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The Promised One – Bringer of Peace

December 22, 2024

The Promised One

Isaiah 9:1-7

Mark Smith

The Promised One – Bringer of Peace

Date Preached: December 22, 2024

Series: The Promised One

Speaker: Mark Smith

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As the Promised One Jesus bore the title, Prince of Peace, for he fulfilled the prophecy given through Isaiah in Isaiah 9:6-7. We all long for world peace, but the peace Jesus brought was something else. We'll discover that in this message. We'll also learn how this peace can be ours. Perhaps it's something you could use.

The Promised One – Bringer of Peace

The Promised One – A Savior from Sin

December 15, 2024

The Promised One

Isaiah 53:1-12

Mark Smith

The Promised One – A Savior from Sin

Date Preached: December 15, 2024

Series: The Promised One

Speaker: Mark Smith

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God long ago promised that one of the offspring of Eve would bruise Satan's head. We saw that the Promised One would would do this was Jesus of Nazareth. We learned that this Promised One would come from the line of Abram and be a blessing to all peoples. We learned that Jesus of Nazareth descended from Abram and through his death and resurrection offered the gift of forgiveness and eternal life to all peoples.

In this message we'll look at the most comprehensive prophecy concerning the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, a prophecy only he fulfilled. It was a prophecy of not just of death, but death for others, taking their sin upon himself so that God could justify those who believe in Jesus as Savior.

The Promised One – A Savior from Sin

The Promised One – A Blessing for All People

December 8, 2024

The Promised One

Genesis 12:1-3, Acts 3:25-26, Galatians 3:8-9

Mark Smith

The Promised One – A Blessing for All People

Date Preached: December 8, 2024

Series: The Promised One

Speaker: Mark Smith

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In Genesis 3 we learned that a descendant of Eve would bruise the head of the serpent who'd led her into sin (Satan). Hundreds of years later, God gave a promise to a man name Abram. Through him all the peoples of the earth would be blessed. But what was that blessing and how would it come? The New Testament answers our questions. Jesus, the descendant of Abram, blessed all peoples by dying on the cross for their sins and offering eternal life to them through repentance and faith in him. We'll see how he is the Promised One in this message.

The Promised One – A Blessing for All People

The Promised One – Defeater of Satan

December 1, 2024

The Promised One

Genesis 3:15

Mark Smith

The Promised One – Defeater of Satan

Date Preached: December 1, 2024

Series: The Promised One

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Notes

At the first Christmas God fulfilled promises he'd made centuries before. The very first of these promises dates back to the tragedy of Adam and Eve's sin in the Garden. There God dispensed judgment upon Adam, Eve, and the serpent. He also promised Eve that her offspring would bruise the head of the serpent, even as he bruised her offspring's heel.

When we sort through the meaning of this first promise and then see it in light of the coming of Jesus, we cannot come to any other conclusion except that Jesus was the one God promised who would bring destruction upon the serpent.

Who this serpent was, what he has done since the Garden, and what Jesus did to him are all questions answered in this first message about The Promised One - Defeater of Satan.

The Promised One – Defeater of Satan

Thankful Serving

November 24, 2024

A Thankful Church

1 Timothy 1:12, 2 Timothy 1:3

Mark Smith

Thankful Serving

Date Preached: November 24, 2024

Series: A Thankful Church

Speaker: Mark Smith

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A thankful church serves God and others out of gratitude for what God has done for it. Paul serves as a model of serving thankfully. We'll see why he served this way and we'll learn three sources of gratitude that can motivate us and any church that wants to so to serve thankfully.

Thankful Serving

Thankful Giving

November 17, 2024

A Thankful Church

2 Corinthians 8:1-5, 9:11-12

Mark Smith

Thankful Giving

Date Preached: November 17, 2024

Series: A Thankful Church

Speaker: Mark Smith

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A thankful church gives out of thankfulness. We'll see that in a group of churches who surprised the Apostle Paul with the depth of their giving. From these churches we'll learn some characteristics of churches that give thankfully, and we'll have an opportunity to answer the questions, "Am I a thankful giver?" and "Is my church a thankful giving church?"

Thankful Giving

Thankful Praying

November 10, 2024

A Thankful Church

Colossians 4:2

Mark Smith

Thankful Praying

Date Preached: November 10, 2024

Series: A Thankful Church

Speaker: Mark Smith

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A thankful church is known through thankful praying. Paul instructed the Colossian church to pray with thanksgiving. He unites prayer and thanksgiving in other passages, as well. Thanks and prayer should go together. Knowing that is the easy part. Doing it consistently is the challenge.

In this message we'll consider five obstacles we (or our church) will have to overcome to be consistently thankful in our prayers.

Thankful Praying

A Thankful Church

November 3, 2024

A Thankful Church

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Mark Smith

A Thankful Church

Date Preached: November 3, 2024

Series: A Thankful Church

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Not only are individual Christians to be thankful people, but churches are to be thankful churches. It makes a big difference in the fellowship, worship, service, decision-making, and outlook of the church to be thankful. As we'll see, Paul instructed a church that had a lot to complain about to always be thankful. We'll look at how that is possible as we thinks about what we have to be thankful for in our church.

