Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church Sermons

Sermon Series:            “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text:               Joshua 13:1-14 Sermon Title:               “Canaan: Its Significance for Our Inheritance” Sermon Slides:            * * SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide * SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:    The Promise Made through Abraham is a Promise Kept through Joshua. Canaan is Israel’s Inheritance … But Our Inheritance Goes Beyond Canaan. * * SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Significance of Israel’s Inheritance … The Land of Canaan. * * * SLIDE 4 – 1st Principle (from Point 1): “Our salvation is always more than being saved from somewhere. It’s also being saved to somewhere.” * SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 6 – 2nd Principle (from Point 1): “God keeps His promises … and time always proves it.” * SLIDE 7 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 8 – Romans 5:1 – “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” * SLIDE 9 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 10 – Joshua 18:1 – “Then the whole congregation of … Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.” * SLIDE 11 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 12 – Picture (see attached) * SLIDE 13 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 14 – 3rd Principle (from Point 1): “Our salvation is by God’s sovereign grace alone, but so is our inheritance. And our inheritance varies by degree.” * SLIDE 15 – Luke 19:11-17 – “[Jesus] said therefore, ‘A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come’ … When he returned … the 1st came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’ And he said to him, “Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.” * SLIDE 16 – 4th Principle (from Point 1): “God rewards the faithfulness of His individual children. But rewards are not earned by our works but are given by God’s grace alone.” * SLIDE 17 – Conclusion: “The Significance of Israel’s Inheritance in Canaan is that God is revealed both as the Sovereign Savior of His Family and as a Generous Father who Gives to His Children as He Pleases.”   * * SLIDE 18 – Point 2: The Significance of Our Inheritance … Goes Beyond Canaan. * * * SLIDE 19 – Hebrews 11:8-16 – “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance … By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land … For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God … If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.” * SLIDE 20 – Hebrews 4:8-9 – “For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.” * SLIDE 21 – Principle (from Point 2): “Don’t go backwards in the story, when God is directing you forward. Therefore, don’t try to make your heaven on earth now.” * * * SLIDE 22 – Conclusion: “The Land of Canaan was a type of Heaven on Earth, but it was only the down payment of our inheritance. In Christ Jesus, soon and very soon, a New Canaan will span across the Transformed Earth.”

Sermon Series:            “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text:               Joshua 10:1-11:23 Sermon Title:               “The Church Under Siege” Sermon Slides:            * * SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide * SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:    If the Devil Can’t Win by Deception … He’ll Plan for Intimidation. But Greater is He in the Church … Than All the Armies of Evil in the World.   * * SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Canaan’s Intimidation … Their Strength is in Great Numbers. (10:1-5; 11:1-5) * * * SLIDE 4 – 1st Principle (from Point 1): “As the sun can both harden clay and soften wax, in the same way, God’s Word will harden the hearts of some and soften the hearts of others.” * SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 6 – 2nd Principle (from Point 1): “The Devil will squeeze us, but we can’t serve two masters: the Fallen culture and the Risen Christ. We must choose to stand and fight with God.” * SLIDE 7 – Conclusion: “We must first take the fight to our God, before we take the fight to our Enemy. Intercession is always the answer to Intimidation.”   * * SLIDE 8 – Point 2: Israel’s Salvation … Their Strength is in the One God. (10:6-14; 11:6-12) * * * SLIDE 9 – Hebrews 7:25 – “Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.” * SLIDE 10 – Conclusion: “The Gospel of God doesn’t just lift the siege of sin but ends its intimidation in our lives. God’s power of Grace has routed the power of Sin.” * * SLIDE 11 – Sermon Uses for Life: Three this Morning. * * * SLIDE 12 – The Church Under Siege Faces Two Dangers: Cowardice & Capitulation. * SLIDE 13 – Be Prayerful for God’s Presence and Power … But Never Presumptive. * SLIDE 14 – Where are You Under Siege from the Enemy?

Sermon Text:               1 John 3:1-3 Sermon Title:              “Our Hope for Home” Sermon Slides:            * * SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide * SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:    Our Hope for Home … Comes to Us from the Love of God. This Hope … Will Purify Our Life Now and Glorify Our Body Soon.   * * SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Our Hope for Home … Comes to Us from the Love of God. (v. 1) * SLIDE 4 – John Stott (1921-2011): “The Father’s love is so unearthly, so foreign to this world, that Apostle John wonders from what country it may come.” * SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 6 – John 10:17-18 – “For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord.” * SLIDE 7 – 1st Principle (from v. 1): “This love produces real hope in us, because if God loved us that much then, He’ll love us all the way home.” * SLIDE 8 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 9 – John 14:1, 16-18 – “In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you … And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper …  I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” * SLIDE 10 – 2nd Principle (from v. 1): “The Hope our Father foretold eternally, the Son revealed publicly, and now the Spirit implants intimately into us.” * SLIDE 11 – Conclusion: “Resurrected children long to be with their Resurrected God in their Resurrected home. This resurrection hope in us springs forth from God’s redeeming love to us.”   * * SLIDE 12 – Point 2: This Hope in Us … Will Purify Our Life Now and Glorify Our Body Soon. (vv. 2-3) * SLIDE 13 – Principle (from v. 3): “Hope promotes purity of life, not laxity or license to sin. Hope always produces holiness.” * SLIDE 14 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon * SLIDE 15 – Conclusion: “When we finally see Christ, who is our Hope, we will no longer image Christ partially … but image Christ exactly. And our Hope in Christ will have finally led us Home to God.” * * SLIDE 16 – Sermon Uses for Life: Two this Morning. * SLIDE 17 – If You’re an Unbeliever: Without Christ … There is No Hope. * SLIDE 18 – If You’re a Believer: Your Hope in Christ … Won’t Disappoint!

