8/11/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: Elisha’s Fiery Horses & Chariots - 2 Kings 6:8-23

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8/11/2024 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Worship Leader: Dawson Estes
Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 2 Kings 6:8-23
Title: Elisha's Fiery Horses and Chariots

Notes:

1. Intro: Secrets are sometimes hard to keep.
A. Aramean king's secrets are being leaked.
B. The new prophet on the block

2. The Aramean king sends an army to capture Elisha.

3. God is with His people, even when they cannot see it.
A. First of three prayers
B. Picture the fiery beings.
C. Think of their number.
D. Think what the actual miracle was.

4. How God protected Elisha and his servant
A. Who made the first move?
B. Second of three prayers
C. Last of three prayers

5. God protects His people so that unbelievers may find that same protection in Him.
A. How Israel treated the captured Arameans
B. What do we learn about God from this?

6. Lessons

#elisha #benhadad

4/7/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: Problem, Prayer, Promise and Paradox - Psalm 12:1-8

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4/7/2024 Worship Service from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Psalm 12:1-8
Title: Problem, Prayer, Promise, and Paradox
Worship Leader: Dawson Estes
Speaker: Tyler Estes

Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man. Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak. May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts, those who say, "With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?" "Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs." The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times. You, O LORD, will keep them; you will guard us from this generation forever. On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man.

Notes:

1. David laments the problem of living in a lying society
A. David observes part of the problem is that something absent should be present
B. David observes another part of the problem is that something present should be absent
C. David observes that the flatterers are arrogant
D. David observes that the problem is pervasive

2. David prays for God to intervene

3. The promise and provision of God's word
A. When God says He will act, it is as good as done
B. Consider your Bible: God speaks to you through this book
C. The word of God is pure
D. The word of God is profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness

4. Note the paradox at the end
A. God's promise and the present reality
B. What do we make of "I will now arise?"

5. Applications
A. Do not despair
B. Do not abandon the word of God
C. Do not exalt wickedness
D. Instead of exalting wickedness, exalt goodness

#psalms #problem #promise #paradox #prayer

3/10/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: The Young Prophet and the Old Prophet - 1 Kings 13

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3/10/2024 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: 1 Kings 13
Title: The Young Prophet and the Old Prophet
Worship Leader: Dawson Estes
Speaker: Steve Estes

Notes:

1. The young prophet denounces Jeroboam
A. The grand opening for Jeroboam's religion
B. A voice from the crowd
C. A supernatural sign
D. Jeroboam's response
E. Jeroboam's chastening

2. The young prophet meets the old prophet
A. The sons' report
B. The old prophet's deception
C. The young prophet's punishment

3. Questions the writer deems unimportant

4. Theme of the passage
A. What does matter to the writer?
B. Jeroboam and the Word of the Lord
C. The young prophet and the Word of the Lord
D. The old prophet and the Word of the Lord

#1Kings #WordoftheLord

8/13/2023 Worship Service and Sermon: Finding Bread for Your Friends - Luke 11:1-13

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Scripture: Luke 11:1-13
Title: Finding Bread for Your Friends
Speaker: Wendell Stoltzfus
Worship Leader: Dawson Estes

Notes:

1. The Prayer and the Parable
A. The theme in Luke 11 is prayer
B. And yet, we struggle to pray

2. The Three Friends
A. An Unexpected Guest
B. An Inconvenient Hour
C. Who the three friends represent

3. The Bread of Assurance
A. We who have the Bread of life rub shoulders with those who don't
B. In the terms of the parable, each of the three friends is, ultimately, starving

4. Real Bread, Real Impudence
A. No doubt many of us struggle with assurance at times
B. Obnoxious persistence in prayer
C. How do we begin?

5. God's Answer to Prayer
A. Jesus says you and I are the link between His bread and our hungry friends
B. What will happen if you pray for your hungry friends every day?
C. What if we don't see any change?

6. Conclusion
A. An Inconvenienced Friend
B. An Unfailing God

#Luke #assurance #prayer