Faith Community Church - Sunday Sermons

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...

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.