Chestnut Mountain Church

In Ephesians 6, Paul tells the church of Ephesus that the struggle and battle that we face as believers are not with flesh and blood but are much more about what we can’t see rather than what we can see. We have to comprehend the battle we can’t see. If we choose to ignore, we are playing right into the enemy’s hand. Satan understands that if he can’t have us then he can hinder us. Your assignment as a child of God is to stand. If God wants us to stand, then the enemy simply wants us to fall. Listen to this sermon about who the enemy is and how we are called to stand as Christians in the first part of our Stand series.

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James doesn’t close his letter to believers with closing greetings or a prayer like other letters in the New Testament. Instead, he closes with a declarative letter. He is calling believers to a higher standard of living. James is teaching how to be made complete and whole. He is calling believers to a pathway of wholeness. There are four key points to obtain the pathway to wholeness as a Christian: prayer, praise, confession, and accountability. Listen to this sermon about prayer, praise, confession, accountability, and what these keys mean to a pathway of wholeness in the final part of our In The Word series, walking through the book of James.

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There is no secret recipe for how to avoid hardship or struggles in life. Tough times come not because God is mad or frustrated with us but because we experience tough times and heartaches in this life because we live in a broken world. However, James writes to believers about how to respond to tough seasons that are faced in life. As followers of Christ, we must respond to tough seasons with patience and endurance. While being patient and enduring is difficult, we obtain patience and endurance by clinging to the promises of God. Our hope and the promise is that Jesus is coming back and His return is near. We must focus on the promise by honoring God with what we can control and trusting Him with what we cannot control. Listen to this sermon about responding to tough seasons in the fifteenth part of our In The Word series, walking through the book of James.

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As we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, we look at how the disciples of Jesus scattered at the moment of His arrest and crucifixion but then were called to gather back in Galilee to meet Jesus after the resurrection. While the disciples had declared that they would never leave Jesus, prophecy and Jesus’ words were fulfilled as the disciples’ circumstances of what they were witnessing overwhelmed their courage. In our lives, there are often times that our circumstances will overwhelm what we have committed ourselves to, like the disciples. However, it doesn’t matter how far you’ve scattered; Jesus eagerly awaits you. Go back to your Galilee. Listen to this Easter sermon as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus.

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As Palm Sunday is this start of Holy Week, it begins with the Triumphal Entry where the people went from being on top of the world that the King has arrived to making a turn when Good Friday gets here. The four gospels detail the account of Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, and today, we focus on Luke’s account of Jesus’ entry. Through the obedience of the disciples and the colt owner, we see prophecy fulfilled in the sacrifice of Jesus riding in seated on clothes covering a donkey. God used their availability, their resources, and what seemed insignificant to them. Similarly, God wants to use our availability, resources, and what seems insignificant to us. Our responsibility as a follower of Christ is to deliver the message of Jesus wherever it is that God leads us to be. Listen to this Palm Sunday sermon about what God can do with and through our obedience to deliver the message of Jesus.

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In the first six verses of James 5, James is calling out the rich for taking advantage of the poor. It’s a call to us as believers to be open-handed with what God has given us. While God doesn’t need your money, God does, however, want your heart. If we will live fully surrendered to God’s vision, He will provide. God is not going to call us to do anything and not provide for it, but it’s going to take our obedience and our surrender. If God sends it, He’s entrusting us to spend it. If God gives it, He expects us to give it back to Him and trust Him. What is God calling you to give and be open-handed with? Listen to this sermon about giving in the fourteenth part of our In The Word series, walking through the book of James.

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In James 4, James continues with reminding believers that life is fragile. We can make all the plans we want, and we can live like we are in control, but we don’t know because our life is short and fragile. While we want to control our lives, we need a life that says, “if the Lord wills,” because this statement declares God is in control, not us. We might not know what the future holds, but God does. We might not know what the next year looks like, but God knows. It can be easy to say, “my will; not Your will,” but we need to say, “Your will; not my will.” We must surrender and submit to God’s will. Listen to this sermon about what God’s will is and living in submission to His will in the thirteenth part of our In The Word series walking through James.

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In James 4, James reminds believers of what it means to follow Jesus. When we declare Him as Savior, we also declare Him as Lord. Declaring Him as Lord means we surrender to His power, surrender to His authority, surrender to His influence, and submit to His commands. One of the commands we are to follow is to love one another. Because we are commanded to love one another, that means that we are not to criticize another child of God. Don’t tear other followers of Christ down. In Christ, we are all a part of the same family. Is the way we love each other inviting a lost world to follow Jesus or turning them away from Jesus? Listen to this sermon about not tearing down other followers of Christ and loving one another in the twelfth part of our In The Word series walking through James.

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It’s frustrating when we are watching a movie or a show, and the audio and video don’t align together. Similarly, in James 4, James is writing with concern that what the believers are saying isn’t lining up with how they are living. As Christians, we have to ensure that what we are saying aligns with how we are living. Many times, it doesn’t because, even though our spirit is redeemed, we still have our flesh that often pursues the passions and desires of the world. This is why it is important to ask ourselves the question: who are we close to? The answer to this question is important because what we are closest to influences us the most. No matter how many times we fall short though, God will never not want us. When we draw near to Him, He will draw near to us. Listen to this sermon about being close to Jesus versus being close to the world in the eleventh part of our In The Word series, walking through James.

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Wisdom is referenced all throughout Scripture, and James writes about two types of wisdom in James 3, false wisdom and true wisdom. It is tough to define wisdom, but you will know it when you see it. True wisdom is not strictly intellectual but is mostly behavioral. How do we discern false wisdom from true wisdom? Listen to this sermon about false wisdom versus true wisdom in the tenth part of our In The Word series, walking through James.

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