2025-03-02 Sermon Notes1
| Series | Location | Subjects | Takeaways | Sermon Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allison on the Psalms | Emmaus Orthodox Presbyterian Church | - | - |
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- Westminster Larger Catechism Q. 72
- He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, :
- God told Satan not to harm Job.
- Genesis 35.5 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.
- Exodus 34:23-24 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel. For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
- Today, we the Church, are like Abraham in that we are also strangers in a foreign land, but we should not be fearful for our Father will protect us
- Psalm 105.12 when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
- At any time in history, the Church is very small in comparison to the surroundings.
- Though God multiplied the Israelites to over a million, when leaving Egypt, still only a few were true descendents of Abraham, and God exposed those were not faithful children of the promise.
- 1 Corinthians 10.5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- Hebrews 4.2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.
- God's people had little hope of overcoming the Canaanites, and yet God provided it for them.
- The Bible teaches us that the Church is but a remnant of the visible church.
- Elijah was wrong when he thought that he was the last left who worshipped Yahweh.
- What prevents the enemy from swallowing up God's people? How can they survive let alone prosper and increase.
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- The road that the church travels is marked by many dangers.
- Joseph was persecuted by his own brothers, by Potiphar's wife and others.
- 1 Timothy 4:1-5 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron, forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
- 2 Timothy 3:1-5 But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
Application
- Are you one of His people?
- If so, live in the assurance knowing that God protects His people
- John 10:28-29 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.
- If not, then come to Him. Accept His grace. Be His and you will receive His protection and blessing. See to it that you do not reject Him lest you lose His protection.
- If so, live in the assurance knowing that God protects His people
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