Sand Harbor Sermons

The Lord Will Not Forsake His People 94.1  O Lord, God of vengeance,     O God of vengeance, shine forth! 2  Rise up, O judge of the earth;     repay to the proud what they deserve! 3  O Lord, how long shall the wicked,     how long shall the wicked exult? 4  They pour out their arrogant words;     all the evildoers boast. 5  They crush your people, O Lord,     and afflict your heritage. 6  They k...

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul? To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. 42.1  As a deer pants for flowing streams,     so pants my soul for you, O God. 2  My soul thirsts for God,     for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3  My tears have been my food     day and night, while they say to me all the day long,     “Where is your God?” 4  These things I remember,  ...

Zayin 119.49  Remember your word to your servant,     in which you have made me hope. 50  This is my comfort in my affliction,     that your promise gives me life. 51  The insolent utterly deride me,     but I do not turn away from your law. 52  When I think of your rules from of old,     I take comfort, O Lord. 53  Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked,     who forsake your law. 54  You...

The Lord Reigns 93.1  The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty;     the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. 2  Your throne is established from of old;     you are from everlasting. 3  The floods have lifted up, O Lord,     the floods have lifted up their voice;     the floods lift up their roaring. 4  Mightier than the thunders...

How Great Are Your Works A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath. 92.1  It is good to give thanks to the Lord,     to sing praises to your name, O Most High; 2  to declare your steadfast love in the morning,     and your faithfulness by night, 3  to the music of the lute and the harp,     to the melody of the lyre. 4  For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work;     at the works of your hands I sing f...

Psalm 91:1–16 (ESV) 1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.  2I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”  3For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.  4He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.  5...

A sermon on Genesis 50

A Sermon on Genesis 48-49

46.27  And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy. 28  He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.  29  Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his nec...

Joseph Provides for His Brothers and Family 45.1  Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, “Make everyone go out from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.  2  And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.  3  And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father sti...

42.1  When Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”  2  And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live and not die.”  3  So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.  4  But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with hi...

11.23  For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,  24  and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”  25  In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it,...

24  Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came.  25  So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.” 26  Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with...

40.9  So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream there was a vine before me,  10  and on the vine there were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes.  11  Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup and placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.”  12  Then J...

Judah and Tamar 38  It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned aside to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 2  There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her and went in to her,  3  and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.  4  She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.  5  Yet a...

Joseph's Dreams 37.1  Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. 2  These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.  3  Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other...

The Parable of the Rich Fool 12.13  Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”  14  But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?”  15  And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”  16  And he told them a parable,...

The Parable of the Persistent Widow 18.1  And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.  2  He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.  3  And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’  4  For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself...

The Transfiguration 17.1 " And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.  2  And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.  3  And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him.  4  And Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good that we...

Laborers in the Vineyard 20.1  “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.  2  After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.  3  And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,  4  and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whateve...

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant 18.21  Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”  22  Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times. 23  “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants.  24  When he began to settle,...

The Parable of the Wedding Feast 14.7  Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them,  8  “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him,  9  and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,...

The Parable of the Dishonest Manager 16.1  He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions.  2  And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’  3  And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, sinc...

35.1  God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”  2  So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments.  3  Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the G...

34.1 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land. 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her. 3 And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. 4 So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get m...