The Open Door Church 337

Part 2 in a 3 Part Series: Restore, Renew, Rebuild (RE3) Message: God has a plan to improve our relationship with Him. Everything is an addiction, something has to change in order to break out, renewing broken bonds. It is vital to start again. The Israelites are the example of brokenness, healed many times, but needing a permanent solution. They needed God. In the same way, we need Jesus to be re...

Part 1 in a 3 Part Series: Restore, Renew, Rebuild (RE3) Message: Prophet Isaiah warns of judgement to Israel as a people turned away from God, but given a testament of hope with the prophesying of a Savior. God wants to bring us to a greater place than we were before through restoration, whereas man's restoration only brings us back to our original condition. Jerusalem is destroyed and Nehemiah i...

Message: We experience waiting and begin to wonder if a person or a situation is taking advantage of us, which creates disappointment, distraction and disbelief. Abram is asked by the Lord God to journey to a land, to receive a blessing and be the father of nations. God is reassured Abram, when he believed without knowing how the covenant would be fulfilled, God counted him as righteous. God desir...

Message:  Focus is on the "us" perspective of the Pharisee's view of "them", promoting a disdain due to their cultural advantage of enforcing the Laws of God without the power of God. This parable reveals the nature of the "head knowledge" of man abiding outside Lord. Abiding in the Lord we are compelled to love and speak life, while outside the Lord we lose compassion and speak death. In rea...

Message: The Psalmist wants us to see God coming through his words, therefore making them important and worth meditating on. The Word (logos) can be planted inside us, transform us and understood when the Spirit of God is in us. As we ready ourselves with the hope within us; God brings the time and season for us to give an answer. The Word (rhema) speaks to us through the Holy Spirit who guides us...

Message:  Restoration is a temporary measure; we're in need of redemption. The revelation of Jesus Christ is the beginning of all things new. Giving our heart to Him is the first liberating experience, express it to the glory of the Lord. We sin, but God frees us from death and hell. As believer, we are written in the Lamb's book of life. God will make all things new, separating us from the t...

Message: Ananias and Sapphira of the early Christian church have been caught in a lie and compared to Barnabas who acted honorably, each in a case of a land transaction. This brings into focus quality of character, one a holding back for personal gain producing a dampening effect on the church and the other a laying down of position to do what God has called him to do. Allow Christ in you to produ...

Message: The garden of Gethsemane was a sorrowful and heavy time Jesus is experiencing grief, deep sadness for the crushing burden He would have to endure for the sins of the world and the momentary separation from God. Liken to the olive press, there will be a pressing on us as well as we allow Jesus to transform our lives. Scripture: Matthew 26:36-41 "Then Jesus came with them to a place called...

Message: God entered mankind and mankind was empowered by the Spirit of God. It was a filling of the Holy Spirit fulfilling the joy of the Law through grace. The Holy Spirit came into a place of unity into a place of diversity as the disciples laid down their lives so God could work through them to speak to all and to reach all. The message was to call upon the name of the Lord for salvation, God'...

Message: There has to be a force greater than ourselves to be effective; it's the person in God the Holy Spirit in fellowship with us. It's a condition of bing in communion with Him, no longer dead but a new life in Christ through amazing grace. Our transformed life is proof God is real and working, dispelling any doubts. We fellowship by showing interest, spending time and being vulnerable with G...

Message: It's not enough to hear, we must obey. respond and seek the viewpoint of wisdom to be strengthened in spiritual truths. We have devices which reject God, respond without God and are unlike God. There are 3 truths speaking to counsel us: God is wise, the world is raging but God disciplines and God will sustain us. Scripture: Proverbs 19:20=21 "Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that th...

Message: God has plans revealed to us in His timing, meanwhile working through us in our weaknesses. We are to focus on God the keeper of promises, careful not to let the focus shift to the promise. Contentment is found in God in readying ourselves with a willingness to serve others thereby being in His favor and care. Scripture shows us the way to live out His promises. God sent His greatest forc...

Message: Stand accused of teaching the gospel, show a radical change for having walked with Jesus, evidenced and indisputable by the world. Scripture: Acts 4:13 "When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they marveled and took note that these men had been with Jesus."

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Series Part 3: The Pursuit Of Happiness Message: Solomon is in the trying stage and summarizes his experiences in seeking his own will first and God's will second. He finds out everything he did had no value and it burdened his spirit. The sermon focuses on the different bases of happiness and joy. Joy is cultivated internally, making peace with God's pur...

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Series Part 2: Liberty Message:  Liberty is freedom from bondage from the tyrant sin and set free by the Word of God through Christ from the penalty and power of sin. Christ is now Lord over our character and conduct.  The Holy Spirit is our agent of truth to remind us God wants us to fellowship with Him, to be in relationship with Him and fulfi...

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Series Part 1: Life  (Note: This is the conclusion of the last weeks sermon "Life") Message: God impacts our spiritual, mental and physical being and comforts us with His Word, bringing it to remembrance by the Holy Spirit for the purpose of ministering to ourselves and others. It is the Father's nature to bring abundant life, life to dry bones, thro...

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Series Part 1: Life Message: Life is the beginning, breathed by God into His image that we may have value and soul. Life is described in the blood; we know Jesus Christ gave His blood, His life, for all mankind that the dead in sin would be made alive. God's forethought of life reveals 3 traits. As creator, God made His vision a reality from beginning to...

Message: God has given each of us a story to tell, the reason we have hope and joy. God has shaped and fashioned for you someone equipped and made for only you to reach. Peter had a mind for serving and an experience, he wanted to share his life out of deep conviction for us.  He wants us to be ready to respond and be strengthened in the trials, keeping ourselves in the love of God, looking f...

Message: There was a covering over the earth leading to destruction, but God had a plan to swallow up death. At the cross, people expecting a rescue, lost hope as Jesus died, now hiding in fear of misplaced trust, saying in their hearts "was this our Lord?". Unknown to them, in His sacrifice, Jesus took our sins to hell, to death. In Christ's resurrection our sins are dead and covered with righteo...

Message: It's prophesied a king would come to do battle for his nation tangled in the depravity of sin. As Jesus entered the city, garments and branches are laid down, signifying those who lose their lives to save it, putting off of the old self to put on Christ's righteousness, the garment of salvation. Together the crowd responds to hearing and receiving the gospel with Hosanna (Come Lord save u...

Easter series 2021 Part 1

Message: God wants peace from purpose through Him, where burdens are lifted. Restlessness results from gathering riches or desiring what others have, creating busy lives and failing to appreciate sleep on the road to success. Society is trying to take away the rest at Jesus' feet as we have desires for the eternal, yet hold on to the temporary. Christ in us and strengthening us; we are rich beyond...

Message: There is something uncommon among those of the bible. They would sit, stand with outstretched arms and lay prostrate before a Holy God when in His presence. In this scripture David is sitting humbly in the presence of God for a season to reflect and meditate on all God has done in his life during the trials. All we have must be look upon as divine gifts from God, hearing His Word, seeing...

Message: The blood of Jesus was a new way to the Father, no longer separated and with a new High Priest to give assurance, but still drawn by God. In His love He changes us through conviction and convincing. In trust we knock on the door asking God to direct our paths that we may know the hope of His calling. Scripture: Hebrews 10:19-22 "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holie...

Message: In adversity, persecution and provocation we grieve from the heart. In this, be thankful. For even in bitterness, when feeling unloved and when pouring out your soul, God speaks, restores our joy, revealing to others what He has done in us. He builds our trust and we exalt the Lord. Scripture: 1 Samuel 2:1-2 "And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalte...