Generations Church Sermons

ADVENT: LOVE We can feel dark and alone when things are not going “our way”, however God’s love shines the brightest when we see His plans accomplished in us.

Advent 2020: Hope Is What We Crave

SALVATION: GOD’S LOVE FOR THE UNDESERVING God, in spite of our sin, saves us. He forgives idolatry, overlooks failure, untangles our messes, and ultimately provides salvation… if we will just listen to Him and do what He says. Episode Notes

GRACE: FORGIVENESS WE DON’T DESERVE God gives “unmerited favor” (grace) to us when we repent and seek Him. We never deserve it, but God gives it graciously through Christ. Episode Notes

MERCY: SPARED THE JUDGEMENT WE DESERVE Just like the Israelites at the bottom of Mt. Sinai we all sin and deserve wrath. God spares us by pouring that wrath out on Jesus instead. Moses provides insight into how Jesus takes our penalty and gives us mercy.

SABBATH: FINDING REST IN A SINFUL WORLD God provides rest for His People who obey His commands. We often attempt to find rest in many places that have nothing to do with God.

MEDIATOR: BRIDGE BETWEEN GOD AND MAN Moses’s brother Aaron will be ordained as a priest in today’s passage, with the clear function of going between God and Man. This is an amazing glimpse ahead at the roll of Jesus our perfect Mediator.

INCARNATION: UNITING GOD AND HUMANITY The division between God and Man that resulted from sin is overcome in Jesus. God and humanity are united physically in Christ’s body, as well as spiritually at the cross.

LAWS: HOW WE LOVE OTHERS To fully understand the 10 Commandments and laws that clarify them we must look through the lens of love. Christians are called to love God and love others. Laws teach us how to faithfully love both God and others.

COMMANDMENTS: HOW GOD’S PEOPLE LIVE God prescribes how how we are to live by covenanting with Moses (who represents the people). We can be a holy nation, and a kingdom of priests, if we live as God has taught us to live.

PROVISION: GOD PROVIDES FOR HIS PEOPLE Learning to depend upon God to provide for us, rather than depending upon ourselves, our government, or our circumstances, leads us to greater faith.

PROVIDENCE: GOD’S WILL FOR OUR GOOD God does amazing things for His people, though His will is often hidden to us, God’s will is always for His glory and our good.

RESTORATION God provides rest and healing in times of hardship through submission and obedience to Him. We tend to only want to go as far as we are comfortable, but God is calling us further for our own benefit. For more information, please visit https://genfamily.church.

RESTORATION God provides rest and healing in times of hardship through submission and obedience to Him. We tend to only want to go as far as we are comfortable, but God is calling us further for our own benefit.

OMNISCIENCE: GOD ALL-KNOWING God, who knows all things, uses tomorrow for His glory and our good. God not only knows the future, but causes it by His power. For more information, please visit genfamily.church

OMNIPOTENCE: THE ALL POWERFUL GOD God reveals His power throughout Scripture so that we can take our minds off of our circumstances and limitations, and so that will place our trust in Him.

Exodus 1 Seeing God in the Journey OMNIPRESENCE: THE INVISIBLE GOD ACTIVE IN OUR MIDST God is present everywhere, always engaged and acting on behalf of the Church. Even if we can’t see or feel it, Jesus promised He is with us. [Matthew 28:20]

TRUE WORSHIP God speaks through Isaiah one last message to all who profess faith in Jesus to repent from false worship and practice true worship. We all need this today.

Main Idea: In the midst of a breaking and broken world, we find strength and hope in the fact that God is still saving people.

LONGING AND LAMENTING IN PRAYER After proclaiming God’s desire for revival, Isaiah desires it deeply. Isaiah is now praying, and his words go from longing for revival, to lamenting how God’s people are not ready. Our prayers today need must become like Isaiah’s prayer. For more information, please visit https://genfamily.church.

A KING DRENCHED IN BLOOD Isaiah proclaims the Eternal Kingdom of Jesus, calling us out of exile into a renewed Creation. The cost of bringing this Kingdom, and defeating evil on Earth, is a blood-soaked Jesus.

THE REDEEMER AND HIS PEOPLE Isaiah teaches us about Jesus and His mission to bring His Kingdom to earth today, as well as what the Church living in the Kingdom should be. For more information visit genfamily.church

GREAT HOPE TODAY When all around us is corruption, violence, unrest, injustice, and politics of division, where do we turn for hope? God has promised not just an eternity of peace, but also an earthy peace we can experience today. For more information, please visit https://genfamily.church.

Episode Notes Our God Saves Isaiah 59 Hypocrisy in the Church

THE CHURCH IN ACTION As Christians we struggle to “live” our faith. We have wrongly viewed our faith as “personal” (just between God and ourselves). God calls us to be a corporate body of faith and to make an impact on the world. For more information, please visit https://genfamily.church.