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Christian Reformed Church of Sydney

Locality: Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Address: 84 Cecil Avenue 2154 Castle Hill, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.sydneyreformed.org.au

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24.01.2022 The God Who Keeps His Promise Genesis 50:22-26 & Exodus 1 But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased ... greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them. Exodus 1:7 I think we have covered the Gospel of Mark considerably well and my intention is to start a new sermon series from the Old Testament. Yes! The Old Testament. That sounds like a good balance. After prayerful consideration, I will be preaching from Exodus, the second book of the Old Testament which we are currently reading through the Reading the Bible Together (RBT) program. The book of Exodus is a keystone in the Bible. It is crucial for understanding the epic journey of God’s people throughout the Old Testament, and for grasping the key themes and events of the New Testament, especially the sacrificial death of Jesus for the redemption of all God’s people. So, as we hear God speak to us from Exodus, let us keep our eyes open, looking for how these Scriptures point us forward to the salvation that is in Christ. This Sunday’s sermon will be based on The God Who Keeps His Promise. God has certainly kept His promise to the Patriarchs that he would make their descendants a great nation. Blessings Laven

23.01.2022 Please join us for our Good Friday and Easter Sunday services online. http://www.sydneyreformed.org.au/services

23.01.2022 When Life Gets Harder, Not Better Exodus 5:1-6:5 So, the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, Thus says Pharaoh, ... ‘I will not give you straw. Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’ Exodus 5:10-11 Moses returns to Egypt and is now ready to carry out the task that God has specifically chosen for him. We expect a quick destructive end to Pharaoh’s plan. But this is not what happens as we will see in our Bible reading this Sunday. In Exodus chapter 5, things get worse before they get better. Is this supposed to happen? Did not God say that he would be with Moses and teach him what to say (4:12)? The point of this narrative is certainly not how Moses is unfaithful to God’s initial instruction and the consequences thereof. Rather, the point is Pharaoh’s hardness of heart and God’s miraculous deliverance of his beloved people. Perhaps nowhere is Pharaoh’s hardness of heart demonstrated more clearly than in the first words he utters in the Exodus narrative: Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? (5:2). But also, the delay in the fulfillment of God’s promises reveals his people hearts. Blessings Laven

21.01.2022 The Servant King in Jerusalem Mark 11:1-11 And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!’... Mark 11:9 Our Bible reading for this Sunday is well known as the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Across the globe, this Sunday will be remembered as Palm Sunday and many churches will not have palm fronds as some form of symbolism because churches are not meeting for public gatherings due to the spread of the Coronavirus. But I am quite certain that thousands of livestream or pre-recorded services will have sermons based on the ‘Triumphal Entry or as I have titled the sermon The Servant King in Jerusalem. Now when we think of Jesus the Servant King coming into Jerusalem, one straight away thinks of the borrowed colt he rode on and also the people shouting: And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!’ (Mark 11:9) As we prepare to praise God and give Him the honour this Sunday, I want to share what Corrie ten Boom was once asked if it were difficult for her to remain humble. Her reply was simple. When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday on the back of a donkey, and everyone was waving palm branches and throwing garments onto the road, and singing praises, do you think that for one moment it ever entered the head of that donkey that any of that was for him? She continued, If I can be the donkey on which Jesus Christ rides in his glory, I give him all the praise and all the honour.

19.01.2022 You can find the service for Sunday here http://www.sydneyreformed.org.au/services Please note the service will be available around 8:50 Sunday morning.

18.01.2022 You can find the service for Sunday here http://www.sydneyreformed.org.au/services Please note the service will be available around 8:50 Sunday morning.

18.01.2022 Ascension Day Service - 21 May 2020 Please join us for our online service on Thursday from 7:30pm. Theme: "The Ground that holds my Anchor"... Bible Reading: Acts 1:6-11 & Hebrews 6:13-20 http://www.sydneyreformed.org.au/services

18.01.2022 Moses Returns to Egypt Exodus 4:18-31 Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive. Exodus 4:18... In Exodus 3, God called Moses from the burning bush and commissions him with these words, So, now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt (3:10). When God calls a person to a task, He makes no mistake no matter how many questions and excuses one comes up with like Moses did. Moses felt inadequate for the task. Who am I to lead these people? God said, It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is who I am. Having been called by God, Moses determined to carry through with his commission by returning to Egypt. Moses left Midian with Jethro’s blessing, his family and the staff of God in his hand. What we will see in the sermon this week as Moses is on his way to Egypt, there are still some things or lessons that God wants to teach him before he gets down to this Exodus business. That also applies to us whenever we let God be God and agree to follow Him no matter the cost. Blessings Laven

