Sermons
Thanks for visiting HeidelbergCatechismProject.com! Please subscribe now to receive email updates and be notified of future sermons available here. Lord willing we’ll begin weekly devotionals on the catechism to aid you in your personal growth and the use of the catechism in your home and ministry!:
You can listen to these sermons online or download them to your computer. Click the “play” button to listen online or click “download” and you can save the file on your computer.
Sermon notes are available for download too. Click the document icon to download the sermon notes. Most are “pdf” files. You will see a red and gray “pdf” icon to click in those instances. Otherwise you’ll see a blue and white icon for “document” files. Click the icon and you will then be able to open the notes or save them to your computer for later reading.
These sermons and bible studies are recorded live and edited, though not professionally.
They are presented “as is” in the hopes that they can build up God’s people. Where they are true to God’s Word we ask God’s blessing upon them. For their many faults, we ask God’s mercy and pray He can work through them despite their imperfections.
They should never be used as a replacement for active participation in a Christ honoring local church. Our prayer is that they will help those who cannot find a suitable church locally or who are providentially prohibited from attending the Lord’s House on the Lord’s Day.
If you find these sermons and studies to be a blessing and you would like to support this ministry as it teaches the Word of God worldwide, Thanks in advance for all your support!
Soli Deo Gloria! Glory to God Alone!
Because He Lives (John 20:1-18Isaiah 52:13-53:12Psalm 16:1-11)
Chuck Huckaby, April 12, 2009Part of the Christian Year series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
Note: Audio begins with the corporate reading of Psalm 16
Because He Lives!
Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12/Psalm 16/John 20:1-18
“Because He Lives – We Really Can Face Tomorrow ”
But Why?
This morning we sang a song “Because He Lives”. The chorus goes like this “Because He lives, I can face tomorrow, Because He lives, all fear is gone, because I know He holds the future and life is worth the living just because He lives!”
It is most assuredly true. But why?
The message of the New Testament – the followers who knew Jesus Christ personally during his life, ministry, in His death, and in His Resurrection is that finally in Jesus Christ alone the promises of God to Israel finally make sense... are only finally true...and only find their fulfillment in Jesus Christ and His Resurrection.
“For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.” (2Co 1:20)
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Download
| Earlier: | Same day: | Later: |
|---|---|---|
| « Hebrews: The True Cleansing By The True Priest | None | The Power of Love » |
John 20:1-18
20:1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” 3 So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. 4 Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, 7 and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; 9 for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10 Then the disciples went back to their homes.
11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. 12 And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. 13 They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” 14 Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). 17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”—and that he had said these things to her. (ESV)
Isaiah 52:13-53:12
13 Behold, my servant shall act wisely;
he shall be high and lifted up,
and shall be exalted.
14 As many were astonished at you—
his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
15 so shall he sprinkle many nations;
kings shall shut their mouths because of him;
for that which has not been told them they see,
and that which they have not heard they understand.
53:1 Who has believed what he has heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
9 And they made his grave with the wicked
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors. (ESV)
Psalm 16
A Miktam of David.
16:1 Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
2 I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
I have no good apart from you.”
3 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones,
in whom is all my delight.
4 The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply;
their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out
or take their names on my lips.
5 The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup;
you hold my lot.
6 The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
7 I bless the Lord who gives me counsel;
in the night also my heart instructs me.
8 I have set the Lord always before me;
because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices;
my flesh also dwells secure.
10 For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol,
or let your holy one see corruption.
11 You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. (ESV)
Thanks for Visiting!
Hello, I am Rev. Chuck Huckaby. This project is part of God's answer to a prayer I have been praying now for several years... that the Lord would enable me to touch the world in 12 unique ways in conjunction with my "tentmaking" ministry.
My prayer is that this website will be used to disciple Christians and church leaders and, as God blesses, extend Christ's Church through the nations!Soli Deo Gloria!
Please visit the new work at the Reformed Evangelical Synod
Thank you in advance for your support!
Email me.
Follow me on Twitter