NYNCF Sermons

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. 7 Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. 8 It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. (Prov. 3:5-8)

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. (Prov. 14:12)

The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps. (Prov. 16:9)

Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety. (Prov 11:14)

Your word is a lamp to my feet  and a light to my path. (Psalm 119:105)

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is  than a fattened ox and hatred with it. (Prov. 15:16-17)

Sermon points

• What our wealth cannot do for us

• What we should do with our wealth 

• How we can do what we should with our wealth. 

The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is HASTY comes only to poverty. (Prov. 21:5)

Sermon points

Mark 14:43-52

43 And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. 44 Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away under guard.” 45 And when he came, he went up to him at once and said, “Rabbi!” And he kissed him. 46 And they laid hands on him and seized him. 47 But one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant[a] of the high priest and cut off his ear. 48 And Jesus said to them, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? 49 Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled.” 50 And they all left him and fled.51 And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. And they seized him, 52 but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked.

Jesus Betrayed and Seized | Speaker: Pastor Peter Hwang

Sermon Points

Proverbs 25:28

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

Proverbs 16:32

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,[a] that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown[b] in the wilderness.

6 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. 7 Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” 8 We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. 9 We must not put Christ[c] to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, 10 nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. 12 Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Proverbs 6:6-11/Psalm 127: 1-2

Proverbs 6:6-11

6  Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

7  Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,

8  she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.

9  How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?

10  A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

11  and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.

Psalm 127: 1-2

1 Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

2  It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits. (Prov. 18:21)

Sermon points

• The purpose of the power of words

Sermon Text: Ephesians 5:7-14

7 Therefore do not become partners with them; 8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. 13 But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, 14 for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,

“Awake, O sleeper,

10  An excellent wife who can find?