Remsen Bible Fellowship Sermons

Men for the Fight 2 Samuel 21:15-22, 23:8-39; Remsen Bible Fellowship; 11/20/2022 Introduction Societies need men. Churches need men. Families need men. Those three statements, hopefully, seem like common sense to you. But you are also well aware that in many parts of our society those statements would need a trigger warning attached. We hear frequent drumbeats of the dangers of patriarchy and tox...

Transcript generated by AI. Please comment if you notice any errors. Good morning, everybody. I will say at the gospel mission, they had a nice big podium for me to spread out on down there. Oh, it was custom made for me, don’t know, nice. Alright, good morning, everybody. Good morning. Again, you know who I am. It’s an honor to be here again preaching to you guys and teaching you the word of God....

Have You Bent the Knee? 2 Samuel 20, 11/06/2022, Remsen Bible Fellowship Introduction Death, power plays, political intrigue, and kingdom and covenant in crisis. Folks often think of the Old Testament as a boring collection of books with meaningless history and lots of lists of people and names. And while there are plenty of lists, even those lists are set in place to help us understand the backgr...

How to Pray When You’ve Sinned Remsen Bible Fellowship, Psalm 51, 09/04/2022 The following is an AI generated transcript, not a manuscript. And Father, again, as we turn to your word now, would you open our eyes to behold both the horrific things we would see in ourselves and the beauty of what were revealed of you, what was shown of you in your word. We ask these things in Jesus’ precious name. A...

No White Hats 2 Samuel 19; Remsen Bible Fellowship; 10/30/2022 Introduction I grew up watching a lot of B-movie cowboy films from the 1930s. We were huge John Wayne fans in our house, and while most people know him from roles in movies like McLintock!, The Searchers, or True Grit, we were familiar with a whole extra section of his catalog. Randy Rides Alone, Blue Steel, and Riders of Destiny were...

10/16/2022, Remsen Bible Fellowship Introduction: Do you long for a just world? Justice is a word which gets a bad wrap, depending upon who is using it. If someone on the left cries out for social justice, half of our society assumes they mean Marxism. If someone cries out for criminal justice, the other half of the society assumes they mean a strategy to maintain structures of power and privilege...

This has to be one of the hardest texts in scripture, and I had a hard time just like, one of the things you wanna do as you’re preparing to understand something, let alone to teach it, is to read it over and over. And I had a hard time reading this passage over and over. It was just, what the greatest privilege in my life is, is being able to—that might be a slight exaggeration. I do like being m...

Transcript generated by AI. The sermon was not. Please comment if you notice any errors. If you want to take your Bibles and turn to 2 Samuel chapter 12, the book of Romans chapter 6 verse 23, it tells us that the wages of sin are The wages of sin is death. And as we looked at last week in 2 Samuel 11, David had sinned grievously. So much so that this narrator, who's usually happy to just tell us...

Transcript generated by AI. The sermon was not. Please comment if you notice any errors. We're going to be in 2 Samuel chapter 11 , so you can go ahead and turn there. While you're turning, I want to read a couple of verses out of the book of James. These verses are going to kind of frame the sermon. I think 2 Samuel 11 is something of an extended illustration of James chapter 1, verses 13 through...

Transcript generated by AI. The sermon was not. Please comment if you notice any errors. Why did God save you? If you've trusted in Christ, why did God save you? There's all kinds of ways we can answer that question from the Bible. First of all, we might say, because he loves us. God so loved the world, John 3.16 said, that he sent his only son. We might say because he chose to. That's a good Bibl...

Transcript generated by AI. Please comment if you notice any errors. And this is more likely than normal, because the AI tools did not like this sermon. A Son to Me How do you get on God's good side? That is probably the most important question that a human being can ask. How do you get on God's good side? How do you make sure that God likes you, is okay with you, will tolerate you, will be please...

Transcript generated by AI. Please comment if you notice any errors. When the Lord Broke Out If you want to turn in your Bibles to 2 Samuel chapter 6, that's where we were last week, but we're going to dip back in there and maybe touch on some things that we mentioned but did not linger over, but are worth lingering over. Do you tremble before God? Do you tremble before God when you think about wh...