A Thankful Church

Be the Church: Reach

October 20, 2024

Be the Church

Acts 1:8, 2:41, 2:47, 8:4, 13:1-4

Mark Smith

Be the Church: Reach

Date Preached: October 20, 2024

Series: Be the Church

Speaker: Mark Smith

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The early church connected, grew, and served. They also reached. They were reaching people where they were and they were reaching by going out and planting new churches. We need to be reaching, too. In this message we'll define reaching, explain why we should reach, what we are reaching people for, and what the message is that we are trying to reach others with. We'll conclude with an opportunity to commit ourselves to reaching others for Jesus.

Be the Church: Reach

Be the Church – Grow

October 6, 2024

Be the Church

Acts 2:41-47

Mark Smith

Be the Church – Grow

Date Preached: October 6, 2024

Series: Be the Church

Speaker: Mark Smith

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The second action word of the church is Grow. We see the church growing in at least two ways in the early chapters of Acts, and we see believers growing in at least three ways. We'll look at these and determine how the word grow should apply to us today, and how North Park Church works to help believers grow.

Be the Church – Grow

Be the Church: Connect

September 29, 2024

Be the Church

Acts 2:41-47

Mark Smith

Be the Church: Connect

Date Preached: September 29, 2024

Series: Be the Church

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Four words describe the first church found in Acts 2:41-47. Believers connected, grew, served, and reached. These are action words for every Christian. In this message we look at the two dimensions in which believers are to connect, briefly discuss the importance of connecting, and then share ways that believers can connect through the church. We conclude by evaluating the quality of our connections and make plans to improve them.

Be the Church: Connect

Be the Church: What Is the Church?

September 22, 2024

Be the Church

Matthew 16:18, 1 John 3:1, 1 Corinthians 12:27, Acts 2:41, Matthew 28:19-29

Mark Smith

Be the Church: What Is the Church?

Date Preached: September 22, 2024

Series: Be the Church

Speaker: Mark Smith

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In this first message in the series "Be the Church" we discover four New Testament facts about what the church is.

Be the Church: What Is the Church?

The God Who Reveals the Future

August 25, 2024

The Book of Daniel: God Is in Control

Daniel 9:20-27

Mark Smith

The God Who Reveals the Future

Date Preached: August 25, 2024

Series: The Book of Daniel: God Is in Control

Speaker: Mark Smith

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In response to Daniel's prayer for himself, his people, Jerusalem, and the Temple, God sends the angel Gabriel to reveal His coming plans for His people, the city, and the Temple. He reveals that God has a timeline of seventy weeks to accomplish His work on earth.

What are these seventy weeks? Are they literal or figurative? Are they normal seven day weeks or something else? When do they start? When do they end? What is going to happen during these 70 weeks? These are questions that must come to our minds as we read this passage.

While some of these can be readily answered, we'll discover some are a bit trickier. Yet despite the challenges, the message comes though clearly. God is going to carry out his plan to end sin, provide atonement for sin, and bring in everlasting righteousness. He knows, reveals, and controls the future. Christians can have confidence in the future.

The God Who Reveals the Future

The God Who Is Ready to Forgive

August 18, 2024

The Book of Daniel: God Is in Control

Daniel 9:1-19

Mark Smith

The God Who Is Ready to Forgive

Date Preached: August 18, 2024

Series: The Book of Daniel: God Is in Control

Speaker: Mark Smith

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As the time approached that Jeremiah's prophecy that the Jews would be allowed to return to Jerusalem would be fulfilled, Daniel devoted himself to prayer. It is interesting to see what he prayed for: not the physical needs of the exiles, but the spiritual needs of the nation.

This is one of the longest recorded prayers in the Bible and is a model of what God told his people to do in 2 Chronicles 7:13-14. Daniel knew that God was a God ready to forgive, if...

Perhaps you need God's forgiveness. If you do (and who doesn't), Daniel's prayer has a lot to teach you.

The God Who Is Ready to Forgive

The God Who Controls the Clock

August 11, 2024

The Book of Daniel: God Is in Control

Daniel 8

Mark Smith

The God Who Controls the Clock

Date Preached: August 11, 2024

Series: The Book of Daniel: God Is in Control

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Daniel 8, Daniel's second vision, brings us back into the Hebrew portion of Daniel. Whereas the vision of Nebuchadnezzar in chapter 2, and the first vision of Daniel in chapter 7 dealt with four nations who would be involved in the affairs of Israel, Daniel's second vision deals with just two, and one of them is hardly mentioned.

The focus is on a king who will arise out of the kingdom of Greece who will oppress God's people as no one before him, but will be destroyed. Theologically, the most interesting part of this vision has to do with time. In it we learn that God controls the clock. He sets the exact time event will occur. The application to our lives is direct and simple.

The God Who Controls the Clock

The God Who Directs the Future

August 4, 2024

The Book of Daniel: God Is in Control

Daniel 7

Mark Smith

The God Who Directs the Future

Date Preached: August 4, 2024

Series: The Book of Daniel: God Is in Control

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Many people view history as a series of more or less random events. Nations rise and fall, people rise to prominence and then disappear, and so on, but basically nothing much changes. The cycle repeats itself. Christians on the other hand see God directing history to the conclusion he's chosen for it.

This is the perspective that we discover in the visions that God gave to Daniel. In chapter seven, we read of the first of three visions of the future God gave to Daniel. While there is much that can be confusing in the chapter, the message is clear: God is in control of history.

If that's a message you need to hear or re-hear, this message is for you.

The God Who Directs the Future

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