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Sermon - Trinity XIII, 2026 - 2 Chronicles 28:8-15

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The Good Samaritan, Joseph Highmore, 1744   God’s People are Those Who Have Faith in Him We typically think my people are those who are like me externally History of the two kingdoms The Faithful Remnant of Samaria was more faithful than Judah We are God’s people through faith The lawyer asked Jesus: “ Who is my neighbor? ” That’s another way of asking: “Who are my people?” We ask this question because like prefers like and we want to love those people who are like us more than we love those who are not like us. This is a generally true principle in many facets of life. We do this in mostly playful ways with sports, where we greatly prefer our team which we identify with and we do not like the rival teams. This happens more seriously between countries, sometimes even to the point of war. This happens with some seriousness between political parties, sometimes leading to political assassinations. This happens in families when one family member defends another even through criminal be...
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Sermon - Trinity XXV 2018 - Matthew 24:15-28

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Where is the Messiah? Where is the Savior? That’s the question posed to us in these latter days, these end times. And we are in the end times you know. When Jesus’ disciples asked Him “ When will these things be, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age? ” He didn’t say it’s a long time away, He simply told them “ See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name saying, I am the Christ, and they will lead many astray. ” The end of the age is already here. The history of the world is already conveniently divided up into two periods: before the birth of Christ, and after the birth of Christ, the beginning and the end. We of course live in the period after the birth of Christ, we are living in the end times now. So Jesus’ words about the end times and His warnings about not being led astray applies to us. We will not escape tribulation and persecution and temptations, since we are currently living in the great tribulation. So what words of enc...
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