Read the text – Isaiah 55:1-13, Isaiah 56:1-8
This sermon is a part of the ‘Will God help his people?’ sermon series. God calls us to draw near, promises an everlasting covenant, and calls us to live in response. Ken Noakes gives this sermon on living as a Christian at Lower Mountain Anglican Church, Glenbrook evening service.
Read the text – Isaiah 52:13-53:12
In the old testament, God showed us more than a plan for judgement, he showed us his plan for salvation. In this sermon of the sermon series “Will God help his people?”, Paul Hallam reveals God’s plan for saving us through his perfect ‘servant’ mentioned in Isaiah.
Read the text – Isaiah 50:4-51:16, Isaiah 52:7-10
For the sermon series, ‘Will God help is People?’, we have been discussing what Isaiah says on Christian Hardship. Ken Noakes reminds us that Jesus knows our pain. His arms are a picture of suffering, yet with those arms he will gather in the nations, break the chains of the oppressor, and gently comfort all who come to him.
Read the text – Isaiah 49:1-26
For the sermon series, ‘Will God help is People?’, we have been discussing what Isaiah says on Christian Hardship, but did Jesus himself find hardship? Ken Noakes tells us that God’s global salvation comes through the suffering servant—Jesus, the true Israel—who speaks with divine authority, endures rejection, and brings light not just to God’s people, but to the ends of the earth. We need to see the goodness and power of Jesus as the one who speaks God’s word like a sharpened sword (Rev 1), who is a covenant between God and people, and who suffers as he brings salvation to the world.
Read the text – Isaiah 46:8-47:11, Isaiah 48:1-22
In this sermon series, ‘Will God Help his People?’, we worked through a few questions on struggle, pain, and loneliness when following God. This time, we will answer the question ‘Are you too comfortable?’. Nick Lindeback talks on worldly and Godly comfort, and what it means to be comfortable in God in a world set on material comforts.
Read the text – Isaiah 40:1-31
In this new sermon series, Salvation for God’s People, we look back to the book of Isaiah chapter 40 to 66. This sermon, spoken by Nick Lindeback, focuses finding hope even in hard times. That even during difficult periods God is in control and he provides Salvation and comfort for His people.
Read the text – Job 19:1-29
We have met the upright and blameless Job, and seen the tragedy and suffering which fell upon him. In the chapters that follow (Job 3-27), Job responds to the “comfort” (?) of his friends with words full of agony and pain. Job looks to his only hope: a sovereign and perfect God who cannot allow injustice. In spite of his circumstances and feelings, the small glimmer of hope from 9:33-34 which became a faint trickle of hope in 14:14-15 and 16:19-21, has become much more certain, to the point where declares “I know that my redeemer lives!”(19:25). This yet again reveals that the deepest desire of his heart is to be in the presence of the God he loves (19:27). In spite of what his friends have said, Job doesn’t fear death because he is sure that he will see the Lord face to face, and that there is the hope of a resurrection (19:26).
In this final sermon at Trinity City, Chris Jolliffe shows from Isaiah chapter 40 the extent of God’s comfort to his people, with forgiveness of sin through Jesus’ death.
Then we are shown more of God’s wonderful promises in Isaiah and reminded of God’s sovereign power and faithfulness – our God will keep every one of his promises. One of which is that our God will come (as Jesus) in power to save and bring peace and that he will also be our perfect shepherd, caring and loving.
Next Chris looks to the second part of Isaiah 40 to remind us that God knows our weaknesses, that we so easily doubt him. So we consider this series of rhetorical questions that point to God’s sovereignty and power; so that we can be fully confident that he does keep his promises, to save and ultimately to take us to be with him for ever.
Ken Noakes preaching at Trinity Hills, talks of Paul’s faithfulness and confidence in God, and that despite suffering and “the storms of life”, that God will comfort us and that his kingdom will prevail.
Read the Bible texts: Acts 27:1-28:16
Workings, Outline and Script for this Talk – Acts 27.1-28.16
Is it true that ‘God will never give you more than you can handle’? Did Jesus say so? The fourth topic in our ‘Five Things Jesus Never Said’ series!
Sermon ‘Five Things Jesus Never Said: God Will Never Give You More Than You Can Handle’ (Psalm 61 & 2 Corinthians 1:3-11) by Ken D Noakes is available in audio and video: http://bit.ly/2G4GAEi
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Full Script for this talk – ‘God will never give you more than you can handle!’
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