St David's Bridge Strict Baptist Chapel

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3) *1/ Who are the righteous? 2/ Foundations that cannot be destroyed. 3/ When the teaching and belief of the foundations is destroyed, what can the righteous do?* **Sermon Summary:** This sermon centers on the enduring security of the righteous in the face of spiritual and ecclesiastical crisis, anchored in four unshakable foun...

When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. (Mark 2:5) **Sermon Summary:** The sermon centers on the transformative power of faith, illustrated through the healing of the paralytic in Mark 2:5, where Jesus responds to the faith of the man's friends by first forgiving his sins—a divine act that underscores Christ's authority over both spiritual an...

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: (John 3:14) ~~~~~~~~ A Lord's day afternoon service in the lounge of Milward Pilgrim Home, Tunbridge Wells Kent. ~~~~~~~~ *1/ A type approximately 1450 years before Christ. 2/ Even so - Christ's application and the great anti-type.* **Sermon Summary:** The sermon centers on the profound connection betwe...

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. (John 10:11) I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. (John 10:14) *1/ Our Lord's description of himself. 2/ What he says of his sheep. 3/ What he does for his sheep.* **Sermon summary:** The sermon centers on Jesus Christ as the divine Good Shepherd, drawing from Psalm 23 and John 10 to affirm His ide...

Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. (Malachi 3:16) *1/ They that thought upon his name. 2/ Thoughts upon his name. 3/ What the Lord says concerning them that thought upon his name.* **Sermon summary:** This sermon centers on th...

~~~~~~~ No 13 in the series - The Epistles of Peter. ~~~~~~~ **Considering 1 Peter 2:21-25** For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, **leaving us an example,** that ye should follow his steps: ..... the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. (1 Peter 2:21-25) *1/ Christ's person - the one to follow. 2/ Christ's actions - that we are to follow. 3/ Christ's people - who ar...

And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: **all these things are against me.** (Genesis 42:36) *1/ The things we see are against us when God begins with us in grace. 2/ What Jesus has done to turn these things to be for us. 3/ How these things are now for God's people in Christ.* ~~~~~ This sermon wa...

But **God hath chosen** the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; (1 Corinthians 1:27) *1/ Seven choices God makes for us. 2/ How knowing that God chooses, is a help and comfort to us.* ~~~~~~ This sermon was preached into the Australian Churches from England. ~~~~~~ **Sermon Summary:** The sermon...

I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD. (Zephaniah 3:12) *1/ Where God's people are to be found - In the midst of thee - The nations. 2/ The description of God's people - afflicted and poor. 3/ What good is said of them - they shall trust in the name of the LORD.* ~~~~~~ This sermon was preached on Lord's Day afternoon at Z...

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: **yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.** (Amos 4:6) *1/ The whole plan of salvation is to return a people to the LORD. 2/ The work of grace in conversion is a returning to the LORD. 3/ The work of God in keeping and chastening his people is to bring them to return to him.* **Sermon S...

For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. (Isaiah 51:3) *1/ Eden - The garden of the LORD. 2/ Gethsemane - The garden of the LORD. 3/ The Church of God - The garden of the LORD.* **Sermon Summary:** The s...

And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God. What can David speak more to thee for the honour...

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not...

The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. (Psalm 119:130) *1/ God's words. 2/ The needful entrance of the word into our hearts. 3/ The effect of the entrance of God's word.* **Sermon Summary:** The sermon centers on the transformative power of God's Word, emphasizing that true spiritual understanding comes not from intellectual knowledge or external rituals,...

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. (1 John 3:16) *1/ Perception - A scriptural way of knowing we are the Lord's people. 2/ How God's people are to perceive the love of God towards them. 3/ A further way of assuring our hearts that we are God's people.* **Sermon Summary:** The sermon centers on the biblical...

~~~~~~~ No 12 in the series - The Epistles of Peter. ~~~~~~~ **Considering 1 Peter 2:13-20** Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, ......... this is acceptable with God. (1 Peter 2:13-20) *1/ How God commands us to respond to the ordinances of man. 2/ Maintaining a character acceptable to God. 3/ Scriptural exampl...

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3:3-4) *1/ What Christ is to a believer now - our life. 2/ When he shall appear 3/ The prospect - we shall appear with him in glory.* ~~~~~~~ This sermon was preached from the UK into the Churches in Australia ~~~~~~~ **Sermon summary:** The...

And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. (John 14:13-14) *1/ Asking in the name of Jesus 2/ The reason the Lord does what we ask - that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 3/ Examples from scripture of the things we need to ask for.* **Sermon Summary:** The sermon centers on the tran...

And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, **but rather grew worse,** (Mark 5:26) *1/ The realisation of the sickness of sin. 2/ The effect of seeking a remedy apart from Christ alone. 3/ A perfect cure.* **Sermon Summary:** The sermon centers on the transformative power of faith in Christ, illustrated through three miraculous healing...

~~~~~~~ No 11 in the series - The Epistles of Peter. ~~~~~~~ **Considering 1 Peter 2:11-12** Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation....

And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. (John 20:20) ~~~~~~~~ A Lord's day afternoon service in the lounge of Milward Pilgrim Home, Tunbridge Wells Kent. ~~~~~~~~ *1/ The lead-up to the "Then" 2/ Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord 3/ How we now see the Lord - by faith through the word.* **Sermon Sum...

To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: (Acts 1:3) *1/ Many infallible proofs of the resurrection of Jesus. 2/ Things that the resurrection of Jesus is proof of. 3/ Are we part of the proof? Living witnesses.* **Sermon Summary:** The sermon centers on the resurrecti...

And their father Israel said unto them, **If it must be so now,** do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds: (Genesis 43:11) *1/ Four things that Jacob was made willing to do. 2/ Three "Musts" concerning our Lord and the apostles. 3/ Two "Musts" for us to remember for our g...

**And the scripture was fulfilled**, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors. (Mark 15:28) ~~~~~~ This sermon was preached at Bethel Chapel Guildford ~~~~~~ **Sermon Summary:** The sermon centers on the profound significance of Scripture being fulfilled in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, affirming both the divine authority of the Bible and the identity of Christ...

~~~~~~~ No 10 in the series - The Epistles of Peter. ~~~~~~~ **Considering 1 Peter 2:9-10** But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have o...