Cornerstone Baptist Church (CBCKL): Recent Episodes
Jeff Parks
This podcast contains all the latest messages from Cornerstone Baptist Church located in Lawson, MO.
3 things to consider concerning this need: 1. Why is this true? 2. How are we to pursue this? 3. What is your response?
Our most pressing need is to know God more and to love Him more. It is to have a deeper knowledge of God in His Word, a greater revelation of God as we see in His Word, and that this knowledge is to be experiential.
As we celebrate Christmas today, we need to remember that we celebrate it because it is the day that Jesus came into this world to save sinners.
Why? To glorify our Father in Heaven. How? 1. We are sent as lights to shine in the world and expose sin. 2. We are sent to be servants. 3. We are sent to be living sacrifices.
- He was sent into this world as a human baby. 2. He was sent into this world as a servant. 3. He was sent into this world as light. 4. He was sent into this world as the lamb of God.
- To glorify His Father and so that He too would be glorified. 2. Because of the covenant of redemption. 3. To do the work of carrying out this covenant of redemption.
A look at this ordinary means of grace (The Lord's Supper) that God has given us to help us keep our hearts and our minds fixed on Jesus Christ, the object of our faith.
- What are we to do?
- Why do we partake of this ordinance?
This big picture look will help us better understand the law and how this proper understanding of the law relates to a righteousness that exceeds that of the Scribes and the Pharisees.
The righteousness that surpasses that of the Scribes and Pharisees is a righteousness that is issued from the heart, produced by the Holy Spirit, bore out by the believer, and it is a righteousness that magnifies Jesus Christ.
- Why does Jesus use this metaphor of light? 2. What is the purpose of this light? 3. What are we commanded to do with this light?
We are to be having a Godly influence in this world because of who we are in Christ. So, are we being who we claim to be?
Is the Lord's Supper something that I look forward to? Is it important in my thinking? Is there anything I am doing during the Lord's Supper that makes others in the church feel unloved? What could I do to make this family meal a time when other members of the family know how much I love and care for them?
So, what do we do and how do we endure? 1. Do not forget our first love. 2. Know and believe the Word. 3. Do not tolerate sexual immorality in the church or in your own flesh. 4. Love Christ with all your heart. 5. Strive to enter your Sabbath rest. Strive to love the Lord
5 things that give us a better understanding of why believers will be persecuted and how we are to respond.
- What Jesus does not mean? 2. Why believers will be persecuted? 3. The role persecution plays in the believers' life. 4. What's our response? 5. Blessed are those who are persecuted.
What is Jesus teaching us here about being peacemakers? Who is a peacemaker? What a peacemaker is not? What does a peacemaker do?
3 things to take from Paul as he marvels at and gives thanks to God for His amazing grace. 1) God's grace was Paul's only hope. 2) God's grace overcame Paul. 3) God's grace made Paul a servant of Christ.
What does Jesus mean by pure in heart? It's cleansing, it's refining, it's purifying, and there's a singularity to it. There is only room for one master (Jesus) in the heart of a believer.
What is meant by this righteousness and what does it look like to hunger and thirst for righteousness?
We need to be like the Samaritan (who represents Jesus). As we go about our lives, we need to see the spiritually dead as He sees them and have compassion on them, sharing the Gospel.
What is meant by meekness or being meek? It is to understand that my righteousness, my works, my ministry, is worthless in and of itself. It means that self-centeredness, self-righteousness, self-assertiveness, is all replaced with humility and meekness. It is looking out for one another, putting others ahead of yourself even if it costs you.
A reminder of what it means to serve the church, not only for deacons, but for all believers.
- Who is it that mourns? 2. What does Jesus mean by mourning? 3. How is one blessed by mourning?
How can we mourn for our sin and the sin of the world if we are full of ourselves? We must be about emptying ourselves (of self) in order to be filled more and more with the Spirit of Christ.
Being poor in spirit is to understand that we have absolutely nothing in and of ourselves to offer God. It is to be completely empty. It is knowing that we are unworthy of Jesus Christ, but out of faith coming to Him.
A big picture examination of the Sermon on the Mount and where it fits into our lives as citizens of the Kingdom of God.
A great exchange took place at the cross. Jesus Christ took on the guilt of our sin, bearing the punishment for it, and His righteousness was accredited to us by faith. His resurrection, proved that He is the Son of God and that God the Father was satisfied with His sacrifice and therefore we have been justified in the eyes of the Father.
- Jesus taught and proclaimed the Gospel of the Kingdom. 2. Jesus taught what Kingdom citizens look like. 3. Jesus healed them. 4. Jesus lived a life that drew sinners to Himself.
- Jesus relates personally with His sheep. 2. Jesus provides abundantly for His sheep. 3. Jesus died deliberately for His sheep.
- What do we see Jesus doing? 2. Who is Jesus calling to follow Him? 3. What is the response of those Jesus calls? 4. What do we do with this?
We are living in difficult times. It is only as we are rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as we are looking to him, that we will continue to move forwards.
- God's sovereign plan in all of this. 2. Humanities great problem is dwelling in darkness. 3. The only solution to humanities problem is Jesus Christ.
