St. Timothy Lutheran Church » Salvation http://www.sainttimothy.org Sharing the Joy! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:56:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 ©2011 St. Timothy Lutheran Church, Lombard IL hiddenvorlon@msn.com (St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church) hiddenvorlon@msn.com (St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church) 1440 http://www.sainttimothy.org/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg St. Timothy Lutheran Church http://www.sainttimothy.org 144 144 St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church: Sharing the Joy! A member of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lombard Illinois Podcast. This podcast contains sermons from our worship services. Religion, Jesus, Life, church, Christianity, Spirituality, Christ, God St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church hiddenvorlon@msn.com no no Jesus! Name of Wondrous Love http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/12/29/jesus-name-of-wondrous-love/ http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/12/29/jesus-name-of-wondrous-love/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:51:55 +0000 HiddenVorlon http://www.sainttimothy.org/?p=712 When we use words like “love,” people often have a warm feeling.  When we picture Mary and Joseph in the stable with Jesus in the manger, we likewise have a warm feeling about this idyllic scene.  In many ways this is true.  A Child is born.  There perils of Mary giving birth are over.  The comfort and encouragement of the shepherds and their report of what the angel said were surely welcome to both Mary and Joseph.

We are now on the eighth day of Christmas.  On that eighth day Mary and Joseph went to Jerusalem, to the temple, and there he was circumcised.  In a way this is a reality check for us.

  • The blood of Jesus was shed for the first time.
  • It showed that He was born as one of us to live under the law so that He could redeem us who live under the law.
  • It emphasizes the fact that He is true man, and that as such He came to suffer what we suffer and to die our death – the death of sinners.
  • With the circumcision of Christ we are reminded that His State of Humiliation has begun.  With the giving of His NAME as Jesus He is declared to all to be our SAVIOR – with all that means.  To be our savior cost Him the cross and the wrath of God, and has given us the gift of life and salvation.

It’s all in the name!

]]> http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/12/29/jesus-name-of-wondrous-love/feed/ 0 The Door Of Faith Is The Door To Heaven For All The World http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/09/12/the-door-of-faith-is-the-door-to-heaven-for-all-the-world/ http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/09/12/the-door-of-faith-is-the-door-to-heaven-for-all-the-world/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:04:34 +0000 HiddenVorlon http://www.sainttimothy.org/?p=615 THE DOOR OF FAITH IS THE DOOR TO HEAVEN FOR ALL THE WORLD

I. The World Suffers, Separated from God
II. Christ Is the Redeemer of the World

based on Matthew 15:21-28.

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I. Not to the Learned, but to Children
II. Not to the "Insiders" but to Christ's Chosen
III. To the Weary

Matthew 11:25-30.

]]> http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/08/01/salvation-comes-by-grace/feed/ 0 0:19:08 SALVATION COMES BY GRACE, and therefore I. Not to the Learned, but to Children II. Not to the "Insiders" but to Christ's Chosen III. To the Weary Matthew 11:25-30. Share on Facebook SALVATION COMES BY GRACE, and therefore I. Not to the Learned, but to Children II. Not to the "Insiders" but to Christ's Chosen III. To the Weary Matthew 11:25-30. Share on Facebook Podcast St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church no no The Athanasian Creed http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/06/16/the-athanasian-creed/ http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/06/16/the-athanasian-creed/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:42:27 +0000 HiddenVorlon http://www.sainttimothy.org/?p=575 read more...]]> The natural knowledge of God tells us only that there is a god, something that virtually everyone acknowledges, even if it is only a “prime cause” or “nature.”  We only know the living God, the God who is really there, because he has chosen to reveal Himself through the inspired Word given to Adam and Eve and to their descendants, and then written by the Prophets in the Old Testament and by the Apostles and Evangelists in the New Testament.

Because of the deceit of the devil and of the sinful nature of man, God is continually misrepresented and the faith of people is turned away from the true God.  In the Old Testament, God identified Himself as the One who had revealed Himself to the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and as YAWEH, (or Jehovah), I AM.  This is the unique name He revealed as His own.  Interchangeably with this He revealed Himself also in the Spirit of God, and in the Angel of the Lord.  For this reason the first-century Jews who accepted Christ as their Messiah had no difficulty with the understanding of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Because of the centrality of Christ as God the Son in God’s work to save us, early Christians confessed that Jesus is at the same time true man, as well as God with the Father and the Holy Spirit, and yet not three Gods, but One.  Jesus Identified himself also with YAWEH, declaring, “Before Abraham was, I AM.”  At various times false teachers arose who denied different aspects of the reality of God, especially the divinity of Christ.  In response, statements of belief called creeds were written to clearly state what God has revealed about Himself in the Bible.

While we grow in our understanding of the God in whom we believe, the important thing is that our faith is in the God who is really there.  For that reason to deny what God has said about Himself is to put our faith in something other than the God who is there – a figment of our imagination.
The Athanasian Creed is the most extensive of the three ecumenical or catholic (meaning “universal,” accepted by all Christian churches) creeds. 

Being written after the year 600 (and after many heresies had been refuted) this creed contrasts such false teaching with the truth.  This creed accentuates the fact that our faith rests in the God who really did create us, redeem us, and call us to faith through the gospel, and that only such faith is a saving faith.  It clearly teaches that faith in any other god leads to damnation.

