Christ Church of Mt Airy Sermons

God's mercy is demonstrated in His care to those in misery and stress. The details of Joseph's reunion with his brothers shows the breath of God's grace as He provide for their financial, physical, emotional, and relational deficiencies.

The type of gifts God gave worked in the hearts of Joseph and his brothers to produce conviction, repentance, and freedom. Likewise, God continues to work in our lives to address sin and extend salvation.

Just like with Joseph, God is working out all the details of your life to fulfill His purpose for you. He gifts you and sends you, like Joseph, to save people from all kinds of starvation.

In addressing the division found in the church in Corinth, Paul seeks to explain how the message, people and preaching of the cross makes no sense to a culture focused on pursuit of status and wisdom, but that it is the solely the power of Christ and proclaiming him crucified that brings rightness and sanctification.

Nearing the end of his life, Peter closes his second letter with four exhortations on how we are to wait with anticipation for the return of Christ, the destruction of the ungodly and the world, and the coming of the new heavens and new earth. Peter calls believers to holiness, being on guard for false teachers, counting on the patience of the Lord as salvation, and to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ. These points demonstrate how different God’s priorities are for his followers than those encouraged by our modern culture.

At the end of Peter's life, he writes to tell us about the promise of God's second coming, the Day of Judgement and the destruction of the ungodly. He warns that although the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night, to rest assure that He knows how to mercifully rescue the godly from being destroyed.

See what God did for falsely-accused Joseph, and be amazed! Suffering is not a punishment from God. God takes the worst things that humanity can think of and turns them into good to save lives. (Foreshadow much, God?)

Joseph's innocent life in Chapter 39 is contrasted with Judah's wicked one in Chapter 38, and we see it as a foreshadowing of the coming of Jesus. Throughout our human history, we see that God makes a way to provide mercy to those who don't deserve to be loved.

God tested Joseph, who eventually learns that God is always at work, and that what man meant for evil God flipped around for good to save lives.

Jesus died and rose from the dead to make forgiveness possible. Everywhere in God's Word we should see things about Jesus that will transform our minds. Ask for the Spirit’s help to understand so that our hearts burn for God.