http://www.newtownbiblechurch.com Newtown Bible Church Podcasts en Newtown Bible Church Podcasts Newtown Bible Church no Newtown Bible Church pastorjoey@me.com ℗ & © 2010 Newtown Bible Church 720 Christians are those, who by definition recognize all things as being given to them by God; especially Christ Himself in the gospel. A true Christian who does not give to meet the needs of others is an oxymoron; it is incongruous with the truth. So, that Christians, that those who walk in true righteousness are giving people is assumed. But as with all things the Lord is utmost concerned with the motivation not the deed itself. 3 key truths about Christian giving that help God's people glorify Him. (1) It is an assumed activity of righteousness.  (2) It must not be in hypocrisy and pride (3) It will receive God's blessing, when sincere http://www.sermoncloud.com/newtown/true-christianity--sincere-giving-matthew-62-4 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:56:55 GMT Sermon on the Mount giving,sincerity,christian,righteousness,sermon_on_mount,hypocrisy,alms,charity,christian_motive,mercy True Righteousness is motivated by the glory of God not the glory of self. Hypocrisy exalts in glorifying self; Sincere religion glories in serving God. This has alway marked the difference between true and false worship. 5:3-12 The character of righteousness 5:13-6 The influence of righteousness 5:17-20 The fulfillment of righteousness 5:18-48 The nature of righteousness The Lord is now moving into a different section in which He will address the matter of righteousness from another angle: 6:1-18 The sincerity of righteousness against the backdrop of hypocrisy. He begins with laying down the principle He will then follow it with 3 examples that are meant to express the totality of religious life: Giving; Prayer; and Fasting. READ: Matthew 6:1. *This is the theme that will run through next section: warning against hypocrisy and call to sincerity. Three Reasons Religious Hypocrisy is so dangerous because: It does good deeds It has hidden motivation It’s judgement is postponed http://www.sermoncloud.com/newtown/deadly-danger-of-religious-hypocrisy-matthew-61 http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/2300/deadly-danger-of-religious.mp3 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:43:18 GMT Joey Newton Sermon on the Mount religious_hypocrisy,matthew,self_deception,sincerity,motivation,true_righteousness,sermon_on_mount,reward,judgement_seat_of_christ,gospel 46:07 The gospel is the good news of how a sinner can be made right with God through Jesus Christ. Believing and acting upon the truth of Christ is the most important reality in a person life. We cannot get the gospel wrong. It is good, therefore, to take a step back and take a broad look at the issue of righteousness from the view of Legalism, Law, and the freedom of Love. To accomplish this, we will focus on the book of Galatians; This is one of the most passionate, emotional, and personal letters of the apostle. This church was near and dear to his heart ([mutual love] 4:13-15). Church is in spiritual danger. Paul’s passion and seriousness of heart are seen from the very opening verses. He skips his usual expressions of thanksgiving and immediately address the great concern of his heart: The Gospel (1:6-10). Everything is at stake here; whatever else we may disagree on, we must get the gospel right; on it rests salvation, the eternal destiny of men (blessing/suffering), and the glory of God in Christ. The gospel is where Satan attacks; and he most perniciously seeks to distort so that he may ruin the work of Christ. (2 Cor. 11:2f), and so the gospel is where we need to fight the most for clarity. http://www.sermoncloud.com/newtown/legalism-law-and-the-freedom-of-love-galatians http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/2300/legalism-law-and-the-freedom-of-love-galatians.mp3 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:51:26 GMT Joey Newton The gospel is the good news of how a sinner can be made right with God through Jesus Christ. Believing and acting upon the truth of Christ is the most important reality in a person life. We cannot get the gospel wrong. It is good, therefore, to take ... law,legalism,love,holy_spirit,fruit,judaiazers,gospel,justification,faith,atonement,reconciliation 59:40 A Christian, a true child of God, reflects the character of God. Matthew 4:43-48 Jesus has shown: Godlike character is manifest in the desire and ability to love one’s enemies. Thus, the Lord is teaching us that True righteousness is manifest is loving the unlovable, even our enemies. (43) Jesus confronts: self-righteous & self-centered perversion of the Law (44) Jesus corrects: Love of God is un-bounding in its scope; extending even to our enemies and those who persecute