Waukesha Bible Church: Recent Episodes
Waukesha Bible Church
Waukesha Bible Church is a family of families that believes in teaching the Biblical narrative of Jesus throughout the history of the Bible. Here you can connect with our family while on the go and away from the local body.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Paul has gone to great lengths in Ephesians 1-3 to show how the work of Jesus so thoroughly deals with sin’s divisiveness that there is in Him neither Jew nor Gentile, male nor female, slave nor master, but all are equally acceptable and equally accessible to the Father. If this is true, then why is the church such a divided mess? And why do we find it so hard to get along with others? Today’s study will explore eight unique challenges ofchurch unity and how we can be more intentional in the gospel implications.
Speaker: Connor Shady
Ephesians 3:14-21 unveils Paul’s beautiful and pastoral prayer, drawing upon the boundless love and power of God to transform the hearts and lives of believers. We are to live from our identity as loved.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The gospel is for the nations – and that’s always been the plan.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The believer’s reconciliation in Christ produces unityamong the various members of the one body, the one citizenship, the one household, and the one Temple. Because we are inundated with all forms of godless unity, we can barely manage and appreciate the unity we do have in Christ. This passage isn’t telling us the unbelieving world has been reconciled to God. All unity apart from the gospel is disunity. Only those in Christ, in the Church are one. But that is challenge enough. What does this mean and what does this look like?
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The believer’s redemption is a work of grace through faith. His condition solicited such a response by God, without which salvation is impossible.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
A prayer for the church to understand her union with Jesus– who we are and what we possess.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
God chose us to be in his Son so that we would become part of his forever family. Such actions on his part should humble us and cause us to respond with gratitude and worship.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The overarching theme in Ephesians is God, through the work of Jesus, reconciling all things unto Himself (1:10). That work of reconciliation by Jesus is a work of graceresulting in us being united to Christ. And it is this union with Christ that enables the believing to receive all spiritual blessings.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
As it once was, it shall again be. All of Creation shall once again bow under the dominion and headship of Jesus. Having received all authority from the Father (Matt. 28:18-20), Jesus, as the second Adam, shall have dominion over all of creation (Gen. 1:26).
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The A.I.M. (Author’s Intended Meaning) of this lesson is to introduce the reader to the book of Ephesians by looking at the city of Ephesus in its first century setting.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
By seeing the Book of Ephesians as a New Testament Letter, our understanding of the Letter will be increased.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The resurrection of Jesus assures us that his victory is our victory – both in this life and the life to come.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
When Jesus died on the cross, the veil in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. Unlike the Old Covenant when access to God was highly regulated and limited, now under the New Covenant access is granted.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Our conquering King rides into Jerusalem pronouncing the victory he is on the verge of securing.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
A confident expectation for God to work in and through his children for his glory.
Speaker: Mike Davis
The author of Hebrews has been making an argument that Jesus is better than the Old Covenant. The Law, the prophets, the old covenant, all of this was pointing to how God would fulfill His promises in Jesus Christ. By Faith, we are inheritors of a Kingdom that cannot be shaken. Given all of this, Chapter 12 concludes with a call for “acceptable worship”.
Speaker: Connor Shady
Let us find hope not in the things of this world, but in our unshakeable hope from above.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
For believers in Jesus, persecution is inevitable. Rather than see it as judgment by God, His people need to receive it as an expression of love from God. It is easy to lose one’s grip in the face of hardship, but rather than letting go, one needs to buckle up and hold fast to Jesus who is the founder and perfecter of their faith.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
A faith-fueled endurance is the consequence of seeing Jesus and continuing to believe the God who promises will faithfully fulfill his word.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
If Jesus is our Great High Priest, then everything will be okay.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The role of the Old Covenant ends where the New Covenant begins. God is not asking you for any kind of sacrifice to appease His wrath or earn His pleasure. The only sacrifice that answers all of our questions is that of His only begotten Son. Thus, you can stop trying to satisfy His justice and gain His approval. That, thankfully, is finished.
Speaker: Aaron Cutshall
Christ’s better sacrifice is the death of the Old Covenant and the inauguration of the New Covenant.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
What the old could not do in perfecting the conscience of the worshiper, the new in Christ does.
Speaker: Connor Shady
Cherishing Christ’s Work on Our Behalf: From Temporaryto Finished
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Praying to God is part of our fellowship with God. Prayer void of right content is empty, impotent, and vain. Thus, the act of praying is of no benefit, for even the unbeliever ‘prays.’ But prayer guided by right content deepens one’s fellowship with God. Today’s study focuses on the confessional nature of the Lord’s Prayer and how it can deepen our fellowship with God even as we increase in our knowledge of Him.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
When Jesus took on human nature, He fulfilled God’s design for the saving of His people.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Matthew’s genealogy proves Jesus is the MESSIAH. Jesus is the fulfillment of the SEED PROMISE. When we read this genealogy, we can only respond with, “BUT GOD!” Friends, as weconsider this strange and marvelous journey of preparation, let us worship deeply our immutable and incomprehensible God.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Everything points to Jesus Christ as the fullest and final great high priest who, on the basis of a New Covenant, mediates before the Father in behalf of His people.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
In the promise of a New Covenant, Israel is offered redemption and hope even as they enter into captivity and displacement.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Because Jesus has been appointed a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, He can offer a better means, hope, promise, intercession, and sacrifice than that offered by the line of Levi.
