The Day of Atonement: God opened the way for Israel to draw near through the mediator and sacrifice He appointed.

1. A Prepared Priest approaches God

God's holiness set the boundary (vv. 1-2)

God's instructions marks the way (vv. 3-10)

2. A Provided Sacrifices makes atonement

The priest first atones for himself (vv. 11-14)

The blood cleanses the people (vv. 15-19)

3. A Purged people leave their guilt behind

Confessed guilt is carried away (vv. 20-22)

Cleansed people worship humbly (vv. 23-34)

1. Where God is Heard

God interrupts the ordinary

2. Where God is Revealed

God Identifies Himself Personally

3. Where God is Reverenced

God establishes the boundary of holiness

"We Are Made In His Image"

Genesis 1: 26-27

1. We bear His image

I. the imago Dei

2. We broke His fellowship

I. Where art thou?

3. We are brought back through Christ

I. reconciling the world unto Himself

A. Pride measures righteous by comparison.

B. Pride magnifies religious achievement.

2. Humility brings us face to face with our true condition.

A. Conviction removes every pretense.

B. Confession rests entirely on mercy.

3. Humility restores us to real relationship with a real God.

A. Humility receives mercy because it knows need.

B. Humility rejoices in grace because it knows unworthiness.

2. His Love Stands Through Betrayal (vv 18-35)

3. His Love Stays Through Failure (vv 36-38)

2. He Cried for What Only Jesus Could Give (vv 47-48)

3. Jesus Stopped for the Man Everybody Else Passed By (v 49)

4. He Left Something Behind to Come to Jesus (vv 50-51)

5. The Man Who Met Jesus Never Went Back to His Old Road (v 52)

2. Jesus Entered Every Human Sorrow

3. Jesus Accomplished Eternal Redemption

2. The Cure (vv 18-20)

2. God Exposes His People's Hearts (Exodus 14:10-14)

3. God Makes a Way Through the Impossible (Exodus 14:15-25)

4. God Receives the Glory (Exodus 14:26-31)

God sometimes blocks every human escape so His people discover that God is the only way forward.

