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Sermon: Power is required, suffering is expected - Lk 24:44-53; Acts 9:10-17, 26:14-18Dr. Rev. Henry Krabbendam

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Sermon: Christ the Compassionate King - Luke 7:11-17; 24:1-12Rev. Mark Sumpter

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Sermon: Serving the King With All Goods - Luke 12:13-21 Rev. Mark Sumpter

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Sermon - Design For Discipleship John 12:12-36Rev. Mark Sumpter

Palm Sunday—John 12:12-36

What do you get when people are crying out, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD”?  

This happened on Palm Sunday, the day that Jesus rode the donkey into the city of Jerusalem. The people lined the streets, waved palm branches, and shouted, “Here’s our king!”

When cries go out like this, you get people expecting a conquering king, one like David from the Old Testament, who turned back Israel's Philistine enemies and brought hope in the midst of oppression. These along the streets of Jerusalem felt the Romans oppressing them. They wanted things to change. This King riding into Jerusalem brought hope.  

Sure enough.

But Jesus adds more to His own conquering triumphs. He says, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.” And then he tells a short parable: “…unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”

Huh. That’s different. Christ’s kingdom is like scattered seed tossed into the ground and it changes from a seed to a sprout and eventually changes to bring full growth and the harvest.

This change from seed to sprout, Jesus says, means dying. The seed is buried and dies.

That’s the primary lesson of Christ’s kingdom. This King riding into Jerusalem says “…whoever loves his life [must] lose it.” Those who follow Him are like the seed in the ground—they die. From that death sprouts up life—it's life with the King. 

Sermon - Face to Face Ministry - 1 Thess. 2:17-20Rev. Adam York

Sermon - The Just and the Justifier - Rom. 3:24-26Rev. Mark Sumpter

Romans 1:17 stands as the mother verse in The Book of Romans. Romans 1:17 “For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, ‘The righteous shall live by faith.’”

And to see its centrality,

■ Note the unfolding progress of the theme of man’s sin taken up in Romans 1:18-3:20

■ Note the two divisions as Paul opens up his letter—a) the sin of the Gentiles [chap 1:18-2:16] and b) the sin of the Jews [2:17-3:10]

■ Note the summary statement of the whole human race charged with guilt and with culpability: Romans 3:10b-20.

Paul designs his elaboration and teaching this way in order to prove that God must provide his own divine righteousness; it is utterly essential to the provision of salvation for any man, woman, or child. Here is man’s pressing, inescapable spiritual need; and God must be the fount of this blessing.

But why is it necessary that God provide and accomplish salvation?

God’s own character, he, who is righteous (his being), is at stake. He must remain true to his own nature. He will not wink at sin. Equally true, what else is at stake is satisfying his holy standards, which are thoroughly righteous (we’re talking about his revealed will, his commandments). A pure, righteous life must be provided for God to be glorified. He is both just and the justifier.

Therefore, the salvation viewed in Romans 3:24-26 centers on God’s own provision for man’s need to be restored to God (reconciled), to be righteous in his sight (vindicated), and to be made suitable to dwell in his presence (sanctification and glorification). God must be the provider, for he alone possesses righteousness.

The hymn writer, John Newton, put it so poignantly, “Great, wise, holy, just, and gracious, [God] hates and punishes the sin, he saves and loves the sinner. May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done…” Letters of John Newton

Jesus’ Two Schools of PrayerDr. Henry Krabbendam

On Mar 17, 2019, special guest preacher Dr. Henry Krabbendam teaches on Jesus’ two schools of prayer, congregational support for the evangelist and the Lord’s Supper.

Biblical EvangelismRev. Al Baker

Biblical RevivalDr. Henry Krabbendam

Biblical Revival is essentially a Powerful Movement of the Sovereign God to implement the New Covenant, promised by the Father, personified by the Son and personalized by the Holy Spirit. In and through the New Covenant the Triune God saves sinners by granting them a new heart in regeneration, a new righteousness in justification and a new holiness in sanctification. This threefold grace is held out in prospect by God the Father in the OT, produced by God the Son through his cross and resurrection, and delivered by God the Holy Spirit, in particular through the proclamation of the Gospel, designed to make disciples of all nations, and in general through the proclamation of the Word, designed to teach them to observe whatever God has commanded (Mt. 28:19-20).

JamesDr. Henry Krabbendam

This Lecture deals with the Biblical Theological as well as Systematic Theological place, function, and significance of the Epistle of James in the Canon of Scripture. Written by James, the Brother of Christ, most likely in the mid to late forties, it addresses the worldwide Church, although it consists of mostly Jewish Christians at the time of its writing, well before Paul took center stage and definitely before the Jerusalem Council of Acts 15 and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. The early date and the initial addressees are more than suggested by the “Jewishness” of James’ choice of words and concepts and the total lack of any reference to the “monumental” events that took place one or more decades later in the history of the Early Church.