Christ the King Newton Sermons

“When God’s Son took on flesh, he truly and bodily took on, out of pure grace, our being, our nature, ourselves. This was the eternal counsel of the triune God. Now we are in him. Where he is, there we are too, in the incarnation, on the cross, and in his resurrection. We belong to him because we are in him. That is why the Scriptures call us the Body of Christ.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God Is in t...

“How are we supposed to be able to help those who are without joy and courage, if we ourselves are not borne by courage and joy? What is meant here is not something made or forced, but something given and free. With God there is joy, and from him it comes down and seizes spirit, soul, and body. And where this joy has seized a person, it reaches out around itself, it pulls others along, it bursts t...

“The Word has become flesh! It has become flesh never to be separated from that flesh again! Not even presently on the Throne. ... The Word having become flesh creates therewith the real possibility that this Child takes your place and that this Child of flesh and blood saves, reconciles, and glorifies you, made of flesh.” — Abraham Kuyper How Do We Discern the Body? (Exodus 24:12-18) Rev. Nathan...

“I will underline the quality common to the three experiences; it is that of an unsatisfied desire, which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and from Pleasure. Joy (in my sense) has indeed one characteristic, and one only, in common with them; the fact that anyone who has experien...

“… [I]t begins with a grumbling mood, and yourself still distinct from it: perhaps criticising it. And yourself, in a dark hour, may will that mood, embrace it. Ye can repent and come out of it again. But there may come a day when you can do that no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticise the mood, nor even to enjoy it, but just the grumble itself going on forever like a machine.” — C....

“And God said, ‘Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.’ And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. And God said, ‘Let the waters under the heavens b...

“Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,          Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt thou forgive that sin, through which I run,          And do run still, though still I do deplore?                 When thou hast done, thou hast not done,               &nb...

“The importance of the teaching of the faith within believing families is an Old Testament tradition (Deut 4:9–10; 6:4–9, etc.) that needs to be reemphasized in every generation of the Christian church. We, too, are a people of memory and hope, for it is memory that generates hope. When Israel ‘forgot’—as the prophets accused them—they went astray. When Christians ‘forget,’ the same thing happens....

“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?’ then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.’” — Deuteronomy 6:20-21 What Does It Mean? (Exodus 12:21-28) Rev. Nathan Barczi Exodus 12:21-28

“ For the Earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea .” —The Prophet Isaiah What Pharaoh Learns About the LORD (Exodus 11:1-10) Rev. Bradley Barnes Exodus 11:1-10

“Perfect power does not absorb, exclude or overwhelm and dispossess other dependent powers and agents, but precisely the opposite: omnipotent power creates and perfects creaturely capacity and movement. … what God in his perfect wisdom, power and goodness causes is creatures who are themselves causes. The idea whose spell must be broken is that God is a supremely forceful agent in the same order o...

“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.” —Romans 8:15-17...

“Draw me from created good, From self, the world, and sin; To the fountain of Thy blood, And make me pure within. If Thou hast drawn a thousand times (Oh draw me Lord again) Around me cast the Spirit’s bands (Oh draw me Lord again).” — “If Thou Hast Drawn a Thousand Times,” John Rippon and Benjamin Beddome Moses Meets God (Exodus 3:13-17) Rev. Bradley Barnes Exodus 3:13-17

“… the wonder that draws Moses aside, and opens his ear, is not the seeming impossibility of a fire that is not fiery, nor a bush that is not God being yet at once divine. The wonder is that the Lord God draws near and the creature does not die away.” — Katherine Sonderegger , Systematic Theology, Vol. 1: The Doctrine of God , 84 Moses's First Impressions of God (Exodus 3:1-22) Rev. Bradley Barnes...

“Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of God’s willingness.” — Julian of Norwich God Is a Giver (Exodus 2:11-25) Rev. Nathan Barczi Exodus 2:11-25

“Though there be no light for us, but in the beams, yet we may by the beams, see the sun, which is the fountain of it. Though all our refreshment actually lies in the streams, yet by them, we are lead up onto the fountain. Jesus Christ, in respect of the love of the Father, is but the beam, the stream; where in, though actually all our light, our refreshment lies. Yet by him we are led to the foun...

“The conclusion affirmed by the narrative is that wherever YHWH governs as an alternative to Pharaoh, there the restfulness of YHWH effectively counters the restless anxiety of Pharaoh. In our own contemporary context of the rat race of anxiety, the celebration of Sabbath is an act of both resistance and alternative. It is resistance because it is a visible insistence that our lives are not define...

“Now the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’” —Genesis 12 Discernin...

“When we call the virtue of the saints perfect, to this very perfection also belongs the recognition of imperfection, both in truth and in humility.” —Augustine of Hippo On Generosity, Zeal for the Gospel, & Growing in Maturity (1 Corinthians 16) Rev. Nathan Barczi 1 Corinthians 16

“The scale of the reversal cannot be exaggerated: when Jesus stands before Pilate for the last time, beaten, derided, robed in purple and crowned with thorns, he must seem from the vantage of all the noble wisdom of the empire and the age... merely absurd. ... But in the light of the resurrection, from the perspective of Christianity’s inverted order of vision, the mockery now redounds upon all ki...

“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery. Thou art slave to fate, ch...

“[1 Corinthians 15] brings to a climax the theme of grace as God’s sovereign free gift through the cross to which ’the dead’ contribute no special ‘knowledge’ or ‘experience,’ but do indeed undergo transformation of life and lifestyle through ‘God, who gives life to the dead’ (Rom. 4:17) on the basis of promise.” — Anthony Thiselton “First and Foremost…” (1 Corinthians 15:1-11) Rev. Nathan Barczi...

God’s Kingdom: “a sphere of rulership, in which his will is done in the fallen world as it is in the sinless heavens; in which cruelty and disorder and the distortion caused by sin are supplanted by love, order and righteousness. Loving obedience to God produces much more than individual goodness, respectability and the alleviation of suffering. It builds the kingdom of heaven.” — Richard Lovelace...

“All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” —Isaiah The Heart of the Father for Us in Worship (1 Corinthians 14:13-25) Rev. Bradley Barnes 1 Corinthians 14:13-25

“The Church’s one foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord; She is his new creation, By water and the word; From Heav’n he came and sought her To be his holy bride; With his own blood he bought her, And for her life he died.” —Samuel Stone Strive to Build up the Church (1 Corinthians 14:1-12) Rev. Bradley Barnes 1 Corinthians 14:1-12