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Sunday 27 January 2019

'CHOSEN, INCLUDED, SEALED'

Rev. Jonathan Griffiths

by Rev. Jonathan Griffiths                           
Senior Pastor, The Metropolitan Bible Church,  Ottawa, ON.
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Podcast of CFRA broadcast on Sunday, 

January 27th,  2019
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Broadcast Title:
  Chosen, Included, Sealed
 
Reference passage: Ephesians 1:11-14   (NIV)

11 In him we were also chosen,[a] having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 12 in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. 13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.

Footnotes:

  1. Ephesians 1:11 Or were made heirs
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Rev. Jonathan Griffiths


2176 Prince of Wales Dr, Nepean, ON K2E 0A1

Phone: (613) 238-8182
www.metbiblechurch.ca/

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Sunday 20 January 2019

'GOD'S GENEROSITY'

Rev. Jonathan Griffiths

by Rev. Jonathan Griffiths                           
Senior Pastor, The Metropolitan Bible Church,  Ottawa, ON.
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Podcast of CFRA broadcast on Sunday, 

January 20th,  2019
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Broadcast Title:
  God's Generosity
 
Reference passage: Ephesians 1:1-10   (NIV)
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Rev. Jonathan Griffiths


2176 Prince of Wales Dr, Nepean, ON K2E 0A1

Phone: (613) 238-8182
www.metbiblechurch.ca/

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Sunday 13 January 2019

'THE RELUCTANT CONVERT'

Rev. Canon George Sinclair
by Rev. Canon George Sinclair                           
 Pastor of the Church of the Messiah, Ottawa, ON.
 www.messiahchurch.ca 

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January13th, 2019:
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The Reluctant Convert
  Esther 4 

 This is an abbreviated version of a longer sermon I gave at Church of the Messiah, Ottawa. At Messiah I preached through all of Esther. The Sermon series was called, "The Story of Esther, The Hidden God in a Broken World." 
(http://messiahchurch.sermons.io/sermons/the-reluctant-convert)
Today’s Reading:  Esther 4 (ESV)

Esther Agrees to Help the Jews

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry. He went up to the entrance of the king's gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth. And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.
When Esther's young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them. Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was. Hathach went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king's gate, and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews. Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction,[a] that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and command her to go to the king to beg his favor and plead with him[b] on behalf of her people. And Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said. 10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach and commanded him to go to Mordecai and say, 11 “All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law—to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”
12 And they told Mordecai what Esther had said. 13 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” 15 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, 16 “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”[c] 17 Mordecai then went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him.

Footnotes:

  1. Esther 4:8 Or annihilation
  2. Esther 4:8 Hebrew and seek from before his face
  3. Esther 4:16 Hebrew if I am destroyed, then I will be destroyed
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NOTES:
    1. You can live and die under God’s judgment, or you can live and die under God’s Covenant.
    2. Jesus is the true and greater Esther.
    3. If you live under God’s judgement, you will perish. If you live under God’s Covenant, you will grow into blessedness.
    4. The Gospel shapes you to see each day from the perspective of “For such a time as this.”
 
Rev. Canon George Sinclair
Church of the Messiah
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