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Kept By The Power Of God
Acts 27:39–28:16 records the final leg of the Apostle Paul's journey to Rome — shipwreck, a viper's bite on the beach at Malta, miraculous healings, and at last the arrival that God had promised. The central question the passage forces upon every hearer is whether God keeps His promises when His servants suffer. Drawing on Ecclesiastes 9, John 9, and Luke 13, the sermon demonstrates that calamity falls on the righteous and the wicked alike without distinction, and that the right response to suffering is not to identify whose sin caused it but to seek God's glory in it. The believer's ground of confidence is 1 Peter 1:5 — that the people of God are kept by His power through faith, and that the same sovereign purpose which brought Paul safely to Rome will bring every trusting soul to its appointed end.
The Defeat of the Wicked by the Lord
Psalm 52 confronts the believer who watches the wicked prosper, use their tongue to destroy the innocent, and appear to escape all consequence. Working through the psalm's three movements — the boasting of the evildoer, God's fourfold judgment from heaven, and the believing response — the sermon shows that the Lord's steadfast love is the anchor of hope when earthly circumstances seem out of control. The psalm is then read christologically: Christ is contrasted with the wicked who will be destroyed forever, Christ is the righteous one who laughs at his enemies, and Christ is himself the green olive tree in whom the believer finds safety. The sermon calls both believer and unbeliever to stay with Jesus, trusting his timing rather than demanding God act on a human schedule.
Lessons from Paul's Ministry - Acts 20:17-31
Acts 20:17–31 presents Paul's farewell address to the Ephesian elders as a model for Christian ministry and congregational faithfulness. The sermon draws four lessons from Paul's example: the transparent, suffering-marked character of his ministry; the divine call and gospel mission that sustained him; the sobering warning against wolves from without and false teachers from within; and the encouraging promise that God and the word of his grace are able to build up and preserve his people to their final inheritance. The application presses both ministers and congregants toward openness before God's people, vigilance against false teaching, and diligent use of the means of grace.
Live Stream - October 01, 2023
Acts 20:17–32 records Paul's farewell address to the Ephesian elders, and this exposition draws four lessons from that address for all who labour in Christian ministry and all who sit under it: the transparent example Paul modelled, the singular motivation of pleasing a sovereign God even through suffering, the urgent warning against wolves from without and false teachers from within, and the sustaining encouragement that God will keep his people to their inheritance through the gospel of his grace. The sermon calls those already in ministry to openness and fidelity, urges young believers to consider the call, and presses the unconverted to receive the gospel of the grace of God while it is offered.
The Apostolic Sermon
Peter's sermon on the day of Pentecost, recorded in Acts 2:14–41, is the first apostolic proclamation of the risen Christ, and it follows a carefully constructed argument: correcting a false accusation, demonstrating from Old Testament Scripture who the Messiah is, and confronting the hearers with their guilt before the exalted Lord. The sermon examines how Peter builds his case through the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ, drawing on Joel 2, Psalm 16, and Psalm 110 to show that every stage of Christ's humiliation and exaltation was foreordained. The hearers' anguished question — 'What shall we do?' — is answered with a call to repentance, faith, and baptism, which Peter grounds not in human decision alone but in the sovereign, effectual call of God. The application presses hearers to submit to Christ as Lord, to feel the weight of sin's horror, and to follow repentance and faith with public baptism and membership in the local church.