Berea Baptist Church of Durham NC Podcast

9.13.26 sermon by Phillip D. Mumford

Exodus 16:2-15 CSB: The entire Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. [3] The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the LORD's hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted. Instead, you brought us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of hunger!" [4] Then the LORD said to Moses, "I am going to rain bread from heaven for you.  The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. This way I will test them to see whether or not they will follow my instructions. [5] On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on other days." [6] So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, "This evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, [7] and in the morning you will see the LORD's glory because he has heard your complaints about him. For who are we that you complain about us?" [8] Moses continued, "The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and all the bread you want in the morning, for he has heard the complaints that you are raising against him. Who are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the LORD." [9] Then Moses told Aaron, "Say to the entire Israelite community, 'Come before the LORD, for he has heard your complaints.'" [10] As Aaron was speaking to the entire Israelite community, they turned toward the wilderness, and there in a cloud the LORD's glory appeared. [11] The LORD spoke to Moses, [12] "I have heard the complaints of the Israelites. Tell them: At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will eat bread until you are full. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God." [13] So at evening quail came and covered the camp. In the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp. [14] When the layer of dew evaporated, there were fine flakes on the desert surface, as fine as frost on the ground. [15] When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, "What is it?" because they didn't know what it was. Moses told them, "It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.

 

9.6.26 sermon by Phillip D. Mumford

Exodus 12:1-14: The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, [2] "This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year. [3] Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they must each select an animal of the flock according to their fathers' families, one animal per family. [4] If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each will eat. [5] You must have an unblemished animal, a year-old male; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats. [6] You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight. [7] They must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses where they eat them. [8] They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. [9] Do not eat any of it raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over fire-its head as well as its legs and inner organs. [10] You must not leave any of it until morning; any part of it left until morning you must burn. [11] Here is how you must eat it: You must be dressed for travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in a hurry; it is the LORD's Passover. [12] "I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both people and animals. I am the LORD; I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. [13]The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a distinguishing mark for you; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will be among you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. [14] "This day is to be a memorial for you, and you must celebrate it as a festival to the LORD. You are to celebrate it throughout your generations as a permanent statute

8.30.26 sermon by Phillip D. Mumford

Exodus 3:1-15 CSB: Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. [2] Then the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed. [3] So Moses thought, "I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn't the bush burning up?" [4] When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from the bush, "Moses, Moses!" "Here I am," he answered. [5] "Do not come closer," he said. "Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." [6] Then he continued, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God. [7] Then the LORD said, "I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings, [8] and I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey-the territory of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. [9] So because the Israelites' cry for help has come to me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them, [10] therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt." [11] But Moses asked God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" [12] He answered, "I will certainly be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I am the one who sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship God at this mountain." [13] Then Moses asked God, "If I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' what should I tell them?" [14] God replied to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you." [15] God also said to Moses, "Say this to the Israelites: The LORD, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

 

8.23.26 sermon by Phillip D. Mumford

Exodus 1:8-10; 2:1-10 CSB:  A new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt. [9] He said to his people, "Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are. [10] Come, let's deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and when war breaks out, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.” [2:1] Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman. [2] The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months. [3] But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. [4] Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him. [5] Pharaoh's daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds, sent her slave girl, took it, [6] opened it, and saw him, the child-and there he was, a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, "This is one of the Hebrew boys." [7] Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a Hebrew woman who is nursing to nurse the boy for you?" [8] "Go," Pharaoh's daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy's mother. [9] Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages." So the woman took the boy and nursed him. [10] When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, "Because," she said, "I drew him out of the water.”

Job 9:25-35 NLT: "My life passes more swiftly than a runner. It flees away without a glimpse of happiness. [26] It disappears like a swift papyrus boat, like an eagle swooping down on its prey. [27] If I decided to forget my complaints, to put away my sad face and be cheerful, [28] I would still dread all the pain, for I know you will not find me innocent, O God. [29] Whatever happens, I will be found guilty. So what's the use of trying? [30] Even if I were to wash myself with soap and clean my hands with lye, [31] you would plunge me into a muddy ditch, and my own filthy clothing would hate me. [32] "God is not a mortal like me, so I cannot argue with him or take him to trial. [33] If only there were a mediator between us, someone who could bring us together. [34] The mediator could make God stop beating me, and I would no longer live in terror of his punishment. [35] Then I could speak to him without fear, but I cannot do that in my own strength.

 

8.16.26 sermon by Phillip D. Mumford

Colossians 2:13-14 NCV: When you were spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self, God made you alive with Christ, and he forgave all our sins. [14] He canceled the debt, which listed all the rules we failed to follow. He took away that record with its rules and nailed it to the cross.

