Reformation Baptist Church

Perseverance is necessary for salvation, but many Christians have never been discipled what it means to persevere or how to actually go about doing that. To encourage the Hebrews in the midst of persecution, the Author reminds them that only those that persevere in Christ will be saved from judgment, and in order to persevere Christians must love Christ more than the world and persevere by faith.

How do Christians live a life that glorifies God? Many believers don't know what it actually looks like to live a life of spiritual worship, but Hebrews 10:19-25 gives a clear roadmap for how we can worship God with all our life. We must worship God 1. Wholeheartedly, 2. Steadfastly, and 3. Corporately.

What does it mean to have a personal relationship with God? Many Christians don't even know what it actually means let alone what its supposed to look like. God reconciles us to himself so that we can know him personally, and in knowing him, worship him for all he's worth. To have a personal relationship with God is to have a relationship of worshiping the Creator as he created us to.

Christ shed his blood to save us from our sins. How does Christ’s blood pay for our sins, cleanse us from guilt, and deliver us from the judgment we deserve?

How does God free us from sin? Even though the gospel saves us and frees us from the power of sin, many Christians live feeling just as enslaved as they ever were. In the New Covenant, Jesus frees us from the penalty of our sin in his death on the cross, and the power of our sin in making us a new creation.

Christians can have every confidence that Jesus is able to save them to the uttermost because he lives today to intercede on our behalf after dying in our place to forgive all our sins.

God is faithful to his promise to give eternal life to everyone who trusts in Christ, and because we can trust God to bring us into the fullness of salvation, believers must persevere in following Christ. So how must Christians persevere if we are to receive our blessed inheritance?

How do you grow in Christ? When we don't know how to answer that question we fall short of 1. Living a life that glorifies God and 2. Experiencing the joy and fullness of life that Jesus promised his people. Biblically, what is spiritual maturity and how do we grow in it?

The Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night? What will that look like, and what does it mean for our lives today?

Because of our sin, we need a mediator to reconcile us to God. God has appointed Christ to be our mediator and serve as our great high priest who saves us from our sin.

How should we fight sin and temptation? Many of us feel enslaved to our sin because we try to overcome temptation in our own strength. Hebrews 4:14-16 teaches us that we can't fight sin on our own, but must run to Jesus who is able to help us overcome temptation because he stayed faithful when tempted.

Jesus said "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." When He said this, Jesus was not talking about taking a nap. He was talking about the rest of God's salvation. The rest we can enjoy where we are freed from working so hard to try and make up for our sin or prove our own righteousness, but can be forgiven through faith in Christ and Him alone.

Not everyone who professes to love Jesus is actually saved. The Bible repeatedly warns us about false disciples who will fall away. So that begs the question: How can you know if you are really saved? Hebrews 3:7-19 gives us one answer for how we can know we are saved by showing us that the faith that saves, is the faith that perseveres in following Christ.

How can a holy and just God forgive sinners? Humanity owed God a debt in their sin and the only way it could be paid was through death. So God, in His love for us, sent his Son, Jesus, to be born as a man, live a sinless life, and die under his wrath as our perfect substitute.

What is our hope as Christians? For many of people, Heaven is nothing more than a vague idea of a better place. Even many Christians have a view of heaven that is closer to the world’s speculation rather than the Bible’s teaching. As Christians, we don’t look forward to just a better place. We look forward to the Kingdom of God where Christ will make all things new and reign over all things.

The Christian life is one that is built on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Following Him should change the way we live as we put sin to death to instead walk in righteousness. In order to do this we must not neglect our salvation but stay anchored in the gospel. We must live all of our lives, every area, for Christ.

We often only think about God's grace in terms of salvation, but if God never spoke to us to tell us who he is and how we might be saved, we'd still be lost in our sin. Thankfully, God sent his Son, Jesus Christ to reveal who he is and how we can be forgiven through faith in him. Jesus is God's supreme revelation because he is God incarnate.

Every Christian is a missionary. God has entrusted the church with the ministry of reconciliation and has called all of us to join him in his mission to save sinners. As we close out this series, we look at what biblical evangelism actually looks like in the life of the church.

The church is more than God's people gathered together. It is God's people gathered together for a purpose. The life of every biblical church should be marked by five ministries that characterized the life of the early church in Acts 2:42-47. This week, we look to God's Word to see how the Ministries of Fellowship, Worship, and Service work in the life of a congregation.

2 Timothy 4:1-5 What are the Church's marching orders to carry out the Great Commission and what does that look like? We are to preach the Word so that all people might be saved on the Day of Judgment.

No church can be healthy or fruitful without biblically qualified leadership. In His Word, God has established Elders and Deacons who are called to lead God's people equipping them for the work of ministry and instructing them in godly living. Who are these leaders and what do they do in the church?

Practicing church discipline is how God's people guard the purity of the church and protect the name of Christ, but is it compatible with the gospel of grace? Matthew 18:15-20 teaches us how we can biblically confront one another's sin and show the world a picture of the gospel that saves us from our slavery to sin.

What is the Lord's Supper? For many, taking the Lord's Supper has become nothing more than a religious ritual that they happen to do at church. However, when Jesus gave this ordinance, he designed it to repeatedly remind us of the gospel as an opportunity renew our commitment to live for him.

What does it mean to be a member of a church and why is being a member necessary and good for our faith? It is clear that the Bible teaches every that Christian must be committed to a local church, and God uses this commitment to mature us in Christ enable us to bear a faithful witness to the gospel.

What does it mean to be a member of a church and is church membership a biblical practice? As we examine who makes up the church, we see that God's will for his people is that they commit to a local body of believers to grow in their faith, and practicing church membership is the way by which a church guards its witness to the gospel.