The Athanasian Creed is traditionally confessed in the divine service on Trinity Sunday, because of its exhaustive expression of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

One clause that is sometimes jarring to Lutheran ears is #39, “And they that have done good will enter into life everlasting; and they that have done evil into everlasting fire.”  What about “salvation by grace through faith”?  This is a good reminder that Jesus fulfilled the law for us; He did not abolish it.  On judgment day sinners have no place with the Holy God.  Our salvation comes through faith in Christ who atoned for our sins, taking them away so that we may actually live and do those things that are good.  By faith we have nothing but good works before God.

]]> http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/06/16/the-athanasian-creed/feed/ 0 How We Are Saved From Sin And Death http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/06/13/how-we-are-saved-from-sin-and-death/ http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/06/13/how-we-are-saved-from-sin-and-death/#comments Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:27:57 +0000 HiddenVorlon http://www.sainttimothy.org/?p=573 How We Are Saved From Sin And Death
(based on Ephesians 2:4-10)

I. Why God Saves Us
II. For What Future God Saves Us
III. How God Saves Us
IV. What He Accomplishes in Our Lives by Saving Us

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I. Jesus Is the Way We Need
II. Jesus Is the ONLY Way

]]> http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/06/07/jesus-is-the-way-2/feed/ 0 0:23:41 JESUS IS THE WAY I. Jesus Is the Way We Need II. Jesus Is the ONLY Way Share on Facebook JESUS IS THE WAY I. Jesus Is the Way We Need II. Jesus Is the ONLY Way Share on Facebook Podcast St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church no no Jesus Is Like A Door http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/05/24/jesus-is-the-way/ http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/05/24/jesus-is-the-way/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 02:27:06 +0000 HiddenVorlon http://www.sainttimothy.org/?p=561 JESUS IS LIKE A DOOR

I. He Is the Way for Faithful Shepherds Reach People
II. He Is Avoided by the Destroyers

]]> http://www.sainttimothy.org/2011/05/24/jesus-is-the-way/feed/ 0 0:25:34 JESUS IS LIKE A DOOR I. He Is the Way for Faithful Shepherds Reach People II. He Is Avoided by the Destroyers Share on Facebook JESUS IS LIKE A DOOR I. He Is the Way for Faithful Shepherds Reach People II. He Is Avoided by the Destroyers Share on Facebook Podcast St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church no no Christ Jesus Came To Save Sinners http://www.sainttimothy.org/2010/09/19/christ-jesus-came-to-save-sinners/ http://www.sainttimothy.org/2010/09/19/christ-jesus-came-to-save-sinners/#comments Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:48:58 +0000 HiddenVorlon http://www.sainttimothy.org/?p=376 CHRIST JESUS CAME TO SAVE SINNERS

I. By His Life, Death and Resurrection
II. Sinners Like Paul for Example
III. And You and Me

]]> http://www.sainttimothy.org/2010/09/19/christ-jesus-came-to-save-sinners/feed/ 0 0:29:11 CHRIST JESUS CAME TO SAVE SINNERS I. By His Life, Death and Resurrection II. Sinners Like Paul for Example III. And You and Me Share on Facebook CHRIST JESUS CAME TO SAVE SINNERS I. By His Life, Death and Resurrection II. Sinners Like Paul for Example III. And You and Me Share on Facebook Podcast St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church no no Rescued From This Present Evil Age http://www.sainttimothy.org/2010/06/03/rescued-from-this-present-evil-age/ http://www.sainttimothy.org/2010/06/03/rescued-from-this-present-evil-age/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:13:13 +0000 HiddenVorlon http://www.sainttimothy.org/?p=345 read more...]]> This Sunday we begin a series of six lessons from the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians.  The Galatian churches were those to whom Paul had brought the saving gospel of Christ during his second missionary journey.  These were the cities like Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe.

Paul had brought them the good news of what Christ had done to save them from the eternal judgment that dooms sinners.  He pointed them to Christ atoning life, death and resurrection as the only hope for sinners rather than any obedience or sacrifice that we could offer.  Our hope of salvation doesn’t depend upon our having kept the law, but on Christ’s righteous life and his sacrificial death and victorious resurrection. 

It all depends on Christ.  HE is the one who saved us from this evil; age of the world.
But now come some apparently well-meaning teachers with the message that salvation depended upon a proper obedience to the laws of Moses.  Undoubtedly they said many things that were true, but the thrust of their teaching was to make salvation conditional on something we would do.  In the final analysis, such faith is not faith in Christ but in self, and a return to the present evil age from which Jesus saved us.

As we go through these lessons we will learn how important it is to cling to the absolute truth of Scripture because even a “little” error can destroy faith and lead to damnation.  We will also learn that in every way our hope is in Christ and not in our obedience to the law.  In fact our obedience, imperfect though it may be, is a result of our being rescued from this present evil age and is a result of the same saving power that brings us to spiritual life and faith.

]]> http://www.sainttimothy.org/2010/06/03/rescued-from-this-present-evil-age/feed/ 0 In God’s Hierarchy… Forgiveness is the Gift Beyond Price http://www.sainttimothy.org/2009/10/06/in-gods-hierarchy-forgiveness-is-the-gift-beyond-price/ http://www.sainttimothy.org/2009/10/06/in-gods-hierarchy-forgiveness-is-the-gift-beyond-price/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:40:12 +0000 HiddenVorlon http://www.sainttimothy.org/?p=294 IN GOD’S HIERARCHY … Forgiveness is the gift beyond price.
 

  1. A terribly undervalued gift.
  2. A gift that is already ours.
  3. A gift we can give away and still keep

     

 

 

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