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Title: Who’s Your Mama?
Scripture: Galatians 4: 21-31
The Forest: Context in Galatians
The Trees:
2 Mamas
2 Ways of Pursuing Righteousness
More Forest: Isaiah 51, 53 & 54
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FAITHFUL PASTORS...
- have a genuine love for the people
- live out the gospel as an example
- make much of Jesus and his gospel
- see Christlikeness as the highest goal of the people
A FAITHFUL FLOCK...
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Title: Better To Be a Heathen?
Scripture: Galatians 4:8-11
- Enslaved by your own performance/obedience
- New slavery no better than your old
- Security & assurance only come from being known by God
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Title: Our Relationship to God
Scripture: Galatians 3:23-29
- The Change Faith Brings: Sonship
- How It Happens: Union with Christ
- What It Means: No More Barriers
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- The OLD Relationship
- How the Relationship CHANGED
a. comes from outside
b. works inside
c. brings us into the family
- How the Relationship affects UNITY
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The Purpose of the Law
Galatians 3:15-22
- Not to Change the Unchangeable
- Not to Reveal Holiness, but Transgression
- Not a Lasting Purpose, but Temporary
- Not to Contradict Grace, but to Complement
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How we respond to Jesus
1. with honesty
2. from favor, not for favor
3. in faith
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- Our Powerful Rescuer
a. bitter, rebellious, runaway hearts
b. outsiders
- Rescue brings Heart Change
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Rahab’s Desperation, Our Desperation, Universal Destruction means we need radical faith, and Sovereign Deliverance.
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A better picture of who Jesus is and a better understanding of what Jesus came to rescue us from.
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Gospel Distortion...
(Galatians 1:6-10)
...is DESERTION (v. 6)
...is gospel DESTRUCTION (v. 7)
...always brings DAMNATION (v. 8-9)
...is DESPERATION for approval (v. 7, 10)
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How do I know if I’ve been BORN AGAIN?
- You embrace Jesus as he’s offered in the Gospel (v. 1a)
- You love God & other Christians (v. 1b-2)
- You gladly obey God’s commands (v. 3)
- You resist temptation b/c of the Gospel’s transforming power (v. 4-5)
Eph 2:1-7; Ezk 36-37; John 3:1-10; Titus 3:1-8; 1 Pt 1:3-25; 1 Jn 2:28-3:10
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Today, our guest pastor, Randy Nabors of the New City Network of Chattanooga, brings a message from Galatians 2:11-12.
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Guest Pastor, Dr. David Cashin of CIU, brings a message today from Genesis 12:1-3.
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Guest Pastor, John Boyte of RUF in Anderson, SC, brings us the second message today in a four-part series.
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Pastor John Mark shares the common questions that are answered by the Scriptures we memorized this week at VBS.
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Guest pastor - John Boyte of RUF in Anderson, SC
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Believe the promises of God, rely on God's presence, embrace His process, and be humbled by God's prerogative.
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Dr. David Cashin is our guest speaker for our Missions Conference on February 19-20, 2017. This is part three.
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Dr. David Cashin is our guest speaker for our Missions Conference February 19-20. What are we adding to the gospel before we bring others to Jesus? The church is the only organization which works to benefit non-members.
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Dr. David Cashin is our guest speaker for our Missions Conference Feb 19-20, 2017.
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This is only half of the sermon for the second Sunday of Advent at Trinity Presbyterian Church on Dec 4, 2016.
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- Know Your Adversary (6:10-13)
- Know Your Armor (6:14-17)
- Know Your Allies (6:18-20)
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Audio quality varies - recorded at annual Camp Meeting outdoor worship service
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- Only Through the Gospel
- Because The Gospel Changes Everything
- Fueled By The Word
- Eyes On The Finish Line
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We need to pray ALL kinds of prayers for ALL kinds of people because there is only ONE Gospel.
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Truth matters because the glory of God matters and people matter.
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Monsters don't pray, and that's why they have no patience...or friends!
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Our plans and our money show our inner monster, unless we know who we are in the Gospel.
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Monsters have their own tune, but in the Gospel we sing in harmony.
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Since our hearts leak through our mouths,, our words demonstrate our real hope.
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Gospel transformation is about the whole person, not just what we say or do.
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Doers of the gospel actually believe it, and their relationships prove it.
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Since God desires that we be His, He gave us the gospel to take to others.
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In the difficulties of life the stability of the Gospel is our joy.
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The gospel of Jesus Christ is bigger than any addiction, and the promise of the Resurrection is bigger than your doubt and fear.
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The world knows our Gospel is real when we reconcile through repentance.
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When the gospel is at stake, we must care enough to confront "the way things are."
