Christ Church of Mt Airy Sermons

It is not too hard for God to do everything He promises personally in His timing. His promises are based on grace--not our obedience--and result in joy.

Abimelech taking Sarah seems to threaten God’s covenant to Abraham and by extension our redemption through Christ from the curse of the law. But God… is committed to his plan and sovereign in all events and interactions throughout time, despite our sin, to ensure his purposes are fulfilled and He receives all the glory.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the supreme act of God’s great mercy and the source of many amazing blessings. As saved sinners our response is simply to Rejoice, Love and Believe.

Description: Seeing God's response to the wickedness prevalent in Sodom and Gomorrah sheds light on how He defines and deals with sin. In application we consider how wanting to preserve our own life, the way we want to live it instead of following Christ, is the essence of the same sin.

In the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham is shown that God, Himself, is the standard of righteous and justice. For those who are forgiven, justice looks like mercy and escape. But for those who are guilty, justice is terrifying with sobering consequences.

Following Sarah’s reaction to God’s renews promise of a child, we are shown that disbelief and sin do not reverse or interrupt God’s promises.

When Abraham encounters three visitors before him at his tent, we are shown an example of how to respond with hospitality to guests. We may be called to apply the same alert and generous reception to anyone God puts before us.

In Psalm 32 David illustrates and encourages us that the supernatural happiness we desire comes when we confess our sin to God. Paul interpreting this in Romans makes clear that as believers our happiness, although released through confession, is a result of our sins already having been forgiven and our justified state secured by Christ’s work on the cross.

Job experiences real and deep suffering, which his friends don’t understand and fail to care for well in, but God comforts him by clearly revealing his power, glory and majesty. This shows that suffering is not random, it has a purpose and God is sovereign in all suffering.

God sets his covenant with Abram by pronouncing new names and blessings on him and Sarai and requiring circumcision of all the males in his household. This leads us to consider how God continues to reveal his purpose and definition of circumcision throughout the Old Testament and into the New Testament, as an outward sign of the inward cutting the sin out of our hearts.