7/24/2022 Worship Service and Sermon: Sanctification Sermon #4: Bad Slavery, Good Slavery - Romans 6

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7/24/2022 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship leader: Luke Stoltzfus
Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Romans 6:15-23
Title: Sanctification Sermon #4: Bad Slavery, Good Slavery

Notes

1. Everyone is a slave to either righteousness or sin
A. We tend to think, "I'm my own person"
B. Experience confirms we are slaves
C. Scripture teaches we are slaves

2. In your pre-Christian life, sin was a terrible slave master
A. Slavery to sin led to shame
B. Slavery to sin leads to death
C. Sin inevitably leads to more sin

3. Righteousness is a wonderful slave master
A. Noteworthy contrast between the two slaveries

4. Applications
A. If your life basically ignores God, why would you be confident of eternal life?
B. If righteousness feels like drudgery, you may not be a Christian
C. If you are a slave of God...

Benediction

No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his slaves will serve him. They will see his face. (Revelation 22:3)

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen. (Revelation 22:21)

7/17/22 Worship Service and Sermon: Sanctification Sermon #3: Death to Sin (Part 2) - Romans 6:1-14

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7/17/2022 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Tyler Estes
Speaker: Pastor Steve Estes
Title: Sanctification Sermon #3: Death to Sin (Part 2)
Scripture: Romans 6:1-14

Notes

1. We died to sin
A. The Christian's death to sin relates to his baptism.
B. The Christian's death to sin is from being joined to Christ's death in particular

2. The death of Christ Himself was a "death to sin."
A. Christ's death was a death to the power of sin and death (hear Steve out on this)

3. We were buried with Christ through our baptism.

4. Your resurrection to new life is certain.
A. Since we are united with Christ in His death, we will certainly be united with Him in His resurrection

5. Your death to sin affected your whole person, including your body.
A. Your death to sin affected your whole person
B. Your death to sin included your body

6. Your resurrection to new life is certain.
A. Christ cannot die again. Death no longer has mastery over Him
B. Neither does spiritual death have mastery over you. You are a new creation

7. What do we do with all of this?

8. All this comes with a promise.

Benediction "May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." -1 Thessalonians 5:23

#sanctification #deathtosin #lifeinChrist

7/3/22 Worship Service and Sermon: Sanctification Sermon #2: Death to Sin - Romans 6:1-11

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7/3/2022 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Dave Stoltzfus
Speaker: Pastor Steve Estes
Title: Sanctification Sermon #2: Death to Sin
Scripture: Romans 6:1-11

   What shall we say, then?  Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?  By no means!  We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?  Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

   For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.  For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin--because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

   Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.  For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.  The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he loves to God.

   In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

1. Paul's basic position

2. Paul is talking to Christians (i.e., people who have been baptized)

3. Overcoming sin starts with something we are to know

      A. We must know that "We died"

      B. We must know that "We died to sin"

      C. We must know that "Our death to sin has to do with Christ's death"

4. Wrong views of death to sin

      A. Death to sin as a psychological change

      B. Death to sin as a death to sin's allure

      C. Death to sin as a stimulus

...To Be Continued (two weeks from now, Lord willing)

Benediction: To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood,...to him be glory and power for ever and ever!  Amen.

#deadtosin #Romans #sanctification

6/26/2022 Worship Service and Sermon: Sanctification Sermon #1: What is Holiness? Do I need it?

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6/26/2022 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Worship Leader: Matt Griffith
Speaker: Pastor Steve Estes
Title: Sanctification Sermon #1: What is Holiness?  Do I need it?
Scripture: Leviticus 19:1-2

Now the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy."

Notes:

1. God says, "I am holy."
     A. The meaning of "holy"
     B. First: God's holiness means He is separate from us
     C. Second: God's holiness means separate because He is superior to us
     D. Third: God's holiness means He is different from us
     E. Fourth: God's holiness means He has no evil in Himself

2. God sometimes declares certain places and objects "holy"
     A. Moses and the burning bush
     B. Other objects, places, and times
     C. These things are not ethically holy

3. God sometimes sets certain people aside to be "holy"
     A. Levites
     B. Israelites

4. God not only declares Christian believers "holy"--He commands us to be holy
      A. God's demand for holiness seems unattractive
      B. God's demand for holiness seems scary
      C. God's demand for holiness seems impossible

5. Three thoughts in response
      A. Regarding holiness as unattractive

      B. Regarding holiness as scary

      C. Regarding holiness as impossible

Benediction: May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through.  May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it. (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24)