Summit Ridge Sermon Podcast

Easter Service 2022

1 Corinthians 15:20-28
(NASB 2020)

Identity in Christ: ”I am Called”

GOD IS ALWAYS AT WORK IN ME
Romans 8:28
GOD IS WORKING ALL THINGS IN MY LIFE FOR GOOD
Romans 8:28
GOD IS WORKING TO FORM ME IN THE IMAGE OF JESUS
Romans 8:29-30
Colossians 3:23-24
Jeremiah 29:11 
 
(NASB 2020)

Identity in Christ: ”I Am Free in Christ”

Isaiah 43:1
Isaiah 41:13
1 Peter 5:7
John 14:27
Isaiah 61:1
Galatians 2:20
John 8: 34-36
Galatians 4:3-7
Romans 8:15
Psalm 23
Galatians 5:1
Ephesians 2:10
(NIV)

Identity in Christ: ”I am Ransomed”

God CARES deeply about your body.  
1 Corinthians 6:12-14
Your body is a part of CHRIST’S body.  
1 Corinthians 6: 15-18
HONOR God with your body.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20 
Romans 12:1
 
(NASB 2020)

Identity in Christ: ”I am God’s Temple”

Call out the PROBLEM  
1 Corinthians 3:1-7
Keep leaders in their proper PLACE
Corinthians 3:8-15
Embrace your PART as God's dwelling place
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Ephesians 2:19-22
(NASB2020)

Identity in Christ: ”I am Christ-minded”

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious. -Tim Keller
YOU AND I CAN TELL OTHERS WHAT GOD THINKS
1 Corinthians 2:1-5
YOU AND I CAN KNOW WHAT GOD THINKS
1 Corinthians 2:6-13
YOU AND I CAN THINK LIKE GOD
1 Corinthians 2:14-16
Philippians 2:5-8
(NASB 2020)
 

Identity in Christ: ”I have Received”

1 Corinthians 2:12
How are the things of God given to us?
John 1:4-5
1 Corinthians 2:1-5
Isaiah 55:1
Romans 6:23
Micah 7:18
The things of God are given to us “Freely.”
How do I have the power to receive the things of God? 
1 Corinthians 2:14
John 3:4-6
I have the power to receive the things of God because I was given that power by God through the work of the Holy Spirit.
How do I have the knowledge to understand the things of God?
2 Timothy 3:16-17
Matthew 5:18-19
I have the knowledge to understand the things of God because I have access to the Holy Scriptures and a guide in the Holy Spirit
(NASB 2020)

Identity in Christ: ”I am Destined”

1 Corinthians 1:30
Physical Birth
Psalm 139:13-16
Spiritual Birth
Ephesians 1:3-4
1 Corinthians 15:9-10
Spiritual Wealth
Wisdom
1 Corinthians 1:20-21
Isaiah 55:7-9
Psalm 14:1
Righteousness
Isaiah 64:6
Sanctification
Genesis 2:3
Galatians 5:24
Hebrews 10:14
Redemption
Romans 3:23-25
Romans 8:22-23
(NASB 2020)
 

Reconciled with Christ and With Each Other: ”What it Takes to Serve Others Well”

COVENANT STATEMENT #4: To serve one another by following the example of Jesus Christ ensuring others are seen, heard, and cared for as deeply valued members of God’s family and this church.
Mark 10:45
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" JOHN BUNYAN: You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. JOHN WESLEY: One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbor; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us. JOHN WESLEY: Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the places you can at all the times you can to all the people you can as long as ever you can
LOOK constantly to Jesus
1 Peter 4:1-5
Hebrews 12:1-3
LISTEN thoughtfully to the Gospel message
1 Peter 4:6-7
1 Corinthians 1:22-25
LOVE others enthusiastically
1 Peter 4:8-11
THOMAS MERTON: “Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.” 
 
 
 

Reconciled in Christ and With Each Other: ”The Fruits of a Healthy Community

Galatians 5:19-26
Ephesians 6:12 (NASB 2020 and The Message)
Romans 7:1
Galatians 6:2
Romans 12:10-13
(NASB 2020)
Martin Luther: Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, [being] so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works-righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake.
JARED C. WILSON- “If anything, we should be astounded they let us into the community. Given what we know of ourselves, given that we are the worst sinners we know, it is a staggeringly arrogant thing to begrudge any other repentant follower of Jesus a place at the dance. If the bar was low enough to allow our entry, what advantage is there to raising it?”
“Jesus wasn’t blowing smoke. His major contribution to the world was not a set of aphorisms (pithy observations). He was born in a turdy barn, grew up in a dirty world, got baptized in a muddy river. He put his hands on the oozing wounds of lepers, he let whores brush his hair and soldiers pull it out. He went to dinner with dirtbags, both religious and irreligious. His closest friends were a collection of crude fishermen and cultural traitors. He felt the spittle of the Pharisees on his face and the metal hooks of the jailer’s whip in the flesh of his back. He got sweaty and dirty and bloody—and he took all of the sin and mess of the world onto himself, onto the cross to which he was nailed naked.”