Him We Proclaim
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Habakkuk 2:5-20: Let All The Earth Keep Silence: God's Messages to the Self-Exalting
April 16, 2024 18:00 - 52 minutes - 701 KBHabakkuk 2:5-20: Summary: God's answer to Habakkuk continues. Having addressed his own people, he now directs his attention to Babylon. Though this nation may think its power uncontestable, it will find that all its wickedness will come back on its head. Though his people are chastened, God has not abdicated his throne. He still rules heaven and earth. He still speaks. And all that would boast in themselves and stand in opposition to his glory will be silenced. Sermon Outline: To the one...
Habakkuk 1:1-2:4: The Righteous Shall Live By Faith: God's Cross-Centered Answer to the Questions Our Suffering Surfaces
April 07, 2024 18:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBHabakkuk 1:1-2:4: Summary: Habakkuk despairs over the spiritual condition of Judah. If he's pained by it, why doesn't God seem to be? And when God answers, why is the answer not revival? On the farthest end, why is it judgment by means of a wicked enemy? In revealing His knowledge of the Chaldeans, God reveals His control over the situation. His purpose will not be thwarted. Still, acknowledging this, how can the everlasting Holy One ordain the evil as instrumental in the judgment of His peop...
Acts 26:2-29: God Raises the Dead: The Un-Incredible Hope that Christ and Christianity Confirm for the World
March 31, 2024 18:00 - 52 minutes - 704 KBActs 26:2-29: Summary: Paul is on trial for his hope in the resurrection. Given a pulpit, he addresses the king on the matter. Pleading for patience, Paul recounts his roots. Laying the foundation for the dramatic reversal in his life, he speaks to his upbringing and notoriety within Pharisaical Judaism, and how that led him, against hope, to oppose Jesus by persecuting the Church. In the midst of his rage, however, his hope found realization where he'd have never imagined it: the risen Jesus...
Galatians 6:11-18: The Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ: The Churches' One and All-Bearing Boast
March 24, 2024 18:00 - 54 minutes - 729 KBGalatians 6:11-18: Summary: Paul pours out his heart in these final words of the letter to the churches of Galatia. The flood of love is filled with the cross of Christ. The false teachers' concern is their own glory and comfort. Thus, they preach circumcision for man's praise and to avoid man's persecution. Their preaching isn't aimed at obedience to God, but only earthly acclaim. Their boast is in their success rate. Paul however cannot fathom boasting, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus...
Galatians 6:6-10: Sowing and Reaping: Heirs of Grace Sow to the Spirit
March 19, 2024 18:00 - 33 minutes - 443 KBGalatians 6:6-10: Summary: Continuing with the theme of walking in the Spirit, Paul urges the Galatians to support those who teach the true gospel, sow to the Spirit and not to the flesh, and continue to love your neighbor as yourself. True teachers will not teach you to obey the law, but rather, because of the freedom found in the grace of Christ, to love one another rather than self. The freedom found in Christ is not to be used to serve the flesh. Sowing to the flesh, will just like in t...
Galatians 6:1-5: Test Your Own Work: How Holy Love Attests to Heirs of Saving Grace
March 10, 2024 18:00 - 48 minutes - 647 KBGalatians 6:1-5: Summary: The grace of the Gospel creates a different community than man-centered law-keeping. The law, inciting the flesh, leads to sin, rivalry, hypocrisy, and conceit. The Gospel, fixated on Christ, supplying the Spirit, and stirring up faith, creates and cultivates a culture where love and holiness are a constant passion and care. Paul thus calls the Galatians to exhibit this. A sincere and gentle care for corporate holiness, with a cross-centered humility that bears the b...
Galatians 5:16-26: Walk by the Spirit: The Sufficiency of Christ for Christian Living
March 03, 2024 18:00 - 47 minutes - 634 KBGalatians 5:16-26: Summary: By His work, Jesus has purchased the power for our walk. He has lived by, died to procure, risen to receive, ascended to send down, and sat down to mediate---the Holy Spirit. As He is not a Gift promised through Moses, or able to be obtained through the flesh, it is foolhardy and unbiblical to come under the yoke of that covenant for living to God. The righteous shall live by faith. Presently, this remains a battle, just a battle Christ has equipped us to win under...
