Rose City Baptist Church Sermon Archives episodes:

• July 10, 2024John 18:12-27

  Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches from John 18 this morning:

  “D.A. Carson points out that, while Jesus taught his disciples to turn the

  other cheek, to do so ‘without bearing witness to the truth is not the

  fruit of moral resolution but the terrorized cowardice of the wimp.’ But

  Jesus is no wimp.  He will turn the other cheek, sure, but not as one

  cowering in silence because he fears them.  There is nothing they can do to

  him that he does not allow.  The molecules comprising the officers hand —

  even of the nails they will soon drive through his hands and feet — will be

  held together by the power of his will even as he suffers the result...”

  (Originally preached on October 13, 2019)

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• July 10, 2024John 18:1-14

  Tune in to listen to Pastor Josh preach from John 18 this morning:

  “Jesus offers up his life in obedience to his Father, not as a pathetic

  martyr suffering a cruel fate but in full knowledge of what was to befall

  him to achieve his purpose and will…There are those today who would strip

  the cross of its significance, unwilling to acknowledge God as Holy in his

  judgment they deny that he punished the sin of believers upon his Son. When

  your imagination of God is only love — only nice and never terrible — in

  order to continue in this charade, you must remove the centrality of the

  cross to Jesus’ mission and think of his execution as something evil men

  forced upon him…”

  (Sermon originally preached on October 6, 2019)

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• July 03, 2024John 17:20-26

  Pastor Josh concludes the teaching from the High Priestly Prayer of Jesus

  in John 17 this morning:

  “The basis for Christian unity and love is the perfect love exhibited in

  the unity of the Divine Trinity…So unified in purpose and plan are the

  Father and the Son that they can be said to be in one another, but they are

  still distinct in their unity…The unity Jesus is speaking of is more than

  close-knit community.  It is so much more than a group of like-minded

  individuals who enjoy some of the same music and preaching styles on

  Sundays…”

  (Originally preached on September 29, 2019)

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• July 03, 2024John 17:11-19

  Tune in as Pastor Josh continues to teach from Jesus High Priestly Prayer

  recorded in John 17:

  “Jesus’ joy, the joy that he prays his disciples will receive in full,

  results from abiding in the Father’s love by asking the Father for things

  in line with Jesus’ purposes and will…We will know we are abiding in the

  Father’s love when we grow in faithful obedience according to his promise,

  and knowing his love our joy will be full.”

  (Originally preached on September 22, 2019)

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• July 03, 2024John 17:6-11

  Tune in as Pastor Josh continues to teach from Jesus’ prayer in John 17:

  “We are working our way through chapter 17 of John’s gospel, what has

  traditionally been called ‘The High-Priestly Prayer,’ and just in

  introduction to the prayer, we saw that like the High Priests of ancient

  Israel, Jesus is here praying this prayer of consecration over the

  sacrifice to be offered to God. Which, in this case, is the sacrifice of

  his own life on the cross for his friends; those he loves…“

  (Originally preached on September 15, 2019)

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• July 03, 2024John 17:1-5

  Tune in as Pastor Josh preaches from John 17, Jesus High Priestly prayer.

  In response to Jesus’ request to the Father to glorify the Son, Josh says:

  “‘To glorify can mean ‘to praise’ or ‘to honor’, and those are certainly

  ways in which we can join in glorifying our God and that is God’s

  purpose…but when Jesus asks the Father to glorify him, he is not asking the

  Father to praise or worship him, but to let the reality that the world has

  been blinded to be made known…God is glorious. We cannot add to that

  majesty through worship. His ego cannot be boosted by our devotion. It is

  for our ultimate good, as creatures fashioned for worship, to know the

  glory of the one who is most worthy of that worship. The only satisfying

  object of our regard.“

  (Originally preached on September 8, 2019)

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• July 03, 2024John 16:16-33

  Tune in as Pastor Josh continues to teach from the words of Jesus farewell

  discourse in John 16. Unfortunately the audio for the first few minutes of

  the sermon were lost in the archives. The transcript of the introduction is

  as follows:

  “One of the things I love about preaching verse by verse through the

  Scriptures, is that this is now our fourth week learning about the work of

  the Holy Spirit, and we have not had to concoct a sermon series or gather a

  creative team to plan out what we should be learning. Rather we are tracing

  the words of Jesus, and he is teaching us all truth through the Word and

  Spirit of God. Our passage this week signals the end of the teaching

  sections in John.  The final words are not only the conclusion to this

  passage, but to the entire section: ‘I have said these things to you, that

  in me you may have peace.’

  We see in this text Jesus’ love for his disciples in the way he patiently

  instructs them and comforts them for the sorrow about to overtake them. A

  temporary sorrow that will shortly break and make way for their full joy.

  It is my prayer this morning that you will experience this full joy as you

  come to understand and believe the words of Jesus as his disciples… “

  (Originally preached on September 1, 2019)

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• July 03, 2024John 16:4-15

  Tune in as Pastor Josh continues to teach from Christ’s farewell discourse

  in John 16, discussing the ‘Helper’ that Jesus will send:

  “The Holy Spirit’s whole mission is not to point to himself, not to take

  center stage, but to point to Jesus. How do we know if we are a church that

  is led by the Holy Spirit? If we are glorifying Jesus, honour his name,

  giving him praise, proclaiming his gospel faithfully…”

  (Originally preached on August 25, 2019)

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• July 03, 2024John 15:18-16:4

  Tune in as Pastor Josh continues to teach us from Jesus farewell discourse

  in John 15 and into chapter 16:

  “We are at the place in John’s Gospel, where Jesus, leading up to the hour

  of his own choosing for his death burial and glorification, has

  transitioned from public teaching to privately instructing his own chosen

  disciples. He has given them some very strong assurances; that he has

  chosen them, that they were given to him by the Father and that he will not

  lose any of them.“

  (Originally preached on August 18, 2019)

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• July 03, 2024John 15:9-17

  Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches from Jesus’ farewell discourse in John 15

  this morning:

  “If we look at these verses completely out of their context, ignoring

  everything Jesus has said up to this point, there is a possibility of

  reading this passage in such a way that completely fails to recognize the

  good news of what Jesus is teaching…Just like branches with their vine, it

  is when we abide in Christ’s love that we receive a life-giving flow, when

  we will begin to produce the fruit of obedience.. This is so central to

  what it means when our church endeavors to be gospel-centered'.  It is to

  abide in Christ’s love — revelling, celebrating in the good news of the

  gospel daily, together and alone.”

  (Originally preached on August 11, 2019)

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