St David's Bridge Strict Baptist Chapel

~~~~~~~ No 15 in the series - The Epistles of Peter. ~~~~~~~ **Considering 1 Peter 3:8-17** Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; ......... For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. *1/ Behaving...

**Shew me a token for good;** that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me. (Psalm 86:17) *1/ Shew me - God's way of teaching. 2/ "A" Token. 3/ Tokens for good - a true token.* ~~~~~ This sermon was preached Lord's Day morning at Zoar Strict Baptist Chapel Ashwell. The deacon giving out the hymns is Mr Brian Northern. ~~~~~ **Sermon summa...

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm 139:23-24) **Sermon Summary:** This sermon, centred on Psalm 139:23–24, unfolds a profound meditation on God's omniscience, omnipresence, and sovereignty, revealing both the terror of divine knowledge for the unrepentant and the deep comfort it off...

He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. (Numbers 23:21) *1/ Balaam and lessons from this account. 2/ Three things said of Jacob - God's people:* *- How God views them in Christ.* *- God is with them.* *- Jesus is their King and Lord.* ~~~~~ This sermon was preached Lord's Day afternoon a...

And Moses gave the money of **them that were redeemed** unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. (Numbers 3:51) *1/ The Biblical teaching of particular redemption. 2/ The blessings of particular redemption. 3/ The response to particular redemption.* ~~~~~ This sermon was preached on a Lord's Day evening at Clifton Strict Baptist Chapel in Bedfords...

Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. (Exodus 33:13) **Sermon summary:** The sermon centers on Moses' prayer in Exodus 33:13—'Show me now thy way, that I may know thee'—as a profound expression of the believer's longing for divine guidance not merely...

~~~~~~~ No 14 in the series - The Epistles of Peter. ~~~~~~~ **Considering 1 Peter 3:1-7** Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; .....Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.  *1/ Seven reasons to heed the teaching o...

If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from **the hope of the gospel,** which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; (Colossians 1:23) *1/ Reconciliation through Jesus Christ. 2/ Continuing in the faith. 3/ The hope of the gospel.* ~~~~~ This sermon was preached at Clifton Strict Baptist Cha...

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; (Ephesians 1:7) *1/ Our need. 2/ In whom is this redemption and what is its cost? 3/ Who is the "we" who have redemption?* **Sermon summary:** The sermon centers on the profound necessity of redemption and forgiveness through Christ, rooted in the sovereign grace of God revealed in Ephesian...

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...