Pilgrim Baptist Church

Jimmy Fortunato

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Jul 19

Daniel and the Brave "NO"

Daniel 6 — Daniel didn't panic, and he didn't stay silent. He prayed first — then he gave the king a calm, respectful no. This is how we teach that to our kids. This family integrated church lesson walks parents through how to teach children real biblical courage — from Daniel's stand against King Darius to a hands-on lesson in stranger safety done right there with the kids. If you've been looking for a family integrated approach to biblical parenting, or for how to teach kids to say no to an adult who's asking them to do something wrong, this lesson was built for exactly that. Most parents assume their child already understands the difference between ordinary obedience and standing firm against a wrong instruction. They don't — not until it's practiced out loud, at home, more than once. This lesson gives you the words to put in your child's mouth and a physical response to go with them. Working through Daniel 6, Acts 5:27-29, and Joshua 24:15, this teaching lays out the only three biblical reasons a Christian has the right to disobey civil authority, then puts children through the "brave no" framework: say no, then tell a trusted adult. Pastor Fortunato also leads the children through a hands-on child-safety demonstration — practical, physical steps for what to do if an adult crosses a boundary. This family integrated Sunday school lesson covers: - The story of Daniel 6 and the den of real lions - Why Daniel prayed instead of panicking when the decree was signed - The only three biblical reasons a Christian may disobey civil government - Acts 5:27-29 — "We ought to obey God rather than man" - The "brave no" framework: say no, then tell a trusted adult
Jul 19

John 9:39-41 • I Wish You Were Blind

John 9:39-41 — Jesus never drags anybody to the light. He gave a blind man sight and left proud men free to say no — and saying no is what put their eyes out. This expository preaching message through John 9:39-41 closes out the courtroom motif that's run through two full chapters: the blind beggar the Pharisees interrogated and cast out, now standing in front of the true Judge who never had to call a single witness against them. If you've wrestled with spiritual pride — the quiet, respectable kind that never gets called sin — this verse-by-verse teaching was preached for you. There are two kinds of blindness in this text. One a man is born into, with no guilt attached — the kind Christ can heal in an afternoon with nothing but clay and spit. The other a man chooses, defends, and boasts about — and that's the kind he carries to his grave with his eyes wide open. This message draws that line carefully, and asks which side of it you're standing on. Working through John 9:38-41 alongside John 8:12-59, John 3:18-20, John 5:40-44, and a word study connecting "remaineth" to 1 John 3, this expository sermon shows that no one blinds the proud — they love the darkness they're standing in more than the light in front of them. This expository preaching message through John 9 covers: - Why the same light gets stoned in chapter 8 and worshiped in chapter 9 - "Are we blind also?" — reading the sneer underneath the Pharisees' question - The shift from "we know" to "we see" — a claim about the Book vs. a claim about themselves - The illustration of the man who reads in the fading light and refuses the lamp - The two kinds of blindness — one born, one chosen
Jul 19

Proverbs 6:30-35 • Sevenfold Has a Bottom. This Doesn't.

Proverbs 6:30-35 — A thief can pay sevenfold and walk out with a closed account. An adulterer has no number at all. There is no ransom. This expository preaching message closes out our series through Proverbs 6 by tracing one of the chapter's sharpest contrasts: a starving thief has a motive, a mercy, and a number he can pay — sevenfold, steep as it is, has a bottom. But the man who commits adultery has none of that. If you've wrestled with the consequences of sexual sin, or wondered how forgiveness and consequence can both be true at the same time, this verse-by-verse teaching addresses it directly. This message doesn't soften the text. It works through the wound that "shall not be wiped away," the rage that jealousy produces, and the sobering reality — proven out in the life of David himself — that God's forgiveness and a broken household are not contradictions. God forgave David completely. The sword still never left his house. Working through Proverbs 6:30-35 alongside Exodus 22, Genesis 34, and 2 Samuel 12, this expository sermon lays out why every other snare in Proverbs 6 has a door out of it — and why this one doesn't. This expository preaching message through Proverbs 6 covers: - Why the thief in verse 30 is shown mercy but the adulterer is not - The meaning behind Solomon's number: sevenfold, a debt that can be finished - "He destroyeth his own soul" — why this man is not a victim - Spiritual adultery — what false god has taken the place of devotion to God - Genesis 34 — Dinah, and what rage drives men to do - Why "a wound and dishonor" is a description, not a threat - 2 Samuel 12 — David, forgiven by God, and the sword that never left his house
Jul 16

