Leviticus 10 “Strange Fire”

May 24, 2020
Dangerous Jobs. Fatal Mistakes. Worker injuries. Electricians are killed when they mistakenly touch live wires. Some folks have lost limb or life while operating heavy machinery or manufacturing equipment. Doctors caring for patients on the front lines combatting disease such as Ebola, SARS, MERS and now Covid-19, have contracted the disease themselves and died. Nurses and other healthcare workers make mistakes with needles and have contracted HIV, or other infectious blood diseases. Pilots and their passengers have been killed because of mistakes or negligence. I remember watching a show about plane crashes and in this one particular crash, investigators discovered from the black box conversations that the pilot was drunk and unable to properly decipher his instrument panel and thinking the plane was about to stall put the plane into a nosedive killing everyone on board. Even Pastors have been killed. Not that our job is crazy dangerous, at least not in our part of the world. I had a co-worker whose husband was a pastor and he was killed in the baptistry; electrocuted by the microphone. Deadly mistakes happen. Some jobs are inherently more dangerous, and/or have the potential hazard of the worker getting killed. When you work in one of these jobs, you must always be on the alert, because a small mistake, error in judgment, can mean the difference between life and death. So what does that have to do with us this morning, you might ask? Let’s find out together as we turn to our text.
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Passage: Leviticus 10
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2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 “Chosen. Called. So Stand Firm.”

May 3, 2020
There’s a new series out that I have enjoyed very much called The Chosen. You can see it on Pureflix or on youtube. It’s very well done and captures some of the historical picture during Jesus’ earthly ministry. Jesus indeed chooses his diciples. They did not seek to become disciples. They in fact had their lives turned upside down and started over in a sense. And that’s who we are as well. We are chosen. We move from death to life. He chooses us. He then calls us. Calls us to faith. And just as the disciples would learn, we must then stand for the faith. Stand for what we believe, as taught by Jesus. We don’t get to make stuff up. We follow the Master, the Rabbi, the Teacher. No student is above his teacher, and the same holds for us his disciples. but we must remain faithful, because we have been chosen and called to do so.
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Passage: 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17
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2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 “Do Not Be Quickly Shaken in Mind or Alarmed”

April 26, 2020
Sound the alarm! I think I’m losing my mind! Have things ever been so out of control in your life you just want to pull the covers over your head and throw in the towel? Have you ever panicked about missing an appointment only to find out that it was scheduled on a different day? And you wonder how you could be so silly to get so worked up about such a thing. Stressing over nothing. Sometimes when you don’t have sufficient information or the information you have is wrong, we can get worked up, stressed out, become anxious over nothing. And this is what the church in Thessalonica was facing. And as we will find today, Paul wrote to encourage them, and to warn them and remind them that God is sovereign and all powerful. I think it’s good for us to be reminded in the same way. It’s good for us to be reminded of key doctrines and most importantly, the gospel.
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Passage: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
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Luke 19:28-44 “Triumphal Entry and Lamentation”

April 5, 2020
As Easter is fast approaching, the Sunday before is Palm Sunday which begins the Passion Week, or Holy Week. A great way to spend this week is daily in the Word, read about the events that took place. You can find these in Matthew chapters 21-27; Mark chapters 11-15; Luke chapters 19-23; and John chapters 12-19. This morning I am going to touch on the first two events from the gospel of Luke, The Triumphal Entry and Jesus Weeping over Jerusalem.
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Passage: Luke 19:28-44
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Joel 3 “The End Times: Judgment or Restoration?”

March 29, 2020
Last time we met we talked about fear and how going through this experience in our lives, how dealing with COVID-19 has a lot of people worried. Indeed as the numbers of infections continues to increase to over 1000, and the number of deaths also continues to rise, people are wondering, “Is there an end in sight?” I just learned yesterday that Greg’s friend Lenny in Long Island, who we’ve been praying for, was one of those who succumbed to the virus. Gratefully, we can see that the virus has not targeted the young, but still there is an uncertainty during these times that can be stressful, and cause anxiety. While it seems we’ve made it past the toilet paper panic, some have begun to wonder is this judgment from the hand of God? Are we under God’s judgment? And not only us but the rest of the world? The prophetic books are helpful in these times as they were when they were originally penned. But what prophetic books are meant to do is to encourage and remind ourselves of God’s promises. We aren’t to try to figure out a road map, as if God left us a puzzle that will give us some kind of gnostic insight so we can sit back boasting in that we had the end of the world figured out. So with that in mind, let’s look to Joel and see what God’s message is for us this morning.
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Passage: Joel 3
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Psalm 91 “I Ain’t Afraid of No Virus!”

March 15, 2020
From the 1984 blockbuster movie Ghostbusters and pop song, I took the line “I ain’t afraid of no ghost” and titled my sermon: “I ain’t afraid of no virus!” This is one of those times in our present circumstances, when I decided to take a slight detour from our study in Leviticus and chose to address an issue that most of us in this country are thinking about. If you haven’t had your head in the sand, then you have seen the wall to wall TV coverage of the corona virus, COVID-19. Many of us in this room have already directly or indirectly been affected. The mayor of Williamsport has banned group gatherings of 250 or more. The governor has closed schools for 2 weeks. Flights, cruises, travel, and conferences are all being canceled. Major sporting events are being cancelled as well. And for crying out loud, all the toilet paper and hand sanitizer has vanished off the shelves! Not to make light of the situation, we’re in a crisis. A pandemic. And there is a lot of fear, a lot of worry, a lot of concern, on the part of our public officials, in the news media, and for all the citizens. Even my 11 year-old daughter is concerned that the mailman is going to spread corona virus to every house he delivers the mail to. I had a conversation with my father, a pastor in Houston, who remarked at how people are hanging on to every warning and heeding every instruction that the government health officials, the CDC, etc. have issued, but when we tell them Jesus is coming, that this is not only a life or death issue, but an eternal one, those warnings go largely ignored. People are on edge, some on the verge of panic. So how is the Christian supposed to think in times like these? How are we to behave? What kind of example should we set for others to take note of? Scripture has much to teach when it comes to facing illness and disease. There are many passages where we can find sound teaching. This morning I chose Psalm 91.
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Passage: Psalm 91
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