Sunfield Baptist Church Sermons: Recent Episodes
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Being fugitives means that we are running away into self-destruction, but because of God’s amazing grace, even though we are deliberately challenging his authority and running away from him in our sin, he runs after us with a cosmic intervention, often in the form of a mighty tempest, tempestuous and raging, but all for our good. Stephen Saucier
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Jesus wants us see Himself in the Sermon on the Mount and cry out to Him in humble repentance and cling to Him with desperate faith. When you look at the Sermon on the Mount and you see your failures know this, that Jesus died for all your failures. Stephen Saucier
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What makes a good work good is that you don’t trust it to save you. As soon as you put hope in that good work, it’s no longer good. As soon as you see it as your ticket to heaven, it’s no longer good. Stephen Saucier
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It’s scary to know that genuine and counterfeit believers are nearly identical, scary to think that this is the fate of many professing Christians, and scary to consider that the consequences are eternally grave. Scary. Stephen Saucier
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The challenge of the gospel is that there needs to be an equal emphasis on both the demand of the gospel and the comfort of the gospel; otherwise, you lose the gospel. Stephen Saucier
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Now all this is to say that Christianity IS narrow. But its narrowness is no narrower than claims to the contrary. The narrowness of Christianity is NOT arrogance. Stephen Saucier
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If you really think about it, there needs to be a change in the ‘you’ in order for you to do to them what ought to be done with you. Stephen Saucier
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When God brought you into his family he brought you into his family “as is,” just as you are — as bratty and filthy and cranky and petty and self-willed and disrespectful and disobedient as you are — he, while you were in the throes of a temper-tantrum said, “I’ll take that one. And not only will I take you, but I’ll take you and give you every privilege and joy and all the spiritual riches I can lavish on […]
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Being judgmental lands us in hot water with God because it usurps his role as the sole lawgiver and judge. Stephen Saucier
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Perhaps the thing that makes worry so sinister is that it is a kind of maternal sin — it gives birth to a thousand others. You know what a number worry does on you. You know it when you see it. You know it when you experience it. And you know it’s wrong. You know that worry is bad for you. Stephen Saucier
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To treasure anything other than Jesus is to live completely contrary to your design. And you know that when you force something, like a tool, to do something contrary to its design, you end up ruining both that appliance and the object you were trying to fix. Jesus doesn’t want this for us. Stephen Saucier
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A person who believes the gospel is not surprised at the difficulties of life, and is not outraged that these things happen to him because he knows that he deserves far worse. Stephen Saucier
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If you hope to maintain even the semblance of a relationship with other people, weak and sinful as they are, you’ve got to figure out how to forgive them. More than that, because you are one of those weak and sinful people yourself, you are (even without realizing it) counting on other people to forgive you. Stephen Saucier
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When we realize that the person we’re praying to is a heavenly father, we must also remember that we are his earthly kids and like any kid, don’t always ask for what’s best for us. Stephen Saucier
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What makes obedience a challenge is that God is not looking for slow, coerced obedience — he’s looking for quick, joyous, spontaneous obedience that flows from our hearts. Stephen Saucier
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We want to run our own lives. Until we see ourselves as pretenders to the throne of our hearts, God’s reign will not hold sway. Stephen Saucier
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So Jesus again does what we could never do; he hallows God’s name for us. But this doesn’t mean that we are off the hook. We pray that in our lives and in the world, God’s great name would be the most sacred thing in the universe, that he would be what all people value most supremely. Stephen Saucier
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Jesus was forsaken so that you and I will never have to be. The one time Jesus did not pray “my Father” is the very moment that he made it possible for you to come to God saying “Abba.” Stephen Saucier
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Christianity is about the heart. That even if we were to take away every single command, every single spiritual discipline off the list, our hearts would still find a way to live for the eyes of people rather than the eyes of God. Stephen Saucier
