back to indexBerean Community Church Sunday Service 2.19.2023
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that we all get to gather here together to worship our God. 00:07:21.960 |
♪ Oh to Greece, oh to Greece how great a debtor ♪ 00:08:22.960 |
♪ For that day, for that day when free from sinning ♪ 00:09:39.960 |
We have again a few announcements before we get started. 00:09:41.960 |
First of all, the BCC Service Auction Fundraiser. 00:09:47.960 |
and you have some service that you wanna offer 00:09:49.960 |
or you have some product that you wanna donate, 00:09:58.960 |
And then the actual auction is gonna be taking place 00:10:06.960 |
Starting from March 5th, which is the first Sunday of March, 00:10:12.960 |
we're gonna be having our Evangelism Seminar. 00:10:16.960 |
We're gonna be giving a short instruction in the beginning 00:10:19.960 |
and then we're all gonna go out to different places 00:10:22.960 |
that we're gonna predetermine where we are into teams. 00:10:26.960 |
And then we're gonna, again, try to encourage you 00:10:39.960 |
so that our church is in the habit of sharing the gospel 00:10:43.960 |
So it doesn't make sense for us to claim this great gospel 00:10:50.960 |
So some of you guys may be intimidated by that. 00:11:04.960 |
And so we wanna get in the habit of encouraging you 00:11:07.960 |
to, whether it's at work, whether it's just on campus, 00:11:11.960 |
at least be in the habit and strengthen your muscles 00:11:23.960 |
So this is starting on March 5th for four Sundays. 00:11:29.960 |
But again, if you haven't signed up for that, 00:11:37.960 |
there's a PTA meeting happening on Sunday on 26th, 00:11:49.960 |
So it's been a while since we had people gather 00:11:53.960 |
almost every part of the church needs cleaning. 00:11:59.960 |
please sign up for that and come and help us. 00:12:01.960 |
We need as many people to come so that we can knock it out. 00:12:05.960 |
So again, that's happening on March 4th, 9 a.m. to 12. 00:12:09.960 |
And then one last announcement, the Jubilee Lunch Fellowship. 00:12:15.960 |
and I know some of you guys who are newer to the church, 00:12:18.960 |
50 and over, say, "Oh, I don't see any 50 and over 00:12:21.960 |
You'd be surprised how many 50 and over people are at our church 00:12:26.960 |
So we are having a fellowship for that at 1 p.m. 00:12:29.960 |
And I think there was an announcement that you may have gotten, 00:12:32.960 |
that was March 19th, that that is not the right date. 00:12:55.960 |
So after I pray for our offering, after our worship set, 00:13:00.960 |
and she's going to give her testimony and be baptized this morning. 00:13:04.960 |
So if you are new to the church and you have physical offering, 00:13:06.960 |
we do have a physical box, offering box in the back. 00:13:09.960 |
But for the rest of you, we'll give you a minute to give your offering. 00:13:16.960 |
Heavenly Father, we thank you for the gathering of the saints. 00:13:22.960 |
to be able to come before your presence and worship you. 00:13:26.960 |
We pray, Father, that whatever burdens and distractions 00:13:32.960 |
help us, Lord God, to find our refuge in you. 00:13:36.960 |
Help us to continue to fix our eyes upon Christ, 00:13:46.960 |
it would prepare our hearts, Lord God, to worship, 00:15:33.960 |
And in love before you laid the world's foundation, 00:15:46.960 |
You have raised me up so high above my station. 00:15:53.960 |
I'm a child of God by grace, a grace of love. 00:16:37.960 |
By your blood I had redemption and salvation. 00:16:44.960 |
Lord, you died that I might reap what you have sown. 00:16:50.960 |
And you rose that I might be of you creation. 00:17:21.960 |
I've been full of rocks, I've hardly been stoned. 00:17:28.960 |
And your touch, my sleeping spirit, was awakened. 00:17:35.960 |
On my death you were the light across the shore. 00:17:41.960 |
Call it a turn, but keep the knack and not be shaken. 00:17:55.960 |
So I'll stand and make my grace, a grace of love. 00:18:00.960 |
