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Christ Redeemer Church exists to honor God by fostering a movement of Christ's Kingdom through the proclamation and practice of the gospel that serves and transforms the Upper Valley, and through the Upper Valley, the world. Find out more about our church at our website: christredeemerchurch.org.

    Boasting in the Cross

    Boasting in the Cross

    QUOTES FOR REFLECTION
     
    “If you live for people’s acceptance, you will die from their rejection.”

    ~Lecrae, rapper and producer
     
    “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”

    ~Attributed to Lao Tzu, 6th century B.C. Chinese philosopher
     
    “I can’t tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”

    ~Ed Sheeran, singer-songwriter
     
    “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

    ~Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), diplomat, activist, and First Lady
     
    “He that hung up the earth in space was Himself hanged up; He that fixed the heavens was fixed with nails; He that bore up the earth was borne up on a tree; the Lord of all was subjected to ignominy in a naked body—God put to death!”

    ~Melito, Bishop of Sardis (writing circa 160-177)
     
    “At the heart of the gospel is the promise that in Christ we can have a new beginning, a fresh start where…we can experience the new creation power of God, the same power that he will one day use to transform all of creation into a new heavens and new earth for his people to dwell in with him forever.”

    ~Matthew S. Harmon, New Testament scholar
     
    “Lo! my God, without merit on my part, of His pure and free mercy, has given to me (an unworthy, condemned, and contemptible creature) all the riches of justification and salvation in Christ. For such a Father then, who has overwhelmed me with these inestimable riches of His, why should I not freely, cheerfully, with my whole heart and with an eager will, do all that I know will be pleasing to Him, and acceptable in His sight?
     
    “I will therefore give myself, as a sort of Christ, to my neighbor, as Christ has given Himself to me; and will do nothing in this life, except what I see will be needful, advantageous, and wholesome for my neighbor, since by faith I abound in all good things in Christ.”

    ~Martin Luther (1483-1546), On the Freedom of the Christian

    SERMON PASSAGE

    Galatians 6:11-18 (ESV)

    Galatians 6

    11 See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. 12 It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. 13 For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. 14 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. 16 And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

    17 From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

    18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
     
    2 Corinthians 5

    11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. 12 We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart. 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

    16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
     
    Galatians 2

    20 I have been crucified

    • 43 min
    Living in Grace, Truth and Loving Community

    Living in Grace, Truth and Loving Community

    QUOTES FOR REFLECTION
     
    “I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”

    ~Maya Angelou (1928-2014), poet and activist
     
    “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

    ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), poet and educator
     
    “Much that we have interpreted as a defect of [holiness and happiness] in church people is really an outgrowth of their loss of bearing with respect to justification. Christians who are no longer sure that God loves and accepts them in Jesus, apart from their present spiritual achievements, are subconsciously radically insecure people…. Their insecurity shows itself in pride, a fierce, defensive assertion of their own righteousness [or ‘rightness’], and defensive criticism of others. They come naturally to hate other cultural styles and other races in order to bolster their own security and discharge the suppressed anger.”

    ~Richard Lovelace (1931-2020) in The Dynamics of Spiritual Life
     
    “What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth. This is now exactly reversed.”

    ~G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), writer and literary critic
     
    “When diversion becomes a way of life, we avoid the very issues to which we should be most attentive…the grim, unpleasant truth that our lives lack meaning without God…”

    ~Dick Staub, contemporary cultural commentator
     
    “Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”

    ~Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), diplomat, activist, and First Lady

    SERMON PASSAGE

    Galatians 5:22-6:10 (ESV)

    Galatians 5 (ESV)

    13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

    16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh….

    22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

    25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
     
    Galatians 6 (ESV)

    1 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. 5 For each will have to bear his own load.

    6 Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. 7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. 9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
     
    1 Corinthians 13 (NIV)

    4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-se

    • 43 min
    The Fruit of the Spirit is Love

    The Fruit of the Spirit is Love

    QUOTES FOR REFLECTION

    “Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.”

    ~Elizabeth Elliot (1926-2015), Christian missionary, author, and speaker
     
    “[The] kingdom may be inherited [only] by the children of the King; and such are all believers in Christ, for through union with him and by virtue of his redeeming act they have become Abraham’s true offspring and God sons and heirs according to the promise…. But God’s reign or rule is moral in nature; those who consistently behave in ways that are opposed to God’s nature…show thereby that they have not accepted God’s rule through Christ in their lives.”

    ~R.Y.K. Fung, professor at China Graduate School of Theology (Hong Kong)
     
    “…the Holy Spirit…puts…eagerness of unconstrained love into the heart…. That is why faith alone makes someone just and fulfills the law; faith it is that brings the Holy Spirit through the merits of Christ. The Spirit, in turn, renders the heart glad and free, as the law demands. Then good works proceed from faith itself.”

    ~Martin Luther (1483-1546) in his Romans Commentary
     
    “There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both…a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.”
     
