Fear God not Man

This sermon was preached on July 21, 2013.

(Luke 12:1-12)

The pressure of the Pharisees' example, along with the rise of persecution,

prompts Jesus to warn his disciples about whose opinion they value.

Peer pressure is a given in any culture. The power of those who seek conformity is very strong.

Persecution methods can be strong, controlling and painful.

Economic pressure was also sometimes applied, along with social ostracism.

1. Fear God not man so you won’t live a double life.

Jesus had a very large following. Evidently its size kept increasing.

v.1  ..crowds grew until thousands …“Beware of the yeast…their hypocrisy.

Popularity can breed a desire to remain popular and thus to soften the hard truth of our sinfulness before God.

The Gospel and Human wisdom

This sermon was preached on July 14, 2013

The Bible does not turn away from this reality: that the gospel may not make sense to everyone. 
But neither does it turn away from another truth...

Intro. To Corinthians     

"All of this evidence together suggests that Paul's Corinth was at once the New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas of the ancient world."

The Gospel as a contradiction to human wisdom (1:18-25)

He pointed out that the gospel is not a form of Sophia (human wisdom).

Its message of a crucified Messiah does not appeal to human wisdom

18 The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction!

But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God.

Caleb: A Man Who Rose Above His Limitations

June 30,2013

Joshua 14:6-15  New Living Translation (NLT)

6 A delegation from the tribe of Judah, led by Caleb…, came to Joshua at Gilgal. Caleb said to Joshua, “Remember what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, about you and me when we were at Kadesh-barnea.

7 I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to explore the land of Canaan. I returned and gave an honest report,

8 but my brothers who went with me frightened the people from entering the Promised Land. For my part, I wholeheartedly followed the Lord my God.

9 So that day Moses solemnly promised me, ‘The land of Canaan on which you were just walking will be your grant of land and that of your descendants forever, because you wholeheartedly followed the Lord my God.’

10 “Now, as you can see, the Lord has kept me alive and well as he promised for all these forty-five years since Moses made this promise—even while Israel wandered in the wilderness. Today I am eighty-five years old.

11 I am as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey, and I can still travel and fight as well as I could then.

12 So give me the hill country that the Lord promised me. You will remember that as scouts we found the descendants of Anak living there in great, walled towns. But if the Lord is with me, I will drive them out of the land, just as the Lord said.”

13 So Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave Hebron to him as his portion of land.

14 Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite because he wholeheartedly followed the Lord, the God of Israel.

15 (Previously Hebron had been called Kiriath-arba. It had been named after Arba, a great hero of the descendants of Anak.)

Jam Zone - Easter Celebration

Date: March 31, 2013

Easter Activities

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES

Monday 6:00-8:30 PM            Care Group @ Shingle Springs

Thursday 9:00-11:30 AM          Care Group @Folsom

Friday 7:30-9:30 PM            Care Group @ Roseville

Sunday

4:00-5:30 PM         Worship Service /  Kids Church

5:30-6:30 PM Fellowship Dinner
6:30-7:30 PM          Equipping for Growth Classes (every other Sunday)

*For PRAYER CONCERNS, email (dtdizon@yahoo.com), text or call Pastor Tito

SPECIAL ACTIVITIES

To Be Announced...

Freedom IN CHRIST. BONDAGE in Religion.

June 23, 2013

Luke 11:37-54

At the time that Christ came into the World, men had such a distorted view of God, His Character & His Heart! Much of that wrong perception was a part of the Religious establishment. How about today? 

FREEDOM starts with inward cleansing.

v.37-41  Jesus responds -  You are EATING W/ AN UNCLEAN HEART!

They are so concerned about the external actions but neglect the internal state of their heart

"The way to clean up a dirty vocabulary is not to brush your teeth but to cleanse your heart."

Application:  Are we  HAVING IT TOGETHER ON THE OUTSIDE / but are Nowhere on the inside .

Are we merely going through the motions spiritually so that our worship is in vain – because our hearts are really far from the Lord.

