Waukesha Bible Church
By Waukesha Bible Church
Waukesha Bible ChurchSep 22, 2023
Hebrews 1:1-4 “Jesus: God’s Final Answer”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
In Jesus Christ we have the fullest and final word from God and it is to Him we must look and listen. Jesus is better than the Old Testament best. It isn’t that the old is bad, only that Jesus is better!
Hebrews Introduction “Jesus Christ is Better Than the Old Testament Best”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Everything in the Old Testament pointed to and prepared us for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Book of Hebrews is clear, there is no one beside Him and there is nothing beyond Him. If one rejects Jesus, there is no escaping the damnation from God. Everything in Hebrews points to Jesus as the Great High Priest (8:1) and not to accept Jesus is to reject Him and to reject Him, is to reject all hope of entering into the rest promised to His people. There is no middle ground. It is actually that simple.
Revelation 4-5 “Behold, a Throne”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Revelation assures the church in tribulation that God is in control by giving her a vision of the throne. As we read chapters 4 and 5, we must read them as a singular vision.
1 Cor. 12 “The Anatomy of a Healthy Church”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The Spirit has equipped and empowers each one of you for the benefit of this body.
Psalm 23 “The Lord is my Shepherd”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Because Jesus is our Shepherd there is no want thus there is no fear in our uncertainties whether immediate or long-term.
Ruth 4:1-22 “The Triumph of the Woman’s Seed”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
As shadow, the redemption secured by Boaz of his bride images/pictures God’s redemption of His people from their debt and death.
Exodus 20:1-21 “The Ten Words”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The people of God have been and shall forever be marked by the ten words. The Ten Commandments are a part of the Law of Moses which is a vassal treaty, a conditional agreement. “You do your part and God shall do His.” The Ten Words reflect God’s character. The Law does not begin morality. In the Law of Moses, it only legislates morality to a nation. I am fully aware that an entire lesson could be taught on each of the ten words. This study desires to put the ten words in their proper historical and Christological context and implication. The Ten Commandments expand on the two commandments which are really one commandment, “Believe in Jesus.”
Genesis 1 “God’s Good World”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
God CREATES a place where He will MEET with his People for their JOY. His People rejected Him. Nonetheless, God binds Himself through PROMISE (i.e. The Royal Gift Covenant) to RESCUE His people from their sin and RESTORE them to Himself for their JOY. God created all things and the pinnacle of this creative activity is humanity. The readers of Genesis 1 and 2 would know that what exists came from God’s good design. The world in which we exist is INCREDIBLE, WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, and GOOD. The reason as to why this world and all of creation is so incredible, wonderful, and beautiful is because God is INCREDIBLE, WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, and GOOD.
Isaiah 66:1-24 “The Word of God is Uncompromising”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The Lord’s final judgment against the unrighteous will be with fire. The righteous, however, will be gathered from all the nations to eternally worship the Lord in a new heaven and new earth. The final sentence is a sober reminder to Isaiah’s audience – if the beauty of ‘the Servant/the Anointed One’ does not attract you to believe, the fear of judgment should.
Isaiah 63:1-6 “The Day of Vengeance”
Speaker: Elder Mike Davis
Throughout scripture there is reference to a Day when God will pour out his wrath upon the wicked. It is God alone who carries out this wrath and God alone who brings salvation.
Isaiah 62:1-12 “The Servant’s Vow”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The servant king shall not rest until all that He promises comes to pass. The prophet, as a watchman, prays without ceasing until the fulfillment of all God’s promises. As New Testament believers, we are to pray without ceasing until the fulfillment of all God’s promises.
Isaiah 61:1-11 “To Proclaim Liberty”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Only God can bring good news to the afflicted, bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners. Only God can comfort all who mourn, give to the mourning a garland instead of ashes, and the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and the mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. Will you give Him what you are and receive from Him what He is?
Isaiah 59:14-60:22 “At the Right Time, It Will Swiftly Come to Pass”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The promises in the gospel enable us to hope even while we experience loss, absence, and suffering. As our world becomes increasingly adjusted to and accepting of special effects whereby a false reality is believed, the biblical narrative continues to paint fantastical pictures of a reality almost beyond one’s capacity to believe. And yet, our current conditioning can almost make what we are about to read either believable or purely man-made myth. And at the end of the day, you and I will have to decide what we are going to believe.
Isaiah 54-55 “Enlarge the Place of Your Tent”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
As a consequence of the servant king’s penal substitutionary sacrifice in behalf of His people (Isa. 53), all of the LORD’S promises shall be fulfilled (Isa. 54) and a gracious invitation is extended to the thirsty and wicked to come and seek Him (Isa. 55).
Isaiah 52:13-53:12 “The LORD Has Laid on Him the Iniquity of Us All”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The servant described in Isaiah 42, 49, 50, is fully revealed in the fourth and final Servant Song found in Isaiah 53. The LORD has laid on this servant the sins of His people and of the Nations. And it was the LORD’S will to crush His chosen one, the servant. This servant takes our place to satisfy the justice of God whereby stopping the wrath of God.
