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INTRODUCTION . 25 For I do not want you, brothers, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; 26 and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, “ THE DELIVERER…

Summary: In Romans 9:1-13 Paul begins to show how God will keep His promises to Israel through the “children of the promise” who God chooses. Cancelled? Are God’s promises to Israel cancelled? Jews/Israelites are not guaranteed receiving the promised blessings by their nationality. But God promised those…

Intro: NC State Wolfpack (I was Derek Whittenberg) (Lorenzo Charles) I grew up in a family where rivalry was normal. Now I told you that I idolized Derek Whittenberg, and I did, but that was dangerous ground in my family. You see I grew up in Tarheel country. To pull outside of the Tarheels was dangerous.…

Ephesians 2: 11-18 Last week we were able to see that there is nothing that we can do to earn our salvation and we saw that it is only by the Grace of God that we are what we are today. And now that we are one of His we are to walk in His righteousness and work for Him. Now we come to Paul's second paragraph…

Last week we started a series called bridge builders. We learned that it takes the right blueprints to build a bridge and that bridge be successful. Today we want to look at the next process and that is having the right tools for the project. During the American Revolution, a man in civilian clothes…

Mark 13:9-13 Intro : Listen to a few facts that ought to cause us to stop and think. · A Chinese Pastor is arrested and thrown into prison. His sons are beaten by the police. Indian Christians were driven from their home and forced to march through a jungle to safety to avoid people intent on their murder.…

Introduction This next chapter is a difficult one for me. How are we as Christians to respond to it. Do we celebrate with the Jews? This is a chapter that is exciting for the Jews but what are we to do with it? Esther 9 :1-5 1 In the twelfth month, that is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day, on…

Who deserves the judgment of God? What judgement? (1:32) - the sentence of death/punishment The wrong answer (vv. 1-5, last time) To judge others as worthy of God’s judgment…but not yourself. The question is not how does one compare…but is one guilty of any sin (1:29-31). The sin of anyone’s life is…

Today's sermon is about how the Word of God works in the lives of believers.

John 9:18–23 (ESV) — 18 The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight 19 and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” 20 His parents answered, “We know that this…

Matthew 2:1–6 (ESV) — 1 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” 3 When Herod the king heard…

The Sovereign God cannot be manipulated by man.

The Dead Sea Scrolls V 80 Lived in the wilderness Elizabeth and zechariah elderly Elizabeth and Zechariah of Aaron V 5 Pharisees, Sadducee, and scribes, were the prominent ones in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus These groups were apostate — turn away from the faith They went so far as to Kill Jesus Their…

Homiletic Point: Jesus is King! Intro We’re dropping in part way through the story, so let me catch you up real quick The Gospel of John is a record about the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, The first half of the book covers several miracles (signs) that Jesus performed as he traveled around Israel…

Welcome Good morning once again everyone, and to anyone watching or listening online, it is good to have you join us as well. Today we move to the third scene of the passion of Jesus. Last week we read how Jesus was betrayed and arrested in the garden, and then how he was taken before Annas to be questioned.…

Show and tell Ever play show and tell before? If we are honest we still do. We want people to show us something before we believe, but God calls us to believe then will show us. (Insert Show and tell picture here) What is something that you have shown and then told about? The Jews were demanding another…

Feast of the tabernacles The background helps us to understand the spiritual significance of some of the things in our passage tonight. I wanted to share some background information about this feast, by the way, this is one of the three feasts that men must pilgrim to Jerusalem each year. (Insert Feast…

Hard to hear Have you ever been told something that is hard to hear, hard to accept? Jesus continues with his teaching, focused on the Jews. Jesus has been on a divine journey with some great divine times of teaching along the way. Recently we have looked at: Jesus feeds the 5,000 who were obedient (6:1-15)…

What is a mystery? What is God's mystery? What is possible for both Jews and Gentiles thanks to Jesus?

Ethnocentric distinctions were walls that got in the way of Peter's gospel witness.

The Good Samaritan is one of the best known parable that Jesus taught, made vastly more convicting and powerful by our understanding of the great rift between the Jews of Palestine and their closest neighbors and indeed relatives. The Samaritans. Jesus uses the image of the good Samaritan to show us…

Did the Jews incorrectly apply the law of God to Jesus? Are there examples of people incorrectly applying the word of God today? Does everything in the Bible apply to us today?

How should we pray? Jesus' disciples, as first century Jews, had grown up surrounded by prayer, practicing it daily. Yet something about Jesus' practice of prayer caused them to ask him, "How should we pray?" Join Steve as he unpacks Jesus' approach to prayer.

Paul and Barnabas move unto the Gentiles after Jews consider themselves unworthy of an inheritance to eternal life.

In Acts 3, Peter and John heal a lame beggar at the temple, and then take that opportunity to share the full gospel with the Jews there. You have probably never healed a lame beggar, but are there ways that you can follow in their footsteps and speak from God's power?