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Resurrection Life Sunday Sermon

Resurrection Life Sunday Sermon

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FORWARD LOOKING FAITH - A Matter of Life or Death

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 11: 29 - 31. This week we jump back into our summer series called Forward-Looking Faith. We have focused on Old Testament people like Abel, Noah, Enoch, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Joseph, and Moses. Focusing on each individual’s faith has certainly been a challenge. These people weren’t perfect, but how they looked forward to a hopeful future does give us great hope for today. We must be a forward-looking people, because when we do, we see Jesus as the Victor, King, Healer, and Savior. As this famous chapter concludes, the author presses upon his audience a sense of urgency. Belief is truly a matter of life or death. Faith is the ticket to freedom and to everlasting peace. Hebrews 11:29-31 may be a short passage, but it serves to make an urgent point: Faith gets us to the other side! Faith is the ticket away from slavery, the enemy, and destruction and onto freedom and victory!

FORWARD LOOKING FAITH: Faith Under Fire

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 11:23-28. This week, we examine the crux of faith through the lens of Moses’ "Forward-Looking Faith." True faith demands a deliberate choice to follow the Lord—a decision that impacts every area of life. Despite hardships, family tension, persecution, and opposition, faith consistently chooses what is better. Saving faith fixes its eyes on the eternal: a better Family, Kingdom, and King. Now, some of you might be wondering: "Does this sound classically Reformed? We don't choose faith, do we?" Pastor Mark addresses this tension directly, unpacking human responsibility and our call to eternal belief in Jesus as Lord and Savior.

FWLF- Abraham's Tunnel Vision Faith

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 11:17-19. This week, we move between two passages that describe the same event. Genesis 22 recounts God's call for Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. Hebrews 11:17–19 sheds light on Abraham's perspective throughout this entire episode. Abraham's faith was so unshakable that, even in the face of death, he fully trusted in the power of the resurrection. His faith challenges us today to trust the Lord with our past, our future, and the entire journey in between.

FORWARD-LOOKING FAITH: Abraham and Sarah

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 11: 9-16. This week, our Forward-Looking Faith series focuses on the faiths of Abraham and Sarah. In Hebrews 11, the author uses Abraham and Sarah to make an important point: We are but pilgrims called to believe and receive God’s promises. Along this journey of faith, we are to look at God’s upcoming promises of eternal security and salvation like a warm greeting to a friend approaching your home. This is a challenge to all of us who rest in the security of our stuff, who place stability in temporal comforts, and who doubt God’s assurance for us.

FORWARD-LOOKING FAITH: Abel, Enoch, and Noah

SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 11 This week, we begin a new summer sermon series through Hebrews 11. Hebrews 11 records several Old Testament men and women of faith who had assurance in things hoped for. That’s why we’re calling this summer sermon series “Forward-Looking Faith.” Each of those listed in Hebrews 11 lived many years before Jesus was born. However, their faith still points us to the greater realities of faith that we experience in our post-Resurrection lives. This week, we focus on the faith of three very early men of faith: Abel, Enoch, and Noah. These men lived so long ago that they exercised faith even before God chose Abraham and his descendants, the people of Israel. And yet, these very ancient examples of faith point us to wonderful realities today. I’m looking forward to journeying through this sermon series and considering what God is doing in our hearts now, and how that work anticipates a future filled with eternal hope in Jesus.

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FROM SHADOW TO SUBSTANCE: Eyes on Jesus

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 12: 1 - 4. Last week, we concluded our summer series through Hebrews 11. We jump back to “From Shadow to Substance” for the next few weeks as we complete the Book of Hebrews. One could argue that our next passage, Hebrews 12:1–4, is the climax of the book, so it has been a pleasure focusing on these important verses. One element I love about this passage is the athletic imagery of running a race, one where we remove what hinders and where we keep our eyes on Jesus. And if we forget what kind of race we are running, or we are distracted along the way, we also have the ultimate example for us in Jesus. Pastor Mark

FSTS: The Many versus the One

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 10:1-18. This week, as we continue in the Book of Hebrews, it feels a little like a broken record. Over and over again, the author reminds us that in the old covenant, sacrifices were offered over and over again. In contrast, he compares them to Jesus’ once-for-all and forever sacrifice on the cross. What’s behind this repetitious tension between the many and the one? We'll unpack that question on this podcast.

FROM SHADOW TO SUBSTANCE: The Purified Conscience

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 9: 1 - 15. This week, we explore one of the most important themes in the book of Hebrews: worshiping with a free and purified conscience. The effects of Jesus’ priestly ministry are all-encompassing, reaching even our inner faculties of thought, reason, and judgment. In Hebrews 9, the author shows how the old covenant required external rituals that could never truly reach the heart of the matter. Yet God has always been pursuing our hearts. The mediator of the new covenant, however, provides what the old could never accomplish: the cleansing of our consciences. The joy of being a Christian is so deep and overwhelming because our darkest and deepest guilt has been forgiven and removed. Jesus has conquered our conscience!

FROM SHADOW TO SUBSTANCE: Jesus, Our Priestly King

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 8 This week, we dive into one of the more theologically rich developments in the Book of Hebrews. The consequences of Jesus being our kingly priest change everything. One of the biggest consequences is how we now understand God’s covenant with us. Through Jesus’ ministry and his current royal position beside the Father’s throne, he mediates a better covenant. That covenant means God’s law is written on our hearts through the power of the Holy Spirit. For God’s chosen people, transformed by his grace, how we are to live for Jesus is not something written on stone. It is written on our souls. God’s will for us becomes personal, intimate, and real.

FROM SHADOW TO SUBSTANCE: Our Royal Eternal Priest

SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 7 This week, we return to Hebrews and look to Jesus. Jesus is our fearless, timeless, and courageous leader who promises to be with us at all times. The words from Hebrews 7:25 ring throughout all time and space: “He is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.” As sinners in need of redemption, what infinite hope we have in Christ! Jesus lives to make intercession for us. Regardless of our thoughts, lives, and attitudes, the power of Christ as our Royal Priest will never leave us or forsake us. Thanks be to God that we serve such a majestic and personal Savior! Listen closely to see how Jesus does indeed fulfill the eternal role of our kingly priest/priestly king.

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