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Weekly sermons from Hope Baptist Church in Manchester, Maine. Enjoy God, Embrace People, Experience Growth.
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July 19, 2026
Do Not Lose Heart
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:1-6I. Don’t lose heart because you have your ministry by the mercy of God.A. What is the only reason you have a Gospel ministry in service to God and people? Godhas been merciful to you (vs. 1). Just like God saved your soul because of His mercy,God has also given you a ministry because of His mercy. The temptation for some whohave lost heart with the ministry of evangelism is found in verse 2. They use cunningmethods and tamper with God’s Word to add people to the church. They are editors ofthe Bible’s message and water it down. But Paul gives people an open statement of thetruth about Jesus and the Bible (vs. 2).II. Don’t lose heart because you should expect ministry to be hard.A. Paul explains why preaching the Gospel is so hard in vs. 3: “even if our gospel is veiled,it is veiled to those who are perishing.” The problem is not with the Gospel. Theproblem is with the people listening to the Gospel. They have a veil over their eyes thatprevents them from seeing the goodness and glory of the Gospel about Jesus. Whatdoes Satan do as we tell people about the greatness of Jesus and His power to save?Satan blinds people (vs. 4) to the glory of Christ. He uses a veil (vs. 3) to keep peoplefrom seeing that Jesus is the greatest treasure in the world.III. Don’t lose heart because ministry is not about you.A. Paul’s opponents in the Corinthian church, the super-apostles, said ministry is all aboutme. “Look at me ” the super apostles said. By contrast look at what Paul says ministry isabout in vs. 5, “For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, withourselves as your servants for Jesus ’ sake.” What is the message ministers speak?Jesus Christ is Lord . Paul says, “Get over yourself. It’s not about you. It’s about Jesus.”Jesus will one day say to His humble servants the words of Matthew 25:21, “Welldone, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set youover much. Enter into the joy of your master.”IV. Don’t lose heart because your ministry reveals God s glory.A. What happens when you tell people that Jesus Christ is Lord? Light shines in thedarkness (vs. 6). We see the glory of Jesus shining most brightly at the cross. At thecross we see the amazing love of Jesus for sinners like us. Less than a week beforeJesus died, he said in John 12:23: “The hour has come for the Son of Man to beglorified.” The time had come for Jesus to die on the cross. It wasn’t nails that heldJesus to the cross. It was love. It was love for you and me. It was love that set us freefrom our imprisonment to sin.Application:Don’t lose heart in your ministry of telling others about Jesus. Keep going. Be faithful.Sources:The BibleCommentaries by Trent Casto, David Garland, and Gary Millar.Sermon Outline Questions1) How do you view your ministry of being a witness for Christ? Do you see it as a good gift of God’s mercy like Paul did (vs. 1)? Should we expect the ministry of evangelism to be easy or hard (vs. 3-4)?2) What main message should we speak about Jesus (vs. 5)? And how should we ministers relate to people (vs. 5)?3) How is someone’s conversion to Christ like God saying to the world in creation: “Let there be light.” (vs. 6)? Where do we see the glory of Jesus most clearly?
July 12, 2026
You Can Change
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:12-18I. You change through Jesus.A. The giving of the Law did not change anyone. People still had no power to change. God promised to change people through faith in Jesus and the new covenant that came with Jesus. So, Paul and the apostles were very bold in preaching the Gospel (vs. 12). In vs. 13 Paul writes that Moses “put a veil over his face” before the Israelites. Paul is referring to the story in Exodus 34.B. Moses’ face shone with the glory of God after being in the presence of God. But sinful Israelites could not see the glory of God or else they would die. So, God in His mercy had Moses put a veil over his face so that Israel would not receive the judgment of death. But Israel’s minds and hearts were so hard that they refused to obey God’s Law (vs. 14). They could not change. But Jesus takes the veil away (vs. 14, 16) that keeps us from seeing God’s glory and changing.II. You change by the power of the Holy Spirit.A. Verse 17: “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom.” The Lord refers to God the Father from the story in Exodus 34. It is the Holy Spirit who does the main work of transformation in the lives of Christians today. But in the days of Moses, before the Holy Spirit had been sent to His people, it was the Lord, God the Father, who did the work of transforming Moses’ face when Moses looked at God without a veil.B. The freedom the Holy Spirit gives to us is freedom to love and obey God. We are now free to be what God created us to be: people made in the image of God who were made to reflect God’s glory. It is the Holy Spirit who gives you this freedom to look like God when He enters your life. He sets you free from your old selfish way of life so that you can look and act like Jesus.III. You change by looking at Jesus.A. Verse 18: “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.” You become what you behold. Change happens by looking at Jesus. 1 John 3:2: “Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.” Romans 8:29: “For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.”Application:You can change. And, since the Holy Spirit is in you, you are gradually changing.Sources:The BibleCommentaries by Trent Casto, David Garland, and Gary Millar.Sermon Outline Questions1) Why did Moses need to put a veil over his face in front of the Israelites? What happens to your ability to change if you cannot see the glory of God’s face?2) Which member of the Trinity does the main work of transformation in our lives today? What kind of freedom does the Holy Spirit give us (2 Cor. 3:17)?3) Where should you set your eyes if you want to change? Does change usually happen quickly or slowly in our spiritual lives?
June 28, 2026
Join the Parade
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 2:12-17I. In the Jesus parade we spread the fragrance of Jesus and the Gospel.A. The last part of 2 Corinthians 2 looks more like a defeat for Paul and the church than a victory to be celebrated. Paul’s spirit was not at rest in Troas because Paul didn’t find Titus to get the news from Corinth. He was so distracted and anxious about the lack of news of how Corinth had responded to his strong letter that he left the growing church at Troas to move on. But Paul was not depressed. Verse 14: “But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.”B. Matthew 16:18: “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” The church of Jesus Christ is on a victory parade. We are winning! One part of that victory parade is people carrying sweet-smelling incense. This is our job as the church today. Through us (Jesus) spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere (vs. 14). How do people smell the sweetness of Jesus? Through our words and our sacrificial lives. When they hear through us that Jesus died on the cross to forgive them because God loved us so much and see our sacrificial lives, how sweet is that!II. In the Jesus parade we are led by Jesus as His conquered captives.A. One part of the Roman military victory parade has captives led in chains. The Jesus parade also has captives. Us. We have been captured and captivated by God. We take up the cross in death in a parade that reveals the majesty and power of God through our weakness. Think about what Jesus says to all of us as His disciples in Luke 9:23: “And he said to all, ‘If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”B. Paul wrote about his role in the Jesus parade in 1 Corinthians 4:9: “For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.” Paul does not suffer by accident as an apostle. He suffers by God’s design. Paul says, “It is not despite my suffering as an apostle, it is precisely through my suffering as an apostle that God is spreading the beautiful fragrance of the knowledge of Jesus.” When people smell the daily fragrance of Paul’s dying to himself in weakness for Jesus’ sake, they smell something beautiful in his sacrifice.Application:Join the Jesus parade by living a life of sacrifice and telling others of Jesus’ sacrifice.Sources:The BibleCommentaries by Trent Casto, David Garland, and Gary Millar.Sermon Outline Questions1) What stress was Paul feeling while the church at Troas was growing? How does sin within the church affect its ability to focus on its mission of evangelism and discipleship?2) How do people outside the church smell the sweetness of Jesus and the Gospel? Can people smell Jesus through your words and your sacrificial life?3) How has Jesus captured and captivated His followers? How does our suffering and our captivity to Christ help spread the fragrance of the knowledge of Jesus?
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