Bethel Church Temple TX Podcast (Sermons)

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  • Defining Success

    Defining Success

    July 27, 2025 Elwyn Johnston

    1 Thessalonians 2:1 - 12

    Verse of the Week: “We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God’s Good News but our own lives” 1 Thessalonians 2:8

    1. God does not define success the way the world does.

    “some of the Jews were jealous, so they gathered some troublemakers from the marketplace to form a mob and start a riot.” Acts 17:5

    “Immediately when night came, the believers sent Paul and Silas to the city of Berea.” Acts 17:10

    “You yourselves know…that our visit to you was not a failure.” 1 Thessalonians 2:1

    • “Failures” are a launching pad, not a landing pad.
      • “God gave us the courage to declare His Good News to you boldly, in spite of great opposition.” 1 Thessalonians 2:2
      “A righteous person may fall seven times, but they get up again.” Proverbs 24:16
    • “Failure” can be a great teacher!
    • Our goal is to please Christ, not culture.
      • “we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who examines our hearts.”         1 Thessalonians 2:4

      “We didn’t seek praise from people, from you or from anyone else” 1 Thessalonians 2:6

      2. Society defines success by riches. God defines success by relationships.

      “we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother gently cares for her own children” 1 Thessalonians 2:7
      “We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God’s Good News but our own lives” 1 Thessalonians 2:8
      “we were exhorting and comforting and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children” 1 Thessalonians 2:11
      “Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.” Romans 12:15
      “Don’t you remember, brethren, how hard we worked among you?”               1 Thessalonians 2:9

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    • A Magnetic Church

      A Magnetic Church

      July 20, 2025 Elwyn Johnston

      1 Thessalonians 1

      Verse of the Week: “people speak of how you are waiting for the
      coming of God’s Son from heaven—Jesus, whom God raised from the
      dead.” 1 Thessalonians 1:10


      1. A team that advances the church
      “some of the Thessalonians were persuaded and joined Paul and
      Silas” Acts 17:4
      “Paul, Silas, and Timothy” 1 & 2 Thessalonians 1:1
      “Paul and Barnabas also appointed elders in these churches.” Acts 14:23
      “Do not neglect the spiritual gift you received through the prophecy
      spoken over you when the elders of the church laid their hands on
      you.” 1 Timothy 4:14

      2. A faith that is active

      “work of faith” 1 Thessalonians 1:3
      “Faith without works is dead.” James 2:26

      3. A love that works hard

      “labor of love” 1 Thessalonians 1:3
      “let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by
      our actions.” 1 John 3:18

      4. A hope that endures

      “the enduring hope you have because of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
      1 Thessalonians 1:3

      “In spite of a lot of tribulation, you welcomed God’s word with the joy

      of the Holy Spirit” 1 Thessalonians 1:6

      5. A life that echoes

      “You imitated us and the Lord.” 1 Thessalonians 1:6
      “you became a model for all the believers” 1 Thessalonians 1:7
      “Let your light shine before others” Matthew 5:16
      “people keep talking about…how you turned from idols to serve the
      living and true God.” 1 Thessalonians 1:9
      “the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you to people
      everywhere…wherever we go we find people telling us about your
      faith in God….people keep talking about the wonderful welcome you
      gave us….And they speak of how you wait for the coming of God’s
      Son” 1 Thessalonians 1:8 - 10


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    • Your God Is Too Small pt.2
      Your God is Too Small part 2
      July 13, 2025 Elwyn Johnston
      Job 38 – 42
      Verse of the Week: “I Am Who I Am” Exodus 3:14

      “When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone” Romans 5:12
      “we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28

      1. God uses suffering to redirect us.
      “Sometimes painful experiences make us change our ways.” Proverbs 20:30
      “You asked, ‘Who is this that questions My wisdom with such ignorance?’ It is I - and I was talking about things I knew nothing about, things far too wonderful for me.” Job 42:3

      2. God uses suffering to realign us.
      “My suffering was good for me, for it taught me to pay attention to Your statutes.” Psalm 119:71
      “the testing of your faith produces endurance, so let endurance do its work so you become mature and complete, lacking in nothing.” James 1:3 & 4
      “I have made them for My glory.” Isaiah 43:7
      “God saved them for the sake of His name” Psalm 106:8

      3. God uses suffering to reposition us
      “you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good. He repositioned me so I could save the lives of many people.” Gen. 50:20
      “give me this mountain that the Lord promised me” Joshua 14:12
      “I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will continue His work until the day of Christ Jesus.” Phil. 1:6
      “satan has desired to sift you like wheat; but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail. When you have come through the time of testing, strengthen your brothers.” Luke 22:31 & 32

      4. God uses suffering to refine us.
      “I have refined you, but not as silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering.” Isaiah 48:10
      “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye sees You; therefore I despise myself and I repent” Job 42:6
      “no purpose of God’s can be stopped.” Job 42:2
      “God knows the way I take; when He has tested me, I will come forth as pure gold.” Job 23:10
      “None of the rulers of this age recognized and understood God’s wisdom; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” 1 Corinthians 2:8
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    • Your God is Too Small Pt.1

      Your God is Too Small

      July 6, 2025 Elwyn Johnston

      Job 38 – 42

      Verse of the Week: “I Am Who I Am” Exodus 3:14

      1. Change our perspective of God

      “I was talking about things I knew nothing about, things far too
      wonderful for me.” Job 42:3

      • Fear the Lord

        • “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.” Proverbs 1:7

        “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” Proverbs 9:10
        “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil” Proverbs 8:13
        “In the fear of the Lord there is security, and His children will have
        refuge” Proverbs 14:26

