The God of Laughter | Genesis 21:1-21
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Genesis 21:1-21 Proverbs 13:12 + God is the God who gives laughter Psalm 126:1-3 + God will deal with every threat to our joy Luke 1:67–69 Luke 7:11–17 John 16:20–22 Galatians 4:21–23 Galatians 4:28–31 + One day our Joy will never be threatened again 1 Peter 2:12 “Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" “A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he...
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The God of Laughter | Genesis 21:1-21
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Genesis 21:1-21 Proverbs 13:12 + God is the God who gives laughter Psalm 126:1-3 + God will deal with every threat to our joy Luke 1:67–69 Luke 7:11–17 John 16:20–22 Galatians 4:21–23 Galatians 4:28–31 + One day our Joy will never be threatened again 1 Peter 2:12 “Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" “A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he...
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From Death to Life | Ephesians 2:1-10
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10 “The whole range of human miseries, from restlessness and estrangement through shame and guilt… to the agonies of daytime television—all of them tell us that things in human life are not as they ought to be.” – Cornelius Plantinga + The default mode of humanity is dead, defiant, and doomed “Behold my heart, O God, behold my heart which you had pity upon in the bottom of the abyss. Now let my heart tell you what it was seeking there, that I should be gratuitously evil, having no inducement to evil but the evil itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I...
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When We Are Faithless | Genesis 20
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Genesis 20 + God is Faithful even when we are faithless 2 Timothy 2:11–13 Isaiah 49:15–16 + God is vigilant when we are careless Psalm 19:13 Psalm 119:133 + God blesses the world through his people Philippians 1:19 Genesis 12:3 Galatians 3:8 John 5:23 John 3:36
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The Sobering Judgment of God | Genesis 19
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Genesis 19 Key Takeaways: + The Spiritual Condition of Sodom Ezekiel 16:49 + The Spiritual Condition of Lot Hebrews 11:8-10 + The judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah is a dress rehearsal for a future and greater judgment Jude 1:7 Luke 17:26-35 Romans 5:8-10 Matthew 11:20-24 + Judgement begins with the household of God 1 Peter 4:14-19 1 John 2:15-17 “Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it.” – Puritan Writer “But we can guess why He is delaying. He wants to give us the chance to join His side freely. God will...
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What Kind of Judge is God? | Genesis 18:16-33
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Genesis 18:16-33 Key Takeaways: + God is a comprehensive judge + God is a just judge Genesis 15:6 Psalm 32:1 + God is a merciful judge Isaiah 53:11- 12 Hebrews 7:25 John 15:15-16
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What Kind of Judge is God? | Genesis 18:16-33
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Genesis 18:16-33 Key Takeaways: + God is a comprehensive judge + God is a just judge Genesis 15:6 Psalm 32:1 + God is a merciful judge Isaiah 53:11- 12 Hebrews 7:25 John 15:15-16
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God Can Do The Laughable | Genesis 18:1-15
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Genesis 18:1-15 Key Takeaways: Ephesians 3:20 + God’s presence is the guarantee of God’s promises 2 Corinthians 1:20-22 “I regard myself as the most wretched of all men, stinking and covered with sores, and as one who has committed all sorts of crimes against his King. Overcome by remorse, I confess all my wickedness to Him, ask His pardon and abandon myself entirely to Him to do with as He will. But this King, filled with goodness and mercy, far from chastising me, lovingly embraces me, makes me eat at His table, serves me with His own hands, gives me the keys of...
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Responding to the Covenant Making God | Genesis 17
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Genesis 17 Key Takeaways: + Revelation The revelation of God’s character to us is the answer for all the struggles in us. The revelation of God’s character to us always requires a response from us. + Promise + Expectations + A Sign Sign and Seal Cleansing and Consecration Jeremiah 4:4 Jeremiah 6:10 Jeremiah 9:25-26 Deuteronomy 10:16 Deuteronomy 30:6 Ezekiel 36:25–27 Hebrews 8:7–11 Matthew 26:26–28 Colossians 2:11–14 Galatians 3:7–8
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Waiting vs Working | Genesis 16
Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages
Scripture: Genesis 16 Key Takeaways: + Faith leads us to wait on God and refuses to work without God. Galatians 4:21–26 + Just because the plan worked doesn’t mean you worked the right plan. James 3:13–18 + God sees and cares for us even in the fallout of our failures.
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Key Takeaways:
+ Live the life you are going to one day wish you had lived
+ We have God-given resources corresponding to our God-given capacities and are responsible to God for how we steward them
Psalm 24:1
+ Urgency
+ Energy
+ Intentionality
+ Everyone will give an account to God for how they lived their lives and managed their God-given resources
Matthew 16:27
1 Corinthians 4:5
2 Corinthians 5:9-10
1 Corinthians 3:10-15
+ We will be evaluated NOT based on our capacities but based on our faithfulness with the capacities and opportunities entrusted to us.
+ The Day of Judgment will reveal the true nature of a person’s relationship with God