Transcript generated by AI. Please comment if you notice any errors. David's Kingdom - A Proper View 2 Samuel 5 Opening Prayer and Introduction In the precious name of your son Jesus, amen. You want to take your Bibles and turn to 2 Samuel chapter 5 ? We're not going to try to cover three chapters today, we're just going to do one. 2 Samuel chapter 5. What drives you to your knees in prayer? What...

Transcript generated by AI. Please comment if you notice any errors. Trusting God in Opposition - 2 Samuel 2-4 Introduction If you want to go ahead and take your Bibles and turn to 2 Samuel , I won't try to one-up Rory's reading ability and read 2 Samuel chapters 2 through 4. Well, I'll narrate the event for you and we'll dip in and read particular points. I was struck, though, as we're sitting th...

Sermon transcript generated by AI. Please comment if you notice any errors. Introduction to 2 Samuel If you want to take your Bibles in turn, we are starting into a new book of the Bible. And while I have enjoyed talking about the marks of a healthy church, I am really excited to be back in a routine of just going straight through a book of the Bible. So 2 Samuel is where we're going to be for the...

Transcript generated by AI. Please comment if you notice any errors. 1 Samuel Recap: Where is Your Confidence? Introduction: A Question of Confidence Lord willing, my plan is to start into 2 Samuel next week, and so before we did that, I wanted to kind of recap, since it's been several months since we were in 1 Samuel. I want to recap the book, but rather than going blow by blow and just give you...

Sermon transcript generated by AI. Please comment if you notice any errors. Mark 16:9-20 - The Disputed Ending If you've got your Bibles and want to turn, even if you don't have a Bible and don't want to turn, we're still going to be in Mark chapter 16 . Mark chapter 16, I'm going to read verses 9 through 20, the end of the book. Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared fir...

Location and Date: Remsen Bible Fellowship, 07/13/2025 Theme: How will you respond to the news of Jesus’ resurrection? Subject: The strange ending of Mark’s gospel Title: A Weird Ending Introduction ‏ How does the gospel of Mark end? That might seem a strange question to ask, at least considering that a good portion of you have Bibles in your laps and could simply look down for the answer, right?...

Text: Mark 15:33-47 Location and Date: Remsen Bible Fellowship, 07/06/2025 Title: The Darkest Day Mark 15:33-47, And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 35 And some of the bystanders hearing it said,...

Remsen Bible Fellowship, 06/22/2025 Text: Mark 14:66-72, And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came, 67 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, “You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.” 68 But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you mean.” And he went out into the gateway and the rooster crowed. 69 And the s...

More than than They Bargained For Mark 14:53-62, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 06/15/2025 Introduction Revelation 1:5b-7, “To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and has made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribe...

We Ran, He Stands Mar 14:26-52, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 06/08/2025 Introduction How confident are you in your ability to follow Jesus? To stay with him? To stay true in the face of trials, temptations, and the troubles of life? How confident should you be? Those are the sort of questions which confront us as we approach our passage this morning. We’re taking a longer section of text, verses 26-52...

The Lord’s Supper Mark 14:22-25, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 05/25/2025 Introduction Tomorrow is Memorial Day. Why do Americans celebrate memorial day? Beginning in 1868, Americans began to set aside a day to remember the sacrifices of those who had died in the Civil War. This expanded throughout the course of the late 19th and into the 20th centuries, and the last Monday of May was officially set as...

Sermon Summary: Mark 14 - Judas's Betrayal and Jesus's Sovereignty This sermon explores Mark 14, focusing on Judas's betrayal of Jesus and the theological implications regarding God's sovereignty and human responsibility. Main Outline * Introduction: Judas's Betrayal (Mark 14:10-11) * The chief priests were planning to kill Jesus after Passover * Judas approached them with an offer to betray Jesus...

Transcript and summary generated by AI. Please comment if you notice any errors. Sermon Summary "How Will You Respond to Jesus?" 🔶 SERMON OUTLINE I. Introduction: The Range of Human Responses * Commentary on reactions to the announcement of a new Pope. * People’s emotions vary: excitement, skepticism, indifference. * Transition to Jesus: how people also respond to him in varied ways. * Key Questi...