12/1/24 Worship Service & Sermon: A Covenant Keeping Advent - Matthew 1:1-18

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12/1/24 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Matthew 1:1-18
Title: A Covenant-keeping Advent
Speaker: Matt Carter
Worship Leader: Randy Hepler

Notes:

1. A Gospel built on two covenants
A. Davidic covenant
B. Abrahamic covenant

2. Grafted to Jesus' Family tree

3. God's faithfulness through generations
A. Famous and kingdom-advancing generations
B. Invisible generations
C. Foreign generations
D. Scandalous generations
E. Generations of division and exile
F. Generations in which kingship has vanished
G. The final generation

4. Two takeaways from our time in Matthew 1

#Jesus #david #abraham #covenant #generations

11/24/24 Worship Service & Sermon: Israel’s December: Hoshea, Exile, Samaria Resettled - 2 Kings 17

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11/24/24 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Sermon: Steve Estes
Worship Leader: Matt Carter
Scripture: 2 Kings 17
Title: Israel's December: Hoshea, Exile, Samaria Resettled

Notes:

1. The beginning of the end
A. Picture an imaginary future for the United States
B. Israel's situation in today's text

2. Israel's final days and ultimate collapse
A. Too little, too late
B. Hoshea's folly
C. Assyria's vengeance

3. Why God let this happen

4. What counterfeit religion looks like
A. Counterfeit religion often begins with ingratitude toward the one true God
B. Counterfeit religion focuses on what is aesthetically pleasing
C. Counterfeit religion invents itself; biblical faith receives what is revealed
D. Counterfeit religion is after results; biblical worship is after God
E. Counterfeit religion rots a person's soul
F. Counterfeit religion ruins not just ourselves, but also our descendants
G. Counterfeit religion leads to judgment

5. How counterfeit religion is guarded against

6. The weeping Judge

#hoshea #israel #samaria #assyria

10/20/24 Worship Service & Sermon: Rebellion and Obedience - 1 Samuel 15

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10/20/2024 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Worship Leader: Matt Carter
Sermon: Andrew Hageman
Scripture: 1 Samuel 15
Title: Rebellion and Obedience

Notes:

1. Overt Rebellion: Rebellion against God warrants destruction
A. The cruelty and evil practices of the Amalekites
B. God's justice against the Amalekites
C. What does this mean for us?

2. Covert Rebellion: The heart of covert rebellion is self-deception
A. Covert rebellion begins with self-justification
B. Covert rebellion often includes blame shifting
C. Covert rebellion results in consequences

3. True Obedience: A relationship with God requires the true obedience which only Christ possesses
A. God requires obedience, not sacrifices
B. Our hope in Jesus Christ, the obedient King

#saul #amalekites #rebellion #obedience

9/1/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: Joram’s Last Chance for Grace - 2 Kings 8:1-6

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9/1/2024 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Worship Leader: Matt Carter
Sermon: Steve Estes
Scripture: 2 Kings 8:1-6
Title: Joram's Last Chance for Grace

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, "Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the LORD has decreed a famine in the land that will last seven years." The woman proceeded to do as the man of God said. She and her family went away and stayed in the land of the Philistines seven years. At the end of the seven years she came back from the land of the Philistines and went to the king to beg for her house and land. The king was talking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, and had said, "Tell me about all the great things Elisha has done." Just as Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had brought back to life came to beg the king for her house and land. Gehazi said, "This is the woman, my lord the king, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life." The king asked the woman about it, and she told him. Then he assigned an official to her case and said to him, "Give back everything that belonged to her, including all the income from her land from the day she left the country until now."

Notes:

1. Background to today's text (2 Kings 4 for reference)

2. King Joram had already seen God's divine kindness through Elisha
A. Aramean ambushes foiled
B. Aramean army delivered into Joram's hands
C. Northern kingdom's capital relieved of starvation

3. King Joram asks to hear more about Elisha's great works
A. The widow in debt
B. Death in the stew
C. Feeding one hundred
D. A borrowed ax
E. The Shunammite woman's son

4. Lessons
A. See how God cares for His own people
B. See how important our response to accounts of God's mercies are

Background for next week's sermon

2 Kings 8:7-14 NIV - Hazael Murders Ben-Hadad
2 Kings 8:25-29 NIV - Ahaziah King of Judah

#Joram #Shunammite #Gehazi

6/16/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: Elijah Restored on Mount Horab - 1 Kings 19:7-18

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6/16/2024 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Scripture: 1 Kings 19:7-18
Title: Elijah Restored on Mount Horeb
Worship Leader: Matt Carter
Sermon: Senior Pastor Steve Estes

Notes:

1. The Story
A. The place
B. God and Elijah address one another
C. Three dramatic elements
D. The voice in a low whisper

2. God's twice-asked question
A. Some suggest God's question is a rebuke
B. A better suggestion is God's question is an invitation

