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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Bill Bush · Jul 14, 2024
In Matthew 12, Jesus confronts the Pharisees' obsession with Sabbath rules and exposes how their ritual religion — divorced from a genuine relationship with Him — led them to reject the very God they claimed to serve. Pastor Bill draws a straight line from their mistake to ours: when we reduce faith to a contract of rules and performance, we end up either conceited or defeated, always pointing fingers at what we've missed. The only way back is to return to the cross, remember how deeply God loves us, and let that love — not law — be the engine of our obedience.
Pastor Bill Bush · Nov 25, 2019
Drawing from the book of Malachi, the sermon argues that every failure to obey God — from halfhearted worship and dishonored marriages to cynicism about His justice — traces back to a single root: doubting that God truly loves us. The six disputes in Malachi reveal a pattern in which Israel's skepticism of God's love cascades into dishonoring His name, defiling the marriage covenant, denying His goodness, and ultimately despising His ways altogether. The answer is not trying harder out of guilt or fear, but genuinely receiving the unfailing love God demonstrated when Jesus — the Word made flesh — came to free us, bearing all human guilt on the cross.