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MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Creating an Obstacle Course (Romans 14:10-23, February 21, 2021)Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 14:10-23 Stop living for yourself, you need to live for God's glory 2021-03-0146 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Can Christians Drink Wine? (Romans 14:20-23, February 28, 2021)Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 14:20-23 Choose to build the Kingdom of God; don't tear it down.2021-03-0152 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Fully Convinced I am Right (Romans 14:5-9, February 14, 2021)Deacon Julius Lopez Romans 14:5-9 Convinced? What say you? Who is Alone is Judge for that which we esteem to be scripturally determined?2021-02-1538 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Welcomed By God (Romans 14:1-4, February 7, 2021)Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 14:1-4 Our Welcoming Who should we be welcoming? Today with the proliferation of social media it is a question that we must be asking ourselves. With the ability to deliberate that which is disputable, or distinctions in denominations and even destinations which are damnable, it may cause more division than scripture allows. Have you become bogged down in opinions rather than rejoicing in God-given opportunities?2021-02-0855 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Time to Wake Up (Romans 13:11-14, January 31, 2021)Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 13:11-14 We must stay awake in anticipation of Christ's return, but not only must we Wake Up "for salvation is nearer to us now". We must Dress Up and "cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light". Let us Clean Up and and "walk properly as in daytime", and Power Up as we "put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires." Scriptre calls us to test ourselves to see if we are in the faith. Are you? 2021-02-0256 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Debt Free (Romans 13:8-10, January 24, 2021)Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 13:8-10 The mercy you have received overflows in sacrificial love to others. 2021-01-2553 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)What do I do with my enemies? (Romans 13:17-21, January 17, 2021)Preacher: Elder Sean Morin Scripture: Romans 12:17-21 Theme- Sacrificial love grounded in the gospel will seek peace with everyone, including our enemies, for blessed are the peacemakers 2021-01-1855 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Who's Your President? (Romans 13:1-7, January 10, 2021)Preacher: Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 13:1-7 All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. This statement made by Jesus recorded in the book of Matthew should give us confidence in our daily lives. When we look around us and see and hear what is occurring we should hang tight to what our Lord stated quite plainly. In the Sermon by Pastor Chris he will delve into this deeper as we continue our study in the book of Romans. 2021-01-1157 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Greatist Gift_Love (Romans12:9-16, January 3, 2021)Preacher: Chris Gardner Romans 12:9-16 Gifts of Grace For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the gr...2021-01-0349 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Leadership in the Church (Romans 12:3-8, December 27, 2020)Preacher: Chris Gardner Romans 12:3-8 Gifts of Grace For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the gr...2020-12-2754 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Sacrifice of the Church (Romans 12:1-2, December 20, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 12:1-2 A Living Sacrifice I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.2020-12-201h 00

