Tag: Jesus

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

Yes, You Can Please Your Heavenly Father – Kevin DeYoung
Over and over, more than a dozen times in the New Testament, we have this motivation. We ought to be generous. We ought to be godly. We ought to love and live a certain way because it pleases God.

Lay Aside the Weight of Discouragement – Jon Bloom (DG)
What discourages us is not as powerful as it feels in the moment. We overcome our fear by confronting our discouragement and exercising faith in God’s promises. Those are precious moments in which we will see the power of God.

The Blessing of Weather That Confounds the Control-Freak – Trevin Wax
In a world where we try to sustain the illusion that we are in control of reality, the weather does not comply. Again and again, we remember: This is bigger than us. We must react to reality, for we cannot subdue it. Call it common grace for a technologically idolatrous age.

Study at the University of Jesus – Erik Raymond
In other words, you are never to graduate from the University of Jesus. You are always attending. Always studying. Always learning. Always marveling.

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day!

The Only Worthiness We Have

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The only worthiness we have for entrance into God’s Kingdom is in Christ.
The only worthiness we have with which to come before God is in Christ.
And the only worthiness we have to qualify us for ministry is in Christ.
If we are to progress in any aspect of the Christian life,
we must look outside ourselves and only to Christ.

– Jerry Bridges in Transforming Grace

Sermon Songs: Ephesians 1:20-22

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Jesus is far above all things
All powers, ev’ry name
He is the sovereign King of Kings
Forever He will reign
He is the sovereign King of Kings
Forever He will reign

So let us walk in peace today
Hope in our coming King
Submit in all we do and say
His praises ever sing
Submit in all we do and say
His praises ever sing

(To the tune of “All Hail The Power of Jesus’ Name”)

Doctrine Collection

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Here are some good posts on doctrine:

Doctrine Matters: Eternal Life Depends Upon It – Kevin DeYoung
Christianity is much more than getting your doctrine right.  But it is not less.

Take a Quiz on Christ – Tim Challies
How well do you know what the Bible teaches us about Jesus?

Your Highest Privilege – Tim Challies
Of all the privileges that are ours through the gospel, which is the greatest? According to many theologians, there is no privilege higher than adoption.

Sermon Songs: Isaiah 61

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Jesus the Lord’s Anointed One
Proclaims the year of grace
A great reversal, salvation
For us, the human race

The poor receive great hope anew
The humble His mercy
The mourning find His comfort true
The captive liberty

Those ruined by their sin and shame
Once broken and hopeless
Now beautiful in Jesus’ name
Clothed in His righteousness

So go to Jesus every hour
Find grace to meet your need
In all your weakness, seek His power
Upon His favor feed

Our Lord will come, end suffering
All evil He’ll defeat
We’ll praise Him with great rejoicing
Our salvation complete

– From a sermon on Isaiah 61
(To the tune of “O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing”)

Go to Jesus

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In Isaiah 61, we are encouraged to go to Jesus.

Go to Jesus with your poverty and affliction and receive good news of hope for future.

Go to Jesus with your mourning and sorrow and find his comfort.

Go to Jesus with your captivity to sin and find freedom.

Go to Jesus with your sin and receive forgiveness and righteousness.

Go to Jesus with the ruins of your life and let him rebuild you into something beautiful.

Go to Jesus with your shame and dishonor and receive the honor and joy found in him.

What do you need to go to Jesus for today?

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

“May I Go In There?” – Jared Wilson

5 Resurrection Realities That Reorient Our Evangelism – Steven Lee (TGC)

5 Reasons to Rejoice in Persecution – Tim Challies

Don’t Follow Your Heart – Jon Bloom (DG)

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day following your Lord who died and rose again so you might draw near to Him!

Consider His Victory

On By BrianIn Book of Isaiah

Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.
– Isaiah 53:10-12

Consider Jesus Our Savior. Consider his victory. Jesus rose victoriously. It is not stated in so many words in these verses, but is everywhere implied. After he has made an offering for guilt (by dying), he yet will see his offspring, his days will be prolonged, and the will of God will prosper in his hands (v10). Again, he will see and be satisfied (v11). And then he will receive the victor’s prize in v12. All of these things require his resurrection in order to happen in any realistic meaningful way.

And yet his victory is not simply found in his resurrection, but in what he accomplished through his death and resurrection:

  • By making an offering for guilt, he brings about an offspring (v10), a people for God who have had their sins paid for so that they might have a relationship with God.
  • By his perfectly righteous life, death, and resurrection, he makes God’s people to be accounted righteous (v11), so that there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
  • He intercedes on our behalf (v12), through his payment of sin on the cross, and now in heaven, so that no accusation of the devil against us can stand.
  • Finally, he conquered death and lives forevermore (v10), that in Christ we too might have the sure hope of our own resurrection someday through him.

Consider Jesus our Savior. Consider his victory in his resurrection and for our salvation.

Father, thank you for the good news of the resurrection of Jesus.
May we live in gratitude and hope as we ponder the many saving benefits
of your salvation purchased for us.