Bellefonte Presbyterian Church – Sermons

Luke 2:36-38 (English Standard Version) 36  And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin,  37  and then as a widow until she was eighty-four.  She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.  38  And coming up at that very hour s...

Luke 2:25-32 (English Standard Version) 25  Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.  26  And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.  27  And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the...

Revelation 21:1-8 (English Standard Version) 1  Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2  And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3  And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He w...

Isaiah 53:1-6 (English Standard Version) 1  Who has believed what he has heard from us?     And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2  For he grew up before him like a young plant,     and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,     and no beauty that we should desire him. 3  He was despised and rejected by men,     a man of sorrows and acqua...

For to Us a Child Is Born 9  [ a ] But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.[ b ] 2  [ c ] The people who walked in darkness     have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land o...

Philippians 2:5-1 1 (English Standard Version) 5  Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,  6  who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,  7  but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.  8  And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of dea...

"13  I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.  14  And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.  15  And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. 16  If anyone sees his brother committi...

Testimony Concerning the Son of God 6  This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.  7  For there are three that testify:  8  the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.  9  If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, fo...

5  Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.  2  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.  3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.  4  For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the...

13  By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.  14  And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.  15  Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.  16  So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides...

1 John 4:7-12 (English Standard Version) 7  Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.  8  Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.  9  In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.  10  In this is love, not that we have love...

1 John 4:1-6 (English Standard Version) 4  Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.  2  By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,  3  and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of t...

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Children of God 28  And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.  29  If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. 3  See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why t...

1 John 2:18-27 Warning Concerning Antichrists 18  Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.  19  They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. ...

15  Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  16  For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life[ a ]—is not from the Father but is from the world.  17  And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. ESV

1 John 2:7-14 (English Standard Version) 7  Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.  8  At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because[ a ] the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.  9  Whoever say...

1  My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.  2  He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.  3  And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.  4  Whoever says “I know him” but does no...

1 John 1:5-10 (English Standard Version) 5  This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.  6  If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.  7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses...

1 John (ESV) 1  That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—  2  the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—  3  that which we have seen and heard we procla...

Exodus 20:17 17  “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”Luke 12:13-21 13  Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”  14  But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator...

Exodus 20 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. James 3 3  Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.  2  For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.  3  If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they...

Exodus 20:15 (English Standard Version) 15  “You shall not steal. Matthew 7:7-11 7  “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  8  For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.  9  Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?  10  Or if he asks for a fish,...

14  “You shall not commit adultery. - Exodus 20:14 (ESV) 27  “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’  28  But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.  29  If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your wh...