Grace Bible Church Paris: Recent Episodes
Grace Bible Church Paris
Sunday Morning Worship: 06/16/2024
Title: God’s Sovereign Election (Part I)
Scripture: Romans 9:6-13
Speaker: Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 06/09/2024
Title: Love and Grief
Scripture: Romans 9:1-5
Speaker: Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 06/02/2024
Title: No Separation from God
Scripture: Romans 8:35-39
Speaker: Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 05/26/2024
Title: God is for Us
Scripture: Romans 8:31-34
Speaker: Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 05/12/2024
Title: The Providence of God (Part II)
Scripture: Romans 8:29-30
Speaker: Cory Froese
Reference Verses:
Romans 8:29-30
John 17:16-26
2 Cor. 3:18
Eph. 4:24
Phil. 3:21
Ps. 89:27
Col. 1:15-18
Matt.12:50, 25:40
Heb. 2:11-15
Phil. 2:9-10
Col. 1:18
Rev. 4:10-11
Jer. 1:4-5
Amos 3:1-2
Matt. 7:21-23
Acts 2:22-23
1 Peter 1:20
Acts 4:28
Rev. 13:8
Eph. 1:5,11, 2:4-7
Acts 16:14
1 Thess. 1:4-5
2 Thess. 2:13-14
1 Cor. 1:2,9
Heb. 9:15
1 Peter 2:9
2 Peter 1:4-10
2 Thess. 2:12
2 Cor. 3:18
Sunday Morning Worship: 05/05/2024
Title: The Providence of God (Part1)
Scripture: Romans 8:26-28
Speaker: Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 04/28/2024
Title: Suffering and Glory
Scripture: Romans 8:18-25
Speaker: Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 04/14/2024
Title: Life in the Spirit (Part III)
Scripture: Romans 8:9-13
Speaker: Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 03/15/2024
Title: The Christian in Conflict
Scripture: Romans 7 : 13 - 25
Speaker: Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 03/03/2024
Title: The Law and Sin
Scripture: Romans 7:7-13
Speaker: Pastor Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 02/18/2024
Title: Slaves to Righteousness
Scripture: Romans 6:15-23
Speaker: Pastor Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 01/21/2024
Title: The Benefits of Justification
Scripture: Romans 5:1-11
Speaker: Pastor Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 12/24/2023
Title: The Fourth Advent: Looking to Christ to Give Him Glory, Honor, and Love
Scripture: Revelation 5
Speaker: Elder Ruben Wall
Sunday Morning Worship: 12/17/2023
Title: The Third Advent: Looking Within to Prepare for Christ’s Coming
Scripture: Luke 12:35-48
Speaker: Pastor Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 11/19/2023
Title: Justification by Grace Alone
Scripture: Romans 4:9-17
Speaker: Pastor Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 10/29/2023
Title: The Implications of having Received Divine Grace
Scripture: Romans 3:27-31
Speaker: Cory Froese, Pastor
Sunday Morning Worship: 10/22/2023
Title: A Glorious Intervention
Scripture: Romans 3:21-26
Speaker: Cory Frose, Pastor
Sunday Morning Worship: 10/01/2023
Title: Mankind’s Corrupt Will
Scripture: Romans 3 : 12 - 18
Speaker: Pastor Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 09/17/2023
Title: The Radical Corruption of Man
Scripture: Romans 3:9-11
Speaker: Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 08/27/2023
Title: The Inescapable Judgment of God
Scripture: Romans 2:11-16
Speaker: Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 08/06/2023
Title: Sin, Man’s Greatest Enemy
Scripture: Romans 1:28-32
Speaker: Pastor Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 07/30/2023
Title: The Absence of God’s Restraint
Scripture: Romans 1:24-28
Speaker: Pastor Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 07/09/2023
Title: Persistence in Prayer
Scripture: Romans 1:8-15
Speaker: Pastor Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 07/02/2023
Title: Called to Be Saints
Scripture: Romans 1:8-15
Speaker: Pastor Cory Froese
Sunday Morning Worship: 06/18/2023
Title: The Good News
Scripture: Romans 1:1-7
Speaker: Pastor Cory Froese
When Jesus was asked by his disciples to teach them to pray, He does not just teach them what to pray, but He gives them a model of how they should pray. After He teaches them to address God as "Our Father," He says the next thing that we should be concerned about, is that God's name would be hallowed. What does it mean to hallowed God's name? It means that we, as His children, would be concerned that God's name would be kept holy. It means, that we would live in such a way that our life will line up with God's holiness.
