Romans 5:12-21
New Living Translation (NLT)
12 When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. 13 Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. But it was not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break. 14 Still, everyone died—from the time of Adam to the time of Moses—even those who did not disobey an explicit commandment of God, as Adam did. Now Adam is a symbol, a representation of Christ, who was yet to come. 15 But there is a great difference between Adam’s sin and God’s gracious gift. For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ. 16 And the result of God’s gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man’s sin. For Adam’s sin led to condemnation, but God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins. 17 For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ.
18 Yes, Adam’s one sin brings condemnation for everyone, but Christ’s one act of righteousness brings a right relationship with God and new life for everyone. 19 Because one person disobeyed God, many became sinners. But because one other person obeyed God, many will be made righteous.
20 God’s law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God’s wonderful grace became more abundant. 21 So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Peter Park closed the With series last Sunday with a message from Romans 5:12-21, a message about God's love to us that can never be earned, only given. He loves us…even when we were enemies of Him. Even when we rebel against Him. Even when we disappoint Him. He loves us regardless of our imperfections. His love for us surpasses earthly expectations and relationships. His love can never change in time. With Him, there is no condemnation. Any accusations that He does not love us comes from the devil. God will always walk with us, forgive us, and remind us that He is God, who loves us without fail. Will we be able to understand the depth of His character and love? Will our walk with God go beyond a Sunday morning or a life group meeting?
Will we be able to live… without Him?
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Sermon Rewind 10/30/11 - After God's Own Heart
I Chronicles 13:7 - 9
New International Version (NIV)
7 They moved the ark of God from Abinadab’s house on a new cart, with Uzzah and Ahio guiding it. 8 David and all the Israelites were celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps, lyres, timbrels, cymbals and trumpets.
9 When they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to steady the ark, because the oxen stumbled. 10 The LORD’s anger burned against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.
2 Samuel 6:14 - 15
New International Version (NIV)
14 Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the LORD with all his might, 15 while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets.
David was a “man after God’s own heart,” in tune with God’s desires despite his faults. How can we also be people after God’s own heart? Benjie Kim retells I Chronicles 13:7 - 10 in which God strikes down a man after David attempts to reclaim the Ark of the Covenant. We see that: 1) Good intentions are not good enough. They can be an excuse for us to not live an obedient life. 2) The willingness to obey God is key. Today, we are freed from following rules because of the blood of Jesus. However, every detail about the state of your heart IS important. 3) The result of obedience is freedom. When we begin to open up the recesses of our hearts, we can be sure of His ability to work in our lives. What do you need to give up to God out of obedience today?
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New International Version (NIV)
7 They moved the ark of God from Abinadab’s house on a new cart, with Uzzah and Ahio guiding it. 8 David and all the Israelites were celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps, lyres, timbrels, cymbals and trumpets.
9 When they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to steady the ark, because the oxen stumbled. 10 The LORD’s anger burned against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.
2 Samuel 6:14 - 15
New International Version (NIV)
14 Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the LORD with all his might, 15 while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets.
David was a “man after God’s own heart,” in tune with God’s desires despite his faults. How can we also be people after God’s own heart? Benjie Kim retells I Chronicles 13:7 - 10 in which God strikes down a man after David attempts to reclaim the Ark of the Covenant. We see that: 1) Good intentions are not good enough. They can be an excuse for us to not live an obedient life. 2) The willingness to obey God is key. Today, we are freed from following rules because of the blood of Jesus. However, every detail about the state of your heart IS important. 3) The result of obedience is freedom. When we begin to open up the recesses of our hearts, we can be sure of His ability to work in our lives. What do you need to give up to God out of obedience today?
Listen to this sermon and others online!
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Sermon Rewind 10/23/2011 - Abide WITH His love
John 15:9-17
New International Version (NIV)
9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
Last Sunday, Peter Park continued the WITH series, further expanding John 15:9-17. As previously learned, Jesus asks us to "abide in the vine" - to be in a deep relationship with Him and bear fruit of love. But we as humans love imperfectly and conditionally, so how do we learn to love? Jesus has shown us true love by laying down His life for us AND his enemies! He gives us the choice to receive and participate WITH this perfect love. Without His love, we cannot love others. But as we build our relationship and "abide" in Him, we learn to love as He does - unfailingly, patiently, and without pride. To end the message, Peter teaches a practical lesson to how to love: by dedicating to your work, your day, your friends, your coworkers, your family, and strangers - "in health and in sickness." Do everything in life WITH God, abiding in his love.
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New International Version (NIV)
9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
Last Sunday, Peter Park continued the WITH series, further expanding John 15:9-17. As previously learned, Jesus asks us to "abide in the vine" - to be in a deep relationship with Him and bear fruit of love. But we as humans love imperfectly and conditionally, so how do we learn to love? Jesus has shown us true love by laying down His life for us AND his enemies! He gives us the choice to receive and participate WITH this perfect love. Without His love, we cannot love others. But as we build our relationship and "abide" in Him, we learn to love as He does - unfailingly, patiently, and without pride. To end the message, Peter teaches a practical lesson to how to love: by dedicating to your work, your day, your friends, your coworkers, your family, and strangers - "in health and in sickness." Do everything in life WITH God, abiding in his love.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Sermon Rewind 10/16/11 - Trust & Obey (Abiding WITH God)
John 15: 1-4; 9-11
1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
In July, a short term missions (STM) team of seven went to China for two weeks to partner with two organizations, Compassion for Migrant Children and Starfish Project. In many ways, God used their time in China to redeem, restore, and affirm who they are in Christ. They each had moments where they were WITH God. For some of them, it was seeing a bigger picture of God through migrant workers, human trafficking and China; for others it was realizing they were dealing with the lies of unworthiness, value and identity. They all experienced God’s love through the love within their team in community. He affirmed their identity and worth in Christ.