2. God's Plan Began Before You Were Born

3. God's Grace Carried You To This Moment

4. God's Glory is Already Certain

2. The Church at Thessolonica Had a Second Coming Kind of Mentality 

3. The Church of Thessolonica Would Never, Never, Never Give up 

2. The Groaning of Believers

3. The Groaning of the Spirit

4. The Glory that is Coming

2. A Nation Must Embrace God's Direction

3. A Nation Must Choose its Destination

2. The Witness Establishes our Abode

3. The Witness Exposes our Allegiance

4. The Witness Expresses our Adoption

2. The Road to Ruin

3. The Road to Restoration

2. The devil's authority has been defeated

3. The devil's argument has been destroyed

4. The devil's appeal has been denied

2. The Children Were Blocked From Jesus

3. The Children Were Blessed By Jesus

2. The Failure of False Gods: “The god that answereth by fire, let him be God.”

3. The Fire of Full Surrender: “Then the fire of the LORD fell…”

2. The Shepherd Leads Me Where My Flesh Would Never Go

3. The Shepherd Restores What Life Has Drained

4. The Shepherd Stays With Me in the Valley

5. The Shepherd Prepares a Table in Front of My Enemies

6. The Shepherd’s Goodness Will Bring Me Home

2. A Mother Who Received What She Didn't Ask For (vv. 11-17)

3. A Mother Who Faced What She Feared (vv. 18-20)

4. A Mother Who Refused To Accept The Final Word (vv. 21-30)

5. A Mother Who Wouldn't Let Go (vv. 30-37)

2. A Man Convinced of Who Jesus Is (v 41-42)

3. A Man Cried out for Mercy (v 42)

2. Life Feels Uncertain Because We Cannot Control Time (Ecclesiastes 3:9–10)

3. Eternity Is Planted In You (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

2. The Crisis: When faith struggles but still reaches for Jesus

3. The Choice: Don't let offense cancel your faith

2. Tension in His Presence (John 20:19)

3. Tranquility Before Being Sent Out (John 20:19, 21)

4. The Testimony of the Wounds (John 20:20)

5. The Transformation by His Power (John 20:21–22)

2. The First Witnesses Were the “Wrong People” (Matthew 28:1; Luke 24:10)

3. They Came to Finish a Funeral… Not Find a Resurrection (Mark 16:1-3)

4. Jesus Was Already Gone… But He Was Not Absent (John 20:14-16)

5. The Grave Clothes Were Folded Because Death Was Finished (John 20:6-7)

6. Fear and Joy Can Coexist in Resurrection Faith (Matthew 28:8)

2. The Deception of the Nations Is Spiritually Driven (Revelation 16:13–14)

3. The Readiness of the Saints Is Urgently Commanded (Revelation 16:15)

4. The Victory of Christ Is Decisively Assured (Revelation 19:11–16)

2. The Control of God Over the Battle (Ezekiel 38:17-23)

3. The Crushing of God Upon the Nations (Ezekiel 39, Revelation 20:7-10)

2. The Originator of the Church

3. The Outcome of the Church

2. The Four Winds of Scattering 

3. The Latter Days

4. What are the Possible Implications with Iran?

2. The Appeal of the Word of God

3. The Aim of the Word of God  

4. The Advantage of the Word of God

2. Investigating Creation

3. Introspecting Man

Death is doomed

2. The Gospel compels us to love like Jesus

3. The Gospel compels us to think like Jesus

4. The Gospel compels us to pray like Jesus

2. The Promise of the Coming King (Hag. 2:23)

2. The Uncleanness of Death (Hag. 2:13)

3. The Uncleanness of the People (Hag. 2:14)

4. The Holiness of the Temple (Hag. 2:15-19a)

5. The Grace of God (Hag. 2:19b)

2. Courage Rebuilding the Current Temple (Hag. 2:4-5)

3. Comfort Regarding the Future Temple (Hag. 2:6-9)

2. The Rebuke from the Lord (Hag. 1:3-11)

3. The Response of the People (Hag. 1:12)

4. The Reassurance from the Lord (Hag. 1:13-15)

2. The “Son of David” is a Promised Fulfilled

3. The “Son of David” is a Promise Guaranteed

2. God Permits Your Christmas Suffering

3. God Enters Your Christmas Suffering

2. The Explanation Illustrates God's Humility

3. The Application Illustrates God's Purpose

2. The Witness that Strengthens Our Faith

3. The Wonder that Inspires Our Faith

4. The Way God Enlarges Our Faith

2. The Tragedy of Passing Opportunities

3. The Tragedy of the Lost Without Jesus

“Together, we can turn the world upside down. We will never be fishers of men unless we grasp John 3:16”

1. There is a great, prevailing, universal threat against all mankind

2. There is a colossal love 

3. Heaven is your home 

2. The Violation Discouraged

3. The Restoration Promised

2. The Destruction of the Adulterous Life

3. The Defense for the Holy Life

2. Confidence

3. Compassion

4. Costly

2. We are Cautioned to Regard our Children

3. We are Called to Rescue our Family

2. Keep on Keeping On

3. We Have Too Much to Gain to Lose

2. The Message of the Lord's Day

3. The Mindset of Our Day

2. A Careful Attention to the Name of God

3. A Crucial Appreciation for the Name of God

2. The Gift of Spiritual Life - Choose

3. The Gift of Eternal Life - Celebrate

2. Learn to obey our parents (vv 8-9)

3. Learn to resist peer pressure (vv 10-19)

4. Learn that choices have consequences (vv 20-33)

2. Because of Who He Is

3. Because of What He Wants from Us

2. The Confirmation of One’s Personal Salvation 

3. The Rejection of One’s Deceitful Reprobation

2. Comforting Promises 

3. Confirming Prayers 

2. The Illustration of Hope

3. The Ingredients of Hope

4. The Incarnation of Hope