Four Oaks East Podcast

Speaker: Pastor Funmi Ojetayo  Text: Matthew 2:1–12
 Big Idea: In Epiphany, Christ is revealed to the world, resisted by many, and received in worship that bears witness.  1. Revelation Given (vv. 1–2) God reveals His Son not in ideal conditions, but in the shadow of Herod’s throne. + A true King enters a world ruled by fragile and threatened power. + The first worshipers are far-off Gentiles, sho...

Text: Psalm 63  Speaker: Kyle Kraeft BIG IDEA: You can bring the wilderness of your heart to your Lord, remembering and rejoicing that His steadfast love is better than life.  I. The Way of Remembrance - We need to remember who, what, and whose we are. - We need to remember where we are and why we're here.  - But even more so, we need the anchor point of knowing who God is.   “The LORD, the LORD,...

Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes  Test: John 1:1-18

Speaker: Joshua Hughes Text: John 1:1-18 Big Idea: Because Jesus fully and truly entered our frailty and bore our sin, we are invited to fully and truly draw near and rest in him with our frailty and our sin. 1. What this Means: - Jesus is fully and truly God - Jesus is fully and truly human 2. Why this Matters:  - For our comfort - for our salvation 

Speaker: Joshua Hughes Text: John 1:1-18 Big Idea: Advent isn’t God resourcing you to be ok in your own strength, it’s God giving you the gift of being his child.  # 1. What the gift is? # 2. Why the gift matters? # 3. How the gift helps? # 4. How do we get the gift? 

Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes Text: John 1:1-18 Big Idea: Though we’re living in a land of death and darkness, we’re looking to Jesus the Logos who brings light and life. 1. Where we are living 2. Where we are looking - To Jesus, the Preexistent Word - To Jesus, the Creator - To Jesus, who brings light and life "The reason the darkness may be faced and lived in is that even in the darkness, there...

Speaker: Pastor Kyle Kraeft Text: Colossians 4:7-18 Big Idea: Christ is all and in all so keep faith with all the faithful and continue co-working for the kingdom.  1. Live in the Economy of Encouragement True gospel encouragement points us to Jesus,  inspiring and igniting faith. “Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole wor...

Speaker: Pastor Funmi Ojetayo  Text: Colossians 4:2-6 Big Idea: Union with Christ compels us to speak to God about people and to speak to people about God, driving us to our knees in persevering prayer and to our feet in wise witness. I. Speaking to God About People (vv. 2–4) + Persevere in Prayer – Continue steadfastly + Be Watchful in Prayer – Stay alert, guard your soul + Give Thanks in Prayer...

Text: Colossians 3:22-4:1 Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes Big idea: Christians do Christian work for Christ, heeding his rule and hoping in his resurrection. Luke 4:18-21 Philemon 15-16 1. Have an obedient posture in Christ 2. Aim to please in Christ 3. Be great at your job in Christ 4. Work for rewards in Christ 1 Cor. 15:19 Philippians 2:5-11  

Text: Colossians 3:18-21 Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes  Big idea - The resurrection life in Christ recasts our vision of how we live and love in our family relationships. 1 - Resurrection Marriage Relationships 2 - Resurrection Parenting Relationships

Text: Colossians 3:5-17 Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes  Big idea: We live out our union with Christ by putting sin to death, putting his character on, and pursuing his peace together. I. Put to death the sins to which we have died in Christ  (vv. 5–11) - In our bodies: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, - In our desires: covetousness - In our relationships: anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene...

SPEAKER: Pastor Funmi Ojetayo TEXT:  Colossians 3:1–4 BIG IDEA: Because believers have died and been raised with Christ, our true life and identity are now hidden with Him in heaven. Therefore, we must set our hearts, minds, and hopes on Him, living on earth as citizens of heaven. I. A New Address (v. 1) + Every believer has two addresses: one earthly, one heavenly. + To seek the things above is t...

Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes Text: Colossians 2:16-23 Big Idea: To truly grow spiritually, we must recognize and reject the ripoffs while clinging to and contemplating the Christ. Three Markers of False Teaching: 1. A Conscience-Binding Code of Conduct 2. A Showy, Swaggering Spirituality 3. A Plausible Yet Powerless Personal Optimization

Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes Text: Colossians 2:13-15 Big idea: We can rest in full assurance that we have all of Christ for all we need, because the cross has reversed our death, our debt, and our defeat. Reversal #1: At the cross, death gives way to life. Reversal #2: At the cross, destitution gives way to riches. 

Speaker: Pastor Funmi Ojetayo Text: Colossians 2:6–12 Big Idea: The Christian life begins in Christ, continues in Christ, and is complete in Christ. So don’t be captivated by counterfeits, but walk, filled and raised, in the sufficiency of Christ.  I. The Call – Walk in Christ (vv. 6–7)
 + The Gift Received – Christ Himself is the gospel’s great gift. + The Call Issued – As you received Him, so wa...

Speaker: Pastor Funmi Ojetayo  Scripture: Colossians 1:24–2:5 Big Idea:
 God grows His people to maturity through faithful ministry and gospel community, where Christ is proclaimed, love is displayed, and assurance is firmly laid.  I. The Goal: Maturity in Christ for All God’s People (1:28b) + The aim of gospel ministry: “to present everyone mature in Christ” + No JV and varsity Christians - matur...

Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes Text: Colossians 1:15-23 Big idea: Since the Christ we confess is sovereign over all and his work is sufficient for all, we must hold fast to him through it all. I. Who Christ Is A) Christ is Truly God B) Christ is Supremely Great  II. What Christ Accomplishes A) Christ's Work Propitiates B) Christ's Work Purifies C) Christ's Work Perseveres

Text: Colossians 1:1-14 Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes 1. A Church Worth Emulating - Faith - Love - Hope 2. A Prayer Worth Lifting - for knowledge of God's will - for a worthy, pleasing, fruitful walk - for a joyful strength 3. A Salvation Worth Savoring

Speaker: Kyle Kraeft Text: Revelation 21:1-8  “Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” (Ma...

Speaker: Pastor Joshua Hughes Text: Luke 22:14-20 Article 12: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We believe that baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordained by the Lord Jesus himself. The former is connected with entrance into the new covenant community, the latter with ongoing covenant renewal. Together they are simultaneously God’s pledge to us, divinely ordained means of grace, our public vows of su...

Speaker: Funmi Ojetayo TITLE: Beholding the Baptism of Jesus TEXT: Matthew 3:13-17 Article 12: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We believe that baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordained by the Lord Jesus himself. The former is connected with entrance into the new covenant community, the latter with ongoing covenant renewal. Together they are simultaneously God’s pledge to us, divinely ordained mean...

Speaker: Joshua Hughes Text: Ephesians 4:1-16 Article 11: God’s New People. We believe that God’s new covenant people have already come to the heavenly Jerusalem; they are already seated with Christ in the heavenlies. This universal church is manifest in local churches of which Christ is the only Head; thus each “local church” is, in fact, the church, the household of God, the assembly of the livi...

Speaker: Joshua Hughes Text: 2 Corinthians 9:1-15 Matthew 6:21 Matthew 6:24 Mark 10:23 Hosea 4:6 2 Cor. 8:2-4 We aim in generosity to be:  1. Ready (vv. 1-2) 2. Faithful (vv. 3-5) 3. Generous (v. 6) 4. Intentional (v. 7a) 5. Cheerful (v. 7b) 6. Expectant (vv. 8-11) 7. Missional (vv. 12-14) 8. Grateful (v. 15)  

Speaker: Greg Hutchins Passage: Matthew 4:12-25 Big Idea: Receive and run after the rule of God because his kingdom restores shalom in us and through us. We believe that those who have been saved by the grace of God through union with Christ by faith and through regeneration by the Holy Spirit enter the kingdom of God and delight in the blessings of the new covenant: the forgiveness of sins, the i...

Speaker: Joshua Hughes Text: Romans 8:1-17 Artcile 9: The Power of the Holy Spirit. We believe that this salvation, attested in all Scripture and secured by Jesus Christ, is applied to his people by the Holy Spirit. Sent by the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ, and, as the other Paraclete, is present with and in believers. He convicts the world of sin, righteousn...