3. Boasting excluded, 4, What then----1. We opened our first Nairobi, Kenya conference at Tassia with a gospel teaching from Romans 3.--2. Romans 3 has a ton of gospel nuggets that must be taught, understood, declared, believed.--3. The gospel of God is the gospel of Jesus Christ.--4. The gospel of God reveals man's problem, sickness as sin and leaves everyone in the same predicament of unrighteousness and hopelessness -everyo...
CC # 147 Caleb's Promise and Christ fulfilled Joshua 15 vs 13-20
October 02, 2023 03:52 - 43.5 MBToday's gospel instalment- 10-01-2023--Sermon Title- 1. Caleb's Promise and Christ, 2. Caleb's promise and God's salvation fulfilled--1..Israel is entering the Promised Land.--2..And there was a land inheritance to be parceled out according to God's instructions.--3..Caleb, Joshua's compatriot features heavily on the side of Judah..--4.. He commanded that a city be taken, Debir or Kiriath Sepher- and whoever would do it would get his daughter..--5..A strange proposal to our ears, but lots of ...
ROM # 40 No condemnation in Christ Jesus Rom 8: 1-4
September 18, 2023 03:35 - 49.8 MBNo condemnation in Christ--Text- Romans 8 vs 1-4--1.What is non condemnation---2..What is to be in Christ---3..How does one get into Christ ---4..What is walking according to the flesh---5.What is walking according to the Spirit---6..What is the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ---7..What is the righteous requirement of the Law----Many nuggets to glean and it is free..
ROM # 39 O Wretched man that I am, Rom 7: 21-25
September 11, 2023 03:32 - 48.1 MBText- Romans 7 vs 21-25-Title-s-- 1. Evil present with my will to do good, -2. Another Law in my members, -3. O wretched man that I am, -4. Who shall deliver me from this body of death.-SERMON NOTES---1. Sin and Law work together to always produce death..--2.Sin creates a situation in which one wills-desires to do good, but they see evil present in the good they will to do..--3.Sin is intrinsic to the nature of being of all born in Adam.. And it brings one into an INESCAPBLE captivity.--4..A ...
ROM # 38 The Law can't save from sin Rom 7 vs 13-20
September 04, 2023 03:42 - 41.6 MBToday's gospel instalment- 09-03-2023-Text- Romans 7 vs 13-20--Title-s-- 1. The Law cannot save, 2. The Law can not help with sin. 3. The power of sin is the Law, 4. Law plus sin is death. --1. The redeemed have legally died to the Law by Christ's death that they may be married to Him.--2. Under the Law none can bear any acceptable fruit to God, but only fruit to death -condemnation-. --3. But why then the Law-- How does the Law fit into the whole matter, if it does not cause salvation----4. ...
ROM # 37 IS the Law sin? Rom 7 vs 7-12
August 28, 2023 03:22 - 39.9 MBToday's gospel instalment- 08-27-2023-Text- Romans 7 vs 7-12-Title- 1. Is the Law sin-- 2..Sin's advantage is the Law-1..Given what Paul has taught about salvation and righteousness and the believer's relationship to the Law, there has to be objections to be anticipated and to be answered especially from the camp of the -law keepers-..-2..The law -keeper- doesn't understand the function or purpose of the Law..They have used the Law wrongly to make it for establishing righteousness for themsel...
ROM # 36 Divorce Certificate and Romans 7
August 21, 2023 05:10 - 52.8 MBThe certificate of Divorce and Romans 7 connection .-Text-s-- 1..Romans 7 vs 1-7 and Matt 19 vs 1-11-1..We will continue to declare from the scriptures that Law and Gospel AREN'T the same thing. They can't be yoked together and still remain with the TRUTH..-2..To get the gospel correct , a DISTINCTION must be made between Law and Gospel..And for me this is a hill to die on..-3..This distinction God has repeatedly labored to demonstrate and teach from all scriptures -Old and New-, which thing ...
ROM # 35 The believer's relationship to the Law, Rom 7 vs 1-6
August 14, 2023 01:30 - 44.5 MBText- Romans 7 vs 1-6-1..Back to Romans 7 to pick up Paul's arguments on the Law, a matter that was needful to be understood then as it is now..-2..Paul said sin shall not have dominion on you because you are not under law but grace..-3..That means law brings dominion of sin as to condemn , but grace doesn't and the two -Law and g race- are INCOMPATIBLE..-4..Paul opens Romans 7 to expand on why this is so...And he says it is about how God has accomplished the matter by Christ Jesus..-5..The r...