        2. Embrace the character of God.

        “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” Heb. 13:8

        “God never changes” James 1:17
        “I am the Lord, and I do not change.” Malachi 3:6
        “God is love” 1 John 4:8
        “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them,
        ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.’” Leviticus 19:2
        “Only God is truly good.” Mark 10:18
        “The Lord is good, a strong refuge when trouble comes.” Nahum 1:7
        “O taste and see that the Lord is good” Psalm 34:8

        “God who calls you is faithful” 1 Thessalonians 5:24

        “God does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to
        come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9
        “the Lord longs to be gracious to you.…For the Lord is a God of
        justice.” Isaiah 30:18

        “I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can

        be thwarted.” Job 42:2

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      • A Good Friend

        A Good Friend

        June 29, 2025 Elwyn Johnston

        Job 2:11 - 13

        Verse of the Week: “It is not good for man to be alone” Genesis 2:18

        1. A good friend shows up

        “when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come
        upon Job, they came each one from his own place.” Job 2:11
        “A friend loves at all times” Proverbs 17:17

        2. A good friend will empathize with you.

        “When the friends recognized Job, they began to weep and wail,
        tearing their clothes in grief and throwing dust into the air and on their
        heads.” Job 2:12
        “Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who
        weep.” Romans 12:15
        “You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded
        each one in your book.” Psalm 56:8


        3. A good friend listens
        “Listen to what I am saying; that is all the comfort I ask from you.”
        “Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for
        the interests of others.” Philippians 2:4
        “Avoiding a fight is a mark of honor; but any fool will quarrel.”
        Proverbs 20:3
        “A man who flatters his neighbor is spreading a net for his steps.”
        Proverbs 29:5

        “Stop and think! Do the innocent die? When have the upright been

        destroyed?” Job 4:7
        “ask the previous generation. Pay attention to the experience of our
        ancestors.” Job 8:8
        “If only you would prepare your heart….Get rid of your sins….Then
        your face will brighten with innocence….You will forget your
        misery….Your life will be brighter than the noonday.” Job 11:13 - 17
        “they sat down on the ground with Job for seven days and seven
        nights with no one speaking a word to him” Job 2:13

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      • Crushed But Not Conquered
        Crushed but not Conquered
        June 15, 2025 Elwyn Johnston
        Job 1 – 2:10

        Verse of the Week: “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” Job 1:21

        1. Hell’s strategy is to crush your joy
        “Now there was a day” Job 1:13
        “we are not ignorant of satan’s plans.” 2 Corinthians 2:11
        “the joy of the Lord is our strength” Nehemiah 8:10
        “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy” John 10:10
        “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Genesis 1:27

        2. Heaven’s blueprint: grow through what you go through
        “blameless, upright, fearing God, and shunning from evil.” Job 1:1
        “Make no provision for the flesh to gratify its desires” Romans 13:14
        “Flee the evil desires…and pursue righteousness” 2 Timothy 2:22
        “I have not seen the righteous forsaken, or His descendants begging for bread” Psalm 37:25
        “when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” Job 23:10

        3. God has the final word
        “the Lord said to Satan, ‘Behold, he is in your power, only spare his life.’” Job 2:6
        “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man: but God is faithful. He will not allow you to be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation He will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13

        4. Worship while you weep
        “Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped. He said, ‘The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.’”
        Job 1:20 & 21
        “I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth….O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. I sought the Lord, and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.” Psalm 34:1, 3, 4

        When the bottom falls out, let God catch you.
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      • Gateway to the Supernatural

        Gateway to the Supernatural

        June 8, 2025 Elwyn Johnston

        Acts 2:38 & 39

        Verse of the Week: “wait for the promise of the Father…. in just a few
        days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Acts 1:4 & 5


        1. The Spirit will convict us
        “when the Holy Spirit has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of
        righteousness, and of judgment” John 16:8
        “you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which has eyes to see
        but does not see, and ears to hear but does not hear” Ezekiel 12:2
        “Happy is the person whom God corrects! Do not resent it when He
        rebukes you.”


        2. The Spirit will develop Christ-likeness in us.
        “the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
        goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” Gal. 5:22 & 23

        3. The Spirit will empower you to live victoriously

        “you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do
        ….if by the power of the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of
        your sinful nature, you will live.” Romans 8:12 & 13
        “do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its sinful
        desires.” Romans 6:12
        “sin shall not be master over you” Romans 6:14
        “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee
        from you.” James 4:7
        “reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ
        Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:11

        “walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.”

        Galatians 5:26
        “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes”
        Ezekiel 36:27

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      • ONE
        ONE
        June 1, 2025 Elwyn Johnston

        John 17
        Verse of the Week: “that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me” John 17:23

        1. The diversity of oneness
        “that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You” John 17:21

        2. The purpose of oneness
        “Sanctify them in the truth [set them apart for Your purposes, make them holy]” John 17:17 AMP
        •  To know Christ
          • “though the world does not know You, I know You” John 17:25
          “My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.” Philippians 3:10
          “I count everything as loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.” Philippians 3:8
          • To make Christ known
            • “I have made You known to them, and will continue to make You known” John 17:26
            “Just as You commissioned and sent Me into the world, I also have commissioned and sent them into the world.” John 17:18
            “I pray that they may be united with Us so that the world will believe that You have sent Me.” John 17:21

            3. The power of oneness
            “The people are one, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them!” Gen. 11:6
            “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting….And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit” Acts 2:1, 2, 4
            “whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do” John 14:12

            4. The foundation of oneness - Jesus
            “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” John 17:3
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