1 John 5:9-13 • Decorated and Still Dead

1 John 5:9-13 — It didn't matter whose door was next to yours in Egypt. Unless the blood was on your own doorpost, you had no standing. This is assurance of salvation, verse by verse. This expository preaching message walks through 1 John 5:9-13 using the courtroom language of the passage itself — witnesses, testimony, record, and verdict — to answer one question: can a believer actually know he has eternal life? If you've ever struggled with assurance of salvation, waiting for a feeling to confirm what God has already declared, this verse-by-verse teaching is for you. This message doesn't let the listener hide behind family faith. Young people who assume they're saved because their parents are saved, church members coasting on proximity to sound preaching instead of possessing Christ themselves — this sermon draws that line directly from the text: proximity isn't possession. Assurance of salvation isn't a feeling to chase down. It's a record God has already signed. Working from 1 John 5:9-13, this exposition connects the witness of God to Exodus 12's Passover lamb, Romans 8's witness of the Spirit, and 1 John 2:25's promise of eternal life — showing that God's testimony about His Son stands complete, unrepeated, and never withdrawn. This expository sermon walks through 1 John 5:9-13, explaining: - Why the witness of men still matters even though it's imperfect - The five tests every witness must meet — and how the New Testament writers met them - Why unbelief is not neutral but a verdict against God's own character - What the "witness in himself" is, and what it is not - Why "this is the record" is present tense, not a pending case
Jul 12

John 9:35-38 • They Cast Him Out. Jesus Went Looking.

John 9:35-38 — They cast him out of the synagogue. They never went looking for him again. But Jesus did. This expository preaching message walks through John 9:35-38, the hinge moment where the blind man Jesus healed is cast out of the synagogue — and Jesus goes and finds him. This verse-by-verse teaching traces the difference between being cast out, spewed out, and coming out (John 16:2, Revelation 3:16, 2 Corinthians 6:17), then unpacks why the title "Son of God" reaches all the way back to Daniel 3:25 and the furnace in Babylon. If you've ever been pushed out of a system — a church, a group, a place you thought you belonged — this message asks you to sit in that wreckage a little longer before you rush past it. Getting thrown out of a system is not the same thing as getting lost to the Savior. Sometimes the worst day is the one God uses to clear you out of a room you got too comfortable in. This is systematic, verse-by-verse Bible exposition connecting John 9:35-38 to Daniel 3:25, Matthew 8:5-10, and John 20:31 to answer one question: what does it actually mean to believe on the Son of God? This expository preaching message walks through John 9:35-38, explaining: - The three ways a man can be put out in Scripture: cast out, spewed out, come out - Why "they cast him out" is the hinge of the entire chapter - Why Jesus went looking for the one man nobody else went looking for - The single question Jesus asks — and everything He refuses to ask - Where the title "Son of God" first appears in the Old Testament (Daniel 3:25) - Why this blind man's faith goes further than the Roman centurion's in Matthew 8 - Why Jesus alone, of everyone worshiped by accident in Scripture,
Jul 12

Proverbs 6:25-29 • It's Not the Motel. It's the Heart.

