Sunday, June 16, 2024 Tranlsation Document

- Musical introduction

- Greeting

- Songs

- New City Catechism: Question 24

Question 24: “Why did Christ have to die as Savior?”

Answer: “The penalty for sin is death. Christ voluntarily took our place

to die in our stead to free us from the power and penalty of sin and bring

us back to God. Through his substitutionary atoning death, he redeems

us from hell and obtains for us forgiveness of sins, true righteousness

and eternal life.”

- Prayer

- Honoring God through our offering: Offertory

- Hymn during the offering/offertory

- Announcement: Children’s program

- Reading of the sermon text from James 4:11-17

Jakobus 4,11–17 ESV

11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Sermon Title: Don’t Judge Others and Trust God’s Plan

Jakobus 4,10 ESV

10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Because God is judge and has a good plan, we should:

1. not judge our brothers and sisters in Christ (v.11)

2. not judge the law (v. 11-12)

3. Trust God with the Future (v.13-17)

1. We should not judge our brothers and sisters in Christ (v.11)

James 4:11 (ESV)

11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law.

Jakobus 4,12 ESV

12 There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

James 4:12 (ESV)

But who are you to judge your neighbor?

1. Corinthians 4:3–4 (ESV)

3 In fact, I do not even judge myself. 4... It is the Lord who judges me.

2. Do not Judge the Law

Jakobus 4,11 (ESV)

11 The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Leviticus 19:16 (ESV)

16 You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people... I am the Lord.

James 4:12 (ESV)

12 There is only one lawgiver and judge

James 4:11 (ESV)

11 But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Jakobus 2,10–11 ESV

10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. 11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

3. Trust God with the Future

Jakobus 4,13–14 ESV

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Jakobus 4,15 ESV

15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

1 Corinthians 16:5–9 (ESV)

5 I will visit you after passing through Macedonia, for I intend to pass through Macedonia, 6 and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may help me on my journey, wherever I go. 7 For I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits. 8 But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, 9 for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

Jakobus 4,16–17 ESV

16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Matthew 26:39 (ESV)

39 “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”

Markus 8,34–35 ESV

34 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.

Psalm 131 (ESV)

1 O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;

my eyes are not raised too high;

I do not occupy myself with things

too great and too marvelous for me.

2 But I have calmed and quieted my soul,

like a weaned child with its mother;

like a weaned child is my soul within me.

3 O Israel, hope in the Lord

from this time forth and forevermore.

Blessing:

Numeri 6,24–26 ESV

24 The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.