back to indexBerean Community Church Sunday Service 7/7/24
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All that I am, all that I have, I lay them down before you. 00:02:54.000 |
Oh Lord, all my regrets, all my acclaim, the joy and the pain, I'm making them yours. 00:03:15.000 |
All that I am, all that I have, I lay them down before you. 00:03:25.000 |
Oh Lord, all my regrets, all my acclaim, the joy and the pain, I'm making them yours. 00:03:48.000 |
Everything I put through, use it for your glory. 00:04:01.000 |
Lifting my praise to you as a pleasing sacrifice. 00:04:18.000 |
Things in the past, things yet unseen, wishes and dreams that are yet to come true. 00:04:36.000 |
All of my goals, all of my plans, my heart and my hands are lifted to you. 00:04:56.000 |
Everything I put through, use it for your glory. 00:05:09.000 |
Lifting my praise to you as a pleasing sacrifice. 00:05:29.000 |
Everything I put through, use it for your glory. 00:05:42.000 |
Lifting my praise to you as a pleasing sacrifice. 00:06:16.000 |
We're going to be having a gospel presentation where Pastor Mark will be presenting on Heaven and Hell. 00:06:22.000 |
And afterwards, there'll be a panel Q&A with David Mobley and Elder James. 00:06:27.000 |
If you have any questions about that, please contact Pastor Mark and he'll give you more instructions. 00:06:32.000 |
Secondly, a Jubilee Picnic Fellowship is going to be on July 14th. 00:06:37.000 |
That is for anybody that is 50 years and older. 00:06:42.000 |
Elder Phillips should be tabling after each of these services. 00:06:46.000 |
So if you could go out there and sign up for that, that would be very helpful. 00:06:49.000 |
Third, Berean Family Ministry Beach Day is going to be on a Saturday on the 20th of July. 00:06:55.000 |
And it's going to be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Bolsa Chica State Beach. 00:07:00.000 |
Please RSVP for that so that we can get a headcount. 00:07:03.000 |
And lastly, Family Ministry Summer Retreat is 95% filled. 00:07:08.000 |
Next Sunday is the last day to sign up, so please sign up immediately so that you can reserve a spot. 00:07:14.000 |
Well, today we have a little bit of a packed service. 00:07:16.000 |
After our praise time, we'll be having our brother Elijah baptized today. 00:07:22.000 |
And after that, we'll be having a video play about the Korea team that just came back, as well as a testimony. 00:07:29.000 |
And so if you could just ready your hearts for all of that, that would be good. 00:07:37.000 |
Heavenly Father, we thank you, and we pray, God, that you would receive pleasing sacrifices to you. 00:07:45.000 |
Lord, with our voices, with our lives, and with our money. 00:07:49.000 |
Father, I pray that this would be because we desire your purposes and your goals. 00:07:55.000 |
So thank you, Lord, for all that you give us. 00:08:42.000 |
Let us all rise, and let's spend a few moments just to greet the neighbors around us. 00:09:23.000 |
It is called, "Oh, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing." 00:09:26.000 |
And I'd like to read just a few verses from it. 00:09:29.000 |
Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing, my great Redeemer's praise. 00:09:32.000 |
The glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace. 00:09:40.000 |
His blood can make the foulest clean, his blood availed for me. 00:09:44.000 |
He speaks, and listening to his voice, new life the dead receive. 00:09:48.000 |
The mournful broken hearts rejoice, the humble poor believe. 00:09:59.000 |
Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing, my great Redeemer's praise. 00:10:08.000 |
The glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace. 00:10:20.000 |
Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing, my great Redeemer's praise. 00:10:35.000 |
The glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace. 00:10:44.000 |
My gracious master and my God, assist me to proclaim, 00:10:53.000 |
to spread through all the earth abroad the wonders of thy name. 00:11:05.000 |
Jesus, the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease. 00:11:18.000 |
'Tis music in the sinner's ears, 'tis life and health and peace. 00:11:27.000 |
He breaks the power of canceled sin, he sets the prisoner free. 00:11:36.000 |
His blood can make the foulest flee, his blood availed for me. 00:12:01.000 |
He speaks, and listening to his voice, new life the dead receive. 00:12:10.000 |
The mournful broken hearts rejoice, the humble poor believe. 00:12:21.000 |
Glory to God and praise and love be ever, ever give. 00:12:30.000 |
By saints below and saints above, the church in earth and heaven. 00:12:41.000 |
Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing, my great Redeemer's praise. 00:12:50.000 |
The glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace. 00:13:15.000 |
From the brightness-- from the brightness of his glory, 00:13:27.000 |
Takes on the nature of a servant, Jesus, obedient to death. 00:13:44.000 |
A father willed to crush him as a sacrifice for sin. 00:13:53.000 |
He satisfied God's justice, and in victory rose again. 00:14:09.000 |
