Christ Our Redeemer Community Church

Realism about the world and our personal experiences are often difficult to reconcile with the hope to be found in us. Yet, there is perfect harmony between realism and hope, and reason for great hope and joy, as we look to God. Christmas reminds us of God’s sovereignty, faithfulness, and love in sending His Son. King Jesus is the reason for the hope found in us. Outline: •       Rebellious People...

1000 years before the birth of Jesus, King David is given a front row seat to a coronation ceremony and priestly anointing. As we open a text so influential to the Christian faith and to the New Testament authors, the majesty of the Incarnation unfolds with promise for every follower of Jesus. Outline: •       The King of kings •       The Great High Priest •       The Righteous Judge

Like a movie trailer, Psalm 8 points to the unfolding of redemptive history from beginning to end. With the benefit of God’s revelation in the New Testament, we can look back with clear vision and worship the Christ and Savior so longed for by the psalmist. Outline: •       The Glory of God Revealed to a Creation in Conflict •       God’s Amazing Love for Insignificant People •       The Divine Pl...

The episode of Jesus restoring sight to a blind man is a living picture of Jesus’s teaching about salvation in the first eight chapters of John. Forgiveness, eternal life, salvation itself is exclusively based upon how one question is answered: Do you truly believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior? Outline: •       The God Who Saves •       The Necessary Confession •       Truth Divides

With undeniable proof of his divinity and mission in front of them, three parties faced a decision about Jesus. Like modern-day responses, there were those who refused to believe, those who rushed to compromise to keep all parties happy, and only one willing to bear the consequences of standing for truth. Outline: •       Obstinate Unbelief •       Who Do You Fear? •       Faith Strengthened by Tr...

The Apostle John chose to recount seven miracles of Jesus to convey important spiritual truths. In healing the man born blind, Jesus not only displayed the power of God but gave us reason to be humble servants of Christ, proclaiming the saving gospel to the nations. Outline: •      A Humbling Truth •      Work to Be Done •      The Wondrous Works of God •      The Testimony of a Transformed Life

The problem of suffering is neither unique nor unknown to Christians. When we see suffering or experience suffering it is natural to want to understand why. The Bible provides the answers. Outline: •      The Perplexing Problem of Suffering •      The Danger of Unbiblical Answers •       God’s Glory in Suffering

As followers of Jesus, we are not immune from suffering abuse for proclaiming Jesus Chris and him crucified for salvation to all who will believe. How might we respond? Jesus should be our model and guide, just as he is our Lord. Outline: •       The Common Attack •       The Source of True Glory •       Affirming the Promise •       He is Our God

According to recent surveys, many people belief that faith will result in reconciliation to God and eternal life, BUT those surveys indicate that people do not make a biblical distinction about the object of faith. As Jesus continues teaching, he makes abundantly clear that it is faith in Jesus alone that saves! No other faith can lead to a right relationship with God now or in all eternity. Outli...

“Jesus will set you free!” While true, this statement has little impact on a world in which people believe they are already free. It is only the truth of God’s Word that reveals humanity’s true condition of slavery—a condition remedied only through faith in the perfect person and work of Jesus. Outline: •       Profession or Possession •       Freedom in Christ

From the first century Pharisees to the modern person, the truth that salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus alone can be hard to accept. Pride fuels a self-righteous attitude that often produces unbelief, but the Cross is undeniable evidence that Jesus is the Christ and Son of God. “Unless you believe,” Jesus said, “you will die in your sins.” Outline: •       Bad Questions •       Hard Tru...

As shown by the Pharisees in their response to Jesus, unbelief is a heart issue. No amount of evidence will suffice for the person determined to seek his own way to reconciliation to God. But God! God sent his Son into the world as a light in the darkness, and the remedy for unbelief is the gospel of grace, consistently and boldly proclaimed. Outline: •      The Root of Unbelief •       Answering...