Jesus has been foreseen as the Priest-King who brings in God’s judgment against the unbelieving and victory for the believing.
Speaker: Elder Mike Davis
The author of Hebrews has been addressing a Hebrew audience with an appeal for Jesus. This parenthetical section reveals that some within the fellowship may have initially professed faith in Christ but are now abandoning Jesus to return to Judaism. Theauthor’s stern warning against turning from Christ raises a long debated theological question. Can a Christian lose their salvation?
Speaker: Patrick J. Griffiths
Because Jesus is our Great High Priest, we can drawnear and we are acceptable before Him for our good.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Enter the promised rest by believing Jesus. We don’t value rest. We don’t know how to rest. We don’t believe God regarding rest. Rest finds a home with the other four-letter words we look down on. The promise of rest is still on the table. Rest is available. The exhortation in this text comes as a sobering warning not to forfeit this rest or fail to reach it.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Today, if you have ears to hear and eyes to see, take care how you respond to God. The author of Hebrews writes this lengthy exhortation to his audience to listen and believe. He is calling his audience to listen intently to the voice of God who speaks directly through his Son (Heb. 1). He’s encouraging his audience to see Jesus and consider who Jesus is and what he’s accomplished on our behalf (Heb. 2-3).
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Considering Jesus as God’s message of rest calls for a better response than rejecting it through unbelief.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Jesus, like Moses, is faithful over His responsibilities, but unlike Moses, is a son and not a servant. The builder and not the building. Jesus is better than the Old Testament best.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Jesus, in His identification with us, answers for us our sin issue. The previous section, Heb. 1:1-2:4, forms a single unit showing Jesus as the superior revelation of God and concludes with a warning not to drift from believing in Him. Because He is the exact representation of God, He is God. This following section now explains His humanity, the reason for it, and the result of it.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Jesus Christ, as Son, is set above angels in importance. If rejecting the revelation received from angels brought condemnation, how much more will the condemnation be if we reject Jesus?
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
InJesus Christ we have the fullest and final word from God and it is to Him we must look and listen. Jesus is better than the Old Testament best. It isn’t that the old is bad, only that Jesus is better!
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Everything in the Old Testament pointed to and prepared us for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Book of Hebrews is clear, there is no one beside Him and there is nothing beyond Him. If one rejects Jesus, there is no escaping the damnation from God. Everything in Hebrews points to Jesus as the Great High Priest (8:1) and not to accept Jesus is to reject Him and to reject Him, is to reject all hope of entering into the rest promised to His people. There is no middle ground. It is actually that simple.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Revelation assures the church in tribulation that God is in control by giving her a vision of the throne. As we read chapters 4 and 5, we must read them as a singular vision.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The Spirit has equipped and empowers each one of you for the benefit of this body.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Because Jesus is our Shepherd there is no want thus there is no fear in our uncertainties whether immediate or long-term.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
As shadow, the redemption secured by Boaz of his bride images/pictures God’s redemption of His people from their debt and death.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The people of God have been and shall forever be marked by the ten words. The Ten Commandments are a part of the Law of Moses which is a vassal treaty, a conditional agreement. “You do your part and God shall do His.” The Ten Words reflect God’s character. The Law does not begin morality. In the Law of Moses, it only legislates morality to a nation. I am fully aware that an entire lesson could be taught on each of the ten words. This study desires to put the ten words in their proper historical and Christological context and implication. The Ten Commandments expand on the two commandments which are really one commandment, “Believe in Jesus.”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
God CREATES a place where He will MEET with his People for their JOY. His People rejected Him. Nonetheless, God binds Himself through PROMISE (i.e. The Royal Gift Covenant) to RESCUE His people from their sin and RESTORE them to Himself for their JOY. God created all things and the pinnacle of this creative activity is humanity. The readers of Genesis 1 and 2 would know that what exists came from God’s good design. The world in which we exist is INCREDIBLE, WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, and GOOD. The reason as to why this world and all of creation is so incredible, wonderful, and beautiful is because God is INCREDIBLE, WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, and GOOD.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The Lord’s final judgment against the unrighteous will be with fire. The righteous, however, will be gathered from all the nations to eternally worship the Lord in a new heaven and new earth. The final sentence is a sober reminder to Isaiah’s audience – if the beauty of ‘the Servant/the Anointed One’ does not attract you to believe, the fear of judgment should.
Speaker: Elder Mike Davis
Throughout scripture there is reference to a Day when God will pour out his wrath upon the wicked. It is God alone who carries out this wrath and God alone who brings salvation.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The servant king shall not rest until all that He promises comes to pass. The prophet, as a watchman, prays without ceasing until the fulfillment of all God’s promises. As New Testament believers, we are to pray without ceasing until the fulfillment of all God’s promises.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Only God can bring good news to the afflicted, bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners. Only God can comfort all who mourn, give to the mourning a garland instead of ashes, and the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and the mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. Will you give Him what you are and receive from Him what He is?
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The promises in the gospel enable us to hope even while we experience loss, absence, and suffering. As our world becomes increasingly adjusted to and accepting of special effects whereby a false reality is believed, the biblical narrative continues to paint fantastical pictures of a reality almost beyond one’s capacity to believe. And yet, our current conditioning can almost make what we are about to read either believable or purely man-made myth. And at the end of the day, you and I will have to decide what we are going to believe.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
As a consequence of the servant king’s penal substitutionary sacrifice in behalf of His people (Isa. 53), all of the LORD’S promises shall be fulfilled (Isa. 54) and a gracious invitation is extended to the thirsty and wicked to come and seek Him (Isa. 55).
