Grace Baptist Church Sermons
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A God of Covenant Marriage
Marriage is found in every society since the dawn of time. It has always been recognized as a beneficial relationship for the sake of a community and for raising children. However, all societies have not understood the biblical teaching on marriage. In some of these societies, God’s plan has been ignored and marriage has been severely corrupted. In our teaching from Malachi this morning, we learn that marriage was facing some serious challenges because people were unwilling to live by God’s plan for marriage. As a result, families and communities were being affected in a negative way. In pointing out these sins of marriage, God teaches us all about the importance of living by his standards of marriage. Those who listen to God and learn about how to do marriage his way will find that one of God’s first institutions—marriage—is a source of lasting joy and peace. Those who reject God’s teaching will find heartache and trouble. Through God’s grace, he can build or rebuild marriages that are solid pictures of his love for us.
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A God of Acceptable Worship
Worship matters. God does care how we come to him and how we respond to him. He has not left it up to us to figure out. He has rather revealed to us how to worship and given spiritual leaders the responsibility to teach his people how to worship. In this message, we talk about the important role of spiritual leaders in teaching and modeling worship that pleases God.
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A God of Love ... and Hate?
God is love. The Bible plainly declares it and people naturally believe it. At times, people go through situations that lead them to believe that God hates them, but the reason that is unsettling for them is because of their belief that God is a God of love. How could a God of love allow the kinds of things that he allows? Because we live in a broken world, it is difficult to understand what it means for God to be a God of love. This morning we being a new series of teachings on the Old Testament prophet named Malachi. Malachi is the very last book of the Old Testament. He was writing to the children and grandchildren of the group of Jews that had returned from captivity in the land of Babylon. These were people who knew all the promises of God, but were living lives of disbelief. In the first message today, we see Malachi talking to them about what it means to be loved by God. And he reminds us all that God’s love is a cause for great praise to God.
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Being Human: What Happened and How God Fixed It
It is easy to look around at the world we live in and see that things are messed up. But it is not always easy to see why things are messed up. Today, in this second teaching on what it means to be human, we look at the historical and biblical record of what happened and then we see what steps God took to fix it.
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Being Human: What God Created Us to Be and Do
What does it mean to be human? It means different things to different people. But God has not left us guessing. In his revelation to us, he tells us what it means to be human by describing what we were created to be and to do.
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Teaching Grace - How God Shapes Us For Life
The School of Hard Knocks is the only kind of school that some people have learned much from. But learning from experience takes a long time, and it often brings a lot of pain. Life has a way of coming back to bite sometimes, and the teeth go in deep and leave scars. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could tell us all the pitfalls of life to avoid? And not tell us based on their own experience which may be flawed, but tell us based on the experience of knowing absolutely everything? Here’s the good news: God, in his amazing grace, tells us all the pitfalls of life to avoid. And he does not tell us based on his own experience, but based on his complete knowledge of the world that he has created. God’s amazing grace is a teacher—it is how God shapes us for life in this world. God’s amazing grace is designed to keep us out of the school of hard knocks. It tells us the end of the journey before we go down the road. Now, if only we can learn to listen and trust his word.
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Saving Grace - When God Gives Us Hope In Spite of Ourselves
In a world filled with hopelessness, God has done something amazing. He has come into this world to bring hope. And he did not do it because we were great people. He gives us hope in spite of ourselves. We need to destroy all hope in ourselves and find our hope only in the grace of God that frees us from sin.
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Common Grace - When Good Things Happen to Bad People
As we look around us, we see that the world is full of good things. But it is also full of bad people. How does this fit together? Only through God's Amazing Grace. Today, we look at some of the many kindnesses of God towards people, even those who do not accept him. And we are reminded that God is good, even though we are not.
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Helping Others
The church is a group of people who are learning more about Christ together so that they can follow Christ together. In any church, there are people at various stages of their Christian faith. Some know more than others. Others are easily confused. This latter group of people is in great danger because their faith could be easily shaken. Today, in our last teaching from the book of Jude, we see that the more mature believers have a responsibility to the less mature believers to help them avoid the danger of false teaching in the church. The church body has to keep an eye out for those who are struggling in their faith, who are starting to believe false ideas about what it means to be a Christian. Today, we see a call for all believers not only to guard themselves, but also to watch out for others. Think about your own spiritual growth today, and ask yourself if you are growing closer to God and helping others to grow closer to God as well.
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What to Look For - 3
There is no shortage of people who claim to have a word from God. But are they telling the truth? Do they really have a word from God? What are they really like? What will happen to those who claim to have a word from God when they do not? The problem with false teachers is that they usually don’t look like false teachers and they usually don’t sound like false teachers. Instead, they sound good and look good, and win people to their cause. But along with it comes death and destruction by false beliefs. Over the past two weeks, we have already seen that false teachers deny the reality of sin and judgment, reject God’s authority, and follow after bad examples. This morning, in our last teaching on “What to Look For,” we consider the last three characteristics of false teachers as given by Jude. Hopefully, these words from God in the letter of Jude will help to sharpen our discernment so that we can know who to listen to and who to reject in order to protect the church from false teaching.
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