Gospel Life Baptist Church

Inclusion in the Father’s family through adoption in the Son results in the indwelling of the Holy Spirit who fills, transforms, and empowers His children.

Exclusion from the family of God in unbelief results in unclean spirits taking up residence, filling their lives, and spiraling from bad to worse.

Jesus calls two witnesses to the stand to condemn unbelief and testify to the Words of the greater Prophet and the Wisdom of the great King has come.   

The True King has come; by His power has bound the strong man, plundered his treasures, and is gathering a people to Himself. His gathered people now produce good fruit stemming from good roots, which will be evidenced on the last day.

The True King has come; by His power has bound the strong man, plundered his treasures, and is gathering a people to Himself. His gathered people now produce good fruit stemming from good roots that will be the evidence on the last day.

The True King has come; by His power has bound the strong man, plundered his treasures, and is gathering a people to Himself.

As the Father’s chosen, beloved, Spirit-empowered servant, Jesus brings justice to bear as the gentle servant of Yahweh to you.

The gracious election of the Father and the bountiful provision from the gentle and lowly Son allow for the burdened and labored to come and find rest for their souls. 

Speaker: Isaiah Smith Text: Matthew 12:1-8

Speaker: Isaiah Smith Text: Matthew 12:1-14

Unresponsiveness to revealed mercy brings the reprimand of our Savior upon those who are unmoved by the Lord Jesus. 

Your unoffended reception of the Lord Jesus by faith brings blessing. These blessed ones find great privilege in the kingdom of God.

As the sheep of Jesus’ pasture, to find your life is to lose it, but to lose your life for Jesus’ sake is to find it. Those who lose everything to gain Christ, gain everything.

Romans 6:15-23

As the sheep of Jesus’ pasture, to find your life is to lose it, but to lose your life for Jesus’ sake is to find it.

As the sheep of Jesus’ pasture, we must fear God, not man. 

As the sheep of Jesus’ pasture, we must expect persecution, we must trust His purposes in persecution, we must rely upon the Spirit to endure persecution; as it goes with the Shepherd, so it goes with the sheep.

Our compassionate Lord’s mission expansion through the disciples extends to the lost sheep, depends upon His Father’s provision, and results in division.

Our Lord is compassionate toward the helpless; thus, His compassion compels us to a life on mission.

Sermon Text: 1 Peter 1:22-25

Our Lord is compassionate toward the hurting and helpless; thus, our motive for missions is compassion, our means for missions is prayer, and our mode for missions is people.

The New Wine of the New Covenant is sight for the blind, speech for the mute; all the while blinding those who “see” and silencing those who “speak.”

The New Wine of the New Covenant is the touch of cleansing and resurrection life to all who come in faith.

Jesus redefines fasting as the joyful longing for His return, a weapon of joy unfit for mournful practices.

Jesus has come for all those who mourn their sin and rely on Him alone for mercy.