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All Salvation is of the Lord

Acts as a whole (Church History’s First Chapter) shows that Lydia of Philippi was not alone in needing God’s sovereign grace to open her heart, to cause her to pay fruitful attention to the preached word, and to believe & repent. This is the consistent view of personal salvation and Kingdom progress in the New Testament.

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The Lord is Opening Hearts to Respond

The back-story for the ‘first Euro church’ includes the dramatic conversions of Lydia, a slave-girl, and a jailer … with supernatural wonders plus the clear news that GOD must open territorial doors AND the doors of our hearts … but that is what He does!

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Nailing This Down

  •   7/29/2024
  •   Psalm 40:6-8, Colossians 2:6-15
  • Preacher: John McFarland
“Nailing it down” is a figure of speech about confidence and commitment. The nail by which a bondservant was formally dedicated to his master’s lifelong service matched the nails by which Jesus was affixed to the cross. These give sinners confidence if the record of our sins was nailed to that same cross with Christ (acc. to Colossians 2).

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Every Knee & Every Tongue

Of course, under the Bible’s careful description, we ARE Christian nationalists (see Psalm 2)! Our word to ourselves, the high, and the low is to cease rebelling against the LORD & His Anointed (Christ), serving Him in all our roles and relations. Blessed are all who ‘kiss’ and hide in the Son.

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Blessed Is THE Man

Psalm 1 with Ps. 2 form the Psalter’s intro, asserting God’s rightful interest in things personal & cosmic. In Ps. 1, the wicked & righteous man are contrasted, but both are revealed in their relationship to God & His word. May you be judged righteous in THE Righteous Man.

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The Sin & the Story, the Song & the Savior, Cont’d

Part 2 of this sermon on Psalm 51 (the Sin, Story, Song, and Savior) emphasized the inside (heart) work which God must do, to make us clean within … and how that impacts joy, witness, & sacrificial service to Him. All this points to the impact of our Savior, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of atonement.

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Called By Another Name

This passage highlights God’s active work; the hand of the Lord was on His people as the gospel went out. The Lord worked in incredible ways! And do not miss the picture of our identity: Acts 11 is the first time anyone was called a Christian. What once was an insult becomes an identity: We belong to Christ!

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The Sin & the Story, the Song & the Savior

Psalm 51 gives us one of those rare worship songs for the church for which we know the precise historic circumstance behind it … in this case, King David’s notorious sins involving Bathsheba & Uriah. Can such a sinner have a truly clean heart? Depends who you ask and the basis for your plea.

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Clean & Unclean, Sacred & Common

Our salvation is in the Lord; God is the one who determines the clean and the unclean, casting our sin far from us because of the work of Jesus Christ on our behalf.

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A Praise-the-Lord Sandwich?

The special contribution of this Psalm is to describe the members of God’s universal choir of praise, and also to challenge our highly limited sense of what praise (& worship) really are … ultimately, being & doing precisely what God created us to be & do. Affections follow.

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