Immanuel Baptist Church

Main Idea: “Don’t make Jesus out to be a servant of sin!”

1. How misrepresenting the saving work of Christ makes Him out to be a servant of sin.

2. How misrepresenting the holy teaching of Christ makes Him out to be a servant of sin.

Main Idea: "Because Christ suffered, died, rose from the dead, and victoriously ascended into heaven to His Father, we have an eternal hope of salvation to persevere in living for Jesus."

1. Jesus brings us safely to God

2. Jesus proclaimed His victory

3. Jesus brings His enemies into subjection to Himself

Main Idea: "We’re justified by faith alone in Christ alone, apart from who we are or what we’ve done.”

1. Not our blood, but His.

2. Not our works, but His.

Main Idea: "Beware of walking out of step with the truth of the gospel.”

1. People-pleasing leads us out of step with the truth of the gospel

2. None of us is above walking out of step with the truth of the gospel.

3. When others are walking out of step with the truth of the gospel, confrontation is necessary.

Main Idea: “Don’t turn to another gospel!”
1. How the Galatians were turning to another gospel
2. Reasons we must avoid turning to another gospel

Main Idea: We can have confidence in Christ in the midst of an evil age.
1. We live in an evil age.
2. We can have confidence in Christ in the midst of this evil age.
3. Reasons for confidence in Christ.

Main Idea: In this broken world the righteous learn to trust the sovereign God that protects them.

1. Trust God in chaotic circumstances

2. Trust God in confusing answers

3. Trust God will rescue

Main Idea: In a day of trouble, persevere in fervent prayer and in remembrance of God's might acts.

1. A day of trouble

2. What to do in a day of trouble:

Persevere in prayer.

Persevere in remembrance of God's might acts.

Main Idea: God intends to dwell with His redeemed people in a glory-filled new creation, and this will happen through the obedience of Christ.

1. The obedience of the people

2. The result

3. What this tells us about God's plan for history

4. What this means for us

Main Idea: Listen to Christ because He is the glory-light and in Him God has spoken.

1. Glory-light on the face of Moses: What did it mean?

2. Glory-light in the face of Christ: What does it mean? How do we see it?

Main Idea: God forgives, but always in a manner consistent with His justice.

1. God is abundantly forgiving

2. God is uncompromisingly just

Main Idea: God's presence is more to be desired than His gifts.

1. To have God is to have His favor

2. To have God is to be known

3. To have God is to have rest

4. To have God leads to seeing His glory

Main Idea: "Because we have sinned a great sin like Israel, we too need a mighty intercessor."

1. Israel's Idolatry (and ours)

2. Aaron's self-justification (and ours)

3. Moses's Intercession (and Christ's)

Main Idea: Christians, you have been called and empowered by the Holy Spirit to assist in temple-buildering.

1. The men called and empowered by God to build his tabernacle

2. Christ, the ultimate Temple-Builder

3. Our calling and empowering as temple-builders

Main Idea: The Kingdom and all of its riches are freely given by the king, not earned.

1. Kingdom entrance depicted

2. Kingdom access debated

3. Kingdom inheritance defined

Main Idea: "Christian, having been washed, wash often."

1. The basin and its purpose for the Israelites

2. The teaching of the basin for us

Main Idea: An atonement price must be paid for you if you are to be numbered among God's people.

1. Why could taking a census of the people of Israel incur God's judgment?

2. It this text teaching that you can BUY your salvation?

3. What is the main lesson of this text?

Main Idea: Prayer God is pleased with is prayer atoned for by Christ's blood and mediated by Christ's intercession.

1. Important features of the altar

What it teaches us about prayer:

2. Prayer God is pleased with is prayer atoned for by Christ's blood.

3. Prayer God is pleased with is prayer mediated by Christ's intercession.

Main Idea: The services and sacrifice of Christ make believers and their worship pleasing to God.

1. Not even the priests in Israel were good enough to serve God as they were.

2. Jesus, the God-Man, is the perfect High Priest who perfectly serves God.

3. Through Jesus, our worship and service are made pleasing to God.

Main Idea: "Great love comes leaping and bounding even over mountains of difficulty which separate."

