Longview Heights Sermons

What Can Wash Away My Sin?
Luke 11:37-54
March 27, 2022



Good deeds don’t cleanse

Positions don’t cleanse

Knowledge doesn’t cleanse

Jesus’ sacrifice is the ONLY thing that can cleanse

Concluding Challenge: Rest in the salvation that
God gives through Jesus.

A Church’s Responsibility
James 5:12-20

Pray Constantly
• Our motivation: we can do nothing without Christ
• Our concentration: Kingdom agenda
• Our resolution: let prayer be foundational, not just additional

Sing Biblically
• Praise lifts my head up
• Praise holds my heart steady
• Praise anchors my soul in Christ

Confess Regularly
• Sin brings isolation
• Accountability brings solidarity

Restore Lovingly
• Be sensitive to doctrine
• Be sensitive to practice

God’s good design is for a church to pray, sing, confess, and restore one another in unity, for the sake of the Kingdom


LHBC Winter 2022
James Series Overview

• Trials are certain, countless, but construction in that they produce perseverance and drive me to prayer (James 1:1-8)

• In the midst of your trials, remember your identity in Christ, recognize the immutability of God, and run to the Word faithfully (James 1:9-27)

• God doesn’t show favoritism and neither should His children (James 2:1-13)

• Convictional, saving faith in the work of Jesus leads me to transformed works in my life (James 2:14-26).

• In Christ, my speech can give life. Without Christ, my speech will destroy life (James 3:1-12)

• Seek God’s wisdom through a relationship with His Son, not your own ambitions (James 3:13-18)

• In view of God’s grace, I am challenged to pursue God consistently and resist sin aggressively (James 4:1-12)

• Because life is short and God is sovereign, all of my plans should begin and end with “for me to live is Christ” (James 4:13-17)

• To be patiently faithful is to remember that God is continually providing and sustaining my life in Him, as I live with Gospel intentionality towards others (James 5:1-12)

• God’s good design is for a church to pray, sing, confess, and restore one another in unity, for the sake of the Kingdom (James 5:12-20)

Patient Faithfulness
James 5:1-12

• Be patient, wealth can be dangerous
• Be patient, envying the rich is not healthy
• Be patient, generosity is a mark of the Gospel
• Be patient, Christ is the ultimate Judge
• Be patient, Christ is coming
• Be patient, Christ is working among us
• Be patient, God’s faithfulness has never failed
• Be patient, Christ alone will hold you fast

Psalm 73

FRIENDSHIP WITH THE WORLD
• Is fueled by the pursuit of selfish desires
• Is marked by dissension
• Has an end goal that rejects Christ's Lordship

FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD
• Is fueled by the pursuit of God
• Is marked by unity
• Has an end goal that submits to Christ's Lordship

BIBLICAL ENCOURAGEMENTS:
• Lean towards grace completely
• Resist Satan aggressively
• Pursue God consistently
• Treat sin seriously

In view of God's grace, I am challenged to pursue God consistently and resist sin aggressively.