Faith Community Church - Sunday Sermons

The revelation of the future is given from the perspective of heaven. God reigns as the supreme ruler and deity who is enthroned and worshipped in heaven. What is true in heaven becomes the reality on earth as the revelation of the future unfolds. This revelation commences with Jesus breaking open the seals and shows the backdrop against which the judgments of God will come: ordinary and natural s...

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Revelation comes from the triune God who reveals the future return of Christ in blazing glory. This is John’s introduction to the riveting book of prophecy. Jesus is coming again bodily and visibly for all to see. The revelation of His return and all the events surrounding His return are given by the triune God. Christ is revealed in blazing glory with which He will come again. Hosted on Acast. Se...

Joseph’s declaration in Gen. 50:20 reveals the breathtaking reality of concurrence. At the same time that men intend evil with their action, God intends good with that very action. The intentions reveal to us the two well-established and irrefutable doctrines of sovereignty and human responsibility. These two doctrines hold true to the farther extent of creation, including the fall of Satan, his p...

Jesus prays regarding two kinds of glory. He speaks of glory in the present age for His people’s sanctification. God’s elect grow in conformity to Him as they behold His glory in Christ. Jesus also prays for future glory, that His people behold His full, divine, eternal glory in heaven. We are to behold the glory of God now for our sanctification and the glory of God in the future for our glorific...

Jesus concludes His prayer with love and glory. Love is the focus of this sermon. The Lord prays that we would come to experientially know (taste) of the Father’s special love. This is the special love of the Father like His love toward His only begotten Son. Like that love, the Father loved His elect from eternity past and “in love predestined us to adoption as sons.” This is the love which Jesus...

Jesus’ prayer reflects the heart of God that seeks salvation blessing for the world. Jesus sees the church as the vehicle by which the elect of God worldwide will come to faith in Him unto salvation. In this first installment on a two part sermon, we explore the facets of the church, our mission, our godliness, and the special love of God toward the elect (next sermon). Hosted on Acast. See acast....

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Jesus’ first petition for His disciples is found in these verses. Jesus prays that the Father would keep them in His name. Jesus prays for a special people, His disciples and He does so because He was about to physically leave His disciples. What He would no longer be able to do in His physical absence, He asks the Father to accomplish. May the Lord grant to us a greater work of His Spirit to draw...

Jesus describes the salvation of His disciples from two perspectives, one from heaven and the other from earth. In heaven, salvation was the product of the intratrinitarian transaction between the Father and the Son. On earth salvation was the product of divine revelation through the word of God and the hearty response of faith on the part of believers. The heavenly realities evoke worship, humili...

In His prayer, Jesus defines eternal life for our benefit. Contrary to popular belief, eternal life according to the Son of God is a reconciled relationship with God that begins in the present and stretches out to eternity. Jesus also reveals to us that He is the God of eternal glory which is demonstrated through the cross which He was about to bear. In the cross of Christ, the glory of God’s grac...

Jesus’ prayer in John 17 begins with a focus on the glory of God. Jesus prays that His impending death will ultimately glorify the Father and that this would come about through the granting (gifting) of eternal life to His elect. What Jesus’ crucifixion puts on display is the glory of God’s grace in salvation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As Moses closes his final message to the children of Israel, he focuses on the consequences of obedience and disobedience. He does so by setting down before them two pathways: the pathway to life, good, and the blessing, and the other pathway to death, evil, and the curse. Along with these options for their future, he reveals to them their future in apostasy, judgment, and even a restoration after...

[We apologize for the abrupt beginning of this recording. Due to technical difficulties, the first part of the recording was lost, including the introduction and the sermon overview. Please refer to the handout (bottom of page 2) for the parts missing from the recording.] Sermon Handout In this final legal section of the Pentateuch, Moses touches on a wide range of laws. Among these, two stand out...

Moses speaks his final message to the children of Israel before heading up Mount Nebo and see the land of Canaan and die there. His aim is to expound the law but he is gripped by the urgency of the spiritual needs of his people and thus he earnestly exhorts them with a long introduction (nearly all of 11 chapters) to remember and obey. In this three part study of Deuteronomy, we examine the practi...

The very perplexing figure of Balaam shows that God can use even a wicked pagan priest to speak forth His truth. Unbeknownst to this man, the LORD intended to use him to reinforce His immutable commitment to bless Israel and send the Messiah for our salvation. Balaam’s prophecies show that Jesus is the coming king who will reign supremely over all the nations, crushing all His enemies. They also s...

This sermon series covers the devotions and Sunday sermon at our annual camping trip at Sunset Beach. The examples of faith we saw revolved around the God whom the men of faith believed: (Part 4 of 4) Moses believed in the reward of God (Heb. 11:23-27). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This sermon series covers the devotions and Sunday sermon at our annual camping trip at Sunset Beach. The examples of faith we saw revolved around the God whom the men of faith believed: (Part 3 of 4) Joseph believed in the promise of God (Heb. 11:22) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This sermon series covers the devotions and Sunday sermon at our annual camping trip at Sunset Beach. The examples of faith we saw revolved around the God whom the men of faith believed: (Part 2 of 4) Isaac and Jacob believed in the providence of God (Heb. 11:20-21) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This sermon series covers the devotions and Sunday sermon at our annual camping trip at Sunset Beach. The examples of faith we saw revolved around the God whom the men of faith believed: (Part 1 of 4) Abraham believed in the power of God (Heb. 11:17-19) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The final section of Numbers weave together threads (topics) of army, land, and law. All of these point us to the faithfulness of God to preserve the people of Israel according to His promise. But that promise fits into the bigger promise of the Savior that goes back to Gen. 3:15 and Gen. 22:18. In the seed of the woman and the seed of Abraham, God will bless all the nations. Israel was a seed of...

After a period of arduous obedience, we see another side to the people of Israel. They were rebels at heart. Under the veneer of obedience lurked a wicked heart of rebellion. In this study, we consider the examples of rebellion and focus on one incident of rebellion and the unbelief that fueled that rebelliousness among this people. May we examine our own hearts that we not walk in the same exampl...

In these chapters of Numbers, we see a rare period of Israel’s history when they obeyed the LORD. This period lasted a couple of months until they left Sinai and began to grumble and doubt God. In the meantime, we once again see Israel’s shortcomings and the resulting hunger for the true dedicated man of God who will fulfill all the will of God and bring about the salvation of His people. Hosted o...

Jesus is the fulfillment of the law of God. Whether it is the laws of purification (L11-15), the laws on worship (L17), the laws of sexual purity (L18), the laws of civility (L19), or the laws of appointed times (L23), Jesus is the exemplary keeper of God’s laws. He lived by God’s timeline. He loved neighbor as Himself. He maintained purity of body, heart, and mind. He worshipped and served the LO...

In addition to holiness in worship with the sacrifice system, God required His people to maintain holiness in purity with the laws of purification and the holiness of leadership (consecration of priests and the day of atonement). Jesus is indeed the substance of the laws of purification and all that the high priest was meant to symbolize. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...