I will run to reach my grace, a grace of love. 00:18:06.960 |
I will slay my sin by grace, a grace of love. 00:18:13.960 |
I will reach the end by grace, a grace of love. 00:23:59.960 |
and romantic relationships that would make me feel 00:24:03.960 |
As a result, this pursuit led me to fill the void 00:24:06.960 |
I felt in my life with romantic relationships 00:24:09.960 |
and acceptance from others that never quite measured up 00:24:19.960 |
resulted in me feeling insecure and inadequate, 00:24:22.960 |
and it wasn't until my sophomore year in college, 00:24:25.960 |
through trials and the people that God graciously placed 00:24:32.960 |
Entering college, I felt exhausted from having 00:24:40.960 |
to find purpose in life, as well as happiness 00:24:47.960 |
I was sexually abused and raped by my then partner, 00:24:50.960 |
and it left me feeling very unclean, shameful, 00:24:53.960 |
confused, and made me feel that love was very conditional. 00:24:57.960 |
I believed in the lie shaped by my circumstances 00:25:02.960 |
and it left me feeling so insecure and ashamed. 00:25:05.960 |
I thought that there was something fundamentally 00:25:11.960 |
I'd be shunned and hated by the people around me. 00:25:14.960 |
Externally, I continued living life like everything was okay 00:25:18.960 |
and maintained the bright and bubbly personality 00:25:22.960 |
while internally, I was in turmoil and felt so lost. 00:25:30.960 |
I didn't expect to attend church and college, 00:25:37.960 |
The contents of the service didn't really stick out to me, 00:25:42.960 |
in the community there, and so I kept on coming out. 00:25:45.960 |
In addition to them being warm and welcoming, 00:25:47.960 |
each person I met genuinely seemed so at peace 00:25:50.960 |
and had a deep joy, and so I knew pretty early on 00:25:57.960 |
about the God that they worshipped and claimed was love. 00:26:00.960 |
As I attended Bible studies and church services, 00:26:03.960 |
it was through hearing and reading God's word frequently, 00:26:08.960 |
and through prayer that God gradually revealed to me 00:26:17.960 |
was reaching out to me despite knowing my failed attempts 00:26:24.960 |
but to accept me and show compassion towards me 00:26:33.960 |
to be fully known and loved by him who created me. 00:26:40.960 |
I believed that I had to earn and work my way 00:26:42.960 |
towards God's forgiveness, and I accepted the lie 00:26:50.960 |
that because of my sinful choices and decisions, 00:26:52.960 |
I was less than and deserved to have less than, 00:27:00.960 |
and 2 Corinthians 12, 9 helped me to understand 00:27:03.960 |
that he saved us not because of works done by us 00:27:05.960 |
in righteousness, but according to his mercy and grace, 00:27:10.960 |
and that it's always going to be greater than my sins. 00:27:17.960 |
and it allowed me to see that I was pursuing love 00:27:19.960 |
in the wrong places, and that I was full of evil thoughts 00:27:26.960 |
Though I'm undeserving, God in his love and mercy 00:27:30.960 |
by sending his son to die on the cross for me. 00:27:34.960 |
and be made right with God by the blood of his cross, 00:27:41.960 |
I was able to recognize my hopeless situation 00:27:48.960 |
or bridge the gap that I made between me and God. 00:27:59.960 |
by willingly taking my punishment to the cross 00:28:35.960 |
and I'm so thankful that God pursued my heart 00:28:41.960 |
"Out of life, whoever comes to me shall not hunger, 00:28:43.960 |
"and whoever believes in me shall never thirst." 00:28:45.960 |
And he says to the Samaritan woman at the well, 00:28:47.960 |
"If you drink of this water, you will thirst again, 00:28:50.960 |
"but if you drink of the water that I give you, 00:28:54.960 |
And so Jesus has satisfied me and quenched my thirst 00:28:56.960 |
in a way that nothing else in the world could. 00:29:00.960 |
and happiness in people and through approval, 00:29:19.960 |
to worldly relationships or to pleasing people, 00:29:43.960 |
and am filled with God's unconditional love for me. 00:29:54.960 |
