City Bible Church: Weekly Sermons

Text: Luke 1:26-38

On this baptism Sunday, we see how Jesus arrives in humility, to save His people from their sins. Mary’s response is an example to us to trust and obey Gods word. 

-The Messiah Arrives in Humility

-The Messiah Arrives to Redeem and to Reign 

-The Messiah’s Arrival Calls For Faith 

Pastor Manny Pereira highlights the legacy of William Tyndale. Five hundred years ago, Tyndale's English New Testament was first printed, and he gave his life for something of eternal value, so that men and women like us could read God's Word in our own tongue.

God Is Trustworthy (14-17)

We Are Prone To Question His Word (18)

The Kind Correction When We Don’t Believe (19-23)

The Beauty Of Simply Believing (24-25)

God's purposes are greater than the small part of the story we can see. He used Elizabeth and Zechariah through their ordinary faithfulness and he does not forget His people. We can trust Him because He is always at work for His glory and our good. 

- God Is At Work Through Ordinary Faithfulness

- God Does Not Forget His People

The roadmap that Luke lays out for us in the Gospel, is to give us as believers absolute certainty that Jesus is worth it.

We will understand and behold:

-A truth we can stand on

-A savior we can give our hearts to

-A mission we can give our lives to.

1st Peter 2 gives us as believers an identity crisis. It teaches us to see who we are not as individuals, but in light of a corporate setting being members of the local church.

As Gods Spiritual House:

-We Dedicate Our Service

-We Live In Community

-We Proclaim His Excellencies

Marching Orders From the King

God’s Master Plan

Life is too brief to waste. Therefore, rest is good but kingdom labor is better. 

-Sitting at Jesus’s Feet is Challenging, but Absolutely Necessary (Luke 10:38-42)

-The Importance of Intentionally Slowing Down for Others (Psalm 127)

-Rest is Good. But Kingdom Work is Better (Luke 19:10-27)

Because the LORD is God, and we are his, and he is good, loving, and faithful forever, his people can obey the command to rejoice, not by manufacturing gladness, but by beholding the Shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep.

I. The God Who Commands Our Joy (vv. 1–3)

II. The God Who Roots Our Joy in Himself (vv. 4–5)

III. The Shepherd Who Secures Our Joy (John 10)