Novation Church

“Because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit. And let us work toward complete holiness because we fear God. Please open your hearts to us. We have not done wrong to anyone, nor led anyone astray, nor taken advantage of anyone.   I’m not saying this to condemn you. I said before that you are in our hearts, and we liv...

“Blessed is a person who finds wisdom, And one who obtains understanding.” Proverbs 3:13 NASB Wisdom is knowledge with understanding. Wisdom is interpreting life from God’s perspective. “The   fear of the   Lord   is the beginning of wisdom; All those who follow His commandments have a good understanding; His praise endures forever.” Psalm 111:10 NASB “The   fear...

  For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;and He died for all, so that those who live would no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose on their behalf. Therefore from now on we recognize no one by the flesh; even though we have known Christ by the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way&nbsp...

2 Corinthians 4 How Can I Pursue The Promise Of Glory Without Losing My Soul? “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.  We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed . We always carry around in ou...

“And it came about, when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the testimony were in Moses’ hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him. So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to appr...

“For no matter how many promises   God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen”   is spoken by us to the glory of God.” 2 Corinthians 1:20 NIV   Life hurts “I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.” John 16:33 CSB God heals “And the Comforter, the Holy Spi...

Pastor George Morrison Hope’s Answer (“We had hoped…”) “That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, “What...

“How lovely are Your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! My soul yearns, yes, even pines and is homesick for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out and sing for joy to the living God.” Psalm 84:1-2 AMP Jesus came to cure our homesickness “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what...

Behold the Child “Now all this   took place so that what was   spoken by the Lord through   the prophet would be fulfilled:   “ Behold, the virgin will   conceive and give birth to a Son, and they shall name Him   Immanuel ,” which translated means, “ God with us .”   Matthew 1:22-23 NASB Behold the Lamb “The next day he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold...

• The blessing that UNITY brings “Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another, according to Christ Jesus, so that with one purpose and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 15 : 5 – 6 NASB2020 • The Blessings that HOPE , JOY and PEACE bring “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy an...

Romans 14 “Now   accept the one who is   weak   in faith,   but   not   to have quarrels over opinions.   One person has faith that he may eat all things, but the one who is   weak eats   only   vegetables.   The one who eats is not to   regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to   judge the...

“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ…” Philippians 3:20 NASB Romans 13 How Should My Heavenly Citizenship Direct How I Live In My Earthly Citizenship? I need to obey the law of the land “Be a good citizen. All governments are under God. Insofar as there is peace and order, it’s God’s order. So live responsibly as a ci...

How Does The Gospel Transform Our Lives? The Gospel gives us a transformed mind “Therefore   I urge you, brothers   and sisters, by the mercies of God, to   present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice,   acceptable to God,   which is   your   spiritual service of worship.   And do not   be conformed to   this   world, but be transformed...

Romans 11 Questions and Answers “I say then, God has not   rejected His people, has He?   Far from it! For   I too am an Israelite,   a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.   God   has not rejected His people whom He   foreknew.” Romans 11:1-2a NASB   “I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout...

What Is It Going To Take To Fulfill Your Life Mission And The Mission Of The Church? We need to live with Compassion “Brothers   and sisters, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for   their   salvation.   For I testify about them that they have   a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.   For not knowing about   God’s righteousness and...

“…salvation is from the Jews.” Jesus in John 4:22 The calling of the Hebrew people “I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,   that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.   For   I could   wish that I myself were   accursed,   separated   from Christ for the sake of my countrymen, my kinsm...

How can we face suffering without losing hope? 1.          Develop a better vision for the future “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” Romans 8:18 NASB 2.          Recognize the tension between our present reality...

“I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may be with you forever; the Helper is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He remains with you and will be in you. “I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. After a little while, the world no longer is going to see Me, but you are goi...

The battle “I can anticipate the response that is coming: “I know that all God’s commands are spiritual, but I’m not. Isn’t this also your experience?” Yes. I’m full of myself—after all, I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison. What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. So if I can’t be trusted to figure out what is best...

“What shall we say then? Are we to   continue in sin so that grace may increase?   Far from it! How shall we who   died to sin still live in it?” Romans 6:1-2 NASB   To Walk The Road To Wholeness I need to know my union with Christ “Or do you not know that all of us who have been   baptized into   Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been...

Jesus justifies us “Therefore, having been justified by faith,” Romans 5 : 1 a NASB Jesus is our peace “we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,” Romans 5:1b NASB Jesus is our hope “through whom we also have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we celebrate in hope of the glory of God. And not only this, but we also celebrate in our tribulations, k...

“For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.” Romans 3:28 NASB What is the Good News? Jesus did for us what we could never do for ourselves. “He who was delivered over because of our wrong doings, and was raised because of our justification.” Romans 4:25 NASB What Is Our Response To The Good News? Faith The faith of Abraham “For what do...

“For I am not   ashamed of the gospel, for   it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the   Jew first and also to   the Greek.   For in it   the   righteousness of God is revealed   from faith to faith; as it is written: “ But the righteous   one   will live by faith .” Romans 1:16-17 NASB What is the bad news? Universal gu...

1.   The Creation Mandate “Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.” So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God bles...

“I, John, your brother and fellow participant in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.” Revelation 1:9 NASB How NOT To Read Revelation •           Don’t read to much of our modern world into it •        &nb...