Rose City Baptist Church Sermon Archives episodes:

• July 02, 2024John 11:55-12:11

  Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches us from John 11 and 12 this morning:

  “In the last scene, at Lazarus’ interrupted funeral, Mary and her entourage

  had been a source of consternation for Jesus when rather than trusting God

  despite the circumstance, she gives herself over to hopeless grief, wailing

  and throwing herself at his feet in despair…We see a new Mary here in our

  text this morning.  She has now seen God’s glory; “the glory as of the only

  Son from the Father,” as predicted in v.1:14…Not only did she receive her

  dead brother back from the grave but Jesus revealed something of himself to

  this family and many of their friends…What is essential here is to see that

  Jesus is not only the object of their faith, but its source; he stewards

  their faith.”

  (Originally preached on May 19, 2019)

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• July 02, 2024John 11:38-54

  Pastor Josh continues to teach us from the account of John 11 this morning:

  “…Jesus deals with two kinds of sin here…the first group is wailing in

  despair; they have no hope for the future, and Jesus is indignant and weeps

  for them…but then we have the religious leaders, the elect, the elite, and

  they turn to Jesus and they are like ‘this is going to go out of

  control…everyone is going to believe in him…and then the Romans are going

  to come and they are going to take away our positions of control and

  power…’. The problem here with these sinners is that they are the ones that

  we have to identify ourselves with…”

  (Sermon originally preached on May 12, 2019)

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• July 02, 2024John 11:28-38

  Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches further about the resurrection of Lazurus

  this morning:

  “Jesus, our perfect example, even in his emotions, shows us a combination

  response to sin and unbelief — both anger and grieving compassion. All of

  Christ’s disciples must learn that same tension.  Our own anger at sin must

  be tempered by grief.  Outrage without grief hardens into self-righteous

  arrogance and a short-tempered attitude…”

  (Unfortunately, the first few minutes of the sermon were lost due to a

  technical difficulty. The sermon picks up a few minutes in…Originally

  preached on May 5th, 2019)

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• July 02, 2024John 11:17-27

  Pastor Josh teaches us from John 11 this morning where Jesus claims that he

  is the resurrection and the life in the preamble leading to the

  resurrection of Lazurus:

  “It (the resurrection of Lazurus) becomes one of the most amazing miracls

  that Jesus does. And yet it also becomes one of the most divisive acts of

  his, because while everyone else around can witness the miracle, only

  Christs’ own can see his glory, love him, trust him, and find their

  satisfaction in him…”

  (Originally preached on April 28, 2019)

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• July 02, 2024John 11:1-16

  Tune in as Pastor Larry teaches us from John 11 this morning:

  “…so because he loved them he waited…Sometimes in our case he doesn’t

  answer our prayers in the way we want them answered. Because of his love

  for us he wants what is best for us…because of his love for us he will

  answer our prayers in the way that will most benefit our faith…”

  (Originally preached on April 21, 2019)

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• July 02, 2024John 10:22-42

  Pastor Josh continues to expound on Jesus’ teaching for us this morning

  from John 10:

  “The message and work of Christ Jesus is an offense to us today, just as it

  was to the live audience.  The more we come to understand Jesus’ teaching

  and the work he undertook on behalf of sinners, the more polarized we

  become. Either we grow in understanding how little we understand, coming to

  God spiritually as children who desperately need mercy and grace and wisdom

  from our heavenly Father — or we grow increasingly offended by passages of

  Scripture that glorify God alone, even in the rescue of those he is

  saving…”

  (Originally preached on April 14, 2019)

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• July 02, 2024John 10:1-21

  Pastor Josh teaches us from John 10 this morning about Jesus, the Good

  Shepherd who lays his life down for his sheep:

  “Jesus’ death was not an accident.  It was not the result of the forces

  evil winning even a minor battle with God; it was “according to the

  definite plan and foreknowledge of God” (Acts 2:23). Unlike all those

  Messianic figures before him, rather than to expose his flock to further

  ravages, he draws them to himself.  Jesus calls out the messianic

  pretenders who promise the people freedom but who lead them into war,

  suffering and slavery.  Jesus wins freedom for his people, not by leading

  them into war, but by laying his life down nailed to a cross…”

  (Originally preached on April 7, 2019)

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• July 02, 2024John 9:8-41

  Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches from John 9:8-41 this morning:

  “Jesus did not come to a world of sinners aware of their need, and eager to

  be rid of their sin….Countless Christians throughout the ages have applied

  the same words to their own transformation, their own experience of the

  move from darkness to light: One thing I do know. I was blind but now I

  see!…

  (Originally preached on March 31, 2019)

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• July 02, 2024John 9:1-7 (Part 2)

  Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches from John 9 this morning, the account of

  Jesus healing a man blind from birth.

  “Christ’s atoning work on our behalf saves us from the punishment for our

  sins. Saves us now from slavery to sin. But we also need to remember this

  morning what we have been saved for…Like this man born blind, all true

  believers have been called out of darkness into his marvelous light to

  proclaim God’s glory to each other and those who still walk in darkness…”

  (Originally preached on March 24, 2019)

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• July 02, 2024John 9:1-7 (Part 1)

  Pastor Josh teaches us from John 9 this morning:

  “We, as God’s creation, must be willing for God to be glorified in every

  area of our lives, in whichever way he chooses, even if that is a road of

  deep suffering. The goes against everything the humanistic thinking of this

  world would have us believe…”

  (Originally preached on March 10, 2019)

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