Sermons by “Pastor Jesse Brubaker”

Evidence of, Not a Formula for

“If we confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised him from the dead, we will be saved.” But confessing and believing are not a formula to be followed to become saved. Rather, they are evidence that we have been saved. Believing and confessing are the outward expression of an inner reality. By God’s grace the Word of faith is indeed near us, in our hearts to believe and in our mouths to confess.

Children of the Promise

Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I [your God] will make with you an everlasting promise, my steadfast, sure love for David.

Behold, you, [the son of David] shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel for he has glorified you.

Not all are counted children of Abraham because they are his offspring according to the flesh, only the Children of the Promise. For though Jacob and Esau were not yet born, and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God’s purpose of election might continue – not because of works but because of him who calls – Rebekah was told, “the older will serve the younger.” In a similar reversal of expectations God opened the door to the receipt of the Gospel first to the Gentiles, while permitting a temporary spiritual blindness to harden much of Israel.

More Than Conquerors

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

When there are no words…

When we try to pray, but don’t know how or what to say, the Spirit himself intercedes with the Father for us with groanings too deep for words.

A Father to turn to

God has chosen us. Let us choose Him.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

Return to your stronghold, oh prisoner of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.

All things have been handed over to me by my Father. Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, and you shall find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

The Fruit of Knowing Christ

While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But we have now died to the law through the body of Christ, so that we may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Weaponry

You have been brought from death to life. You are no longer under law but under grace, so sin will have no dominion over you. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as weaponry for unrighteousness, but to God as weaponry for righteousness.

At The Right Time

God shows his love for us in that while we were still weak, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly. Just as sin came into the world through one man, and many died through that man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.

A Family of Faith

Abraham did not waver concerning the promise of God, but grew strong in his faith as he gave Him glory, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also, we who believe God, and trust in Jesus.