back to indexBerean Community Church Sunday Service 09/22/24
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♪ To know you in your death and resurrection ♪ 00:08:00.540 |
♪ To know you in your death and resurrection ♪ 00:08:30.240 |
♪ To know you in your death and resurrection ♪ 00:09:06.940 |
Let me begin by welcoming those who are coming into town 00:09:13.380 |
And so we have a welcome table stationed outside. 00:09:16.060 |
As you were coming in, you probably saw a canopy 00:09:24.140 |
and you want some information about our college department, 00:09:30.600 |
they'll give you all the information that you need 00:09:37.300 |
especially with the college ministry this week. 00:09:40.380 |
and they'll give you the information that you need. 00:09:42.500 |
Our membership class, our next round of membership class 00:09:46.100 |
is starting on September 29th, which is next Sunday at 9.30. 00:09:51.380 |
And if you desire to be a member of the church, 00:09:55.180 |
And they'll give you directions on what's gonna happen. 00:09:58.020 |
Again, this is happening during this service at 9.30 00:10:01.700 |
across the courtyard in our youth group room, okay? 00:10:05.160 |
So please sign up for that if you are planning to do that. 00:10:11.660 |
they have about 25 people who have already signed up. 00:10:14.700 |
They said they need another about 20 to 25 people 00:10:23.300 |
And again, this is not for the regular sign up 00:10:28.460 |
and you can fit maybe about 20, 25 people in your house, 00:10:32.160 |
that's happening again on November 24th at 5 p.m. 00:10:37.160 |
But if you're able to host and you're willing to do that, 00:10:52.980 |
on October 12th at 8.30, which is a Saturday in the cafe, 00:11:02.260 |
And a fee for that is gonna be $10 for breakfast. 00:11:06.800 |
And then lastly, our Volunteers for Reformation Night, 00:11:09.740 |
which is happening on October 31st at 4.30 p.m. 00:11:15.420 |
or even help clean up or run some of the games, 00:11:24.340 |
that you wanna volunteer, they'll give you directions 00:11:26.960 |
and the meetings that are gonna come from that, okay? 00:11:30.220 |
All right, I think that's all we have for this morning. 00:11:34.300 |
Let me pray for us and give you an opportunity 00:11:37.860 |
And again, if you brought a physical offering, 00:11:42.140 |
You can visit that box on the way out, all right? 00:11:45.020 |
Father, we thank you so much for your continued grace. 00:11:50.700 |
We pray, Father God, that we would never give into 00:11:58.180 |
but that the worship that we give you from our hearts 00:12:16.100 |
not to be entangled with the things of this world, 00:12:23.260 |
that you would help us to focus our attention 00:13:19.020 |
- Let us all rise and let's spend a few moments 00:19:02.060 |
♪ The best of my works pierced your hands and your feet ♪ 00:19:27.020 |
♪ The goodness I claim the ground of my hope ♪ 00:19:31.980 |
♪ Whatever I lack is still what I need most ♪ 00:20:21.900 |
♪ Where fears weigh me down and enemies press ♪ 00:20:27.020 |
♪ A comfort I cling to with my hands in dirt ♪ 00:21:32.140 |
♪ To sing of a treasure no power can destroy ♪ 00:22:41.260 |
Okay, if you can turn your Bibles with me to Luke chapter nine. 00:22:50.540 |
We'll be reading from verse 20, verse 18 to verse 27. 00:22:57.900 |
Okay, if I can make a request, and as I've mentioned before, 00:23:02.860 |
you know, our, this service is starting to get a little bit crowded. 00:23:06.780 |
One, if you are planning to keep coming here to this service, 00:23:11.100 |
one, if you can do us a favor to sit up way up in the front, 00:23:15.420 |
so that the people who are coming late won't have to walk all the way to the front. 00:23:22.540 |
instead of sitting, you know, a little bit away from the front, 00:23:27.180 |
it'll help us to manage the number of people that are coming. 00:23:30.780 |
Then two, if you're able to go to the first service, 00:23:35.180 |
but prefer the first service at eight o'clock, 00:23:37.340 |
we ask you to transition to the first service if can, 00:23:42.140 |
One, obviously we need more room here for the elementary department, 00:23:45.580 |
the SEEDS department, the parking issue we need to deal with. 00:23:51.580 |
I know many of you can't because you're serving or you're doing something, 00:23:54.460 |
and obviously we're not saying that, like, not to come to this service, 00:24:02.220 |
And at the minimum, if you are coming to the service 00:24:06.620 |
So that we can make more room for people who are coming a little bit later, all right? 00:24:10.780 |
All right, we'll be looking at Luke chapter 9, 00:24:14.940 |
verse 18 out of the NSV, all the way through verse 27. 00:24:18.220 |
"And it happened that while he was praying alone, 00:24:23.900 |