us. - Now the Lord is going to take us to the next step and show it is this kind of love that proves sonship, is demonstrated by God, who alone is the perfect standard of righteousness to which we are held. http://www.sermoncloud.com/newtown/true-righteousness--love-pt-3-matthew-545-48 http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/2300/true-righteousness--love-pt-3-matthew-545-48.mp3 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:27:48 GMT Joey Newton Sermon on the Mount love,proof_of_sonship,true_righteousness,kingdom_of_heaven,god,gospel,perfectionism,holiness,gospel, 47:37 Both the idea of and desire for love is hardwired into our human fabric. Everybody wants its, fewer want to give it, every person needs it. Love is is in the heart of man. This is so because man is created in God’s image, and love is foundational to the nature of God. (1 John 4:16) “God is love”; (John 3:16) “For God so loved the world” (John 17:24) “loved Me before the foundation of the world” (John 13:34-35) “world will know you by your love for one another” 1 John 3 “by this you assure your heart before God … that you love your brother” Eph. 5 “Be imitators of God and walk in love” Eph 5 “husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church” 1 John “how can anyone love God, whom he has not seen, if he does not love his brother, whom he has seen” Love is foundational the nature of God, the eternal relationship of the Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), the grounds of God’s redeeming work, the foundation of man’s relationship to God and to one another, one of the chief testimonies of the church to the world, and the one of the chief marks of regeneration. Heaven will be a place of the eternal experience of perfect love. It is not surprising, then, that love is the very foundation of the Law. If you want to boil all of God’s revelation about how man is to know Him, relate to Him, and relate to one another it is this: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your strength, with all your soul … love your neighbor as yourself, on these two commandments depend the whole law and the prophets.” True righteousness can be boiled down to the matter of: LOVE. But for now there is the reality of sin. You have the command to love God and neighbor in a world that is hostile to God and neighbor. Yet, it is precisely against this backdrop that God has designed His love and the love of those who know Him should shine most brightly. It is not that the Jews rejected love, they had just redefined to their censorious and self-centered agenda. It is this attitude that the Lord is addressing. http://www.sermoncloud.com/newtown/true-righteousness--love-pt-2-matthew-544 http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/2300/true-righteousness--love-pt-2-matthew-544.mp3 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:47:57 GMT Joey Newton Sermon on the Mount love,enemies,righteousness,matthew,sermon_on_mount,kingdom,retaliation,self_denial,gospel,atonement,persecution 48:19 True righteousness is manifested in biblical love, a love that is contrary to the heart of fallen man. Righteous love is based on God’s character not the character of the one to whom it is shown. Righteous love loves the unlovable. http://www.sermoncloud.com/newtown/true-righteousness--love-pt-1-matthew-543-48 http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/2300/true-righteousness--righteousness-pt-1-matthew-543-48.mp3 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:16:48 GMT Joey Newton Sermon on the Mount love,righteousness,matthew,gospel,jews,sermon_on_mount,addition,redefinition 49:58 It has been well noted, “A man may be an expert on the incarnation and yet be totally lacking in faith and love.” (Macleod). Doctrine has 2 primary purposes: (1)protect from error, (2) produce worship in the true knowledge of God. We want to make sure in everything that doctrine leads to doxology. The knowledge of Christ should produces in us greater love for the Person of Christ, submission to the Lordship of Christ, humility before Christ: the end of all study is the glory and love of God in Christ, which produces in us a commitment to the truth, and greater love for one another. As noted last week to deny either the deity, or the humanity of Christ is to deny the Christ of Scripture, which is to deny the God of Scripture, which is to evidence that one is not regenerate. John specifically says of the latter that the one who denies the humanity of Christ as being real is of the “spirit of antiChrist,” adding, “We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.” Knowing & believing the truth about the nature of Christ is utmost importance. (1) Problem: Guarding against error; (2) Person: God-Man in one Person of Christ; (3) Purpose: Reveal the Invisible