Tuesday, December 31, 2013

SAVE THE DATE: Annual Congregational Meeting - Wed. January 22, 2014

Please mark you calendar for our Annual Congregational Meeting, Wednesday, January 22nd at 7pm.
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Sunday, December 29, 2013

The Lord's Supper - Pastor Tito Lyro - 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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Friday, December 27, 2013

TRAINING: Marriage and Family Counseling Course at WRS - Jan 9-15

Western Reformed Seminary is offering a Marriage and Family Counseling class on January 9-15 (9am-5pm). For more information, please contact Pastor Tito (contact@olympiabp.net) or the Seminary (wrs.edu/contact).
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

The Lord's Supper - 1 Cor. 11:17-34

IntroductionThe Lord, in his goodness and mercy to us, gave us visible words along with the preached word.
         I.             The Worship Services in Corinth.
A.   The worship service of the Corinthian church were so messed up that they were worse off for getting together, 17.
B.   They were practicing the Lord's Supper so wrongly that it wasn't the Lord's Supper at all, 20!
C.   Their worship problems extended to their view of preaching, praying, giving, and singing, chpts. 12 and 14.
D.  But their biggest sin, the sin that caused some to be sick or even die (30), was that they were coming to the Supper as a divided body, 18-19.
1.    There was schism in the church, that is, unbiblical division.
2.    There was wide spread dissension in the church.
3.    Whatever the form dissension takes, it is a satanic work that destroys the church and is met with severe judgment of the part of God, 30, 34.
E.   In the Lord's Supper Jesus says, "Here is my body broken for you, so that you may be all in one body."
F.   By coming to the Lord's Supper with divisions, we are breaking the Body of Christ, the Church, again and again – that the Lord is not going to allow it.
       II.          The Lord's Supper Finds Its Origin in Christ, 23.
A.   Jesus instituted it during the celebration of the Passover.
B.   This was an important occasion for Jesus – with fervent desire I have desired.
C.   It is one of two ceremonies that Christ instituted, the other being baptism (Mt. 28:19).
D.  The Lord's Supper finds its origin in Christ and it points to Christ – do this in remembrance of me.
       III.       The Lord's Supper Is a Proclamation of Christ, 26.
A.   This goes back to the Lord's Supper being a visible word.
B.   Not simply the eating of bread and the drink of the cup, but brothers and sisters united to Christ and to one another through his death and resurrection.
       IV.        The Lord's Supper Was Given to the Gathered Church, 18.
A.    There are times when Christians who are members of the same local church meet together for religious purposes that are not the gathering of the church.
B.     The Lord's Supper is for those times when the church is gathered, that is, for when the church is formally called to worship together.
       V.           The Lord's Supper Was Given to the Israel of God, 25.
A.   The Bible says that that the New Covenant was made with Israel.
B.   Here the same Spirit that inspired Jeremiah inspired Paul to say that the Lord's Supper is the New Covenant given to the church.
C.   Putting the two together and assuming that the Holy Spirit did not make a mistake, we conclude that the Church is the Israel of God, organically and institutionally united with the Old Testament people of God.
D.  Some have said that this is a different New Covenant, one that is not mentioned in the OT.
E.   The Lord's Supper IS the New Covenant in the same way that circumcision IS the Abrahamic Covenant, namely, it represents the New Covenant.
       VI.        The Lord's Supper Is for Those Who Have a Credible Profession of Faith, 27-29.
A.   Paul says three things about those who are to partake of the Supper:
1.    They must do it in a worthy manner, 27.
2.    One must be able to examine himself, 28.
3.    One must discern the body, 29.
4.    These three activities can only be done through faith in Christ and do require a certain level of cognitive ability.
B.   Some Reformed scholars have said that this passage says nothing concerning children and the Lord's Supper.
C.   This view is a betrayal of a proper and historically Reformed understanding of the Church.
D.  Some may draw a line between the Passover and the Lord's Supper and say that children ate the Passover, therefore they should indiscriminately partake of the Lord's Supper.
E.   Some say that this view excommunicates children from the church.
    VII.     The Lord's Supper Is a Ceremonial Meal That Looks backwards and Forward, 22, 26, 34.
A.   It is not a dinner as we think of dinner.
B.   The Lord's Supper looks backward to the cross and forward to the coming again of Christ, 26.
       VIII.  The Elements of the Lord's Supper, 24-25.
A.   Bread
B.   Wine
       IX.        The Presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper, 24.
A.   There is so much controversy about the word "is" in this verse
B.    "This bread is my body," means that Christ is actually present in the sacrament, but not in physical sense, rather in a spiritual sense.

Conclusion– The Lord has blessed us with this wonderful proof of his love for us.

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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

REMINDER: Christmas Eve Service Tonight @ 4PM

Join us for our Christmas Eve Service tonight at 4PM.
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Sunday, December 22, 2013

Christ Came to Make Us Children of God - Pastor Tito Lyro - Galatians 4:1-7

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Friday, December 20, 2013

Christ Came to Make Us Children of God - Gal. 4:1-7

Introduction – Christ came to make us children of God.
        I.             The Galatian Struggle, Which Is the Human Struggle, 3:1-3.
A.   The Galatians were falling into the trap of thinking that they were saved by grace, but stayed saved by works.
B.   This is not a struggle that is particular and unique to the Galatians.
1.    This is the general struggle of humanity.
2.    We tend to think that somehow we can do something to show that we are worthy in the sight of God.
3.    Our problem is not that we are antinomian by nature, but that we love lists of things that we can do on our own thereby being in charge of our own salvation.
       II.          The Purpose of the Law, 3:10-21.
A.   The law is good and perfect and a gift from God.
B.   The law has very important and specific purposes for which God gave it to his people.
C.   The law does not and cannot save a sinner, 3:11, 21.
       III.       The Law, the History of Redemption, and Christ, 4:1-5.
A.   Paul here is not speaking of the law in the life of the individual, though we can draw some applications to that.
B.    He is speaking of the place of the law in the history of redemption.
C.   Christ came at the time the Father appointed for him to come, 4:4
D.   God sent his Son with a mission: to redeem his people, 5.
E.    Christ's mission was accomplished under three conditions.
1.    He was born of a human.
2.    He was born under the law.
3.    He remained God.
F.    Christ's mission was accomplished and it was sufficient to redeem all of the elect of God.
        IV.        Not Slaves, but Sons and Daughters of the Heavenly Father, 4:6-7, 3:26-29.
A.     Through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God adopts those who believe in him, 4:5b.
B.      God didn't make people slave to the law.
C.     He provided more than redemption – God the Father adopted us through Jesus Christ, 3:26, 7.
D.     You are sons and daughters of God the Father, 7.
E.      As sons and daughters, we are heirs of the promises made to Abraham, 3:29, and the most magnificent promise made to Abraham is that God is going to be our God and our children's God.
F.      It is this complete abandonment of ourselves to the grace of God in Jesus Christ that will produce genuine obedience and sanctification, 5:13
Conclusion
Christ Jesus became man to redeem a people to himself through whom the Father adopts us.  What a great gift!

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

PRAYER: Session Meeting Today (Dec 19)

Please be in prayer for our Session as they meet today (December 19).
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PRAYER: Deacon's Meeting Tonight (Dec 19)

Please be in prayer for our Deacons as they meeting this evening (December 19).
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Sunday, December 15, 2013

The Incarnation as and Example of Humility - Pastor Tito Lyro - Philippians 2:1-11

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