Rose City Baptist Church Sermon Archives

“Most of the biggest mistakes in interpreting and understanding Revelation are a result of failing to read it in its historical context. Reading it as a road map of all of church history…make the book all but worthless for those to whom it was originally sent to…If I need a chart outlining the last 2000 years of church history to understand Revelation, or if I need to have a passing knowledge of m...

Pastor Josh begins with a series studying the book of Revelation: “Are you compromising so that you don’t receive persecution? The benefits that Rome had to offer exerted significant benefits to live like the culture around them - to assimilate, either to avoid persecution or to enjoy the bounty of what society had to offer. This is a great temptation and this is the temptation that is happening t...

Tune in as Pastor Josh completes the expository teaching series from the Gospel of John, teaching from John 21, the Epilogue of John: “Don’t waste your life labouring for things that do not last! It is fruitless and unsatisfying. Abide in Christ, abide in his love, and your life too will be characterized by fruitful ministry and the fulfillment that comes with doing what you were made for…We have...

Tune in to hear Pastor Josh preach from the remainder of John 20 this morning: “As Christians, we are commanded to perfect obedience, modelled on Jesus’ perfect obedience to the Father.  Jesus is not just a Savior to those who love him, but a Master.  But our Master does not; cannot require any higher expectation than what his own behavior has modelled; he is our exemplar, the standard by which we...

Tune in to hear Pastor Josh preach from John 20 this morning: “John takes pains in this chapter to explain the details regarding who believed when and to what extent faith in the resurrection of Jesus was realized in the various eyewitnesses. Whatever they need to believe, Jesus provides it, whether it is to see logical evidence, hear the eyewitness account of another or to personally see the scar...

Tune in to hear Pastor Josh teach from John’s account of the Crucifixion of Christ in John 19: “Jesus is more than just a good teacher and his death is so much more than a good example to those who would follow him.  He is the Passover Lamb (1 John 2:2) who died for the sins of the world…The Law forbid that any of a Passover Lamb’s bones be broken (Exod. 12:46; Num. 9:12)…Jesus dies along with the...

Tune in to hear Rev. Larry Handford preach from John 18-19 this morning. “Which world has your heart? As followers of Jesus, we live in two different worlds at the same time: we live in the world of the crowd, and we live in the world of the King. We live in two worlds at the same time that occupy the same space. We are invited over and over, as we live in the world, to choose the King…the Church...

Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches from John 18 this morning: “D.A. Carson points out that, while Jesus taught his disciples to turn the other cheek, to do so ‘without bearing witness to the truth is not the fruit of moral resolution but the terrorized cowardice of the wimp.’ But Jesus is no wimp.  He will turn the other cheek, sure, but not as one cowering in silence because he fears them.  There is...

Tune in to listen to Pastor Josh preach from John 18 this morning: “Jesus offers up his life in obedience to his Father, not as a pathetic martyr suffering a cruel fate but in full knowledge of what was to befall him to achieve his purpose and will…There are those today who would strip the cross of its significance, unwilling to acknowledge God as Holy in his judgment they deny that he punished th...

Pastor Josh concludes the teaching from the High Priestly Prayer of Jesus in John 17 this morning: “The basis for Christian unity and love is the perfect love exhibited in the unity of the Divine Trinity…So unified in purpose and plan are the Father and the Son that they can be said to be in one another, but they are still distinct in their unity…The unity Jesus is speaking of is more than close-k...

Tune in as Pastor Josh continues to teach from Jesus High Priestly Prayer recorded in John 17: “Jesus’ joy, the joy that he prays his disciples will receive in full, results from abiding in the Father’s love by asking the Father for things in line with Jesus’ purposes and will…We will know we are abiding in the Father’s love when we grow in faithful obedience according to his promise, and knowing...

Tune in as Pastor Josh continues to teach from Jesus’ prayer in John 17: “We are working our way through chapter 17 of John’s gospel, what has traditionally been called ‘The High-Priestly Prayer,’ and just in introduction to the prayer, we saw that like the High Priests of ancient Israel, Jesus is here praying this prayer of consecration over the sacrifice to be offered to God. Which, in this case...