1. A closer look at the illustration

2. We want and need to be loved like this

3. The baby in the manger was one of God's leaps of love

Main Idea: We need a holy high priest to bear our names before God so we will be accepted.

1. The purpose of the High Priest's uniform

2. How it points to the need for a better High Priest

3. Application to ourselves

Main Idea: "Elders, Shepherd in humility as you await the return of the Chief-Shepherd."

1. What are elders called to do?

2. How are they to do it?

3. Why? (The return of the Chief-Shepherd).

There is no other way to come to God but by Christ crucified.

1. What lessons do these walls teach

2. Application to ourselves

Church, light the way to Life by the power of the Holy Spirit.

1. What was the significance of the lampstand to the Israelites?

2. What is the significance of the lampstand to us?

Main Idea: Give thanks to the God who is present to provide.

1. The point of the table.

2. The point of the bread.

3. It's relevance to us.

God is present in righteousness to command but also in mercy to cover.

1. The significance of the ark

2. The significance of the mercy seat

The tabernacle's purpose was to be a holy place for God to dwell in the midst of His people.

1. A practical purpose

2. An instructive purpose (and what it teaches us about God and ourselves).

God's purposes and promised blessings will come through the reign of His promised King.

1. A prosperous reign

2. A prophetic prayer

3. The promised King

4. Application: (pray for, work towards, and wait for the reign pictured in this psalm)

God is just the Deliverer we need, so pray to and praise Him.

1. God is just the Deliverer we need.

2. Our response should be prayer and praise.

John 10:1-21

Being family in Christ means giving and forgiving.

1. In Christ, we're family.

2. Since we're family, we give for one another.

3. Since we're family, we forgive one another.

God justifies the ungodly who do nothing but believe.

1. Who it is who justifies

2. What it is to "justify"

3. Who God justifies

Since God is always reigning on His throne in heaven worship Him at all times.

1. Worship Him by beholding His majesty from the throne.

2. Worship Him by acknowledging His company around the throne.

3. Worship Him by submitting to the rule and reign of the One on the throne.

"In order to come to the table of God you must first be sprinkled by the blood of the covenant."

1. The Invitation

2. The Preparations

3. The Meal

4. Our own invitation and how to prepare

Since Christ has given Himself for us, let us devote our time and treasure to Him.

1. The Israelites were to demonstrate their devotion to God

2. The Christ who was devoted

3. These commands call us who are in Christ to demonstrate our devotion

Christian, because you have received membership in God's holy nation, be holy in all of life.

1. Holiness Required

2. Holiness Supplied

How do we fight against evil?

1. Holy War in Ancient Israel

2. The Holy War waged by Christ

3. The Holy War we're to wage as Christians

Spiritual Warfare

"Your future is immeasurably bright if you belong to King Jesus"

1. Behold the King

2. The bride's bright future

"Christians - Unimaginably Rich"

"Violence against life, health, or honor, deserves orderly and just retribution."

1. The Crimes

2. The Punishments

3. Modern-day applications

"Faithlessness and Hypocrisy"

"The Master who became the slave of all hates oppression"

1. The background of these laws

2. The burden of these laws

"To the joy of the righteous, God will judge justly."

1. Why all the injustice?

2. What to do when faced with such injustice

3. To the joy of the righteous, God will judge justly

1. We have enemies we need protection from

2. There are paths we must walk, and we need guidance

3. We need a place to call "home"

4. We need someone to take us in (as family)

5. We need beauty to satisfy us. So, seek the Lord, seek Him patiently, seek Him confidently.

"If we want God to come and bless us, we need the right kind of alter."

1. The people of God needed an altar

2. They needed the right kind of altar

3. Church, we have an altar

"No unwarranted desires allowed"

1. What does this command forbid and require?

2. Where this sin comes from.

3. What can we do about it?

4. How then shall we live?

"Though we are all condemned by the ninth commandment because of our evil words, there is hope for us in Christ."

1. What this command forbids and requires

2. This command condemns us all...

3. ...But there is hope in Christ!

4. How then shall we speak?

Main Idea: "Because of our selfish adulteries we need the self-sacrificing love of Jesus"

1. What this command requires and forbids

2. We are adulterers who need the self-sacrificing love of Jesus

3. How then shall we love?