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The servant described in Isaiah 42, 49, 50, is fully revealed in the fourth and final Servant Song found in Isaiah 53. The LORD has laid on this servant the sins of His people and of the Nations. And it was the LORD’S will to crush His chosen one, the servant. This servant takes our place to satisfy the justice of God whereby stopping the wrath of God.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
This is the third servant song which also builds on the previous two songs. Who the servant is makes what he does decisive. One will either accept his message from God or shall reject his message. Either way, that decision determines destiny.
Speakers: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
This secondof four servant songs builds on the first. In the first servant song (42:1-4), the servant is being referenced. In the second servant song (49:1-7), the servant speaks. Through the work of the Servant, kings shall lick dust from His feet (49:23).
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The surrounding nations appearto prosper as they follow their deities. Israel has suffered much at the hands of these pagan nations, while YHWH seems distant at best, and impotent or uncaring at worst. Pagans exalt themselves over Israel – thriving financially, militarily, and spiritually. The justice of God is established by his servant for the nations.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The Word of the LORD is authoritative and certain. Thus, all Biblical Prophecy and Divine Promises shall come to pass.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
To know the character of God is to experience the comfort of God. All that God has said concerning Himself is true and we can rest knowing all of His promises shall come to pass.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The Life, Death, Burial, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus cancels sin and restores fellowship before the Father. We appropriate this immeasurable gift by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The Gospel isn’t about God being FAIR;The Gospel is about God being GENEROUS.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The coming of Christ is a day of great celebration and joy. In the day of His Coming, the old nature will forever be removed from His people. In that day, every believer will receive a reward for service. In that day, every believer will fully and finally see all that God chose to do in them and through them to those around them. In that day, the victory of God will be finalized and forever established.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Faith alone saves, but saving faith is never alone. The Jesus Seed is so efficacious, it always produces Gospel Fruit. Therefore, we maintain and teach that all who believe have fruit.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
In this study, we desire to note how the victory of Jesus in His Life, Death, Burial, Resurrection, and Ascension is imputed to His people, thus causing His victory to be their victory. The believer does not have two lives: His life and our life. No, His life is our life. We simply believe that what He has done and is doing is enough. Because this is true, His victory is our victory.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Christians are to be encouraged in persecution because it is part of God’s loving purpose for their lives. That is the message of Hebrews 12. This passage has often been looked to as a pivotal passage to “prove” God will chasten His people for their sins. Yet, in light of all that is found in the doctrines of justification, redemption, propitiation, union with Christ, and THE NEW WAY OF THE SPIRIT, this cannot be. The context of Hebrews 12 reveals its true meaning.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The Life, Death, Burial, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus conquers sin for His people once for all. Even though we are fighting a battle, He has already won. The sin in your life calls you to the gospel. Sin reminds you that you can’t, but God can, and Jesus did. The grace message isn’t a license to feed fallen flesh, but the freedom to celebrate the cross work of Jesus.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The New Walk in the New Covenant is the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit there is no Christian life. He is the righteousness of God given to the believer and working through the believer. In His absence, there is no righteous living. The life described of the believing in the New Testament is His life.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Jesus does for us what we cannot do for ourselves. In Adam, we were idol makers and law breakers, but in Christ we are commandment keepers.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
In Jesus Christ, God openly placates His wrath against the sinner and publicly identifies them as sons.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
We are embarking on an eight-part study on the Relational Altering Power of the Gospel for the Sinner before the Father. By understanding the full implications of life in Christ, the believer should see just how immeasurably rich the Gospel is for them. We begin by looking at who we were “in Adam” and who we are “in Christ” since this forms the foundation for any present and future living.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The glorious gospel of Jesus transforms us and consumes our ministry to others.
Speaker: Elder Mike Davis
Salvation, from beginning through completion is a work of God as an act of Grace. What God has done for us in the Vertical, pours over to our relationships in the Horizontal.
Speaker: Isaac Stanley
WBC is a Christ-Exalting, Word-Centered, Grace-Based, Global-Impacting Church. My goal this morning is to remind us that we are a Word-Centered Church and maybe more importantly why we are a Word-Centered Church.
Speaker: Peter Castro
Continuing our series on remembering the essentials of our church, we consider Jesus who is the centerpiece of why Waukesha Bible Church exists. It is Him we proclaim to a lost and dying world. He has no beginning and He will remain after our time on Earth is done. We exalt Him alone as the only hope for humanity, and the only one worthy of all honor and praise. Jesus, the Son of God, is worthy of all praise and worship. His church exists to proclaim this truth.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The Ascension of Jesus is the culmination of promises, pictures, prophecies, and patterns laid out in the Old Testament. What God promised, He is now completing. Matthew 28 gives us three statements showing how Jesus inaugurates and culminates the Kingdom of God. Our primary passage is Matthew 28. In the command to make disciples, the church is engaged in the campaign for world conquest. Our desire is to see how what we are and do as a local church is tied to the past and pushing us into the future.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Jesus is the dawning of the new day. Jesus fulfills Isaiah’s Prophecy (Matt. 4:12-17; Isaiah 9:1, 2); He is the Light in Darkness (Matt. 4:15, 16); and He brings joy to the Nations (Isa. 9:3). What Jesus inaugurates, He consummates. Jesus is the fulfillment of the Isaiah prophecy.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Jesus is infinite embodiment of the promise of God to be with us. As we gather on this Christmas Eve to celebrate the One on whom all hopes and fears hung in the balance, may our hearts be encouraged by the promise of God’s presence in the birth of Jesus.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The Prophet Isaiah spoke of a day that was still future to him of ONE who was to come. The coming of this ONE would usher in a new heaven and new earth, enable a new people, and eliminate all shadow. This ONE would reunite the heavens and the earth into the Garden in Eden for the joy of His people (vv. 6, 7 [comp. Gen. 1 w/ Rev. 21]).
