Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church Sermons

Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church Sermons episodes:

• September 15, 2024Gospel-ing: The Heart of Christian Discipleship

  Sermon Series:            From Generation to Generation: Being a Disciple-making Church

  Sermon Text:               Psalm 105:1-45

  Sermon Title:               “Gospel-ing: The Heart of Christian Discipleship”

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  SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide

  SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:    The Heart of Christian Discipleship … is Gospel-ing. 

  God Gospel-ing by Grace … and Disciples Gospel-ing in Gratitude.

  SLIDE 3 – Psalm 105:5-6 – “Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered, O offspring of Abraham, his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!”

  
  

  SLIDE 4 – Point 1: God Gospel-ing … by His Covenant Story of Grace(vv. 7-44)

  SLIDE 5 – Genesis 17:17-20 – “When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites … Hittites … Perizzites … Amorites … Canaanites … Girgashites and … Jebusites.”

  SLIDE 6 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

  SLIDE 7 – Exodus 1:5-7 – “All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt. Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.”

  SLIDE 8 – Deuteronomy 7:7-8 – “It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.”

  SLIDE 9 – Romans 11:5-6 – “But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.”

  SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

  
  

  SLIDE 11 – Point 2: Disciples Gospel-ing … by Our Life-Story of Gratitude (vv. 1-6, 45)

  
  

  SLIDE 12 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Our Discipleship this Week

  SLIDE 13 – Three Great Hindrances … to God’s Gospel-ing of Grace to Us:

  SLIDE 14 – When You Love Religion More Than God.

  SLIDE 15 – When You Have a Bitter Spirit.

  SLIDE 16 – Ruth 1:20 – “She said to them, ‘Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.’”

  SLIDE 17 – Ephesians 4:31 – “Let all bitterness … be put away from you.”

  SLIDE 18 – When You Don’t Heed God’s Command to Grow in Grace.

  SLIDE 19 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45) – “Jesus says … first … let go of what binds you, give up what is separating you from God’s will! Do not say, I do not have faith for that. You will not have it so long as you remain disobedient … [neither should you] say, I have faith, so I do not have to take the first step. You do not have faith … so long as you will not take that first step.”

  SLIDE 20 – Two Good Helps … for Our Gospel-ing in Gratitude to God:

  SLIDE 21 – Worship Him on Sundays.

  SLIDE 22 – Follow Him on Mondays through Saturdays.

  SLIDE 23 – One Gospel Truth: Amazing Grace Should Lead to Amazing Gratitude.

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• September 08, 2024The Eleventh Commandment

  Sermon Series:            The Good Law and The Good Life

  Sermon Text:               John 13:31-35

  Sermon Title:               “The 11th Commandment”

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  SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide

  SLIDE 2 – John 15:13 – “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

  SLIDE 3 – Today’s Big Idea:    We are Not Only Called to Believe in Jesus … for our Salvation.

  We are Also Called to Be Like Jesus … for our Sanctification.

  
  

  SLIDE 4 – Point 1: Jesus’ Big Announcement … I Will Be Glorified Because of My Love (vv. 31-33)

  SLIDE 5 – John 8:46 – “Which one of you convicts me of sin?”

  SLIDE 6 – Hebrews 4:15 – “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.”

  SLIDE 7 – Romans 8:3-4 – “For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh …”

  SLIDE 8 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

  SLIDE 9 – Galatians 4:4-5 – “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son [of man], born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law …”

  SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

  SLIDE 11 – John 17:4 – “I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.”

  SLIDE 12 – Romans 3:23 – “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

  SLIDE 13 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

  
  

  SLIDE 14 – Point 2: Jesus’ New Commandment … Now You Be Sanctified in My Love (vv. 34-35)

  SLIDE 15 – Leviticus 19:18 – “But you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.”

  
  

  SLIDE 16 – Six Uses of This Sermon for Living This Week

  SLIDE 17 – To Be Like Jesus … Means to Put God First as a True Worshipper.

  SLIDE 18 – To Be Like Jesus … Means to Put Others Second as a Good Neighbor.

  SLIDE 19 – Matthew 20:16 – “The last shall be first, and the first last.”

  SLIDE 20 – Matthew 23:11-12 – “The greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

  SLIDE 21 – To Be Like Jesus … Means to Love Our Neighbors to Him.

  SLIDE 22 – 1 Peter 3:15-16 – “In your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.”

  SLIDE 23 – To Be Like Jesus … Means to Love Your Enemies.

