Sermons

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CrossPointe Community Church
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Chippewa Lake, OH 44215

SCRIPTURE

You have heard that our ancestors were told, ‘You must not murder. If you commit murder, you are subject to judgment.’ But I say, if you are even angry with someone, you are subject to judgment! If you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court. And if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell.

So if you are presenting a sacrifice at the altar in the Temple and you suddenly remember that someone has something against you, leave your sacrifice there at the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God.

Matthew 5:21-24

Are any of you suffering hardships? You should pray. Are any of you happy? You should sing praises. Are any of you sick? You should call for the elders of the church to come and pray over you, anointing you with oil in the name of the Lord. Such a prayer offered in faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make you well. And if you have committed any sins, you will be forgiven.

Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years! 18 Then, when he prayed again, the sky sent down rain and the earth began to yield its crops.

James 5:13-18

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CrossPointe Community Church
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Chippewa Lake, OH 44215

SCRIPTURE

I waited patiently for the Lord to help me,
and he turned to me and heard my cry.
2 He lifted me out of the pit of despair,
out of the mud and the mire.
He set my feet on solid ground
and steadied me as I walked along.
3 He has given me a new song to sing,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see what he has done and be amazed.
They will put their trust in the Lord.

Psalm 40:1-3

For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are. But now God has shown us a way to be made right with Him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago. We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are. For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, in His grace, freely makes us right in His sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when He freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed His life, shedding His blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when He held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, for He was looking ahead and including them in what He would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate His righteousness, for He himself is fair and just, and He makes sinners right in His sight when they believe in Jesus.

Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on obeying the law. It is based on faith. So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.

Romans 3:20-28

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CrossPointe Community Church
P O Box 126
Chippewa Lake, OH 44215

SCRIPTURE

About this time Jesus was informed that Pilate had murdered some people from Galilee as they were offering sacrifices at the Temple. “Do you think those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other people from Galilee?” Jesus asked. “Is that why they suffered? Not at all! And you will perish, too, unless you repent of your sins and turn to God. And what about the eighteen people who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them? Were they the worst sinners in Jerusalem? No, and I tell you again that unless you repent, you will perish, too.”

Then Jesus told this story: “A man planted a fig tree in his garden and came again and again to see if there was any fruit on it, but he was always disappointed. Finally, he said to his gardener, ‘I’ve waited three years, and there hasn’t been a single fig! Cut it down. It’s just taking up space in the garden.’
“The gardener answered, ‘Sir, give it one more chance. Leave it another year, and I’ll give it special attention and plenty of fertilizer. If we get figs next year, fine. If not, then you can cut it down.’”

Luke 13:1-9

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If you love Me, obey My commandments. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it isn’t looking for Him and doesn’t recognize Him. But you know Him, because He lives with you now and later will be in you. No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you. Soon the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me. Since I live, you also will live. When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you. Those who accept My commandments and obey them are the ones who love Me. And because they love Me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal Myself to each of them.

John 14:15-21

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CrossPointe Community Church
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Chippewa Lake, OH 44215

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Jesus traveled through all the towns and villages of that area, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And He healed every kind of disease and illness. When He saw the crowds, He had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. He said to His disciples, “The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask Him to send more workers into His fields.”

Matthew 9:35-38

Good morning, everyone! Are you ready to get into some really mind-bending stuff, or is it too early for that? Alright, wake up and get your thinking caps on because today we’re talking about one of the most profound doctrines of Christianity. The Trinity! How many of you struggle to understand the Trinity? Well, technically we all do. It’s a concept that goes beyond human understanding. Perhaps some of you even wonder where we get this idea from. Hopefully what I have to share with you today will help you understand it just a little bit better, or at least show you where exactly our understanding falls short, and reveal to you why we hold this doctrine.

I chose this topic because the Trinity truly matters. It has to do with God’s fundamental nature. It has to do with what God has revealed about Himself, and when God reveals something about Himself, that is a precious thing to be received, meditated on, and guarded. Received, because when God speaks we have to accept what He says whether we get it or not. Meditated on, because it’s important to better know the One we worship. And guarded, because as with all doctrines, opposition rises against it and we need to be equipped to counter that. Unfortunately, opponents of the Holy Trinity have gotten rather loud as of late, and I fear that we’ve taken this doctrine for granted. It may very well be that many of us just aren’t rooted enough in knowledge to handle these critics, and as a result, some may fall into error or be discouraged.

Of course, the Trinity is the doctrine that God exists as one being who is three coequal and coeternal persons. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Now everyone agrees that the Father is God. If there’s a group out there that denies the deity of the Father, I’m not aware of their existence. And frankly, I’m not sure how it would be possible to come to that conclusion. We really only need to examine the scriptures that teach the deity of the Son and the Spirit to get our Trinitarian train rolling.

Let’s start with the Son and see in scripture where Jesus is revealed to be God.