Bay Ridge Christian Church

Christ is the perfect image in character, quality, and power of God with whom we are reconciled by Christ’s death on the cross. Colossians 1:15-22 For more resources on today's teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/knowing-christ

Understanding that we are saved by grace, justified by faith, forgiven through Christ, according to God’s word, to the glory of God is the key to the Christian faith and to entering God’s rest. Romans 5:1-2 (ESV) For more resources on this teachings, please visit https://www.brcc.church/rest-and-peace-the-heart-of-the-reformation

Daniel’s seventy sevens give us a picture of the coming of the Messiah to fulfill the old covenant and establish the new covenant, bringing full salvation for His people but judging those Who reject His sacrifice. Daniel 9:20-27 For more resources on this teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/daniels-seventy-sevens

In light of the experience of the exile and his visions of the future, and built upon biblical teaching regarding God’s covenant and the end of the exile, Daniel turns to God in an intense time of prayer – praising God, confessing the sin of God’s people, and crying out for God’s intervention. Daniel 9:1–19 For more resources on this teachings, please visit https://www.brcc.church/exile-prayers

Disciples are those who have personally responded to Christ in repentance and faith, obey His command to be baptized, and are vital members of a local church. Acts 2:36-47 For more resources on this teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/disciples-water-baptism-and-the-local-church

Daniel was given a vision of two future kingdoms and an evil ruler who will desecrate God's Temple and persecute God's people. But he saw God intervene to destroy the persecutor and deliver Hiss people, for the Sovereign God rules over the kingdoms of mankind. Daniel 8:1-27 For more resources on this teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/History-and-the-word-of-the-sovereign-God

Daniel has a vision of four great beasts and a little horn that oppress God's people, but the Son of Man has established the eternal kingdom of God which grows throughout history and will be given to God's covenant people. Daniel 7:14-28 For more resources on this teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/the-beasts-the-Little-Horn-and-the-people-of-god

Daniel has a vision of four kingdoms (Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome), which, in their rebellion to God, are beastly forces who oppress God's people. However, he also sees the Son of Man who established the eternal Kingdom of God that will grow throughout history and defeat all rebellion against God. Daniel 7:1-14 For more resources on this teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/the-bea...

God’s people must have a faith that is rooted in the truths He has revealed in the ancient past, is experienced in a life of present trust and obedience, and that labors to build for the generations to come. Psalm 78:1-7 For more resources on this teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/ancient-present-future-faith

To thrive in our exile, we must labor to see others experience shalom, remember that our God is the Living, Eternal God, that the kingdoms of this world pass away but that God’s Kingdom endures forever, and that God rescues and saves His people into His kingdom. Daniel 6:25-28 For more resources, please visit https://www.brcc.church/thriving-in-exile

Daniel still faced persecution under the new kingdom, reminding us that God’s people must always live by trust in God rather than man in the land of our exile. Daniel 6 For more resources on this teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss/

God brought mighty Babylon and her arrogant king to a swift end as He had promised, and this is a warning to all who arrogantly trust in themselves rather than Christ. Daniel 5 For more resources on this teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/the-handwriting-on-the-wall

Jesus pursues us, meets our deepest need, and offers new life in His Spirit as a free gift regardless of our condition. John 4:4-26 For more resources on this teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/the-samaritan-woman

Rebirth is radical spiritual transformation and a free gift from the Father, by the Son, through the Spirit. John 3:1-15 For more resources on this teaching, please visit https:\\www.brcc.church\born-by-grace

God is Sovereign over the world, both nations and individuals, and is able to humble the proud and exalt the humble. Daniel 4 (Daniel 4:1–3, 34–37) For more information, please visit https:\\www.brcc.church\humbling-the-proud

To stand strong in the fiery trials of exile, God’s people must walk by faith – displaying humble confidence in God, trusting in His Sovereign Power, and obeying God and His Word regardless of the consequences. For more resources on this teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/standing-strong-in-fiery-trials

On Sunday, July 18, 2021, founders of Life Savers Ministries International and Vida Internacional, Lee and Carol will be speaking about their work on the mission field in Mexico where they are ministering to marginal children and their families in the Bahia de Banderas area.

God is the source of wisdom and power, His kingdom is everlasting, and He will give wisdom and power to His exile people as they walk with Him. Daniel 2 For more resources on this teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/the-god-of-wisdom-and-power.

To stand strong in our land of exile we must remember our true identity as God’s people, trust in His Sovereignty, and walk with wisdom and humility as we are in the world but not of it. Daniel 1 For more resources, please visit https://www.brcc.church/standing-strong-in-exile

To stand strong in trying times, we must know that God is faithful, even in the land of our exile. Daniel 1:1-2 For more resources on this teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/strangers-in-a-strange-land

The world is constantly working to press us into its mold. Jesus promises the blessing of seeing God if, in humility, we allow Him to purify our hearts through single-mindedly focusing on Him. Matthew 5:8 (ESV) https://www.brcc.church/purity-in-an-impure-age

When a person is in Christ they are admitted into the body of Christ, a world wide community of faith. The next and most important step is to become a member of a local body! 1 Peter 2:9-10; 1 Peter 5:1-2; 1 Corinthians 1:2 For more resources on this teaching please visit https://www.brcc.church/you-belong

To walk in God’s Way while surrounded by those who reject it, God’s people must learn to trust in His Sovereignty, knowing He rules all things and will fulfill His Word. Galatians 5:16-26 For more resources on this teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/the-way-trusting-in-gods-sovereignty

The Spirit enables us to walk in the way of righteousness, enabling us to overcome the flesh in a way the law never could, so that we can become more like Christ. Galatians 5:16-26 For more resources on this teaching, please visit https://www.brcc.church/the-way-walking-by-the-spirit