Jonah 1:1-16 – Running from God – 18th April 2021

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This is a fascinating book that we’re coming to / If you’ve been raised in a Christian family you

would have been familiar with this story since childhood.

Most people are obsessed and fixated on the fish they see little else in the story. Liberals deny

its historicity / Skeptics like Voltaire took special delight in scoffing at its improbability. G.

Campbell Morgan rightly said: “Men have been looking so hard at the great fish that they have

failed to see the great God.”

The Sovereignty of God

                                   Christ Sanctuary - 31st December 2023

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When Dr J.I. Packer was asked which teaching in the Bible Christians are most prone to neglect, he said: “I don’t think enough Christians believe deeply enough in the sovereignty of God. We say we believe it / but we still live our lives as if everything depended on us rather than on him”

Sproul / “Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man”

 

                                            CHRIST SANCTUARY  -     25 September 2022

In His last few hours on earth / our Lord said a few words / that are
of tremendous importance / one of which is His impending glory 

And I want to approach the subject in a different way than I normally do

First / I want for us to try to grasp the concept of glory 

Then I want to explore the reasons why God desires to be praised

Finally I want us to see the glory of Christ / in the light of the cross  

 

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Moses / is the writer of this psalm 

He was at that time 80 

And by then he had became familiar with the fragility of life

In a span of 40 years he watched 605,550 people die
that translates to about 15,000 people a year

this means that Moses was conducting 41 funerals a day

But this figure applies to men only
When you throw women and children into the mix
Moses was conducting about 87 funerals a day

That’s not the exact number every single day 

On some days / thousands were killed 

because of their rebellion and sin / Num. 16:49; 25:9

OT scholar Daniel Block / for 38 yrs Moses lived in “a walking mortuary”

He says: “The dominant sound as the people walked in the desert

was not the sound of the bleating of the sheep 

or that of crying babies / It was the death wail”

 

                               Christ Sanctuary – 12th November 2023 
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We come now / to what must easily be the most unpopular of attributes
Christians generally shy away from talking about the wrath of God

J.I. Packer in his book Knowing God says:
“The subject of divine wrath has become taboo in modern society
and Christians by and large have accepted the taboo
and conditioned themselves never to raise the matter”

C. H. Dodd / one time professor of Divinity at Cambridge
held the view that the wrath of God is an archaic outdated idea

But why do so many Christians shy away from affirming God’s wrath?
Many do so because they equate the emotion of anger with moral failure

 

The Webster’s dictionary defines the word “righteous” as
“doing that which is right” / “just” / “equitable”
“free from wrong / guilt / or sin”

The thesaurus give you such words as:
blameless / full of integrity / irreproachable / pure-hearted / unbiased
reputable / truehearted / uncorrupted / upright / undeviating
impartial /  unimpeachable

                                         CHRIST SANCTUARY                8th August 2010  

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The Trustworthiness of God – Andrew Lim – Psalm 56  –  8 August 2010

Life is hard
None of us is spared / from the hardships of life
We all go through pain

The plain fact is life is not easy
And on a larger scale / we live in a world that’s constantly bombarded
by war / terrorism / earthquakes / famine / racial injustice
– then / there’s the constant threat
of nuclear technology falling into irresponsible hands