1Sam # 12 The Father's donkeys have been found, 1Sam 9 & 10
August 07, 2023 06:40 - 46.2 MBToday's gospel message-08-06-2023-Message Title- The donkeys have been found-Text- 1Samuel 9 - 10-1..Tish, Saul's father lost his donkeys ..-2..He dispatched Saul to go find them ..-3..Why did Saul not find the donkeys---4..And how are lost donkeys recovered ---5..Of course false religion has its many trickand prescriptions on how to find lost donkeys, but God has His own way..-6..It is a berean gospel message ...The gospel nuggets are hidden in the details of the text .-7..It is a berean mes...
1Sam # 11 Tish's donkeys lost, 1Sam 9 vs 1-14
July 31, 2023 04:19 - 43.5 MBSermon Title- 1..Tish's donkeys lost,-1..Remember , Israel has rejected God and they want a king like their neighbors.-2..But God said, this is what your new king is going to be like...VERY ABUSIVE and will leave you BANKRUPT.-3..And that as a gospel testimony of what the Law was given to do as a ruler of sinners...The Law will not make a sinner rich-perish the thought..Rather it puts burdens on them to make them poor...-4.And God will not hear the testimony of righteousness from anyone who h...
1Sam # 10 Israel rejects God 1Sam 8
July 10, 2023 04:17 - 40.7 MBTitle-s-- 1. Israel rejects God. 2. The Law is a yoke and of slavery, 3. Who was the king that Israel chose to be under-- 4. What was the gospel testimony of them of rejecting God and having their own king----1. The Old Testament continues to bear witness of the same story of Law and grace even in the stories where this is not expressly said, but it is there to be found with a proper Christ and gospel centered hermeneutic.--2. Israel has had prosperity and freedom under Samuel. God defeated t...
1Sam #9 Ebenezer 1Samuel 7
July 03, 2023 03:47 - 52.3 MBToday's gospel instalment- 07-02-2023--Sermon Title- 1. Ebenezer, 2. The Philistines have been defeated--Text- 1Samuel 7--1. The gospel is simple, but has many moving parts-that is what we declare over and over.--2. God told the story of Christ in the capture of the ark-and with it the end of the Law.--3. The ark was captured by the Philistines and it got them a lot of trouble -sickness and death-.--4. Atonement had to be made by something that God approved -a sinless sacrifice-trespass sacri...
1Sam # 8 God's solution to the ark problem 1Sam 6
June 26, 2023 04:02 - 45.4 MBToday's gospel instalment- 06-25-2023--Sermon Title- God's solution to the ark problem--Text- 1samuel 6--1. The ark was among the Philistines territory and it was causing mayhem. It was getting a lot of people killed and many others afflicted by pestilence.--2. And that to say-the ark contained something that was killing them and that means the two tablets of stone-the letter that kills-engraved on stones-the Ten Commnandments.--3. And where Tablets of Stone meet sinners they kill-because the...
1Sam # 7 The Problem with the ark 1Sam 5
June 19, 2023 03:34 - 40.7 MBMessage- The problem with the ark-Text- 1 Samuel 5-1..The Covenant of the Law -Moses , Mt Sinai- was destined to come to an end.-2..It is not a New Testament teaching..Even the Old Testament taught it in diverse ways.-3..The Law anticipated its own retirement and succession by something greater and better.-4..God taught and rehearsed this truth by the story of Eli and his family...He killed them, but promised to raise a better and higher faithful priest ..-5..In other words, the Lord Jesus is...
CC # 148 What Sayest thou? John 8 vs 1-11
June 12, 2023 23:18 - 37.6 MBToday's gospel instalment- 06-12-2023--Text- John 8 vs 1-11--Sermon Title- 1. What sayest thou-- 2. Where are thine accusers-- 3. Neither do I condemn thee-Preached at Mt Zion Missionary Baptist church, TN--1. The story of the woman caught in adultery is a familiar story, but do people understand the gospel testimony in it----2. The woman was caught in the very act of sin and brought to Jesus to make a pronouncement on her. -The Larger point being, the Law was a school master to Christ-. --3....
ROM # 34 Freed from sin & Enslaved to God Rom 6 vs 15-23
June 05, 2023 04:39 - 42.9 MBToday's gospel instalment- 06-04-2023--Sermon Title- Freed from sin - Enslaved to God--Text- Romans 6 vs 15-23--1. The redeemed, the elect have a different relation to sin than everyone else.--2. Sin brings under death and condemnation.--3. Sin is a master and has its own wages-payout.--4. Sin works with law to produce death and that is its payout. And it is not just death, but condemnation in Hell. --5. The redeemed have been freed from sin as a master.--6. This does not mean they do not sin...
