Sermons on Righteousness
July 30, Sunday Service of Worship
INVITATION TO WORSHIP: Psalm 42:1–5; OPENING PRAYER; ANNOUNCEMENTS; CATECHISM: Q. 24, p. 869; CONGREGATIONAL READING: Psalm 42:8, 11; SONG: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God; SONG: Come Thou Fount; PREACHING THE WORD: Acts 24:1–27, Righteousness, Self-Control, and Judgment; SONG: I Love to Tell the Story; SONG: When We Walk with the Lord; BENEDICTION
Matthew 24:1-14 (Faithfulness in the End)
Jesus gives a clarion call to proclaim the gospel of the Kingdom, a Kingdom without end, to the whole world, as a testimony of Jesus to every nation. And so, the return of the King awaits nothing more than the preaching of the gospel to the ends of the earth. Peter concludes that any perceived delay in the Messiah’s returns happens only for the sake of the redeemed, that…
Righteous Reception of Messengers of God’s Judgment (Genesis 19:1-22)
The righteous willingly receive God’s messengers of judgment and respond wisely to the message they carry.
The Perfectly Normal Experience of the Christian Life as Seen Through the Faith of Abraham (Genesis 15:1-21)
In the perfectly normal experience of the Christian life… 1. The Lord assuages our fears with himself and affirms a promise of reward2. Even for the steadfast, doubt often comingles with belief3. God always brings…
The Sufficiency of God’s Salvation of Grace (Genesis 7:1-24)
God’s salvation by grace is sufficient to save fully, perfectly, and wholly.
Doing the Works of Righteousness by Faith (Genesis 6:9-22)
Those whom God sees as righteous produce righteousness in their lives through faith, believing God’s declarations to be true.
Servants of God in Submission and Suffering (1 Peter 2:13-25)
As the very dwelling place of God, Christians ought to live righteously by living in proper submission to all in authority. As we submit ourselves to others, we reveal our transformed lives in gracious and kind-hearted servant submission to those in authority. This aligns us with Jesus who suffered…
The Great Exchange – Righteous for the Unrighteous (Luke 23:13-25)
The righteous in place of the guilty. In this exchange, we have a visual demonstration and display of the Gospel itself. We have the innocent Jesus condemned to death for wickedness and we have the unrighteous murderer and insurrectionist Barabbas released as innocent, without charge. What we have…
Salvation is for the Unrighteous (Luke 18:9-14)
A fundamental truth of Christianity is that Jesus came to save sinners (1 Tim. 1:15), that is, people who are unrighteous and living in sin. Unfortunately, the opposite is often communicated. Many people have it in their minds that Jesus saves those who are worthy of being saved. This passage in…
Righteous Servants Promote Righteousness In Others (Luke 17:1-10)
NOTE: The beginning of the sermon was not recorded. Below is a rough transcript of the missing few minutes of the sermon. “”So, as has been the case for the last year, this story begins where the last one left off. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for their empty self-righteousness, teaching…
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