Eastview Christian Church Sermons

2-7-2021 | Mike Baker Serve #1: Freed to Serve Exodus 7:16, 8:1, 9:1, 9:13, 10:3, 10:7 The refrain associated with Moses as he repeatedly appeals to Pharaoh on behalf of the Israelite nation, is “let my people go.” But that is only half of the sentence. In each of these scriptures, the full request is, “let my people go that they may SERVE me in the wilderness.” God was not freeing his enslaved pe...

1-31-2021 | Mike Baker Worship Reframed #5: The Contributions Exodus 25:1-9 Ultimately, worship will always cost something and this story from Exodus 25 is an incredible Bible example of unrestrained and willing giving for the cause of building the Tabernacle. Beyond the practicality of actually constructing the place of worship, is the heart of worship – a desire to give back to God something of...

1-24-2021 | Ben Miller Worship Reframed #4: The Presence Exodus 40:34-38 The point of worship is a realization of the presence of God. The book of Exodus begins with God’s presence moving into the Tabernacle that Moses had set up. Here he appeared as a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. In this way, the glory of the Lord filled the tent and the people were aware of his presence....

1-17-2021 | Mike Baker Worship Reframed #3: The Prayers Exodus 34:1-9 As we continue our worship series, we will focus on the importance of prayer as a part of worship by spending time with Moses on the mountain of God as he received the new tablets of the Ten Commandments. In these verses particularly we are encouraged to seek God’s favor, ask for his presence, and forgiving us of sin. Along with...

1-10-2021 | Mike Baker Worship Reframed #2: Music Exodus 15:1-18 When most Christ followers think of worship, they likely think first of music since this is the primary way the people of God have expressed their feelings, emotions, and beliefs about God from the beginning of time. This passage will examine the victorious musical worship that ensued after God had brought the people through the Red...

1-3-2021 | Mike Baker The Word of the Lord Exodus 4:27-31, 19:10-25 We kick off the new year by celebrating the word of God as a part of worship. This sermon examines two proper responses in worship to the word of God. In the first, Moses and Aaron give God’s word of deliverance to the enslaved Hebrew people and they bow their heads and worship. In the second, God is getting ready to make a covena...

12-27-2020 | Zach Thompson Leviticus 25:11&12 As with the Sabbath Day and the Sabbath year (every seven years); the year of Jubilee (the year after 7 Sabbath years) was designed for rest. In this year, there was to be no working the fields (sowing or planting) as they rested in God’s provision and care from the produce that would grow of itself in that year. The land and its people were to rest as...

12-20-2020 | Mike Baker Leviticus 25:23-34/47-55 Ultimately, the year of Jubilee was the complete elimination of debts and indebtedness. People received land and property back that they had lost because of debt and all who had become slaves because of debt were freed. This is why Jubilee proclaims “liberty throughout the land”. During the Christmas season we celebrate that Jesus came into the worl...

Leviticus 25:9-10 The word “jubilee” in the Hebrew language literally means “joyful sound” as in the sound of the Ram’s horn that announced feasts and celebrations. In the same way, that first Christmas was good news of great joy that is for all people. During this Sunday we will celebrate and rejoice in the birth of Christ and the joy only his presence in the lives of those who follow him can bri...

12-06-2020 | Jubilate Deo #1: Leviticus 25:8-13 The celebration of Jubilee was to begin with the sound of trumpets on the Day of Atonement and every Israelite was to return to the property of inheritance and each return to his own clan. This was God’s way of returning everyone to their homes and families in spite of what may have transpired in the previous 49 years. During this time of year when f...

Senior Pastor Mike Baker preaches from 1 Timothy 13:14-16 on this Thanksgiving weekend. Join us as we poke light hearted fun at our imperfect families, even as we are grateful for them. Then we will look at our spiritual family - described here in I Timothy as the “...household of God, which is the church of the living God...”. Indeed, the family of God can sometimes get messy, and we don’t always...