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You can’t pray this prayer unless you forgive the people who have wronged you because you cannot look at a person who’s wronged you and refuse to forgive them unless you feel superior to them. So until you repent of your superiority (and thus become enabled to forgive those who have hurt you), God will not forgive you. Stephen Saucier
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Christianity is not a system of self-improvement. It is not a list of rules and regulations to live by. It cannot be reduced to a program of morals and ethics. It is the story of God’s great work of salvation in Jesus. And by faith, you get to be a character in that grand story. Stephen Saucier
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Unless you are convinced that the love of Christ has nothing to do with your good behavior, you’ll turn the reward into a wage and see your sincerity as a stepping stone to acceptance with God. Stephen Saucier
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It seems like this God is willing to love anybody. Doesn’t he have any taste? Doesn’t he have any standards? I know why he would love the righteous and the good, but not bad people and unrighteous. BUT THIS IS WHAT GRACE IS! AND IT’S AMAZING! Stephen Saucier
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Because Jesus turned the other cheek for us, God’s vengeance was satisfied on the cross — for vengeful, evil people like you and me. Stephen Saucier
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If Christianity is about anything, it’s about change. So if there is no change, Jesus is saying there is no Christianity. And if there is no Christianity, there is only judgment. Stephen Saucier
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We need to see that a preoccupation with the grounds for divorce gets our eyes off the real issue: the importance of reconciliation, of living in light of the ideal…Instead of being all about the grounds of divorce, we should be all about preserving our marriages. Stephen Saucier
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God offers us the gift of his son to so fulfill and satisfy the deepest longings of our heart and we choose instead to spurn his greatest gift and settle for second-best. Rather than glutting ourselves on our relationship with Jesus, a kind of intimacy that you can’t desire enough, we look to satisfy our cravings on things that never ultimately satisfy…things like sex. Stephen Saucier
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Jesus calls us to remember how we offended other people, not how they offended us. Why? Because remembering how we have offended other people can make us slower to be offended by other people. Stephen Saucier
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Jesus is the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets in the sense that he is the one to whom they pointed, he is the person these Scriptures anticipate, he is the one they are all about. Stephen Saucier
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What you have to understand is that Jesus is alive right now and knowing what he had to do in order to overcome your regrets, he has NO regret. He does not regret what he’s done for you. He welcomes you with open arms. Stephen Saucier
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The gospel is not good news without the Triumphal Entry because the conquest of the powers that really matter comes only through Jesus’ humility. He had to get the people’s hopes up for a king they expected so he could dash their hopes with the king they desperately needed — the king who would die on the cross for their sins. Stephen Saucier
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God’s acceptance is based on sheer grace — grace and nothing else. Grace means that God welcomes you into a place you don’t have a right to be. Stephen Saucier
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Hypocrisy is the sin of lying to God, yourself, and other people about who you really are on the inside. Stephen Saucier
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Without the Gospel as the source for our mercy, all of our forgiveness and all of our generosity will deteriorate into something self-righteous and condescending, and ultimately not all that helpful to other people. Stephen Saucier
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To be truly meek means we no longer protect ourselves, because we see there is nothing worth defending. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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If we understood grace we would weep for our sins and the sins of others! In fact, I would argue that until you’re miserable for killing Jesus by your sin, you have not had real misery — you’ve never really mourned. Stephen Saucier
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What marks us as kingdom people and genuine Christians is that we keep coming back to this one thing: the inexhaustible grace of God, knowing that it’s all we have…and all we need. Stephen Saucier
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When you understand the grace of God, what you value, that is what you live for and long for, gets completely turned upside down. Because of grace, you become a person who no longer feels superior to other people and instead sees them as objects of the very mercy that you’ve received. Stephen Saucier
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Until you see that the Sermon on the Mount is all about Jesus. It’ll never be about you. Stephen Saucier
