Church notes - January 2025

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5th
Acts 16:31

Hebrews 5:5 - 13

2025
What is behind that door?
There is a lot of pessimism

Hope
We have a hope in Jesus.

Don't let all the good ideas, themes and hope of Christmas be packed away.

The foundation for the new year is in the true meaning of Christmas

Jesus is the Redeemer, Shepherd and Friend
Redeemer - He took Sin's penalty on Himself.
Isaiah 53:3
Colossians 3:13, 14

All we need to do is to take up that gift.

Doubts can surface.
But it is certain, because it relies on Jesus, not on us.
He shepherds us through the ups and downs of life.

God is with us in our difficulties.

John 1:14

Hebrews 2:14 - 18

He became flesh and blood in order to save us.

John 15:13 - 15


12th
Acts 2:29 - 41
Jesus as LORD
Resurrected to the very point of God.
He was referred to as Lord throughout the Gospels.
LORD - Supremacy, authority, master, owner

John 21
Jesus: Peter, do you love me?
Peter: Lord, you know I love you
Three times

Jonah
He ran, but God restored him.
An appropriate response was needed.
Matthew 7:21 - 23
When we declare that Jesus is God, we surrender to Him.
Trust, surrender, ask
Repent
3000 people repented that day.

John 14:6
John 6:66 - 69


19th
Communion
1 Corinthians 11:23 - 26

Sermon
Isaiah 55
Jesus as Saviour

We are in spirtual trouble. As if we are trapped in a rip current.
Jesus reaches in and pulls us out.

Joshua
Jesus
Two different translations of 'God Saves'

vs 1 -3

Wealth as a trap.
The Babylonians gave the Jewish exiles wealth so as to assimilate them.
The same happens today when we give in to the trappings of middle class lifestyles.

We are meant to be in a relationship with God.
We can pretend He isn't there or we can become self obsessed.

vs 6, 7
God is waiting for us. He wants to restore us.

But we have to take His offered hand.

He has done it.
Forgiveness of sins and giving us new life.


26th
Jesus as King
Daniel 7:13, 14
Genesis 1:26 - 30
God made them rulers
Jesus
- Always King
- Ruling Everything
John 14:28 - 39

Daniel 7:13, 14
Fulfills Genesis 1:26 - 30

Romans 5:12 - 6:14
Jesus won the battle over death.

Revelation 19:11 - 16