Cross City Church

If the God of the universe is for us… inclined towards us.. finds favor in us… then the opinion or opposition of any other person just really doesn’t matter ultimately.

Our Father is aware of and using every detail and element of our life to create true and best good for us. Those he touches, he promises to complete and shape them progressively into the image of Jesus.

Because of our flesh, prayer can be hard. Thankfully, God has given us his Spirit to help us in our weakness, and because the Holy Spirit knows the mind of God we can trust that our prayers will be heard and answered according to the will of God.

The promised sonship of salvation is legally accomplished by the work of Jesus and carried out by the indwelling Spirit. The unforeseen effect of us becoming sons is that we eventually become co-heirs with Christ, and in are transformed in our resurrected bodies and in role into such majestic significance that God describes it as our revelations and being glorified with Him. And there we find that...

While it is not the only description and demonstration of authentic salvation, the presence of the indwelling Spirit who leads us is an essential sign of salvation. If you are not led by the Spirit, then why would you consider yourself a child of God?

Romans 8 begins with the grand declaration of there being no condemnation for those who are in Christ. We then see Paul highlighting our new freedom, our new mindset, and our new indwelling presence that God gives his people through his glorious gospel.

The Mosaic Obedience Code was God’s good gift to believers before Christ came and gave us the Spirit by which He would lead us. Spiritual under that Law was very difficult and not a way of life any New Covenant believer should desire, admire or mimic.

The God who gave the Law as the obedience code has now brought his children out from under its leadership by their death with Christ. He now leads them by the Spirit into lives of fruit for life and his pleasure.

As we close out chapter 6, Paul is reminding us that our new life in Christ frees us, but it frees us to rightly put ourselves under the lordship of Christ. And the new hearts that Christ gives us, now have the ability to choose life or choose death as we are being sanctified by his Spirit.

There is tremendous, needed freedom and power found in discovering the greatness of your forgiveness.

We have gained the true opportunity to live with and for God today by dying with Christ on the Cross. The old master is dead!

Baptism is the whole hearted… whole bodied statement of the absolute end of my old self by my death happening with Jesus’s death. I am no longer the old me. I am now unified with Christ and there is not a single category of my life aside from that. The new life of living with God is our new life and it is, as promised.. the sweetest, deepest, richest life. God gives us three calls to action to liv...

Look at the horrible situation that we all existed in and then how powerfully, thoroughly and magnificently Jesus crushed the whole situation and brought us far greater good out if it than we started with.

This week we look at Paul’s words to the church from Ephesians 4. God has put us together to walk with one another and help each other grow up by his Spirit as we speak the truth to one another in love.

God’s people is a spiritual and true family of His adopted children saved by grace, away from sin and to good and zealousness to implement and express it in good works.

As we continue in Romans chapter 5, we see how God’s radical and steadfast love for his people is different than what we might come to expect. His love rescues us, changes us, and keeps us as we seek to love others with the same kind of love that God shows us

The sweet grace of Christ is not primarily escape from the penalty of our sin, but rather escape from the darkness of sin itself and, in its place, having hearts able to see, long for and take confidence in the superior wonder of God.

According to God’s Word alone, Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone to the Glory of God Alone. This is the good news.

God wants us all to know that all of us who have faith in Christ alone are legitimate heirs to God’s promise/covenant made with Abraham 4000 years ago.

To begin chapter 4, Paul illustrates his point that righteousness comes through faith and not works by pointing to the Old Testament examples of Abraham and David.

(1) The first point of this sermon called, “Revealing Redemption" is God‘s REPORT of our sin. It is the people's preeminent problem, and has been since Adam and Eve. (2) The second point is the Good News – the REDEMPTION of Jesus Christ. He is the propitiation for our sins. (3) The third point is faith REQUIRED of us. We must believe and receive the gift God offers us—His salvation. (4) The final...

In this important text, Paul brings his accusation of humanity to a crescendo by showing us the depths of our sinful need and highlighting the fact that we are unable, on our own, to produce the righteousness that God requires.

God is beyond us. He transcends us and amazingly invites us into things, information and promises that transcend our ability to fully understand. These elements of transcendent knowledge do not work smoothly in the smallness of our human minds and hearts. They are too wonderful for me…. For us! Will they be welcomed and cherished as the beautiful wonders they are or thrown aside under our own judg...

God is holding every human accountable to follow him, either through his provided teaching about Christ’s saving and ruling work or by his ethics being written on their hearts. God desires obedience over ceremony… following from the heart wholly dedicated to Jesus.