because I am confident that on the other side, 00:30:00.960 |
and I will strive to live a life that glorifies him, 00:30:02.960 |
proclaiming Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. 00:31:01.960 |
powerful testimony. You know, one of my favorite 00:31:08.960 |
says, "There is no darkness that Satan can create 00:31:21.960 |
and again, I will be doing part 2 of this section, 00:31:34.960 |
on the Sabbath, and they were amazed at his teaching, 00:31:39.960 |
In a synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit 00:31:59.960 |
in the midst of the people, he came out of him 00:32:12.960 |
he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.' 00:32:42.960 |
and your Holy Spirit's guidance. In Jesus' name we pray. 00:33:26.960 |
as a result of his preaching, they were amazed. 00:34:00.960 |
an ugly picture, and if I asked you to draw a picture of an angel, 00:34:40.960 |
comes from Hollywood, the movies that we've watched, 00:34:58.960 |
in the charismatic background, everything was 00:35:16.960 |
of football, because everybody who plays football, they 00:35:24.960 |
the middle of the night, because I was afraid every dark 00:35:52.960 |
mentioned in the Bible, so clearly we believe that. 00:36:12.960 |
the rulers, against the powers, against the world 00:36:26.960 |
right training, or getting the right knowledge, 00:36:30.960 |
what's wrong, and then find three steps to kind of 00:36:36.960 |
education, that we're going to be able to save 00:36:38.960 |
people, we're going to be able to be sanctified, and 00:36:40.960 |
disciple people, if we just have the right program. 00:37:22.960 |
that we can learn about what the Bible teaches us 00:37:26.960 |
But my goal is not that. I'm going to give you a 00:37:54.960 |
then the demonic world is just kind of like, "Ah, yeah, 00:37:56.960 |
it was there. Yeah, they started this problem." 00:38:04.960 |
Which we're not going to get into today. Okay? This is just 00:38:22.960 |
Now, whether this is true or not, many theologians 00:39:18.960 |
it's usually because the demons have possessed 00:39:38.960 |
And that's the difference between what we see with 00:41:10.960 |
not the picture that is seen in the Bible. The Bible 00:41:18.960 |
angels who have not fallen, we usually picture them 00:41:46.960 |
the work of Christ. Remember when we were studying 00:41:56.960 |
think that there was a miracle that took place, a resurrection 00:42:20.960 |
all of these things, right, there's a quick, quick 00:44:04.960 |
was that Jesus was not walking down and he saw a demon 00:44:06.960 |
possessed man who was doing pervert, like, crazy 00:44:10.960 |
Jesus went to him, looking for him, and he says, "No." 00:44:36.960 |
maybe he heard about Jesus and he came to listen 00:44:54.960 |
Maybe they thought, maybe he had some mental illness. 00:45:46.960 |
Show me your faith without works, and I will show you 00:45:54.960 |
In other words, he's saying you're professing 00:47:02.960 |
him, the demons were the first ones to profess 00:47:20.960 |
So those of you who say, "Oh, his sermons are 00:47:32.960 |
know what texts that were in. So one of the questions 00:47:52.960 |
call him unclean? Because we already understand 00:48:04.960 |
soon as they see Jesus, what do they say? "We know 00:48:10.960 |
They were sitting in the midst, just like everybody 00:48:14.960 |
else, and my guess is maybe they didn't recognize. 00:49:00.960 |
He died for my sins, and so I'm going to go to heaven, 00:49:04.960 |
see the depth of their sin because they've never 00:49:08.960 |
a result of that, they can go through the motion, 00:49:18.960 |
the first thing that they recognized, "You are 00:50:46.960 |
anybody else's sins. Because that's the closest 00:50:52.960 |
is not other people's sin. It is our own sin. 00:51:02.960 |
recognized. They knew that they were standing before 00:51:08.960 |
11 it says, "Whenever the unclean spirit saw Him, they would 00:51:22.960 |
But rebuking them, He would not allow them to speak 00:54:26.960 |