Isaiah 50:4-11 “The Servant’s Resolve”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
This is the third servant song which also builds on the previous two songs. Who the servant is makes what he does decisive. One will either accept his message from God or shall reject his message. Either way, that decision determines destiny.
Isaiah 49:1-50:3 “The Servant Speaks”
Speakers: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
This second of four servant songs builds on the first. In the first servant song (42:1-4), the servant is being referenced. In the second servant song (49:1-7), the servant speaks. Through the work of the Servant, kings shall lick dust from His feet (49:23).
Isaiah 42:1-9 “The Chosen One”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The surrounding nations appear to prosper as they follow their deities. Israel has suffered much at the hands of these pagan nations, while YHWH seems distant at best, and impotent or uncaring at worst. Pagans exalt themselves over Israel – thriving financially, militarily, and spiritually. The justice of God is established by his servant for the nations.
Isaiah 44:24-48:22 “But the Word of Our God Will Stand Forever”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The Word of the LORD is authoritative and certain. Thus, all Biblical Prophecy and Divine Promises shall come to pass.
Isaiah 40 “Behold Your God”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
To know the character of God is to experience the comfort of God. All that God has said concerning Himself is true and we can rest knowing all of His promises shall come to pass.
Matthew 28:1-10 “He is not here, for He is Risen!” – Easter Sunday
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The Life, Death, Burial, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus cancels sin and restores fellowship before the Father. We appropriate this immeasurable gift by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
Matt. 27:45-56 ‘The Day the Earth Shook” – Good Friday
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The Gospel isn’t about God being FAIR; The Gospel is about God being GENEROUS.
Misc. Ref. “The Christian and the Bema Seat”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The coming of Christ is a day of great celebration and joy. In the day of His Coming, the old nature will forever be removed from His people. In that day, every believer will receive a reward for service. In that day, every believer will fully and finally see all that God chose to do in them and through them to those around them. In that day, the victory of God will be finalized and forever established.
Misc. Ref. “The Christian and Obedience”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Faith alone saves, but saving faith is never alone. The Jesus Seed is so efficacious, it always produces Gospel Fruit. Therefore, we maintain and teach that all who believe have fruit.
Romans 8:31-39; Misc.“The Christian and the Victorious Life”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
In this study, we desire to note how the victory of Jesus in His Life, Death, Burial, Resurrection, and Ascension is imputed to His people, thus causing His victory to be their victory. The believer does not have two lives: His life and our life. No, His life is our life. We simply believe that what He has done and is doing is enough. Because this is true, His victory is our victory.
Hebrews 12:4-29 “The Christian and Divine Chastening”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Christians are to be encouraged in persecution because it is part of God’s loving purpose for their lives. That is the message of Hebrews 12. This passage has often been looked to as a pivotal passage to “prove” God will chasten His people for their sins. Yet, in light of all that is found in the doctrines of justification, redemption, propitiation, union with Christ, and THE NEW WAY OF THE SPIRIT, this cannot be. The context of Hebrews 12 reveals its true meaning.
1 John 3:1-10 “The Christian and Personal Sin”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The Life, Death, Burial, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus conquers sin for His people once for all. Even though we are fighting a battle, He has already won. The sin in your life calls you to the gospel. Sin reminds you that you can’t, but God can, and Jesus did. The grace message isn’t a license to feed fallen flesh, but the freedom to celebrate the cross work of Jesus.
Galatians 5:16-26 “The Christian and the Holy Spirit”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The New Walk in the New Covenant is the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit there is no Christian life. He is the righteousness of God given to the believer and working through the believer. In His absence, there is no righteous living. The life described of the believing in the New Testament is His life.
Romans 6:11-7:25 “The Christian and the Law”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Jesus does for us what we cannot do for ourselves. In Adam, we were idol makers and law breakers, but in Christ we are commandment keepers.
Romans 3:21-31 “The Christian and the Cross”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
In Jesus Christ, God openly placates His wrath against the sinner and publicly identifies them as sons.
Romans 5:12-21 “The Christian and Identity”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
We are embarking on an eight-part study on the Relational Altering Power of the Gospel for the Sinner before the Father. By understanding the full implications of life in Christ, the believer should see just how immeasurably rich the Gospel is for them. We begin by looking at who we were “in Adam” and who we are “in Christ” since this forms the foundation for any present and future living.
2 Cor. 4:1-18 “This Glorious Ministry”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The glorious gospel of Jesus transforms us and consumes our ministry to others.
Eph. 2:1-10 “We Are a Gospel-Based Fellowship”
Speaker: Elder Mike Davis
Salvation, from beginning through completion is a work of God as an act of Grace. What God has done for us in the Vertical, pours over to our relationships in the Horizontal.
2 Tim. 3:10-17 “The Word of God is Able”
Speaker: Isaac Stanley
WBC is a Christ-Exalting, Word-Centered, Grace-Based, Global-Impacting Church. My goal this morning is to remind us that we are a Word-Centered Church and maybe more importantly why we are a Word-Centered Church.