    “Latter-day skepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but skepticism is really reactionary. Skepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.”

    ~G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), English writer
     
    “It has become an unquestioned moral assumption…that people should be free. What that means in the popular mind and popular culture is that people should be permitted, if not actually enabled, to do what they want. This is almost always joined with the assumption that what people do want is to enjoy pleasure. Sometimes they speak of ‘happiness,’ but that term has little meaning to most folk other than feeling good…. From this we get our overall culture of sensuality, in which people are almost totally governed by their feelings.”

    ~Dallas Willard (1935-2013), professor of philosophy at USC

    SERMON PASSAGE

    Galatians 5:13-25 (ESV)

    Galatians 5

    1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

    2 Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 3 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. 4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

    7 You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you. 9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 10 I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is. 11 But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed. 12 I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!

    13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law

    • 50 min
    Our Greatest Foe: Our Flesh

    Our Greatest Foe: Our Flesh

    QUOTES FOR REFLECTION

    “One of the challenges that we have collectively as a society is that in this country, we do victory great, we do success great, we do power great. We do not do shame very well; we do not do guilt very well. We don’t own up to our mistakes. And the absence of shame is what makes us vulnerable to discrimination and bigotry and abuse of power…If you see two people who’ve loved each other for fifty years, if you ask them what the secret is; they’ve learned how to say I’m sorry to one another…”

    ~Bryan Stevenson (1959-present), lawyer, activist, and author of Just Mercy
     
    “Be killing sin or it will be killing you.”

    ~John Owen (1616-1683), British theologian and church leader
     
    “There is a mean streak to authentic self-control. Underneath what seems to be the placid demeanor of those who are not ruled by their desires is the heart of a warrior… Self-control is not for the timid. When we want to grow in it, not only do we nurture an exuberance for Jesus Christ, we also demand of ourselves a hatred for sin…The only possible attitude toward out-of-control desire is a declaration of all-out war.”

    ~Ed Welch (1953-present), Counselor and Author in Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave
     
    “See dawg I live by the Spirit so I don’t gratify
    All them old sinful desires that never satisfy…
     
    [Sin]: Man you know you miss them old days…
    Yeah you right possibly
    But after that I sober up and think of Jesus holding up
    His skin up on the cross for all them drunken nights I’m throwing up
    Every thought of blowin’ up is captured in his flowing blood
    I start thinking Philippians 4:8 when you showing up.
     
    [Sin]: You know I ain’t gone quit right?
    Yeah I know but I’m dead to you
    And one day I’ll be present with Jesus who died and bled from you
    Colossians 1:15 that’s the God that I trust in
    The Father crushed Him
    In doing so he has crushed sin.”

    ~Lecrae Moore (1979-present), Grammy-winning hip-hop artist in song Indwelling Sin

    SERMON PASSAGE

    Galatians 5:13-26 (ESV)

    13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

    16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

    25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

    • 49 min
    Walking in the Spirit

    Walking in the Spirit

    QUOTES FOR REFLECTION



    SERMON PASSAGE

    Galatians 5:13-26 (ESV)

    • 39 min
    The Law of Love

    The Law of Love

    QUOTES FOR REFLECTION
     
    “You are happy when God blesses you, but not as happy as God is.”

    ~C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892), famed London pastor
     
    “Wash the plate, not because it is dirty nor because you are told to wash it, but because you love the one who will use it next.”

    ~Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (1910-1997), a.k.a. “Mother Teresa”
     
    “Christ did not die to redeem us in part. …[W]e must understand that God is after…any and all sin that would hinder the whole person from serving God fully and freely.”

    ~Jackie Hill Perry, writer and hip-hop artist
     
    “Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross. All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousness, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.”

    ~John Stott (1921-2011), London pastor and theologian
     
    “…the freer [the] gospel, the more sanctifying is the gospel; and the more it is received as a doctrine of grace, the more will it be felt as a doctrine according to godliness.  …[I]n the gospel…our desire after Him is not chilled into apathy by that barrier of human guilt….”
     
    “Retain a single shred or fragment of legality with the gospel, and you raise a topic of distrust between man and God. You take away from the power of the gospel to melt and to conciliate. For this purpose, the freer it is the better it is. That very peculiarity which so many dread as the germ of Antinomianism [i.e. lawlessness], is, in fact, the germ of a new spirit and a new inclination against it.”

    ~Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) in “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection”
     
    “Unless this freedom be comprehended, neither Christ nor gospel truth, nor inner peace of soul, can be rightly known.”

    ~John Calvin (1509-1964), French-born reformer and theologian

    SERMON PASSAGE

    Galatians 5:1-15 (ESV)

    Galatians 5

    1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

    2 Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 3 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. 4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

    7 You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you. 9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 10 I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is. 11 But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed. 12 I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!

    13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

    Romans 13

    8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
     
    Deuteronomy 30

    6 And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart

    • 38 min

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