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The most feared military commander in Canaan… was exhausted… unarmed… hidden beneath a rug… inside a woman's tent. And he thought that he had finally escaped judgment. But folks…while Sisera had escaped Barak… He had not escaped God. And that's where we pick up tonight.

(AI Generated Summary) The sermon examines Luke 21:20-22 as the fulfillment of the abomination of desolation, identifying the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 as God's righteous vengeance for rejecting Christ. It highlights the counterintuitive command to flee the Holy City, emphasizing that clinging to Old Covenant structures leads to ruin while obedience brings salvation. The text connects this historical event to the broader theological shift from the obsolete Mosaic Covenant to the new covenant established through Jesus. Believers are urged to recognize that true security lies not in physical locations or religious heritage but in faith alone in the Son. Ultimately, the message serves as a warning against rebellion and an invitation to find eternal life by fleeing to Christ.

Believers are called to rejoice in the Lord always, while being gentle to others. 1. Christ's Command for Joy 2. Christ's call for Gentleness

In this sermon from Exodus 20, Matt Sikes examines the Third Commandment: "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain." This commandment reaches far beyond simply avoiding careless uses of God's name. Because God's name is inseparably connected to who He is, believers are called to honor, reverence, and rightly represent Him in every area of life. The sermon explores the many ways Christians can profane God's name—in our thoughts, our prayers and praises, our words about God, our worship, and our outward actions. Taking God's name in vain includes empty or faithless prayer, careless speech, misusing Scripture, speaking falsely in God's name, hypocritical worship, and professing to know God while denying Him by our lives. The Third Commandment also positively requires believers to hallow God's name. Christians should speak of Him with reverence, worship Him sincerely, honor His Word, proclaim His truth, praise His works, and live lives of holiness that match their profession of faith. Ultimately, this commandment drives us to Jesus Christ. Every believer falls far short of perfectly honoring God's name, but Christ never once profaned the Father's name. He perfectly fulfilled this commandment, bore the penalty for His people's sin, and came to make the Father's name known. Through union with Christ, God places His name upon His people and enables them by His Spirit to live for His glory.

The Sixth Commandment 1. What Murder Is 2. What Murder Reveals 3. What Murder Deserves Lords Day : 40 Read: Genesis 4 Psalms : 51:1-10; 51:11-19; 52; 53

The sermon presents the Tower of Babel as the culmination of mankind's recurring desire to reject God's authority, exalt itself, and become like God—a temptation first introduced by the serpent in Eden and repeated throughout human history and false religion. Rather than obeying God's command to fill the earth and spread His glory, humanity unites in Shinar to build a city and religious tower reaching toward heaven, seeking to make a name for themselves and establish their own kingdom through human power and works. Their unity becomes an anti-God, anti-dominion project in which mankind attempts to seize what belongs to God rather than receive His blessings by faith. Yet their supposedly magnificent tower is so insignificant that Scripture pictures God as having to "come down" merely to see it, exposing the foolishness of human pride. God therefore confuses their language and scatters them throughout the earth, both judging their rebellion and graciously preventing a unified wicked humanity from destroying the faithful line through which the Messiah would come. The sermon concludes by contrasting Babel's false unity with the true unity accomplished by Jesus Christ: at Pentecost the confusion of languages begins to be reversed as people from the nations hear the gospel and call upon the name of the Lord, showing that humanity does not ascend to heaven through its own works, but heaven comes down to humanity in Christ, whose kingdom gathers redeemed people from every nation into one blood-bought people united around His name rather than their own.

God shows mercy to Ahab only to have Ahab, once again violate God's commandment by confederating with the wicked. This is the Forty First Sermon in the series The Kingdom Divided; and exposition on First Book of the Kings.

In Matthew 18:10–14, Jesus commands the church not to despise the weak "little ones," assuring them the Father sees and guards them. The Son of Man came to save the lost; the Shepherd seeks the one until found. Therefore, covenant people must pursue, restore, and rejoice when repentance comes.

Joshua 8:30-35 "30 Now Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel in Mount Ebal, 31 as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: "an altar of whole stones over which no man has wielded an iron tool." And they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings. 32 And there, in the presence of the children of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. 33 Then all Israel, with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the stranger as well as he who was born among them. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. 34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. 35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the strangers who were living among them.