there's two different words used for the world. 00:54:30.960 |
Again, it's not the totality of this meaning, 00:56:24.960 |
they may turn from darkness to light, and from the 00:56:28.960 |
that they may receive forgiveness of sins and 00:56:30.960 |
inheritance among those who have been sanctified 00:56:34.960 |
there's only two dominions, dominion of Satan 00:57:18.960 |
since the children share in the flesh and blood, 00:57:20.960 |
he himself likewise also partook of the same, 00:58:30.960 |
The literal translation is, "Shut your mouth." 00:58:56.960 |
He doesn't reason with him. He just says, "Shut up!" 00:59:00.960 |
the demons were not saying anything blasphemous. 00:59:30.960 |
came upon them all. They began talking with one 00:59:32.960 |
another, saying, 'What is this message? For with authority 00:59:44.960 |
under rebellion against God. Why don't they say, "Well, who are 00:59:54.960 |
Jesus says, "Come out. Shut your mouth and come out." 01:00:10.960 |
who is bad, and they're kind of fighting, and we're 01:00:20.960 |
work hard enough, if we share the gospel enough, 01:00:46.960 |
touch him, that they didn't harm him, is because that's 01:00:48.960 |
their normal pattern, because they want to destroy. 01:00:52.960 |
because Jesus said, "Come out," and they didn't give 01:01:14.960 |
in obedience to God? Of course not. They're in 01:01:18.960 |
command of God, even the demons couldn't resist. 01:02:04.960 |
that people could not even pass by where they were 01:02:06.960 |
because they were going to get jumped by these demons. 01:02:14.960 |
"And they cried out, saying, 'What business do we 01:02:16.960 |
have with each other, Son of God? Have you come 01:02:22.960 |
They don't try to wrestle with him. As soon as they recognize 01:02:46.960 |
allowing them to go into the swines and destroy the swines? 01:03:36.960 |
him. They're not arguing against him. They're just 01:03:42.960 |
those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed 01:05:12.960 |
But you know what the demons have that even you 01:05:20.960 |
They are afraid. And he said, "The reason why 01:05:28.960 |
That their faith isn't better than the demons, it's actually 01:06:12.960 |
And so we have a generation filled with people 01:06:28.960 |
They believe that because they don't know the Word of God. 01:06:56.960 |
And the Bible tells us that's exactly how the world 01:07:40.960 |
And I'm going to start reading from verse 14. 01:07:42.960 |
It says, "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. 01:07:54.960 |
Basically, that's a summary of everything that He said. 01:08:24.960 |
attention to that. "By loving kindness and truth iniquity 01:09:06.960 |
in the gospel that was priest in our generation 01:09:26.960 |
of people where the gospel and the word of God 01:11:40.960 |
everybody else was doing until Christ showed up. 01:12:12.960 |
you can dismiss me, "Hey, Pastor Peter's always 01:12:24.960 |
What are you going to do with what you have heard? 01:13:40.960 |
and you've been eating the food of the world, 01:14:20.960 |
though you are one way on Sunday and another way 01:14:28.960 |
are being influenced by the kingdom of the world, 01:16:57.640 |
♪ He is my joy, my righteousness and freedom ♪ 01:17:04.360 |
♪ My steadfast love, my deep and boundless peace ♪ 01:18:20.180 |
♪ Through the deep, His valley He will lead ♪ 01:18:32.180 |
♪ And I shall overcome, yet not I, but through Christ in me ♪ 01:18:59.180 |
♪ The future's sure, the price it has been paid ♪ 01:19:47.760 |
♪ With every breath, I long to follow Jesus ♪ 01:20:01.180 |
♪ For He has said that He will bring me home ♪ 01:22:02.180 |
To live up to the calling that you have freely given to us. 01:22:11.180 |
That we would no longer, Lord, desire to look back, 01:22:21.180 |
I pray, Father God, that wherever it is that you send us, 01:22:54.180 |
Help us, Lord God, to be heralder of the truth, 01:22:59.180 |
Save us, save our children, save our families, 01:23:07.180 |
save our coworkers, Lord God, and save our generation.