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The Bible we hold in our hands is a single, unified Story with Jesus as its center. As such, we should read Scripture through the lens of Jesus and learn to interpret the Old Testament in light of the New Testament. What the Old Testament promised and prophesied the New Testament explains. What was anticipated in the writings of Moses, the Psalms, and the Prophets is fulfilled in Jesus from the perspective of the New Testament writers. Salvation is for everyone who believes.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Jesus is the one who fulfills all Old Testament promises, prophecies, patterns, and pictures. You will either confess Him as such or perish under His rule.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
In Christ, believers are freed from sin and death thus causing them to live differently in this world. Jesus, as substance, is the Great Emancipator spoken of by Isaiah the Prophet and foreshadowed in the SABBATH YEAR and the YEAR OF JUBILEE.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Jesus is FOR THE NATIONS and IS THE FULFILLMENT OF ISAIAH’S PROPHECIES. There are six passages with seven quotations of Isaiah 53 in the NT: Matthew 8:14-17; John 12:37-41; Luke 22:35-38; 1 Peter 2:19-25; Acts 8:26-35; Romans 10:11-21. Today we will consider the story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8 and Isaiah 53.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
God calls His people to trust Him when confronted by the threats and brokenness of this life. Praying to the God of Promise is a privilege His People have and should exercise.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
No matter where we are in the story, it will always end the same. Of the tens of thousands of choices, you make in an hour, day, week, month, and year, there is only once decision that overrides all decisions and that is whether you will choose God or choose self.
Speaker: Elder Mike Davis
What does it mean to truly worship God? The Reformation in the 16th Century marked a massive re-orientation from Man-centered theology to God-centered theology. The Reformers were obsessed with the topic of worship, believing worship of the day had become fully man-centric.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Every bad thing done by sin shall be undone by God.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
A day is coming when the knowledge of God shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. The judgment of God brings about a new, just world order.
Speaker: Peter Castro
Those who are now enemies of King Jesus in the future will turn to Him as Savior, defender, and deliverer.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Although this passage is a word of judgment to the nations, they are not left without hope.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Over the last several weeks we have studied Isaiah 7, 9 and now 11. We know the historical context was bad. We also know those without the hope of God live in a dark, deep, and anxious existence. We also know that hope in God brings light. We know we hope in God as the one who will destroy the enemy and deliver the people. This passage in Isaiah 11 feeds this hope. In that day, God will destroy His enemies, install His King, restore His people, and reconstitute His land.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The emphasis of this passage is “Wait on God and hope in Him alone – He will come through.”This volume of Isaiah (Chapters 7-12) is referred to as “The Book of Immanuel.” These chapters should be read together as a unit to grasp the continuity of how YHWH will provide salvation for His people.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
While the nation rejects their King and lives in rebellion, one man responds in repentance and humility. He is commissioned by the King with a sobering message for the nation. Isaiah responds to YHWH how the nation should respond, yet refuses. A message of hardening, judgment, and hope will mark Isaiah’s ministry to the nation.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
A day is coming when God will deal decisively with all rebellion and reign with absolute authority over the whole earth from His holy mountain. In that Day, He shall wash away all the filth of sin and makes His people holy.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
In the midst of a horrific and scathing rebuke, God continues to invite the people to come to Him for their salvation.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Hear then, O House of David (Isa. 7:13a). For many years, the prophet Isaiah called the nation of Judah back to LAW obedience and to trust in YHWH, the God of Promise.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The gospel is so powerful it transforms us from what we were, to what we now are in Christ and with one another.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
After a relatively short study of six months, we have arrived at the end or epilogue of Revelation. This book began with an appeal, an invitation to read, hear, and keep this book. The question is, “Have you, have we read this Book, have we heard this book, and have we kept this book?” Have we heeded His word and come to JESUS? Remember, this is a Revelation from Jesus and of Jesus. Have you heard and seen JESUS in this study? What a shame it would be if in all of this, you have missed JESUS.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The reign of the righteous king ends with the consigning of all evil and its minions.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The Exalted Christ Returns in Righteousness and Thoroughly Straightens all that is Crooked [vv. 11-16].
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Each “trinity” is building a city. Each a monument to their power and intent, but only one shall prevail. At the Coming of Jesus, all evil shall be destroyed and thrown into the Lake of Fire.