ROM # 33 Sin has lost dominion ROM 6 vs 10-17
May 30, 2023 00:52 - 40 MBsermonaudio.com-sermon-529231649374373--Today's gospel instalment- 05-28-2023--Title- 1. Sin lost dominion because of grace, 2. Shall we sin more because of grace----Text- ROMANS 6 Vs 10-17--1. Shall we sin the more that grace may increase-- May it never be- --2. But there is more to that than just an exhortation or command. --3. Let us unpack it. The redeemed have a relationship that has been established for them in and by Christ. They are and were united to Him in His death, His baptism on ...
ROM # 32 Died with Christ Rom 6 vs 1-11
May 22, 2023 01:39 - 47.4 MBTitle- 1. Died with Christ, 2. Reckon yourselves as dead to sin. --Text- Romans 6 vs 1-11--1. Paul came and said-shall we continue in sin that grace may increase----2. And he said, God forbid, but he did not make a blank or naked statement.--3. HE worked through the theological points-gospel points of his exhortation.--4. He said, the believer died, resurrected with Christ.--5. And in this they were crucified to sin's power, the body of sin crucified, the old man dead.--6. The old man was wha...
ROM # 31 Shall we sin the more that grace may abound Rom 6 vs 1-7
May 15, 2023 09:27 - 55.9 MBSermon Title -s-- 1.Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound..-- 2..Died to sin. 3..Old Man crucified --1. Apostle Paul has labored to declare the believer's standing before through God's grace that is in the redemption in-by Christ Jesus.--2. The believer has been reconciled, justified and have peace with God.--3. But Paul has also said, where sin abounded grace did much more abound. And that was a theological fact that God's grace would always go above even the worst of sins.--4. And ...
ROM # 30 The gift unlike the offense Rom 5 vs 15-21
May 08, 2023 07:05 - 46.4 MB1. When Christ is understood then Adam is also understood.--2. Adam was a type of Him who was to come -Christ-, but only as a shadow.--3. God determined to preach the gospel first in Adam in which He introduced the legal concept of UNION, REPRESENTATION and IMPUTATION.--4. These are the most FUNDAMENTAL doctrines in respect of God's transaction of salvation.--5. Adam was raised as the representative of all human so that when he sinned all humanity was reckoned as having sinned with and in him...
ROM # 29 Sin was in the world ROM 5 vs 12-14
May 01, 2023 03:19 - 42.8 MBToday's gospel stream- 04-30-2023.-Title-s- --1. Death reigned from Adam through Moses.-2..Apart from the Law sin is dead -there is no imputation of it -.-3..Adam the cornerstone of sin, death and condemnation..-Text- Romans 5 vs 12 to 14..-1..Adam must be understood and believed upon if one is to understand and believe in Christ..-2..Adam and Christ are the only important people, but for a different testimony ...-3..Adam brought the side A of things that has caused all of humanity a lot of p...
ROM # 28 The woman whom you gave to me Rom 5 vs 12 & Gen 23
April 24, 2023 03:21 - 51.8 MBMessage title-s- --1. Sin and death IN Adam Pt 3. -2..The woman whom you gave me. 3...The glory of Christ in Adam.-Text - Romans 5 vs 13 and Genesis 3...-1. To understand Adam one must understand Christ and Christ is also understood when one understands Adam better.. -2..Many are fixated with the sin and death that Adam brought and miss much of the gospel testimonies in the story of Adam.. -3..The gospel is in the details, in the ordering of things.. -4..Adam was just not representative of Hi...
ROM # 27 Sin & Death in Adam Pt 2 Rom 5 vs 12, Gen 2 & 3
April 17, 2023 04:54 - 47.4 MBToday's Gospel instalment- 04-16-2023--Message Title- Sin and Death in Adam Pt 2--Text -s-- Romans 5 vs 12, Gen 2 - 3--1. In Pt 2 of Sin and Adam we revisited the gospel testimony as God was preaching it through Adam.--2. We developed the theological understanding of God's ETERNAL PURPOSE in CHRIST - EPH 3-as the bedrock of all understanding of things GOD, things CHRIST, things SALVATION.--3. Unless the eternal purpose of God in Christ is understood as the overarching theme of God's glory the...