We are worthy despite our past and pains because God chose us to be His sons and daughters. God wants to be in communion WITH us. Pure joy is from abiding WITH God’s will – as you are being fed by the vine. He sees you.
Watch a small glimpse of the STM team’s time in China on Vimeo! http://vimeo.com/30582582
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1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
In July, a short term missions (STM) team of seven went to China for two weeks to partner with two organizations, Compassion for Migrant Children and Starfish Project. In many ways, God used their time in China to redeem, restore, and affirm who they are in Christ. They each had moments where they were WITH God. For some of them, it was seeing a bigger picture of God through migrant workers, human trafficking and China; for others it was realizing they were dealing with the lies of unworthiness, value and identity. They all experienced God’s love through the love within their team in community. He affirmed their identity and worth in Christ.
We are worthy despite our past and pains because God chose us to be His sons and daughters. God wants to be in communion WITH us. Pure joy is from abiding WITH God’s will – as you are being fed by the vine. He sees you.
Watch a small glimpse of the STM team’s time in China on Vimeo! http://vimeo.com/30582582
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Sermon Rewind 10/4/11 - Guarding Your Heart
Proverbs 4:23
New International Version (NIV)
23 Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
Cindy Park continued the WITH series, reminding us that we’re called to be in relationship with Jesus, where we desire only Him, not to use Him as a means to an ends. In order to be in this type of relationship, we need to monitor and guard our hearts. Proverbs 4:23 states that we need to guard our hearts because it is the source of everything we do. Though we may be doing the “right” things and serving others, problems that may be deeply hidden within our hearts can manifest them in other parts of our lives – perhaps quickness to anger, or malaise being in a ministry. Therefore, it is imperative that we monitor our hearts and search our motives. The only way to truly guard our hearts and heal our souls is by spending time with God, and in real community. As Christ followers, we are not called to obey rules or to serve in ministry, but to be in a relationship with Him.
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New International Version (NIV)
23 Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
Cindy Park continued the WITH series, reminding us that we’re called to be in relationship with Jesus, where we desire only Him, not to use Him as a means to an ends. In order to be in this type of relationship, we need to monitor and guard our hearts. Proverbs 4:23 states that we need to guard our hearts because it is the source of everything we do. Though we may be doing the “right” things and serving others, problems that may be deeply hidden within our hearts can manifest them in other parts of our lives – perhaps quickness to anger, or malaise being in a ministry. Therefore, it is imperative that we monitor our hearts and search our motives. The only way to truly guard our hearts and heal our souls is by spending time with God, and in real community. As Christ followers, we are not called to obey rules or to serve in ministry, but to be in a relationship with Him.
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Sermon Rewind 9/18/11 – Abba, I Belong to You
Mark 14:32-36 New International Version (NIV)
Gethsemane
32 They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. 34 “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” he said to them. “Stay here and keep watch.”
35 Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him. 36 “Abba,[a] Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
Benjie Kim continued the WITH series with a sermon on what it looks like to have an intimate relationship with God. He shared from Mark 14:32-36, when Jesus prayed in Gethsemane because he was deeply distressed and troubled, and his soul was overwhelmed with sorrow. God calls us to have two traits to overcoming the darkest times in our lives: (1) having an authentic relationship with proper community and practicing complete transparency is essential. We are called to share the depths of our souls to the people in our lives that can walk with us and guide us. (2) having a relationship with with God that reflects Abba (daddy, papa, my own dear father). Our relationship with God ought to reflect a very intimate relationship between father and son/daughter. Healthy solitude is the opposite of escape. Take time in your life to have our hands open to claim and pray, “Abba, I belong to you.”
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Sermon Rewind 9/11/11 - Abiding In Jesus
John 15:5
New International Version (NIV)
5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Pastor Peter began a new sermon series on what it means to be just “WITH” God. God is usually a priority in our lives, but how often is He THE priority? We often ask and receive things from God, or do things for God, but do we ever just BE with God? In John 15:5, Jesus warns that abiding in Him is a matter of life and death. We are dependent on Jesus for life, and can only grow as a result of being connected to Him. Growing is a result of simply being in communion with God, not something we must do. Do we have a yearning to be with God as an end in itself rather than just as a means for comfort and provision? In the coming weeks, NOC will explore ways to just be WITH God.
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New International Version (NIV)
5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Pastor Peter began a new sermon series on what it means to be just “WITH” God. God is usually a priority in our lives, but how often is He THE priority? We often ask and receive things from God, or do things for God, but do we ever just BE with God? In John 15:5, Jesus warns that abiding in Him is a matter of life and death. We are dependent on Jesus for life, and can only grow as a result of being connected to Him. Growing is a result of simply being in communion with God, not something we must do. Do we have a yearning to be with God as an end in itself rather than just as a means for comfort and provision? In the coming weeks, NOC will explore ways to just be WITH God.
Listen to this sermon and others online!
http://noc.newsong.net/grow/resources/message-archives
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