Sermons – Grace Evangelical Free Church // Wyoming, MN

First, because God's ways are higher than our ways, what we expect from God and what we get are not always connected. Second, the ability to see things (especially spiritual things) as they truly are is always a gift from God. Finally, Jesus is risen from the dead! Let us pray and trust - pray for spiritual eyes and trust God's invisible promises.

In spite of all the OT promises and all of Jesus’ teaching, none of Jesus’ followers imagined Jesus’ resurrection as the explanation for the empty tomb. Let us study the Word of God carefully and be humble.

In times of distress and moments of death, God’s servants and saints cry out to him in prayer, find rest in his benefits, trust in his words, and praise him for his salvation.

Faithfulness to Jesus in times of suffering and mystery is often a matter of simple devotion. Let us consistently make use of the ordinary means of grace so that when times of suffering and mystery come, simple devotion flows freely out of us.

Meditating and proclaiming the greatness of God and His works increases our love, awe, and worship of Him for our good and His glory in this life and the life to come.

Jesus was knowingly, willingly, lovingly, and graciously crucified for the sins of the world so that by believing in Him we will be saved. Believe in Jesus, and live in light of the full measure of the salvation He brings.

Jesus died to accomplish the centerpiece of God’s eternal plan of redemption. Let us be amazed by the magnitude of the sovereign grace of God, such that obedience and worship flow with increasing freeness.

The Son of God was crucified. Within that, we see the incongruity of the crucifixion, several different responses to the truth of the crucifixion, and the sovereign plan of God in the crucifixion. Let us live lives of consistency and trust; or, better still, consistency in trust.

Look to Jesus’ example, as did the parents of the kids dedicated today, and ask the Lord to send us out in His power to pour forth dozens more bursts of light this week as we all give ourselves to living, no matter the cost, for God’s glory and the good of the world.

Although there were no credible accusations against Jesus, the sinfulness of man, the righteousness of Jesus, and the loving, gracious plan of God all came together to bring about Jesus’ condemnation. Therefore, let us praise Jesus for gladly giving Himself to the will of God even though it led to His mistreatment at the hands sinful men, and let us follow Jesus’ example in that.

Jesus' love and grace in the face of the growing treachery of those He came to save is staggering. Let us cultivate humility, gratitude, trust, and love in the power of the Spirit.

The time had come for Jesus to “drink the cup that the Father” had given Him—He knew exactly what was coming, because it was the loving, eternal plan of God, to save the world. Let us humbly trust Jesus’ promises even when conventional reason suggests otherwise—especially His promise to save those who would trust in Him.