Old Powhatan Baptist Church Sermons

Exodus 24:1-8 The Covenant of God is ratified in a worship service as God decrees how He will be worshiped... through His revelation, His mediator, and through shed blood.

Exodus 23:10-19 Redemption from beginning to end belongs to the Lord. God's people are called to obey in faith!

If we do not actively remember the Lord, we will always drift toward forgetting Him. So the Lord gave his people sabbaths and festivals to remember Him.

From Exodus 21-23, God's Law demonstrates the practice of restitution... and this proportional restitution lays the framework for redemption and reconciliation in Jesus Christ.

God's Law demonstrates that God is for His people in displaying His character, His expectations, and Life for His people.

1 Corinthians 10:31-33 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (32) Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, (33) just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

Matthew 7:12 "So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxio...

Back to Church Sunday Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion...

"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. (John 14:12-14) If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be...

Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done,...

The Law leads to fear... but God's grace gives all that His people need to live in right relationship with Him

You shall not covet

"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. (Exodus 20:16)

You shall not steal

You shall not commit adultery

"You shall not murder. (Exodus 20:13)

"“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you." (Exodus 20:12)

Exodus 20:8-11 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. [9] Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, [10] but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. [11] For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, th...

“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain." (Exodus 20:7)

You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast l...

You shall have no other gods before me.

Understanding what the Law can and cannot do is essential to the life of the believer.

2020 Graduate Recognition

The veil has been removed and we are now free to behold the glory of Jesus... so we are free indeed!