  SLIDE 24 – We are Unlovely Sinners … But We Are Not Unlovable Sinners.

  SLIDE 25 – Romans 5:8 – “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

  SLIDE 26 – Today, We All Have the Same Need … to be More Like Jesus.

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• August 25, 2024Truth's Victory Over Error

  Sermon Series:            The Good Law and The Good Life

  Sermon Text:               Exodus 20:16; John 8:31-47

  Sermon Title:               “Truth’s Victory Over Error”

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  SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide

  SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:    How Do We Practically Obey the 9th Commandment?

  By Getting God’s Truth in Us … And Keeping Satan’s Lies Out of Us.

  
  

  SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Get God’s Truth in You … by Making Room for Jesus’ Word (vv. 31-38)

  SLIDE 4 – John 8:47 – “Whoever is of God hears the words of God.”

  SLIDE 5 – 1 John 1:5-6 – “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.”

  SLIDE 6 – John 17:17 – “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.”

  SLIDE 7 – John 14:6 – “Jesus said … ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life.’”

  SLIDE 8 – John 18:37 – “Jesus answered, ‘For this purpose I was born and … have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.’”

  SLIDE 9 – Defining Truth: “God, Who is True … Always Speaks the Truth … through His Son, Jesus … the Word of Truth.”

  SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

  
  

  SLIDE 11 – Point 2: Keep Satan’s Lies Out of You … by Having No Room for His Deception (vv. 39-47)

  SLIDE 12 – Genesis 3:1 – “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden?’”

  SLIDE 13 – Genesis 3:4 – “The serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die.’”

  SLIDE 14 – Genesis 2:17 – “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

  SLIDE 15 – Ezekiel 18:20 – “The soul who sins shall die.”

  SLIDE 16 – Romans 6:23 – “For the wages of sin is death.”

  SLIDE 17 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon

  
  

  SLIDE 18 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Living This Week

  SLIDE 19 – We Must Know Truth … Which is God’s Word andGood Theology.

  SLIDE 20 – We Must Resist Lying … In All Its Forms.

  SLIDE 21 – James 3:5-6 – “So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.”

  SLIDE 22 – Victor Hamilton – “The tongue is an arsonist. Uncontrolled, it becomes incendiary. Unchecked, it becomes the most lethal weapon in destroying the unity of a believing community.”

  SLIDE 23 – Thomas Watson – “We must not only not raise a false report, but not take it up. He that raises a slander carries the Devil in his tongue; and he that receives it carries the Devil in his ear.”

  SLIDE 24 – We Must Speak Truth … At All Times.

  SLIDE 25 – Truth is Needed at All Times … But Especially at This Time.

  
  

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• August 18, 2024A Red-Handed Thief and a Red-Handed Savior

  Sermon Series:            The Good Law and The Good Life

  Sermon Text:               Exodus 20:15; Joshua 7:1-26

  Sermon Title:               “A Red-Handed Thief and A Red-Handed Savior”

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  SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide

  SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:    Stealing Isn’t Just Taking … What Isn’t Yours.

  Stealing is Also Robbing … What is Only God’s.

  
  

  SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Red-Handed Thievery … God’s Property & Achan’s Sin (Josh. 7:1-18)

  SLIDE 4 – Exodus 19:5 – “Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.”

  SLIDE 5 – Deuteronomy 20:16-18 – “But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites … that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices.”

  SLIDE 6 – Joshua 6:16-19 – “Joshua said to the people, ‘Shout, for the Lord has given you the city. And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and … her house shall live … But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest [you] make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction … But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.”

  SLIDE 7 – “Stealing is taking what belongs to another, without their permission. So, stealing not only takes a person’s property unlawfully, and violates a person’s will illegally, but disrespects a person’s honor inhumanly.”

  SLIDE 8 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

  SLIDE 9 – Genesis 38:27-30 – “When the time of her labor came, there were twins in her womb. And … one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread … saying, ‘This one came out first.’ But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out … therefore his name was called Perez. Afterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.”

  SLIDE 10 – Romans 3:23 – “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

  
  

  SLIDE 11 – Point 2: High-Handed Robbery … God’s Glory & Achan’s Punishment. (Josh. 7:19-26)

  SLIDE 12 – Genesis 3:6 – “So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.”

  SLIDE 13 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon

  SLIDE 14 – Matthew 1:1-3 – “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez … by Tamar.”

  
  

  SLIDE 15 – Four Uses of This Sermon for Living This Week

  SLIDE 16 – Is There Sin in Our Camp … Keeping Us from Victory?

