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Bible Reading is taken from Acts 21 onwards.

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Chalk Farm Baptist Church Youth

Sunday 14th October Sermon - Listen and Download

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Bible Reading:
Matthew 15:22-28 / Mark 7:24-30

Sermon refers to Matthew Reading:

²² A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”
²³ Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”

²⁴ He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”

²⁵ The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said.

²⁶ He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

²⁷ “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”

²⁸ Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.

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Chalk Farm Baptist Church Youth

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Bible reading:
Romans 5:1-15

Verses 6-14 aren't read in the recording:


⁶ You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
⁷ Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.
⁸ But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
⁹ Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!
¹⁰ For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
¹¹ Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
¹² Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—
¹³ To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law.
¹⁴ Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.

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Chalk Farm Baptist Church Youth

Sunday 6th May 2012 Sermon

Romans 10:1-12

Romans 10:1 – Replace Israel (or Israelites) with your heart’s desire for salvation. It can be a nation, a person or group of people. Does your heart have a desire for people, for a nation, for nations to be with Christ?

Humanly speaking, how can a nation be saved? Yet we believe in the word and believe in God’s power so it is possible for God to save a country. Isn’t it God’s plan? Isaiah 56:7

Paul calls the Israelites “My brothers” (Romans 10:1) despite their rejection of Christ.

He also tells them he’s praying for them. Even though we pray in the secret place we should tell the person we’re praying for them, it can be an encouraging thing to say to someone, “I’m praying for you”.

Romans 10:2-3 – Paul knows they had a zeal for God; he was among them before knowing Christ – fighting for God yet against the same God. From here we can deduce 2 types of righteousness: righteousness of law and faith. They believed in the righteousness of the law and had a zeal for God but it was a misplaced zeal and that was aching Paul.

They were ignorant; they didn’t know God’s righteousness. Even Jesus prayed for the ignorant: Luke 23:34. We should pray for ignorant unbelievers and even ignorant believers!

Paul sees the eminence of righteousness of faith as above the righteousness of law.

To have a heart’s desire is one thing; everyone has a heart’s desire whether it is to pass an exam, get a job etc., but we should bring those desires to God in prayer as Paul does (Romans 10:1).

Paul bears witness to his countrymen. The unbelieving Jews were the most bitter enemies of Christ Paul faced yet he gave them a good character as the truth would bear. Paul remembers the goodness of this people.

Sometimes our bitterness blinds us to the goodness of those we consider our enemies.

The Jews opposition to the Gospel was a blind misguided sin. We witness suicide bombings today and they have zeal for their god’s command. Even some Christians aren’t willing to die for a good cause! What a strong zeal to die for the cause they fight for. However they have a blind misguided sin.

Ignorance is the cause of their unbelieving and their submission to their own righteousness of the law.

The design of the law was to lead people to Christ (Romans 10:4), this is explained in Romans 8:3. Sadly for the Jews they don’t realise this and stay on the old side of the law. But they don’t understand, every scripture leads to Jesus.

Romans 10:5 – to live they need to live by the law and the law is difficult and hard; thank God for Jesus. We don’t need to sacrifice a lamb. We don’t need to look for fancy, difficult ways to be saved.

Romans 10:8 – The word (salvation) has been brought to us; there are two ways for salvation (Romans 10:9):

• Confessing in the Lord Jesus Christ 
• Believing God raised Jesus from the dead

The work to do lies within us (Matthew 10:32-33). Now it doesn’t cost us anything to confess Jesus is Lord. But before it could cost our life; Stephen was stoned and Peter even denied Jesus because of the fear of knowing Christ. Even now is some part of the world it is still costly.

Thank God here and now it isn’t costly except for friends and family giving us trouble but it is trouble we can overcome.

What is the final message we can draw from this scripture?

Our righteousness should be that of the Gospel, of God.

Righteousness needs to be explained; the trend of guilt is that there are different perceptions today.

We have our own righteousness and the Jews had their own righteousness forgetting the righteousness of the Gospel.

Nowadays confessions we see on the Internet or magazines aren’t confessions to repent; most of them are “Kiss and tell”. These celebrities have their own righteousness. But we need to align our righteousness to the righteousness of the Gospel, the righteousness of God.

That’s Paul’s message to his countrymen. We need to pray for our nation; we are in danger of establishing our own righteousness away from God. It’s good to pray for the government and world.

Dare to dream that the nation will be saved, the negative predictions won’t come to pass under God’s power and that’s faith “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). 