Galatians 5:7-15: You Were Called to Use Your Freedom: Removing Hindrances to Running Well
February 27, 2024 18:00 - 57 minutes - 766 KBGalatians 5:7-15: Summary: Paul affirms, the Galatian believers had started well; but as steadfastness in the truth agrees with smoothness of gait, their toleration of a false gospel had hindered their running. They were attempting to go forward with a backward looking limp. Paul assures them a self-justifying view of the Mosaic law is not from the God Who called them in His grace. And as they were united by faith in Jesus, they needed to know: a little leaven leavens the whole lump. Paul exp...
Galatians 5:1-6: Cutting Words: An Apostolic Guide to Identifying God's People
February 19, 2024 18:00 - 37 minutes - 496 KBGalatians 5:1-6: Summary: Having illustrated the difference between grace and law through the examples of Hagar and Isaac, Paul moves to apply the message to the Galatians. They are free! What a glorious truth! And they are not to sacrifice this freedom for anything the world offers. And to be specific, circumcision is simply off the table for them. Though its proponents promise that it will truly make them one of God's own, and open up the door to righteous living, Paul spies the fly in the ...
Galatians 4:21-31: We are Children of Promise: Staying True to Sovereign Grace
February 13, 2024 18:00 - 49 minutes - 667 KBGalatians 4:21-31: Summary: Paul builds on the assertion that the false teachers want, however unconsciously, to shut these churches out from the inheritance of Christ. He makes an allegory out of an historical situation to prove his point. The law records Abraham as having two sons, one by a slave woman, another by the free woman. Ishmael was the byproduct of pragmatic unbelief---man's attempt to secure God's promise. Isaac was the byproduct of sovereign grace---God's faithfulness to His pro...
Galatians 4:8-20: Until Christ is Formed in You: Pushing Through the Pains of Gospel Labor
February 04, 2024 18:00 - 51 minutes - 680 KBGalatians 4:8-20: Summary: Having been delivered from the redemptive ideologies of the world, the Galatian churches are now returning to their former slavery by adopting the Mosaic covenant as part of their justification. Anything that robs Jesus of His saving sufficiency, including a false understanding of God’s law-covenant, is anti-Christ, anti-Gospel. Fearing thus that he’s labored over them in vain, Paul reminds them of how God blessed them, and of how it was proven by their Christian ca...
Hebrews 10:18-25: Since We Have a Great Priest Over God's House: First Five Series
January 29, 2024 18:00 - 52 minutes - 384 KBHebrews 10:18-25: Summary: Through Jesus, we have forgiveness of sins, unfettered access to God, and the oversight of this great Priest. Flowing from His dying love, and the confidence it affords us as the family of God, the author gives us a trio of exhortations: let us draw near, let us hold fast, let us consider how. A local church is a priestly family especially given to the ministry of confident prayer, confessional courage, and corporate encouragement and/or Christian competency. Sermo...
Amos 5:6-15: Establish Justice in the Gate
January 21, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 816 KBAmos 5:6-15: Summary: Forsaking their assignment, God's people have sided with the world in perverting justice. Reminding them that He is the Creator, and that He cares about the morality of His image-bearers, and that He knows the full-measure of our sins, and that He will administer infallible justice, and that they are under His judgment, He calls on them to seek Him and live. In effect, He calls on them to love good and seek it, to hate evil and banish it. He calls on them to establish He...
Amos 8:11-12: Feast, or Famines
January 14, 2024 18:00 - 51 minutes - 685 KBAmos 8:11-12: Summary: God has spoken, but His people have not listened. They act like the world. Their worship is barren. They despise true heralds. They won't repent. They're at ease in Zion. And that's how you incur the judgment of judgments, a famine of hearing and/or finding the Word of God. Silence! Such a silence signals the end of God's people. Is there any hope? Will the Word sound forth again? It will. It has. It does. But how can we learn from Israel's downfall? How are we to avoid...
