Dan Lee
John 17:1-2, Salvation for the Glory of God

Jesus’ prayer in John 17 begins with a focus on the glory of God. Jesus prays that His impending death will ultimately glorify the Father and that this would come about through the granting (gifting) of eternal life to His elect. What Jesus’ crucifixion puts on display is the glory of God’s grace in salvation.

Dan Lee
Deuteronomy 27-34, Two Ways to Live

As Moses closes his final message to the children of Israel, he focuses on the consequences of obedience and disobedience. He does so by setting down before them two pathways: the pathway to life, good, and the blessing, and the other pathway to death, evil, and the curse. Along with these options for their future, he reveals to them their future in apostasy, judgment, and even a restoration afterwards. The Pentateuch closes with an allusion to the prophet like Moses to come, the Lord Jesus, who speaks from the LORD and all the people ought to hear. The call to choose life echoes throughout the ages, calling all to be reconciled and restored to God and to enter into His blessing through the Savior and Lord Jesus Christ.

Dan Lee
Deuteronomy 12-26, The Place and The Prophet

In this final legal section of the Pentateuch, Moses touches on a wide range of laws. Among these, two stand out as the most prominent in the main message of Moses regarding the Messiah: the place of worship and the future prophet like Moses. These two ideas propel us to build up God’s church, hope in Christ’s return, and listen to Christ.

Dan Lee
Deuteronomy 1-11, Remember and Obey

Moses speaks his final message to the children of Israel before heading up Mount Nebo and see the land of Canaan and die there. His aim is to expound the law but he is gripped by the urgency of the spiritual needs of his people and thus he earnestly exhorts them with a long introduction (nearly all of 11 chapters) to remember and obey. In this three part study of Deuteronomy, we examine the practical relevance of this exhortation and consider the ultimate Israelite who lived up to all that this exhortation required.

Dan Lee
Numbers 22-24, The Messianic Prophecies of ...

The very perplexing figure of Balaam shows that God can use even a wicked pagan priest to speak forth His truth. Unbeknownst to this man, the LORD intended to use him to reinforce His immutable commitment to bless Israel and send the Messiah for our salvation. Balaam’s prophecies show that Jesus is the coming king who will reign supremely over all the nations, crushing all His enemies. They also show that Jesus is the promised seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, who grants the blessing of salvation to all the elect of God.

Matthew 4:12-17, The Blessing of Repentance (Part 2)

Jesus’ call to repentance is a message of hope. it is like light dawning upon the darkness of the shadow of death. It offers the hope of the kingdom of heaven. God’s kingdom awaits all who take heed to its message. The kingdom is near; it can arrive at any time. May the Holy Spirit enable all who hear to be ready for its arrival, and may we be faithful announcers of its glad tidings.

Matthew 4:12-17, The Blessing of Repentance

All throughout Scripture, God’s call for sinful humanity is repentance. Jesus clearly preached this as did His forerunner John the Baptist. But what does repentance mean? In this sermon, we consider the meaning of this important biblical term and begin our study of the blessing of repentance as Matthew presents the preaching of Jesus in his gospel.

Matthew 4:8-11, The will of God for Man: Live Worshipfully

Jesus worshipped and served His heavenly Father only. The Father was the supreme love and the greatest treasure of His heart. While Satan attempts to stumble Jesus by offering Him what he thinks would entice and allure Him, Jesus maintains His resolve to live His human life as a true worshipper with His heart fixated on His heavenly Father as the singular and supreme object of His love and worship. While sinful humans often keep as our supreme devotion, our desire of approval, security, comfort, power, and/or pleasure, not so the Son of Man. He remains faithful to the end so as to make atonement for our sins to grant to us the remission for our sins and the reconciliation of our souls to the holy God as those restored to Him as His true worshippers.

Matthew 4:5-7, The will of God for Man: Live Dependently

Jesus trusted in His heavenly Father. Thus, He would never patronize God by subjecting Him to a test to confirm His trustworthiness. God is faithful and true and He is the very essence of such attributes. While we may reasonably test countless other things that are uncertain, we do not test the One who Himself is the plumb line of faithfulness and truth. We learn from Jesus that we are not to test God, but instead, we are to trust in Him with all our heart.

Matthew 28:18-20, The Commands of Christ

The purpose of Christ for us is that we be disciples and make disciples. This entails that we know and remember the commands of Christ that we may live by them. This sermon marks the starting point of a season of rigorous Scripture memorization and recitation in our community groups. May we all live as faithful disciples of Christ who are also capable disciple makers for Christ.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Love And Remember

The Shema is the passage we turn to to encourage the Fathers on this Father’s Day. There is only one God who is the triune God, who has been revealed to us in the Son of God incarnate. And the Lord’s calling on our lives is that we love Him, the triune God, with all of all that we are, heart, soul, and might. This love for the Lord is to be expressed in our willing obedience to Him which entails that we remember and keep His word. May the Lord so strengthen the men of our church to be the spiritual leaders who will impact the next generation for His glory and honor.