God's Word preached.

Text: Matthew 28:16–20

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Speaker: Don Sharp

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The Great Commission is not an optional extra for a few especially zealous Christians. It is Christ’s command to His whole church. Jesus sends His people into the world to make disciples, baptize them, teach them to obey everything He commanded, and do it all with confidence in His ongoing presence. The church is called not merely to gather but to go, and to carry the gospel with urgency, obedience, and hope.

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Text: Hebrews 12:1–2

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Speaker: Tony de la Riva

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Salvation does not exempt Christians from the common troubles of life. When believers are weighed down by trials, what we need is not positive thinking or self-determination. We need a Savior who has endured the cross, who sees the glory on the other side, and who reigns at God’s right hand, always praying for us. Because Jesus will finish the faith that he started in us, we can lay aside hinderances, fight the sin that entangles us, and keep running with hopeful endurance.

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Text: John 3:16

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Speaker: Tony de la Riva

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John 3:16 is often thought to be about who Jesus died for or about man's ability to believe. In reality, it doesn't talk about either of those ideas, but what it does talk about is the love of God and what it accomplishes. God loved the world in this way: he gave his Son with the result that believing sinners receive eternal life. What John 3:16 ultimately means is that if you trust Christ, you are loved, secure, and already given the life he promised.

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Text: Ecclesiastes 8:10

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Speaker: Tony de la Riva

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Counterfeits always look and feel like the real thing. This is why false faith is so dangerous. Jesus warned that many who call him “Lord, Lord!” today will be exposed as strangers to him on the Day of his appearing. Genuine salvation is not measured by religious activity or experiences, but by a changed life that bears lasting fruit—such as faith, repentance, striving against sin, and love for the Lord's people. The question is not whether you "believed" at some point in the past, but whether you're a believer, present tense.

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Text: Ecclesiastes 8:2–9

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Speaker: Tony de la Riva

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God has designed government to do one thing: punish evil and protect life. The reality, however, is that sin has turned this good institution into one of the most common sources of violence and oppression. As our culture shifts, our laws shift, and the Christian increasingly faces a hard question: When do we submit to government, and when does faithfulness to Christ require us to disobey? Scripture teaches us that blind rebellion and blind compliance are both equally foolish, but a mind that is shaped by the Word of God will know the right time and way to obey—or disobey—to the glory of Christ.

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Text: Ecclesiastes 8:2–9

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Speaker: Tony de la Riva

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God has designed government to do one thing: punish evil and protect life. The reality, however, is that sin has turned this good institution into one of the most common sources of violence and oppression. As our culture shifts, our laws shift, and the Christian increasingly faces a hard question: When do we submit to government, and when does faithfulness to Christ require us to disobey? Scripture teaches us that blind rebellion and blind compliance are both equally foolish, but a mind that is shaped by the Word of God will know the right time and way to obey—or disobey—to the glory of Christ.

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Text: Titus 1:1–3

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Guest speaker: Chanton Petersen

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Why should we come to the fellowship of the saints when they gather corporately? If God is both glorious and satisfied in Himself, why does He call us out to spend eternity with Him? Why does God intensely pursue our holiness? The answer to these questions is ultimately found in the promise made by the Father to the Son before the foundations of the world. The reason that the Son came into this world—the reason He came to die—is to keep that promise.

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Text: Ecclesiastes 8:1

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Speaker: Tony de la Riva

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Some people see life with true clarity, yet are crushed by what they see. Others love Christ but still think and react like the world around them. True wisdom is something different altogether. When faith in Jesus and a thoroughly biblical way of thinking meet, a person not only sees reality as God sees it, but they walk through it with steady, humble confidence. This kind of wisdom doesn’t just sharpen the mind; it softens the heart—changing our arrogance and contempt for others into the brightness of gracious humility. This kind of wisdom isn't something we can generate on our own. We have to get it from the One who is Wisdom and Grace—namely, the Lord Jesus.

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Text: Ecclesiastes 7:27–29

Speaker: Tony de la Riva

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Explanations abound for what’s wrong with the world: bad systems, bad leaders, or some particular group—maybe liberals, or Christians, or Jews, or men in general. The real reason, however, is that people are sinners, and that includes all of us. No fact in existence is more obvious, yet none is as ignored or as unacceptable. God made human beings upright, but we've spent our lives blame-shifting, destroying ourselves and others, and inventing new ways of doing evil. But the good news is that the God we’ve rejected has provided the only means of redemption: His only Son, the Lord Jesus. Through a recognition of our corruption, God brings us to the cross of Christ—to forgiveness, redemption, and the uprightness we were created for.

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Text: Ecclesiastes 7:25–26

Speaker: Tony de la Riva

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Sexual immorality has become the air we breathe in the culture today. Finding it requires no effort; it's avoiding it that takes work. Scripture warns that slavery to sexual sin is “more bitter than death,” because it erodes life, hollows out the mind and the soul, and ends in eternal destruction. Jesus exposes the monstrosity of sexual immorality as well as its consequences, and he alone holds out real hope for every immoral person. In Christ, we find full forgiveness for every sin, fellow travelers to walk with in the light, and fail-proof marching orders for fighting the good fight of faith.

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