If we are to suffer by the hands of others, it should be for doing good. However, enduring sufferings does not necessarily mean that we must stay still and suffer in silence. There is a time when suffering can lead to action.

Sermon Text: 1 Peter 3:8-17

Synopsis: The natural and blessed state of marriage and fruitfulness were violated to produce great evil on earth. God moves against this evil while graciously leaving a way of escape from his wrath. Moses is not only explaining to Israel where sin ultimately leads but is preparing them to fight the giants in the Promised Land. The giants are mighty but mortal. All men deserve God’s wrath and the only escape is God’s unmerited favor.

Sermon Text: Genesis 6:1-8

Though man lives in the valley of the shadow of death, he has hope because God’s divine favor remains with man in God’s presence and God’s promises.

1. Creation and Blessing (Genesis 5:1-2)

2. Death Reigned (Genesis 5:3, 4-36; Romans 5:14)

3. Hope for those who walk with God (Genesis 5:22-24, 28-29)

Synopsis: Van Til said that culture is religion externalized. The religion of the city of man is contrasted with the city of God by their cultural endeavors. While the city of man sings songs defiantly taunting God and His creation, the city of God proclaims the name of the Lord.

Sermon Text: Genesis 4:17-26

Synopsis: Just as some harmony returns to Adam and Eve, the full truth of the fall is laid open to them. The first natural born man, Cain, envies his younger brother because Abel’s worship is honest, heartfelt, and acceptable to God while Cain’s is selfish, half-hearted, and disingenuous. The antithesis is revealed to be that the wicked envy the righteous because of what they have – God’s favor. Like his spiritual father, Cain murders and lies, becoming a wanderer on earth while Abel’s blood cries for justice from the soil.

Sermon Text: Genesis 4:1-16

Synopsis: The Logos became flesh that he might be “bruisable” and taste death for everyone, thereby destroying the power of death, the devil and serve as a merciful and faithful high priest to His restored humanity.

Sermon Text: Hebrews 2:5-18

Synopsis: The second person of the Trinity, the word of God, the divine Logos dwelt among us to show us God’s glory and to give us abundant grace.

Sermon Text: John 1:14

Synopsis: When Adam fell, he corrupted the image of God in himself, bringing sin and death into the world. This, if uncorrected, would lead to the loss of God’s honor and man’s highest joy – face-to-face communion with God.

Sermon Texts: Genesis 3:7-8; Hosea 6:6-7; Psalm 51:5; Psalm 58:3; Isaiah 59:2; Romans 5:12; Hebrews 2:10-18

Synopsis: Man comes to see the full effect of evil and the desperate need for God’s provision of restoration, to which God responds in compassionate judgement and promise of restoration.

God calls sinners to confess, declares punishment for sin while giving hope to sinners by making gracious provision for believing sinners.

Sermon Text: Genesis 3:8-24

Synopsis: What begins as a dispute about God’s intentions and the meaning of God’s exact command, turns quickly into a desire to grasp after equality with God by seeking a man-defined “good.” Genesis 3:1-7 is a literal explanation of the fall of man and an archetypal explanation of the nature of every temptation to sin since the fall.

Sermon Text: Genesis 3:1-7