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Glory of the Church (Romans 11:33-36, December 13, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 11:33-36 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.2020-12-1556 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Israel and the Church (Romans 11:25-32, December6, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 11:25-32 The Mystery of Israel's Salvation Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”; “and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.” As regards the gospel, they are e...2020-12-0636 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Who Belongs to the Church (Romans 11:17-24, November 29, 2020)Preacher: Julius Lopez Romans 11:17-24 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand...2020-11-2945 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Gentile Grafted In (Romans 11:11-16, November 22, 2020)Preacher Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 11:11-16 Gentiles Grafted In So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean! Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow t...2020-11-2256 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Elections of the Church (Romans 11:7-10, November 15, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 11:7-10 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.” And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them; let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever.”2020-11-1559 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Remnant of the Church (Romans 11:1-6 November 8, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 11:1-6 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” But what is God's reply to him? “I have kept for...2020-11-0856 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Call to the Church (Romans 10:14-21, November 1, 2020)Preacher: Nickolas Amado Romans 10: 14-21 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” So faith comes from heari...2020-11-0135 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Confession of the Church (Romans 10:5-13, October 25, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 10:5-13 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) “or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we procl...2020-10-2546 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Learning of the Church (Romans 9:30 -10:4, October 18, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 9:30 -10:4 What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offe...2020-10-1851 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Offspring of the Church (Romans 9:25-29, October 11, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 9:25-29 As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’” “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, for the Lord will carry out his sent...2020-10-1155 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Potter in the Church (Romans 9:19-24, October4, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 9:19-24 You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured wi...2020-10-0437 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Autocrat of the Church (Romans9:14-18, September 27, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 9:14-18 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all t...2020-09-2746 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Election in the Church (Romans 9:6-13, September 20, 2020)Preacher: Elder Sean Morin Romans 9:6-13 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. For this is what the promise said: “About this time next year I will return, and Sara...2020-09-2054 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Burden of the Church (Romans 9:1-5, September 13, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner God's Sovereign Choice I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and f...2020-09-1353 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Love's Power in the Church (Romans 8:35-39, September 6, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height...2020-09-0642 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Strongest in the Church (Romans 8:31-34, August 30, 2020)Preacher Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 8:31-34 God's Everlasting Love What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God...2020-08-3048 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)God's Will for the Church (Romans 8:26-30, August 23, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 8:26-30 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For th...2020-08-2352 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Hope in the Church (Romans 8:18-25, August 16, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 8:18-25 Future Glory For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of...2020-08-1656 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Sons in the Church (Romans 8:12-17, August 9, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 8:12-17 Heirs with Christ So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we...2020-08-0953 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Mind of Christ (Romans 8:6-11, August 2, 2020)Preacher: Nicholas Amado Romans 8:6-11 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does no...2020-08-0241 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Life in the Spirit (Romans 8:1-5, July 26, 2020)Preacher: Julius Lopez Romans 8:1-5 Life in the Spirit There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fu...2020-07-2640 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Delivered into the Church (Romans 7:18-25, July 19, 2020)Preacher: Elder Sean Morin Romans 7:18-25 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law th...2020-07-1942 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Are There Prisoners in the Church? (Romans 7:13-17, July 12, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 7:13-17 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. No...2020-07-1246 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Excluded from The Church (Romans 7:7-12, July 5, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 7:7-12 The Law and Sin What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the la...2020-07-0546 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Law and the Church (Romans 7:1-6, June 28, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 7:1-6 Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and i...2020-06-2839 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Servants in the Church (Romans 6:17-23, June 21, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 6:17-23 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. For when you w...2020-06-2143 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The King and His Church (Romans 6:11-16, June 14, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 6:11-16 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. ...2020-06-1449 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Crucifixion in the Church (Romans 6:6-11, June 7, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 6:6-11 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he...2020-06-0736 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)New Life in the Church (Romans 6:1-5, May 31, 2020)Preacher: Sean Morin Dead to Sin, Alive to God What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if...2020-05-3151 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Federal Head of the Church (Romans 5:17-21, May 24, 2020)Preacher: Senior pastor Chris Gardner Romans 5:17-21 For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made ri...2020-05-2435 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Why the Church is Needed (Romans 5:12-16, May 17, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 5:12-16 Death in Adam, Life in Christ Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. But the...2020-05-1736 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Pastor Chris Gardner on the Mission WMCA RadioGuest Host Pastor Dave Watson, from Calvary Chapel on Staten Island, speaks with Pastor Chris Gardner from Metropolitan Baptist Church in Brooklyn.2020-05-1249 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Church - A Sanctified People (Romans 5:6-11, May 10, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 5:6-11 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to Go...2020-05-101h 04

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Suffering and the Church (Roman 5:1-5, May 3, 2020)Preacher Christ Gardner, Romans 5:1-5 Peace with God Through Faith Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the...2020-05-0344 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Supremacy of Christ (Hebrews 1:1-4 April 29, 2020)Preacher Sean Morin The Supremacy of God's Son Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of t...2020-04-3036 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Faith Glorifies God (Romans 4:19-25, April 26, 2020)Preacher: Sean Morgin Romans 4:19-25 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” But the words “it was counted...2020-04-261h 11

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Resting in the church (Romans 4:13-18, April 19, 2020)Preacher: Julius Lopez Romans The Promise Realized Through Faith For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression. That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace an...2020-04-1935 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Those who fall away will perish, those who endure to the end will live (Hebrews 6:4-9, April 13, 2020)Preacher: Elder Sean Morin Hebrews 6:4-9 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. For land that has drunk the rain that often fa...2020-04-1457 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Sign or Savior (Romans 4:9-13, April 12, 2020, Easter Service)Preacher: Nickolas Amado Romans 4:9-13 Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness. How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised. He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so...2020-04-1233 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Jesus Was Crushed for Our Iniquities, God Saves (Isaiah 53:1-6, 10-11 April 10, 2020)Preacher Sean Morin Isaiah 53 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 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. 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 es...2020-04-1144 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Call to Action (1 Samuel 3:1-21, April 10, 2020)Preacher Sean Morin 1 Samuel 3:1-21 The Lord Calls Samuel Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision. At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place. The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was. Then the Lord called Samuel, and...2020-04-111h 02