Hebrews 1; Misc. “Your Throne, O God, is Forever and Ever”
Speaker: Peter Castro
Continuing our series on remembering the essentials of our church, we consider Jesus who is the centerpiece of why Waukesha Bible Church exists. It is Him we proclaim to a lost and dying world. He has no beginning and He will remain after our time on Earth is done. We exalt Him alone as the only hope for humanity, and the only one worthy of all honor and praise. Jesus, the Son of God, is worthy of all praise and worship. His church exists to proclaim this truth.
Matthew 28:16-20 “Make Disciples of All Nations”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The Ascension of Jesus is the culmination of promises, pictures, prophecies, and patterns laid out in the Old Testament. What God promised, He is now completing. Matthew 28 gives us three statements showing how Jesus inaugurates and culminates the Kingdom of God. Our primary passage is Matthew 28. In the command to make disciples, the church is engaged in the campaign for world conquest. Our desire is to see how what we are and do as a local church is tied to the past and pushing us into the future.
Matthew 4:12-17; Isaiah 9:1-7 “Jesus, the Dawning of the New Day”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Jesus is the dawning of the new day. Jesus fulfills Isaiah’s Prophecy (Matt. 4:12-17; Isaiah 9:1, 2); He is the Light in Darkness (Matt. 4:15, 16); and He brings joy to the Nations (Isa. 9:3). What Jesus inaugurates, He consummates. Jesus is the fulfillment of the Isaiah prophecy.
Matthew 1:18-25; Isaiah 7 “Jesus, the Virgin’s Child”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Jesus is infinite embodiment of the promise of God to be with us. As we gather on this Christmas Eve to celebrate the One on whom all hopes and fears hung in the balance, may our hearts be encouraged by the promise of God’s presence in the birth of Jesus.
Rev. 21:1-22:5; Isa. 60, 65 “Jesus, Our Hope in Heartbreak - The Inaugurator of the New Creation”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The Prophet Isaiah spoke of a day that was still future to him of ONE who was to come. The coming of this ONE would usher in a new heaven and new earth, enable a new people, and eliminate all shadow. This ONE would reunite the heavens and the earth into the Garden in Eden for the joy of His people (vv. 6, 7 [comp. Gen. 1 w/ Rev. 21]).
Acts 13:13-52; Misc. Isaiah Passages “Jesus, the Light for the Nations”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The Bible we hold in our hands is a single, unified Story with Jesus as its center. As such, we should read Scripture through the lens of Jesus and learn to interpret the Old Testament in light of the New Testament. What the Old Testament promised and prophesied the New Testament explains. What was anticipated in the writings of Moses, the Psalms, and the Prophets is fulfilled in Jesus from the perspective of the New Testament writers. Salvation is for everyone who believes.
Matthew 11:1-19; Misc. Isaiah passages “Jesus, the Answer to John’s Question”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Jesus is the one who fulfills all Old Testament promises, prophecies, patterns, and pictures. You will either confess Him as such or perish under His rule.
Luke 4:14-30; Isaiah 61:1-2 “Jesus, the Great Emancipator of People”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
In Christ, believers are freed from sin and death thus causing them to live differently in this world. Jesus, as substance, is the Great Emancipator spoken of by Isaiah the Prophet and foreshadowed in the SABBATH YEAR and the YEAR OF JUBILEE.
Acts 8:26-40; Isaiah 52:13-53:12 “Jesus, the Savior of Nations”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Jesus is FOR THE NATIONS and IS THE FULFILLMENT OF ISAIAH’S PROPHECIES. There are six passages with seven quotations of Isaiah 53 in the NT: Matthew 8:14-17; John 12:37-41; Luke 22:35-38; 1 Peter 2:19-25; Acts 8:26-35; Romans 10:11-21. Today we will consider the story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8 and Isaiah 53.
Isaiah 36-39 “Incline Your Ear, O LORD, and Hear” (37:14-20)
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
God calls His people to trust Him when confronted by the threats and brokenness of this life. Praying to the God of Promise is a privilege His People have and should exercise.
Isaiah 34-35 “The Nightmare and the Dream”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
No matter where we are in the story, it will always end the same. Of the tens of thousands of choices, you make in an hour, day, week, month, and year, there is only once decision that overrides all decisions and that is whether you will choose God or choose self.
“The Reformation of Worship”
Speaker: Elder Mike Davis
What does it mean to truly worship God? The Reformation in the 16th Century marked a massive re-orientation from Man-centered theology to God-centered theology. The Reformers were obsessed with the topic of worship, believing worship of the day had become fully man-centric.
Isaiah 31:4-32:8 “Behold, a King Will Reign in Righteousness”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
A king is coming who will set all things right.
Isaiah 29:17-24 “The Five Promises of God for Future Hope”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Every bad thing done by sin shall be undone by God.
Isaiah 25 “A Feast of Rich Food”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
A day is coming when the knowledge of God shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. The judgment of God brings about a new, just world order.
Isaiah 19 "Egypt My People, Assyria My Work, Israel My Inheritance"
Speaker: Peter Castro
Those who are now enemies of King Jesus in the future will turn to Him as Savior, defender, and deliverer.