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Sunday Sermons from Mountain View Church of the Nazarene
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Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
WORSHIP SERVICE video and audio recorded live at Mountain View Church.
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
by Jason Martindale
My purpose will stand
Text: Isaiah 46:3-10
Thesis: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.
- Isaiah 55:8
“I have upheld you since your birth.”
A. God is already intimately aware of who we are.
1. “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well (Psalm 139:13-14).”- God has already laid the foundation for us to choose to follow him.
1. “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations (Jeremiah 1:5).” - Help me to recognize your presence in my life, and give you the honor you deserve.
“With whom can you compare me or count me equal?”
A. God is sovereign above all things and all people.- “The Lord has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all (Psalm 103:19).”
- “Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me (Isaiah 46:9).”
- “I am God”
1. Hebrew - I am El (meaning “The Most High /The Mighty One / The Om- nipotent”)
(1) Eerdmans Pulpit Commentary / Beacon Bible Commentary
- Followed by “I am God”
- Hebrew - “I am Elohim” (meaning “The Godhead” in all its fullness)
(1) Eerdmans Pulpit Commentary / Beacon Bible Commentary
- Help me to set aside my ______________ and humble myself before you.
III. “My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.”
- “In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps (Proverbs 16:9).”
God’s purpose will be fulfilled with or without our help.- “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this (Esther 4:14)?”
- I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing (John 15:5).”
- God blesses those who choose to follow him.
1. “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28). - Help me to set aside my plans to do that which you please.
“He Is Lord. Lord of all.” - Lyrics to the song “Cornerstone”.
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
WORSHIP SERVICE video and audio recorded live at Mountain View Church.
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Pastor Chuck Ryan
The Beauty of Marriage
Text: Mark 10:1-12
Thesis: Marriage is such a beautiful and sacred creation of God we need to do everything in our power to
make it holy.
I. God is the creator of all things beautiful.
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like
shifting shadows.” (James 1:7)
A. Jesus points out that God created man and woman.
"But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.' (Vs. 6 and Genesis 1:27b)
1. Man and woman were both created in God’s image.
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created
them.” (Genesis 1:27)
2. God’s Word proclaims that all mankind is “fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Psalms 139:14)
B. Jesus makes it clear that God also created the institution called “Marriage”.
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will be come one
flesh.” (vs.7 and Genesis 2:24)
1. Jesus brings greater clarification to this point when he states, “So they are no longer two, but one.”
(vs8b)
C. The marriage of a man and women is a beautiful and sacred institution of God!
• Marriage is a man and woman joining their lives together for life, in Holy Matrimony, before God and
family.
• Marriage is God’s plan for creating a world community.
• Marriage is a husband and wife loving and respecting one another as Christ loves the Church. (Ephesians
5:22-31)
• Marriage is an example to the World, of Christ and His Church. (Ephesians 5:32)
• Marriage is a man and woman “doing life together.”
II. Satan has never created anything. Satan only seeks to pervert and corrupt the sacred things God has
created.
A. The Pharisees, in an attempt to ensnare Jesus, bring up the law of Moses concerning divorce. (Read verses
2-4)
B. Jesus immediately points out that Moses only allowed for divorce “because your hearts were hard.” (vs5)
“a hard heart dulls the ability to understand truth. And a person with a hard heart puts up walls which
disables them to receive anything.” (Caroline Harries)
C. Jesus in re-enforcing the fact that God is the one who “joins” a man and women to- gether states, “What
God has joined together, let man not separate.” (vs 9)
D. Jesus, later at the request of His disciples, explains further one of the negative consequences of divorce
called adultery. (Read vss. 10-12)
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
WORSHIP SERVICE video and audio recorded live at Mountain View Church.
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Pastor Chuck Ryan
“Go and Sin No More”
Text: Mark 9:42-50
Thesis: “Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against God.”
(Psalms 119:11)
- Jesus is trying to educate the disciples to the fact that Sin is Destructive and Costly!
- Sin is destructive.
- Sin has destroyed lives, marriages, families and nations.
“If anyone causes one of these littles ones who believe in me to sin…”
- Sin in scripture has been describe as “missing the mark of God” or “a violation of a known law of God.”
(There are a number of words used in the original Greek New Testament which are translated “sin” or “sins”. These are “hamartia”, “hamartema” and “hamartano”. In the original Greek New Testament, the most common word translated as “sin” or “sins”)
“If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them.” (James 4:17)
- Temptation is not a sin.
* “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet he did not sin.” (Hebrews 4:15)
* When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; “but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.” (James 1:13-15)
- Jesus strongly teaches that Sin will destroy your Soul to Hell.
- Jesus uses a teaching method called hyperbole (exaggeration) to emphasize the need to guard yourselves from sinning.
