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These are some of the clearest verses of how God saves His people through His son, Jesus Christ. We could arguably say that for the last seven chapters of Romans, Paul has been leading up to these next four verses in Romans 8:1-4 where we see there is now no condemnation for those who are in Jesus. And Paul goes on to explain why this is the case that we have been saved and changed by the power of...

We have gone through three examples that Paul gives of why we should not live lives of sin any longer now that we are in Christ Jesus. A challenging question for Christians is: What is their relationship to God's Law and commands? How are we supposed to live in light of them? We understand, as Paul has said, that the righteous will live by faith. And that was said at the time of Abraham before...

Paul uses an illustration of a married woman and her husband to show our release from the law through our faith in Jesus. Are we trying to gain salvation through following the law, just relying on our own strength for salvation? Or are we faithfully following Jesus and producing fruit for him through the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives? Let's be active on the field for God not sitting idl...

Paul will again explore the question of whether we are able to go on sinning or live an obedient and righteous life for Christ. This is a good question because many will take the forgiveness of Jesus and abuse it, thinking that it is a license to sin, and ensuring that they have Jesus only as a means to do whatever they want to do, rather than an actual relationship with God that faith in Jesus sh...

Last week we saw the abundant grace of God that Paul has described - the righteousness that comes from above, that righteousness comes from Jesus is free and available to us through faith. This leads us to Paul's next point: grace is free but should not be abused. Many charge Christians as saying that we are forgiven for all of our sins that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Chri...

From Romans 5 following on from verse 12, the apostle Paul talks about the concept known as original sin. In it, he describes all people being affected by the sin of Adam that is when he broke God's law, it had an impact on all of humanity. We have not been born in holiness, righteousness and uprightness but instead have the same fault as Adam which is being born in sin and iniquity. In this sessi...

Having thoroughly addressed justification through faith in Jesus and giving us a good grasp on the place and purpose of the law, Paul now points out some fruit that we will bear once we have put our hope in Jesus. This access to God that Jesus has paved, is through no doing of our own. We can now enjoy freedom and confidence in him, as we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Paul tells us we r...

God's open invitation to everyone wherever you are, whatever you have done, He invites you to come.

In Romans 4, Paul makes it very clear that it is by faith from first to last that saves us. There is no other way to receive grace and justification outside of faith. And Paul’s fear was that people would try to add their own effort or keeping of the law and religious ritual to make them right before God. We even see in the Galatian church where they did believe in Jesus, but they also thought tha...

Both for the Jew and the non-Jew, whether under the law or not under the law, there is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. And all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. It is such a natural thing that we try and base our relationship on God by keeping rules and regulations or doing enough good deeds to merit and earn...

"Let the enemy keep us comfortable, he has done his job" - in this sermon we will see how to bring our God into each season of life. It is too often that we can become busy, or just so distracted that we forget that we are to have an undivided heart toward our God. And unlike cultures such as Myanmar and Pakistan where they suffer persecution, we are a people who suffer from abundance an...

Paul is talking about a different group of people, not those revelling in sins, spoken of in chapter one, but a religious self-righteous group. They have the law, but do they know how to use it? They think they are saved, even above everyone else. What does Paul have to say about their behaviour? What can we learn from their mistakes? Have we made the same judgmental remarks to others? We all fall...

Like any good doctor, the apostle Paul has given the solution to man's greatest problem. We covered last week in Romans 1, that Jesus Christ has the power to forgive us of our sins, and that the righteous will live by faith and that is from first to last, by faith that we are saved. Paul now moves on to show why humanity needs Jesus and he starts by looking toward the Gentile nations and the t...

We begin our series in the book of Romans. The apostle Paul wrote this letter to the church in Rome and he begins by discussing his authority as an apostle of the Good News, a message from God. Paul shows us that this message was prophesied before Jesus came. God sent a Saviour, Jesus, who is a descendant of David. God brought His Son from death to life as a way of showing the whole world that Jes...

God couldn't have been any clearer as He speaks to Job in the midst of the storm. That was the case for Job, his life was so battered around, he was so hurt and brought low. We learn in this final section of Job that God does speak to His people, teaches us, refines us and yields us in the midst of our storms and our struggles. God shows us that He is in control to the finest detail of everyth...

We come to the fourth friend in the book of Job, young Elihu. Though being the youngest, he is filled with the spirit of God and a heart of wisdom, who knows the character of God. Instead of condemning Job, allows Job to question maybe all that has happened to him isn't because of Job's great sin but that God has a plan in all things, even hardship, that would be used for the good of His p...

In this sermon, we have a look at Bildad and Zophar. These two so called "friends" originally came to comfort Job but instead, they have condemned him. Job is very upset with God. He even challenges God and says unkind things about God which infuriates all three friends. Instead of getting beside Job and loving him, they want to defend God and prove Job is a sinful man, even going as far...

This topical sermon explores the nature of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, explaining why it is essential for our salvation.

In our journey of faith, sometimes it can feel like we've been side-lined or sin-binned from God; very spiritually cold or very distant from His presence. This was the case for David in Psalm 51. David had become spiritually lazy and he sinned greatly against the Lord. He knew that there was an issue but until the prophet Nathan came and confronted him, he wasn't prepared to deal with it,...

Job is a very difficult book for many Christians to understand. In this sermon, we will give an answer for this, as we introduce Eliphaz, a man who says many true things about God. He actually quotes things that are so true of God that they are found all throughout the Scriptures - the knowledge he gives Job in his time of suffering regarding God, but in the end God rebukes Eliphaz and Job's t...

In 1 Corinthians 10:1 - 11:1, Paul is using the Israelite's turbulent past as a warning to the Corinthian church, whom he fears are in danger of having their faith polluted by the worldly influence around them. Have you felt the world around you impact your faith? Even after God provided their miraculous escape from slavery in Egypt, many Israelites died in the desert as a consequence of their...

Do we love God for the things He gives us or do we love God for who He is? This will be the question that we answer as we begin a series in the book of Job. In the very start of this book, we see that Job is a healthy, wealthy and wise man. But God asks Satan to consider Job and how upright and holy he is. At this, Satan goes on a tirade against Job, against his property, against his family and ag...

In this final section of John's appeal for us to believe upon the Lord Jesus that He is the Messiah, the Son of God who takes away the sin of the world, John describes a final interaction that Jesus has with some of His disciples. Jesus in previous chapters told them that just as the Father sent Him, so He is sending them. But, on the shores of the sea, Jesus finds that they have gone back to...

In John 19 and 20, we see that John spends a fair amount of time on the death, burial and now the resurrection of Jesus. At His death, He cried out "It is finished", meaning sin had been dealt with on the cross, that Jesus was victorious over life and that He is made the King of kings and the Lord of lords. But now there will be a victory over death because on the third day Jesus rises a...

In obedience to His father and as an act of love to those whom He calls His own, Jesus lays His life down. Even at this stage, Pontius Pilate does whatever he can to have Jesus released because there was no charge found against Jesus. But through the insistence and belligerence of the religious leaders, Pilate gives over and has Jesus crucified. In our talk today, we will see that it is our sin th...