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Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • **1. THE SITUATION LEADING TO DAVID AND SOLOMON THE PROMISE THE CONDITION THE FAILURE THE HOPE** 1 Samuel 15:26 For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel. Psalm 131 O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and forevermore. 1 Kings 2:4 If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel. 2 Chronicles 6:16 Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • **1. THE GARDEN KINGDOM WHAT WENT WRONG? THE FIRST GOSPEL ** Hebrews 2:14–15 … through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • **1. THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS BEHOLD, A LEPER ** Leviticus 13:45–46 The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’ He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp. Hebrews 13:12 So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. Hebrews 13:13–14 Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. Jamey Vizzini The King who astonishes is Savior who cleanses Kent Hughes … the plight of the leper illustrated the effects of sin, though the leper was actually not any more sinful than anyone else.. R. C. Trench, the great Greek scholar and the inspiration for and first editor of the monumental Oxford English Dictionary (OED), recog

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • **1. TWO GATES TWO TREES TWO HOUSES** 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 2 Timothy 3:1–5 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. 2 Corinthians 12:9 My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Matthew 3:8 Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. Jonathan Pennington The broad and easy way is the way of the

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • **1. v1 - THE TEACHING v2-6 - THE FAMILY v7-11 - THE FATHER v12 - THE SUMMARY** Romans 2:1 Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things James 4:12 There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? James 2:12–13: So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. Galatians 6:1–2 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 1 Corinthians 13:6–7 [Love] does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • 1) v25 - Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 2) v26 - The birds of the air … your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 3) v27 - And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 4) v30 - But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you. 5) v32 - For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 6) v34 - Tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. v33 - Seek the Kingdom He Provides He Provides the Right Amount He Provides at the Right Time He Provides in the Right Order Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Proverbs 12:25 Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad John 4:31–34 Me

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • 1. TWO OPTIONS 2. THE EYE IS A LAMP 3. TWO MASTERS Deuteronomy 15:7–11 _If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and you be guilty of sin. You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in yo

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • The God who sees is the God who hears. Our Need for Prayer Is the Prayer to be Recited? OUR FATHER 1. REVERENCE | HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME 2. DEVOTION | YOUR KINGDOM COME 3. PHYSICAL DEPENDENCE | GIVE US OUR DAILY BREAD 4. SPIRITUAL DEPENDENCE | FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS 5. DISCIPLESHIP | LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION Psalm 104:34 May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the LORD Psalm 119:15–16 I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word. Psalm 143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands. Psalm 19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. Psalm 63:5–8 My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips, when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night; for y

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • **1. THE STRUCTURE OF THE TEACHING YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS VS. THE HYPOCRITES BEFORE OTHERS TO BE SEEN BUT WHEN ... RECEIVED THEIR REWARD VS FATHER WILL REWARD YOU** Matthew 5:16. … let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. 1 John 2:28–3:3 And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Joel Fair • The Way of the King demands an unobtainable perfection freely gifted to us in Christ The Way of the King Seldom is the way of the King Our natural response Easy Us obtaining what we want Often the Way of the King is Suffering Persecution Dying - If not literal, then at least to what I want Deuteronomy 6:4-6 The SHEMA Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. Joel 2:12-13 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garmen

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Joel Fair • Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew 5:17 & 20 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them…For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise Psalm 34:18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit Deuteronomy 6:4-6 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. RETALIATION Leviticus 24:17-20 Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death. Whoever takes an animal’s life shall make it good, life for life. If anyone injures his neig

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • **1. CLARIFIES CAUTIONS COMPELS** James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. Romans 7:6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. Romans 8:3–4 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. A. W. Pink The ceremonial law has not been destroyed by Christ, but the substance now fills the place of its shadows. A. W. Pink So far was it from being His design to repudiate the holy Law, He had become incarnate in order to work out that very righteousn

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • 1. SALT a. PRESERVATIVE: i. Salt changes the environment. ii. Salt gathers in clumps, but salt scatters into meat. iii. Imagine the work of salt in decaying meat b. FLAVOR ENHANCER: c. SALTINESS OR WORTHLESSNESS: 2. LIGHT a. WHAT DOES LIGHT DO? i. Shines ii. Reflects the light of the True Light. iii. Walks in Holiness 3. THE HARSH REALITY OF SALT AND LIGHT IN A WORLD OF DARKNESS AND DECAY a. Salt in Rotten Meat b. Light in a Dark World John 15:8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. Job 6:6 Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • THE SERMON OUTLINE THE SERMON OUTLINE Matthew 5:1-16: The Character of the Christian Matthew 5:17-48: The Christian Faces the Law Matthew 6:1-34: The Christian Lives in the Presence of God Matthew 7:1-29: The Christian Lives in the Fear of God THE INTRODUCTION TO THE SERMON THE GOSPEL Revelation 11:15 The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever. Matthew 4:23–5:1 And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people. So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them. And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan. Seeing the crowds, he went

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • Acts: Diverse Global Family 1. ONE FAMILY IN ADAM 2. ONE FAMILY IN CHRIST 3. THE MANIFOLD WISDOM OF GOD 4. ACTS IS WHERE WE SEE THE CHURCH BURST FORTH 5. THE DIVERSE, GLOBAL FAMILY IS HERE Link to Video: Church planting in rural Guatemala (https://vimeo.com/347552181) Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Acts 2:38–39 Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself. 1 Corinthians 15:22 again: For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. John Calvin It is a requirement for certainty of faith that everyone is fully convinced that he is included with those to whom God is speaking. This is the rule of a genuine faith; then I am sure that

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • Acts: The Holy Spirit 1. UNIQUE WORK OF THE SPIRIT AMONG THE PEOPLES IN ACTS Acts 2:1–4 - Jerusalem Acts 8:14–17 - Samaritans Acts 10:44–48 - Gentiles Acts 19:4–7 - Disciples of John 2. PAUL’S EXPRESSION OF BAPTISM IN ONE SPIRIT 3. SHOULD WE EXPECT TO BE BAPTIZED WITH THE SPIRIT? 4. THE HOLY SPIRIT WITHIN US Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God (John 3:5).” John the Baptist said, “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire (Matthew 3:11).” Acts 2:1–4 - Jerusalem When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • Acts: Gospel Clarity 1. ONE QUESTION SEVEN PROCLAMATIONS a. Acts 2:22ff b. Acts 3:12ff c. Acts 4:8ff d. Acts 5:30ff e. Acts 10:39ff f. Acts 13:26ff g. Acts 17:29ff FOUR OBSERVATIONS a. God-centered b. Audience-conscious c. Christ-focused d. Response-expectant e. (bonus) BOLD SINGULAR CLARITY Luke 12:11–12 Jesus says … And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • Acts: Church PlantingCHURCH PLANTING IN ACTS 1) Acts begins with Jesus 2) Jesus has established the core of the church 3) The Holy Spirit enables a great gospel proclamation 4) The Father, Son and Holy Spirit have mightily established the church in worship, discipleship and mission 5) Apostolic witnesses go with news of this gospel and the church it establishes. THE CHURCH PLANTED AT CROSSPOINTE COAST 1) We came from a church plant 2) We are a church plant 3) We are a church 4) We are a church planting church 5) We are a member of a diverse global family Acts 29 | A diverse, global family of church-planting churches The first and last of the five distinctives of Acts 29. 1) We are passionate about gospel centrality. 5) We embrace a missionary understanding of the local church and its role as the primary means by which God chooses to establish his kingdom on earth. FOUR THINGS TO CELEBRATE WITH ACTS 29 IN 2019 1) 800 Churches 2) 52 Countries 3) 31 Languages 4) 82 Churc