12/22/24 Worship Service & Sermon: An Angel, A Virgin - Luke 1:26-38

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12/22/24 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Luke 1:26-38
Title: An Angel, A Virgin
Speaker: Steve Estes
Worship Leader: TJ Waldy

26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee,

27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”

29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.

30 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God.

31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.

32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”

34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called[a] the Son of God.

36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.

37 For no word from God will ever fail.”

38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.

Notes:

1. The angel

2. The place
A. Far from Jerusalem
B. Of "inferior Jewishness"
C. The town of Nazareth

3. The time

4. The virgin
A. Her need for a Savior
B. Her modest role
C. Her godliness

5. The conversation
A. Gabriel's graciousness and Mary's fear
B. Gabriel's reassuring message
C. Mary requests an explanation
D. Gabriel's astounding, mysterious answer
E. Gabriel's help to Mary's faith
F. Mary's courageous, submissive reply

6. The applications

#God #Jesus #time #gabriel #mary

12/15/24 Worship Service & Sermon: When the Time Has Fully Come - Galatians 4:4-5

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12/15/24 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Galatians 4:4-5
Title: When the Time Has Fully Come
Worship Leader: Luke Stoltzfus
Speaker: Steve Estes

NIV: But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.

ESV: But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

Notes:

1. "When the time had fully come, GOD sent his Son"
A. The Father behind the Christmas story
B. God moved toward us

2. "When the time had fully come, God sent his SON"
A. Doctrine of the Holy Trinity
B. Relationship of love
C. Relationship of likeness
D. The self-existent Son

3. "When the time had fully come, God SENT his Son"

4. "When the TIME HAD FULLY COME, God sent his Son"
A. God sent His Son when He alone knew the time was perfect
B. God sent His Son when the means were in place to spread the good news
C. God sent His Son when the felt need for Him had ripened
D. God sent His Son when the time had fully come

#God #Jesus #time

12/1/24 Worship Service & Sermon: A Covenant Keeping Advent - Matthew 1:1-18

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12/1/24 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Matthew 1:1-18
Title: A Covenant-keeping Advent
Speaker: Matt Carter
Worship Leader: Randy Hepler

Notes:

1. A Gospel built on two covenants
A. Davidic covenant
B. Abrahamic covenant

2. Grafted to Jesus' Family tree

3. God's faithfulness through generations
A. Famous and kingdom-advancing generations
B. Invisible generations
C. Foreign generations
D. Scandalous generations
E. Generations of division and exile
F. Generations in which kingship has vanished
G. The final generation

4. Two takeaways from our time in Matthew 1

#Jesus #david #abraham #covenant #generations

03/12/2023 Worship Service & Sermon: Elijah Comes First - Matthew 17:9-13

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3/12/2023 Worship Livestream from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Steve Boyer
Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Matthew 17:9-13
Title: Elijah Comes First

As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, "Don't tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead." The disciples asked him, "Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?"

Jesus replied, "To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things. But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands." Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.

Notes:

1. The hard thing Jesus commanded

2. The problems raised by His words (Malachi 4:5-6)
A. Malachi predicted: Elijah would precede the Messiah
B. Malachi predicted: Elijah would bring restoration to the world

3. How Jesus addresses these problems
A. Regarding Elijah coming before the Messiah
B. Regarding Elijah restoring all things
C. Regarding the disciples' view that Jesus' death was incompatible with Elijah coming
D. How this applies to Jesus as the Messiah

4. Lessons
A. The reliability of Scripture is not tied to our understanding it
B. Not all interpretation is literal
C. Jesus and His followers bring salvation through suffering

#Matthew #Elijah #Jesus