3. The meaning of it all
A. The meaning of the earthquake, wind, fire, and low whisper
B. God encourages Elijah with a promise

#Elijah #Horeb

3/24/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: The Fall of the House of Jeroboam: Nadab & Baasha - 1 Kings 15:25-16:7

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3/24/2024 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Matt Carter
Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 1 Kings 15:25-16:7
Title: The Fall of the House of Jeroboam

Notes:

1. Nadab's evil reign
A. His sins
B. His assassination

2. Baasha's usurpation
A. Background
B. God's summary of Baasha's reign
C. Same idolatry, same judgment

3. A doctrine we are familiar with

4. A doctrine we may be unfamiliar with...and find puzzling
A. God predicts Baasha will destroy Jeroboam's dynasty
B. God will punish Baasha for doing this
C. God's sovereignty over sin.
i. God is too holy to sin (Habakkuk 1:13)
ii. God is too holy to cause anyone else to sin (James 1:13-14)
iii. God controls every sin to ultimately further His own righteous purposes
iv. God will bring sinners into judgment

5. God's sovereignty in Christ's crucifixion

1/28/24 Worship Service &. Sermon: Our Unity is His Priority - John 17:20-23

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1/28/2024 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Luke Stoltzfus
Speaker: Matt Carter
Scripture: John 17:20-23
Title: Our Unity is His Priority

My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

Notes:

1. Who is Jesus praying for?
A. Jesus is praying for those who will believe
B. What did Jesus want for us?

2. In what sense is Jesus in the Father, and vice versa?
A. The Word was with God and the Word was God
B. The Father was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Christ

3. Why does Jesus pray so fervently about our unity in Him?
A. Unity in such a diverse group of people testifies that Jesus is in our midst
B. Unity in the midst of diversity is messy and costly

Benediction: May you be found hidden in Christ and in God the Father by the power of the Holy Spirit living in you. And may the unity that comes from having been hidden there well up in expressions of love for God and for the diverse body of believers around you. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

#John #unity

1/1/2023 New Years Day Worship Service & Sermon: Not in the Flesh, But in the Spirit - Romans 8:9-11

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1/1/2023 New Years Day Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Romans 8:9-11
Title: Not in the Flesh, But in the Spirit
Worship Leader: Andrew Hageman
Speaker: Matt Carter

You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the [s]pirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Notes:

1. Summary of Rev. Carter's last sermon (Romans 7:14-25)

2. If we are in the Spirit, we are not in the flesh
A. Our location identifies us
B. Being in Christ frees us from the need for self-importance
C. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him

3. If we are in Christ, our bodies are dead, but our spirits are alive because of righteousness
A. Our bodies are dead because of sin
B. Our spirits are alive because of righteousness

4. The Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal body if He dwells in you
A. How much power does it take to raise the dead and why should the answer matter to us?
i. The exact same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives in us who live in Christ

5. Applications
A. We need to accept that our bodies (as discussed today) are dead
B. We need to believe that surrendering to the work of the Holy Spirit will turn out for our good

Benediction And now, may the love of God the Father who sent Jesus Christ to the cross because he knew that the cross would turn out for both Jesus' vindication and ours; may the faith of Jesus Christ who surrendered himself to the cross because he believed that the Father was faithful and that the Spirit was powerful; and may the power and goodness of the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead and who will raise us also, be with every true believer in this room. Amen

1/23/2022 Worship Service and Sermon: The Friendship of the LORD is for Those Who Fear Him - Psalm 25

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01/23/2022 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Matt Carter
Speaker: Rick Renninger
Title: The Friendship of the LORD is for Those Who Fear Him
Scripture: Psalm 25

Notes:

Psalm 25 uses Chiasm (a literary device in which a sequence of ideas is presented and then repeated in reverse order)

Creative outline that shows the Chiasm of Psalm 25 as a flight of stairs going up and then down:

D. Pardon my iniquity
(v. 11)

C. Growing confidence C. Growing confidence
(v. 8-10) (v. 12-14)

B. Wanting insight and recalling B. Still waiting in faith but with
the LORD’s faithfulness increased distress
(v. 4-7) (v. 15-18)

A. Waiting on Yahweh in confident A. Waiting on Yahweh in the
trust in the face of his enemies face of his enemies
(v. 1-3) (v. 19-22)



We can also view it more like a ladder:

A. Waiting on Yahweh with confident trust in the face of his enemies (v. 1-3)
B. Wanting insight and recalling the LORD's faithfulness (v. 4-7)
C. Growing confidence (v. 8-10)
D. Pardon my iniquity (v. 11)
C. Growing confidence (v. 12-14)
B. Still waiting in faith but with increased distress (v. 15-18)
A. Waiting on Yahweh in the face of his enemies (v. 19-22)

#steadfastlove #faithfulness #truegospel #chiasm #psalm25 #iniquity