Sermon Audio 2014
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 11/09/2014 | “Designer Idols” 6 If your brother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, which is as thine own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 Of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto you, or far off from you; from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: 8 You shall not consent unto him, nor hear him, neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him: 9 But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him, to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And you shall stone him with stones, that he die; because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more such wickedness as this is among you. 12 If you shall hear say in one of your cities, which the LORD your God gives you to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known; 14 Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; 15 You shall surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. 16 And you shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for a burnt offering unto the LORD your God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again. 17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from his fierce anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he swore unto your fathers; 18 When you shall obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 11/02/2014 | “Idols” "When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations that you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and settle in their land, take care that you do not stumble into beingFollowers of their statutes, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods, that I too may serve them?’ You shall not do so to the Lord your God. For every abominable thing that the Lord hates he has done, for the sake of his name, from the day that the Lord brought them out of the land of Egypt. “Take care to do all that I command you; you shall not add to it or take from it."
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 10/26/2014 | “Circumspect Worship” "When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations that you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and settle in their land, take care that you do not stumble into beingFollowers of their statutes, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods, that I too may serve them?’ You shall not do so to the Lord your God. For every abominable thing that the Lord hates he has done, for the sake of his name, from the day that the Lord brought them out of the land of Egypt. “Take care to do all that I command you; you shall not add to it or take from it."
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 10/19/2014 | “Worship Priorities” However, you may slaughter your cattle and eat meat within your settlements as much as you desire, in accordance with the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and the unclean may eat it, as they would eat the meat of a gazelle or a deer. Only you must not eat the blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water. You must not eat within your settlements the tithe of your grain, your new wine or your oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or any offering you have vowed, or your special gifts, or any raised part of your offering. Rather, you must eat them before the Lord your God in the place the Lord your God will choose, you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites living in your town. And you are to rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you put your hand to. Be careful not to neglect the Levites in your town as long as you live in your land. Whenever the Lord your God has enlarged your territory, as he has promised, and you say, "I should like to eat meat," because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire. If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his Name is too far away for you, then you may slaughter your herds and flocks, which the Lord has given you, and eat them within your settlements as much as you desire. Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so may you eat them. Both the ceremonially clean and the unclean may eat them. But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. Do not eat it, but pour it out on the ground like water. Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord. Take your holy offerings and your vows to the place the Lord will choose. You must present your burnt offerings, the meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God. And the blood of your sacrifices must be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat the meat. Be sure and listen to all these commands I am giving you, so that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God. When the Lord your God has cut off the nations before you, to whom you are going to take possession, and you dispossess them and settle in their land, be careful not to be ensnared into following them after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, saying, "How were these nations served? We too will serve them in the same way." Do not do this to the Lord your God, because they served their gods in every detestable way that the Lord hates; they even burned their sons and daughters in the fire as offerings to their gods.
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 10/05/2014 | “Worship Here!” 1 “These are the statutes and ordinances that you must carefully obey in the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you to possess, all the days you live on the earth. 2 You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3 You shall tear down their altars, and break their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall hew down the idols of their gods, and destroy their name out of that place. 4 You shall not do so to the Lord your God. Coming Soon |
Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 09/28/2014 | “Choosing Faith” Deuteronomy 11:18–32 Sermon Audio (MP3) sverige-ed.com
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 9/21/2014 | “The Secret Life of Love and Obedience” Deuteronomy 11:1-17 1 Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always. 2 And know this day that I do not speak to your children who have not known and have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, 3 and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; 4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how the LORD has destroyed them unto this day; 5 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place; 6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the living things that followed them, in the midst of all Israel. 7 But your eyes have seen the works of the LORD your God, which he has done. 8 Therefore shall you keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go in to possess it; 9 and that you may live long in the land, which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 For the land, where you go in to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; 11 but the land where you go in to possess it is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water from the rain of the heavens; 12 a land which the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. 13 And if you shall hearken diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 then I will give the rain of your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your wine, and your oil. 15 And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the ground give no produce, and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.
