Sermon Notes

Living in the good of the gospel means we take care of those who are faithful to teach us God Word. 1. All of us will be taught God’s Word. “After the parable of the sower, Jesus says, ‘Consider carefully how you listen’ (Luke 8.18). He goes on to say that if we...

Continue Steadfastly in Prayer 1. Don’t stop praying. 2. Be watchful when you pray. 3. Be thankful when you pray. “A true appreciation of the believer’s status—'dead’ to the world and its powers, ‘alive’ to God in Christ with all one’s sins forgiven, and destined for...

“God saves us and empowers us with his Spirit in order that we may live in community with believers who fulfill his mission in the world. This is Christianity: loving one another.” —David Platt Since we are spirit-filled believers, we must seek to love one another by...

Since we are weak spiritually, we must ask God to strengthen us spiritually. 1. We must pray to God our Father. “Christians belong to this world-wide, history-long, heaven and earth family, all sharing one and the same God and Father! “—Sinclair Ferguson 2. We must...

Since the Christian life is a Spirit-led life, we must seek to daily walk by the Spirit and not gratify the desires of the flesh. 1. If you walk by the Spirit, you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. “We must listen to the Spirit’s Word, discern his will, and...

Since we have been called to freedom in Christ, we must live in the good of this freedom. 1. Christian freedom is not freedom to indulge the flesh but to control the flesh. “Christian freedom is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin. It is an unrestricted liberty of...

I. Our Decisive Commitment (12:1) A. The Basis of the Commitment —The Mercies of God “We owe an enormous spiritual debt to God—a debt we can't begin to pay. There is no way we can make it good. The gospel tells us that Jesus Christ paid our debt, but it also tells us...

1. The Peril of Unbelief (3:12) The essence of “an evil unbelieving heart”: choosing to focus our attention and base our judgments on what God is doing that we can’t understand . . . while refusing to look at what God has said and done that we can clearly understand....

The Christian life is a race that we are called to run by faith in Jesus Christ alone so that we might run this race with endurance, by obeying the truth and finishing well. 1. There will be hindrances to our faith in Jesus that we will need to identify and get rid...

Since we have been set free by Jesus Christ alone, we must stand firm in Christ alone. 1. Jesus has set us free for freedom. “Legalism is treating that which is good as though it were essential. Whenever Christians turn something valuable into something ultimate,...