Sermon Serie              “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text:               Joshua 9:1-27 Sermon Title:               “A Really Bad Deal” Sermon Slides: * * SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide * SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:    Both Israel and Gibeon Lose … in Their Really Bad Deal. So, We Must Trust God’s Covenant … Not Make Our Own.   * * SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Israel’s Bad Deal … is a Covenant of Compromise with Gibeon. (vv. 1-21) * SLIDE 4 – Principle (from vv. 3-5): “Satan’s most successful warfare against us is strategically subtle, gradual, and indirect.” * SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 6 – Deuteronomy 7:1-2 – “When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering … and clears away many nations before you … seven [Canaanite] nations more numerous and mightier than you … then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.” * SLIDE 7 – Deuteronomy 20:10-11 – “When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you.” * SLIDE 8 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 9 – Principle (from vv. 14-15): “A prayerless Church is a powerless Church that becomes a susceptible Church to the strategies of Satan.” * SLIDE 10 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 11 – Conclusion: “Israel signed a Covenant of Compromise with Gibeon attempting to make life easier in the Promised Land. But instead, their bad deal made conquering the Promised Land that much harder.”   * * SLIDE 12 – Point 2: Gibeon’s Worse Deal … is a Covenant of Works with God. (vv. 22-27) * SLIDE 13 – Principle (from vv. 22-27): “Just because the Church messes up, doesn’t mean we quit on God.” * SLIDE 14 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon * SLIDE 15 – Conclusion: “God will not befriend those who come in disguise, nor bargain with sinners who offer their labor as tribute. God alone sets the terms of relationship.” * * SLIDE 16 – General Sermon Uses: Three to Help Us Grow in Boldness and Courage. * SLIDE 17 – Rahab and Gibeon … are a Tale of Two Covenants. * SLIDE 18 – By Grace, we are Never More than Servants, but Never Less than Sons. * SLIDE 19 – Christ Didn’t Compromise God’s Covenant … But Kept It to the End.

Sermon Series:            “Be Bold & Courageous: The Gospel According to Joshua” Sermon Text:               Joshua 8:1-35 Sermon Title:               “Don’t Call It a Comeback” Sermon Slides: * * SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide * SLIDE 2 – Joshua 7:8-9 – “O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?” * SLIDE 3 – Today’s Big Idea:    God’s Grace Not Only Takes Us In … But Keeps Us Going. So Don’t Call it a Comeback … Call it a Covenant.   * * SLIDE 4 – Point 1: God Renews His Covenant with Israel … and They Defeat Ai. (vv. 1-29) * SLIDE 5 – Principle (from vv. 1-9): “We must consult God about everything, and trust God with everything. This attitude strengths faith and brings repentance.” * SLIDE 6 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 7 – 1st Principle (from vv. 10-29): “Trusting in God leads to trapping our enemies, namely, this fallen world, our flesh, and the devil.” * SLIDE 8 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 9 – Genesis 9:22-26 – “And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside … When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, he said, ‘Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.’ He also said, ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.” * SLIDE 10 – Psalm 105:23 – “Then Israel came to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.” * SLIDE 11 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 12 – 2nd Principle (from vv. 10-29): “God has mercy on whomever He chooses and blesses whomever He wants. Both are by grace, not works.” * SLIDE 13 – Conclusion: “When we disobey, even the smallest of sins can overtake us. But when we obey, even the greatest of sins will be trapped and killed. What a difference obedience makes.”   * * SLIDE 14 – Point 2: Israel Renews Her Covenant with God … and They Return to their Mission. (vv. 30-35) * SLIDE 15 – Romans 12:1 – “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” * SLIDE 16 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon * SLIDE 17 – Principle (from vv. 30-35): “God’s warnings are directed at God’s people, not someone else.” * SLIDE 18 – Conclusion: “When Israel stumbled, they didn’t pick themselves up – God did. But once they’re up, they take back up their covenant commitments. Real repentance avoids dangerous repeats and brings Godly renewal.” * * SLIDE 19 – General Sermon Uses: Three to Help Us Grow in Boldness and Courage. * SLIDE 20 – Jericho Represents our Justification … Ai Represents our Sanctification. * SLIDE 21 – We Must Deal with Idolatry to Advance in Ministry. * SLIDE 22 – Just Like Israel … We Need to Renew Ourselves in God’s Covenant.