Speaker: Mike Davis
In Revelation we see believers facing an ever-increasing tribulation of persecution, seduction and deception. Correspondingly we see escalating judgments upon the World by God. At some point, Satan will deceive the nations into conducting an all-out global assault upon Christ’s Church in a last, desperate attempt to wipe out God’s Kingdom. But Christ will return to bring a final and decisive judgment upon those who have persecuted his Church and blasphemed his name.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The enemy of God is fully exposed and his demise is rendered certain by the person and power of God.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The Book of Revelation concludes the single Story of Scripture running from Genesis through Revelation with Jesus as the Center. This Story has always been a singular plan, with a singular Savior, and a singular people. Today I desire for us to consider this thought along three distinct lines: The Bible’s One Story; The Bible’s One Savior; The Bible’s One People.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
This section within Revelation is just one of several interludes. The intent is an opportunity for the reader or hearer to “hit pause” on the intensity of the unfolding events and simply be reminded that God really is reigning over all creation, even when our vantage point is telling us something else. While God is reclaiming what rightfully belongs to him, His mission is to secure a people for His own possession who know and enjoy Him. This mission is on display throughout the biblical narrative, but intensifies from the ascension of Jesus until His glorious return. The means of this mission is an unlikely message through unlikely messengers.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The Second Coming of Jesus answers the prayers of His people and merge His will on earth as it is in heaven.
Speaker: Elder Mike Davis
In the previous chapter, God’s wrath is being poured out on the earth and the question is asked, “Who can stand?” Or in other words, if God’s wrath is being poured out, how will Christians survive? Chapter 7 answers that question using vivid pictures and reminding believers of promises made throughout redemptive history.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
We are living in a time when God is aggressively putting things straight. He will one day thoroughly straighten all that is crooked.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Jesus, as the fulfillment of the Seed Promise, received all authority at His ascension to rule all nations in fulfillment of the original creation mandate and is thereby currently ruling in the Millennium and over our tribulation reclaiming what is rightfully His until “His will is done on earth as it is in Heaven.”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The Resurrection of Jesus is a confirmation of what God promised in the Old Testament has fully come to pass in Jesus. Psalm 2 foreshadows fulfillment in Jesus.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The symbolism of Jesus as a Lamb features prominently throughout the Book of Revelation. Remember, the Book of Revelation is not just from Jesus, but of Jesus.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Revelation assures the church in tribulation that God is in control by giving her a vision of the THRONE. As we read chapters 4 and 5, we must read them as a singular vision.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Although the Church exists in Tribulation, God keeps her until His Second Coming.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Those who are poor, blind, and naked are to come to Jesus so they will be rich, see, and unashamed.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Who Jesus is assures the believing of what they will become. This message to the church is “Fear not, hold fast to the gospel.” This timeless message reminds the church that the hard task for her is to believe – and keep believing. The church has always been assaulted and the gospel always threatened, but the sobering reality is that gospel-drift happens slowly and subtly from the inside.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Who Jesus is assures the believing of what they will become. Each of the seven churches offers a piece contributing to the whole. Collectively, the reader sees the church for what it is.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Let him who has ears to hear, hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Speaker: Mike Davis
Revelation is about the Risen and Exalted Christ defeating Satan and his allies. The message brings comfort to Christ’s Church as it experiences tribulation until Christ returns. This passage contains the first vision, which is the foundation upon which all the subsequent visions are built.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Regardless of what you see and hear, Jesus is the Ruler of Kings on Earth.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The book of Revelation is first and foremost a letter written by the Apostle John to the churches in Asia Minor during the 1st Century AD (Rev. 2-3) at around 90AD. It is written to encourage a suffering church and to remind them that their story is a part of God's larger Story. In the Revelation, God comforts His people by reclaiming all things rightfully His (Rev. 2-19) as Creator (Rev. 4) and Redeemer (Rev. 5). As He pushes His agenda forward, He is reconstituting the Garden for the joy of His people (Rev. 21, 22).
Thus, as the rightful heir to the cosmos, Jesus, in His victory [Death, Burial, Resurrection, Ascension], reclaims what is rightfully His through signs and wonders.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
I titled this study, “Therefore, Consider the Word and Understand the Vision.” No one less than Gabriel gave these words and his intent was toward clarity. How in the world we could read this passage so poorly is beyond me? The problem lies in our lack of insight and unwillingness to accept what we do not know or cannot understand. God is faithful to keep His promise and only He can fix what is broken.
Whatever heaven might be, hell is its opposite. To understand the one is to understand the other.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The Question is, “Can Jesus be Your Savior without becoming your Lord?”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The Lord’s Table reminds us that God dealt fully with the sins of His people and we can now approach Him without fear.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The sovereignty of God assures us His will and not ours is guiding all of life both past, present, and future.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Jesus is the only one who can quench your thirsty soul and lift your weary load. He invites you to come to Him today.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
In that day, God will destroy His enemies, install His King, restore His people, and reconstitute His land.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The day dawns when the King comes.
Imagine being part of a nation on the verge of invasion. Where do you go for any hope of security? What preparations do you make? A tension exists between your theology and the emotional anxiety of the present danger. The prophet is telling you to trust YHWH and fear Him alone, while your feelings are impacted by the local media relaying a more imminent threat. Will our God come through? When? How? Can we really trust God to show up and deliver? Will God come through before it’s too late? Is there hope of rescue?
The Day dawns when the King comes.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
God, through a SIGN, assures His people that He is faithful to destroy His enemies and deliver His people.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
In the Book of Isaiah, the reader sees the hope of God in the midst of a collapsed world. Ultimately, God brings hope to the Nations through the given Son. During this ADVENT season we will study four statements in the Prophet Isaiah that find fulfillment in Jesus.
Speaker: Mike Davis
Soli Deo Gloria is the capstone of the Five Solas and indeed the summation of all things.
