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Title: Fruit of the Spirit: Patience

Subtitle: The Fruit of the Spirit

Speaker: John Sawtelle

Broadcaster: All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 3/26/2017

Bible: Galatians 5:2

Length: 60 min.

Overview: Transitioning from foundational graces to social graces, Paul lists -patience- as the fourth fruit of the Spirit. The word for patience means something like -long to anger- and refers specifically to the intentional act of restraining anger in the face of provocation. Patience, unlike -steadfastness- or -endurance,- has to do with people and social situations rather than to events or circumstances. By restraining anger in the face of provocation, redeemed sinners act in a god-like fashion since long-suffering is a divine quality -Ex. 34-6-. When believers exercise patience towards one another, they engage in the kind of behavior which contributes to congregational unity and peace.

A new MP3 sermon from All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Fruit of the Spirit: Peace

Subtitle: The Fruit of the Spirit

Speaker: John Sawtelle

Broadcaster: All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 3/19/2017

Bible: Galatians 5:22

Length: 48 min.

Overview: The spiritual fruit of peace is nothing less than divine peace. This divine administration of peace is grounded in the redemptive work of Christ on the cross. Being reconciled to sinners through the blood soaked cross, God mediates His very own peace to believers by the operation of the Holy Spirit. When this divine peace takes up residence in the soul of the believer it puts order in their lives and calls them to pursue peace in all their relationships.

A new MP3 sermon from All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Works of the flesh: sins of intemperance

Subtitle: The Fruit of the Spirit

Speaker: John Sawtelle

Broadcaster: All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 2/19/2017

Bible: Galatians 5:21

Length: 43 min.

Overview: As Paul wraps up his unfolding of the works of the flesh, he comes to the sins of intemperance, drunkenness, and carousing. Though both sins include the excessive use of alcohol, important distinctions exist. Drunkenness is the use of alcohol or drugs to the point that one loses self-control -moral, physical, emotion, spiritual control-, while carousing is excessive drinking in public settings with the intent to engage in other kinds of immoral behavior. The sobering thought Paul uses to reinforce the warning and prohibition against such sins is found in the concluding clause of verse 21 that those who practice such sins will not inherit the kingdom of God.

A new MP3 sermon from All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Works of the flesh: sins of animosity

Subtitle: The Fruit of the Spirit

Speaker: John Sawtelle

Broadcaster: All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 2/12/2017

Bible: Galatians 5:20

Length: 54 min.

Overview: In previous verses, Paul indicated that the Galatian congregation was being torn apart by strife, and for that reason, he expounds the works of the flesh in order to expose sin and call for repentance. This list of 8 works of the flesh most specifically addresses the problem of congregational conflict. Two main categories expose these sins of animosity- attitudes and actions. Paul expounds 4 fleshly attitudes and 4 fleshly actions which betray animosity in the heart and which form the roots of congregational and interpersonal conflict.

A new MP3 sermon from All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Works of the flesh: sexual sins

Subtitle: The Fruit of the Spirit

Speaker: John Sawtelle

Broadcaster: All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 1/22/2017

Bible: Galatians 5:19

Length: 52 min.

Overview: As Paul begins to unfold the degenerate works of the flesh, he begins by putting a spotlight on sexual sins. The sexual ethic proclaimed by Paul and the rest of the NT writers took aim at the degradation of the Greco-Roman world. This culture was so awash in sexual immorality that one writer claimed that -chastity- was the one new virtue which Christianity introduced into that world and that the gift of the gospel to the men of that era was the hope of living in sexual purity. The contextual setting of the exposition of these fleshly works of sexual sin indicates that underneath the surface of this kind of gross sexual immorality are religious and philosophical commitments. Addressing those false religious and philosophical commitments, Paul proposes a counter religious perspective spelled out in the dominant theme of the whole textual unit beginning in verse 16- walk in the Spirit. The Biblical and Christian answer to living in sexual immorality is self-control which is a gracious fruit worked in the heart of the believer by the Spirit of God.

A new MP3 sermon from All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Walk in the Spirit

Subtitle: Galatians 5

Speaker: John Sawtelle

Broadcaster: All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 1/15/2017

Bible: Galatians 5:16-18

Length: 49 min.

Overview: A command stands at the outset of verse 16- walk in the Spirit. The necessity of walking in the Spirit is highlighted by the fact that deep down in the soul of every believer is the antagonistic work of the flesh. This internal opposition between the flesh and the Spirit leaves the believer in a perpetual state of spiritual tension. The solution to this state of spiritual conflict is to walk by the Spirit in order to not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

A new MP3 sermon from All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: The Context of Paul's Teaching on the Works of the Flesh and the Fruit of the Spirit

Subtitle: Galatians 5

Speaker: John Sawtelle

Broadcaster: All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 1/8/2017

Bible: Galatians 5:13-15

Length: 50 min.

Overview: The opening words of verse 16, -but this I say,- signals that what Paul is about to say regarding the Spirit and the flesh is instruction aimed at a specific problem in the Galatian church. Looking back to verse 15, Paul exposes a situation of conflict in the congregation which was tearing the church apart. Congregational conflict was illustrative of the flesh at work and to counter the devastating consequences of strife generated by the flesh Paul proposes the way of walking in the Spirit

A new MP3 sermon from All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: The End of These Things

Subtitle: Daniel

Speaker: John Sawtelle

Broadcaster: All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 12/18/2016

Bible: Daniel 12:2-13

Length: 58 min.

Overview: As the book of Daniel winds down to conclusion, one last prophecy is presented which sketches out the unfolding of events until the end of time. But unlike previous prophecies in the book of Daniel which contained remarkable specifics about future events, Daniel 12 is much more vague. In fact, after Daniel hears the sparse details about the future, he asks for more information. The Lord responds to Daniel with a simple admonition, -get to work-- The main message of Daniel 12 is that the church is to expect a yawning gap of time to transpire between the great tribulation and the end of history and in the meantime believers are to keep their hand to the plow and to get busy with life, setting the hope of bodily resurrection before them.

A new MP3 sermon from All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Psalm 128 The Blessed Life

Speaker: John Sawtelle

Broadcaster: All Saints Reformed Presbyterian Church

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 12/11/2016

Bible: Psalm 128

Length: 52 min.

Overview: One thing people throughout all civilizations share is a vision of the good life. Lyricists, poets, philosophers, and advertisers provide portals of access into how various cultures conceive of its core elements. Psalm 128 casts a vision of the blessed life which identifies its main parts, some even which overlap with how others would define and understand it. The key difference between how this psalms speaks of the good life and how unbelievers think of it is its source and path- the fear of the Lord and walking in His ways. Like a bracket around the exposition of the core elements of the blessed life in verses 2-3, verses 1 and 4 make it clear that the fear of the Lord is the path for obtaining the blessed life. This message expounds upon the constituent elements of the blessed life and concludes with concrete application about the kind of obedience which manifests the fear of the Lord and secures divine blessing.