ODCC Sermons

Instruction

1. What did JC teach about the Law as a whole?

2. What did JC teach about the Sabbath?

3. Two principles for the Sabbath

Reproof

1. Error: Treating the Sabbath like the Pharisees

2. Error: Treating the Sabbath like a non-believer

Correction

Jesus came not to abolish the law but to fulfill

Training in Righteousness

1. Resolve to devote your entire Sunday to the Lord

2. Resolve to devote Sunday as a day to give mercy

3. Resolve to let the Lord’s Day penetrate everyday

Teaching:

-Three important repitions

-Four Moral Principles of Rest

-Does the Sabbath still apply today?

Reproof:

-Hiding from God

-Try to be God

Correction:

-We are not made to work... we are made to worship

-Everything you have achieved is by grace alone

-Instead of hiding from God, hide in God

Training:

-Resolve to work to the glory of God

-Resolve to make the Sabbath a duty and delight

-Resolve to find rest in Christ everyday

A Holy Sabbath to the Lord

Exodus 16:22-30

Teaching the Mind

-The Whole Counsel of God

-Context of Exodus 16

-The meaning of Exodus

-Are Christians required to obey the Sabbath today?

Reproving the Conscience

-Even if God told you clearly what he wants, would you obey?

-The OT Prophets on the Sabbath

-The Big 3 struggles today

-Restlessness

-Worldliness

-Loneliness

Correcting the Heart

-Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath (Matt 12:8)

-Matthew 11:25-28

Training the Will

-Resolve to honestly evaluate the health of your soul

-Resolve to come to Christ Daily in prayer and submission

Teaching

- “To the end of the age"

- Matt 13:39-40

- Matt 13:49

Reproof

- Hell is not so bad...

- I am not so bad...

Correction

- Who is righteous?

Training in Righteousness

- Resolve to fear God more than man

- Resolve to think of the end of the age regularly

- Resolve to prioritize worship over everything else

- Resolve to be a disciple-maker

Saved to Serve by ODCC Sermons

Teaching

1. Behold

2. I Am With you Always

- Omnipresence

- Spatial Presence

- Special Presence

Reproof

1. Error: Thinking God is too far

2. Error: Thinking God is too near

3. Error: Misunderstanding what it means that God is within you

Correction - When you don’t feel God’s presence…

1. Walk by faith not by sight

2. There is pleasure in pursuit

3. There is joy in expectation

4. It may be be because of sin

Training in Righteousness

1. Resolve to walk with Christ daily

2. Resolve to rely on Christ wholly

3. Resolve to confront sin regularly

I. Teaching

1. Teach the commands of Christ

2. Teach them to obey the commands of Christ

II. Reproof

1. Error: Obedience is optional

2. Error: Obedience is merely external

3. Error: Obedience is burdensome

III. Correction

1. If you are struggling with obedience, see that as a good thing

2. You need to know the nature of the battle for obedience

3. What must you do to change your desires?

4. When the power of sin and the flesh is too much to overcome, run to Christ

IV. Training in Righteousness

1. Resolve to delight in Christ

2. Resolve to learn the commands of Christ

3. Resolve to obey the commands of Christ

4. Resolve to teach disciples to obey the commands of Jesus Christ

Baptism into the Triune God by ODCC Sermons

Submission to the Authority of Christ by ODCC Sermons

1. Faithfulness

2. Doxology

3. Priorities