Speaker: Matthew Vandre
Is Jesus enough or do we need more? Solus Christus, Christ Alone…it is a profound statement in bold opposition to a humanistic worldview, and thanks to the efforts of early reformers like Martin Luther, this idea is common amongst believers today.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Our right standing before the Father is solely and only based on grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone for the glory of God alone.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
As our justification is by faith and not works, so it is by grace and not merit. There was nothing desirable in us that forced the Father’s hand or tipped the scales in our favor. When we were at our worst, He chose us. When we wanted nothing to do with Him, He loved us. When we were completely helpless, He rescued us for Himself (Eph. 2:1-3; Rom. 5:6-11). This was His choice to adopt us on the basis of His goodness, not ours. As a result of His purpose, plan, and choice, we are truly “blessed in the Beloved” (Eph.1:6). Our desire in this study is to consider the magnitude and significance of GRACE ALONE.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The five solas do not define for us all knowable truth, but they do set a line that must be known, studied, protected, and preached. We must know, study, protect, and preach SOLA SCRIPTURA for the sake of our justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone for the glory of God alone.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Do not grow weary in every good work and word as you wait for the coming of Jesus.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The certainty of His Coming comforts and establishes believers in every good work and word.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
As Christians, our goal is to hear from God exactly what He wants to communicate. Properly reading His Word enables us to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. In this study, Pastor Pat explains his understanding of the next coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and the development of his understanding through the years as he “practiced these things.”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Paul encourages the people by reminding them of God’s justice in working out His will.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Because God is faithful to completely sanctify you – keep living as a healthy church in a hostile context.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Whether one is dead or alive when Jesus returns, His coming brings blessing and provides hope to those who believe . . . so be encouraged.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The counterpart to PORNEIA is PHILADELPHIA. Living morally and laboring quietly is a commitment to loving biblically.
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Paul’s gratitude is powerful because God’s elective purpose is unstoppable.
In many ways, this Psalm assures us that what we know of God in our heads and believe on in our hearts always shows itself in what we do with our hands.
Jesus is the answer to the Psalmist’s prayer. We draw closer to God in the person and work of Jesus and we do this as a community in the spirit of unity.
We are designed for worship. This Psalm directs us to the only one worthy of worship - YHWH. He alone deserves our worship. All of creation will one day worship Him alone.
Speaker: Mike Davis
The Psalmist vividly describes feelings of despair and dejection as his circumstances prohibit him from worshiping at the tabernacle. However, even in the depths of despair, the psalmist preaches to his soul what he knows to be true about his Savior and his God.
Speaker: Chuck Marshall, Waukesha City Church
In Psalm 13 the Psalmist cries out to the Lord in despair and appeals to Him for help. Ultimately, he trusts in the steadfast love of God and sings praises to his Lord.
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Journeying through the psalms is an adventure of epic proportion. This collection of Hebrew poetry is a mountain range inviting us to explore its terrain. At the trailhead, psalms 1 and 2 provide coordinates for us to explore each trail and summit each peak without missing the majesty of the whole. In Psalm 1 we learn that Torah meditation orients our lives to genuine happiness in this life and confident hope in the life to come.
The very nations He rules over, we are to make disciples of, and they shall one day be glad and sing for joy.
It is the responsibility of local churches through the existing Elders to find men who are suitable to become elders. The path to becoming an Elder should be intentional and sustainable.
The global spread of the glory of God is seen in the global spread of the church of God. The natural consequence of God’s Vision being fulfilled is the organic arrival of the local church. The Vision being fulfilled is the existence of the local gathering. The two are inseparable.
It is only as we see ACTS 2 as the continued unfolding of God’s Story told in THE GOSPELS is this moment properly understood. Acts 2 is the Garden being restored. ACTS 2 is God’s VISION for the future planting itself firmly in the present.
The resurrection of Jesus verifies the veracity of the Bible’s Story-line. It is that confirmed Story that continues to this day. And you and I are a part of that singular Story with Jesus at the center.
The Mission of the Church is the defining and directing activity of the church gathered. In the command to make disciples, the church is engaged in the campaign for world conquest. And the very nations He rules over, His Church is to make disciples of.
Our theme for this series is taken from Psalm 22:28, “For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.” The experience and promises to David find their ultimate fulfillment in Jesus. The proclamation of God’s deliverance to the afflicted is the fuel propelling the mission of the local church to proclaim the rule of God and His redemptive work to all the nations of the world. The very ones who Afflicted the King shall one day Worship the King.
James’ final word is for the church to continue trusting God by staying gathered [implicit], relying on each other, and praying for one another [explicit].
In anticipation of the great work about to unfold, Jesus speaks words of hope, healing, wholeness, and assurance to His small and frightened flock.
Depending on who you are, this day can mean many things. What does this day mean to you?
In the face of injustice, hold fast to Christ, stay the course, don’t quit, because the judge is standing at the door!
The world offers an ungodly alternative to our godly affections and to be forewarned is to be forearmed.
The tongue cannot be tamed until the heart is transformed. Until the heart is changed, the tongue will never be controlled.
The structure of this passage is all Word-based. We are to listen to the Word, respond to the Word, and live out the Word.
Trials are a fact of life. We all experience them. Yet joy can be found in the midst of trials when we see things from God's perspective. There is purpose behind the suffering. We see from this passage that God is generous, impartial, good, unchanging, and he can be trusted even when we don't understand His purposes. We can "count it all joy."
A tested faith is working a patient steadfastness that can result in a resting trust. This sermon is an introduction to the Book of James, setting the historical context, theological context, and structural context for the studies to follow.