Luke 18:1-8: They Ought Always to Pray and Not Lose Heart
January 07, 2024 18:00 - 42 minutes - 55.8 MBLuke 18:1-8: SummaryWith this passage in Luke, we tackle the second theme of our "First Five" series, prayer. In ongoing discussion of discipleship, humility, and eschatological judgment, Jesus cuts to the chase, calling for persistence in prayer. Working from a proper understanding of who God is and how he responds, we are encouraged to pray, to set our hopes in the context of the already-but-not-yet kingdom and rule of Christ. While we often root God's willingness to hear and respond to his...
2 Kings 6:8-23: Those Who Are With Us Are More: A New Year's Eve Sermon
December 31, 2023 18:00 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MB2 Kings 6:8-23: SummaryThe king of Syria, in initiating war with Israel, intends to encamp at a certain place in the hope of successful raids. The King of kings consistently frustrates his best laid plans. Elisha, the man of God, is God's vessel of revelation for the peace of God's people. Greatly vexed, the Syrian king learns of Elisha's debilitating ministry and seeks to capture him. An army of men is deployed against the man of God. Elisha's servant awakes to this enemy army. Elisha meets ...
Exodus 40:34-38: He Tabernacled Among Us
December 24, 2023 18:00 - 52 minutes - 72.2 MBExodus 40:34-38: SummaryExodus closes as the Lord enters the tabernacle, filling it with His glory. Even Moses, who finished all the work as the Lord commanded, is put out by His indwelling presence. Is there a way back into the tent of meeting? Indeed. It's now furnished with emblems of grace that keep relationship with an ever-present Lord. In this way, their Shepherd visibly dwells among them, guiding them through the wilderness to the Promised Land. They see Him. As He moves, they move. B...
Exodus 33:7-34:9: Jesus, the Radiance of the Glory of God
December 17, 2023 18:00 - 58 minutes - 783 KBExodus 33:7-34:9: Summary: From covenant-affirming to golden-calf making, Israel has broken faithfulness with their God. Can sinners be reconciled to God? Can He be reconciled to us? Moses records a conversation between friends, he and the Lord. This is his concern, and God's glory is the answer. But what is that? Can His glory be described? Can we understand it? And if so, how so? To this end, God preaches Himself and, in doing so, reveals the 'backside' of His essential glory to Moses as a ...
Exodus 16:1-21: Bread From Heaven
December 11, 2023 18:00 - 54 minutes - 731 KBExodus 16:1-21: Summary: Israel has left Egypt and finds itself longing for the "comforts" of Egypt. God promises to give them meat and bread from heaven, but intends to test them as to whether their hearts are truly with him. Do they just want food? Or are does he have their hearts? Will they obey, or will they ignore God in their effort to serve themselves? Sermon Outline: Grumbling along the way But they did not listen Not what they asked for
Exodus 2:1-10: Oh, Beautiful Child
December 03, 2023 18:00 - 40 minutes - 53.6 MBExodus 2:1-10: Summary: Israel mourns in Egypt. The respected name of Joseph is no longer known in the halls of power. The fruitfulness of Israel stirs fears in Pharaoh, resulting in oppression, and eventually an edict condemning all Hebrew male children to be cast into the Nile. An unvoiced question hangs in the air: How will God be faithful to his promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? Does God hear their cries? How will he answer Pharaoh's determination? At just the right time, God enters ...
Galatians 4:1-7: God Sent Forth His Son: From Slaves to Heirs through God
November 26, 2023 18:00 - 54 minutes - 725 KBGalatians 4:1-7: Summary: Paul expands his argument to show more precisely what God has done to make heirs out of slaves. Continuing a prior analogy, he seems to relate a view of salvation history to personal history. As believers in the age of promise owned everything, yet lived under the law, being shorted the full enjoyment of faith in Christ, so those heirs in the age of faith were, at one time, slaves under the law. Paul now expands on 'under the law' as slavery to 'elementary principles...
