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Genesis Church - Sermons

The official sermon audio podcast of Genesis Church, located in Eureka, MO.

APR 21

Jesus Is the Better Joy

We are so glad you have chosen to worship with us today as we remember the most important day in all of history. Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Today we will consider the words written by the author of Hebrews about Jesus, "Consider Him who endured from sinners such hostility." The cross was the epitome of evil and sin poured out against the sinless Son of God. He didn't have to do it. Nobody went to a cross willingly except this one man. Yet, the author of Hebrews reminds us that He, for the joy set before Him, endured the cross while despising the shame. The cross brought shame, but Jesus knew there was a joy that would explode in His resurrection and that joy He now shares with us. This is the promise of Easter---the promise that the joy of the Lord will be our strength. Our Easter message today will look at the joy of Jesus from the cross and show you how this joy can be yours.

58 min
APR 13

Jesus and Our Better Father

I saw a video recently with a father disciplining his son for the disrespectful way the boy spoke to his mother. But the caption on the video scolded the father for being harsh with his son, although the dad never struck the boy and his tone was completely appropriate for the moment. We live in a culture that tends to reject parental discipline for children. Sadly, this coincides with the complete loss of trust in authorities in our culture. Yet, good daddies lovingly train and discipline their children, because without instruction, training, and correction children will shipwreck their lives. People like the idea of God being a loving Father as long as that love does not involve discipline. But the author of Hebrews reminds us that God loves us, and as a Father, His discipline is good for us, for our joy, and will produce a fruitful life. By doing so he gives us a chance to change the paradigm we use to understand our struggles, suffering, and persecution. For believers in Jesus, whatever comes, we can know that our Father is shaping our lives through it for His glory and our good.

57 min
APR 7

Jesus and the Better Race

The first few verses of Hebrews Chapter 12 tell us the Christian life is a race... or, more appropriately, a lifelong marathon. After spending all of Chapter 11 giving his readers (both first century Jewish Christians and us today) a remarkable list of Old Testament faith hall-of-famers for our encouragement, the author lets us know how we can run this often-difficult race. In three short verses, he gives us the keys to running this race of living the Christian life successfully. And the best part is, the outcome is not dependent on our performance! To win this race all we have to do is... keep running! Today's passage will show us how we can do just that!

47 min
MAR 30

Jesus Tells a Better Story, Part 3

Our journey through the Hall of Faith in Hebrews 11 jumps forward 400 years to the story of Moses and the Exodus---God's rescue of His people from slavery. Moses is rescued by the faith of his parents, and by faith Moses became the leader who led them out of Egypt. By faith the people went through the Red Sea on dry ground. By faith the walls of Jericho fell, and by faith a non-Hebrew prostitute named Rahab was rescued. The author then drops the names of several other important Old Testament people while making reference to others. Left to themselves, each of these people would have shipwrecked their lives; yet out of brokenness, failure, and pain, they believe, and God tells a better story through their lives. Some experienced great blessings and victories. But we can't miss this---others were sawed in two, flogged, mocked, and persecuted brutally. Yet, they lived as strangers and exiles in this land, looking forward to the promised Messiah and the hope for a better world. They all looked forward to the day we live in, the time after the coming of Jesus, the cross, and the resurrection, longing to live in our day. Their lives are an invitation for us to believe, to hold on to Jesus and trust in Him every day of our lives.

58 min
MAR 23

Jesus Tells a Better Story, Part 2

We continue to journey through the Hebrews 11 Hall of Faith with the stories of the Patriarchs. Every Jewish reader would have been familiar with these stories and, furthermore, would be able to trace both their ancestral roots and the foundation of their faith back to Abraham, Sara, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Their story begins in a world without any real hope, yet into the darkness, God calls a man, and from that man, forms a family that will become a people and eventually a Kingdom. The Patriarch's story begins with God's call of Abraham to leave the city of his ancestry, Ur of the Chaldees, which at the time was the most prestigious city on earth. God does not give him a road map, He just calls Abraham to trust Him. Abraham believes and it begins the story of God's covenant with His people which includes a myriad of promises, and bunches of miracles. Hebrews reminds us that everything these ancients received was given by the promise-making God and received by faith alone. We need their example to remind us that God is only pleased in our faith---that our faith puts us in the place to be recipients of God's grace, which is the fountain from which He gives us all of His promises.

1 hr
MAR 16

Jesus Tells a Better Story, Part 1

Some call Hebrews 11 the Faith Hall of Fame, but the truth and point of this section of Hebrews is that there is only one True Hero. The Bible tells one grand story about this great Hero. Yet, in His grace, this God has included people in the story. Every person we will meet in Hebrews 11 has unbelievable flaws and failures, yet, they trusted the character of God and held on to the promises He made. Therefore, by their faith, each one experienced the grace, presence, and blessings of God. These people are included in the grand story by faith, and as a result God tells a better story through their lives than the one they would have told on their own. We will take a journey through the lives of those who are listed in this chapter, telling their stories as reminders of God's redemption narrative and the work He does in and through the lives of those who believe. The first three characters we will examine are Abel, Enoch, and Noah.

1h 1m
MAR 9

Jesus Is Our Better Assurance

Having faith is a popular idea in our culture. Come on---Ted Lasso told us to "Believe". But what is faith, and faith in what? Chapter 11 has often been referred to as the Hall of Fame of faith, kind of a who's who from the Old Testament. The chapter begins with a definition of faith and explanation of the nature of faith in the Gospel. This is coupled with a reminder that without faith, it is impossible to please God. Or, put positively, we are made right with God and stay right with God by faith alone. This is not blind faith in some mysterious deity; rather, Biblical faith is a faith that knows the truth of God and believes the promises of God. The key is to realize that it is the object of our faith and not the strength of our faith that ultimately matters. The faith that keeps us firm is assurance and conviction of the things promised but not yet seen. And we will see that every "hero" from the Old Testament story is justified and blessed solely based on their faith in Jesus.

1h 11m
MAR 2

Jesus Is Our Better Reward

While writing to the first recipients of Hebrews, the author reminds them, "For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one." Their belief in Jesus had real costs for their lives, yet they found that Jesus was worth it because Jesus is Better. What causes people to endure such rejections and suffering with joy? The call to endurance is based on the reality that there is a prize at the end, and this prize is secure and real. So, the writer of Hebrews tells his readers to keep believing. He calls them to remember that they came to faith in the midst of persecution and suffering. Hebrews reminds those who have believed the Gospel to never give up, keep believing in Jesus, to hold on to our confession with confidence. Because faith in Jesus comes with a promise that in a little while the Coming One will come, and will not delay, and those who hold on to Jesus will gain what has been promised, a better and lasting possession.

58 min

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The official sermon audio podcast of Genesis Church, located in Eureka, MO.

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