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This is where you will find sermons and updates for our church. Our mission is to preach expository sermons focusing on the gospel of Christ. We are a church that is tied to the reformed tradition and seeks to submit to the scriptures so we walk in the Lord’s wisdom rather than our own.
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This is the last meditation in our series of God’s Pilgrim Citizens. We can be assured that our citizenship is in heaven because Christ has overcome in our place. We recall the tree of life and how the opening and closing of scripture shows the ultimate outcome of our victory in Christ. Thank you for listening to this series and I hope it helped solidify your thoughts as it did for me.
The Lord commanded Israel to go into the land to engage in holy war. They are to devote all that is unholy to destruction. We skip ahead in Scripture and we consider Jeremiah 29. This is a letter that Jeremiah writes to the exiles. He encourages them to seek the welfare of the city. What does this have to do with us today? We consider how Jeremiah 29 informs our life today as we sojourn under the sun as those secured in Christ.
The Lord promises to bring his people into His rest. So, now we consider the Lord’s people going into Canaan. They have a command to devote to destruction which is pretty extreme. How does this show that the Lord is serious about his redemption and also his judgment?
The Lord sword to Abraham that he would deliver Abraham’s descendants out of the land of slavery. We look at the exodus and the assurance that the Lord’s mighty hand is shown in this marvelous event. We are reminded that God works in the context of a community, and he brings his pilgrim citizens out of their slavery to the land of life.
The Lord secures his citizens and shepherds them to rest in the heavenly city. We consider Genesis 15 and how this ancient history teaches the unity of God’s purpose through history for all God’s citzen people. We might be tempted to think that this history is too old to impact our life today, but in fact it lays out the very ethic for how we orient our days.
The Lord is going to raise up citizens to dwell in his kingdom. They will be pilgrims in this world. This week we spend a few minutes seeking to lay out how one enters into the Lord’s kingdom. Does the Lord secure every single human being in this age meaning that all are in Christ Jesus no matter what? Does the Lord secure only 144,000 people as a very literal number? Can we even know if we are citizens of heaven and members of God’s Pilgrim Citizens?
We see the tree of life in the Garden of Eden and in the heavenly temple. It would appear that as Adam has to obey the law and we are called to obey the law that our covenantal arrangement is the same. Do we individually have to earn heaven? How do we enter heaven after Adam Failed? What is the consequence of the fall and what is the consequence of Christ’s success?
The Tree of Life holds out the promise of glory. This tree is consumed only by those who overcome. This implies that Adam would not have eaten from this tree until his probation in Eden is over. How does one overcome and eat the fruit from the tree of life?
We do a series that piggy backs on God’s Pilgrim People. Now we are going to look at the overall structure of Scripture where we see the whole of the scripture rather than the historic progression. This is an introduction to the series, but we also hear some important precautions about our human tendency as we start this new series considering our heavenly citizenship.
We are a bible believing church in the Belgrade, MT. We are a Reformed Protestant church who desire to build one another up in love as we sojourn under the sun.
