5/5/2024 Worship Service and Sermon: Where Are You Hiding? - Psalm 11

5/5/2024 Worship Service from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Sermon: Dr. Rick Horne
Worship Leader: Dave Stoltzfus
Scripture: Psalm 11
Title: Where Are You Hiding?

The LORD Is in His Holy Temple To the choirmaster. Of David.

In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee like a bird to your mountain, for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart; if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?" The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD's throne is in heaven, his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man. The LORD tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence. Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. For the LORD is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.

Notes:

1. David wants to hide
A. Why so much attention to hiding?
B. David hides when there are threats...he was at war; so are you at war
C. Many descriptions of the Christian life have reference to spiritual warfare

2. David finds his safety "in the LORD"
A. YHWH--the Redeemer
B. Jesus identifies Himself as YHWH
C. "Refuge" is for those who are in Christ, not those who just know about him

3. David gets misleading advice
A. Their advice was sincere
B. Their advice was logical
C. Their advice was filled with urgency
D. Their advice was contrary to trust in God's promise
E. Who do you look to for your counsel for hiding?

4. David hides by faith--in the secure refuge of God's provision
A. YHWH is secure
B. YHWH has a plan and a timetable
C. YHWH treats His people with parental love
D. This leads to a sobering teaching

5. Conclusion

#hiding #David #refuge

4/7/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: Problem, Prayer, Promise and Paradox - Psalm 12:1-8

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4/7/2024 Worship Service from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Psalm 12:1-8
Title: Problem, Prayer, Promise, and Paradox
Worship Leader: Dawson Estes
Speaker: Tyler Estes

Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man. Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak. May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts, those who say, "With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?" "Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs." The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times. You, O LORD, will keep them; you will guard us from this generation forever. On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man.

Notes:

1. David laments the problem of living in a lying society
A. David observes part of the problem is that something absent should be present
B. David observes another part of the problem is that something present should be absent
C. David observes that the flatterers are arrogant
D. David observes that the problem is pervasive

2. David prays for God to intervene

3. The promise and provision of God's word
A. When God says He will act, it is as good as done
B. Consider your Bible: God speaks to you through this book
C. The word of God is pure
D. The word of God is profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness

4. Note the paradox at the end
A. God's promise and the present reality
B. What do we make of "I will now arise?"

5. Applications
A. Do not despair
B. Do not abandon the word of God
C. Do not exalt wickedness
D. Instead of exalting wickedness, exalt goodness

#psalms #problem #promise #paradox #prayer

2/11/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: King Jeroboam's Rival Religion - 1 Kings 12:25-33

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2/11/2024 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Dawson Estes
Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 1 Kings 12:25-33
Title: King Jeroboam's Rival Religion

Notes:

1. How Jeroboam strengthened his new country
A. He strengthened two key cities
B. He revamped worship in Israel

2. How Jeroboam founded a new religion
A. How they would worship
B. Where they would worship
C. Who would lead them in worship
D. When they would worship
E. Why do these things matter?

3. Today's false religion
A. "Spiritual but not religious"
B. Progressive Christianity
C. All the above is self-invented religion

#Jeroboam #Rehoboam #David #Bethel #worship

2/4/2024 Worship Service and Sermon

2/4/2024 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Mike Culbert
Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 1 Kings 11:26-12:24
Title: Jeroboam's Revolt: Israel Is Split

Notes:

1. Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim
A. Ephraim's early promise
B. Tensions with other tribes
C. Crown given to David of the tribe of Judah
D. Jeroboam put over labor force of Ephraim and Manasseh

2. Ahijah's Prophecy to Jeroboam

3. Result of the Prophecy
A. Jeroboam revolts, fails, and flees
B. The prophecy is fulfilled

4. Lessons
A. Your spiritual condition affects those around you and those who come after you
B. God is sovereign over national calamities
C. God's determination to save His people can never be stopped

#Jeroboam #Rehoboam #David