Tune in as Pastor Josh preaches from John 17, Jesus High Priestly prayer. In response to Jesus’ request to the Father to glorify the Son, Josh says: “‘To glorify can mean ‘to praise’ or ‘to honor’, and those are certainly ways in which we can join in glorifying our God and that is God’s purpose…but when Jesus asks the Father to glorify him, he is not asking the Father to praise or worship him, but...

Tune in as Pastor Josh continues to teach from the words of Jesus farewell discourse in John 16. Unfortunately the audio for the first few minutes of the sermon were lost in the archives. The transcript of the introduction is as follows: “One of the things I love about preaching verse by verse through the Scriptures, is that this is now our fourth week learning about the work of the Holy Spirit, a...

Tune in as Pastor Josh continues to teach from Christ’s farewell discourse in John 16, discussing the ‘Helper’ that Jesus will send: “The Holy Spirit’s whole mission is not to point to himself, not to take center stage, but to point to Jesus. How do we know if we are a church that is led by the Holy Spirit? If we are glorifying Jesus, honour his name, giving him praise, proclaiming his gospel fait...

Tune in as Pastor Josh continues to teach us from Jesus farewell discourse in John 15 and into chapter 16: “We are at the place in John’s Gospel, where Jesus, leading up to the hour of his own choosing for his death burial and glorification, has transitioned from public teaching to privately instructing his own chosen disciples. He has given them some very strong assurances; that he has chosen the...

Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches from Jesus’ farewell discourse in John 15 this morning: “If we look at these verses completely out of their context, ignoring everything Jesus has said up to this point, there is a possibility of reading this passage in such a way that completely fails to recognize the good news of what Jesus is teaching…Just like branches with their vine, it is when we abide in Chri...

Tune in as Pastor Shane Fox (from City Chapel in Red Deer, AB) teaches us from Jesus’ farewell discourse this morning: “See these things are what the Vinedresser does. Our part of resting in him is saying ‘I want more. I want more of that nourishment that comes through the vine to come to my life. But I can’t do it. And if I try to do it just out of my flesh, I become a moralist. I become self-rig...

Tune in as Pastor Larry teaches from Jesus’ farewell discourse in John 14 this morning, Jesus teaching about the promised Helper, the Holy Spirit. (Originally preached on July 21, 2019)

Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches from Christ’s farewell discourse in John 14: “Jesus isn’t being a whiney passive-aggressive, saying; ‘If you really loved me, you would do what I say.’  The obedience in question is a direct result of truly loving Christ.  If you love Christ, the implication is, the result is, you will begin to keep his commandments.  You will grow in fervour and frequency in obedien...

Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches from Jesus’ farewell discourse in John 14 this morning: “The most calming thing the people of God can remember is that they can trust the words of God, the things he has promised. Jesus adds to this, ‘ Trust God, also trust me.’  As we have seen in evidence many times so far in John, Jesus not only speaks only the words of his Father and performs the actions of his F...

Tune in as Pastor Josh preaches from John 13:31-38 this morning, Jesus foretelling of Peter’s denial: “Jesus knew what was in the heart of Peter, just as he knew what was in the heart of Judas, but where Judas hated the light, Peter has not yet been empowered by the knowledge of the resurrection and its implications, and by the power of the Holy Spirit. Peter will follow later, both in his death a...

Tune in as Pastor Josh teaches from John 13, Judas’ betrayal, this morning: “Notice that Jesus here, a couple of times, makes sure that his disciples know that the calling of Judas was not an oversight or a sign of weakness on his part so that, rather than to question his knowledge and control, they (his disciples) would know that even this betrayal went according to the plan and purpose of God. J...

Tune in as Pastor Josh preaches from John 13 this morning, the account of our humble King washing the feet of his followers: “Foot washing was a degrading task normally reserved for the lowliest of servants.  Some Jewish writers insisted that even Jewish slaves should not be required to wash the feet of others. There is no instance in either Jewish or Greco-Roman sources of a superior washing the...

Pastor Josh teaches from the remainder of John 12: “…The problem is, in our humanistic thinking, we are surprised that God is not trying to save everyone when we should be surprised that he saves anyone at all.  We should be astounded by this amazing grace that He extends to his enemies…” (Originally preached on June 9, 2019)