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The Sermon on the Mount is the logical extension of a super-illogical counterintuitive message of grace, mercy, and love that’s found in and through the Lord, Jesus Christ. It’s the fleshing out of outrageous grace, grace that pays people who work one hour the same wage as if they work 12, grace that forgives debt that ought to be but can never be repaid. Stephen Saucier
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Our fruit doesn’t save us. It’s clear through Scripture that Jesus is the only thing that saves us, the only thing that makes us right, the only thing that gives us a firm foundation. I produce this fruit because He lives in me. Brock Vandever
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He who loves the Lord above all is a healthy and whole person; for your life is determined by what you love. Stephen Saucier
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His wrath does not exist IN OPPOSITION TO his love; it exists BECAUSE of his love. He can’t STAND to see sin doing what it does to the creatures he loves. Precisely because God is a loving God he must be a wrathful God. In a world where there is such thing as evil, a loving person is also an angry person. Stephen Saucier
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When the Bible talks about salvation, it’s not fundamentally talking about NEAR rescue, but about COMPREHENSIVE rescue — not surviving, but thriving — under God, as a whole human being, for the good of others, in a renewed world. Stephen Saucier
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God doesn’t love you BECAUSE you’re beautiful; he loves you to MAKE you beautiful. Stephen Saucier
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Cry out — cry out for help right in the middle of a sinful binge, when you’re drunk with your own lust and sinful desire — he will rescue you from you. And the REASON he will is that he wants to! Stephen Saucier
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In the irony of the gospel, Jesus first defied death by letting it defeat him so that through his resurrection he might destroy it for you. Stephen Saucier
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If you are a Christian, your faith in Jesus unites you to him as the beloved son. By faith, you are one with the beloved son! Stephen Saucier
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God knows we all need more help, but possibly we need LESS self. Stephen Saucier
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God’s love doesn’t just come to you at the beginning of the road or at the end of the story; his love is for you throughout the totality of your life. No matter how many times you betray him, his disposition toward you will never, ever, ever, ever change. Stephen Saucier
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This is love that isn’t based on you. It CAN’T be, because you are a sinner. And because it isn’t based on you, but based on him — on the endless well of love that he has for you, you can know that it will always be there for you. He will always be yours and you will always be his. Stephen Saucier
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Even though you and I seem incapable of loyalty to the Lord, setting our affections so often on everything else but him, he just REFUSES to stop loving you. ABSOLUTELY REFUSES. Stephen Saucier
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Remember your Maker. Remember what he has done for you. And then, grind your idols to pieces as you live for Jesus with reckless abandon. Stephen Saucier
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So how do you get to the place of true repentance? By focusing on His love. You make knowing and understanding that love, which is beyond comprehension, the chief aim of your life. Stephen Saucier
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Religion doesn’t help you get better. It just makes you a RELIGIOUS sinner. Which is actually worse, because it means you’ve fooled yourself into thinking that you’re in a better place than you really are. Stephen Saucier
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Your sin is always, to some degree, shaped by how you suffered. Stephen Saucier
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When you become convinced, not just with your head but with your heart, of who God really is, your life is transformed. Stephen Saucier
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No matter what you’ve done, who you are, what your past was like, how you have been defiled — when you are joined to God by his love for you in Jesus, you don’t have to pretend. You ARE new because this new relationship has MADE you new. Stephen Saucier
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So often, we think of our coming to the end of ourselves as the end, when in reality, it’s the beginning of the grace of God in our lives. Stephen Saucier
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The fact is, you’re SO bad that it took the one perfect person who ever lived — the blameless son of God — it took the torture and execution and wrathful abandonment of Jesus Christ to get things right between you and God. You really ARE that bad. Stephen Saucier
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There is NO SUCH THING AS PASSING THE POINT OF NO RETURN. There is hope for YOU. No matter what you’ve done. Christ’s death proves it! Stephen Saucier