King David’s priestly prayer for life finds prophetic fulfillment in the presence of Jesus.
In the fulfilling of Ancient Promises, God uses courageous means to complete impossible promises through honest people. In all of this, we shall see how God may do as He desires and when He does, He is always right.
In the incarnation, Jesus became the light that expels all darkness. He became the Light of the World.
In the fulfilling of Ancient Promises, God uses predictable means to complete impossible promisesthrough ordered plans. In all of this, the Shepherds were nobodies telling everybody about somebody and His name is JESUS. Before you can “go and tell,” you must first “come and see.”
In the fulfilling of Ancient Promises, God uses scandalous means to complete impossible promises through unlikely, but ordinary people.
In the fulfilling of Ancient Promises, God uses unusual means to fulfill impossible promises through unlikely, but ordinary people. In all of this, we shall see how God may do as He desires and when He does, He is always right.
Human depravity is never a match for Divine generosity. For by grace you have been saved.
Christians are to order their schedules around God’s completed work. How they live is markedly different than how the world lives. Where we invest our time, resources, and energy are to remind us of God’s story.
God’s glory is so blinding and so impenetrable that without mediation, our sin would forever block us from ever entering into His presence and blind us from ever seeing His appearance.
On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the Church in Wittenberg. The events that followed were known as “The Reformation”. It became a rediscovery of the Gospel and a jolting reorientation towards it. Reformation is not merely a one-time historical event. The Gospel has been under assault since the beginning. We must always remember “The Promise” and reject “The Lie”
This passage describes how the building of the tabernacle was financed. Giving came from a willing heart based on means and ability. Today, giving to and serving in the Local Church is one of the strongest means of remembering Story.
YHWH’s glory is found in the depth of His character. The glory of YHWH is completely found in the person of Jesus.
The current of idolatry drifts us to the shores of apostasy. You cannot stop the drift, but you can stay the course (Heb. 6:19). The only rescue from our idolatry is a mediator who brings atonement (v. 30) whereby propitiating or answering the just sentence of God and placates the wrath of God against us (vv. 10, 12).
God desires and designed us to dwell with Him for our joy. God wants to be with you for your joy.
The heart of YHWH is on display as he confirms his covenant with the nation of Israel. The Law reveals who he is, what he’s like, and how his people can live as a kingdom of priests and a holy nation in the land of promised blessing. The inauguration of this Theocracy is not only celebratory, but a shadow pointing to substance.
What Israel failed to do in keeping the Law, Jesus did. Today, His people enjoy all the benefits of the Law because of His perfect obedience to the Law.
God is making good on his promise to provide a deliverer who will rescue His people, destroy His enemies, and restore them to a place of rest. God supplying the manna in the wilderness is a foreshadowing of this deliverer later identified as Jesus in John 6.
God is making good on his promise to provide a deliverer who will rescue His people, destroy His enemies, and restore them to a place of rest.
Through Signs and Wonders another layer of information within the Story of God is provided for us. We will see how YHWY will 1) rescue [deliver] His people by 2) destroying His enemies [BLOOD], and 3) restore them to the place of rest [LAND] in His presence for their joy.
YHWH is a covenant-keeping God who cares for His people and is committed to His vision and mission.
YHWH is a covenant keeping God who cares for his people and is committed to his vision and mission.
God promises to provide a KING [MEDIATOR | SEED] who will 1) rescue [deliver] His people by 2) destroying His enemies [BLOOD], and 3) restore them to the place of rest [LAND].Exodus is a shadow of what is to come in the person and work of JESUS.
God promises to provide a KING [SEED] who will 1) rescue [deliver] His people by 2) destroying His enemies [BLOOD], and 3) restore them to the place of rest [LAND] 4) so that they will be with Him [BLESSING] for their joy.
The Bible forms our worldview. The Vision of God and the Mission of God define for us our response to everything unfolding around us. The Bible calls the Church to bring what is uniquely ours into the unbelieving world. We are not to bring what is uniquely theirs into the church.
In our context, there are two life-identifying brands: circumcision or crucifixion. Either one or the other will classify you in your community. Remember earlier how Paul wanted them to understand that they were either in the Law or in Christ. Circumcision branded you as being in the Law whereas crucifixion branded you as being in Christ.
“This Jesus” is our Messiah and we rejected him. But, we have a chance to repent and receive the forgiveness of sins and the gift of his presence (Holy Spirit).
The Holy Spirit coming is the next step/stage of God fulfilling His promise to dwell among us for our joy and His glory. The Holy Spirit works to lead you to Jesus and then places you in Jesus whereby His life is your life in this life and in the life to come.
The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus with Pentecost are the beginning of His reign over sin and death and re-creating of the heavens and the earth. His Resurrection, Ascension, and Pentecost inaugurate fulfillment. He gives us what we need to do what He wants.
In light of Jesus’ resurrection and ascension the question may be asked, “Now what do we do?” The disciples decided to gather, pray and lead. Peter rose up as a leader among the group and decided that next decision was to replace the disciple who betrayed them all, Judas. The driving force behind this decision was the Scriptures themselves (1:16-20). Through his meditations on the Psalms, Peter saw the reigns of David and Jesus as one and took guidance from David’s wisdom.
The ascension of our Lord is His enthronement. It is when He takes the throne and is invested with the authority and power to rule over His kingdom and its citizens. He is an absolute monarch who works all He wills in and through His people for His glory and for their joy.