ROM # 26 Sin and Death in Adam Pt 1 Rom 5 vs 12
April 10, 2023 04:25 - 45.5 MBTitle- Death in Adam Pt 1.-Text- Romans 5 vs 12-14-1..The APOSTLE has labored in the matter of justification of a sinner and the benefits that flow from that reality in the present experience of suffering and tribulations.. -2..He has taught that through and in Christ the sinner has been granted access to God's grace, which gave them a righteous STANDING -JUSTIFICATION- .. -3..All matters of salvation are WRAPPED UP in the One MAN -JESUS CHRIST- .. -4..But how did the redeemed come to need re...
1Sam # 6 Ichabod-the Glory has departed 1Sam 4
April 03, 2023 06:10 - 56.5 MBToday's gospel instalment- 04-02-2023-Message Title -s- - 1. Ichabod, the glory has departed, 2..The Ark of God has been captured, 3. The death of Eli and his family-1..The more gospel details the Lord opens, the clearer the text becomes..-2..The story of Eli and his family was a gospel testimony..-3..Eli's family were from the house of Levi, that is, they were a priestly family..-4.. Levi's house mediated the Law and its institutions..-5..But this only for an appointed time as God was moving...
1Sam # 5 Eli's house forever irredeemable by sacrifice 1 Sam 3
March 27, 2023 04:48 - 50.2 MB1..Many professing Christians say the Law of Moses -Mt Sinai, the Ten Commandments- are the rule of life for the redeemed..-2..But this not correct... If the Law is the believer's rule of life then Levi -Moses and Aaron- are their mediators before God and good luck.. -3..Levi is not the mediator of the New Testament... Similarly, Christ Jesus is not the mediator of Mt Sinai, the Law. -3..Christ Jesus came to establish His own Covenant as its priesthood by fulfillment and displacement of Moses...
1 Sam # 4 The weaknesses & End of the Law 1 Sam 2 vs 12-36
March 06, 2023 06:18 - 51.4 MBToday's Gospel 03-05-2023--Sermon Title -s-- 1. No old man in the house, 2. The sins and failure of the Law's priesthood, 3. The Priesthood of the Law's weaknesses.--1. We continued with the gospel testimony in the OT from the story of Hannah, Eli and his sons.--2. We contend as always that these stories are gospel recordings that are only properly understood when viewed from the New Testament.--3. So, the testimony of Eli and his corrupt sons was enlarged -expanded-.--4. The sons of Eli were...
ROM # 24 Died for the ungodly ROM 5 vs 6-11
February 27, 2023 05:00 - 43.1 MBTitle- Rom - 24 Died for the ungodly-Text- Romans 5 vs 6-11-1..The summary of all sinners as God sees things-Without Strength, Ungodly, Sinners and Enemies.--2..And in that state none can claim to have come or figured Jesus out by themselves..-3..But this is what God has done to demonstrate His love towards us -the elect-..-4..In due time -the right time- Christ died for us... Jesus died for -hyper- on behalf of, in the place of those weak and unrighteous sinners..-5..The implication is that ...
CC # 147 Old Testament Gospel hermeneutics 2Sam 11 & 12
February 27, 2023 04:50 - 43.7 MBMessage- Old Testament Gospel Hermeneutics-Text- 2Samuel 11 and 12, Genesis 39.-1..Jesus gave us the hermeneutics to read the Old Testament..-2..He said Lo, in the scroll of the book it is written about Me..-3..He said, the scriptures testify of Me.. -John 5 vs 39-.-4..Many professing Christians are still blighted by moralistic teaching..-5..Much of the Old Testament teaching that you hear is moralistic... It is NOT GOSPEL..-6..It is not gospel because a wrong hermeneutic is being used and al...
ROM # 23 Rejoice in Sufferings Romans 5 vs 1-4
February 20, 2023 04:38 - 46.5 MB1. The redeemed have been justified from all their sins by the faith of Christ, that is, His obedience.--2. They have peace with God and that means they are reconciled to Him from the condemnation of their sin.--3. But in the light of that justification, Paul says, there are trials-sufferings-tribulations to be had.--4. And tribulations translate the GREEK WORD thlipsis, which means a pressing together, a putting of pressure and creating a confined space.--5. So, tribulations are a pressing t...
1Sam # 2 The Christology of Hannah's prayer 1Samuel 2 vs 1-10
February 13, 2023 04:53 - 52.4 MBToday's Gospel instalment- 02-12-2023--Message Title- The Christology of Hannah's Prayer--Text- 1Samuel 2 vs 1-10--1. It is no farce or exaggeration to say the Old Testament does bear witness of Christ.--2. We continued to develop the gospel testimony through the story of Hannah and Peninnah.--3. We observed that the two women represented the testimony of two covenants as Sarah and Hagar before them.--4. And as with Sarah, Hannah's womb was restrained by God from having a child, a God imposed...