Gospel Community Church Sermon Podcast

Everything we do should be motivated by the Gospel and all that God has done. Our motivation is vertical, but our living out that motivation is horizontal as we walk alongside one another.

How can those within the body of Christ who disagree so much still pursue unity without condemnation or judgment of one another?

Because of who you are in light of God's great love for you, you should love others. Loving our neighbors as ourselves is the greatest command because it is the heart and the motivation that leads us to the obedience of all that God has commanded.

Our political ideology does not dictate our submission to civil authority, what political party we belong to, or whether or not we even agree with the acting government. Still, instead, it is dictated by our spiritual identity. We serve as sojourners here under the authority God has allowed in this flawed, imperfect physical kingdom while knowing that we are already citizens of a perfect, spiritua...

How do we live in a world that defines and practices love very differently than Jesus commanded us to love as followers of Christ? Loving in light of the gospel means we love others not in response to what they do or don’t do to us, but rather in response to what God has and will do for us.

Love. It’s what God demonstrated when he sent Jesus to die on a cross to take our place, and it’s what should motivate us to go and demonstrate it to others, but what does loving in light of the gospel look like?

There is no doubt that the love of Christ is what must motivate our living for Christ. It doesn’t matter what else we do. It doesn’t matter if we are faithful to do everything else Paul says in these last five chapters, if it is not done motivated by love, then we are not faithful to live in light of the gospel.

When we think rightly about the gospel, we should grow in thinking more rightly about ourselves, our identity, our purpose. We should think more rightly about our gifts and how we are to use those gifts in the context of the body of Christ.

In light of Jesus' life sacrificed for us, we should live all of life sacrificially for him.

This is the good news of God – God accomplishing his plans and his purposes by keeping his promises through Jesus. Jesus is the yes and amen of God’s promises and it is why your faith must be in the work of Christ and Christ alone. For your salvation, for your sanctification, for your glorification – but for God’s glory. This is why Paul ends in Romans 11 by saying, “For from him and through him a...

This is why we have the good news of the Gospel and it is why we must believe it. So that in the end we all look back and see and the only thing we can point to, the only thing that we can declare is that God and God alone is worthy of all the glory! There are no other answers. There are no other options. There are no other ways. We come to God by faith in the Son of God, because of the mercy of G...

God is the only hope for ethnic Israel and He is the only hope for spiritual Israel. Faith is the only thing that matters.

He is sovereign. It doesn’t mean that he is happy about everything that happens, but it does mean that everything that happens will be used to accomplish what he wants and knows already, will happen. His purposes will be accomplished. Our salvation, our sanctification, our glorification, our good and his glory will be accomplished.

In our bible-belt Christian culture it’s very easy for us to take this matter of salvation for granted. Often times salvation is simply assumed whether it’s because one grew up in the church, said a prayer when they were little or because people can point to some past personal experience, but our hope should never be placed in a past experience, even though they are important. Salvation should alw...

The world today sees the progression of its own virtue and believes that one does not need faith outside of oneself. Rather by believing in one’s own righteous actions, being far greater than those in the past, and because of their sincerity, they will ultimately be provided whatever salvation may be necessary. But is that true? What is the standard God is looking for? Is it just being better? Is...

God in his mercy has made a way for us to be saved, who do not deserve to be, all so that he might be glorified through your life. So that you might fulfill the purpose for which you exist.

Faith in God’s sovereignty is what is going to provide us hope when things seem hopeless, security when we are fearful, encouragement when we are discouraged. Faith in the Sovereignty of God really is the hinge pin of the Christian faith. Because if we don’t have faith in God’s sovereignty, we will place our faith in ourselves, which can only lead one of two directions, to pride because of what we...

If we are ever going to really understand God’s sovereignty properly, and truly be able to believe this doctrine in such a way that we don't become prideful but humble, we have to ask God to break our hearts for the lost.

We are loved, we are secure. Nothing can change our standing before God. Nothing can remove our status as God’s children. Nothing can separate us from the incredible love God has for us.

Often so many of us have tunnel vision when it comes to present suffering. We only see what’s happening today. We think if God loves us, we should be spared from suffering, or at least it should be kept to a minimum, but suffering should not cause us to despair, it should compel us to have hope because of what we know God is accomplishing through our suffering, and that he has not left us alone in...

Because we are no longer in bondage to the power of sin, we no longer need to fear God’s judgment, the Holy Spirit comes and removes that fear and in its place gives us a sense of peace and security. How does he do that? By reminding us that we are not slaves owned by sin, we are adopted as sons and daughters who belong to God. The Spirit does not make people slaves, but sons.

We often believe the Spirit has provided for our past sin, but then think if we are going to see sin defeated today it’s up to us. That results in us simply trying to manage sin, and we wonder why we it never seems to be defeated. We try to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, we try to stop doing what we know we shouldn’t and try to start doing what we know we should, and we wonder why we keep fa...

We need to acknowledge and wrestle with the tension that exists between who God says we are now in Christ and our constant failures to live in light of that truth. We need to understand the struggle between God saying we are dead to sin, and yet we seem to be fighting sin every day of our lives. We need to address the tension between knowing we can’t perfectly obey God’s word and yet we are comman...

Sanctification is not a passive transformation on our part, it is an active transformation of choosing to say “yes” and “no” to some things and so in the words of J.I. Packer, “let us not “let go and let God,” but rather “let us trust God and get going.”