The resurrection of Jesus is the beginning of His reign over sin and death. His resurrection inaugurates fulfillment and we are witnesses to these things.
The Story is true. Jesus is alive! After Jesus talked with the disciples on the road to Emmaus, it was in the breaking of bread that they recognized Him.
Resurrection Sunday is a time to celebrate God’s faithfulness to keep His promises. Jesus is alive and is Lord over heaven and earth. What He began in Genesis 1 and 2 and promised in Genesis 3, He is finishing with Jesus.
Palm Sunday: Jesus is King. Therefore "Fear Not." My hope is that no matter what happens on this earth, Jesus is still my Messiah and King. His kingdom is already inaugurated and will be fully realized as this earth will be remade. Rest in the Lordship of the Messiah.
As the Israelites were pinned between the Red Sea in front and the pursuing Egyptians behind, they were told to "fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD." Because God is present and faithful to His promises, His people need not fear their problems.
As we begin this time of social isolation as the Covid-19 virus spans the world, let us not forget the God who is in control, the One who gives us peace and stability in a time of anxiety and panic. God is knowable, and a known God stabilizes His people in world full of anxiety, panic, and hysteria. And thereby He enables us to serve an unsettled world. Therefore, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent" (Exod. 14:13,14).
Throughout the book of Galatians, Paul has been contrasting two Gospels: Salvation by Grace alone through Faith alone in Christ alone vs the Judaizers False Gospel of the Flesh. Getting the Gospel wrong bears very real consequences – not only eternally but in the here and now.
Paul uses the overarching universal principle of “sowing and reaping” to demonstrate the point he’s been making throughout the entire letter.
Bearing one another’s burdens is a loving expression of our gospel freedom that brings restoration on the horizontal.
Paul reminds us of an often overlooked and misunderstood reality of the gospel, the indwelling person of the Holy Spirit. In our present text, Galatians 5:16-26, Paul encourages us with the solution for combating our fleshly appetites that wage war within us without dismissing the struggle and tension. He argues for us to live from our position in Christ by faith rather than by law. Faith is an ongoing learning process that is so opposed to our natural human tendencies. Even as followers of Christ, we emphasize faith in justification but undermine faith in sanctification. Learning to live by faith in the Spirit is the freedom Paul is talking about in this text.
Our passage teaches us that there is a symbiotic relationship between keeping the gospel clean (vv. 2-6), staying that course (vv. 7-12), and loving the community (vv. 13-15). Each one is supported by the other and collapses in their absence. Paul begins the process of cleaning up the mess and addressing the problems by offering words of caution [don’t do this – don’t add to, don’t quit, and don’t bite] and of conduct [do this – keep it clean, stay the course, and love the community]. Paul calls them all back to the gospel.
Not only is Jesus necessary, but He is enough! Our previous paragraph walks us into our present passage. Jesus frees us from enslavement. He saves us from sin and death and for joy and glory.
You can make the choice but you cannot change the outcome. Jesus frees His people from all things that enslave. Now, His people are to stand fast and hold firm to Him. Anything else or anyone else leads to spiritual slavery and soul destroying bondage.
In chapter 3, Paul explains to the Galatians that righteousness is not a matter of following the Law, and it never was. Righteousness has always been about faith in God and His Promises. Paul now expands on his point with an Illustration of God’s “Big Picture” plan of Redemption… Adoption into His Kingdom.
In the doctrine of justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone we become the very children of God. As such we are the heirs according to promise.
Context matter [1:10-24; 2:1-10, 11-14; 3:1-6]
Paul is most definitely speaking to the Church, to Christians. The aspect of justification referenced is NOT just the front end, but the middle part as well.
No one can be justified by the works of the Law. Our justification is only by faith in the faithfulness of Christ Jesus. The entire LAW finds its fulfillment in Jesus. He does for us what we could never ever do for ourselves.
Paul’s Autobiographical Defense: The Divine Origin of Paul’s Gospel is proven by His confrontation with Peter. Hypocrisy manifested in partiality destroys the integrity of the gospel. When we forsake the unconditional acceptance of God and live under the conditional acceptance of law we are being hypocrites.
Of all that can be said, there is only one thing that must be said. The Gospel must be preserved.
Paul’s conversion was the single greatest support for the divine origin of the message he preached.
This verse/statement is the reason why Paul is writing the letter of Galatians to the church. This purpose sets up the main idea of the book which is based on the centrality of Jesus/the Gospel.
In this opening paragraph Paul does two things. First, he defends His apostleship and secondly, he defines the gospel.
An assumed gospel becomes a distorted gospel that results in a different gospel. And such a gospel is no gospel at all.
In the Feast of Booths, God dwells among His people for their provision and protection. He is their LIFE.
All of the PICTURES in the Old Testament, Rules, Priesthood, Sacrifices, Tabernacle, and Feast Days pointed to Jesus Christ.
JESUS is the guarantee that God is faithful to His promise AND will complete His design/desire for you and me.
JESUS is the promised Seed that all of Scripture points to. He is substance of every shadow.
The JESUS SEED always produces GOSPEL FRUIT and this looks and feels like working hard at pulling people in, treating them as family, and receiving them as they are.
God loves us, so He saved us, so that we would become heirs of heaven’s hope and careful to engage in good deeds.
The Gospel intrinsically transforms its recipients. The JESUS SEED causes His people to leave sin, live righteously, and look for His soon return.
Teaching healthy doctrine leads to healthy churches. Healthy churches are ordered churches.