Galatians 3:23-29: Heirs According to Promise: On the Fullness of Faith in Jesus Christ
November 19, 2023 18:00 - 56 minutes - 7.36 MBGalatians 3:23-29: Summary: Paul, reasserting the temporary nature and function of the Mosaic covenant, states its final purpose: to clarify that the sinner's only hope of a right standing with God is by faith in Jesus Christ. Once Christ came, and faith in seed matured to faith in Jesus, the Mosaic covenant had served its purpose. Faith had come full, so that being part of the family of God was no longer identifiable by observing the law. As with justification, so also adoption was through ...
Galatians 3:15-22: Why Then the Law?: How God's Law Serves Faith in the All-Sufficient Christ
November 12, 2023 18:00 - 54 minutes - 730 KBGalatians 3:15-22: Summary: Likely against accusations that his Gospel makes the law pointless, Paul continues to explain the Bible's testimony to the grace of God. Drawing on a human example from the world of legal documentation, once a covenant (and its contents) are ratified, nothing can be added to nullify it. How much more a covenant that God has made and conditioned upon Himself? The promises God made to Abraham in Genesis 12 were finally to Christ. 430 years later, the law, being adde...
Galatians 3:7-14: It, the Gospel, Is Written: God's Word for Our Faith in Jesus' Work
November 05, 2023 18:00 - 57 minutes - 75.1 MBGalatians 3:7-14: Summary:Having scoured his personal meeting with Jesus for Gospel affirmation, Paul now turns to the testimony of Scripture for proving that faith in Christ is all that's necessary for salvation. For Paul, affirming the sufficiency of Jesus is finally about the sufficiency of Scripture. What does God's Word say? That Abraham was justified by faith. That those of faith are likewise blessed. And that the Law serves and forwards that blessing by cursing us. As prior to the Law ...
Galatians 3:1-6: How Did You Receive the Spirit?: The Sufficiency of Christ Crucified and Hearing with Faith
October 29, 2023 18:00 - 749 KBGalatians 3:1-6: Summary: Though they'd heard the message of Christ crucified, some had bewitched these churches. They'd stopped beholding Christ in His sufficiency, and started believing they needed to (and could) supply what, apparently, He didn't completely purchase. It pays to return to one's beginning in Christ. Paul asks but one question: how did they receive the Holy Spirit? The Spirit's work of regeneration, sanctification, and preservation is implied; but the question is, from Whom d...
Galatians 2:15-21: I Do Not Nullify the Grace of God: Upholding the Purpose of the Cross
October 22, 2023 18:00 - 57 minutes - 777 KBGalatians 2:15-21: Summary:Paul asserts that the only way any person, Jew or Gentile, can be justified is through faith in Jesus Christ. Otherwise, no one will be justified. As this assertion settles the truth of our sinfulness, it also appears to allow for continued sinfulness. Paul seems to counter this probable accusation against a Gospel that posits full acceptance with God on the basis of a righteousness not our own. Every person God has justified, He has also vivified (made spiritually ...
1 Thessalonians 1:6-8: Gospel Megaphones
October 15, 2023 18:00 - 39 minutes - 531 KB1 Thessalonians 1:6-8: Summary: With thanksgiving to God, Paul recounts the remarkable advance of God's eternal love, first, for and, then, through the Thessalonian church into all the world. Indeed, their faith in God went forth everywhere.
1 Thessalonians 1:6-8: Famous Faith
October 09, 2023 18:00 - 53 minutes - 723 KB1 Thessalonians 1:6-8: Summary: With thanksgiving to God, Paul recounts the remarkable advance of God's eternal love, first, for and, then, through the Thessalonian church into all the world. Indeed, their faith in God went forth everywhere.
2:11-14: Conduct Unbecoming: When Our Actions Counteract God's Gospel
October 01, 2023 18:00 - 57 minutes - 766 KB2:11-14: Summary:Gospel truth is for living that commends the Gospel. Continuing to advance the truth that his Gospel is the Gospel, Paul recounts an instance in which Peter's actions, and those of others, including Barnabas, counteracted the truth of the Gospel. Fear of disapproval with the circumcision party leads Peter to withdraw from table fellowship with Christians in Antioch. It's hardly an immaterial action. In it, Paul sees a public act of hypocrisy with the power to spread abroad ag...
