Redemption Hill Church

Redemption Hill Church

Redemption Hill Church located in Cartersville, Georgia, is an expository-preaching church dedicated to making disciples. Here, you can listen to each Sunday's message. Website: https://www.rhccartersville.com/

  1. Jun 28

    Mark 14:53-65 - Many False, One True

    Mark places Jesus' trial before the Sanhedrin between two betrayals — Judas before it, Peter denying him during it — so that the Lord stands surrounded by false witnesses while being the one true and faithful witness in the room. The whole Gospel has been building to a single question: who is this man? The religious leaders convene an illegal, predetermined trial, but their fabricated testimony collapses (you can't get your story straight about something that didn't happen). With the case falling apart, the high priest finally asks Jesus directly whether he is the Christ, the Son of the Blessed — titles that, by themselves, no one was executed for. Then Jesus does something staggering. He answers "I am," and fuses two Scriptures — Psalm 110:1 (seated at God's right hand) and Daniel 7:13 (coming on the clouds) — into an unmistakable claim to deity: he shares God's throne and will return as Judge. This is the moment the secret breaks, publicly, in his own voice. And he does it on purpose. He had every escape; instead he welds the charge together "from the inside," building his own coffin, so that he could be condemned and go to the cross to save his people (John 10:18 — no one takes his life; he lays it down). The court that thinks it is judging him will one day stand before him: he tells Caiaphas, in effect, you will see me again — but next time you are on trial and I am the witness. He is coming, and on that day everyone will know he is the LORD — some with wild eyes of terror, some with wild eyes of joy, looking on the face of the Redeemer whose nail-pierced hands hold their names.

    Mark 14:53-65 - Many False, One True
  2. Jun 8

    Mark 14:10-26 - A Supper For Sinners

    In Mark 14:10–26, the institution of the Lord's Supper is deliberately framed by treachery and failure. Mark opens with Judas slipping away to bargain with the chief priests (vv. 10–11) and closes on the road to Gethsemane, where Jesus has just warned that every man at the table will fall away. Between those bookends sits the meal itself—the Passover prepared, the betrayer exposed ("one of you will betray me, one who is dipping bread into the bowl with me"), and then bread broken and a cup poured out as Jesus names them his body and his blood of the covenant, shed for many. The supper is not staged for the righteous or the steadfast. It is set before the very men who will deny, scatter, and betray. That is the scandal and the comfort of the table. "A Supper for Sinners" presses that point home: the company Jesus keeps at his last meal is a room full of people about to fail him, and he feeds them anyway. The grace on offer is not a reward for loyalty already proven but a covenant secured by his own blood for those who cannot keep covenant themselves. Judas reclines within arm's reach; Peter's boast is hours from collapse. Yet Christ gives himself "for many," and the meal becomes both an indictment of every sinner's heart and the promise that his death is precisely for sinners like these—and like us. The passage ends not in despair but in song (v. 26), because the One who knows exactly who is at his table goes willingly to the cross for them.

    Mark 14:10-26 - A Supper For Sinners

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Redemption Hill Church located in Cartersville, Georgia, is an expository-preaching church dedicated to making disciples. Here, you can listen to each Sunday's message. Website: https://www.rhccartersville.com/