You are highly exalted, name above all names, 00:15:02.000 |
Christ is risen, Jesus, the Lamb was crucified. 00:15:09.000 |
The angels never cease to worship Jesus in heaven glorified. 00:15:26.000 |
To him belongs the power, the wisdom, might, and strength. 00:15:35.000 |
All glory and dominion to the Lord of every age. 00:15:51.000 |
You are highly exalted, name above all names, 00:17:26.000 |
You are highly exalted, name above all names, 00:18:22.000 |
Good morning, Berean Ministry, friends and family. 00:18:40.000 |
attending UCI, nearing the end of this journey. 00:18:57.000 |
and his word never really took place in my heart. 00:19:01.000 |
I had the mindset of just doing what I was told. 00:20:28.000 |
a physical appearance with a wicked heart to God. 00:20:55.000 |
God loves me and wants to save me from my sins. 00:21:12.000 |
strengthen my faith in Him and spread His Word. 00:26:51.000 |
We traveled to Korea for two and a half weeks, 00:27:56.000 |
but I continued to pray that whatever the outcome, 00:29:15.000 |
but also translating intentional conversations 00:29:25.000 |
between Korean-only speakers and English-only speakers. 00:29:41.000 |
a struggling, professing believer in their walk 00:29:46.000 |
while with another attendee who spoke only Korean, 00:29:51.000 |
the spiritual realities presented in the Bible 00:29:53.000 |
and to show them that a life lived for the world 00:33:29.000 |
I think one of my favorite aspects of the trip 00:33:51.000 |
calling in their lives, wherever they're called. 00:33:57.000 |
experience would not be something that is only felt 00:34:01.000 |
but with the rest of the church body as well. 00:35:39.000 |
again what it is that we're trying to do here as well. 00:35:59.000 |
brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your 00:36:07.000 |
And do not be conformed to this world, but be 00:36:11.000 |
so that you may prove what the will of God is, 00:36:13.000 |
that which is good and acceptable and perfect." 00:37:01.000 |
we're going to be looking at today. This is our 00:37:51.000 |
But I discipline my body and make it my slave 00:38:33.000 |
There is no such thing as having no direction. 00:39:25.000 |
It's been talking about it for the individual, 00:40:31.000 |
the gospel message of what God has been trying to accomplish, 00:42:15.000 |
We show mercy because we've been shown mercy. 00:42:19.000 |
And so our foundation, this is the therefore. 00:42:41.000 |
Christianity is not just a marching order that we're 00:43:01.000 |
an end is going to be found in the rest of it. 00:43:33.000 |
many have kind of gone through our college ministry, 00:43:39.000 |
time, a long time ago when you were a college 00:43:41.000 |
student or something like that, there's a game 00:44:01.000 |
We would just dump the entire box all over the ground 00:44:11.000 |
They would go out. That was the whole point of the game. 00:44:39.000 |
They would grab one of these things and without 00:44:51.000 |
I saw another thing, which is that the person 00:44:55.000 |
who was standing behind would give directions 00:45:03.000 |
They would say, "Oh, it's a little bit to the left." 00:45:11.000 |
They would have to listen to these directions. 00:45:17.000 |
there's always someone who just grabs and fires. 00:46:05.000 |
I believe that many times this is what we're doing. 00:47:01.000 |
that makes sense to the believer that there is 00:47:37.000 |
We know that He has direction for our church. 00:47:39.000 |
And we know that God has a direction for this 00:50:09.000 |
our own purpose. Sometimes I think we can feel it. 00:50:39.000 |
that we're living a Christian life that honors 00:50:55.000 |
making in our lives have nothing to do with Him? 00:51:11.000 |
desires are dead. Our own personal aspirations 00:51:41.000 |
only at the moment of salvation but as a course 00:51:49.000 |
this is not to say that we're not allowed to have our own 00:51:55.000 |
police ourselves and check every single little 00:51:59.000 |
if we're to back up and look at the trajectory 00:52:51.000 |
If you look at, if you read through the Pentateuch, 00:53:05.000 |
do is we try to wipe it all away because we say 00:53:17.000 |
stand, the altar, the curtain, it tells you how 00:53:21.000 |
on the curtain there is. It's like why are you doing 00:53:23.000 |
this? Why do you tell us what to cover it with? 00:53:25.000 |
Why do you say that it needs to be done this way? 00:53:27.000 |
Why do you say that it needs to be sprinkled like this? 00:54:11.000 |
All these instructions given, not arbitrarily 00:54:47.000 |
needs to be found in our worship. Not as a burden 00:55:05.000 |
one who sacrifices without the proper direction 00:56:05.000 |
in the garden, not my will but your will be done, 00:56:09.000 |
Our money then is not God's money and so we don't 00:56:31.000 |
as a church that's isolated to just what we're doing 00:57:35.000 |
with the goal. We hung out with the goal. Even our 00:57:53.000 |
worship means that it needs to be in spirit and 00:58:23.000 |
the story of Uzzah, it says, "But when they came 00:58:29.000 |
and took hold of it, for the oxen nearly upset it. 00:58:31.000 |