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)God's Cure for Worrying (Philippians 4:6-8, April 7, 2020)Preacher Sean Morin Philippians 4:6-8 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in...2020-04-0838 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Blessed is the Man (Romans 4:1-8, April 5, 2020)Preacher Sean Morgin Romans 4:1-8 What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counte...2020-04-051h 09

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Golden Chain of Salvation (Romans 8:28-30, April 3, 2020)Preacher: Sean Morin Romans 8:28-30 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 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. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.2020-04-0350 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Three Implications of Justification by Faith (Romans 3:27-31, March 29, 2020)Preacher: Sean Morin Romans 3:27-31 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By n...2020-03-291h 02

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)"But Now" (Romans 3:19-26, March 22, 2020)Preacher Sean Morin Romans 3:19-26 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. The Righteousness of God Through Faith But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the...2020-03-2252 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)All mankind is evil, We need Christ (Romans 3:9-18, March 15, 2020)Preacher: Sean Morin Romans 3:9-18 No One Is Righteous What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” “Their mouth is full of curs...2020-03-1742 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Romans 3:1-8 (March 8, 2020)Preacher Nick Amado Romans 3:1-8 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That...2020-03-0839 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Unbelievers in the Church (Romans 2:25-29, March 1, 2020)Preacher Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 2:25-29 For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law. For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. But a...2020-03-0139 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Foolishness in the Church (Romans 2:17-24, February 23, 2020Preacher: Julius Lopez, Romans 2:17-24 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach agai...2020-02-2347 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The World and the Church (Romans 2:8-16, February 16, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 2:8-16 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality. God's Judgment and the Law For all who have sinned without the law will also perish wi...2020-02-1650 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Danger of the Church (Romans 2:1-7, February, 2020)Preacher Chris Gardner, Romans 2:1-7 God's Righteous Judgment Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbea...2020-02-0943 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Challenge of the Church (Romans 1:24-32, February 2, 2020)Preacher Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 1:24-32 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion fo...2020-02-0243 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Purpose of the Church (Romans 1:16-23, January 26, 2020)Preacher Chris Gardner Romans 1:16-23 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” God's Wrath on Unrighteousness For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be...2020-01-2658 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Heath of Church (Romans 1:8-15, January 19, 2020)Preacher Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 1:8-15 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you. For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you— that is, that we m...2020-01-1950 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Life of the Church (Romans 1:1-7, January 12, 2020)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Romans 1:1-7 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake o...2020-01-121h 11

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Safe in the Arms of Christ (Matthew 6:25-34, January 5, 2020)Preacher Massimo Esposito Matthew 6:25-34 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of lif...2020-01-0537 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)What a Conclusion (Genesis 50:12-26, December 29, 2019)Preacher Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 50:12-26 So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them. They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the cave that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron the Hittite. Joseph Reassures His Brothers After burying Jacob, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to his father’s burial. But now that their father was dead, Joseph’s brothers became f...2019-12-2940 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Lion of Judah (Genesis 47-49, December 22, 2019)Preacher Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 49:1-12 Then Jacob called together all his sons and said, “Gather around me, and I will tell you what will happen to each of you in the days to come. “Come and listen, you sons of Jacob; listen to Israel, your father. “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength, the child of my vigorous youth. You are first in rank and first in power. But you are as unruly as a flood, and you will be first no longer. For you went to bed with my wife...2019-12-2234 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Christmas Message From Pastor Chris Gardner (2019, WMCA, NYC Radio)2019-12-2024 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)A 400-Year Journey (Genesis 45-46, December, 15, 2019)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genensis 46:1-7 So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation. I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also...2019-12-1553 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Oh No, Not Again (Genesis 44:1-13, December 8, 2019)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 44:1-13 Then he commanded the steward of his house, “Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack, and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain.” And he did as Joseph told him. As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away with their donkeys. They had gone only a short distance from the city...2019-12-0849 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Beauty of Visio Dai (1 Corinthians 13:12, December 1, 2019)Preacher: Julius Lopez Scripture text: 1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 2019-12-0141 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)A King at 30 (Genesis 40-41, November 24, 2019)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Scripture text reading: Genesis 41-25-36: Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one. The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine. It is as I told Pharaoh; God has shown to Pharaoh wh...2019-11-2452 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Flee Youthful Lusts (Genesis 39, November 17, 2019)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 39 Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master. His master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord caused all that he did to succeed in his hands. So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he...2019-11-171h 01