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Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 9/14/2014 | “God is Working Among Nations” Matthew 28:16-20
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| 09/07/2014 | “Obedience & Love” Deuteronomy 11:1-17 1 Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always. 2 And know this day that I do not speak to your children who have not known and have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, 3 and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; 4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how the LORD has destroyed them unto this day; 5 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place; 6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the living things that followed them, in the midst of all Israel. 7 But your eyes have seen the works of the LORD your God, which he has done. 8 Therefore shall you keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go in to possess it; 9 and that you may live long in the land, which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 For the land, where you go in to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; 11 but the land where you go in to possess it is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water from the rain of the heavens; 12 a land which the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. 13 And if you shall hearken diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 then I will give the rain of your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your wine, and your oil. 15 And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the ground give no produce, and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 8/31/2014 | “What God Requires” And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am commanding you today for your good? Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth and all that is in it. Yet the LORD set his affection on your fathers and loved them, and he chose you, their offspring, after them, from all peoples, as you are this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe. He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. Love the sojourner, then, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve him and cleave to him, and by his name you shall swear. He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for
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Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 8/24/2014 | “Where Faith Blooms” Deuteronomy 10:1-11
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 8/17/2014 | “Things Rendered” Deuteronomy 9:13–29
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Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 8/02/2015 | “Grace Conquers” "You shall diligently keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers. And you shall remember that the Lord your God has led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man shall live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your feet swell these forty years. You should therefore consider in your heart that, as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey; a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you. "Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied—then your heart is lifted up; and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions; and thirst, where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the rock of flint; who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, and later do you good. Then you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.' But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant, which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish. As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so shall you perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God."
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| 7/26/2015 | “Remembering” "You shall diligently keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers. And you shall remember that the Lord your God has led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man shall live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your feet swell these forty years. You should therefore consider in your heart that, as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey; a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you. "Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied—then your heart is lifted up; and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions; and thirst, where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the rock of flint; who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, and later do you good. Then you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.' But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant, which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish. As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so shall you perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God."
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| 7/19/2015 | “What is your name?” Jacob got up that same night and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and sent over all that he had. Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip socket was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel, for you have contended with God and with men and have prevailed.” Then Jacob asked him, “Tell me, please, your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.” The sun rose upon him as he passed Peniel, limping because of his hip. And this is the rule for the people of Israel: they shall not eat the sinew of the thigh that was stretched, which is on the hip socket, because he touched the hip socket of Jacob, of the thigh.
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Minister Hee Sung Shin |
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| 7/12/2015 | “Consummate Commitment” "And because you obey these judgments, and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy, which he swore to your fathers: And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you: and he will bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your land, your corn, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your kine, and the flocks of your sheep, if you obey his voice to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commands you this day. And he will be blessed above all people: there shall not be male nor female barren among you, nor among your cattle. And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, upon you; but will lay them upon all them that hate you. And you shall consume all the people which the Lord your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall have no pity upon them: nor serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you. If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? You shall not be afraid of them: but shall well remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt; the great temptations which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out: so shall the Lord your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid. Moreover the Lord your God will send the hornets among them, until those that remain, and hide themselves from you, be destroyed. You shall not be terrified by them, for the Lord your God is among you; a great God and terrible. And the Lord your God will put out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you. But the Lord your God shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. And he shall deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand against you, until you have destroyed them. You shall burn their images with fire, and you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take any of it for yourselves, lest you be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be a devoted thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
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| 7/05/2015 | “Chosen” "When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them completely. Make no treaty with them, and show no mercy to them. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your sons away from the Lord and from serving other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. Instead, do this: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his people, his treasured possession, out of all the peoples of the earth. The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. But he does not hesitate to destroy a man who hates him; he rewards them to their face. Therefore, love the Lord your God and keep his commands, his statutes, his ordinances and his commandments, always."
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 6/28/2015 | “Graceful Family” Genesis 32:22-32; 35:9-15
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 6/21/2015 | “True Fatherhood” At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased."
