Lakeside Bible Church | Sermons

Prayer is one of the basic disciplines of the Christian life and something every Christian must learn how to do. One time after listening to Jesus pray, His disciples asked Him to teach them how to pray like He prayed. In response to their request, Jesus provided them with a simple yet profound prayer. We know it today as the Lord’s Prayer, which is by far the most beloved and most often quoted pr...

Every believer knows the frustration of wanting to obey God while still battling the sin that remains within. Drawing from Romans 7:14–25 and selected Scriptures, this message explores the surprising truth that God has not left us to struggle without purpose. Though indwelling sin is a relentless enemy, the Lord providentially uses our ongoing conflict with it to sanctify us, expose our need for C...

The Bible is full of exhortations to pray and examples of people who prayed along with the prayers they prayed. But the only place in the Bible where any specific instruction about how to pray is given is in the Sermon on the Mount. Here in Matthew 6:5-15 and the parallel passage in Luke 11:1-4, Jesus provided His followers the most important teaching on prayer in the history of the world (i.e. Th...

In Matthew 6, Jesus continued His indictment of the scribes and Pharisees while instructing His followers in the way of true righteousness. These Jewish religious leaders tried to establish and maintain a right standing with God through a performance-orientated, works-based religion that lacked any true relationship with God which resulted in them becoming a bunch of self-righteous hypocrites. The...

This beloved psalm is a divinely prescribed antidepressant for the soul. We all get depressed at times and allow the circumstances of life to steal our joy. Rather than praising God and trusting Him, we question Him and complain about the troubles and difficulties He has ordained for our lives. In Psalm 42, the Psalmist honestly admitted he was discouraged and distressed and his heart was fluctuat...

When most of us consider anger, we typically think of the more extreme cases; not the seemingly “respectable” types of anger that we experience right in our own homes. It’s critical for us to have a biblical understanding of what anger is; so that, we might redeem anger and use it for good and not for evil. This morning, we will develop a biblical view of anger by examining five aspects of anger s...

C.S. Lewis said reading the Sermon on the Mount is like getting smashed in the face with a sledge hammer. But this final command hits more powerfully than the rest in that it is the most challenging command of them all and it also exemplifies perhaps more than any of the other commands the supernatural nature of the citizens of Christ’s kingdom. In other words, what Christ called us to here is not...

The story of Ruth and Boaz is one of the most charming, heart-warming love stories of all times. But it is not just about romance; it is really about redemption. The underlying theme of the book is God’s redemption of His chosen people. It vividly foreshadows how Jesus Christ graciously provided for our salvation by paying the price for our sins through His death on the cross. Looking at the story...

It is ingrained in us as Americans that we all have rights which cannot be violated. Our culture has grown accustomed to individuals and groups demanding and defending their rights and all sorts of movements have sprung up over the years to fight for civil rights, women’s rights, LBGQ rights, children’s rights, worker’s rights, prisoner’s rights, disability rights, etc. all of which want to be tre...

The fact that our justice system requires any witness to take an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and considers it a crime if we don’t tell the truth proves just how little humans can be trusted. We are all prone to lie because we are all liars by nature. From the very beginning, mankind has shown we have a tendency to lie, deceive, embellish the truth, stretch th...

Divorce and remarriage is one of the most complicated and controversial subjects in the Bible. Given the serious nature of this subject, it is surprising that Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul are the only two who addressed divorce and remarriage in the New Testament and what they said is limited to the Synoptic Gospels (cf. Mt. 5:31-32; 19:3-9; Mk. 10:2-12; Lk. 16:18) and the Pauline Epistles (cf...

In Romans 8:23–25, the apostle Paul describes the reality that believers, like all creation, groan under the weight of living in a fallen world. Yet this groaning is not without purpose or hope. As those who have received the first fruits of the Spirit, Christians live in the tension between what has already been accomplished in Christ and what is yet to come. While we wait for the full realizatio...

In the classic story of “Doubting Thomas,” we learn that knowing and following the risen Lord Jesus Christ is more about faith than it is about proof. The primary contention of most atheists, agnostics, and skeptics of the Christian faith is the lack of visible or tangible evidence. They like to argue that if they could just see it, touch it, or experience it, then they would believe it. But until...

Throughout history, people have believed that divine wrath must be appeased by offering some kind of sacrifice. While pagan religions portray gods who must be bribed or pacified, the Bible reveals that the one true God is holy and just, and His righteous wrath against sin must be satisfied. The consistent message of Scripture is that our sin has incurred God’s wrath, and there is nothing we can do...

On Palm Sunday, Christians around the world commemorate Jesus’ triumphal entry when He publicly presented Himself as the Messiah to the nation of Israel by riding into their capital city on a donkey on the first day of the annual Passover celebration. All four gospel writers include this account in their record of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. But Luke included something in his gospel tha...

The tragic story of David and Bathsheba powerfully illustrates what Jesus said in the Sermon On The Mount that committing adultery is about the connection between our eyes, our hearts, and our hands. Here’s how the connection works: What we feed our eyes fuels our hearts and will eventually flesh itself out in our lives. Or said another way, lustful looks lead to lustful thoughts and lustful thoug...

The very first crime committed in the history of mankind was a murder. The classic Old Testament story of Cain and Abel powerfully illustrates what Jesus said in the Sermon On The Mount about how murder is fueled by anger and jealousy. It is not surprising that Jesus began with what the Law says about murder to explain what the kind of righteousness that surpasses the scribes and Pharisees looks l...

Throughout His ministry, Jesus often referenced the Old Testament Scriptures. The foundation for these many references or the fountain from which all these references flowed is Matthew 5:17-20. Here is the very first utterance of Jesus regarding what He believed about the Old Testament which was the Bible He read, meditated on, and quoted from. These four verses serve as the introduction to Jesus’...

We come now to the main body of the Sermon On The Mount in which Jesus articulated the standard of righteousness we all must attain in order to make it to heaven. The only standard of righteousness the people in Jesus’ day knew was the artificial, external righteousness of the proud, legalistic religious leaders who taught you had to earn your way to heaven by your own good works which included ho...

As we wrap up our study of the greatest love song of all time, we see this exemplary couple model the kind of lifelong love it takes for every married couple to remain loyally and faithfully committed to each other until the day they die. As the years go by, the relationship between a husband and wife should grow and mature, and even when their desire and/or ability to be physically intimate event...

Are there times when you don't feel like praising the Lord almighty? Perhaps you know all of the reasons why you should praise God (intellectually) and you even have personal stories of God’s faithfulness in your life, but you haven’t truly experienced the “joy of the Lord” in some time. If we are honest, all of us have experienced something like this at some point in our Christian walk. We know w...

The Song of Solomon paints a realistic view of true love. Just because you truly love someone does not mean you never argue or fight with them. It is inevitable that conflict and friction and tension will occur in even the best marriages. It would be easy to view Solomon and the Shulammite as the perfect couple with the perfect marriage. But lest we get a false impression of marriage, God infused...

In the Bible, God performed two wedding ceremonies in paradise; one at the beginning of history and one at the beginning of eternity. And every wedding in between is a reenactment of the first wedding between Adam and Eve and a rehearsal for the second wedding between Christ and the Church. A wedding is an echo of Eden and a hint of heaven; a glimpse of the Garden and a foretaste of forever. While...