- Sin is costly
- Prior to Jesus Sin cost the lives of millions of goats, sheep, and cattle. (A passage from Josephus says that at least 256,500 lambs were killed in the Temple for a Passover in one year between 66-70 CE (Jewish Wars 6.9.3).
- Sin cost Jesus His life.
“In fact, according to the law of Moses, nearly everything was purified with blood. For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.” (Hebrews 9:22 NLT)
- Jesus is saying, “Do everything in your power to keep from sinning!”
- Recognize your temptations and pray.
- Take great precautions to avoid encountering those temptations!
- Hell is just as real as Heaven because Jesus spoke of both places as real literal places.
- Heaven and Hell were created because the soul is eternal and needs a place to reside after death.
- God desires for every person to repent of their sins and accept His Son (Jesus) as their Lord and Savior and reside in Heaven for all eternity.
- God has granted every person the gift of “Freewill” and it is freewill that makes our love pure for God.
“Without freewill we neither deserve punishment or earned reward.” unknown
III. Be salt to those around you, that they may be preserved from the destruction of sin.
- Christian’s are to bring Salt to their world.
“"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.” (Matthew 5:13)
- Salt has the power to preserve.
- Salt has the power to flavor.
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
WORSHIP SERVICE video and audio recorded live at Mountain View Church.
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
Pastor Chuck Ryan
“Whoever is Not Against Us is For Us”
Jesus
Text: Mark 9: 38-41
Thesis: Christians must recognize other Born-Again believers as brothers and sisters in Christ even if they are of a different denomination.
- The disciples found fault with a fellow believer in Jesus Christ, who was not part of their flock. (vs38)
- The disciple John was the spokesperson.
The Facts:
1) “we saw a man is driving out demons in your name…”
- He was successful, so he was not an imposter. A person can not drive out demons in their own strength.
“Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, "In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out. Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. One day the evil spirit answered them, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?" Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.” (Acts 19:13-16)
2) “we told him to stop, because he is not one of us.”
- There are many believers who see people of a different Denomination as not one of us.
“I am a Christian first and then a Nazarene.” (Pastor Chuck)
- We can be proud of our Denomination while at the same time recognize that knowing Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior is the true common denominator of all believers.
- Jesus instructs his disciple, “do not stop them.” (39-40)
- Jesus teaches two guiding principles to follow in working with believers of a different Christian Denomination.
1st-“No one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me.”
- There is power in Jesus’ name.
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
2nd- “for whoever is not against us is for us.”
- We need to recognize other Christian believers, from other denominations, as brothers and sisters in Christ!
III. Jesus broadens the definition of those who will receive a reward.
“Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward.” (vs41)
- God blesses those who belong to His Son.
- God blesses those that bless those who belong to His Son.
- We do not always know how God does this, but we trust God that he will.
- An example of God blessing someone that was not part of the fold is in the story of Rahab when she protects the spies of Joshua. (Joshua 2)
- Rahab is listed in the lineage of Jesus. (Matthew 1:5)
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
WORSHIP SERVICE video and audio recorded live at Mountain View Church.
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Pastor Chuck Ryan
A Servant’s Heart
Mark 9: 33-37; Matthew 20:28 “just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." (Matthew 20:28)
Thesis: Jesus places great value in a Christian with a servant’s heart!
- The Disciples were arguing over who would be the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven! (vs33-34)
- There is a danger in seeking position, power, prestige, and wealth.
- “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.” (1 Timothy 6:10) (Note “wandered from the Faith”)
- “Jesus called them together and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,” (Matthew 20:25-26) (Note “Lord it over…Not so with you”)
“Don’t seek position; let position seek you!” Dr. Strickland
- A large percentage of the world is aggressively pursuing self-aggrandizement.
- “The act or practice of enhancing or exaggerating one’s own importance, power, or reputation.”
- “increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.”
"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.” (Matthew 7:13)
- Jesus was aware of the disciple’s unholy aspirations without them ever verbalizing them. (vs 35)
- Jesus asked them directly what they were discussing but they refused to answer because they were ashamed.
- Jesus knew their very thoughts.
“Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.”
(Psalm 139:4)
- Jesus seeks to correct their misguided thoughts by encouraging them to become the “very last and the servants of all.”
- The Jesus’ “Way” of doing life runs diametrically opposite to the way of the world.
- ‘Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)
- ‘Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, "Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all." (vs35)
- “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7:12)
III. Jesus used caring for a child as an example of a servant leader. (vs36-37)
- Child Care is a noble service in God’s eyes but often thought to be a lowly or menial task by many.
- The Disciples did not see themselves as keeper of children but someone holding a high-ranking position with power and prestige.
- Jesus equated caring for the least of them as caring for him.
- "Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me."
(Mark 9:37)
- “Then he said to them, "Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For it is the one who is least among you all who is the greatest." (Luke 9:48)