North Valley Baptist Church

In this sermon, we begin with 1 Timothy 6:1-2, where Paul singles out one last group of people from within the church whom he felt he needed to give instructions concerning. This group was made up of those in the church who were slaves. Paul had already written to this church, in Ephesians chapter 6, giving instructions on how masters were to be towards their slaves and how slaves were to be towar...

This week Pastor Scott continues in the book of 1 Timothy 5:17-25

This week Pastor Scott goes through 1 Timothy 5:9-16.

As Pastor Scott gets back into 1 Timothy, he picks up the text where we left off and begins chapter 5. Here The Apostle Paul is instructing Timothy in  his dealings with everyone in the church. And though the Apostle Paul divides the church up into four groups, according to age and gender (old men, younger men, older women, and younger women) you can sum up how Timothy is to deal with each on...

To begin the year Pastor Scott preached through Revelation 22:6-21

Christmas Sermon 2022

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This week Pastor Scott taught through Isaiah 11

Pastor Scott continues to share with us an example of a good servant from 1 Timothy 4:12 -16

After Paul addressed what was wrong with the forbidding of marriage and certain foods in the church in Ephesus, labeling such things as from deceitful spirits and as the teaching of demons, he told Timothy that if he laid these truths before the brethren he would be a good servant of Christ Jesus. And in the following verses he develops what it looks like to be a good servant, which includes rejec...

Everything God has created is good. And so everything God has given people to enjoy is good. This is because He is a good God who is worthy of our gratitude towards Him. Therefore, to fail to give Him the thanks He deserves is to fail to recognize His goodness. In the Ephesian church, where Paul had left Timothy to deal with the false teaching that had risen up there, a kind of asceticism had been...

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God desires His church to be lead by qualified leaders. Each person who would take up the role of pastor (overseer/elder) must be a man who is above reproach. In this passage the Apostle Paul lays out what it means to be above reproach with thirteen moral qualities that address an overseer's character, and one quality that addresses his ability. By being above reproach the pastor will keep from br...

In chapter 2 of 1 Timothy, Paul, having left Timothy in Ephesus to command certain persons to stop teaching any different doctrine, has begun to instruct the young pastor in addressing the practices and conduct of the church that has grown out of the false teaching that has taken hold. After addressing congregational prayer, Paul explains that it is the men who should be leading the congregation i...

God has prescribed for us how he desires His church to worship Him when we gather. As false teaching had taken hold in the church in Ephesus, and the Apostle Paul had left Timothy behind, to "command certain persons not to teach any different doctrine", the false teaching had also effected the practice and conduct of the church. Therefor, starting in chapter 2, we see the Apostle begin to tell Tim...

The Bible is clear, no one is saved by their own goodness or works, but one can only be saved by God's grace, through faith in Jesus Christ, alone. But if someone would think that they are beyond saving, because they have just lived too bad of a life, then this passages demonstrates the hope that anyone has who trusts in Christ Jesus. Because the truth of the matter is, God saves even the worst of...

Where the true Gospel is not proclaimed, where the Scriptures are not accurately preached, there is no true church. False doctrine has a devastating effect, leading people away from the truth into myths lies. False doctrine can only produce a false unity and unbiblical love. Therefore, when Paul urged Timothy to stay in Ephesus to command certain person to stop teaching different doctrine, the aim...

This sermon is an introduction to the sermon series, "God's Desire for His Church", in 1st and 2nd Timothy. At the beginning of this message, Pastor Scott asks the question, who has the say for how the church is to be ordered and function? Who is it that should determine how the church worships and elements of its worship? Who determines what the teaching of the church should be? Is it the congreg...

This sermon is preached by Dr. Matt Tarr, pastor of High Point Baptist Church, in Larksville, PA. In this sermon Pastor Tarr dives into whether or not one is saved, declared righteous before God, by faith or by faith plus works. If the Gospel calls one to trust in the finished work of Christ, will we still be justified by God if we add to His Gospel, add to the work of Christ, or do we lose the Go...

In this sermon Pastor Scott finishes this study through 1st and 2nd Peter. We end with the call to take care, or watch out that you are not carried away. Peter, throughout this letter has refuted the false teachers claims that Christ will not return and that there will not be coming judgment. So, instead, he has told them Christ will return, and the current universe will be burned up in judgment....

The Apostle Peter has made it clear, that though the false teachers were saying Jesus is not coming again and that there is no judgment coming, Jesus is coming back. And He will return in judgment, and in judgment God will destroy the earth and this universe. And when He does, all who have not been forgiven of their sins, in Jesus Christ, will be brought into His judgment. Though, Peter was writin...

In verses 1 thought 7 of 2 Peter, chapter 3, we see Peter begins to specifically address the claims of the false teachers, that Jesus was not returning and that He would not pour out His judgment. Due to this, Peter wants His readers to remember God's Word, in both the Old Testament and the New; the prophecies made about Christ's return and the commandment of our Lord, passed down by the Apostles....

The end of chapter 2, of 2 Peter, demonstrates the effect that the false teachers, which Peter warns of, have on others. We see that they make empty promises, as they speak with lofty words, as they target the unstable. They once made a profession of faith, but they have turned their backs on the truth and now are worse off than they were. And any of those who are lead astray by the false teachers...

As we continue studying through Peter's warning of false teachers, in 2 Peter 2:10b-16, we see that Peter continues to develop the immorality of the false teachers and their deceptiveness. The description that Peter gives of the false teachers are characteristics that are in contrast to the the Christlike character qualities that Peter has called for believers to have and increase in. Such qualiti...