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  Audio Link Sermon starts at 8:30 Love Your Enemies 1 Samuel 24, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 03/28/2021 Introduction You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. These are the words of Jesus in Matthew 5:43-48. Do you find them uncomfortable? I do. Jesus doesn’t say tolerate your enemies, hate your enemies, be understanding of your enemies, or fight your enemies. Jesus says: love your enemies. Pray for those who persecute you.

  Audio Link Sermon starts around 15 minutes Three Features of God-Sheltered Life 1 Samuel 23, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 03/21/2021 Introduction We live in a world preoccupied with the notion of power. Who has power? Who has been deprived of power? Who is using their power to harm others? Whose power is on the rise? And lest we go decrying the modern world and all its evils, the Bible confronts us with much the same picture of humanity that we find in the news: desperately hungry to get ahead, to protect number one, regardless of the consequences to others. The obsession with power is not modern. It is human. David is facing a serious threat as he is irrationally hated and pursued by power-hungry king Saul. And while David has occasionally looked for shelter in other places, he has only one true source of refuge: the shadow of the Almighty. David is leading a life that is God-sheltered. In our text today, 1 Samuel 23, we will see three features of that life. Listening Prayer, v1-13 Now

 Audio Link sermon starts at 13:45 Taking Refuge 1 Samuel 22; Remsen Bible Fellowship; 03/14/2021  Introduction The world we live in is not safe. Ever since the entry of sin into the world in Genesis chapter three, the human experience has been characterized by suffering, pain, and ultimately death. We might think that as Christians we are granted some sort of stay or exception in this order of the world, which is precisely the offer of prosperity teachers like Benny Hin or Joyce Meyer or Joel Osteen. You can have your best life now! Healing now, prosperity and material wealth now, just have faith! But of course, this is not the promise of Jesus. Jesus said to his disciples, In this world you will have tribulation (John 16:33). This expectation of worldly trouble has been a mark of Christianity all the way through. Perhaps you remember John Newton’s line from Amazing Grace, through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come/‘tis grace hath brought me safe thus far/and grace w

  Audio Link Sermon starts at 17:30 1 Samuel 21, 02/28/2021

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  Audio Link (Sermon starts around 18 minutes) A Man in the Gap 1 Samuel 12:19-25, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 12/06/2020 Introduction: And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.” And Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with your whole heart. And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty. For the LORD will not forsake his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself. Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way. Only fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you. But if you still do w