Proverbs 6:25-29 — The crime scene isn't the motel room. Solomon says it happens months, years earlier — in the heart. 📚 Part of our "Snares of Your Own Making" expository series through Proverbs 6 This expository preaching message walks verse by verse through Proverbs 6:25-29, Solomon's warning against adultery and lust — and traces it back through Exodus 20:17, Matthew 5:28, 2 Kings 9:30, Genesis 39, and Judges 16 to show that the sin Solomon is warning against never starts in a bed. It starts in the heart, long before the act. If you've ever told yourself "just this once" or believed you were the exception to a temptation that's ruined other men, this message is a direct, biblical warning against adultery and the slow, quiet surrenders that lead to it. Solomon doesn't ask these questions because he needs an answer — he asks them because he already knows it, and he wants to know if you do too. This is verse-by-verse Bible exposition connecting Proverbs 6:25-29 to the stories of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, Samson and Delilah, and Jezebel's final morning — showing that even strong, spiritual men are not exempt from this warning. This expository preaching message walks through Proverbs 6:25-29, explaining: - Why Solomon starts with the eye and the heart, not the act itself - How Matthew 5:28 makes lust and adultery the same offense before God - What "wanton eyes" means and how it differs from an accidental glance - Jezebel's final morning in 2 Kings 9 — painting her face as judgment rode into town - Why the adulteress is called a hunter, not just a temptation (Genesis 39, Judges 16) - Joseph fleeing Potiphar's wife — and what "one more minute" would have cost him
Jul 12

The Good Shepherd Keeps His Lambs Safe

📖 John 10:11-13 — A hireling runs when danger comes. The Good Shepherd never does. Here's how to teach your children who they can trust. 📚 Lesson 1 of 5 in our Good Shepherd's Care children's safety series This child safety lesson for Christian families uses the picture of the Good Shepherd from John 10 to teach children how to recognize a safe grown-up, why telling a trusted adult is never tattling, and why it is never their fault when something scares or confuses them. If you've been looking for how to talk to your kids about body safety and abuse prevention from a biblical perspective, this lesson was built for that conversation. Every parent wants to protect their children, but many don't know where to start. This lesson gives you a simple, repeatable model — four things every child should know — that you can put in your own words and repeat at home this week. It is not a substitute for you as the parent; it is the launching pad for that conversation. Preached from John 10:11-13, with 1 Samuel 17:34-35 (David rescuing the lamb from the lion and bear) and Mark 10:14-16 (Jesus welcoming the children), this lesson contrasts the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep with the hireling who flees when danger comes — and applies that picture directly to how children can recognize the adults God has given them to protect them. This child safety lesson walks through Scripture to teach: - Difference between a Good Shepherd and a hireling (John 10:11-13) - Four things every child should know to stay safe - "My body belongs to me and it's a gift from God" - Difference between a fun surprise and a secret that should always be told - The difference between a fun
Jul 9

1 John 5:6-8 • A Forger Always Leaves a Crack

1 John 5:6-8 — In 484 AD, 400 bishops faced a king with an army at his back. They reached for this verse anyway — and some paid for it with their tongues. This KJV sermon puts the Johannine Comma — 1 John 5:7, "the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one" — on trial. If you've ever been told this verse is a forgery that doesn't belong in your Bible, this KJV defense walks the actual evidence: Old Latin manuscripts, the Council of Carthage, Priscillian, Isaac Newton's objection, and a Greek grammar argument most modern critics never mention. This isn't a sermon that hides from the hard question. It admits up front what the critics are right about — no early Greek manuscript has verse 7 — and then calls the witnesses that still make the case: three centuries of Old Latin copies, a 5th-century martyr who quoted it as he went to his death, 400 bishops who signed their names to it in front of a Trinity-denying king, and a Greek grammar rule that the passage can't work without it. Using a courtroom framework, this verse-by-verse exposition of 1 John 5:6-8 argues that heaven and earth both testify to who Jesus Christ is — and that the case for the Johannine Comma, and for Christ's own deity, was closed long before anyone alive today started arguing about it. This KJV sermon on 1 John 5:6-8 covers: - Why "water and blood" appears both at Christ's birth and at the cross - The three sets of three witnesses in verses 6, 7, and 8 - Isaac Newton's Arian objection to verse 7 - The Old Latin manuscript trail: the Freisinger fragment, the Leon manuscript, the Speculum - The 484 AD Council of Carthage and King Huneric's persecution of the bishops

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Jimmy Fortunato
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2020 - 2026
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105
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