In one verse, the saving gospel of Jesus Christ is proclaimed. Jesus is the light of the world that illuminates the darkness. He is the Christ sent to defeat sin and to bring sight to the spiritually blind. The promise is salvation for all who will follow him. Outline: •       The Setting •       The Claim •      The Condition •      The Promise

Too often God’s patience and forbearance with sin are misinterpreted to be signs of his acceptance. God’s compassion for us is not shown in accepting sin but in mercifully accepting all sinners who will come to Jesus in repentance and faith for salvation. The infinite wisdom of Jesus is demonstrated as he addresses the hypocrisy of the religious elite and shows compassion to a guilty sinner. Outli...

Outline: •       Grace: A Conditional Offer •       Outward Focus of the Spirit-Filled Life •       True Grace Divides

How people answer the question determines their eternal destination. The only way to truly know God is to know Jesus. Jesus warns that time is short in this life. There is urgency to the gospel call to repent and believe in Jesus for salvation and eternal life. Outline: •       Knowing God IS Believing in Christ Jesus •       Comfort in the Sovereignty of God •       The Eternal Consequences of Un...

Jesus commands his followers to judge not by appearances but to judge righteously. The standard is always fidelity to God’s Word. In a world obsessed with celebrity status, Jesus provides a simple guide and starting point for all Christians to consider as we navigate an age where there are no shortage of voices to listen to. Outline: •       The Bold Authority of Jesus •       The Will to Know •  ...

Since the advent of Christ, the question is not so much whether one believes in Jesus but what a person believes about Him. This passage displays God’s perfect timing, while Jesus encounters more crowds. They all have a view about Jesus, but do they savingly believe? Outline: •       God’s Timing •       Believing Unbelief •       Proper Time to Feast •       Nobody Ignores Jesus

A crowd followed Jesus eagerly, but when the true Word of God was proclaimed, they faced the same choice everyone faces today: humbly submit to the truth—believe for forgiveness and eternal life, or reject Jesus and his call for repentance and faith. Jesus’s response brings glory to God while building the humble assurance of his true followers. Outline: •      The Offense of the Cross •       Spir...

Like a child misbehaving because of hunger, the spiritually starving people in Capernaum reacted to Jesus’s promise of salvation to all who will believe with grumbling. After diagnosing their spiritual condition, Jesus taught what saving faith should be using a metaphor that conveys timeless truths. Outline: •       Grumbling in Disbelief •       Saved by Sovereign Grace •       Believing is Eatin...

Can salvation and eternal life, once given by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, ever be lost? The unfolding biblical truths of divine sovereignty in salvation and human responsibility continue in this passage, which addresses the keeping power of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Outline: •       The Will of God •       Resting in God’s Preservation •       Running with Perseverance •       Blessed...

Battle lines are often drawn between God’s sovereignty and human responsibility in salvation, but the Bible unapologetically teaches both. Asked to reconcile these truths, Spurgeon famously replied, “I wouldn’t try. I never reconcile friends.” The Bible gives us a glorious view from above as we marvel at God’s saving grace through the person and work of Jesus. Outline: •       The Universal Offer...

Is it possible to live a healthy, strong, effective life if a person eats only once per week or a few times per year? Of course not. We feed our bodies, but how many suffer from spiritual malnourishment and even starvation? Have you “tasted the goodness of the word of God” (Hebrews 6:5)? Jesus is the bread of life, and without him, there is no life! Outline: •       Determined Unbelief •       The...

We seek the Lord by following, loving, trusting, and obeying Jesus Christ. However, the Bible is clear that it is possible to seek Jesus wrongly and remain unsaved. The text this week provides one example. Conveyed to us are important lessons, cautions, and glorious promises about our relationship to the Lord Jesus. Outline: •    Seeking Jesus in Folly •    The Map to Eternal Life •    Seeking Jes...

Never did Jesus promise that the Christian life would be free of troubles. In fact, God’s perfect and good plan often includes sending his children through trials and tribulations. The blessing of challenges in life teaches us to rely on Jesus and enables us to see his brilliant grace, mercy, and love brightly shining against the backdrop of the dark storms of life. Outline: ·      Growth Pains of...