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Anticipating the Lord’s return, Christ’s faithful servants live faithfully by the grace He has bestowed upon them.
Faith is grounded in God’s Word, its object is Jesus Christ, is tested in real time, manifested in obedience, and is essential to effect genuine change in a world racked by sin.
The follower of Jesus lives by faith, daily denying and dying to self, believing a better day is coming.
Josh & Anna Suermann and their six children are missionaries in Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.
What you believe about Jesus affects everything about you, your life, and those around you.
Christ’s deity was displayed in His humanity as God, in Him reconciled the world to Himself.
The familiarity with Jesus, lust for the sensational, and arrogant entitlement lead to hostility of unbelief.
The testimony of Jesus’ humble birth emphasizes that He came to seek and save the lost.
God so desired for man to know and enjoy His glory, He provided redemption for him in spite of his unbelief.
The eternal purpose of God to redeem a people for His own sake is fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
God’s word that never changes points us to the living word, Jesus Christ who gives life, restores the weary and lends counsel for all of life.
God grants His people to hear and to hope in His Word, blessing them with the capacity to keep it.
God alone is worthy of praise and worship, for He is able to preserve His people to be presented before His throne, holy and without blame.
The saints are exhorted to keep ourselves in the Love of God, building ourselves up in our most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
Remembering that the message of Christ will be scoffed by the ungodly, God’s people are compelled to live in unity as beloved of God, separated from the world and filled with God’s Spirit.
Contending for the faith is an ongoing personal and corporate endeavor of hearing and believing the truth that has been delivered to the saints.
The warning of history compels us to take seriously the appeal to contend for the faith.
Contending for the faith is an ongoing personal and corporate endeavor of hearing and believing the truth that has been delivered to the saints.
The good news of your triumphant King is to be carried to every ethnic people group by you who claim to love andworship Him.
Jesus willingly walked to the cross to establish a kingdom from whichHe judges the world and in which His people dwell.
The Lord's affirmation of objective truths of His redemption in the heart of the saints assures that we belong to him.
Keeping God’s Commandments is relational, beginning with God, who turns our hearts toward Him.
A mark of one who is in fellowship with God has an awareness of sin, a conviction of sin and a confession of sin, with the assurance of the advocacy of Christ.
The Christian in fellowship with God walks in the light of revealed truth, pursuing holiness, all the while resting in the advocating work of Jesus Christ, who pleads the case of the saints by His own righteousness.
The relational aspect of biblical leadership in the church highlights the sole headship of Jesus Christ.
Christ, the chief shepherd uses the means of undershepherds who shepherd the flock that is among them for His sake.
Man’s finite nature subjects him to the mercies of an infinite, Almighty God who governs creation with wisdom and with power.
The only way to truly understand our lives in general, and our circumstances in particular is to begin with a right view of God. It is only through this lens that anything make sense.
Affliction calls for the saint to worship God for that which can be observed and understood, even while suffering for reasons unknown.
Matthew 28:19-20, The call upon every believer is to makedisciples as a course of life.
Matthew 28:18, The authority Jesus received points to His incarnation and His mediatorial work.
Jesus' commission to make disciples is predicated upon the believer's union with Christ and the worship that follows.
Jesus’ sorrow revealed His humanity, suffering as God incarnate so that many might be saved.
In view of the approaching crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Matthew conveys the opposing forces at work in the world.
In its fallen state, the world systems will always be riddled with injustice, inequality and inequity. The gospel is the only remedy. Job holds to two certainties as one who is right before God. First, we have a witness, an advocate in heaven who intercedes on our behalf, and second, we know our Redeemer lives.
Although God is incomprehensible, He is knowable by His self-revelation through His Son, Jesus Christ. Job discovered that knowing God came through suffering.
But how can a man be in the right before God? He is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together. There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.
Without filter, aside from any facade, Job bears his soul in lament of his affliction. But his lament is grounded upon what is true about God and what is true about his condition.
Boaz conveys the qualities and qualifications of a redeemer, informing us of one who is greater than Boaz, our Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
Boaz gives a glimpse of the qualifications and qualities of a redeemer, but there is a better than Boaz who serves to redeem His people to Himself.
The spiritual life of the believer places one in the way of God's providence and eternal significance.
The famine in Israel was indicative of the spiritual famine in the hearts of God's people. Seeking relief from sources other than the Lord led to death and dismay.
God's grace was first extended toward Ruth, after which His grace was extended through her for the sake of His people.
Naomi bears her soul to her daughters in law and to the ladies of her town, expressing her loss and despair. A bitterness of heart is the outcome of the emotions of the the heart being allowed to determine what is truth. The Lord provides for His people who wrestle with these emotions and sometimes the bitterness of heart.
God's redemption through Christ is at the heart of human history. He has, in Christ purchased for Himself a people for His own sake.
The closing words of the revelation of Jesus Christ emphasizes its veracity with the claim that they are trustworthy and true.
John sees the heavenly sanctuary of the tent of the testimony and seven angels dispatched having been given the bowls of God's wrath to be poured out on the earth. This chapter prepares for the final judgment of God upon the wicked.
Missionary to Ghana, Andrew Johnson gives a brief update of his status as a missionary to the country of Ghana. In addition, Andrew presents the Person of the Son as found in the Gospel of Mark.
Christ's resurrection allowed Christ to ascend to the Father, and there be our advocate and to intercede on our behalf before the throne of God. After Christ's resurrection and ascension, He sent the Holy Spirit to convict the world of sin and to indwell the saints. Christ's resurrection and ascension prompts the saints to set their sights on Him and to follow Him.
In the midst of succinct proclamations and activities is a message from God to the elect, comforting, encouraging and calling to patient endurance.
In the midst of succinct proclamations and activities is a message from God to the wicked, warning of impending judgment and inviting to repentance.
In this portion of the chapter, we meet the false prophet who deceives the world with signs and wonders, leading them to worship the anti-Christ and the dragon.
Satan’s counterfeit salvation seduces those of the earth, but the saints of God are preserved and called to patient endurance and faith.
God preserves His saints from the accusations and attacks of Satan through His salvation and His power and His kingdom and through the authority of His Christ.
There are spiritual forces of which we are unaware that affects the course of this world. Therefore, the christian is to live in humble dependence upon the providential hand of the Lord and in confident expectation of His soon return and eternal reign.
Here we are introduced to two kingdoms, and only two that exist in this world. The Kingdom of Our Lord and of His Christ and the Kingdom of Satan, who is subservient to the other.
Here we are introduced to two kingdoms, and only two that exist in this world. The Kingdom of Our Lord and of His Christ and the Kingdom of Satan, who is subservient to the other.
Although faced with great opposition, the fixed end of creation is Kingdom of God over all creation.
John the baptist is introduced as a man sent from God to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
New birth is presented as a monergistic work of God. Born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
There is no greater security and safety in this world than in the security and safety of worship and the proclamation of the one true God.
The saints can be assured that the mystery of God, that is "the kingdom of the world will become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ," will in fact be fulfilled.
This morning we discuss God's Wrath Considered, God's Wrath Outpoured and God's Wrath Divides.