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If we hated each other because we first hated God, shouldn't we now love each other if we love God?
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God empowers us with joy when we willingly suffer for the Gospel.
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When we realize our foundation is totally unfair, we are freed from fear
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Since our submission silences stupidity, we are servants to the society for our sovereign.
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As the visiting team, Christians brag about God, even when the home crowd threatens.
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We chase our dreams, but in the gospel we crave God's dream.
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The Gospel sets us free to love each other as deeply as we hope to be loved.
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We stand firm in the joy of who God says we are.
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We have hope because God has planned His work and is working His plan!
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Hope comes when grace messes up our fear with the greatness of Jesus.
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The wisdom of grace answers all the frustration.
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Since God holds us accountable for being happy, we should walk with him in the good and bad.
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The Gospel empowers God's people with hope to face the unknown.
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The wise rejoice in the friendship of God, but it exhausts the foolish.
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The wisdom of grace can change your life...if grace changes you first!
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Joy comes from God's approval-not from our own nor the world's.
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When so many try to trick God, Gospel Wisdom trusts Him and finds real joy.
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When what God promises doesn't appear true, Gospel wisdom throws a party.
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Living in God's grace makes us able to deal with this life.
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As we run this maze under the sun, wisdom gives us understanding of our dead-ends and hope for our escape.
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Wisdom doesn't manipulate or ignore God: it fears Him!
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Fools cope with life under the sun while the wise have real hope.
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The journey to make ourselves happy is really a treadmill of frustration.
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A remarkable life under the sun is heartbreaking without the friendship of God.
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God empowers his daughters and sons to live lives of unimaginable fullness.
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Our idols keep us on the hook, but only in the gospel do we find what our heart wants.
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Life under the sun frustrates us, but God frustrates that life right back!
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Praising God for his great Gospel does us a world of good!
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We are made to connect, but we forget that under the sun.
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When neither crying in our pillow nor exhausting ourselves brings comfort, the Gospel offers rest.
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Under the sun we see ourselves and our world now, but God can show us what comes after.
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Controlling it all is frustrating, but God gives joy and pleasure to those who fear him.
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The toil of life in a world of death leads to despair, but with God there is joy in the journey.
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Knowing we will die and be forgotten breaks our heart, unless we're wrong.
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We assume the Hollywood life would make us happy, but it is empty toil.
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A frustrating life drives us to seek answers, but this world only gives more frustration.
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Rev. Ropp, pastor of TPC from 1999-2012 guest preaches
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Since we gain nothing when our frustrating world exhausts us, we long for something not here, something new.
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Jesus comes down to approve us because we can't climb up to him.
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God delights in the fruit of the faithful not the ceremony of the churched.
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We should care for God's world now because it will be our home then.
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When we embrace the gospel, we offend cultural religions, and that makes us uncomfortable.
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We try to avoid suffering, but when we embrace it we find joy!
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God's people are different because we don't judge each other as the world does.
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Life often bites; when we endure it, others notice and want to know how.
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Don't be deceived--God's plan for our health is for us to seek the health of our community.
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God put Christians here to make our city healthy through our living in hope.
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To show off God to our community, we cast off our regret and remember that justice is the heart of the gospel.
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We are a blessing to our community when we show off God's beauty.
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God's comfort comes through Jesus Christ, and his care remains withing his people.
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The people seeking Jesus come to us, but if we don't know him as King, we won't worship Jesus with them.
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Into your darkness Jesus brings the healing light of joy and freedom.
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Christmas is bigger than our whole world because God came down to be with us!
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Since God is after 'we' and not just 'me,' we know the gospel in community or we don't know it!
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Living daily in the gospel brings the hope and happiness you want and pray for.
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Life seems pointless when we do it all our way, but we find fulfillment when we entrust our life to God.
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We can be carefree when we believe & embrace the Gospel of King Jesus.
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It's worth it because God wants to be with us and bless us!
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When his servants were shamed & broken by sin & death, our master destroyed sin & death by shaming & breaking his son, so his people could live free in his mercy.
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We rejoice at God's call to worship because we were made to be a peaceful community.
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First track in Pastor Sawyers' series on Esther looking at the concept of Empire in our current culture.
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God will do whatever it takes to restore his wayward children.
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God takes away our idolatrous hopes so we will hope in him.
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God protects his people from real-life danger so we can journey in peace.
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The amazing love of God gives us peace, even when life is not easy.
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When we doubt God's love, He uses faithful believers to show and tell us.
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Squatters are a problem for neighbors because they don't belong!!
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Being on the same team is great, but it only happens when Christians are made content by Christ's strength.
