Homerton Baptist Church
Evening Service (241117)
  • Hymn 890 - Stand up, stand up for Jesus,

      • Matthew 9:14–17NKJV

      • Mark 2:18–22NKJV

      • Luke 5:33–39NKJV

      • 1 John 2:7–14NKJV

  • Hymn 889 - Soldiers of Christ, arise

      • Deuteronomy 11.8-9NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11.10-11NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11.12-13NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11.14-16NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11.17NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11.18-19NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11.20-21NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11.22-23NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11.24-25NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11.26-28NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11.29NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11.30-31NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11.32NKJV

  • Order of Service

    Welcome

    Prayer

    Hymn -

    Notices

    Prayer Meeting - 7:30pm
    Friday 7pm - Online
    Sunday Morning 11am & 6pm
    Tithes & Offerings - £

    Main Prayer

    Hymn -

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    Reading

    Deuteronomy 11:8–32 ESV
    “You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess, and that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables. But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, a land that the Lord your God cares for. The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. “And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you. “You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth. For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him, then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. No one shall be able to stand against you. The Lord your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you. “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known. And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh? For you are to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it, you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
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    Sermon

    Israel is going to depend upon the rains for fruitfulness
    the rains upon the blessings of God
    and the victory depends upon the blessings of God
    Key Phrase: “Trust and Obey the Lord”
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    Living in an Uncertain Environment

    Deuteronomy 11:8–12 ESV
    “You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess, and that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables. But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, a land that the Lord your God cares for. The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
    In Egypt was great hardship
    Yet it was in the interest of the Egyptians to keep them alive
    They could sow their seed on the banks of the nile using irrigation
    “Like a garden of vegetables”
    The Israelites longed for security
    The Promise Land
    Hills & Valleys
    Rain from heaven
    We also long for security - the uncertainty of life in this world
    We like to be in control
    To have every eventuality taken care of
    God often brings Christians through experiences in which we are completrly reliant on Him
    Churches depend entirely on Him for their fruitfulness
    We have to live by faith every day
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    Trusting in a Faithful God

    Deuteronomy 11:13–17 ESV
    “And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.
    Trusting and Obeying go together
    Obedience is the evidence of Trust
    First command: “Love God with all your heart and with all your soul”
    Obedience flows from the first command
    “Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them”
    Disobedience - God’s Wrath - No rain, no crops, followed by starvation
    God is not to be trifled with
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    Keeping God’s Word before your Eyes

    Deuteronomy 11:18–25 ESV
    “You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth. For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him, then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. No one shall be able to stand against you. The Lord your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.
    Lay up God’s Word in your heart and soul
    Bind them as a sign on your hand
    Be as frontlets before your eyes
    Walk in all His ways - holding fast to Him
    It was not until David & Solomon that they occupied the territory described in verse 24
    Great faith and obedience would have seen that happen sooner
    If churches today were more faithful to God and His Word, and acted boldly in faith, there would be a greater spiritual growth
    Maybe also numerical growth
    The nations in Canaan were ‘greater and mighter then the Israelites’
    That was no problem to God
    Similarly, the difficulties faced today by Christians and Churches are not problem to Him either
    Paul reminds us:
    2 Corinthians 10:4–5 ESV
    For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
    Key Issues today:
    Entrenched unbelief
    arrogant intellectualism
    socially-accepted sin
    careless indifference
    All broken down by the power of the Holy Spirit
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    Looking at the Options

    Deuteronomy 11:26–32 ESV
    “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known. And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh? For you are to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it, you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
    “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse”
    the blessing: if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God
    Take the land and all the blessings it offers
    the curse: if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known
    Lose everything God has given
    The Christian life is like this: daily obedience, walking in the ways of the Lord, and so experiencing his continuing blessing
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    Hymn -

    Q&A

    Hymn -

    Closing Prayer

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    Doxology

      • Deuteronomy 11:8–12NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11:13–17NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11:18–25NKJV

      • 2 Corinthians 10:4–5NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 11:26–32NKJV

  • Hymn 868 - Guide me, O my great redeemer
  • Hymn 1325 - You have called us out of darkest night
  • Doxology 151 v1

      • 1 Corinthians 16:23–24NKJV

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