Messages

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.”

A message from the series “Romans.” Are We Honoring God’s Name?
Romans 2:17-24

Main Point:
We are God’s called people by faith in Jesus Christ – Are we honoring His Name in how we live, speak and act, so that His Name is not blasphemed? > 1:16-17

Exodus 19:3-6

This is what the Jews, God’s people, were called to. > Gen.12:2-3

1. We are now God’s called people by faith in Christ and out of gratitude we are to honor His Name in the way we live. (verses 17-24)

I Peter 2:9-12

Romans 11:17-18 We Gentiles have been grafted into the tree!

2. The outward sign (O.C.=circumcision, N.C. Baptism) is meaningless without a corresponding surrendered heart. (verses 25-27)

God is not done with the Jewish people! (Romans 11:22-25)

3. A circumcised heart is a surrendered heart which is done only by the Spirit of God! (verse 28-29)

A message from the series “Romans.” Unrighteous Judgment
Romans 2:1-11

Main Point:
We must not make unrighteous judgments by failing in the same ways, rather, let us live and judge rightly like God with kindness, tolerance, and patience.

Judge (krino) = ‘to distinguish between right and wrong (and in this context – ‘with the implication to condemn’).’

Condemn – v.1 (katakrino) = ‘to sentence; judge worthy of punishment.’

1. We often judge others in the very same areas we fail in,
thus condemning ourselves! (verses 1,3)

Matthew 7:1-5

2. Only God can judge rightly as He is righteous and His judgment is based on truth.
(verse 2)

1Samuel 16:7

Jeremiah 17:10

3. Let us live righteously, and judge rightly with kindness, tolerance, and patience towards others, like God does with us!
(verses 4-6)

Kindness, tolerance and patience toward others’ failures – not towards sin!

James 2:12-13

A message from the series “Romans.” Are You Making Excuses?!
Romans 1:18-2:6

Main Point:
We cannot make excuses of ignorance nor of our wickedness before God, for He will judge us – rather, through repentance and faith in Christ, we must seek to do good, and be righteous.

1. God has made His invisible attributes plain to us – His eternal power and divine nature are clearly seen and understood in the visible creation, so that all are without excuse for unbelief. verses 18-20

Psalm 19:1-4

*Rejecting and suppressing the knowledge of God through wickedness leads to God’s Wrath wherein He turns us over to a darkened, depraved mind, and futile thinking that leads to idolatry and perverse sensuality verses 21-28

‘Wrath’ (orga) = anger, indignation, and retribution of evil – it is an attribute of God that fulfills His justice

‘Gave them over’ = to give one up into the hands of another> God gives us over to the control of the sin we are embracing (in rebellion to Him).

*His Wrath is being revealed in that He turns us over to our sin and it dominates/contols us, and the result is a depraved mind.

2. Only God is able to rightly judge another, for we fail and are guilty – and therefore we must not judge (condemn) others. verses 2:1-4

Matthew 7:1-5

3. God’s kindness is to lead us to repentance where we escape His Wrath & are made right with Him thru faith in Jesus Christ, and are empowered to live a righteous life. verses 2:4-7

*There is also a Day of God’s Wrath coming – it will be judgment and spiritual death. Nahum 1:2-3 > II Thessalonians 1:7-8

Have you come to true repentance and put your faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ?!!

Philippians 2:12

A message from the series “Romans.” I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel
Romans 1:1-17

Main Point:
Through the Gospel of Jesus Christ God has given us the power of salvation and righteousness through faith.

Paul’s Calling – called by God to be an apostle of this Gospel.
verses 1&5

Paul was ‘called’ (kaleo) = invited/appointed – used as ‘one invited to a banquet’ – a specific invitation.

‘Apostle’= ambassador, one sent with a commission – to preach
the Gospel.

We are ‘called’ = called to belong to Jesus (verse 6), and called
to the obedience that comes
from faith in Jesus Christ.
(verse 5)

2. Paul’s Purpose – Paul plans to visit them in order to encourage, impart and preach the Gospel to them, and invite them to partner with him in
his desire to preach the
Gospel in Spain.
(verses 9-15 > Chp 15:23-24)

3. Paul’s Preaching – Paul declares he is not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation, and a righteousness that comes through faith in Jesus Christ, God’s Son.
(verses 3-4; 16-17)
Matthew 24:14;
Mark 16:15-16
‘Power of Salvation’ (sodzo) = ‘saved fully, wholly’ – saved from the penalty of sin, the power of sin, and ultimately the presence
of sin.

‘Righteous’ (dikaios) = being right with, acceptable to God – in relationship and moral character.

Faith’ (pistis) = conviction as true, believing so that I am convinced and rely upon.

Habakkuk 2:4 ‘… the righteous will live by
his faith.’

A message from the series “Not Part of a Series.” That Christ May Dwell Fully
Ephesians 3:14-21

Main Point:
Paul prays for us that through the Spirit, we will be strengthened in our inner being that Christ may dwell in us fully, and be able to know the depth of Christ’s love for us!

1. Be strengthened with power in our inner being that Christ can dwell fully in us. (verses 16-17)

Dwell = be completely at home

*Power to surrender – to allow X to dwell completely in our whole inner being…

2. Power to comprehend & know (experiential) the depth of Christ’s love for us so that we may be filled to overflowing. (verses 18-21)