Exodus 15:20-21 with Numbers 12 In week two of our brothers and sisters emphasis, we will examine what we know about Moses’ sister Miriam from the story of scripture. As Miriam watched over and protected Moses as a baby in the Nile, we watch over and protect our younger, more vulnerable brothers and sisters in the church. As Miriam led the congregation in musical and prophetic worship, we lead our...

Exodus 4:14-17, 27-30; 17:8-13 Pastor Mike's message this week is from Exodus 4:14-17, 27-30; 17:8-13 and examines the spiritual brother and sister relationships in the church through the lens of Moses’ siblings, Aaron and Miriam. This is the sixth message in The Fam series.

Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro played a significant role in his life in this instance in which he was overwhelmed with leadership. Verse 24 of this passage sums it up where it says, “Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law…”. As a five generation church we will celebrate the wisdom of our more experienced family members. We will teach the importance of seeking and taking sage advice to help...

In this teaching we witness the good and bad in spiritual parenting. First, we will celebrate the faith of Moses’ parents who worked to protect his life in spite of impossible circumstances (Hebrews 11:23) and then we will notice Moses’ neglect in his son’s spiritual journey to God by not circumcising them. Prayerfully, we will be able to encourage thousands of parents to recommit to their childre...

This scripture will follow Moses from his Hebrew, slave birth to his adoption by the daughter of Pharaoh and becoming part of the royal family. This teaching will note how God works his sovereign plan through Moses including a foreshadowing of the Red Sea miracle with his name meaning ?I drew him out of water.? This teaching will give us a chance to talk about how God has adopted us through Jesus...

In this sermon we will encourage parents and parents-to-be to nurture their children in homes of faith. As we examine the faith exhibited by Moses’ parents we will teach about how a parent’s faith and Christian heritage can be so formative in a child’s life. This will be a chance to honor and encourage Christian family in a really natural way. See also II Timothy 1:6 and 3:15.

The book of Exodus begins with the names of the sons of Israel about 400 years before Moses was born. In fact, “names” (“shemot” in Hebrew) is the Jewish title for this book that ties what happens in it to the covenant God had established through Abraham. This sermon will look at the beginning of the 12 tribes of the people of God as they came to Egypt of which Moses is a descendant (see Exodus 2:...

We will end our all church study with a review of the Ten Commandments as given to Moses on Mt. Sinai. The first four of these “ten words” gave guidelines for vertical relationship (us to God) and the next six helped us understand horizontal relationships (us to one another). Jesus would later summarize these Ten Commandments with two words: Love God and Love People. By reviewing these ten laws we...

How quickly we forget the greatness and power of God to meet our everyday needs. Not long after the triumphant delivery from slavery, and the miracle of the Red Sea crossing, the people complained against God for food. Of course, God had a plan, and that plan was to send bread from heaven to sustain them on their journey to the Promised Land. In this way, God fed the children of Israel for 40 year...

This sermon will cover the miraculous crossing of the Red Sea on dry ground. Once again, God displays his greatness by doing what no one could expect. He provides a way out of trouble in a way that the people of God could not have imagined. At the same time, he completely destroys the enemies of the Hebrews giving us a glimpse of all Jesus has done for us. The main teachings of this text will focu...

Next we move to the power of God which will be a general overview of the plagues that God powerfully sends against Pharaoh and Egypt in order to rescue his people. In each plague, the one, true living God shows he is more powerful than each of the false, Egyptian gods. They worship the Nile and he turns it to blood. They worship the sun and he brings darkness. They worship frogs and cows and he ov...

In our second teaching we will join Moses on the sacred mountain at the burning bush to discover that God speaks to his people. This important lesson encourages us to know that God initiates the conversation (“…the angel of the Lord appeared to him…”) and knows us each by name (“Moses, Moses!”). This is a picture of Jesus who was literally God with man calling us into his ministry and mission thro...

The first big idea is that God rescues us. The story of Exodus begins with the people of Israel groaning because of their slavery in Egypt. According to Exodus 2:23, they were crying for rescue and God heard their prayers. This teaching will encourage people that God hears and knows of the things that enslave us and bring us pain. And he has rescued us through his Son Jesus, first from the slavery...