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It’s only when you give up on all of your little “hopes” that you’re ready to find the One in whom true hope is found. Stephen Saucier
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The world was designed to have the love of God at its center; when it’s not, things explode into evil and chaos. Stephen Saucier
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Faith and trust in anything less than Jesus’ blood and His righteousness is a faith that’s for nothing. Stephen Saucier
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On the cross, Jesus was abandoned so that you never have to be. Stephen Saucier
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No one gets a pass on brokenness. No one. Either you are in the middle of a dark valley, you have just come out of a dark valley, or there is a dark valley on your horizon. But the fact of the matter is that you can’t escape your own brokenness or the brokenness of a world gone wrong. Stephen Saucier
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God isn’t really interested in me being happy; he’s interested in me being like him. He’s interested in growing my character. Steve Bareis
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Before time began he had this idea that he would come for us – as a man. The universe can’t contain God and yet he fit into the womb of a teenage girl, grew up for 33 1/2 years, lived the life that we live, and now sympathizes with us in our weaknesses. -Stephen Saucier
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His grace toward you is lavish. It’s profuse. It’s extravagant. It’s EXCESSIVE. This is the kind of savior Jesus is! -Stephen Saucier
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Whatever it is we look to in order to give us the desires of our hearts, whatever we believe can satisfy and rescue us, whatever we look to in order to be on God’s side — if it’s not Jesus, it’s Barabbas. -Stephen Saucier
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The church is a mission outpost; God’s instrument for the evangelization of the world. We have to have a mission focus. -Pastor Stephen
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The Gospel is all about what God has done in Christ and what he’s accomplished on behalf of unworthy sinners. And we’re ALL unworthy sinners! -Stephen Saucier
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Law, sin, and death; Christ conquered ALL of them! Sin? He died for the penalty. Law? He fulfilled its righteous requirement. Death? He rose from the grave. -Stephen Saucier
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Pain shapes us—makes us who we are and who we want to be. -Stephen Saucier
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God didn’t bring you into his family because he couldn’t resist your awesomeness. He brought you into the family to display HIS awesomeness! You’re not better than the poor—you ARE the poor—a morally bankrupt person with nothing to offer the Lord but your empty hands. -Stephen Saucier
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The reason why you CAN be free of materialism is that life isn’t about what you have, but about who has you! -Pastor Stephen
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Your JOY over having been given such mercy by the Lord in the gospel CONTINUALLY spills over in a life poured out to serve the poor. This is what it’s all about. -Stephen Saucier
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The reward that Jesus promises us is HIMSELF. It’s getting to see him and be with him and thank him for the riches of his grace that he’s lavished upon us, and to be able to do it IN PERSON, in the FLESH, in living color, looking right in his face—not in your imagined version of his face, but his ACTUAL face. -Stephen Saucier
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The great hope of the Christian life is not going to heaven when you die. It’s way better than that. -Stephen Saucier
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Death is NOT your friend. Death isn’t a companion. Death isn’t a natural part of life. Death isn’t something that makes every moment count. Death ruins EVERYTHING. -Stephen Saucier
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The whole point of Revelation is to give you courage to handle the worst situations you could ever face. Whether it’s as big as your torture and execution or it’s as small as your stressful, forty-minute commute, this book can give you the inner fortitude to face all of life’s difficulties. -Stephen Saucier
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Idolatry is so easy to slip into. It’s a default mode of existence because you and I are made to worship something. We’re never in neutral. -Stephen Saucier
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Run TO him today to avoid running INTO him on Judgment Day. -Stephen Saucier
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The more you look to Jesus, and the more you see what he’s done for you, the less alluring your idols will become. Idols aren’t crushed within your heart—they’re crowded out of your heart. -Stephen Saucier
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You are not broken beyond repair. You are not irredeemable. You are not beyond the ability of God to save you! The dream that God gives Joseph teaches us that Christmas means that Jesus can save you. His name means GOD SAVES. -Stephen Saucier
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Your dreams are too small compared to what God wants to give you. -Stephen Saucier
