Lakeview Heights Baptist Church Sermons

Pastor Jeff Gates OF WISDOM (July 20, 2025) Scripture Focus Proverbs 2 (NIV) Moral Benefits of Wisdom   2  My son, if you accept my words     and store up my commands within you, 2  turning your ear to wisdom     and applying your heart to understanding— 3  indeed, if you call out for insight     and cry aloud for understanding, 4  and if you look for it as for silver     and search for it as for...

Pastor Jeff Gates Proverbs 1.1-7 (NIV) Purpose and Theme 1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel: 2 for gaining wisdom and instruction; for understanding words of insight; 3 for receiving instruction in prudent behavior, doing what is right and just and fair; 4 for giving prudence to those who are simple, knowledge and discretion to the young— 5 let the wise listen and add to their...

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top (Part 2): The Sermon On The Mount (July 06, 2025) Scripture Focus Matthew 7.28-29 (NIV)   28  When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, 29  because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top (Part 2): The Sermon On The Mount (June 29, 2025) Scripture Focus Matthew 7:24-27 (NIV) The Wise and Foolish Builders   24  “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.  25  The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fa...

Pastor Chris Miller A View From The Top (Part 2): The Sermon On The Mount (June 22, 2025) Scripture Focus Matthew 7:15-23 (NIV) True and False Prophets 15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree b...

Pastor Jeff GatesA View From The Top (Part 2): The Sermon On The Mount (June 15, 2025) Scripture FocusMark 7:13-14 (NIV) The Narrow and Wide Gates 13   “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  14   But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Pastor Lyndon Dojohn The Heartbeat of the Gospel - Compassion (June 08, 2025) Scripture Focus Mark 6:30-44 (NIV) Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand  30   The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught.  31   Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place an...

Pastor Jeff GatesA View From The Top (Part 2): The Sermon On The Mount (June 01, 2025) Scripture Focus Matthew 7:1-12 (NIV)   Judging Others 7 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.  2   For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.  3   “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to th...

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top (Part 2): The Sermon On The Mount (May 25, 2025) Scripture Focus Matthew 6:25-34 (NIV) Do Not Worry 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?  26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in bar...

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top (Part 2): The Sermon On The Mount (May 18, 2025) Scripture Focus Matthew 6:19-24 (NIV) Treasures in Heaven  19   “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.  20   But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in...

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top (Part 2): The Sermon On The Mount (May 11, 2025) Scripture Focus Matthew 6.16-18 (NIV) Fasting 16 “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.  17 But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,  18 so that it will...

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top (Part 2): The Sermon On The Mount (May 4, 2025) Matthew 6.9-15 9 “This, then, is how you should pray: “ ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, 10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us today our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but d...

Pastor Jeff Gates The Road To (From) Easter: The Way (April 27, 2025) John 14.5-6 (NIV) Jesus the Way to the Father 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Pastor Jeff Gates The Road To Easter: The Road To The Tomb (April 20, 2025) HAPPY EASTER! John 20.1-18 (NIV) 20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, a...

Pastor Chris Miller The Road To Easter: The Road Of Discipleship (April 13, 2025) John 11.1-27 (NIV) The Death of Lazarus 11 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) 3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord,...

Pastor Jeff Gates The Road To Easter: The Road Of Discipleship (April 6, 2025) Revelation 21.1-8 (NIV) A New Heaven and a New Earth 21 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husba...

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top: The Sermon On The Mount (March 30, 2025) Matthew 6.5-15 (NIV) Prayer 5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who...

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top: The Sermon On The Mount (March 23, 2025) Matthew 6.1-4 (NIV) Giving to the Needy 6.1 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets,...

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top: The Sermon On The Mount (March 16, 2025) Matthew 5. 43-48 (NIV) 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and t...

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top: The Sermon On The Mount (March 9, 2025) Matthew 5: 38-42 (NIV) 38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. 41 If anyone forc...

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top: The Sermon On The Mount (March 2, 2025) Matthew 5.33-37 (NIV) 33 “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.’ 34 But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; 35 or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it...

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top: The Sermon On The Mount (February 23, 2025) Matthew 5.31-32 (NIV) 31 “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top: The Sermon On The Mount (February 16, 2025) Matthew 5.27-30 (NIV) 27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one p...

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top: The Sermon On The Mount (February 9, 2025) Matthew 5.21-26 (NIV) 21 “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ 22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answe...

Pastor Jeff Gates A View From The Top: The Sermon On The Mount (February 2, 2025) Matthew 5.17-20 The Fulfillment of the Law 17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the...