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Be Sure Your Sins Will be Found Out (Genesis 38. October 10, 2019)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 38 Judah and Tamar It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned aside to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her and went in to her, and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er. She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan. Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. Judah was in Chezib...2019-11-1048 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Dream, Dreamer, Dream (Genesis 37:1-10, October 3, 2019)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 37:1-10 Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when...2019-11-1044 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)But God (Ephesians 2:1-10, October 20, 2019)Preacher: Elder Sean Morin Ephesians 2:1-10 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he lo...2019-10-3053 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Sibling Rivalry (Genesis 26:34-28:8, September 8, 2019)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 26:34-28:8 When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army, Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?” They said, “We see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you, that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you an...2019-10-3038 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Lord, A Watchman (Genesis 31:1-55, September 29, 2019)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 31:1-55 Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth.” And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before. Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.” So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was and said to them, “I see that your fathe...2019-10-3047 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Camping with God (Genesis 32:1-32, October 6, 2019)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 32:1-32 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God's camp!” So he called the name of that place Mahanaim. And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom, instructing them, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, ‘I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now. I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell...2019-10-3048 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)A New Name Written in Glory (Genesis 35:5-15)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 35:5-15 And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him, and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother. And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below...2019-10-2939 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Unknown Artist (Genesis 31:45-55)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 31:45-55 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar. And Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap. Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore he named it Galeed, and Mizpah, for he said, “The Lord watch between you and me, when we are out of one another's sight. If you oppress my daughters, or if you take w...2019-10-2946 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The Deceiver Deceived (Genesis 29:15-25)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 29:15-25 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?” Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance. Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.” Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her t...2019-10-2952 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Bargaining With God (Genesis 28:12-22)Preacher: Sensior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 28:12-22 And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to...2019-10-2944 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)True RepentenceRomans 6:4-13 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who...2019-10-2937 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Like Father, Like Son (Genesis 26:6-16)Preacher Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 26:6-16 So Isaac settled in Gerar. When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,” because she was attractive in appearance. When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife. So Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, ‘She...2019-10-2742 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Death, Life and Birth Right (Genesis 25:19-34)Preacher Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 25:19-34 These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham fathered Isaac, and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the...2019-10-2755 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Who is This Man (Genesis 24:60-67)Preacher Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 24:60-67 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate him!” Then Rebekah and her young women arose and rode on the camels and followed the man. Thus the servant took Rebekah and went his way. Now Isaac had returned from Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb. And Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, there were...2019-10-2744 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Why Non-Christians Refer to God (Genesis 24:50-59)Preacher: Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 24:50-59 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, “The thing has come from the Lord; we cannot speak to you bad or good. Behold, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master's son, as the Lord has spoken.” When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the Lord. And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave to her brother and to her moth...2019-10-2746 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Repetition Makes It Stick (Genesis 24:42-49)Preacher Senior Pastor Chris Gardner Genesis 24:42-49 I came today to the spring and said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now you are prospering the way that I go, behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, to whom I shall say, “Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,” and who will say to me, “Drink, and I will draw for your camels also,” let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master's son.’ “Be...2019-10-2749 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Strength from Above (Acts 21:8-16)Preacher: Massimo Esposito Acts 21:8-16 On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied. While we were staying for many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him...2019-10-2742 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Not a Laughing Matter (Genesis 18:9-15)They said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “She is in the tent.” The Lord said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah. So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?” The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear...2019-09-1135 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Sharing Secrets (Genesis 18:16-21)Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way. The Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he ha...2019-09-1141 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)The First Auctioneer (Genesis 18:22-33)So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord. Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the ea...2019-09-1144 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Pressed in a Tough Place (Genesis 19:1-11)The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and bake...2019-09-1137 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Are You a Jester (Genesis 19:12-14)Then the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place. For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.” So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up! Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.2019-09-1142 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Just a Little Sin (Genesis 19:15-22)As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.” But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city. And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.” And Lot said to them...2019-09-1137 min

MBC (Metropolitan Baptist Church, Brooklyn)Sovereign Love of God (Luke 15:11-32)And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of tha...2019-09-1154 min