Galatians 2:1-10: Together for the Gospel: Navigating Paths of Faithful Stewardship
September 24, 2023 18:00 - 54 minutes - 71 MBGalatians 2:1-10: Summary:Paul returns to Jerusalem, having spent 14 years preaching the Gospel among the Gentiles. His visit is couched in humility. He wants (and needs) still to be grounded in the Gospel. Remember, revelation over 'revelations.' While there, Titus the Greek becomes a case study in justification. Though false brothers slip in like serpents to spy out and throw down the churches' justified freedom in Christ, Paul stands his ground on the Gospel of grace and, in doing so, is b...
Galations 1:11-24: In Defense of God's Gospel: The Grace that Made Paul a Gospel Preacher
September 17, 2023 18:00 - 51 minutes - 686 KBGalations 1:11-24: Summary: Paul continues to assert that he preaches God's Gospel. His source is the risen Jesus. In defense of this, Paul shares his testimony. Centrally, the eternal and sovereign grace of God applied, wherein Christ was effectually revealed to him, made Paul, yes, a Christian, but also an apostle and preacher, though former persecutor, of the Gospel of God's all-sufficient grace in Christ crucified and raised. Paul's understanding of the Gospel is divinely derived---and in...
Galatians 1:6-10: Apostolic Astonishment: Serving Christ by Safeguarding the Gospel of His Grace
September 10, 2023 18:00 - 54 minutes - 71 MBGalatians 1:6-10: Summary:Paul showcases his love for these churches by reproving them as a father, his wayward children. Having begun by the sheer grace of God in Christ, these churches have begun to introduce merits (and demerits) into the equation of salvation, and Paul is astonished and agitated by this. He clarifies: to do this is not to continue in the Gospel. It's to turn from it to no Gospel at all. If you deny the sufficiency of Christ, you deny Christ, the all-sufficient Savior, Him...
Galatians 1:1-5: Introducing and Establishing: Paul's Authority for Christ's Churches
September 03, 2023 18:00 - 51 minutes - 70.3 MBGalatians 1:1-5: Summary:Galatians begins with introductions that establish Paul's authority for giving necessary correction to Christ's churches against enemy incursions that would negate or nullify the saving truth of the Gospel. He's an apostle, and his apostleship is not of earth. It's from God through the risen Jesus. As the resurrection of Jesus establishes Paul's authority, Paul's apostleship acts as an apologetic or defense of Jesus' resurrection. He's to be heard with ears attuned to...
Malachi 4:1-6: Malachi, Messenger of the Unchanging Lord of Love: Part 4
August 27, 2023 18:00 - 52 minutes - 6.83 MBMalachi 4:1-6: Summary: By Malachi, the unchanging Lord of love addresses the distinction that will be made at the Day of the Lord. For the wicked, it will be as a burning oven, certain to set all the wicked ablaze without hope of regrowth. The same Day, for the righteous, will be as a healing sun. The light of Christ will disperse the darkness. Our wounds for His sake will be mended, our battle scars, renewed as youth, our tears, wiped forever away, our lives in His footsteps, once and for a...
Malachi 2:17-3:18: Malachi, Messenger of the Unchanging Lord of Love
August 20, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 873 KBMalachi 2:17-3:18: Summary: There is an esteem for God that distinguishes the lovers of God in time and for eternity. Israel and his priesthood had failed at this point. They wearied God with their words as those who had wearied of God in their hearts. Once more, they'd lost touch with His love, and it showed. They questioned His justice, withheld His due, depreciated His service and, in these ways, shot themselves in the soul. But not without hope. Amazing. The Lord is coming to purify His p...
Malachi 2:1-16: Malachi, Messenger of the Unchanging Lord of Love: Part 2
August 13, 2023 18:00 - 57 minutes - 771 KBMalachi 2:1-16: Summary: Unfortunately, the sons of Levi have not followed in Levi's footsteps. Accordingly, God will curse their blessings. Their ministry, mighty in producing godless lives, will be disavowed of God's pleasure and power. Oh that they would have hearts for God that listened well and taught what was true to the good of souls. Because they didn't, the people didn't live faithfully. In their disregard for the sanctuary, they were faithless to one another, allowing idolatry to ta...
