Category Archives: Old Testament

Our God Is A Consuming Fire (Worship Service, February 11th, 2018)

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Title: Our God Is A Consuming Fire

Passage: Exodus 19: 9-26

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: February 11th, 2018

Exodus 19 is something of a Preparation for Worship email to Israel. Remember, according to 3:12, Israel is to worship Yahweh at Mt Sinai. God is preparing his people to worship him. That worship will involve the declaration of God’s Word. In the thick cloud, God prepares his people to believe him and his messenger, Moses. In so doing, Israel learns three crucial lessons about approaching God’s presence to receive God’s Word.

A Kingdom of Priests (Worship Service, February 4th, 2018)

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Title: A Kingdom of Priests

Passage: Exodus 19: 1-18

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: February 4th, 2018

Exodus 19–24 is one of the most important passages of the Old Testament and entire scriptures. The covenant God makes with Israel in these chapters becomes the framework through which the great majority of the Old Testament is to be understood.

Our passage is really about God. He is a God of manifold grace, and that grace is seen in the covenant of Sinai. The text makes clear that what happens at Sinai represents his glorious desire for his chosen people. When we pause to look at how God is treating his people in Exod 19, we ought to be ready to proclaim the excellencies of this God who graciously cuts covenants with mankind.

Now I Know That the LORD Is Greater (Worship Service, January 21th, 2018)

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Title: Now I Know That the LORD Is Greater

Passage: Exodus 18

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: January 21st, 2018

The story of Jethro is primarily given to us to make this important point: All men ought to give the true God glory for his wonderful works. Even during this time of salvation history where God is dealing primarily with Israel, God’s dealings with them is intended to bring all the nations to confess that Yahweh is the true God. Every man, woman, and child ought to give God the glory due his name.

The LORD is My Banner (Worship Service, January 14th, 2018)

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Title: The LORD is My Banner

Passage: Exodus 17:8-16

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: January 14th, 2018

Our text this morning is the story of Israel’s first conflict after defeating Egypt. This morning, I think it’s better to approach our text from the ground up. I want us to understand what’s going on, and then draw lessons for us from what the passage reveals.

Testing (Worship Service, January 7th, 2018)

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Title: Testing

Passage: Exodus 17:1-7

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: January 7th, 2018

When Israel demanded water, they were testing God. If you are a true believer in Jesus Christ, there is a lesson here about the character of genuine saving faith. A true believer does not test God.

A Holy Sabbath to the LORD (Worship Service, December 10th, 2017)

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Title: A Holy Sabbath to the LORD

Passage: Exodus 16:21-36

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: December 10th, 2017

The rest of Exodus 16 deals with the institution of a pre-Sinai Sabbath and the people’s response to this. I believe that the same theme of first half of the chapter can be easily brought over and extended into the focus on the manna and Sabbath. That is, we still learn here that true saints believe that God alone can satisfy their greatest desires.

Bread From Heaven (Worship Service, December 3rd, 2017)

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Title: Bread From Heaven

Passage: Exodus 16:1-21

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: December 3rd, 2017

The provision of food is the demonstration of the LORD’s covenantal presence and glory. It is to be a manifestation of God’s care for his people. It is the LORD who gives this food to his people, and the gift of food from God is intended to reiterate his love for them. The bread comes from God. It comes from heaven. The message of this story, the Lord’s message in the miracle of the manna is, “I am with you. You can trust me. Rely on me. Lean into me. I will sustain you. You can know that I will never let you down. I will keep my promises to you. You can be assured that I am your God and you are my people.” That is, true saints believe that God alone can satisfy their greatest desires.

Into the Wilderness (Worship Service, November 26th, 2017)

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Title: Into The Wilderness

Passage: Exodus 15:22-27

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: November 26th, 2017

The real force of the story is unveiled in the second part of v 25: There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them. The LORD was leading his people. He was the one who led them to Marah. The LORD was the one who, in their desperate need for water, brought them first to the bitter waters. But v 25 is the divine perspective on these earthly affairs. Marah was a test. The Lord was trying his people to see if they would trust him. Thus the lesson from God’s Word is, in times of great difficulty, we must trust the Lord.

Sing To The LORD! (Worship Service, November 19th, 2017)

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Title: Sing to the LORD!

Passage: Exodus 15:1-21

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: November 19th, 2017

What do you do when you realize that God has saved you? You sing. Brothers, God’s people sing. In Gen 4, we learn that Jubal made musical instruments. Job mentions singing a handful of times. But this is the first time that singing appears canonically in the Scriptures. How appropriate that, after such a monumental event displaying God’s covenant love, that it is here that we see his people joining in song. The central point from this text for us is simply this: Sing to the LORD. But when I say that this passage urges us to sing to the LORD, I am getting after something more fundamental than mere singing. Indeed, I want us to have the heart to sing to God. My concern is that there is in each of our hearts joyful affections in Christ our Savior.

A Baptist Catechism: Questions 46-47 (Sunday School, October 22nd, 2017)

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Question 46: What shall be done to the wicked at their death?

The souls of the wicked shall at their death be cast into the torments of hell, and their bodies lie in their graves till the resurrection, and judgment of the great day.

Question 47: What shall be done to the wicked at the Day of Judgment?

At the Day of Judgment the bodies of the wicked being raised out of their graves, shall be sentenced, together with their souls, to unspeakable torments with the devil and his angels forever.

Speaker: Eric White

Service: Sunday School

Date: October 22nd, 2017