In the beginning of Babylon created by Nimrod, the pinnacle monument of that kingdom was a tower that they desired to build up to heaven. This tower was a monument to man’s pride and rebellion against God – to build a tower to glorify their own name and to validate their own legacy. As with all works of men, the Lord brought that tower to naught, by scattering them since they could no longer communicate until the tower crumbled.
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We study the descriptions of how we are to “walk” in our discipleship. To walk as Jesus walked. To walk in love. To walk in the Spirit. To walk circumspectly. To walk worthy of our vocation wherewith we have been called.
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From Philippians 3, we consider winning Jesus Christ. To lay hold on Jesus Christ and grow in knowledge and fellowship with the Lord. To press towards the mark of the prize of the high calling of God.
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What exactly does the Lord say that he requires of his children? To love God with all our heart, soul, and mind. To fear God. To walk in all his ways and commandments. To serve God with all our heart. To do justly. To love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.
Preached at Five Mile PBC on 5/24/2026.
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We study the faithful saying of Christ as the Savior of all kinds of men, but specially of those that believe. There is a special salvation for those child of God who believe in Jesus Christ, saved from bondage and conviction, saved by the answer of a good conscience, saved from the untoward generation around us, and can even help other experience this special salvation through God’s word.
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“Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.” (Luke 11:52)
Here in Luke 11, Jesus is in the home of a certain Pharisee who had invited him to dinner (v.37). It appears this must have been a gathering of Jewish religious leadership – Pharisees, scribes, and lawyers – at this dinner. Jesus begins to quite harshly rebuke the Pharisees and scribes, pronouncing woe upon them. Then a lawyer who was in attendance asked, “Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also” (v.45), essentially asking whether he rebuked the lawyers as well, since they had not yet been directly mentioned by name. Then Jesus lays into the lawyers severely as well (v.45-52), culminating in this summary verse in Luke 11:52.
“And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.” (1 Sam. 21:9)
In David’s victory over Goliath, swords are a prominent focal point of the story. When David shows a desire to fight Goliath, Saul offers him his own sword and armor. David does not take Saul’s sword nor armor because he had not proved them (1 Sam. 17:39) but instead relies upon his shepherd’s sling for the battle. Then, when David comes out against Goliath, he publicly declares that the battle is the Lord’s – not fought or won with the weapons of man, such as swords and spears. “45) Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied… 47) And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’S, and he will give you into our hands.” (1 Sam. 17:45-47) When David slew Goliath with just a stone from his sling, scripture makes sure to denote that there was no sword in David’s hand. “So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.” (17:50)
Every day we make decisions about how to dress and what clothes to put on, and in like manner in the kingdom of God, we have to make the purposeful decision to put off the flesh that comes naturally and put on the clothing of the elect. To be clothed with humility. To put on mercy, kindness, longsuffering, and love – and ultimately, to put on Christ.
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In the aftermath of the flood, God gave a token of his covenant, to never again destroy the world by water – with the rainbow. However, it is called an everlasting covenant and we see the rainbow in heaven. This makes us think there is a greater lesson that just the world will not be destroyed by water. Praise God for his covenant faithfulness that his people will never be destroyed because we have been saved by the ark of Jesus Christ!
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We feel like our daily duties in serving the Lord might be challenging, but are encouraged that God’s grace is always sufficient. It might seem daunting, but God will sustain us in fulfilling his calling.
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