the disciples were with him, and he questioned them, saying, 00:24:28.940 |
They answered and said, 'John the Baptist, and others say Elijah, 00:24:32.300 |
but others that one of the prophets of old has risen again.' 00:24:35.420 |
And he said to them, 'But who do you say that I am?' 00:24:38.460 |
And Peter answered and said, 'The Christ of God.' 00:24:40.780 |
But he warned them and instructed them not to tell this to anyone, 00:24:44.700 |
saying, 'The Son of Man must suffer many things 00:24:46.700 |
and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes 00:24:49.740 |
and be killed and be raised up on the third day.' 00:24:52.620 |
And he was saying to them all, 'If anyone wishes to come after me, 00:24:55.900 |
he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 00:24:59.740 |
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, 00:25:02.220 |
but whoever loses his life for my sake, he is the one who will save it. 00:25:06.620 |
For what does a man profit if he gains the whole world 00:25:13.500 |
the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory, 00:25:16.780 |
in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. 00:25:19.580 |
But I say to you truthfully, there are some of those standing here 00:25:23.420 |
who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.'" 00:25:27.420 |
Father, we thank you so much for this morning, 00:25:30.220 |
the privilege that we have to come and worship you. 00:25:44.860 |
that we come to give you the worship that you deserve. 00:25:49.900 |
and will not return until it has accomplished 00:25:55.360 |
All right, so to introduce this morning's text, 00:26:01.580 |
I want you guys to kind of get a feel of what's happening here 00:26:05.180 |
as Jesus is confirming for them his identity, okay? 00:26:28.300 |
I've never seen anybody who was so polarizing. 00:26:36.060 |
And then you have some people say he's a next coming Hitler, 00:26:42.140 |
And people are saying that his two assassination attempts, 00:26:48.620 |
And so it's almost like if you mention anything 00:26:52.780 |
about Donald Trump that it's going to cause controversy. 00:26:56.540 |
So you have to be cautious who you say what in front of who, right? 00:27:00.140 |
Now, I'm saying all of this not to stir you up 00:27:07.980 |
I want to ask you, how did you come to that conclusion, right? 00:27:14.860 |
a lot of the information that's coming through to say, 00:27:28.940 |
who wanted to make sure that he was seen a certain way? 00:27:33.100 |
So depending on where you get your information, 00:27:41.020 |
You don't have any personal experience with him. 00:27:43.180 |
So if you are listening to whatever information, 00:27:47.660 |
Whatever news channels that you're getting from, 00:27:49.820 |
you either say you trust that or don't trust that. 00:27:59.660 |
where even just a formula of if you watch certain videos 00:28:06.060 |
that leaning article is just constantly being fed. 00:28:14.220 |
is because the information that we're getting 00:28:19.100 |
Even Google search, there's a very particular angle 00:28:28.620 |
Who's allowing the information to come through? 00:28:34.220 |
where whatever opinion that you may have of him, 00:28:46.780 |
everything I know is true and everything they know is dumb. 00:28:55.100 |
not simply because I wanted to talk about Donald Trump. 00:29:05.180 |
Because the opinion of this man was so polarizing. 00:29:19.180 |
And so people are beginning to come to the conclusion, 00:29:26.540 |
if he does it, if we don't get rid of this guy, 00:29:29.500 |
And so even though he gave plenty of evidence, 00:29:34.300 |
people came to the conclusion that must be demonic 00:29:38.780 |
And since we've concluded that he is not from God 00:29:46.140 |
So even though he raised Lazarus from the dead, 00:29:53.660 |
It is in that context that Jesus is asking this question, 00:30:08.060 |
he lays out three things in this text that I want to cover. 00:30:13.660 |
and the next two, hopefully I can cover next week. 00:30:17.420 |
what does it mean to be a follower of Jesus Christ? 00:30:22.300 |
where because we live in a post-Christian culture, 00:30:27.820 |
maybe there's a pastor or an elder or deacon in your family, 00:30:31.340 |
maybe you're second, third, fourth generation Christian. 00:30:37.100 |
where you can't remember when you didn't go to church. 00:30:39.340 |
And because we live in a post-Christian culture, 00:30:46.700 |
Well, if I go to church, if I make these confessions, 00:31:03.500 |
Or is it actually coming from the word of God? 00:31:09.660 |
One is, in order to be a follower of Jesus Christ, 00:31:17.900 |
Not culture, not your parents, not your denomination, 00:31:23.020 |
but from the Bible is the Jesus that you know. 00:31:33.340 |
