Lighthouse Community Church
Downs, Kansas
"Living the New Testament in today's world"
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“Justice
for All” Matthew
12:1-24 NIV Today’s
message will focus upon a founding principle of our nation: “Justice
for All”
God
repeatedly told His people that those who please Him are the ones who
are merciful and just. Justice
provides for equal opportunity and equal protection for every person
regardless of who they are. Justice
is always on the side of the innocent: justice intervenes to protect,
restore and heal! Justice
is weighing everything according to its eternal value: nothing is more
valuable than the vessel that contains the image of God! Justice
is removing the barriers to doing good for others! Jesus
came to proclaim justice to the nations. There
is a day coming when injustice and oppression will end and those who
prosper by them will be condemned. There
is a day coming when there will be an abundance of food for the hungry,
clothes for the naked and shelter for the wanders. There
is a day coming when the merciful will receive their full reward for
doing good. There
is a day coming when we will finally live in a land where there is
“Justice for All”! Do
I act with “Justice
for All”?
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“The Benefits of Living with God” Isaiah
57:14-21 NIV Why
is life filled with so much churning, turmoil and unrest? Why
do I feel like I am being splattered with mud, muck and brine every
single day? How
can such a small number of people have so many problems? God’s
message through Isaiah is that my life produces muck and mire when I
live according to my own willful ways. God
offers His people a way to escape from the tossing, the muck and the
mire: 1.
Humble myself. 2.
Listen to God. 3.
And repent of sin. God
proclaims that He dwells with those who are contrite in heart and humble
in spirit. The
first blessing of living with God is healing. The
second blessing of living with God is God’s guidance. The
third blessing of living with God is comfort. The
fourth blessing of living with God is an abundance of God’s peace. God
is the one who brings revival to both the spirit and the heart of the
humble and contrite. I
am the one who chooses between wallowing
in the
churning waters of this world or resting in the healing arms of God! |
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“Five
Steps to God’s Blessing” Isaiah
56:3-8 NIV What
five things does God promise to bless regardless of who does them? 1.
Binding
myself to the Lord. 2.
Loving
the name of the Lord. 3.
Worshipping
the Lord. 4.
Keeping
the Sabbath without desecrating it. 5.
Holding
fast to God’s covenant. |
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“Preparing
for Salvation” Isaiah
56:1-2, 57:11-13 NIV God
brings about salvation and righteousness in His time, but He still
wants me to prepare for it. I
am preparing for salvation when I maintain true justice. Isaiah points
out that my pursuit of maintaining justice cannot be separated from
keeping the Sabbath without desecrating it. When
I fail to separate myself from the influences of the powers of this
world for a full day every week those powers have unlimited access and
opportunity to corrupt and
destroy my covenant relationship with God. A
fifteen-minute quiet time every day plus two 45 minute Bible studies
per week plus an hour a week in worship plus another hour or two per
week in service to others do not count for a thing if they are
desecrated by the presence of this world. Satan
wants us to focus our conversation upon money, politics, other people
who are missing the mark, our own parties and celebrations, etc. so
that he can steal the seed of the word from us before it ever takes
root within us. Any
dog can guard, keep and gnaw on one bone, but what about five bones? When
I lose a bone the first one to disappear is always the one called the
Word of God! Without
the word of God I cannot prepare for Christ’s return. I
renew my relationship with God by remembering God and pondering the
fear of the Lord in my heart. The
goal of the Sabbath is to have my heart and mind so full of God and
His word that there is no room for world. The
fruit that I am maintaining true justice and keeping the Sabbath is
that God is my refuge! When
God is my refuge in the midst of the storms and trials and troubles of
this world the one thing that I see is God and the one noise that I
hear is the still small voice of His Spirit!
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“In
the Last Days” Jude
17-25 NIV Do
we live in the last days? Jude
reminds his readers that in the last days the church will be filled
with both godly and ungodly people. While
godly and ungodly people share the same social network, there are
obvious differences between the two. The
ungodly choose to follow their own natural
instincts and inner desires. The
ungodly ridicule the message and the messengers that come from God. The
ungodly set boundaries in place that divide us. Have you
ever noticed that boundaries always puff up the people who set them? According
to the apostles we can expect to find the ungodly actively
participating in every church in the last days. How do I avoid joining with the ungodly?
I must live by the Holy Spirit. I
must build up my faith and not my ego. I
must silence the desires of my heart and the ramblings of my mind so
that the I can cooperate with the Holy
Spirit in seeking the will of God. I
must obey God when I do not understand and when my heart desperately
desires something else and when every instinct within me is terrified
that the end result of my obedience will
be disaster. I
must be kind, encouraging and helpful to the people who do not believe
what I believe. I
must risk my well-being for someone who has already failed and fallen. I
must break down the walls that divide with the mercy of Jesus Christ. My
actions reveal which kind of person I am: Either I
am the good guy who ridicules others and finds reasons to separate
from them or am I the spirit filled child of God who is a friend to
and a servant of the least and the worst.
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“Filled
with Sorrow and Grief” John
11:17-44 NIV This
passage of scripture reminds me that God does not act according to
human understanding, desires or wisdom. Everyone
in this story believes that Jesus could have prevented Lazarus death. If
Jesus really loved Lazarus why did He let him suffer and die? Jesus
cares even when we doubt. Even
though He was filled with grief and compassion, Jesus was not governed
by His emotions. Holiness
is doing what is right regardless of how I feel. We
see the glory of God when we obey Him despite the certainty that the
outcome of the action will be horrible. Martha
claimed that she believed that Jesus was the Christ and that whatever
He asked for would be given by God, yet she tried to stop the opening
of the tomb when Jesus called for it. Martha’s
trust in her own knowledge of life and death was stronger than her
faith in Jesus. Miracles
happen when I stop opposing God and start doing what He tells me to
do.
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List of Upcoming Sermons
| Date, 2010 | Scripture Reference | Title |
| June 6, Communion | Jude 17-25 | “In
the Last Days” |
| June 13, | Isaiah 56:1-2, 57:11-13 | “Preparing for Salvation” |
| June 20, | Isaiah 56:3-8 | “Five Steps to God’s Blessing” |
| June 20, | Isaiah 57:14-21 | “The
Benefits of Living with God” |
| July 04 Communion | Matthew 12:1-24 NIV | “Justice for All” |
| July 11 | Luke 18:1-8 NIV | “Grant Me Justice!” |
| July 18 | Luke 6:46-7:10 NIV | “A Deep Foundation” |
| July 25 | Luke 12:54-13:9 NIV | “What Time Is It?” |
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