God & Redeem fallen man http://www.sermoncloud.com/newtown/the-incarnation-of-the-eternal-son-of-god-pt-2- http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/2300/the-incarnation-of-the-eternal-son-of-god-pt-2.mp3 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:56:36 GMT Joey Newton It has been well noted, “A man may be an expert on the incarnation and yet be totally lacking in faith and love.” (Macleod). Doctrine has 2 primary purposes: (1)protect from error, (2) produce worship in the true knowledge of God. We want to ... incarnation,jesus_christ,god,satan,error,chalcedon,nestorianism,apollonarianism,virgin_birth,humanity,atonement,sacrifice,docetism,gethsemane 44:59 Jesus Christ is by far the most amazing, influential, and significant Person that has ever walked the face of the earth. The history of the world pivots upon the hinge of His appearing, the events of His life, and more significantly His death and resurrection. The account of the historical Person of Jesus Christ begins at the virgin birth - looked at a few weeks ago. This morning will look at the broader category of the incarnation. We could spend months on this single topic and begin to exhaust the height, depth, length, and breadth of all God has to say. So, what I offer in one message is in many ways woefully inadequate, but it is my hope that it will at least suffice to increase our worship of the Savior and to be amazed at the Person of the God-Man Jesus Christ. (1) Problem: Guarding against error; (2) Person: God-Man in one Person of Christ; (3) Purpose: Reveal the Invisible God & Redeem fallen man Defined: *[IN NOTES] (Latin term) “Meaning ‘in flesh,’ the incarnation defines the act wherein the eternal God the Son took to Himself an additional nature, humanity, through the virgin birth. By that act Christ did not cease to be God but remains forever fully God and fully man - two natures in one Person.” (Enns). http://www.sermoncloud.com/newtown/incarnation-of-the-eternal-son-of-god-pt-1 http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/2300/incarnation-of-the-eternal-son-of-god-pt-1.mp3 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:49:29 GMT Joey Newton Jesus Christ is by far the most amazing, influential, and significant Person that has ever walked the face of the earth. The history of the world pivots upon the hinge of His appearing, the events of His life, and more significantly His death and ... incarnation,jesus_christ,god,satan,error,chalcedon,nestorianism,apollonarianism,virgin_birth 45:27 Ephesians 1 has long been viewed by Christians as the great treatise of God's sovereign grace in love to them, having chosen them before the foundation of the world to love, know, serve, and honor the Lord Jesus Christ. This great chapter also stands as a model for setting the agenda of those things of most value in life, which are the things that transcend this present world - those things eternal. Christian resolutions should reflect the truths so clearly laid out in Ephesians 1. http://www.sermoncloud.com/newtown/resolutions-ephesians-1-bob-brainard http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/2300/resolutions-ephesians-1-bob-brainard.mp3 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:40:56 GMT Bob Brainard Ephesians 1 has long been viewed by Christians as the great treatise of God's sovereign grace in love to them, having chosen them before the foundation of the world to love, know, serve, and honor the Lord Jesus Christ. This great chapter also stands ... resolution,commitment,resolve,salvation,sovereignty,eternal,value,principles,elect,chosen 43:46 The apostle Paul's words in Philippians 3:10-11, "This one thing I do," throws down the gauntlet for all Christians to live radically, exclusively, and totally for the glory of God in Christ. He was a man who had impressive religious credentials before coming to Christ, yet they were all in opposition to God and in the deficit column of his spiritual bank account. It was not until he begin living for Christ, standing on the righteousness of Christ alone that he moved from religious self deception to a life of eternal value. Be resolved with the apostle Paul to lose your life for the sake of Christ and then, and only then, truly find it. http://www.sermoncloud.com/newtown/resolved-philippians-310-11-bob-brainard http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/2300/resolved-philippians-310-11-bob-brainard.mp3 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:27:05 GMT Bob Brainard The apostle Paul's words in Philippians 3:10-11, "This one thing I do," throws down the gauntlet for all Christians to live radically, exclusively, and totally for the glory of God in Christ. He was a man who had impressive religious ... resolved,commitment,philippians,jesus,religion,purpose 49:24