  SLIDE 17 – The 8th Command Applies Not Only to Taking from God … But Withholding from Him.

  SLIDE 18 – Are We About Making Our Church’s Name Great … or God’s Name?

  SLIDE 19 – Which Thief on the Cross … Are You?

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• August 11, 2024Grace for the Sexual Sinner

  Sermon Series:            The Good Law and The Good Life

  Sermon Text:               Exodus 20:14; John 4:1-18

  Sermon Title:              “Grace for the Sexual Sinner”

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  SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide

  SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:                Is There Grace … for the Sexual Sinner?

  And if There is … Where do we Find it?

  
  

  SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Grace for Sexual Sin … is Found in Living Water (Ex. 20:14; Jn. 4:7-10)

  SLIDE 4 – Deuteronomy 22:22 – “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.”

  SLIDE 5 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

  SLIDE 6 – Matthew 5:27-28 – “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’   But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

  SLIDE 7 – Job 31:1, 9-12 – “I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin? … If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door … that would be a heinous crime …  an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for that would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase.”

  SLIDE 8 – 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 – “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral … nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality … will inherit the kingdom of God.”

  SLIDE 9 – Matthew 5:29-30 – “If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away … And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.”

  SLIDE 10 – John 3:3 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

  SLIDE 11 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

  
  

  SLIDE 12 – Point 2: Grace for the Sexual Sinner … is Found at the Well of Life (Jn. 4:11-18)

  SLIDE 13 – Zechariah 14:8 – “On that day [the Day of the Lord] living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.”

  SLIDE 14 – Jeremiah 2:13 – “My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”

  
  

  SLIDE 15 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Living This Week

  SLIDE 16 – The Living Water is Free … But You Must Ask For It.

  SLIDE 17 – What If I Want to Drink … But Struggle With Sexual Shame?

  SLIDE 18 – For Those Drowning in Sexual Sin … Let Jesus Draw You Out.

  SLIDE 19 – Don’t Pursue Sexual Purity … Pursue Christ, Who is Pure.

  SLIDE 20 – Jesus is Still Drawing Water … For Both Sinners and Saints.

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• August 05, 2024Killing Murder With Love

  Sermon Series:             The Good Law and The Good Life

  Sermon Text:                Exodus 20:13; Matthew 5:21-26

  Sermon Title:               “Killing Murder with Love”

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  SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide

  SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:                First-Degree Murder Begins in the Heart … with Sinful Anger.

  So, We Must Kill Murder … with Godly Love.

  
  

  SLIDE 3 – Point 1: First-Degree Murder Begins in the Heart … with Sinful Anger (Ex. 20:13; Matt. 5:21-22)

  SLIDE 4 – Romans 7:14 – “We know that the law is spiritual.”

  SLIDE 5 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

  SLIDE 6 – James 4:1-2 – “What causes quarrels and … fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel.”

  SLIDE 7 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

  SLIDE 8 – James 1:13-15 – “Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil … But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.”

  SLIDE 9 – John 8:39-44 – “They answered him, ‘Abraham is our father.’ Jesus said to them, ‘If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, but now you seek to kill me … You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning … when he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.’”

  SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

  SLIDE 11 – 1 John 3:15 – “Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.”

  SLIDE 12 – John Owen (1616-83) – “Be killing sin … before it kills you.”

  
  

  SLIDE 13 – Point 2: We Must Kill Murder … with Godly Love (Matt. 5:23-26)

  SLIDE 14 – Romans 5:3-5 – “Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

  SLIDE 15 – Ephesians 4:32 – “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”

  
  

  SLIDE 16 – Seven Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives

  SLIDE 17 – If We Reduce the Law to External Actions … We Will Become Pharisees.

  SLIDE 18 – Both Anger & Murder Deserve Punishment … But Have Different Consequences.

  SLIDE 19 – Righteous Anger is Proper … but Must be Handled Properly.

  SLIDE 20 – In the Process of Reconciling Love, Don’t Skip Necessary Steps.

  SLIDE 21 – Do You Need to Reconcile with Someone?

  SLIDE 22 – Craig Blomberg (1955-Present) – “It is particularly bad for Christians to get angry at one another who have themselves been spared God’s wrath.”

  SLIDE 23 – Sometimes Reconciliation Isn’t Achievable … But Forgiveness is Commanded.

  SLIDE 24 – But What if I’m Angry … with God?

