Grace Church Abu Dhabi Sermons

Moses calls the people of Israel to joyful and holy obedience to the LORD because they are sons of God, holy, and his treasured possession among all the peoples of the earth. Obedience to God was to be expressed in abstaining from false worship practices, unclean foods, and through regular and joyful tithing. While our obedience looks different in the details from ancient Israel, we too as believe...

Jesus gives the keys of the kingdom to local churches, and He calls elders to shepherd them.

God tells us how we worship Him in our gatherings in spirit and truth

God has purposed to keep and grow us through our commitment to a local church.

God keeps us, and He uses these reminders from Paul to do it.

Our identity as children of God, not our vigilance, is what makes the day of the Lord a homecoming rather than a raid.

As we grow in sexual purity, love and productivity, we grow in pleasing God.

A life well spent invests in faith, love and the good of others, waiting for Christ's reward.

A spiritual battle is taking place in Thessalonica as Satan hinders Paul from returning and through afflictions seeks to destroy the Thessalonian church’s faith in Christ. Paul is burdened that the Thessalonians keep the faith and so sends Timothy to strengthen them in their faith. We see from these verses that in every trial God has a good purpose for us—to refine our faith—but Satan has an evil...

In the first 12 verses of chapter 2 of 1 Thessalonians, Paul, Silas, and Timothy give a defense for their pure motives and righteous manner of ministry among the Thessalonians. Through this defense we have an amazing example of what pure motivation looks like in life and ministry before God. We also see how a pure motivation to please God alone leads to holy conduct in one's approach to others in...

Paul and his apostolic band's letter to the Thessalonian church begins with a thanksgiving-filled recounting of God's saving work in their lives. Though their initial time of ministry to the Thessalonians was cut short, Paul gives thanks for their powerful conversion, their perseverance in faith through persecution, and witness to Jesus. Their faith, love, and hope in Jesus are sure signs that the...

True worshipers ruthlessly fight their own temptations with blood-bought grace

Deuteronomy 12 answers four questions about worship — who, where, how, and what is required — revealing a God who demands exclusive devotion, dwells among His people, orders worship for joy, and claims all of life as worship. Every thread points to Christ, who is the true temple and whose blood finally accomplishes what the blood of bulls and goats never could.

Christians are not under the law, and yet the law is for us.

God wants your obedience, and Jesus makes sure He gets it.

Considering our own unrighteousness alongside the great grace of Christ keeps us from despair and increases the joy of our worship.

In Deuteronomy chapter 8 Moses calls on Israel to remember the wilderness years when they enter the promised land and begin to enjoy their inheritance. Remembering that in the wilderness God had taught Israel to depend upon himself and his word alone will be a protection for them against pride, whereas forgetfulness of God's discipline in the wilderness will lead not only to pride but a turn towar...

The Israelites are leaving the wilderness only to encounter new threats in Canaan-threats to as today as well.

God demands that we love Him with our all and more than all, because He is the only one worthy of such love.

The passage is the beginning of Moses' second sermon to the people of Israel across the Jordan. Moses begins to set the Law before the people of Israel to teach them its statues and rules that they might learn them, keep them, and thereby enjoy long life in the Promised Land. Moses' begins his sermon with a reminder of the basics of the covenant made at Horeb, the Ten Commandments. While the upcom...

God is jealous for His glory and our good, and so He ensures no competitors in the hearts of His people.

God is severe toward the unrepentant, and He is kind toward the repentant because of the cross of Christ. Looking back at that past grace fuels our faith that God will be kind to us in the future.

At the root of the rebellion that keeps us from the Promised Land is unbelief.

Jesus will not fail in securing the satisfaction of our deepest longings in Himself.

In His first prophecy of his imminent death and reserrection in Jerusalem, Jesus makes plain that his path as the Christ will not match the hopes of the crowds or the expectation of the disciples. But Jesus makes plain that His disciples will not only believe in His sufferings for their salvation and eternal glory, but also follow Him on a similar path to glory that passes through suffering.