JESUS’ 6 WOES . A cry for God's just judgment in light of an action = WATCH OUT – Grief WILL COME UPON YOU

v.42 1ST WOE- Majoring on the minors .   Freedom results in right  priorities

A Father’s role

This sermon was preached on June 16, 2013

How does one become a better dad? How do we encourage others properly?

Intro.

It is Good to celebrate- Honor your father & mother Eph. 6:2-3

Promise: 1.Things will go well w/ you   2. You will have a long life on the earth

- To Recognize the hard work on roles of Father, celebrate their goodness, kindness

Providing the basic needs Provider: FCS, Education, Protection

& many other roles in the family - carpenter, electrician, plumber, painter, driver, cleaner etc.

Bad experiences, a tough father’s day celebration : Examples

-Roles abdicated, Absentee;   Father left at early age , divorce;     Abused; Same Sex marriages

Reminder to Dads & Others of our role:     For Singles/ Fathers of the future: Preparation

For:  Wives/ future wives, Children, Friends/ relatives, Support the fathers  w/o fathers Ex.

It takes a community to raise a child, It takes teamwork for fathers to be successful.

Importance of Fathers: National Summit on Fatherhood

On October 27-28, the turn to 21^st century the first National Summit on Fatherhood took place in Dallas. The summit was sponsored by the National Fatherhood Initiative, a new organization which emphasizes the irreplaceable role of fathers. The invitation-only event drew 300 civic, religious and cultural leaders around the country. Following the opening address from former Vice President Al Gore, 25 speakers and panel members, addressed the crowd on the subject of

 fathering and its effect on the family and society. Following are some of the interesting social trends and statistics that were discussed:

Deborah: A Woman of Conviction and Courage

Sunday 9, 2013 Sermon

Judges 4:1-24                 

DEBORAH: A WOMAN OF CONVICTION AND COURAGE

Intro:  

Recurring themes in Judges.

cycle of sin, suffering, petition, deliverance, the death of the deliverer

 “there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes”  

Judges- an action book -war movies vs. romantic comedies preferred by the ladies.

                                     But it elevates the position of women in Israelite society.

Deborah and Jael. -used by God in remarkable ways.

I want you to see how God used a courageous, faithful women to deliver His people from bondage and oppression. See that God is still using  men & women for His glory.

Rom. 1:16-32 A GOSPEL WORTH SHARING

June 2 Sermon

The Good news & the bad news. The good news-The Gospel. The bad news- the need for  the Gospel (sinful condition of man)

 Paul's statements about the Gospel begin in a strange fashion.

He tells us that he is not "ashamed of the Gospel."

Understanding of that culture will help us why.   (4 reasons)

1. Because of the moral condition of that day.

Nero was the Emperor of Rome.  He was a wicked, degenerate man.  Like leader like follower.

The Gospel was opposed to a lot of things Rome was. 

2. Because Paul was a Jew. considered by many to be a sub-human race.

They were fit for nothing but to be despised, mistreated, and enslaved.

3. Because the Gospel Paul was preaching was almost unbelievable.

 Savior - part of the despised Jewish race, He was said to be the Savior of man,

 Claimed to be the Son of God, even God Himself, yet He claimed to be a man.

 He died on a Roman cross, a symbol of shame, but in dying this death, He was said to have died for all men.

To have risen from the dead the third day after His death-  just too bizarre to believe.

4. Because everywhere Paul went preaching the cross, he was ridiculed, cast out, imprisoned, or treated cruelly.

What can make us ashamed of the Gospel nowadays?

Paul would want to be clear about his commitment to the Gospel message.

a man who believed his message and was willing to pay the price to share it.

Ashamed, why wasn't Paul?  keep on going for God?

 invigorated  driving him around the world preaching the same hated message?

The answer to those questions is found in the truths that Paul reveals to us about the Gospel.

 Paul reminds us that we have A Gospel Worth Sharing.

 Let's  see why.