Solid Rock Church Sermons

In this sermon, we looked at the story of Daniel and how God revealed Himself as the ruler of all rulers. God used Daniel to interpret King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. He showed the king that his kingdom would give way to other kingdoms and that God would send a king who would be like a large rock, not made with human hands, that would bring down all earthly kingdoms. All of this was pointing to the coming of Jesus. He is the stone that brings all earthly kingdoms to nothing and who establishes the Kingdom of God like a great mountain that endures forever.

In this sermon, we looked at how God’s story of redemption flows through the story of Naomi and Ruth to bring about His plan of redemption. Their story serves as both a figurative portrait of the redemption of Jesus and a literal part of Jesus’s lineage. As Boaz steps into the story of Naomi and Ruth to sacrificially redeem when no one else will, we see a picture of Jesus’s redemption for the church.  God used this story about the redemption of two widows to give us a picture of His redemption for us. He also used a story of what might be considered a story of ordinary people living out ordinary, hopeless lives to bring about the most newsworthy story of all time: Jesus is coming to redeem the world and save them from their sins.

In this sermon, we looked at God’s plan to raise up a better king for the nation of Israel. God reveals to Samuel that He is looking for a king who would be a man after His own heart. Through David’s story, we see that even though God is now going to place a man after His own heart on the throne of His people, he will still be a man with a deceitful heart and a sinful nature. Even though David is a better king than Saul, he is still not the ultimate King to sit on the throne of God’s people. In 2 Samuel 7, God promises to send a Messiah who will lead His people in righteousness. All of this was pointing to Jesus, the Son of God, who would come as the Lion of the tribe of Judah and the Root of David who will sit on the throne forever.

In the sermon this past Sunday, we saw how God’s People rejected Him as their king and asked for a human king so they could be like other nations. Through King Saul’s story of sin, the humiliation that his sin brought upon the People of God, and the attempt to shift blame for that sin, we see that God’s People need a better king. Christ is our Better King. He undoes our shame and humiliation, allowing us to walk in transparency and freedom. Through His blood, He purifies us and transforms our identity into members of His Kingdom.

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how God used Moses to deliver His Law to His people, foreshadowing the Gospel that was to come. Jesus validated the Law by teaching that only those who are perfectly righteous, by obeying every letter of God’s Law, will be accepted into heaven as God’s people. Jesus obeyed the Law perfectly, qualifying Him to take our place on the cross and to take our punishment for our disobedience to the Law. Through Jesus, God made a way for His people to be made righteous by believing the Gospel. Through the Gospel, we have been forgiven for breaking God’s Law, allowing us to see God’s Law as good and right. This forgiveness and love from God encourage us to strive to obey God’s Law with the power of the Holy Spirit, knowing that we have already been rescued and accepted as God’s people. 

In the sermon this past Sunday, we took an in-depth look at Moses’ role in the larger story of the Bible. God came to Moses during a time in which the nation of Israel was experiencing great suffering in its slavery to the Egyptians. Through God’s interaction with Moses, we see that God is completely aware of what His people are going through and He hears their cries to be rescued. We also see that God does not observe His people from a distance; He is intimately involved and knows the suffering of His people personally. Through Moses’ narrative, we behold God’s rightful place as the hero of His story. Just like Abraham, Joseph, and Moses were not the heroes of their stories, we are not the heroes of our stories. God’s plan for redemption unfolds in a way through which He alone is the hero and it’s only by the mighty hand of God that His people find their rescue.

In the sermon this past Sunday, we continued The People of God series by looking at the story of Joseph. Through his story, we get a beautiful picture of redemption and forgiveness and a better understanding of how God’s will for our lives unfolds in seasons of blessing and seasons of suffering. Joseph understood that his life didn’t belong to him. Because of this, he was able to be part of God’s story of redemption by letting go of his right and desire to repay his brothers for their evil toward him and exchanging it for the desire to bless them instead. This is what God has offered to us through the Gospel; Jesus paid the price for our evil and exchanged God’s punishment toward us for God’s blessing. Through our faith in Jesus, God redeems our stories by forgiving our sins, taking what was intended for evil and turning it into something good.

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the story of Jacob and saw how God’s grace in Jacob’s life is a reflection of God’s grace toward the entire world. Jacob was a deceitful younger brother who advanced himself in life by manipulating and lying to the people closest to him. Through Jacob’s role in God’s redemption story, we see that God displays His sovereign plan over the lives of His people, even before they are born. He does this despite our brokenness and self-centeredness. As in Jacob’s story, God invites His people to wrestle with Him in order that they will come to understand Him more deeply and experience His goodness more personally. God allows pain and adversity into our lives in order to awaken us to see Him for who He is and to take hold of His promises of blessing toward us.

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at the how Abraham’s story fits into the larger story of the Bible. Is Genesis 12, God made a promise to Abraham to make his family into a great nation, through which all the families of the earth would be blessed. Abraham believed God’s promise and it was counted to him as righteousness. Abraham’s righteousness was a free gift that he received as a result of his faith in God’s promises to him. Through Abraham’s story, we learn that when the people who lived before Jesus came to earth believed the promises of God, they were ultimately believing the Gospel. Through their faith in God’s promises, they received God’s abundant grace and His free gift of righteousness. In the same way, when we believe the Gospel, we are adopted into God’s family as sons and daughters and we become God’s people, heirs according to the promise.

In the sermon this past week, we looked at the story of Noah. Like Enoch, Noah walked through life in fellowship and obedience with God.  Through Noah’s story, we were reminded that God is Holy and He punishes sin.  However, in His mercy, He also saves those who truly trust in Him and walk with Him. Noah was considered righteous, not because his life was free from sin, but because He walked with God and trusted God even when called to do something that seemed impossible. Through Noah’s story of building an ark of wood as a place of refuge, we see a foreshadow the cross and our true place of rescue. Like Noah, Jesus is calling you to walk with Him in fellowship and obedience so that He becomes your place of refuge.