And the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah, 00:58:33.000 |
and God struck him down there for his irreverence, 00:58:41.000 |
here in this passage is that he was terribly mistaken. 00:59:35.000 |
somewhat recently, and I was pretty disappointed 00:59:37.000 |
by one of the things that was coming out as a 00:59:43.000 |
we're doing things because the world is watching. 01:00:03.000 |
In Galatians 1, verse 10, it says, "For am I now 01:00:09.000 |
trying to please men, I would not be a bondservant of 01:00:29.000 |
so-called churches that have compromised because they 01:00:31.000 |
have good intentions to try to be a good witness. 01:00:37.000 |
Good intentions are not enough and must be saturated 01:00:53.000 |
And I'm going to pull ourselves away from this 01:00:57.000 |
because Berean Community Church is not immune 01:01:09.000 |
thinking that we're giving God worship when He is not 01:01:21.000 |
It's not just sacrifice, but acceptable sacrifice. 01:01:39.000 |
So it says in verse 2, "And do not be transformed 01:01:41.000 |
to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of 01:01:43.000 |
your mind, so that you may prove what the will 01:02:03.000 |
on us not to be conformed to the so-called believing 01:02:09.000 |
and theologically and doctrinally false in their 01:02:13.000 |
but this also includes what has crept into our own 01:02:17.000 |
That we must not become a church that conforms to the 01:02:29.000 |
that have been built. Some of the biggest churches 01:02:39.000 |
in Korea, one of the questions that came to mind is, 01:03:51.000 |
Korean church has lost its witness, and that was 01:03:57.000 |
people didn't want to go to church was because of 01:04:19.000 |
It's not just going to be something that is our religious. 01:04:23.000 |
book of Revelation, we see that, right? That there's going to be 01:04:25.000 |
this mimicking that goes on. There's going to be 01:04:41.000 |
closer to Christianity than we feel comfortable 01:04:45.000 |
and Marxism and all these things that's taking 01:04:49.000 |
things are being pushed for in the name of goodness 01:04:51.000 |
and the name of righteousness and the name of 01:05:03.000 |
acceptable, we must not be conformed to the world 01:05:13.000 |
power of the spirit. It's not something that you can 01:05:17.000 |
that you can do as you go through a curriculum. 01:05:19.000 |
It's not something that you can do as you just say the 01:05:25.000 |
And that's why Paul says, "Not with eloquence 01:05:39.000 |
have written me encouragement notes before and they 01:05:41.000 |
say, "You seem so happy and I know that that's 01:05:43.000 |
the joy of Christ." I'm so thankful for those 01:05:45.000 |
encouragement notes, but one of the crazy things 01:05:49.000 |
one of the things that kind of disturbs me is 01:05:55.000 |
a Christian, when I was in high school, you know 01:05:57.000 |
those yearbook things? When I was most likely to be 01:05:59.000 |
the next president of the United States, things like that? 01:06:25.000 |
I'm not saying what you're seeing is false. Don't 01:06:31.000 |
Please don't think that of me. But at the end, 01:06:45.000 |
It can't just be what you hear when I pray in front of 01:06:47.000 |
you. It needs to be the inner man. It needs to 01:06:59.000 |
He says that this needs to be the renewing of 01:07:05.000 |
a goal. It needs to be the renewal of the mind. 01:07:09.000 |
we think about library books that needs to be 01:07:29.000 |
say it's unreasonable when the Bible says that 01:07:39.000 |
3 verse 5 it says, "Therefore consider the members 01:07:47.000 |
For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come 01:08:05.000 |
10 it shows you then what you are to be renewed to. 01:08:13.000 |
of the one who created him, a renewal in which 01:08:15.000 |
there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, 01:08:33.000 |
then there is no way for us to prove the will of God. 01:09:13.000 |
knew him, he said his children would not get him 01:09:45.000 |
So this is where the rubber meets the road and 01:11:09.000 |
What we're saying is when we look at this, that can't be 01:11:11.000 |
our goal. Just simply becoming a nicer, better 01:11:33.000 |
or the fact that I'm investing in this person there. 01:12:11.000 |
We don't get to just answer that. We don't just 01:12:21.000 |
God want and how then can I live in accordance 01:12:33.000 |
the things that are going on. We need to diagnose 01:12:35.000 |
the problems, the things that have been causing 01:12:47.000 |
I was very close to just passing out pieces of paper today 01:12:59.000 |
What is the thing that we can cultivate, the good things 01:13:05.000 |
And then to say, how are we going to do this? 01:13:31.000 |
You feel like this is the missing ingredient. 01:13:35.000 |
doing seminars and all these different things 01:13:37.000 |
which are very, very important and yet if there is 01:14:23.000 |
How are we going to think about our children and how we 01:14:25.000 |
raise them or whether we even have them or not? 01:20:13.000 |
of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God the