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What you are looking forward to in the future will affect how you live now. If you’re hope is great. You’ll press on when life is tough. You’ll keep

Introduction: What will keep us going?

Context

1)   Embrace Your Identity: We’re elect Exiles (1:1-2)

2)   Look Forward With Hope: Our Future Inheritance (1:3-9)

a. Certain hope (3-5)

b. Rejoice your faith is proved genuine (6-9)

3)   Recognize Your Privilege: The Promised Salvation (1:10-12)

4)   Pursue Holiness: As God’s Redeemed Children (1:13-2:3)

a. Set your hope on Jesus' return (13-16)'

b. Jesus died to make us holy (17-21)

c. Love one another (1:22-2:3)

Application: What will keep you going?

This was Talk 1 preached for Subang Jaya Gospel Centre Family Camp on 3rd June 2023.

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You can tell a lot about a person by what they say. Words have a particularly revealing power about them. As you listen carefully enough to what someone says, you can very quickly discover, someone’s priories, their worries, what is important to them. But more so – words have a particular revealing power to disclose the nature of a relationship between two people. What do your prayers reveal about your relationship with God? In Luke 11, Jesus refocuses us on the God to whom we pray, glorious, generous and good, and how we are to pray to him.

Introduction: The revealing power of words

Context

1.   The priority of prayer (1)

2.    The pattern of prayer (2-4)  

a.    Addressed to the Father

  b.    Seeking God’s glory first

  c.     Dependant on God for all our needs

3.   The practice of prayer (5-8)

a.    Shameless urgency

  b.    Ask, seek, knock

4.    The promise of prayer (9-13)

  a.    God is generous

b.     God is good

Conclusion: The privilege of prayer

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Whether it's the East or the West, we're often taught that we need to love ourselves, before we can love others. But in Luke 10:24-37 we're challenged to love our neighbour first at expense of ourselves, as an expression of our supreme love for God. This talk was Part 4 of a series on "Selfless" for St Mary's Cathedral Church Camp in 2016.

This sermon was an adapted version of the sermon script prepared by Joshua Ng, which he was unable to preach at St Mary's Cathedral on 1st May 2016.

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How do you feel about following Jesus on mission? As we seek to reach out, we may feel a mix of disappointment, reluctance, fear as we realise that following Jesus on mission is not as easy as we thought. So what will keep us going on mission when we face rejection: it is the joy of salvation.

Introduction: How do you feel about following Jesus on mission?

Context

1. Rejoice that Satan has been defeated (17-19)

2.     Rejoice that your salvation is assured (20)

3. Rejoice that God has graciously revealed himself (21-22)

4. Rejoice in the privilege of global mission (23-24)

Conclusion: The Joy of Salvation & The Mission of Jesus

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There is nothing more important in life than working out who Jesus truly is. Who is Jesus?

Introduction: The Million Dollar Question

       Context

        Setting: Jesus' private prayer

1.    Who is Jesus? (18-20)

  a.     A prophet? (19)

b.     The Christ (20)

2.     What did Jesus come to do? (21-22)

3.    How should we respond? (23-27)

a.     The right response (23)

b.     The reason (24-27)

i.     Save or lose (24)

  ii. Profit or loss (25)

  iii. Shame or glory (26-27)

Conclusion: Who is Jesus to you?

This sermon was preached at St Mary's Cathedral, Kuala Lumpur on 9th March 2016.

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We do not like to speak of death. It’s one of the last taboos of society. It’s uncomfortable. It’s confronting. It’s reminds us all too much of our failure to control our lives, of our sheer helplessness. And yet every time a loved one dies, we’re confronted with the unchangeable reality of life – that we will all die. Where can hope be found in the face of death? In Luke 7, we read of one of the most remarkable events ever recorded in human history – when Jesus encountered death and defeated it.

Introduction: The Reality of Death

       Context

1.     Life Meets Death (11-12)

2.     The Lord of Life Defeats Death (13-15)

a.    Jesus’ identity (13)

b.     Jesus’ compassion (13)

c.      Jesus’ power (14-15)

3.     The Crowds Response (16-17)

a.     Fear

b.     Praise

Conclusion: Our response

a.     Hope in the face of death

 b.     Worthy of our Trust

This sermon was preached at St Mary's Cathedral, KL on 10th January 2016.

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“Handle with Care” – They’re the words that are written on anything that is very precious and requires special attention. As he finishes this sermon on the plain Jesus warns us – we must handle his words with care. Or beware – the consequences will be great. How are you responding to the words of Jesus?

Introduction: Handle With Care

       Context

1.     Take care how you judge (6:37-42)

2. Take care how you live (43-45)

3. Take care how you hear (46-49)

Conclusion

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Introduction: Are you blessed?

       Context

1. The Presence of the King (17-19)

2. The Profile of the Blessed (20-23)

   a.     Poverty (20-21a)

b.     Pain (21b)

c.     Persecution (22-23)

3. The Priorities of False Disciples (24-26)

a.     Plenty (24)

  b.    Pleasure (25)

c.      Popularity (26)

4. Christ & the Cross

Conclusion: Where is your heart set?

a.     Present rewards?

 b.     Christ’s Future Kingdom?

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The Jesus of the bible is an extraordinary character. He is completely in control. He commands the winds and the waves and they obey him. At his touch people are healed. At his word the dead are raised. By his authority sins are forgiven, and his opponents are put to shame. But in the Garden of Gethsemane, we meet a Jesus who is overcome with sorrow to the point of death. We're given a window into Jesus' intimate relationship with Father, and what his cross meant for him.

Introduction: A Very Different Jesus

1. The Sheep Scattered (30-35, cf. Zechariah 13:7-9)

2. The Saviour’s Treasure (36-46, cf. Hebrews 5:7-9)

3) The Scriptures Fulfilled (47-56)

4) The Substantial Implications

  (i)     The cross was the only way sinners could be made right with God

  (ii)    We must never take Jesus' obedience to the cross for granted

(iii)   The only right response is to treasure Jesus and live for him.

This sermon was preached at St Mary's Cathedral, KL on 7th March 2010.

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