Jonah 3:1-10 – God’s Persistent Grace – 23rd May 2021
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We’ve been following Jonah through chapters 1 and 2
We remember how when the Lord commanded him to go to Nineveh
Jonah fled to the opposite direction
This evening we see him / he’s wet / he’s slime-covered
skin bleached by the gastric juice of the fish / But he’s chastened / he’s repented
And the Lord recommisions him:
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.”
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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
CHRIST SANCTUARY - 18 JUNE 2023
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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
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