Today, Pastor Mark will be explaining to you how everyone born has a sin nature because of the original sin of Adam and Eve. Everyone has a natural inclination to sin and rebel against God, it’s only until you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior- do you receive a born again nature that desires to live for the Lord. As a Christian, you're filled with the Holy Spirit who’s working within you to help mold you more and more into the image of Jesus. Unfortunately, you still have a sin nature but now you also have the Holy Spirit empowering you to say no to sin and to live for God. You're being transformed from glory to glory! 

As Pastor Mark continues his teaching series through the Gospel of John, he’ll be explaining that those who sincerely received Jesus as their Lord and Savior, have also received the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has come to live within you and has sealed you until the Day of Redemption! The works of the Holy Spirit in someone's life are very evident. You can be addicted to drugs, and yet when the Holy Spirit comes to live within you, you now have the ability to say no to that sin! The only evidence someone has truly been saved is a transformed life by the power of the Holy Spirit. 

Today, Pastor Mark will be reminding you that Jesus is way more than a good teacher and a powerful prophet, He is indeed the Messiah, God in the flesh. Many religious leaders of Jesus’ day knew who He was, yet they still wanted to hold onto their positions of power and rejected Him! Even today, many know deep down that Jesus is the Messiah, yet they dismiss Him so that they can continue to live in their sins. You can preach the Gospel to the lost, but can’t force someone to choose to receive the Lord as their own personal Savior. Continue to pray for the lost, and don’t give up ministering. 

As Pastor Mark continues his teaching series through the Gospel of John, he’ll be reminding you that this life on Earth is temporary along with all the suffering and hardships. In Heaven, you’ll have a new glorified body and you’ll never have to deal with sin and the temptations of the devil again! There are great differences between our earthly bodies and our resurrected bodies. Contrasting our earthly bodies with the splendor of our heavenly (resurrected) bodies, Paul says, “The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory.

Jesus cleansed the temple of the money changers and sellers of merchandise because of His disgust at what they had made of God’s house of prayer and His zeal to purify it from the abuse of ungodly men. Today, Pastor Mark will be explaining how the Church should be focused on the eternal, not the temporal! Jesus knew that these money-changers were simply taking advantage of people trying to worship God in the temple, by ripping them off. The Lord desires His house to be a house of prayer, focused on the Word of God- not a place for worldly schemes of man. Church is about worshipping the Lord!

Many people desire miracles from God. They want God to perform miracles to “prove” Himself to them. “If only God would perform a miracle, sign, or wonder, then I would believe!” This idea, though, is contradicted by Scripture. Today, Pastor Mark will be reminding you that Israel saw miracles, yet didn’t believe. A faith based on miracles is not a mature faith. God performed the greatest “God miracle” of all time in coming to earth as the Man Jesus Christ to die on the cross for our sins so that we could be saved. God does still perform miracles—many of them simply go unnoticed or are denied.

The word “legalism” does not occur in the Bible. It is a term Christians use to describe a doctrinal position emphasizing a system of rules and regulations for achieving both salvation and spiritual growth. Today, Pastor Mark will be explaining how legalism is the complete opposite of receiving salvation by God's grace. The reason Jesus was extremely angry with the religious leaders of His day, was because they were leading the people astray with legalism. You can only receive salvation through God's grace by faith in the finished work of Jesus on the cross! There are no amount of good deeds you can do to earn your salvation. 

Marriage is one of the most beautiful experiences in life, and at the same time, one of the most difficult. So many people get married thinking that everything will be perfect, but over time they realize how hard it is to live life with another person. That’s why so many marriages struggle and often sadly end in divorce. In his message today, Pastor Mark teaches you that whether you’re single, divorced, or struggling in your marriage, God wants you to experience His joy in your life. No matter where you’re at today, God has a plan for you and He can give you a joy that’s not dependent on your feelings but rely’s His goodness.

Sadly, the majority of marriages these days end in divorce. Even within the church, the divorce rates are astounding. Couples start off excited about their relationship, but all too often the excitement wears off and things fall apart. The former lovebirds end up becoming disillusioned with one another and give up on trying. In today’s message, Pastor Mark addresses this issue of marriages crumbling to pieces. You see, it doesn’t have to be that way, your marriage doesn’t have to become another sad statistic. God designed marriage, and when you do things His way, then your marriage will not only last but thrive. 

There are a lot of different ways we can communicate today; Text messages, email, and both voice and video calls. The thing is, none of them will do you any good if you don’t respond. If you always ignore your messages and calls, then you’ll never find out what people want. The whole point is communication. In his message today, Pastor Mark tells you that Jesus is calling you, and when you answer His call, your life will be changed forever. If you want to hear Him, you have to listen, you can’t just ignore His Word, but you’ve got to open it up and allow Him to speak to you through it. The choice is yours, will you answer?