Is that based upon the scripture of what you've studied? 00:31:39.820 |
which is what we're gonna be covering this morning, 00:32:01.660 |
And that's what he says in the text that we're looking at. 00:32:03.820 |
As I've denied myself and picked up the cross, 00:32:17.020 |
And three, we must proclaim what he proclaims. 00:32:24.860 |
And so we're gonna be going over the first one today 00:32:26.860 |
and then the next two hopefully we'll cover next week. 00:32:34.700 |
As he was praying, he turns around to his disciples. 00:33:35.820 |
And so he said, "Who do people say that I am?" 00:34:16.940 |
"or Jehovah Witness or local church movement? 00:34:27.580 |
"I don't think they took their faith seriously. 00:37:51.100 |
When we read this, we say it obviously, right? 00:38:54.140 |
as human beings to idolize other human beings. 00:40:52.780 |
that he was the John the Baptist resurrected, 00:45:58.620 |
There are different languages to arrive at God, 00:46:22.380 |
is he speaks according to the Catholic Church ex cathedra, 00:46:26.060 |
which means when he speaks in an official capacity, 00:46:41.260 |
Now, there are Catholics who may reject this. 00:46:43.260 |
There are Catholics who claim to be Catholics 00:47:12.060 |
just even owning a Bible can get them executed, 00:47:19.660 |
trying to share the gospel in remote villages in India, 00:47:42.700 |
First Corinthians chapter 15, 17, 19, it says, 00:47:50.060 |
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ 00:47:53.420 |
If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, 00:48:08.860 |
And the more seriously that you took your faith, 00:48:31.420 |
is going to either cause you to hate this Jesus. 00:48:35.420 |
How can a man have deceived this many people? 00:48:39.260 |
So many people have ruined their lives because of me. 00:48:44.460 |
their life was ruined because of this confession. 00:49:02.460 |
to the remotest parts of the world and died in starvation. 00:49:10.380 |
died and were martyred in the context of this. 00:49:17.260 |
is that becoming a Christian has become so easy. 00:49:23.100 |
so that all you need to do is just raise your hand. 00:49:55.180 |
that they're going to, many of them, die as martyrs. 00:50:06.620 |
Some of them, their wives thought that they went crazy 00:50:09.900 |
They lost everything because of this confession. 00:50:14.060 |
So this confession cannot be made flippantly. 00:50:17.500 |
Even though we don't live in the first century, 00:50:29.580 |
Peter confessed, "You are the Christ of God." 00:50:37.900 |
meaning you are the Christ that belongs to God. 00:50:49.180 |
And it was referred to as the king that was coming. 00:51:01.900 |
Jesus himself reads the prophecy of the Messiah 00:51:19.420 |
"He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, 00:51:36.940 |
"the mantle of praise instead of the spirit of fainting. 00:51:39.740 |
"So they will be called oaks of righteousness, 00:51:42.300 |
"the planting of the Lord that he may be glorified." 00:52:01.900 |
When Peter says, "You are the Christ of God," 00:52:13.180 |
who've come to realize that this is the case? 00:52:35.900 |
he says he's gonna open the doors, they're gonna come. 00:52:37.900 |
The year of jubilee is going to be gifted to you. 00:52:52.620 |
And he says, "Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, 00:53:14.780 |
shaking the palm branches, "Hosanna, hosanna. 00:53:37.900 |
If I become a Christian, he's going to fix my life. 00:53:40.700 |
If I become a Christian, he'll answer my prayers. 00:53:44.940 |
I'm gonna have the living water, the living bread. 00:54:20.460 |
Jesus knew as soon as the word begins to spread 00:54:28.460 |
And eventually, it's gonna lead him to the cross. 00:54:39.900 |
and be killed and be raised up on the third day." 00:55:02.620 |
Either you're the Christ of God or you're not. 00:55:08.940 |
and tell us that you're gonna suffer and die? 00:55:11.420 |
And that's why if you read the Gospel of Mark, 00:55:36.220 |
"Who's gonna sit on the left or to the right?" 00:56:01.260 |
that the only way that the captor's gonna be free, 00:56:51.580 |
All the stuff that has gone wrong in this world 00:56:57.260 |
It's not because we have the wrong politicians. 00:57:09.500 |
It's not because you're in the wrong denomination. 00:57:19.020 |
And so the only way to restore a broken world 00:58:19.980 |
then you do not know the Christ of the Bible. 00:58:35.100 |
So the Buddhists seek Buddha for a better life. 00:58:52.780 |
and he'll fulfill all the promise that he's made, 01:02:00.220 |
He's going to turn our mourning into laughter. 01:07:36.460 |
♪ Never ceasing call for songs of loudest praise ♪ 01:09:04.940 |
♪ O that day, O that day when freed from sinning ♪ 01:09:55.740 |
♪ O to grace, O to grace how great a debtor ♪