Reformation Hope Church Brookfield WI Dr Wayne Sedlak

There are people who are expert in being able to see and discern non-verbal clues. These experts are often hired to tutor different clients on how to read non-verbal clues. Non-verbal clues reveal not only lies but an entire range of emotions. These experts sell there services to anybody from law enforcement to poker players. Law enforcement is taught this skill so as to better discern whether or not suspects or witnesses are telling the truth. Poker players hire these experts to not only teach them how to read the other players but to discover for themselves what there own "tells" are so they can have a better "poker face". Come listen to some of the "tells" we find in scripture and why they are important.

The miracle of Christ turning water to wine, at first, looks very straightforward in it's story. This first miracle of Christ has a great deal more to teach us than what we see on the surface. This miracle has ties to the Old Testament in more than one place. So much so that the meaning it conveyed would have been easily understood and recognized by the Jews of that day (Mary got the message). Not only do we need to understand what that message was, we also need to understand what it says to all of God's people both then and now. One of the questions answered here is; how should we approach God when we want "more wine"?

Patrick Henry, as a lawyer, delivered a speech that later he would be ashamed of. He upbraided a good man, he later repented of this deed. Patrick Henry was humbled over the next ten years and came out a changed man who would one day rise up and call our nation to stand. Leviticus 25:10 is inscribed on our liberty bell. A fact that today is largely ignored by the secular and not well understood by the church. Come hear how God walks among His people today. How He looks to resurrect men to take authority in the Church of Jesus Christ. To show forth righteousness before the nations. This is what the Lord requires; Micah 6:8 "He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? " We will be filled with the Holy Spirit to fulfill God's will, given the power to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God. Alex DeToquville in his book "Democracy in America" documents the potent effects of the Church of God on the people in America.

There are two kinds of Christianity and they are both good. Samson, a Nazarite, is an example of God sanctifying a man for His purposes. Paul and Jesus himself may be added to this list. The other is the common man, loving his Lord and his family, raising a family in the fear and admonition of the Lord. Jesse was a covenant keeper, raising his son David to be set apart, he saw changes that were coming upon Israel and prepared for it. The Church and Christianity's greatest enemy is Egalitarianism. Egalitarianism is just the opposite of how God works. Egalitarianism would have anyone be Samson or David or Paul. Egalitarianism does not recognize the wisdom of the hoary head. Egalitarianism works against the Word of God. Leviticus 19:32 shows us a theme God repeats throughout scripture "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD." We are in grave danger as we allow Egalitarianism a place not only in our church but also in our nation. Our nation drowning beneath a sea of Egalitarianism and now the church is sinking into the same poison. Psalm 8 shows the mind of God concerning his people, our response should be; O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

This is a must hear father's day sermon: Diffusion of responsibility. Do we choose to let the next man do what needs to be done? What if the next man takes the same position? Sound familiar? Come hear what the results can be when responsibility is taught and not diffused, Pala. In the light of this what should fathers train their sons to do, both by example and by word? Psalm 127 "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate." Are we making strong straight arrows or weak crooked blunt ones? Deut 6:2 " That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. Hear the story of how J.C. Penny was made a straight arrow by his father and how Jesse raised David to be a future king.

Sermons grounded in The Word of God and The Grace of God's Law. Dr Wayne C Sedlak has 45 years of Pastoral Ministry in the United States and Africa, including as University Professor and Educator.

We are caught up in a cosmic argument. Everyone is, whether they know it or not. Job's wife did not understand she was part of a cosmic argument, she was caught in the crossfire, it broke her. Come hear the reason why Job became the center of a cosmic argument as did Moses, Noah, King Uzziah and others. We are all part of the cosmic argument, Eph. 4 tells us how to behave in the midst of it. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

When the first atomic bomb was set off it had so much force that it broke windows in homes 100 miles away. The blast could be seen from 400 miles away. To cover it up the people were misdirected, being told that an aluminum factory exploded. The people believed it. Further bombs were tested and cover up lies told and believed. Today there are great evils in the world. If the depth of these evils were to be revealed to our nation it would undo it. But as it was during the bomb tests even today our attentions are misdirected. Listen and learn how Christ dealt with the deep evils in His time and how that evil reared up and murdered Him on a cross. Come and hear of the depth of evils aimed at today's Church. How today we are misdirected from understanding the depth of the Christ's death on the cross and the application to our lives so necessary to expose evil. How we are misdirected from seeing the depth of the evil about us.

We can know, no boy has gone to heaven sat on Jesus knee and come back to tell of it. It was unlawful even for Paul to describe what he heard in heaven. Why? Come hear why Jesus would not tell Nicodemus of heavenly things (John 3:12). Well done thy good and faithful servant. When asked what have we done, how will we answer? Carlos Vargas found out he had cancer, hear how when he pondered what his answer might be he asked God for a second chance to work for his Lord. Will we do the same? Might we hope to be able to say what the Psalmist said "Ps 42:1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God."

Come listen to how and why Christ's miracle was prophetic and what it meant to those around Him at the time. It was more than just creating a great wine from water for the wedding.