3/3/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: Learning to Distrust Ourselves - Luke 22:28-34

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3/3/2024 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: David Dailey
Speaker: Rich Goswiller
Scripture: Luke 22:28-34
Title: Learning to Distrust Ourselves

"You are those who have stayed with me in my trials, and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers." Peter said to him, "Lord, I am willing to go with you both to prison and to death." Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day, until you deny three times that you know me."

Notes:

1. The setting for the evening

2. The first declaration of Jesus
A. "Satan has demanded"
B. "To have you"
C. "To sift you like wheat"

3. The second declaration of Jesus
A. "I have prayed for you"
B. "When you have turned again..."

4. Peter's declaration and Jesus' prediction
A. Peter's misplaced confidence
B. Our misplaced confidence

5. What shall we say to these things?
A. There is potential for serious lapse and/or declension
B. We have an all-sufficient Savior
C. Always be wary of deadly self-deception

Benediction: Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time, and now and forever. Amen.

7/9/2023 Worship Service & Sermon: The love of God for born-again believers

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7/9/2023 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Various
Title: The love of God for born-again believers
Worship Leader: John Sletta
Speaker: Rich Goswiller

For [God] makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. (Matthew 5:45b)

God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (Romans 5:5b)

I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. (Jeremiah 31:3b)

That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is in the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:17b-19)

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you our with a mighty hand and redeemed you for the house of slavery. (Deuteronomy 7:6-8)

I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. (John 17:23)

The Lord you God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. (Zephaniah 3:17)

Notes:

1. God loves you with a redemptive love
A. God has a general love for all His creation (Matthew 5:45b)
B. God has a distinctive redeeming love for people He saves (Romans 5:5b)

2. God loves you with an eternal love (Jeremiah 31:3b)

3. God loves you with an infinite love (Ephesians 3:17b-19)

4. God loves you with an unchangeable love

5. God loves you with an unconditional love (Deuteronomy 7:6-8)
A. Does NOT mean God loves sinners the way they are!
B. Means God's love for you is unmerited.

6. God loves you with a special love
A. God loves to love His saints (Zephaniah 3:17)

1/2/2022 Worship Service and Sermon: Our Need for Self-Control - Galatians 5:22-23

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1/2/2022 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Mark Estes
Speaker: Rich Goswiller
Title: Our Need for Self-Control
Scripture: Galatians 5:22-23

"But the fruit of the Spirit is live, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

#selfcontrol #spiritualfruit

Notes:

The fruit of the Spirit is produced by God the Holy Spirit, not by us as His people.

Branches (believers) have no ability to produce the fruit; they just bear the fruit that the vine (Jesus Christ) is producing through the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit doesn't just give us self-control with the snap of His fingers; He develops it in relation to other qualities, primarily the wisdom that comes from Him.

In the moment, at a crossroads--heavenly wisdom directs--self-control settles the matter.