17.01.2022 It is with great sadness to report that from now on our Sunday Service and all other ministries at the Sydney Christian Reformed Church have been suspended until further notice. This is through the concerns raised by COVID-19. God is sovereign and we look forward in seeing what God will do in this season. There will be an online service every Sunday. Please continue to check this page for updates.... Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6

16.01.2022 The Birth of a savior Exodus 2:1-10 Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman.2 The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3 When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes[a] and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the riverbank.... Exodus 2:1-3 Last week in Exodus 1, we were introduced to the story of God’s redemption of His people Israel from slavery in Egypt. We saw that despite Pharaoh’s cruel threats against God’s people, the LORD prospered them. Pharaoh tried to limit Israel’s size and reduce her birth rate by using the Israelites ruthlessly as a slave labour force. When that didn’t work, he commanded the midwives to murder all the baby boys that were born to the Israelite women. Yet God was at work, quietly, behind the scenes. In Exodus 2, God used the very measure by which Pharaoh tried to exterminate Israel as the means eventually to their deliverance. The story of baby Moses in the basket is a marvellous story of God working in history to triumph over evil, but it is not the whole story. Moses was a saviour, but he was not the Saviour. Long after the exodus the Israelites were still waiting for another Saviour to be born, a Saviour of whom Moses was only the prototype. We are called to trust God the way a desperate mother once did when she placed her heart in a basket and entrusted it the God who saves. Please join our online service this Sunday. http://www.sydneyreformed.org.au/services Blessings Laven

08.01.2022 Redeemed from Slavery by a Lamb Exodus 11:1-12:14 The LORD said to Moses, Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive ... you away completely. The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy, when I strike the land of Egypt. Exodus 11:1; 12:13 By sending plague after plague nine in all God was showing his power over creation. What the Egyptians should have done in response was repent of their sins and join Moses in giving praise to the one true God. Yet the more Pharaoh suffered, the harder his heart became. This was because is heart was committed to serving other gods. So, one by one God defeated the gods and goddesses of Egypt. Still Pharaoh refused to let God’s people go. Finally, God sent the tenth and deadliest plague of all: the death of the firstborn. But in his great mercy, God provided his people with a way to be safe. The reason he visited their homes was not to destroy them but to teach them about salvation. Like the Egyptians, the Israelites deserved divine judgement; but unlike the Egyptians, they would be saved by grace through faith. What God’s people needed was atonement, which God provided in the form a lamb a lamb offered as a sacrifice for sin. God’s people were truly redeemed from slavery to sin by a lamb which ultimately pointed to the Lamb of God Jesus, who takes away the sins of the world. Blessings Laven

08.01.2022 Moses Returns to Egypt Exodus 4:18-31 Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive. Exodus 4:18... In Exodus 3, God called Moses from the burning bush and commissions him with these words, So, now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt (3:10). When God calls a person to a task, He makes no mistake no matter how many questions and excuses one comes up with like Moses did. Moses felt inadequate for the task. Who am I to lead these people? God said, It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is who I am. Having been called by God, Moses determined to carry through with his commission by returning to Egypt. Moses left Midian with Jethro’s blessing, his family and the staff of God in his hand. What we will see in the sermon this week as Moses is on his way to Egypt, there are still some things or lessons that God wants to teach him before he gets down to this Exodus business. That also applies to us whenever we let God be God and agree to follow Him no matter the cost. Blessings Laven

07.01.2022 When Life Gets Harder, Not Better Exodus 5:1-6:5 So, the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, Thus says Pharaoh, ... ‘I will not give you straw. Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’ Exodus 5:10-11 Moses returns to Egypt and is now ready to carry out the task that God has specifically chosen for him. We expect a quick destructive end to Pharaoh’s plan. But this is not what happens as we will see in our Bible reading this Sunday. In Exodus chapter 5, things get worse before they get better. Is this supposed to happen? Did not God say that he would be with Moses and teach him what to say (4:12)? The point of this narrative is certainly not how Moses is unfaithful to God’s initial instruction and the consequences thereof. Rather, the point is Pharaoh’s hardness of heart and God’s miraculous deliverance of his beloved people. Perhaps nowhere is Pharaoh’s hardness of heart demonstrated more clearly than in the first words he utters in the Exodus narrative: Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? (5:2). But also, the delay in the fulfillment of God’s promises reveals his people hearts. Blessings Laven

01.01.2022 Here is the link to our service for 29 March 2020. Services will be posted Sunday mornings. http://www.sydneyreformed.org.au/services