Genesis 45:1-10, 14-15 CSB: Joseph could no longer keep his composure in front of all his attendants, so he called out, "Send everyone away from me!" No one was with him when he revealed his identity to his brothers. [2] But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and also Pharaoh's household heard it. [3] Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still living?" But they could not answer him because they were terrified in his presence. [4] Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Please, come near me," and they came near. "I am Joseph, your brother," he said, "the one you sold into Egypt. [5] And now don't be grieved or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life. [6] For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting. [7] God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance. [8] Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. [9] "Return quickly to my father and say to him, 'This is what your son Joseph says: "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay. [10] You can settle in the land of Goshen and be near me-you, your children, and your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and all you have…[14] Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his shoulder. [15] Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept, and afterward his brothers talked with him.

8.2.26 sermon by Phillip D. Mumford

Genesis 32:22-32 CSB

During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok. [23] He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions. [24] Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. [25] When the man saw that he could not defeat him, he struck Jacob's hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip. [26] Then he said to Jacob, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." [27] "What is your name?" the man asked. "Jacob," he replied. [28] "Your name will no longer be Jacob," he said. "It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed." [29] Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he answered, "Why do you ask my name?" And he blessed him there. [30] Jacob then named the place Peniel, "For I have seen God face to face," he said, "yet my life has been spared." [31] The sun shone on him as he passed by Penuel—limping because of his hip. [32] That is why, still today, the Israelites don't eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because he struck Jacob's hip socket at the thigh muscle.

Romans 9:1-5

I speak the truth in Christ-I am not lying; my conscience testifies to me through the Holy Spirit - [2] that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. [3] For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the benefit of my brothers and sisters, my own flesh and blood. [4] They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises. [5] The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, praised forever. Amen.

 

7.19.26 sermon by Dr. Robert Wortham

Matthew 13:1-9 CSB

On that day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting by the sea. [2] Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, while the whole crowd stood on the shore. [3] Then he told them many things in parables, saying, "Consider the sower who went out to sow. [4] As he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. [5] Other seed fell on rocky ground where it didn't have much soil, and it grew up quickly since the soil wasn't deep. [6] But when the sun came up, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away. [7] Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it. [8] Still other seed fell on good ground and produced fruit: some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what was sown. [9] Let anyone who has ears listen." 

7.12.26 sermon by Phillip D. Mumford

1 Peter 3:15 CSB…but in your hearts regard Christ the Lord as holy, ready at any time to give a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.

Matthew 13:1-9 CSB: On that day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting by the sea. [2] Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, while the whole crowd stood on the shore. [3] Then he told them many things in parables, saying, "Consider the sower who went out to sow. [4] As he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. [5] Other seed fell on rocky ground where it didn't have much soil, and it grew up quickly since the soil wasn't deep. [6] But when the sun came up, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away. [7] Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it. [8] Still other seed fell on good ground and produced fruit: some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what was sown. [9] Let anyone who has ears listen." 

 

 

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7.5.26 sermon by Phillip D. Mumford

Galatians 3:27-29 

For those of you who were baptized into Christ have been clothed with Christ. [28] There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus. [29] And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise.

Genesis 24: 1-14

Abraham was now old, getting on in years, and the LORD had blessed him in everything. [2] Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, "Place your hand under my thigh, [3] and I will have you swear by the LORD, God of heaven and God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live, [4] but will go to my land and my family to take a wife for my son Isaac.” [5]The servant said to him, "Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Should I have your son go back to the land you came from?" [6] Abraham answered him, "Make sure that you don't take my son back there. [7] The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, 'I will give this land to your offspring'-he will send his angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there. [8] If the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are free from this oath to me, but don't let my son go back there." [9] So the servant placed his hand under his master Abraham's thigh and swore an oath to him concerning this matter. [10] The servant took ten of his master's camels, and with all kinds of his master's goods in hand, he went to Nahor's town. [11] At evening, the time when women went out to draw water, he made the camels kneel beside a well outside the town. [12] "LORD, God of my master Abraham," he prayed, "make this happen for me today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. [13] I am standing here at the spring where the daughters of the men of the town are coming out to draw water. [14] Let the girl to whom I say, 'Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,' and who responds, 'Drink, and I'll water your camels also'-let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."

6.28.26 sermon by Phillip D. Mumford

Genesis 22:1-14

After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he answered. [2] "Take your son," he said, "your only son Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about." [3] So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split wood for a burnt offering and set out to go to the place God had told him about. [4] On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. [5] Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we'll come back to you." [6] Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac. In his hand he took the fire and the knife, and the two of them walked on together. [7] Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, "My father." And he replied, "Here I am, my son." Isaac said, "The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" [8] Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." Then the two of them walked on together. [9] When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood. [10] Then Abraham reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son. [11] But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He replied, "Here I am." [12] Then he said, "Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me." [13] Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son. [14] And Abraham named that place The LORD Will Provide, so today it is said, "It will be provided on the LORD's mountain."