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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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We conclude our series regarding our Christian sojourn or as have titled it, “Sojourning Under the Sun.” As we summarize and conclude this series an important question is: what is Israel? Is Israel someone who lived in history, a nation, a people in a land, or a people that have ceased to exist with the coming of Christ? These are important questions to define Israel. So, what do we do with the nation of Israel?
We can so easily fall into a trap where we think that our works, our service, or our input is what drives something forward. You can see in Jacob’s life where Jacob schemes and fights to get ahead again and again. It would seem that this scheming is working as Jacob has two wives, many children, and has acquired great wealth from his uncle. What is Jacob missing? How does all this result to Jacob engaged in a supernatural wrestling match? What is the purpose of such a bout?
The Lord has bound himself to work in the context and the confines of the covenantal line. This means that the promise made to Abraham must have a successor to receive that promise. Isaac is getting old, he has two children, but the Lord has chosen one child to be the heir of the promise. Isaac does not want to confer the blessing to the younger, but to the older. Is the Lord still able to establish His Sabbath people?
The season of Christmas concludes with New Years. New Year’s Day is a day of transition of moving from an old year to a new year. It is our tradition to make resolutions and hope that the new year is better and more blessed than last year. This is not necessarily a bad thing provided that we are doing this in the confidence of the grace of God, but what should be the ultimate hope for the new year? What should be our focus as we move from this year to the next year? What can Jacob teach us about a struggled life in the Lord as he prepares for the ultimate transition from this age to being with our Lord?
We can understand that Jacob is afraid to meet his brother Esau because Esau vowed to kill Jacob which is why Jacob left his home. So, we can understand Jacob’s angst as he is about to meet his brother. So, why would God take the time to wrestle with this poor guy rather than simply defeating Esau? What does this wrestling teach Jacob? What does this wrestling teach us? What does this wrestling declare about Christmas?
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.