Malachi 1:1-14: Malachi, Messenger of the Unchanging Lord of Love: Part 1
August 06, 2023 18:00 - 58 minutes - 778 KBMalachi 1:1-14: Summary: This book, mighty in zeal and reproof, accordingly begins with a declaration of God's love for Israel. This love is magnified by its contrast in the history of Esau and Edom, whom God hated. This opening scene is meant to fuel love for God, expressed in biblical worship; at the same time, however, it gives the reason (and rebuke) for Israel's polluted worship. They doubt the love of God. They've lost touch with it; and you cannot lose touch with the love of God for si...
Haggai 2:1-23: Haggai's House of Greater Glory: Haggai, Part 2
July 30, 2023 18:00 - 55 minutes - 73.1 MBHaggai 2:1-23: Summary:The Lord sends Haggai with three more messages to support the people in the building of God's house and beyond it. He speaks first to the means of the House---serving in the strength that He supplies. He speaks next to the ministry of the House---its sanctifying effect in the life of His people. Finally, he speaks to the man of the House---by Zerubbabel, the Lord will resume the Davidic dynasty, effectively bringing His throne and His house together. He will bring about...
Haggai 1:1-15: Haggai's House of Greater Glory: Haggai, Part 1
July 23, 2023 18:00 - 50 minutes - 69.8 MBHaggai 1:1-15: Summary:The Lord speaks through Haggai to a spiritually negligent people. They don't share the same concern of their covenant Lord for the glory of His house. Not recognizing the signs of His displeasure, they seek their profit in this world only to be perpetually frustrated by its returns. The Lord speaks to recenter their lives around Him, His glory, and Kingdom. Ever in His hands, the Sovereign of our circumstances proves the Sovereign of spirits, stirring them up to a work ...
Zephaniah 3:1-20: Zephaniah's Lord Will Be Awesome: Zephaniah, Part 3
July 16, 2023 18:00 - 54 minutes - 736 KBZephaniah 3:1-20: Summary:Zephaniah pronounces woe on the people of God for a spiritual ugliness, spanning prophet, priest, and people. The primary indicator of death and decay? An unwillingness to be corrected by the Word of God; indeed, they turn attempted correction into accelerated corruption. In the midst of this, the remnant of grace may wonder, 'Will we ever see the beauty of the Lord upon His people again? Will we ever have cause again to joyfully sing aloud?' The first of two main im...
Zephaniah 2:1-15: Gather Together, Yes, Gather: Zephaniah Part 2
July 09, 2023 18:00 - 52 minutes - 698 KBZephaniah 2:1-15: Summary:While the ungodly world gathers to play God, the remnant of grace gathers to seek the Lord, which is essential, both, to our preservation as God's true and distinctive people and, thereby, our evangelization of an ignorantly taunting world on the cusp of condemnation. It is quite the burden that Zephaniah is made to bear and unload, that while God's Word has been recovered and reformation seems to be underway, God's people must be warned of judgment with the world in...
Zephaniah 1:1-18: The Lord Will Be Awesome: Zephaniah, Part 1
July 02, 2023 18:00 - 51 minutes - 689 KBZephaniah 1:1-18: Summary The glorious creator of everything sends his word through Zephaniah. "I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth!" Turning on its head Israel's expectation that the Day of the Lord is a time for rejoicing, Zephaniah lays out the coming devastation the earth and its inhabitants will experience because of the sin of man, and more specifically, the sin of God's covenant people.
Nahum 3:1-19: Judgment Belongs to the Lord: Nahum, Part 3
June 25, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 82.1 MBNahum 3:1-19: Summary: Nahum continues to share God's oracle concerning Nineveh and Assyria's fate. Beginning with a woe concerning the bloody city, God puts judgment in perspective, focusing on the victims of Assyria's policies. Following are three taunts that reflect on Assyria's claims to power. Though strong, Nineveh will fare no better than its victims. Though sure of its military dominance, it will find no refuge in the day that the tables turn. Despite its long reach, its presence and ...
