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Click to play, right-click to download:March 15, 2020 | Pastor Roger Melson | He Believed the Lord | Genesis 14:17-15:6                                               Roger and Marsha Melson

Click to play, right-click to download:March 8, 2020 | Pastor John Bayles | Down the Mountain: Wait for Jesus to Arrive | Mark 9:14-29Down the Mountain: Wait for Jesus to ArriveMark 9:14–29.Jesus and His disciples are still in the region of Caesarea Philippi, the land of the Gentiles. They had been to the mountaintop, the “sacred mountain” (2Pet.1:17, 18), as Peter would later call it. They had seen the Lord transfigured and heard the voice of God. In contrast, now they were coming down from the mountaintop into a familiar world, a fallen world of sin, sickness, hopelessness and death. The contrast will continue to heighten as they are reunited with the other disciples who they find entangled in a great struggle with the Pharisees and the people. The disciples have no power or remedy for what they are facing – until Jesus arrives. This is the key to the passage and to all of life for believers. Wait for Jesus to arrive!

Click to play, right-click to download:March 1, 2020 | Pastor John Bayles | Down the Mountain: Clarifying the Eschatological Players | Mark 9:9-13Down the Mountain: Clarifying the Eschatological Players Mark 9:9-13From the moment of Peter’s confess: “You are the Messiah” (Mar.8:29), the disciples’ world began to change. In reality, the view of world they had lived in began to change. They had lived in a world of false teaching and deception. That world was controlled by an “adulterous and sinful generation” (Mar.8:38). They are witnessing the coming of the Kingdom of God in the coming of the Jesus, the Messiah. The disciples had misunderstood the person of the messiah and a proper understanding of the Kingdom (Rule) of God; they had misunderstood the cost of their calling to be disciples of Christ; and they had especially missed the mission and method of the Messiah’s coming. In this text today, Jesus will clarify the two main persons in God’s eschatological plan: John the Baptist and Himself.

Click to play, right-click to download:February 23, 2020 | Pastor John Bayles | Revelation from the Holy Mountain | Mark 9:2-10Revelation from the Holy MountainMark 9:2-10

Click to play, right-click to download:February 16, 2020 | Pastor John Bayles | The Coming of the End | Mark 9:1The Coming of the EndMark 9:1Eschatology is the study of the end. Today it is largely viewed as the end of our current world. In recent years past, especially since WW2, it was pictured for us in terms of total nuclear annihilation – the end of our world and that of all mankind by global nuclear war. This view lasted about fifty years and in some places continues to be the view of the end of the world. More recently, in the last twenty year a new trend has risen – global warming in being presented as the terminal enemy of all mankind. For twenty years, we have been told daily that “in the next ten to twelve years, the earth will cease to exist” – because of global warming. Global warming in the the focus of our lesson today. Since time began, people of all ages have held strong views of the end of the world. In Jesus’ day the Jewish people had a very simple view of the end of the world. It was a powerful and universally held view by the Jewish people. It was believed consistently for over a thousand years. And, it was simple. From creation and the fall Satan had ruled the earth. One day, God would send His Messiah, destroy Satan's rule, and the Kingdom of God would begin. The Messiah would rule the entire world through the Messiah and every enemy of God would yield to His power forever. In this text today, Jesus introduces this subject to His small band of disciples and states to them in no uncertain terms that this rule would begin “immediately, “during their lifetimes” “and as visible as a flash of lightning from one end of the sky to the other.”

Click to play, right-click to download:February 9, 2020 | Pastor Roger Melson | Christians in Conflict | Genesis 14:8-19                                               Roger and Marsha Melson

Click to play, right-click to download:February 2, 2020 | Pastor Roger Melson | The Outworking of God's Grace - Part 2 | Genesis 13 - Acts 11:23                                               Roger and Marsha Melson

Click to play, right-click to download:January 26, 2020 | Pastor John Bayles | Gaining by Losing | Mark 8:34-38 to 9:1Gaining by LosingMark 8:34-38 to 9:1In our last lesson Jesus asked “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” (8:13). Peter, under the inspiration of the Heavenly Father, gave the answer "You are the Messiah” (Mar.8:29). He indeed got it right. Moments later Jesus explained to the disciples that He would go to Jerusalem, suffer, be crucified, die and three days later rise from the dead. At this point “Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him” (8:2). In Matthew’s Gospel we observed that Peter further stated “Never, Lord! This shall never happen to you!” (Mat.6:22). Here Peter indeed got it wrong, massively wrong. Jesus would never be allowed to suffer, die and be resurrected? The entire Messianic mission of Christ hangs on these realities. Peter’s got the word right, but missed its definition completely. The result of misunderstanding the nature of Jesus person and mission will lead to a wrong view of discipleship. In this text today, Jesus will draw all our attention upon what is required to become His disciple.