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• July 28, 2024Neighborly Love Starts in the Home

  Sermon Series:             The Good Law and The Good Life

  Sermon Text:                Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16

  Sermon Title:               “Neighborly Love Begins in the Family”

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  SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide

  SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:                 Christianity is Not Only a Love for God … But a Love for Neighbor.

  And Neighborly Love … Begins in the Family.

  
  

  SLIDE 3 – Matthew 22:36-40 – “‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?’ And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and firstcommandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.’”

  SLIDE 4 – James Durham (1622-58) – “It was a great mistake of the Pharisees that they placed the main part of religion in the external performance … of the first part of the Law; whereas the Lord Jesus … purposely puts these together … and what God has joined together, let no man pull apart.”

  SLIDE 5 – Victor Hamilton (1941-Present) – “What the reader of the Bible might have expected is ‘Obey your father and mother.’ It is, however, easier to obey than to honor. One can hate but obey. One cannot both hate and honor.”

  
  

  SLIDE 6 – Point 1: Our Duty to Honor in the Family … DemonstratesNeighborly Love (20:12a)

  SLIDE 7 – Genesis 1:28 – “And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’”

  SLIDE 8 – Proverbs 22:6 – “Train up a child in the way he should go;even when he is old he will not depart from it”

  SLIDE 9 – Ephesians 6:4 – “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

  SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

  
  

  SLIDE 11 – Point 2: God’s Blessing for Honor in the Family … Results from Neighborly Love (20:12b)
  

  
  

  SLIDE 12 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives

  SLIDE 13 – The 5th Command Represents God’s Pattern of Authority and Care on Earth.

  SLIDE 14 – Parents, are we Training Up? … Children, are we Growing Up?

  SLIDE 15 – John Frame (1939-Present) – “God wants to spread His kingdom, even today, not only through mission work, but throughchildbearing and nurture. He wants to raise up godly families to glorify Him.”

  SLIDE 16 – Ultimately, God Calls Us to Take Care of Our Own …

  SLIDE 17 – 1 Timothy 5:8 – “But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” 

  SLIDE 18 – Sovereignly, God Always Takes Care of His Own.

  SLIDE 19 – Neighborly Love Begins in the Family … But Doesn’t End There.

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• July 24, 2024Women Need Theology Too - Class 2

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• July 24, 2024Pilgrim's Progress-Week 11

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• July 21, 2024Christ's Elders: Following the Leader

  Sermon Series:             The Officers of the Church

  Sermon Text:                Titus 1:5-9

  Sermon Title:               “Christ’s Elders: Following the Leader”

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  SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide

  SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:                Christ’s Elders are Leaders … Leaders Who Follow the Leader.

  
  

  SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Elder Follows … by Ordering our Master’s House (vv. 5, 7)

  SLIDE 4 – Kenneth Barker (1931-) – “The switch from ‘Elder’ to ‘Overseer’ shows that these two terms are interchangeable. Yet … these words have a different connotation. ‘Elder’ implies maturity and dignity in the man, while ‘overseer’ indicates his work in God’s flock.’” 

  SLIDE 5 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

  
  

  SLIDE 6 – Point 2: The Elder Follows … by Demonstrating our Master’s Character (vv. 6-8)

  SLIDE 7 – John 14:15 (NIV) – “If you love me, keep my commands.”

  SLIDE 8 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon

  SLIDE 9 – Thomas Watson (1620-1686) – “What is the right manner of a Christian’s growth? It is to grow less in one’s own eyes … The sight of corruption and ignorance makes a Christian grow into a dislike of himself; he vanishes in his own eyes … It is good to grow out of conceit with oneself.” 

  SLIDE 10 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon

  SLIDE 11 – Acts 14:13 – “When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished, and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.”

  
  

  SLIDE 12 – Point 3: The Elder Follows … by Making Disciples of our Master (v. 9)

  SLIDE 13 – 2 Timothy 2:2 – “And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.”

  SLIDE 14 – 2 Timothy 3:16 – “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”

  SLIDE 15 – Jude 3 – “Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people.”

  
  

  SLIDE 16 – Six Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives

  SLIDE 17 – God’s Good Plan Establishes Elders to Rule His Church.

  SLIDE 18 – Elders are to be Lovers of Good and Leaders of Love.

  SLIDE 19 – Elders Must be Able to Teach and Aspire to Grow as Teachers.

  SLIDE 20 – Carefully Discern Who We Give Spiritual Citations of Honor To.

  SLIDE 21 – It is Good to Allow Imperfect Elders to Lead You …

  SLIDE 22 – … Because it Shows You Trust the Perfect Elder is Lord Over You.

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