Pastor Matt's Podcasts

In this episode, we examine the Genesis story of creation. In this day and age, we have philosopher kings who are demanding we abide by their alternate version of reality, their imagination, twisting God's reality, remaking the world according to the image of man. Against this, the church has to stand and preach, teach, educate, and press the creation story. Our children have to cooperate with God...

This is the final sermon in the "Government in Crisis" series. In this sermon, we look at what we need to do now. Repent, Rebuild and Reload.

In this episode we examine the preaching that needs to come from the pulpits today. The "preaching one" is one who has been called by God and sent to preach His word. There are many usurpers today, that call and appoint themselves as preachers. This has caused the pulpits to be seen as ineffectual and ultimately worthless. We need to reclaim the pulpits once again, supporting those who are called...

In this third installment, we examine the just powers that belong to the civil sphere. The scripture allows the civil sphere very limited powers: The power to protect the godliness of the nation, the power of the sword and the power to tax.

This is the second sermon in the series "The Crisis of Government". First sermon we examined the creation of the civil sphere. In this sermon we study the purpose of the civil sphere. What is the purpose? What happens when the civil government fulfills its purpose? What happens when the civil sphere violates its purpose? Romans 13 is not designed to allow Christian citizens to obey every law, rule...

God created the civil government, which is simply one government among many. We need to understand the purpose and the powers of that sphere of government once again. Man's law have only caused division and strife in the United States. We need unity once again, and that can only come from a common understanding of the origin, the purpose, the power and the historic place of the civil sphere in Ame...

In Paul's concluding comments to the Galatians, one of the gems we get out of this is the purpose of persecution. This is something Christians in the West are going to experience more and more, we need to understand its purpose, and what to do in the face of it.

In this sermon, we examine the reasons why the Judaizers desired the new Galatian Christians to be circumcised. They desired a religion of the flesh, simply an outward expression rather than an internal heart change. They also desired to escape persecution from the Roman government. In the last three years of the COVID virus, we have seen both these motives exposed in many churches.

The Biblical concept of sowing and reaping has been overlooked for a number of years in the church world. Sinful man desires to sow one thing and reap something else entirely. This is not God's way, if we desire to reap, we must sow. This message gives some key principles about this process.

Galatians 6:6 is one of those scriptures that pastors don't necessarily like to share on. It seems self-serving for a pastor to preach on getting paid. However, if we look into other scriptures, we are able to see how much the New Testament deals with paying a teacher of the word of God. It requires a lot of responsibility on the teacher as well as the one who is learning. I give some very practic...

In this study, we examine what it means to walk in the Spirit. Paul begins with a negative example, do not be conceited, provoking or envious, but then goes on to describe what the church should look like. This includes, but is not limited to bearing one another's burdens while carrying their own load.

Every Christian battles the fallen nature, the flesh, but we do have the victory through the Spirit. No one said it would be easy, it is a life-long death to the flesh in order that we may remain free in Christ. This study examines what this means to every Christian.

In the episode we examine the power of the freedom given to the Christian in order to dominate the flesh through the Holy Spirit. The scripture is very clear on this point, pre-Christian we are dominated by our sins, our flesh, but after our regeneration, we are empowered to controls our impulses. This does not mean that we won't sin, for though we are now dead to sin, it is a life-long death.

In this Sermon, we examine how people in the church hinder believers from obeying the truth. These troublesome people need to be dealt with quickly and effectively before they are able to contaminate the entire body.

In this sermon we study the connection between the freedom Christ gives us and the responsibility we have to maintain that freedom. There is a clear connection between faith, freedom, grace, and love. Understanding this connection allows us to live as we ought to live, not as we please.

In this episode, we examine the allegory Paul uses with the children of Abraham. Instead of identifying as the sons of the free woman (Sarah), Paul likens the Judaizers to the sons of the slave woman (Hagar). He continues to compare the law, Sinai, Hagar, Ishmael and Jerusalem of the day with those who were slaves. In other words, what was to serve the kingdom had become served by the Judaizers. W...

The Galatian Christians were called to be sons and heirs in Christ. Instead of choosing the freedoms found in Christ, they turned back quickly to the bondage of the way of the world by listening to the Judaizers. This temptation is still with Christians today. In this episode we examine the differences between the immature slaves and the mature sons in the kingdom.

Just as the children of Israel were freed from the Egyptians and had to come under the laws of Moses, so too does the Christian come under the laws of Christ after being free from the slavery of sin. Freedom requires responsibility. The Hebrews only knew the life of slavery, when they didn't want to be responsible before their God they desired to go back to Egypt and lie under what they knew. Chri...

In this sermon we examine a real issue that many Christians have with the Bible. What do we do with the Abrahamic Promise, the Mosaic Covenant, and the New Covenant through the work of Jesus? Is any one apposed to the other? Or is there continuity one to another? If God never changes, does His word change? If we get rid of the law of God in the Mosaic Covenant, what replaces it? This episode gives...

In Galatians Chapter 3, Paul relates the consistency of the Gospel from the Old to the New Testament. Even Abraham wasn't saved by works, but by faith. It is a severe indictment upon those who attempt to add to the scripture, we are justified by faith alone.

When we have difficulty understanding certain passages of Scripture, many times it is due to our misunderstanding of other portions of Scripture. When we learn to think of a passage with a wrong interpretation, it clouds our ability to understand other portions of Scripture. The believer's relationship to the law is described in many portions of the New Testament, when we properly understand this,...

Justification by faith is a theological concept that has either been ignored or misapplied by many preachers and teachers lately. This word and its concept is explained through scripture and it must be re-taught from the pulpits again. If it is not, we will continue to produce self-centered, self-righteous Christians who think they have somehow merited their way to heaven.

Paul confronted Peter for bowing down to social pressure rather than adhering to the revelation of the word of God. This podcast explores this and more.

In our continued study of the book of Galatians, we further look at the issue of protecting the gospel. Paul defended his authority and that he received the gospel of Jesus by Jesus Himself. We too have to defend the gospel from those who would want to change it, pervert it, add to it or subtract from it. This is very relevant to us today. There are those who desire to add the ideologies of this w...

Paul was very concerned with the Galatians being so quick to turn away from the Faith. Many of Paul's concerns are happening again to us in this very day and age. Paul was uncompromising and intolerant when it came to the true gospel. What do we tolerate today in our day of "Tolerance"?