Sermon Audio & Review
Morning Worship Series
John 14:18-31
- Pastor Steve Sindelar
- Category: The Gospel of John
- January 21, 2024
- Audio Video Notes
Our Provisions from Jesus.
Jesus tells His disciples to not let their hearts be troubled, for in His Father’s house are many rooms (John 14:1-2). This statement assumes that we are not yet home. Jesus continues, “If anyone loves Me, he will follow My Word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him" (John 14:23). Though we are not now at that place Jesus is preparing for us, He wants us to be confident and assured that we are not left to trouble, distress, fear, and worry because the Godhead has made a home in each of us.
John 14:1-17
- Pastor Steve Sindelar
- Category: The Gospel of John
- January 14, 2024
- Audio Video Notes
A Faith Consistently Lived and Conscientiously Kept.
In John 14, all the disciples except Judas are in the upper room with Jesus. These men have been following Jesus for three years and have seen His power firsthand, evidencing that He is the Son of God. Jesus has told them that He is going away, and they cannot follow at this time. Understanding their emotions, Jesus tells them repeatedly to let not their hearts be troubled (John 14:1, 27; 16:6).
1 Timothy 1:18-20
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Morning Worship Series
- January 7, 2024
- Audio Video Notes
Keeping Faith and a Good Conscience.
1 and 2 Timothy have seventy-five commands for us to obey with intention and integrity. One of those commands is found in 1 Timothy 1:18-20. The word "faith" in verse 19 is synonymous with the word "command" in verse 18, so "keeping faith" could read "keeping the command."
The word "keeping" means to bear or wear the faith/command, allowing it to become part of our person. The faith is the body of doctrines written and preserved in the Word of God for us to obey.
Each of us is to keep this faith with a good conscience. A person’s conscience is well instructed and at peace when it knows and lives the commands of Scripture. Paul also mentions the conscience in 1 Timothy 1 and 3. Each mention is tied directly to the command of Scripture, the instruction of Scripture, and the mystery of faith pertaining to the Word of God and the gospel message of Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 2:1-2
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Morning Worship Series
- December 3, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Conventional and Unconventional Wisdom in Transitioning The Pastor-Teacher
Listening to conventional wisdom has not allowed us to hear all that the Bible has to say. Biblical wisdom says that we have a responsibility to train more pastors. In 2 Timothy 2:1-2, Paul instructs Timothy to entrust the things he’s been taught to faithful men. “The things which you have heard from me” -- these things Paul wanted Timothy to pass along to pastor-teachers.
John 14:12-15
- Pastor Steve Sindelar
- Category: The Gospel of John
- November 26, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Principles of Prayer:
Jesus is going to depart, and the disciples cannot go with Him. Jesus says, “Do not let your heart be troubled (John 14:1).” While the disciples had Jesus physically present, they did not need to pray to Him, making the instructions given by Him in John 14:12-15 to pray in Jesus’s name new information.
Prayer is a tool given to Christ’s disciples to encourage their belief in Him. We cannot grow in our faith without prayer. Believers must rightly understand and exercise prayer in agreement with the Word of God.
John 14:7-15
- Pastor Steve Sindelar
- Category: The Gospel of John
- November 19, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Believe in Jesus, Who Is Enough.
The conversation with the disciples continues in John 14:7-15. Jesus is going away, and the disciples cannot go with Him. Their hearts are troubled.
Philip, representing all the disciples, desires more. He wants to see the Father and that will be enough (John 14:8). The problem from Philip’s perspective is bigger than who he sees Jesus as being. Yet, Jesus is enough. Enough for the disciples then, and enough for each believer now.
John 14:1-6
- Pastor Mike Hixson
- Category: The Gospel of John
- November 12, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Do Not Let Your Heart Be Troubled
John 14 opens in the midst of Jesus’s dialogue, a continuation from the previous chapter. The evening had begun with Jesus, their Rabbi and Messiah, humbly washing the disciples’ feet, followed by Jesus’s troubling statements that He was going away, and they could not come.
The disciples are troubled. Jesus leaving them is an unimaginable situation for the those who had left everything to follow Him. Though they claim they would lay down their lives for Him, Jesus predicts that the disciples will fail Him.
John 13:31-38
- Pastor Steve Sindelar
- Category: The Gospel of John
- November 5, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
The Final Lesson to Love One Another Like Christ
Jesus is a rabbi, a teacher in the Jewish culture, teaching final, critical lessons to His disciples. The upper room discourse begins in John 13:31-38. Earlier in John 13, Jesus provided an object lesson for His disciples when He washed their feet. As He will soon be departing, Jesus desires for His disciples to thrive without His physical presence, as they will not yet be able to follow Him.
No matter their fear, uncertainty, failure, or doubt, Jesus has a final, powerful lesson for His disciples to learn: that loving one another like Christ is the way of perseverance.
John 13:18-30
- Pastor Mike Hixson
- Category: The Gospel of John
- October 29, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
What Love Looks Like in the Face of Evil.
In John 3:16-21, Jesus talks about the difference between light and dark. Those who would reject Jesus rejected that light due to their deeds being exposed.
Last week we talked about Jesus washing the disciples’ feet, but when Jesus came to Judas, He didn’t skip him. Jesus was instructing them on how to love in the face of evil.
John 13:1-17
- Pastor Mike Hixson
- Category: The Gospel of John
- October 22, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
You Should Love One Another as Jesus Loves You.
If you knew you had 24 hours to live, how would you spend it? A common answer is to spend it with the people you love the most. But if you knew those people would leave you during that time when you needed them most, would that change how you would spend it?
In John 13:1-17, Jesus knew that He was about to be betrayed and crucified. Yet Jesus called His friends to and modeled for them the defining characteristic of a Christ-follower.
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Pastor Tim Potter leads an in-depth study of Paul's first epistle to Timothy.
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Pastor Tim Potter leads us through an in-depth look at the first book of the Bible.
The Book of Ephesians
Paul's epistle to the church in Ephesus.