Click to play, right-click to download:January 19, 2020 | Pastor John Bayles | Who Do People Say the I Am? Observations of the Dead and the Awakened | Mark 8:27-34The Gentile Campaign | Revealing the Kingdom of God Context | Mark 7:1 to 8:34Who Do People Say the I Am? Observations of the Dead and the AwakenedMark 8:27-34Mark picks up on a common theme in this text. As before, he uses the phrase “On the way” to describe the nature of Jesus’ teaching ministry. It was a day’s journey (about a 25-mile walk) from Bethsaida to the region of Caesarea Philippi which lay in the north of the tetrarchy of Philip at the foot of Mt. Hermon, bordering on Syria. Jesus had worked miracles during this campaign, but had yet to clearly announce Himself to be the Messiah. As the disciples walked along this mixed terrain of hills and mountains, this would change. Caesarea Philippi was an unlikely place for the first proclamation of Jesus as Messiah, for its population was chiefly non-Jewish. There is a again a surprising contrast of belief between those Jesus reached out to in this region, the Gentiles, and Jesus’ disciples, who were with Jesus, observed His miracles and wonders, heard His teaching, and even assisted in two of the most significant miracles of His ministry, the feeding of the five thousand Jewish people and the more recent feeding of the four thousand Gentiles. Today we will see the reason from this perpetual unbelief by the disciples while in the very presence of the Savior Himself as Jesus the question: “Who do people say that I am?"

Click to play, right-click to download:January 12, 2020 | Pastor John Bayles | Are Your Eyes so Blind? | Mark 8:11-26

Click to play, right-click to download:January 5, 2020 | Pastor John Bayles | The First Appearings of the Messiah | Luke 2:23- 3:6Advent:Post ScriptThe First Appearings of the MessiahLuke 2:23- 3:6These two appearance of Jesus as a boy, which are recorded only in Luke’s Gospel, reveal a treasured glimpse into Jesus’ young years while in the care of Mary and Joseph. They also serve a prophetic prelude to the other Gospels and give insight into the depth of research which Luke pursued in discovering them, likely from Mary herself.

Click to play, right-click to download:December 29, 2019 | Pastor Roger Melson | The Outworking of God's Grace | Genesis 12:15-13:18                                               Roger and Marsha Melson

Click to play, right-click to download:December 22, 2019 | Pastor John Bayles | Shepherds: The First Messengers of the Gospel | Luke 2:1-18Shepherds: The First Messengers of the GospelLuke 2:1-18

Click to play, right-click to download:December 15, 2019 | Pastor John Bayles | Angels We Have Heard on High | Luke 2:1-15Angels We Have Heard on HighLuke 2:1-15

Click to play, right-click to download:December 08, 2019 | Pastor John Bayles | The Bread of Life From the City of Bread | Matthew 2:1-212nd Sunday of Advent: The Bread of Life From the City of BreadMatthew 2:1-21

Click to play, right-click to download:December 01, 2019 | Pastor John Bayles | Joseph - The Chain of Bondage is Broken | Matthew 1:18-251st Sunday of Advent | Joseph – The Chain of Bondage is BrokenMatthew 1:18-25Was the virgin birth a demonstration the great power of God? Does a virgin birth show us that Jesus' birth was a prophetic miracle? These two views are often referenced by many as the primary reason for this strange and awesome phenomena. No matter what evidence can be produced, the virgin origin of Jesus’ birth will never be repeated, because it is not a simple freak of nature or simply a miracle. Jesus birth had to be of a virgin and of a seed that is divine. The great significance of Jesus’ virgin birth lies in how this physical event fulfilled a spiritual need which exists in all mankind. We see Joseph acting in a highly righteous manner toward Mary. Though his actions were noble from a human viewpoint, this would not bring about a remedy to the need of all mankind. Only a complete, God/man, a “New Adam,” could fulfill God’s great plan of redemption. Only by a virgin birth could God break the chain of sin and engage the chain of redemption.