The Lord's Prayer is such a familiar prayer to so many people, maybe so familiar that we never stop and think what it is, that we actually pray. When Jesus gives us the privilege to call God, Our Father, it comes with many implications. One: we are no longer strangers or children of the devil. Two: we have been saved into a family. The Christian life is not just about me and Christ but it is about Christ and us.
In our day, we hardly ever hear anything about fasting, but interestingly enough, Jesus assumed the fasting would be part of our Christian life. So He warns us, that when we do fast, we should do it in such a way, where we don't draw attention to our self. Fasting can be abstaining from food or anything good for a period of time for the purpose of seeking after God, whether it is in prayer, or the reading of His word.
As Christians, we know that we should pray, but to some degree or another, we all struggle with prayer. Wherever we may be on that spectrum, Jesus warns us that when we pray, whether public or private, we must do a careful examination to make sure that we are praying to God our Father in heaven. And not to ourselves or to people that might be present. We are not to be like the hypocrites, who pray fancy words, but do not really mean them, we are not to be like the Gentiles, who say many words, thinking they will be heard because of it.
Giving should be a part of our life as Christians. We have been given much by God, therefore, we should be a giving people. Giving consist of, our money, our time, our service, our talent, or helping neighbors who are in need. As Christians we stand with an open hand, for God to give to us, we need to be ready and willing with an open hand to give to others as well. Giving is the first of the three elements that Jesus assumes will be part of our every day life.
Jesus Christ never wavered from that which he came to this world to do. He knew from young on that he was here to do his Father's will. He was tempted and tried in every way, but yet he did not sin. Jesus' perfect life of obedience is our righteousness.
Jesus teaches us, Christians should be known for their word. We should not have to validate our "yes", or our "no" with people that we know and regularly deal with. We should say what we mean and mean what we say.
Jesus shows us that God's intent from the beginning was that there would be one man and one woman who would be united to one another for life. They would individually die and become one flesh. The implication of that, would be that they should never be separated. The Bible does allow for divorce in a few circumstances, but it should never be the first resort. Each married individual, should fight for his or her marriage, as if their life depended upon it.
Adultery, is not just a physical act, one can commit, but it is also a mental act, one can commit. Many people, my pride themselves, in the fact that they are outwardly moral and operate, but inwardly they might be guilty of immorality. Either we have caused someone to lust, or we are the one who are lusting after someone else. And Jesus says if we do that, we are guilty of adultery.
Jesus demonstrates to us that, breaking the law of God is not just something that we do physically, but it is also something that we do mentally. Murder is something that is done physically but only because it was first done mentally. Jesus strictly warns against bitterness and anger in our hearts. Calls us to deal with them and drastic ways.
As Christians, we are not free from obeying the law. Jesus summarize the 10 Commandments in the Great Commandment, "love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, mind and soul," and the second one is like it, "love your neighbor as yourself." As we Christians, seek to honor Christ and walk in his ways, we are doing what he was doing, which is keeping the law of God.
As Christians, what role does the Old Testament or the laws that God had in the OT play in our lives? That is a question that many Christians struggle with. In these verses we hear Jesus's opinion of the OT and in that we learn what our opinion should be of the OT and how it applies to our life.
How should faithful Christians live in the world? Should they hiding, or should they be live among ungodly people? Jesus says: "you are the light of the world." You cannot hide a city on a hill, and you don't like the lamp and put it under a basket. Nor can we exclude ourselves from non-Christians. Our task and responsibility as Christians, is to be salt and light among people who don't know God.
Jesus says, "you are the salt of the earth." That is not a command but rather a statement of fact. He also makes the point, that just like salt can lose its usefulness by being polluted, we as Christians can lose our effectiveness by being polluted by the things of this world.
According to Jesus, we should be more concerned if we do not face any persecution for the sake of Christ, then if we do face persecution. The beatitudes were meant to be lived out by every believer, and when we do that the inevitable response from the ungodly and nominal Christians will be ridicule and persecution.
Each and every Christian is called to follow the example of Jesus Christ in being a peacemaker. Jesus came to make peace between us and God, and now sends us to be ambassadors on God's behalf to reconcile others to God as well. And as Christians we are to be intentional to live at peace with one another.
Bible Reading and Prayer by Henry Friesen: Psalm 1 Benediction: 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13