Messages

A message from the series “Not Part of a Series.” Zachary DeRoss : Shares his testimony of the mission work he is apart of in Haiti and how God led him to this ministry

A message from the series “Romans.” Got Access ?
Romans 5:1 – 11
Main Point:
We have access into God’s grace thru faith in Jesus Christ, and His commitment to produce perseverance and character in us

Access = moving toward, able to approach(God)

Grace = unmerited favor, goodness, and mercy of God towards us

1. Access into God’s grace comes only through Faith
in Jesus Christ (4:23) not by good works or obeying the Law.
(verses 1-2)

Faith = believing responses to God’s drawing/calling

Ephesians 2:8-9

Now good is not always what we think it should be…

2. Sufferings produce perseverance, character and more hope
confirmed by the Holy Spirit in us!
(verses 3-5)

Sufferings =

Hebrews 4:16

3. God’s commitment to us : While we were yet powerless, sinners, enemies of God, Christ died for us that we might be reconciled (restoration!).
(verses 6-11)

I John 3:1b ‘How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!’

A message from the series “Not Part of a Series.”

A message from the series “Not Part of a Series.”

A message from the series “Romans.” Our Father Abraham !

Main Point:
We must have a faith like Abraham – believe God raised Jesus from the dead, so that we can be his offspring and inherit the promise!

Genesis 18:17-19 The promise to Abraham confirmed

Believe (pisteuo) = to be persuaded, to be convinced of its truth > to take God at His Word!

1. Abraham believed against hope in God’s promise, therefore,
he inherited the promise, and righteousness was credited
to him. (verses 18-21)

Credit = to reckon, count it towards one’s account

2. We must have a believing response to God’s provision of salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ – ‘He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to Life for our justification.’ (verses 23-25)

3. We also inherit the promise as Abraham’s offspring – we
will be heirs of the world through our victorious Messiah!
(verses 4-5) Romans 5:17 Revelations 5:9-10

A message from the series “Not Part of a Series.” Learning to Hear God

I Kings 19:9-15

Main Point
If we want to hear God we must learn to distinguish His voice from what we THINK He should say and do!

*Elijah was implying to God what He should do to His people!(verses 10,14)

1. Our ways and thoughts are not often God’s ways and
thoughts!
Isaiah 55:8-9

2. He often asks us a question to get us to consider what we
are doing and thinking.
(verses 9,13)

Genesis 3:9 Genesis 4:6,9

3. He will communicate to us if we will truly listen with Spiritual
discernment !

I Corinthians 2:13-14

A message from the series “Romans.” Believe Like Abraham!
Romans 4:1-12

Main Point:
We are called to have a faith like Abraham – to believe God so that righteousness is credited to us.

Genesis 12:1-3 Abraham’s call

Believe (pisteuo) = to be persuaded, to be convinved of its truth > to take God at His Word! (God is behind it!)

1. Abraham had a believing response to God’s promise, and it was credited to him as righteousness. (verses 1-3)

Credit = to reckon, count it towards one’s account

Genesis 15:1-6

2. We cannot gain righteousness by works, for a wage given to one who works is not a gift, but an obligation – and we cannot gain

righteousness by works of the Law (3:20). (verses 4-5)

3. We must have a believing response to God’s provision of salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ’s sacrificial atonement so that it is

credited to us as righteousness! (verses 11b-12)

Romans 3:21-22

A message from the series “Romans.” Righteousness Is Ours Through FaithHebrews 8:7-13

Main Point:Righteousness can be ours before God through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ, to all who will believe in Him!

1. The Need – We all have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory (requirements). (verse 23)

Verses 10-12 > Psalm 14:1-3; 53:1-3

2. The Cure – God presented Him as a sacrifice of atonement for our sin to fulfill His justice.  (verse 25)

Atonement = a sacrifice that appeases God’s wrath; covers or turns away His wrath from us.(the life is in the blood Lev. 17:11)

It is also our redemption… (verse 24)

Psalm 49:7-8

3. Grace – We are all justified freely through this grace of Jesus Christ – through faith in His blood. (verses 24-25)

Grace (‘charis’) = the unearned, undeserved favor, mercy and love of God towards us.

Hebrews 10:1-4 > v. 10

A message from the series “Romans.” How God Prepared Us for His Son
Romans 3:1-20

Main Point:
God gave His very Words to His people so that we will understand that we are not righteous and cry out to Him for mercy and grace!

1. God has shown us through His Word that all of us (Jews & Gentiles) have sinned and are unrighteous before Him. (verses 9-18)

2. The inability of us to fully obey the Law is not a license to sin. (verses 5-8)

3. The Law should cause us to cry out to God for mercy and Grace through the Gospel of His Son! (verses 19-20)

Galatians 3:23-24

A message from the series “Not Part of a Series.”