Click to play, right-click to download:November 17, 2019 | Pastor John Bayles | My Sheep Hear My Voice: Healed to Hear the Master | Mark 7:31-37The Gentile Campaign | Revealing the Kingdom of God Context | Mark 7:1 to 8:13My Sheep Hear My Voice: Healed to Hear the MasterMark 7:31-37In his synoptic parallel Matthew gives a summary of this same missionary journey into the regions of Tyre and Sidon, Phoenicia, the land of the Gentiles. The people were amazed by the miracles and hearings that Jesus performed – upon Gentiles Mark links these verses chronologically with the previous section, both taking place in the regions of Tyre and Sidon. A great purpose being revealed by the Lord - Jesus is caring for the Gentiles by His words and His actions. And the fact that the Jewish Healer is healing them is the more strange and troubling part to them and to those following Jesus. As with the Syrian woman before, Jesus seems to be looking for something before He responds to the needs of these people. Mark specifically quotes Isaiah 35 which states: "The glory of Lebanon (this exact region) will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of the Lord, the splendor of our God. Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; say to those with fearful hearts, Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you. Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy" (Isa.35:2-6). Jesus is not in the land of the Gentiles to find some time away from the Jews, He is there to seek and to save His people, those who will hear His voice. A new age is dawning, a new people is being formed, in Christ! The new covenant context is literally opening before this man’s ears and speech. He is being healed to hear his Master!

Click to play, right-click to download:November 24, 2019 | Pastor John Bayles | Sitting at Table with the Master | Mark 8:1-13Ministry to the GentilesRevealing the Kingdom of God Context | Mark 7:1 to 8:21Sitting at Table with the MasterMark 8:1–13

Click to play, right-click to download:October 6, 2019 | Pastor John Bayles | The Tradition of the Elders: Jesus Breaks Down an Ancient Citadel | Mark 7:1-23The Tradition of the Elders: Jesus Breaks Down an Ancient Citadel Mark 7:1-23After the feeding of five thousand in our last lesson, we watched Jesus quickly send His disciples away ahead of him (Mark 6:45). Jesus did this because He did not want the crowd, who was proclaiming Him being a worker of miracles, to seek to make Him a king by force (John 6:15). We noted that this was also an important event because it demonstrated that Jesus was confronting an eschatological issue as well. Namely that God’s Rule, The Kingdom of God was the central force of His mission. He was not coming to fulfill a Jewish Eschatological Hope. That hope was centered in the belief that one day the Messiah, the One whom Moses spoke about, would come and throw off Satan, the oppressor, (in this case Rome) from the political neck of Israel and rule the world from Jerusalem forever. Yes, Jesus, the Messiah was coming to bring about a great change, but a change initiated by God alone, not by the force of men. It would indeed include defeating Satan, but the oppressor Jesus came to defeat was not an earthly power, but Lucifer, the Prince and Power of the Air. Yes, Jesus came to establish a rule over His people, but a people redeemed buy the power of His destruction of sin and death at the cross. In this text of Scripture Jesus will confront a massive citadel of the Jewish tradition, the teaching of the elders of Israel, the great citadel of the Mishnah.

Click to play, right-click to download:October 20, 2019 | Pastor John Bayles | My Sheep Hear My Voice: The Children’s Bread | Mark 7:24-30 The Gentile Campaign | Revealing the Kingdom of God Context | Mark 7:1 to 8:13My Sheep Hear My Voice: The Children’s BreadMark 7:24-30In this section Mark reflects upon Jesus' sudden exit from Galilee northward into the land of the Gentiles. The one hundred and fifty mile campaign began in the regions of Tyre and Sidon and then looped southeast through Caesarea and continued down into the region of the Decapolis, the ten cities. Here Jesus shocked his whole team of disciples as he ministered to the Gentiles and even conferred salvation upon them. Noteworthy is the Apostle John’s description of Jesus’ description of those who were His sheep: “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me – just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd” (Joh.10:14-17). Jesus goes on to further clarify: “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand” (Jon.10:27). As Jesus ministers to a Gentile woman, the words “I have other sheep” comes to an illumined clarity.

Click to play, right-click to download:November 10, 2019 | Pastor Roger Melson | The Pilgrimage of Faith and the Faithfulness of God                                               Roger and Marsha Melson

Click to play, right-click to download:November 03, 2019 | Pastor Roger Melson | The Pilgrimage of Faith | Genesis 11:31-12:9                                               Roger and Marsha Melson

Click to play, right-click to download:October 27, 2019 | Pastor Roger Melson | The Judgement Seat of Christ | 2 Corinthians 5:1-11a                                               Roger and Marsha Melson

Click to play, right-click to download:October 13, 2019 | Minister Drew Lermond | Let Us Drink | John 4:3-42

Click to play, right-click to download:September 29, 2019 | Pastor John Bayles | Instructions for Disciples: Without Me, You Can Do Nothing! | Mark 6:45-56The Cost of Discipleship: Mark 6:6 to 6:56