Fairfield Church of Christ Sermons

1:1-20 –What sustains and unites the church is not a pastor or a program.  It’s not worship style or music.  What sustains and unites the church is the perseverance of Jesus coming for those that need Him! 

The apostle Paul highlights the role of the law as well as the mercy that God showed him as the “foremost” sinner.  This same mercy in Jesus Christ remains the church’s only hope!  The church is the place where sinners are welcomed so they can be supernaturally changed by the Savior.

So, let’s not misunderstand what Jesus came to do, and in our telling of the Good News, let’s not misrepresent what the gospel offers. We to get lost in details and side issues, let’s come back to the center. The cancer the gospel proposes to cure is this: our sins against God!

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Acts 6:1-7; Eph. 4:11-13; 1 Cor. 12:14-22.  Ultimately we end up pointing to human brokenness – God’s people and our God together makes up Everybody that is found greater than somebody.  You end up finding how much stronger you are together than you were alone.  Here’s what’s great about Christian community – the more you want from it, and the more you give to it, the more uncomfortable you have to be, and at the same time, the more fulfilled you become. Who doesn’t want to be greater than the somebody you are by joining up with everybody?

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Gen. 1:26; 2:18; 3:7-8; Rev. 7:9; 2 Cor. 13:11 – Why do we exist?  The very core of creation/humanity is the need to belong -  to be in vulnerable relationships that build the framework for community to take place.

Before anything was created, we will see that God existed in community:  Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  The three in one is the source that everything was created and moves.  So it stands to reason that whatever is created would have similar identifying makers or DNA Alf the Creator.  One of those markers is that nothing was created in isolation and the left in a vacuum.  Everything is created in relationship to something or someone else.  It wasn’t good for Adam to be alone and neither were you.  It’s the ever-present constant of the entire human narrative.

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Luke 24:13-35; Deut. 6:4-9 - It’s frustrating when you can’t see something but you’re told it’s there.   Does this ever happen to you with the big things in life?  Where you’re looking for something important but just can’t see it?

How about when you look for God but can’t sense his presence?   You look for Him, and you’re told by your preacher and more spiritually attuned friends that “He’s right there!” but we just can’t see him for yourself. Instead of sensing God you feel like He’s  gone or like He will talk to anyone but you. When you can’t see God or sense Christ’s presence what should you do?  That’s a dark place to be at but it’s similar to where some of Jesus’ followers found themselves Sunday after his crucifixion.  

When you go back through the Scriptures you can’t help but read them in light of that good news. It’s all about Him!  It’s all pointing to our need for Him. It’s all about this coming Savior who is going to pay the ultimate sacrifice. It’s all about Jesus, His suffering, His death, and His  life-giving resurrection so that anyone who repents of their sins and puts their faith and trust in Him will one day rise again too. When you can’t see Jesus, look to the Scriptures and to his resurrection!

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Luke 18:18-19; James 1:16-18; Rom. 8:12-17 -A perfectly reasonable question to ask of someone like Jesus, one would think, and a decently polite way of putting it. But Jesus’ response begins in typically exasperating fashion:  “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.”

By asking “Why do you call Me good?” Jesus is forcing the young man to reflect on his own perception of who Jesus is. Unintentionally, this ruler had made a wild—though entirely accurate—claim about Jesus.

When Philip first encountered Jesus, it was life changing.  He was so excited about his new Master that he went and told his friend Nathanael to come and follow. But Nathanael mocked the idea by saying, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”(John 1:46). We could in a sense share that ancient disdain and skepticism:  Could Jesus really be the solution?  Could He be the One who takes my wicked heart and makes it produce something that’s truly good?  You can bet He IS Good!

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Mark 4:30-32;  Mark 10:13-15 – Jesus thinks about the imagery that best describes the ontology of the Kingdom and its ways – that of the mustard seed( the smallest or the garden seeds).  It is common and worked for the imagery of contrast, the point Jesus is making is simple, that “small beginnings can yield great outcomes.”  The way of the seed does not fit the logic of the world, it is small and insignificant; unnoticeable when it enters into the ground.  Yet with time, the seed becomes the plant so strong and large that birds can perch in its branches and rest from the weariness of their life.

The parable point is a simple one.  The Kingdom of Heaven will have small and insignificant beginnings; it will be unnoticeable to the world.  The Kingdom of God will grow under the hand and by the timing of God, not dependent on those who belong to it or by the works of man, but as the Spirit of God will, so would the kingdom grow.

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Luke 12: 22-34; Phil. 4:4-7 -    I wonder how many of you are worried right now? You've got an ongoing weight, a burden, someone you love, something you care about, something that you want to change, but you can't figure out how to change. It's a never ending weight, something that's always present with you. If you do, you're not alone.

Worry is like telling our omnipotent God the unthinkable: “I don’t trust You.” Yet worry is still a struggle for many who have experienced God’s goodness—even mature believers. Reflecting on Jesus’ words about anxiety,  we can think rightly about our troubles when we view them in light of God’s Word. Only then will we trust our burdens to the One who can truly bear them.

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God knows you love Him.  But, for sure, He wants to hear you say it and watch your love flow for Him.

Have you ever seen those bumper stickers that says, “To know me is to love me.” Why would you put that on your car? Every time I see one of those I think, I doubt that. So often the better we get to know somebody, the more we really know them, the harder it becomes to love them.

God knows you from the beginning to the end. He knows you inside out. He knows all things, so nothing is going to change His opinion of you or His love for you. Rest in that.  Peter had to, so do you.

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John 11:17-44; John 20:31; Rom. 15:13 - The question Jesus asks us: “Do you believe I am the resurrection and the life?”   “Do you believe THIS?”

“Eternal life" in the gospel of John is not only a future thing.  It's something you have, and experience, right now. It's a now-and-later thing. This eternal life-- this Spirit life-- that you have with God, will be forever unbroken. Death will not ever be a thing for you; you will always live, in unbroken fellowship with God.

“Do you believe this?” Only two answers are possible if we understand the question clearly: yes or no. I stand with Martha and the man born blind and say, “Yes, Lord, I believe THIS!”  How about you?

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John 9: 1-41; John 3:12; John 5:39-48 -    Jesus often used temporary situations to illustrate larger spiritual issues.  Do you know that there may be hardships and obstacles in your life that are there so that God will be glorified in them in some way in the end?    While many may skew understandings of sin and it's consequences, Jesus does not.   Is it offensive to believe that God may allow some complex thing, some painful thing using such to carry out something else that He wants?  

This is where our trust in God lies, in His ability to know and oversee what we simply cannot.  Jesus shows His tenderness to those who have been put out by the elite, by the ruling class, as He seeks out the man born blind when he is removed from the  assembly.

Jesus is still pursuing those cast out today.  He rescues sinners, after all.  That's really good news for me and for you, unless you think you see already.

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