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This is what makes John 3:16 so powerful. It’s not simply that God’s extended his love beyond his chosen people to encompass the world, but it’s that that very world is positively hostile toward him and the light that he’s sent into it. -Stephen Saucier
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You were not made to live with anything else other than Christ as the center of your life. You were made for HIM. -Stephen Saucier
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At the cross, Jesus takes his cleanness, his sparkling perfection, and trades you for it. He gets your sin. You get his righteousness. And your robe is CLEAN. As clean as Christ’s. -Stephen Saucier
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We worship him because he ransomed us, purchased us, from the slave-market of our sin even though we fashioned the chain of our slavery ourselves. We worship him because he did all of this FOR US even though all we did for him was nail him to the cross. -Stephen Saucier
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What it means to BE a Christian is that you’re someone who’s come to the end of yourself. You’ve come to see yourself as desperate for Jesus Christ. -Stephen Saucier
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Jesus has opened a door that no one can shut. He’s propped it open permanently with his cross. He has given you access to safety, security, identity, renown, and above all things, his love. -Stephen Saucier
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The gospel doesn’t say, ‘Love God and neighbor in order to be accepted.’ It says, ‘You ARE accepted; therefore, love God and neighbor.’ -Stephen Saucier
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You think that your primary need in the middle of suffering is relief FROM your suffering; but in reality, what you need is a clearer revelation of Jesus in the MIDST of your suffering. -Pastor Stephen
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Your old name was…sinner, rebel, fool, filthy one, shameful one, broken one, unworthy one. But now, in Christ, you’ve been given HIS name—victorious one, righteous one, honored one…THAT is your new name! -Stephen Saucier
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His love for you draws out your love for him. And the reason that’s so crucial is that you’ll always willingly suffer for someone you love. Always. -Stephen Saucier
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Self-righteousness leads to a lack of love for Jesus which leads to a lack of love for people. -Stephen Saucier
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Safety isn’t avoiding the perils of this life; that’s impossible. True safety is clinging to Christ no matter what you face in this life. -Stephen Saucier
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The single most important thing that you need to remember in the midst of your suffering is that Jesus has gone through the fires of torment and tribulation FOR you. -Stephen Saucier
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Revelation 1:4-8 is your introduction into the main character of the book…the Triune God. -Stephen Saucier
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Jesus Christ, The Lord of the Ages, is ruling the world to remake it into what it was always meant to be. -Stephen Saucier
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The ‘Prime Directive’ of the Christian faith is to make disciples. -Stephen Saucier
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That’s our mission: to proclaim, embody, and enjoy the gospel of Jesus Christ so that unbelievers are convinced of the gospel, believers are built up in the gospel, and culture is transformed by the gospel to the glory of God. -Stephen Saucier
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There’s something about us that makes the cross easy to forget. -Stephen Saucier
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Baptism is the picture version of your confession of faith. -Stephen Saucier
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The central ministry of the Holy Spirit in Christian life is to unite you to Christ and empower you to live out that union. -Stephen Saucier
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Here’s why you and I have been given spiritual gifts: to help each other become more like Jesus Christ. -Stephen Saucier
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By the Spirit, we get to enter Jesus’ own relationship with the Father. -Stephen Saucier
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The comprehensive truth of the Bible through the ministry of the Spirit of Truth is meant to lead you to a person. -Stephen Saucier
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Repentance looks away from your own works to save you. And faith looks to Christ instead. So if repentance and faith are there, new life is there. The regeneration is there. Power is there. Because the Holy Spirit is there! -Stephen Saucier
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The reason why knowing the love of the Spirit is so important is that how you live your life is shaped entirely by understanding God’s love for you. -Stephen Saucier
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The indwelling ministry of the Spirit is about the Lord being with you and IN you, living HIS life within the confines of YOUR life. -Stephen Saucier
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