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 6/14/2015 | “Searching for Family” Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether in order to see if he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and cannot finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, 'This man began to build and could not finish.' Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not first sit down and take counsel, whether he can beat with ten thousand his opponent who comes against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while the other is still a long way off, he sends an embassy and asks for terms of peace. So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. Salt is good, but if salt has lost its saltiness, how will you season it? It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 6/07/2015 | “Problems: Social or Spiritual” John 5:17, 14:11-17, 15:5; Philippians 4:13; 2 Timothy 4:17
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Elder Ken Wang |
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| 5/31/2015 | “Build Up God's Glorious Church Together” Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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| 5/24/2015 | “The Family Mission” Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior shouting because of wine. He struck his enemies with stunning blows; he put them to perpetual shame. But he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim; but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved. He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth that he established forever. He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds; from tending the ewes, he took him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance. And he shepherd them with blameless skill. And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
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| 5/17/2015 | “Family Leadership” Psalm 78
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Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 5/10/2015 | “Faith and Family” Deuteronomy 6
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Rev. Eric Chang | |
| 5/03/2015 | “The Covenant's Embrace” Deuteronomy 5:2
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| 4/26/2015 | “People of God's Covenant” "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your ox, or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not covet your neighbor's house, or his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
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| 4/19/2015 | “The God Who Covenants” Deuteronomy 5:1-11
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 4/12/2015 | “The Anatomy of Faith” What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Imagine someone going into your house and saying, "I'm hungry, and you give them a warm coat, but you don't give them any food. What good is that? It's the same way with faith—if it has no deeds, it's dead and useless. But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds." Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe that God is one. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. You foolish person, do you want to be shown that faith without deeds is useless? Wasn't our ancestor Abraham declared righteous by his actions when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? Can't you see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did? And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend. You see that a person is declared righteous by what they do and not by faith alone. In the same way, was not Rahab the prostitute also declared righteous by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them away by a different route? As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
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Reverend Thomas Wang |
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| 4/05/2015 | “Living By Faith” Galatians 5:1-6, 13-25 1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. 2 Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 3 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to do the whole law. 4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we await the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but faith working through love. 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things that you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 3/29/2015 | “Justified by Faith” Galatians 3:10-14; 4:8-20
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 3/29/2015 | “Justified by Faith” Galatians 3:10-14; 4:8-20
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 3/22/2015 | “The Exclusive Gospel” Galatians 1:1-9; 2:15-21
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 3/15/2015 | “Biddings of a Holy God” "For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him. Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire. And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out of Egypt with his mighty power, and drove out from before thee nations greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. Wherefore acknowledge it, and take it to thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever. Then Moses separated three cities on this side Jordan toward the sun rising; That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hating him not in time past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites. And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt, When they were in the wilderness, in the land of the plain over against the Red sea, between the wilderness and the land of Jordan; and they dwelt in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and of Og king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth, and at Edrei: This land on this side Jordan, toward the sun rising, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon, even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up toward Seir; (and he possessed his kingdom, and his kingdom, and reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses had smitten with the two kings of the Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in that country.) And Israel dwelt in his land, and in the land of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon: and he possessed the land of the Amorites, and of Bashan, the kingdom of Og. And the inhabitants of these cities, and the people that dwelt among them, they were a people as old as were the Amorites, and they were overthrown before them, and they dwelt in their stead: That thou mightest keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days, and that thou mayest live prosperously in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for ever.
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 3/08/2015 | “Finding Your Way Back...” Deuteronomy 4:15–31
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 3/01/2015 | “In a World...” Deuteronomy 4:1–14
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| 2/22/2015 | “How God Fights...” Deuteronomy 2:26 - 3:28
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 2/15/2015 | “The Wilderness Years” Deuteronomy 2:1–25
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Minister Johnathan Hsieh |
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| 2/8/2015 | “Connecting Faith” Deuteronomy 1:26–46
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 2/1/2015 | “A Land of Blessing” Deuteronomy 1:1–25
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 1/25/2015 | “When Temptation Comes…” Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
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| 1/18/2015 | “Life Subject: Discipleship & Growth” Now when Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee. And leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned." From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. And immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him. And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people. So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them. And following him were large crowds from Galilee and from the Decapolis and from Jerusalem and from Judea and from beyond the Jordan.
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 1/11/2015 | “Life Unshackled: The Temptation of Christ” Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" Then the devil took him to the holy city and stood him on the highest point of the temple. "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written: 'He will command his angels concerning you, and on their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'" Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'" Again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. "All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me." Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'" Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.
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Rev. Eric Chang |
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| 1/4/2015 | “Life Unbound” Psalm 1 |
Rev. Eric Chang |
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