Sermons by Daniel Kendall (Page 50)
Jesus Works so that We Might Rest (John 5:1-18)
Jesus has healed the man from his infirmity and commanded him to pick up his bed on the Sabbath day. The Jews are enraged that Jesus would break the Sabbath by healing the man and telling him to carry his bed. Jesus responds by saying that His Father is still working so He will keep working. From this we see: The Sabbath is an illustration of salvation God did not rest on the seventh day because He was tired. He…
Clothing and the Line of Seth
God has cursed mankind and left them with only one hope, the Seed of the woman. Now we see God clothe Adam and Eve. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. Genesis 3:21 Just as God created man, created woman, and created marriage, now God creates clothing. Because there is only a married man and woman on the earth we see that clothing was not created to stop sexual…
There is Something Worse (John 5:1-16)
Jesus here encounters a man who is unable to walk. He found him setting beside a place of miraculous healing, but the man was still unable to walk. The man is incapable of moving himself for healing No matter how much the lame man desires to walk or how powerful the healing in the pool may be, the man is simply unable to move himself to be healed. This illustrates how we are completely incapable of attaining our salvation. We…
God’s Remedy: The Gospel
Up until this point we have seen that God created man for His glory. We looked at the idea of dominion, masculinity, femininity, marriage, children, etc. We saw that Adam and Eve completely failed God at every single point when they sinned. We then saw how sin has completely affected every aspect of human existence. The point of the first three chapters of Genesis is to expose the complete failure of Adam and all those who inherit his nature. We…
Sin’s Effects
The choice to sin was in reality a choice by Adam and Eve to know and experience both good and evil. Up until this point all they had ever known was good; now they begin to know evil. The moment they ate the fruit, they died spiritually. From here we can see the effects of sin. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves…
Sin
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Genesis 3:1 Sin begins with the temptation to not believe God. All sin is born out of unbelief. And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the…
Seek Him for Yourself (John 4:39-42)
The Samaritan woman now goes into the village to tell people of her encounter with Jesus. Many people believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony The Samaritan woman tells people about her encounter with Jesus. Her testimony is that Jesus exposed all of her sin. This teaches us two things about believers openly confessing their sins when they share the Gospel. One, people need to have their sin exposed, and many times the best way to do that is…
Marriage
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1:27 God created man and woman in His image. The man and woman were united in a covenant called marriage. This covenant relationship between man and woman is one of the greatest displays of God’s glory. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and…
Finish His Work (John 4:31-38)
Jesus has just had His encounter with the Samaritan woman by the well. His disciples now return with food for Him to eat. Jesus says that He is not hungry, and what follows is Jesus’ teaching on faithfulness to the task God has given you. Jesus is satisfied by finishing God’s task for Him Just as the woman at the well was satisfied by Jesus, so Jesus is satisfied with doing the Father’s Will. He is no longer hungry because…
Femininity
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1:27 Although man was created first, both man and woman bear the image of God. Male and female are of equal value and worth in the eyes of God. And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground…
Wanted by God and His People
This week marks the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade which legalized abortion in the United States. Since then, approximately 56 million babies have been murdered in this country, making the American abortion problem roughly five times worse than the Nazi Holocaust. Unfortunately when abortion comes up, most believers believe that their only duty is to vote for prolife candidates at election times. However, law does not change human hearts. Grace does. We must show the incarnational love and grace…
Masculinity
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1:26-27 God made man in His image and…