- Why do we need to know the preparatory work of Christ? It is to give us further evidence that Jesus is the Son of God. 2. We are to follow Christ's example as we too need to be prepared. 3. This is the beginning of Christ's victory over Satan.
3 things we see concerning Jesus' commissioning as the King. 1. Jesus identifying with sinners through his baptism. 2. John's role in this baptism was that he obeyed his king. 3. We see Jesus' obedience to the Father.
A life pleasing to the Lord is one of taking the instruction we receive from His Word and then doing it.
- Served through preaching and evangelism.
- The moment and the time for ministry.
- The mark or the aim of ministry.
- Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
- Christ is making the church more like himself. The church is being sanctified.
- Christ will present the church to himself as His bride.
It is like God to take something awful or painful and advance His kingdom out of it. Here are 5 thoughts concerning this.
- This demostrates that God's kingdom cannot be stopped.
- This reminds us that God's ways are not our ways.
- This often happens through God's weakest people.
- This unfolds like this for God's glory.
- This will ultimately be for our good.
- How did we get here to this point in our culture?
- What does our current cultural context of acceptance of the LGBTQ+ philosophy mean for us here in the Cornerstone Baptist area?
- How do we properly respond to this?
- It is a walk that is Christ like. It is to love like Christ.
- It is imperitive. It is not an option. It is the proof that we have been bought by the blood of Christ.
- It is all by faith.
It is to have a love that pursues after our brothers and sisters in Christ. It is a denying of self and putting others first. It is lifting up brothers and sisters in prayer asking that they may be filled with the knowledge of his will. It is to be fully pleasing to God by faith in Him.
Sin is humanities ultimate problem and because of it, we all rightly deserve eternal punishment. But God the Father sent His son (Jesus) into this world to rescue a people for Himself. Jesus' name literally means God saves.
4 ways the Bible describes what happens in saving faith: 1. It is to receive Christ. 2. It is to commit or trust yourself to Christ. 3. It is to submit to Christ's righteousness. 4. It is to look to Christ.
5 things about true repentance: 1. True repentance is a change of mind. 2. True repentance always leads to sorrow for sin. 3. True repentance always leads to a changed life. 4. Repentance and faith always go together. 5. Repentance is not a one time thing.
3 questions to be considered. 1. Why does Matthew include this genealogy of Christ? 2. What do I need to understand concerning Matthew's genealogy? 3. What do we take from this genealogy?
The main theme of Matthew is found in 4:17 and it is to bring men and women into the kingdom of Jesus Christ through Him.
Four other things to bring out about this book: 1. Matthew was a man who needed some good news. 2. According to Matthew, Jesus is the good news. 3. According to Matthew, Jesus is Lord and Jesus is Master. 4. According to Matthew, Jesus is the very son of God.
A reminder that our Father in heaven is always faithful and always keeps the promises he has made to us. This gives us security in our salvation.
Three truths concerning those times when our souls are troubled. 1. What is it to be spiritually depressed? 2. Why do our souls become troubled or spiritually depressed? 3. How do God's people respond to spiritual depression?
What is this faith? Faith is the assurance or the reality of things hoped for. It is the conviction or proof of things not yet seen. Faith is the reality of being declared righteous before Jesus Christ. Faith is this: "I believe you God, so therefore I do it". Faith always has actions (or works) behind it, if not, it is dead. Faith is completed by works.
Four actions we must be doing in order to be a disciple of Christ with a single-mindedness to follow him:
- We must have the passion to follow Jesus
- We must have the will and the desire to follow Jesus
- We must deny self (we must take up our own cross)
- We must follow Jesus (we must obey Jesus)
What is it that hinders us? What things are causing us to waver between following the things of this world and from following the things of Jesus Christ? How long will we go on wavering?
As the church worships God through teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread, partaking of the Lord's Supper, and prayer, it should elicit an awe and reverence for God.
The Ekklesia must be continually devoted to the taking of the Lord's Supper. It is to be done in remembrance of Christ and His willing sacrifice on the cross. It is to remind us of the cost it took to redeem us from our sins.
Fellowship is an outworking of who we are in Jesus. It's part of our new nature. True fellowship is a sacrificial love.
In faith, live steadfast lives looking to Jesus and throwing off anything that is a hindrance.
The mystery hidden for ages was this: "How can an infinitely holy God justify sinful man?". This has now been revealed in the person of Jesus Christ and the Gospel.
Men's lives so changed by Christ that they loved Christians who were different from them.
The foolishness of trusting in anything other than or in addition to Christ for salvation.
Those who are stronger in the faith and have a better understanding of our Christian liberty owe it to those weaker in the faith to bear with them. This has to be done out of love with the goal of keeping unity.
Judging others on nonessentials is a sin and we will all stand before God and give an account.
We should never exercise our debatable freedoms in Christ to the detriment of fellow believers.
To preserve spiritual unity and love don't demand that other believers share your views on nonessential issues.
Christians need to wake up from our sleep (complacency in our walk with Christ). We need to realize that these are the last days.
What is Christmas about? It's about God providing a way for man to have a right standing before Him.
Jesus Christ, God's solution to the catastrophic nature of sin, is revealed all through the bible.