Rose City Baptist Church Sermon Archives episodes:

• July 03, 2024John 15:1-11

  Tune in as Pastor Shane Fox (from City Chapel in Red Deer, AB) teaches us

  from Jesus’ farewell discourse this morning:

  “See these things are what the Vinedresser does. Our part of resting in him

  is saying ‘I want more. I want more of that nourishment that comes through

  the vine to come to my life. But I can’t do it. And if I try to do it just

  out of my flesh, I become a moralist. I become self-rigtheous. I become

  someone who is constantly judging others…”

  (Originally preached on July 28, 2019)

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• July 03, 2024John 14:25-31

  Tune in as Pastor Larry teaches from Jesus’ farewell discourse in John 14

  this morning, Jesus teaching about the promised Helper, the Holy Spirit.

  (Originally preached on July 21, 2019)

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• July 03, 2024John 14:15-24

  Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches from Christ’s farewell discourse in John 14:

  “Jesus isn’t being a whiney passive-aggressive, saying; ‘If you really

  loved me, you would do what I say.’  The obedience in question is a direct

  result of truly loving Christ.  If you love Christ, the implication is, the

  result is, you will begin to keep his commandments.  You will grow in

  fervour and frequency in obedience; ‘If you love me, you will keep my

  commandments.’”

  (Originally preached on July 14, 2019)

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• July 03, 2024John 14:1-14

  Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches from Jesus’ farewell discourse in John 14

  this morning:

  “The most calming thing the people of God can remember is that they can

  trust the words of God, the things he has promised. Jesus adds to this, ‘

  Trust God, also trust me.’  As we have seen in evidence many times so far

  in John, Jesus not only speaks only the words of his Father and performs

  the actions of his Father, but he himself speaks and acts as very God

  himself.  Any messenger might point people to trust God’s words; Jesus

  calls us to trust in him as God.”

  (Originally preached on July 7, 2019)

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• July 03, 2024John 13:31-38

  Tune in as Pastor Josh preaches from John 13:31-38 this morning, Jesus

  foretelling of Peter’s denial:

  “Jesus knew what was in the heart of Peter, just as he knew what was in the

  heart of Judas, but where Judas hated the light, Peter has not yet been

  empowered by the knowledge of the resurrection and its implications, and by

  the power of the Holy Spirit. Peter will follow later, both in his death as

  a martyr for Christ and joining him in glory some three decades later…”

  (Originally preached on June 30, 2019)

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• July 03, 2024John 13:18-30

  Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches from John 13, Judas’ betrayal, this morning:

  “Notice that Jesus here, a couple of times, makes sure that his disciples

  know that the calling of Judas was not an oversight or a sign of weakness

  on his part so that, rather than to question his knowledge and control,

  they (his disciples) would know that even this betrayal went according to

  the plan and purpose of God. Judas was chosen, but not for salvation.  He

  was chosen by Jesus in order to fulfill the Scripture, (Psalm 41:9),

  attributed to King David.  It is a mournful lament about the painful

  experience of being mocked by enemies and betrayed by friends when already

  suffering a debilitating and life-threatening illness: ‘Even my close

  friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

  ’”

  (Originally preached June 23, 2019)

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• July 03, 2024John 13:1-17

  Tune in as Pastor Josh preaches from John 13 this morning, the account of

  our humble King washing the feet of his followers:

  “Foot washing was a degrading task normally reserved for the lowliest of

  servants.  Some Jewish writers insisted that even Jewish slaves should not

  be required to wash the feet of others. There is no instance in either

  Jewish or Greco-Roman sources of a superior washing the feet of someone of

  lower status; it just wasn’t done. Jesus here shatters the status quo and

  the disciple’s sense of the fitness of things, reversing customary roles.

  He adopts the dress of a menial slave, dress that was looked down upon by

  everyone in that culture; and he engages in this astonishing self-humbling

  act. Not only was this an incredible display of Christ’s love for his own,

  but it is only a shadow of the act to come where Jesus would humble himself

  ‘by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.’  The

  matchless self-emptying love of the Son, the eternal Word, reaches its

  climax on the cross.”

  (Originally preached on June 16, 2019)

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• July 02, 2024John 12:37-50

  Pastor Josh teaches from the remainder of John 12:

  “…The problem is, in our humanistic thinking, we are surprised that God is

  not trying to save everyone when we should be surprised that he saves

  anyone at all.  We should be astounded by this amazing grace that He

  extends to his enemies…”

  (Originally preached on June 9, 2019)

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• July 02, 2024John 12:20-36

  Pastor Josh teaches from John 12 this morning:

  “In our text this morning we see a definitive shift in John’s Gospel; the

  hour is now here.  Jesus will no longer be protected from the darkest

  designs of their persecution and it is all signaled now by the appearance

  of some Gentiles (non-Jewish people), from some part of the Greek-speaking

  world, who seek an audience with Jesus…”

  (Originally preached on June 2, 2019)

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• July 02, 2024John 12:12-19

  Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches from John 12 this morning, Jesus triumphal

  entry into Jerusalem, so beginning the passion narrative:

  “…Jesus refused to reinforce their political and nationalist aspirations by

  riding on a war horse or by stirring up insurrection against the Romans. 

  Instead he mounts a donkey…Rome is insignificant.  Jesus could blot out

  Rome with the snap of his fingers.  Rome would be less than a smear if

  Jesus had come for that purpose….Jesus was on a higher mission; a truly

  improbable plan.  He would at the same time defeat the power of evil and

  rescue some of his evil enemies; making them part of himself, his own

  family….Jesus was on route to defeat for all time the very power of death,

  a true victory beyond comprehension.  He will rescue for himself people

  from all nations…The Jewish nationalists were thinking far too small.  By

  mounting the colt of a donkey, Jesus made a far more impressive claim than

  if he entered Jerusalem on a chariot with ten legions behind him…”

  (Originally preached on May 26, 2019)

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