Faith Community Church - Sunday Sermons

God’s presence among His people requires holiness on the part of God’s people. This requires first and foremost the proper sacrifice to propitiate the wrath of God and be properly atoned for with a substitute with the soothing of God’s wrath. All of this looked ahead to Jesus Christ and the fury of God that His death would satisfy in the place of sinners. God gave a picture in the OT of the precio...

With the tabernacle instructions, God reveals His stunning plan to have His presence to dwell among men. But all of this was jeopardized when Israel corrupted themselves and worshipped idols, thus, violating their covenant with Him. But even with this, the LORD was advancing His plan to bring His presence on earth through the Son of God incarnate in whom all His elect would become the holy dwellin...

The LORD brought Israel, a seed of Abraham, out of Egypt to make them into His own possession, a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. They would enter a covenant for this privileged relationship with the holy God, and they would do so on His terms, the law. Although they entered this covenant with their eyes wide open (informed and aware of the solemnity of this covenant), they failed to be faith...

Godliness is the need of the hour for the church of God. How does the Holy Spirit work godliness in His church, especially, among the fathers of our church? He does so through the means of self-discipline. In this passage, Paul identifies this trustworthy principle of Scripture that godliness is the product of discipline. Godliness does not plop down from heaven onto our laps. It is the product of...

The LORD reveals Himself as the covenant keeper. He delivers His people just as He promised. He also displayed His power in the judgments upon Egypt. Even though the children of Israel deserved the same judgment, they escaped by the provision of a substitute, in the provision of the Passover Lamb. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The final section of Genesis reveals us to the awesome providence of God at work in Joseph’s life as a window into this doctrine that has and continues to cascade over all things for all time. This providence of God ultimately culminates in Christ. For this reason even as Jacob expresses his longing for the salvation of the Lord he unwittingly calls out for the name of Jesus (49:18). Hosted on Aca...

In Luke 16, Jesus shows us how we are to use God’s money as a good steward of His resources. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Against the tide of the world today, the word of God speaks the truth about His design for women in marriage. His special calling for married women is submission and inner beauty. Wives are to submit to their husbands and adorn themselves with the inner beauty of godliness. May the Holy Spirit encourage the women of our church to pursue biblical womanhood as they learn from Christ and abide in Him...

The central human figure of Genesis 12-23 is Abraham, but this is no mere biography of Abraham. It is a story of faith and sin on his part and the story of the astonishing promise of the LORD to bless all the families of the earth through him, even through the one seed which God will produce from him, the Lord Jesus Christ. The promise of the worldwide blessing in Abram is more specified to be the...

In Genesis 4-11, Moses intertwines two themes of corruption and hope to show us that the sin of Adam perpetuates through the generations after him, without exception, and that the hope of the fulfillment of the promised seed continued throughout those generations. These chapters cover 20 generations of human corruption and hope amid all of human depravity in the seed of the woman. We today face a...

Moses moves on from the good of creation and Eden to the origin of evil. Evil comes by way of the deceiver. In this study, we examine who/what the serpent was as well as his strategy of deception. The promise of the seed of the woman is the final motif that begins in Genesis 3 that stretches through a major portion of Genesis and then developed through the rest of the Old Testament. The God of gra...

The goodness of God is evident in creation as it was originally made. Both in the product/generations of each day of creation week as well as in the paradise of the Garden of Eden, God showered upon man His blessed goodness. The human heart pines for restoration to such a paradise as this. God knows our longing and this nostalgia for good is the beginning of the story of the world seen from His ey...

Jesus is risen from the dead. Luke presents Jesus’ resurrection as historical and validated reality that began to be proclaimed in the world since the time of the eyewitnesses until now. There is hope, joy, and peace both in life and in the afterlife for all who repent and cling onto Christ as the risen Lord. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jesus concludes His message to His disciples with the salvation promise of peace. This is a peace that is found in Christ, it withstands tribulation of the world, and it is grounded in the victory of Christ over the world. This peace is for all who join themselves to Christ and abide in Him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Jesus’ explanation of prayer, He shows us that what we experience as those who are one with Him is the love of the Father and the joy which Jesus Himself experienced as He lived daily dependent on Him. May the Lord grant to us all a prayer life that overflows with these blessings of salvation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does it mean to pray in Jesus’ name? Jesus speaks on this new approach to prayer for the new covenant people of God. This is indeed the prayer that the Father answers for our joy. In this sermon, we look at what this prayer is and what it isn’t. Hear to learn more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jesus ends His long discourse on the night of His betrayal with the encouragement of three blessings of salvation for His disciples. The first of these is spiritual understanding. Once sin is paid for and the New Covenant established, the spiritual blessings of salvation became a reality for the disciples. They were behind the veil that kept them from the spiritual reality of this salvation. But o...

Jesus speaks of an otherworldly joy that cannot be taken away from us. This is unlike the joy or the happiness common in our world which is a stealable joy, a joy that can be taken away. What is this joy that Jesus speaks of that is unstealable? In this sermon, we explore the meaning of this joy from this text. A joy that is exceeding, redemptive, and secure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Jesus promises the Spirit who will guide His people into all the truth. This is all the truth we need for life and godliness in this, the church age, and it is given to us in the teachings of the apostles in the New Testament. We have this treasure trove of wisdom given to us in the Bible. But Jesus tells us more. The truth given to us for faith and practice comes from the overflow of the goodness...

The Holy Spirit’s conviction is not only about sin but also about righteousness of Christ and the judgment of Satan. With each of these additional convictions, the Holy Spirit draws the sinner to faith in Christ and to salvation in His name. It is the grace of God that brings a deep sense of guilt and need in the sight of God. This is how God draws repentant sinners to Christ and saves them from t...

Jesus promises that the Holy Spirit will bring conviction of sin upon the world. This is a boon for disciples show understand the Lord’s purpose for His world in this age. May we all have hearts that are in tune with the mission of our Lord that we be disciples and make disciples. Given the context in which Jesus spoke, He narrows the conviction for sin to the sin of unbelief. Unbelief is a seriou...

Jesus promises the Helper. To be without help is not what Jesus planned for His disciples. These whom He loved, shepherded, and guarded throughout His ministry years will not be left alone to fend for themselves. The Lord has been and continues to be their good shepherd. There are implications for us as to how Jesus has dealt with His disciples. He cares for us the same way. He sees our sorrows an...

[We apologize for the truncated recording. Our A/V team encountered technical difficulties during service which resulted in the loss of about half of the sermon.] The main idea of John 16 is best captured in the identity of Jesus as our Guardian. This idea is seen in vv 1-15 in that Jesus guards us from stumbling (vv 1-4a), from helplessness (vv 4b-11), and from ignorance (vv 12-15). In this first...

We must stand firm on the word of God. The temptation to become like the world in what we say, what we fear, and what we hear are immense. The LORD speaks to Isaiah, the believers of his generation, and to us, to take this matter seriously and to not waver in our commitment and faithfulness to the word of God. The Holy Spirit’s aid is available to all who would humbly hear, believe, and abide in H...