The Chapel Cleveland's Podcast

2 Samuel 19:40-20:26 | Fight for your Right? -- Slides: How can our church stay united in these divisive times? Recognize, understand, and master your triggers.   James 4:1-3 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have; [so] you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; [so] you fight and...

2 Samuel 19 | Return of the King -- Slides: Theme: Who sits on the throne of your life? Can you say, take the world and give me Jesus?”   How can Christians overcome the greatest trials and sufferings we experience in life? • We must seek our comfort in the Lord. • We use that comfort to serve others. • Through the continual filling of the Holy Spirit for self-control. • By storing up treasures in...

2 Samuel 17:15-19:8 | The Overcomers -- Slides: How can Christians overcome the greatest trials and sufferings we experience in life? Psalm 103:13 Just as a father has compassion on [his] children, So the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him. Isaiah 49:14-16 But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, And the Lord has forgotten me." 15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child And have no compassio...

2 Samuel 16:1-17:14 | Strength in Sovereignty -- Slides: Theme: There is strength and freedom in the knowledge of the sovereignty of God.   Leadership lessons: • Be SLOW to judge a situation or speak.   James 1:19-20 [This] you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak [and] slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God. Proverb...

2 Samuel 15:13-37 | Fidelity -- Slides: Fidelity - Faithfulness to a person, cause or belief demonstrated by continuing loyalty and support. Philippians 1:20-21 I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. 1 Samuel 4:...

2 Samuel 14:1-15:12 | No Fear, Know Fear -- Slides: Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man brings a snare, But he who trusts in the LORD will be exalted. The fear of man is both physical and emotional. It is the fear of what men may do to us or that they may not approve of us. 1 Peter 3:14-16 But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION,...

2 Sam. 12:26-13:39 | Kill or Be Killed -- Slides: Theme: “Be killing sin, or sin will be killing you.” John Owen   Deuteronomy 27:22 'Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'   Exodus 20:5-6 "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on...

2 Samuel 12 | Consider the Cost — Slides: Much of our sin is born out of forgetfulness and lack of gratitude.   1 Samuel 15:13, 20-21, 24-25  Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, "Blessed are you of the LORD! I have carried out the command of the LORD." ... 20 Then Saul said to Samuel, "I did obey the voice of the LORD, and went on the mission on which the LORD sent me, and have brought back...

2 Samuel 11:14 - 12:13 | The Sure Mercies of David -- Slides: Power Over Passions • As a Christian, what you feed (Spirit or flesh) will rule your life. • We must learn to repent of “respectable” sins. • Sex is not the ultimate solution, Spirit-empowered self-control is. • Anything put before God is an idol, all idolatry is adultery in God’s eyes.   Theme: Through God’s covenant-keeping faithfulne...

2 Samuel 11 | Power Over Passions -- Slides: The Peril of Prosperity: • Prosperous circumstances can produce passive faith. • Stop viewing sin through a lens of victimhood. • Holiness requires warfare.   Theme: The key to victory over sin is a Holy Spirit empowered control over our passions.   As a Christian, what you feed (Spirit or flesh) will rule your life.   1 Corinthians 2:14-3:3 But a natur...

2 Samuel 10:1 - 11:5 | The Peril of Prosperity -- Slides: Prosperous circumstances can produce passive faith. • Deuteronomy 6:10 "Then it shall come about when the LORD your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build, 11 and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cist...

2 Samuel 9 | Come to the Table -- Slides: Theme: The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. -Keller 1 Sam 20:14-15 …show me unfailing kindness like the LORD’s kindness as long as I live, so that I may not be killed, and do not ever cut off your kindness...

2 Samuel 8 | Victory in Jesus -- Slides: Your gentleness made me great. "...but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits." (Daniel 11:32) The scriptures urge us to know Jesus, to love Jesus, and to know and believe that Jesus loves us. It is only from this place that we can truly live the Christian life as God intends.  We can trust Jesus’ leadership in the unfol...

2 Samuel 7 |  Blessed to Bless -- Slides: Theme: The Lord has blessed us with Himself, so that we can share Him with others. David was active in asking, “What can I do for God?” All that God has done should strengthen us to trust all that He will do! Jeremiah 23:5-6 Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; a King shall reign and prosper, and...

2 Samuel 5 & 6 | Walk This Way -- Slides: Theme: The Word is our guide, it is the clearest way that God tells us Who He is, who we are, and how to live a life that is pleasing to Him. Deuteronomy 17:16-20 "Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the LORD has said to you, 'You shall never again return that way.'...

2 Samuel 3-4  |  Pride Goeth -- Slides: -When we are the lord’s of our lives, the end will be destruction. -When Jesus is Lord, there will be grace. Deuteronomy 17:17a He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away… Our sovereign God can and does use sinful men. -Unforgiveness is ungodly and contrary to the Lord’s grace. -but nothing can confound the Lord’s grace! Mark 7...

2 Samuel 1 & 2 | Family Drama -- Slides: Leviticus 19:33-34 'When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. 34 'The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.   Psalm 78:70-72 He also chose David His servant And took him from the sheepfolds;...

1 Samuel 29-31 | The King is Dead, Long Live the King -- Slides: There is nothing greater in life than to have God with us! 1 Samuel 23:16 And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David at Horesh, and encouraged him in God.   1 Chronicles 10:13-14 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the LORD, because of the word of the LORD which he did not keep; and also because he asked c...

Romans 6:1-7 | United in His Likeness (Easter 2024) -- Slides: Theme: To be united with Christ is to take on a new identity. It is a dying to sin and a living to righteousness. The Christian’s relationship to sin has changed: We have died to sin, but it has not died to us. Baptism = immersion or submersion 1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is i...

1 Samuel 27-28:2 | Inside Voice -- Slides: Theme: We’re all susceptible to discouragement and doubt. Be careful when making decisions in these times. Make sure to monitor your inside voice because it will likely become your outside behavior. Numbers 11:14-15 "I alone am not able to carry all this people, because it is too burdensome for me. 15 "So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill...

Exodus 20:18-20 | Fear -- Slides: Theme: The fear of the Lord that Scripture teaches and the Gospel produces is not being afraid of God, but the right fear of the Lord is an overwhelming love for God that draws us more and more towards Him.  Jas 2:19 You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. Gen 3:9-10 Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Whe...

1 Samuel 26 | History Repeats Itself -- Slides: Theme: Don’t worry, God will appropriately judge every act of good or evil. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 The conclusion, when all has been heard, [is:] fear God and keep His commandments, because this [applies to] every person. 14 For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil. 1 Samuel 24:16-17, 20 When Dav...

1 Samuel 25 | How Rude! -- Slides: Theme: Obedience results in blessing, and disobedience brings a curse, even in difficult circumstances. Proverbs 17:12 Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, Rather than a fool in his folly. Proverbs 11:22 [As] a ring of gold in a swine's snout [So is] a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. How Rude (Applications):  The church is a corrective community. Matth...

1 Samuel 24 | Listen to Your Heart? -- Slides: “God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.” Henry Blackaby   Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?   Jeremiah 31:33 "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after tho...