Nahum 2:1-13: Judgment Belongs to the Lord: Nahum, Part 2
June 18, 2023 18:00 - 41 minutes - 54.7 MBNahum 2:1-13: Summary: As Nahum continues to explain the vision, he sketches in detail the demise of Nineveh and the demise of the empire. Despite the seeming strength of Nineveh, it is already ready to topple. Unbeknownst to it, YHWH is already here. He chides them to prepare, but it is for nothing. The march to the city is a song of increasing ruin and failure, shaming Assyria's military might and aspirations, as well as the king's claims to provide for his people's security. Nineveh's comm...
Nahum 1:1-15: Judgment Belongs to the Lord: Nahum, Part 1
June 11, 2023 18:00 - 50 minutes - 679 KBNahum 1:1-15: Summary: Nahum receives a vision from God. God arrives in glorious mastery of his creation, jealous, avenging, wrathful, and ready to judge those who would stand against him, to steal his glory. Yet, the master of all, the one who can pursue his enemies into darkness, is a stronghold for those who take refuge in him. Nahum is a master artist, a deft poet. His subject will one day bring the full weight of his wrath on those who oppose him, but in an act anticipating this final ju...
Jonah 4:1-11: Salvation Belongs to the Lord: Jonah, Part 4
June 04, 2023 18:00 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MBJonah 4:1-11: Summary: God has relented, and Jonah is exceedingly angry about it. He has nothing good to say about the goodness of God's glory applied to the Ninevites. In fact, he'd rather the Lord take his life than live in a world where God's love envelopes the world. The gentleness of God with Jonah is divine. He asks him to reflect on whether he's doing well in being angry that a city of souls has been spared. While he stews outside the city, God comforts him beyond his ability to comfor...
Jonah 3:1-10: Salvation Belongs to the Lord: Jonah, Part 3
May 28, 2023 18:00 - 51 minutes - 70.2 MBJonah 3:1-10: Summary: Jonah receives his second opportunity to serve the cause of God's truth and grace to Nineveh. At the call, he goes, walks a third of the way into the great but evil city, and preaches God's Word. It's a Word of judgment, fronted with mercy. How will the Ninevites receive it? Though it shouldn't be to our amazement (4:2), they believe God. They all seek God for mercy, the king serving as head of their citywide repentance - and that on the hope that the Lord is merciful a...
Jonah 1:17-2:10: Salvation Belongs to the Lord: Jonah, Part 2
May 21, 2023 18:00 - 52 minutes - 713 KBJonah 1:17-2:10: Summary:Jonah is down, but not dead; because God is no vain idol, but the true, living, and faithful Lord of salvation. A great fish is appointed as an instrument of rescue. Jonah has sunk to the bottom of the sea, the depths of almost certain despair and death due to his rebellion---but God above is able to deliver His people from our lowest depths. The fish is an ark, sustaining Jonah's life; it's made into a kind of sanctuary, in which the prophet remembers the Lord, calls...
Jonah 1:1-16: Salvation Belongs to the Lord: Jonah, Part 1
May 14, 2023 18:00 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MBJonah 1:1-16: Summary:God commissions Jonah to preach judgment against Nineveh, something it'd seem he'd love to do. Instead, for a reason explored in chapter 4, he tries, by all means, to run away from God's presence and ministry. For a prophet of God, he displays a shocking carelessness for the souls of others. While the mariners who gave him refuge are doing their best to keep from perishing at sea on account of his disobedience, he sleeps in the hull of the ship. A pagan captain asks a gr...
Obadiah 1:1-21: The Kingdom Shall Be The Lord's: Obadiah
May 07, 2023 18:00 - 52 minutes - 698 KBObadiah 1:1-21: Summary: Summary: Obadiah, minor prophet, but big for God and the preservation of His Word to His people. His vision concerns the hope of Israel in the Kingdom of God, a Kingdom that rules all others and will not hold them guiltless for their sins. The word is specific to the judgment of Edom for her national pride and her unjust treatment of God's people. The prophecy reminds us that God is the King of nations, sovereign in every dispensation, Witness, Judge, and Jury of all...