Matthew 17:14-23 | Transcription: Matthew seventeen is where we are this morning, verses fourteen through twenty three. I'm going to read it and then pray and dive into God's Word together. Matthew seventeen, verse fourteen. And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him, kneeling before him being Jesus, and said, Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic, and he suffers terribly. Often he falls into the fire and often into the water. I brought him to your dis

Matthew 17:4-8 | Transcription: Matthew seventeen, verse one. After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah talking with him. And Peter said to Jesus, Lord, it is good that we're here. If you wish, I'll make three tents here, one for you and one f

1 Corinthians 2:10-12 | Transcription: First Corinthians chapter two, verses ten through twelve. These things God has revealed to us through the spirit, for the spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person which is in him, so also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God, that we might understand the

1 Corinthians 15:1-7 | Transcription: I invite you to open your Bibles tonight to First Corinthians chapter fifteen. Michael and Marcy, thanks for that overview of your ministry, and we are looking forward to seeing you serve the Lord there and be encouraged by what we hear. It was a wonderful day today with the doctor orchestra this morning, and I hope that you are all encouraged by that. It's a great way to end your day. Looking at First Corinthians chapter fifteen, verses

Matthew 17:9-13 | Transcription: Matthew seventeen, verse one. After six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah talking with him. And Peter said to Jesus, Lord, it is good that we're here. If you wish, I'll make three tents here, one for you and o

Luke 19:10 | Transcription: Tonight we continue our study of the Nicene Creed. Turning to the phrase in the Creed for us and for our salvation. Everything in the Creed so far has been true about God, independent of us, except for maybe the phrase we believe, or I believe that one requires us. But the rest of the first part of the Nicene Creed is just true about God, generally independent of his creation. That all changes tonight. I'll put the Creed so far on the screen. I bel

Matthew 17:1-8 |Transcription: In John seventeen, verse five, Jesus prays what's called his high priestly prayer, and he prays to the father, and he asks the father. This. He prays, father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. When Jesus prays that he's praying that God would, when Jesus returns to heaven, that God would glorify Jesus by receiving him back in the way in which he was before he came to earth. There's a re

John 1:3 |Transcription: We're going to look at one verse tonight, but kind of a bigger scope of John chapter one. It's John one, verse three. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made. John in John chapter one begins where Genesis chapter one begins the very beginning of the Bible. The Bible begins with in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And Jo

Psalm 113 |Transcription: This morning. Our text is Psalm one hundred and thirteen. So let's begin our time by reading from God's Word. If you look down at your copy of of the scriptures, follow with me. As I read Psalm one hundred and thirteen, beginning in verse one, the word of God says this. Praise the Lord. Praise, O servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore. From the rising of the sun to its s

Matthew 16:27-28 |Transcription: Tonight, by the way. Five fifteen we'll be looking at that phrase in the Nicene Creed that the Son of God is light of light. That is a biblical expression from revelation that he is the light of the the lamb. The light of God will illuminate, uh, heaven. And so we'll look at where that expression comes from, what it means that when we say that Jesus is the light of God, that's tonight at five fifteen this morning, we finished Matthew sixteen.

Revelation 21:23 |Transcription: We'll eventually get to revelation twenty one tonight. Uh, you can open there if you want the other verses until there will be on the screen, but it'll be at the end when we get to revelation twenty one. As I mentioned, this is our fourth sermon to the Nicene Creed. We began by looking at what it means to to confess. We believe. And then from there, we looked at what it means to believe in one God. And if you recall, I said, God is one in thre

Matthew 16:24-26 |Transcription: It was one hundred years before Jesus died when Rome put down the famous slave revolt led by Spartacus. After that rebellion was crushed, Roman general Crassus captured six thousand of the surviving slaves as a warning to the rest of the empire. He lined the road from Capua to Rome with crosses, six thousand of them, and crucified every one of the captured slaves. Travelers walking on that road would have seen thousands of men hanging in agony

1 Corinthians 8:6 |Transcription: First Corinthians eight. I'm going to read verses one. Through seven. Now, concerning food offered to idols, we know that all of us possess knowledge. This knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something he doesn't yet know, as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol has no real existence and that there is no Go

Matthew 16:21-23 |Transcription: Matthew sixteen, verse twenty one. From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem. That he must suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, far be it from you, Lord. This should never happen to you. But Jesus turned and said to Peter, get behind me, Satan. You're a hindrance to me, for you a

Deuteronomy 6:4 |Transcription: Deuteronomy six, verse four hear, O Israel, Yahweh our God, Yahweh is one. This is in Judaism, probably the most fundamental and basic description of God in all of the Bible. It is foundational to Judaism as a whole. This statement comes after the Ten Commandments, which we read earlier tonight for a scripture reading. It is the introduction of Moses's farewell speech to Israel. Moses winds up in his farewell speech in Deuteronomy four, explain

Matthew 16:18-20 |Transcription: Matthew sixteen. I'll begin reading in verse sixteen, Simon Peter replied, you are the Christ, the son of the living God. And Jesus answered him, blessed are you, Simon Barjona for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter. And upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you

1 Timothy 3:16 |Transcription: You can open your Bibles to First Timothy, although it'll be another seventeen to twenty minutes before we actually get to this text. But when we settle on a text, it will be First Timothy chapter one or chapter three. Let me pray for us before we join God's Word together. Lord, we do ask for your word to aid us tonight. I pray that it would encourage us, convict us, mold us into the image of Christ. We know there's a real sense in which we have

Matthew 16:13-17 |Transcription: Matthew, chapter 16, I'm going to read verses 13 through 18 this morning. I didn't quite get through all of it first hour, but, and I'm even further behind now, but we'll see. When Jesus came into the district of Caesarea, Philippi, and verse 13 there, he asked his disciples, who do people say that the Son of man is? They said, some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, others Jeremiah, or even one of the prophets, Jesus said to them, but w

Hebrews 1:3 |Transcription: My family and I have been living in Burke for eight years now. We started off in Alexandria and we lived there for a while, we moved around and then we went to Springfield and we lived there for a little while and then we moved around and then eventually we made our way out to Burke. It's our own little like mini micro manifest destiny if you will. Go West, middle-aged man and we love Burke. Burke is great. I'm grateful for it. There's restaurants.

Matthew 16:5-12 |Transcription: A few months ago, an outbreak of what appeared to be blindness hit dozens of apparently random people. As the CDC investigated, they discovered that many of these people, if not all of them, were backpackers. And as they went further into making connections between them, they discovered that all of them had vacationed in Laos and had stayed at the same hostel over a period of several months and had, more particularly, drank the same kind of alc