Redeemer Weekend Sermons

The God of King David July 27, 2025 David's Song of Praise Teacher: Dave Brown A.C.T.S. OF PRAYER Adoration Confession Thanksgiving Supplication WHY PRAY? Prayer is not a magic formula to crack so that we can get what we want. If that’s our understanding of prayer, we will always be disappointed. Prayer is about presence before it’s about anything else. Prayer doesn’t begin with outcomes. Prayer i...

Teacher: Adam Barnett 2 Samuel 16:5-8 – As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the same clan as Saul’s family came out from there. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and he cursed as he came out. He pelted David and all the king’s officials with stones, though all the troops and the special guard were on David’s right and left. As he cursed, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you murderer, you sc...

Teacher: Dave Brown THE SIX MOVEMENTS OF REPENTANCE 1 - SIN RECOGNITION In the Christian life our primary task isn’t to avoid sin, which is impossible anyway, but to recognize sin. The fact is that we’re sinners. But there’s an enormous amount of self-deception in sin. When this is combined with devil-deception, the task of recognition is compounded. — Eugene Peterson Sin is the word we use to des...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.  - James 1:13-15   One evening David got up from his bed...

Teacher: Tim Mannin   “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.” -2 Samuel 7:2   Nathan replied to the king, “Whatever you have in mind, go ahead and do it, for the Lord is with you.” -2 Samuel 7:3   “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: Are you the one to build me a house to dwell in? I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought th...

Teacher: Dave Brown   When they came to the threshing floor of Nakhon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God because the oxen stumbled. The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God. — 2 Samuel 6:6-7   What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us… We t...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   "‘Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing. Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can find for them.’”  - 1...

Teacher: Leanne Benton   Revenge is the act of hurting or punishing someone in return for something they did to you.   Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. -Confucius   After Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the Desert of En Gedi.” So Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel and set out to look for David and his men near th...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   Saul had a spear in his hand and he hurled it, saying to himself, “I’ll pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.  - 1 Samuel 18:10b-11   David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king so that David might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his...

Teacher: Dave Brown   Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands. —1 Samuel 18:7; 21:11   Saul was very angry; “they have credited David with tens of thousand,” he though, ‘but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?” And from that time on Saul kept a close eye on David. — 1 Samuel 18:8-9   David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled when h...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span. He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels; on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. His spear shaft was like a weaver’s rod, and its iron point weighed six...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   “Through writing and reflecting, journaling keeps you alert to God’s presence and activity in, around, and through me.” – Adele Calhoun   “David’s story isn’t a stain-glassed window of a saint, but a cracked mirror in which we see ourselves and the God who loves us anyway.”  - Eugene Peterson   But Samuel replied: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   “David’s story isn’t a stain-glassed window of a saint, but a cracked mirror in which we see ourselves and the God who loves us anyway.” – Eugene Peterson   In God’s kingdom, people purposefully resist isolation and intentionally prioritize community.   1) Isolation contradicts the nature of love.     Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   Responsibility – the state or fact of having a duty (an obligation requiring loyalty and faithfulness).   We carry the responsibility of sharing God’s love and truth with others (through word and deed).   We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. - 2 Corinthians 5:20a   An ambassador is the highest-ranking diplomatic officer, de...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. - Luke 9:51   After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a co...

Teacher: Dave Brown   Despair: Utter loss of hope. — Merriam-Webster Dictionary   Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul, to those who long for death that does not come, who search for it more than for hidden treasure, who are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave? Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? For sighin...

Teacher: Adam Barnett When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the...

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. — Matthew 11:28-30 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me [following Me as My disciple]. — Matthew 11:29 For at least several decades the churches of the Western wo...

“These people needed a break! The Pharisees’ legalism surrounding the Mosaic Law had ground them into spiritual powder.” - Stuart Weber “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” - Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to...

Teacher: Adam Barnett “Jesus didn’t actually say much about the kingdom of heaven in the sense that we normally mean it. When he spoke of heaven’s kingdom, he wasn’t talking about a place called heaven to which people might or might not go after they die. He was talking about something that would become a reality ‘as in heaven, so on earth’ (Matt. 6:10). So instead of suggesting that we could esca...

Teacher: Dave Brown “Repent for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” — Matthew 4:17 Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. — Matthew 5 The kingdom of heaven is like… Sin may be comprehensively defined as a lack of conformity to the law of God in act, habit, attitude, outlook, disposition, motivation, and mode of existence. — J.I. Packer I reared children and brought t...

Teacher: Adam Barnett The elder, To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth. Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. It gave me great joy when some believers came and testified about your faithfulness to the truth, telling how you continue to walk in it. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children...

Teacher: Leanne Benton 1 The elder, to the lady chosen by God and to her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I only, but also all who know the truth— 2 because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever: 3 Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love. 4 It has given me great joy to find some of your ch...

Teacher: Adam Barnett Dear children, keep yourself from idols. – 1 John 5:21 Exodus 20:3 – You shall have no other gods before me. An idol is anything or anyone more important to you than God. “Idolatry is robbery and perversion. It’s robbery because we take what is due to God and give it to something else. And it’s perversion because we give the devotion God rightly deserves to other things.” - E...