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God Bless,

Chalk Farm Baptist Church Youth

Sunday 29th April 2012 Sermon

Romans 9:1-33

Paul is addressing the Jews at the Church of Rome in this chapter. This chapter speaks of what becomes of the Jews if they don’t embrace Jesus and the gospel, it tells of the Father’s promise and talks of the consequence of Israel’s rejection of Christ.

This chapter contains harsh words and a stern warning.

It seems like it has nothing to do with us Christians; it is about Jews rejecting Jesus, ‘this concerns Jews, not us’.

This chapter shows great concerns for the nation and people of Israel. Paul wasn’t speaking of wrath or condemnation but was heartily troubled for the many enemies of the gospel, the Jews. He was trying to bring them to a place of understanding and belief.

For this, Paul had great heaviness (Romans 9:2); he doesn’t rejoice over the rejected Jews but wants them to be saved. He backs this with a serious implication (Romans 9:3) showing a very high pang of affection for his countrymen.

What do we think of people of our same ethnic background who are lost?

It might begin with our own family; our spouse, our children, our uncle, our aunty…

Do we have the same sorrow for the people of Israel Paul had for our own people?

This is something we can pull out of this chapter; when we see our people rejecting the gospel of Jesus Christ, do we judge them, do we condemn them or do we love them?

Here Paul is so forgiving towards the Jews.

For some of us it is easier to speak to those outside than our own family. Do we shy away from it?

Here Paul has shown sorrow for his own blood, his own people. That should speak to us, to you, to me.

We are all connected to some part of the world as Paul is connected to Israel.

We are all connected to some people something we ought to thank God for. But do we have a heart for our own people? That was Paul’s heart.

We need to speak with boldness but in love. The words of Paul sound harsh to the unbelieving Jews but love is apt to sound bold.

Do we speak highly of our own people or do we speak down? When are we going to bless our own people? When?

One day, we may be called to a mission field and it may just be where we came from.

Paul will be content to forbear his own happiness to purchase the happiness of his people (Romans 9:4)

But we have to remember, he was rejected by his own people and they wanted his head. Yet Paul loved them and that’s very hard to do.

Paul was standing in a place where he was rejected yet didn’t call them enemies but ‘my own race’.

Let’s bring it home; we may have been rejected by friends, family. We won’t call them enemies but our people. And that’s the love of Christ.

Even if we are mocked or persecuted we need to be concerned for the spiritual good of our relations.

The Word of God is taking us to a place of forgiveness, of love and of embrace (not of rejection).

We will still call these people our people and call on God to help us love our people.

Paul is talking of the Israelites, speaking out of love, pain and compassion.

They received (Romans 9:4-5) 1^st: adoption, 2^nd: glory, 3^rd: covenants, 4^th: the receiving of the law, 5^th: the temple worship (service of God), 6^th: the promises, 7^th: patriarchs (fathers) and the 8^th: Christ! He was of kin to them.

We have some place we come from and love that part. We need to love our own people to extend it to others and overflow to others.

Romans 9:15 is very harsh and here is Charles Spurgeon Devotional on this verse:

In these words the Lord in the plainest manner claims the right to give or to withhold His mercy according to His own sovereign will. As the prerogative of life and death is vested in the monarch, so the Judge of all the earth has a right to spare or condemn the guilty, as may seem best in His sight. Men by their sins have forfeited all claim upon God; they deserve to perish for their sins--and if they all do so, they have no ground for complaint. If the Lord steps in to save any, He may do so if the ends of justice are not thwarted; but if He judges it best to leave the condemned to suffer the righteous sentence, none may arraign Him at their bar. Foolish and impudent are all those discourses about the rights of men to be all placed on the same footing; ignorant, if not worse, are those contentions against discriminating grace, which are but the rebellions of proud human nature against the crown and sceptre of Jehovah. When we are brought to see our own utter ruin and ill desert, and the justice of the divine verdict against sin, we no longer cavil at the truth that the Lord is not bound to save us; we do not murmur if He chooses to save others, as though He were doing us an injury, but feel that if He deigns to look upon us, it will be His own free act of undeserved goodness, for which we shall for ever bless His name.

How shall those who are the subjects of divine election sufficiently adore the grace of God? They have no room for boasting, for sovereignty most effectually excludes it. The Lord's will alone is glorified, and the very notion of human merit is cast out to everlasting contempt. There is no more humbling doctrine in Scripture than that of election, none more promotive of gratitude, and, consequently, none more sanctifying. Believers should not be afraid of it, but adoringly rejoice in it.

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God Bless,

Chalk Farm Baptist Church Youth