ODCC Sermons

Good News of Great Joy

Luke 2:8-21

Teaching

-The Setting (2:8-9)

-The Gospel (2:10-14)

Sinners

Space

Salvation

Scriptures

Submission

Signs

Suffering

-Response (2:15-21)

Believe

Seek Jesus

Tell others about Jesus

Meditate on the Gospel

Praise God

Obedience

Reproof

-The idea that you somehow deserve salvation or you have earned it...

-A lack of joy in the gospel

-A continual sense of guilt and fear...

-Several misunderstandings of the gospel...

-All things exist for God’s glory, not yours

-Professing Christians who neglect the gospel

-Don’t take your believing parents for granted...

Correction

-Jesus Christ is Savior and Lord

Training in Righteousness

-Resolve to find your joy in Christ

Teaching

- Three characteristics of God’s love

- Resolution

- Redemption

- Righteousness

- Four steps of true repentance

- Returning

- Seeking

- Fearing

- Delighting

Reproof

- A superficial view of love

- A superficial love for God

Correction

- “David their king”

Training in Righteousness

- Resolve to truly repent

- Resolve to be the most thankful person you know

Teaching

- Plead

- Hedge

- Take Back

Reproof

- Do you want prosperity more than God?

- Do you want pleasure more than God?

- Do you want popularity more than God?

- Frustration...

- Confiscation…

Correction

- I will Allure you

- I will Betroth you

Training in Righteousness

- Call out to the Lord

Teaching

-Who was Hosea?

-When and where did he prophesy

-Who was his wife?

-Who were his children?

Reproof

-A light and trivial understanding of sin

-Taking God's mercy for granted

-Whose child are you?

-Our individualistic introversion

-Belittling of generational sin

Correction

-The prophets speak of Christ (LK 24:44)

-Hosea spoke of Christ (Rom 9:25-26)

-In Christ we are God's people (1 Pet 2:10)

-In Christ we are God's children (Rom 8:16-17)

-God sent his Son to take adulterers as his bride (Eph 5:25-27)

Training in Righteousness

-Resolve to respond like the sinful woman of Lk 7:38

What was Jesus’ ultimate vision?

What was Jesus’ strategy to fulfill His vision?

I. Vision heard and Seen (Acts. 16:9-10)

II. Prayer first and together (Acts 16:13, 16, 25)

III. Discernment to meet God appointed people

IV. Gospel Proclamation for a new church Planting

Conclusion – Mission Partnership (Phil. 1:3-5)

Instruction

-The Nations

-The Lord

-The King

-The Counsel

Reproof

-Those who defiantly rebel against Christ

-Those who willingly stray from Christ

-Those who fear speaking for Christ

Correction

-Kiss the Son

Training in Righteousness

-Resolve to be a fearless evangelist

-Resolve to serve Christ first

-Resolve to love Christ most

-Resolve to find your refuge in Christ

Delight in the Law of the Lord

Psalm 1

Instruction

- How to NOT be blessed

- How to BE blessed

- The blessed

- The wicked

Reproof

- Which road are you on?

- Though you may profess the Lord with your mouth... how do you meditate with your heart?

Correction

- The fight

- The fight is won in Christ

Training

-First, resolve to set a high estimate upon Scripture

-Second, resolve to pray for a spiritual heart

- Third, if you would delight in the law of God, resolve to purge out the delight of sin

- Resolve to fill your thoughts with Scripture and theology

- Resolve to spend more time in meditation than time in media

1. Context

A conversation between a lawyer and Jesus

The parable of the good Samaritan

2. Loving God

Righteousness By keeping the Law

Righteousness by faith

Religions without the love of the LORD

3. Compassion

4. You go, and do likewise

Instruction

Context of Revelation 1:10

How did Sunday become the Lord's day?

Matthew 21; Matthew 28; Luke 24; John 20; Acts 2; Acts 20; 1 Corinthians 16

Reproof

The elephant in the room...

Too much church?

Correction

In the Spirit on the Lord's Day

Training in Righteousness

Resolve to make Resurrection Sunday, every Lord's day

Resolve to make the Lord's day a keystone habit of your week

Instruction

- Introduction to Hebrews

- Context of Hebrews 4

- What is that REST?

- How do you enter God’s eternal Sabbath rest?

Reproof

- We see the need for reproof

- Holding onto the world

- False assurance of salvation

- Spiritual laziness in fighting sin

- Taking God’s judgment lightly

Correction

- Draw near to the throne of grace with confidence

Training in Righteousness

- Resolve to fight for grace TODAY

- Resolve to fight for grace together

- Resolve to fix your eyes on Jesus