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  • You Tolerate That Woman Jezebel

    Sermon by Kenny Foster, Associate Pastor, from 2 Kings 9:21-26 & Revelation 2:18-29

    This Sunday's message is the fourth sermon in the series of the gospel and human sexuality. The focus is on discipleship and our sexuality. The gospel is good news for the sexually broken because the character of Jesus is shown in his gracious contending with the brokenness of his servants and the gracious calling to repent so that judgment that fell on him doesn't fall on them. The gospel is good news that sexually broken people can be servants of Christ. As servants of Christ, they find strength to overcome the things that would seduce them to sin through that same grace that has been given through Christ's suffering for them.  It is this offer of grace that enables them to hold fast in the midst of a culture that doesn't want to restrain the passions of its sexual brokenness, of which Jezebel is emblematic. Discipleship is stewarding your sexuality in a way that honors the words of God, spoken and fulfilled by by the Son of God. The gospel empowers us to remove Jezebel's influence and her "children" by the power of the One whose feet are like burnished bronze. This means Jesus is the One who has passed through the judgment for us, so that we can withstand the gaze of his eyes that are like a flame of fire. The healing and help for the sexual brokenness of Christ's disciples can only come through Jesus Christ. He is our Alpha and Omega.

    40 min
  • The Truth Is In Jesus

    Sermon by Joshua Suh, Associate Pastor, from Psalm 139:13-16 & Ephesians 4:17-24

    As we continue our series on the Gospel and Human Sexuality, we will examine our identities. In his letters, Paul repeatedly confesses that he is no longer who he once was. The person that he and his culture identified himself as no longer apply to him because of the truth that is in Jesus. In every aspect of his being, his identity is now rooted in his salvation through Jesus Christ. This truth offers Paul and us true freedom and hope to live with purpose and for good works, which God prepared beforehand.

    40 min
  • Glorify God in Your Body Part II

    Sermon by Kenny Foster, Senior Pastor, from Genesis 1:26-28 & 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

    We are continuing the series of sermons titled "The Gospel and Human Sexuality; How the gospel is good news for the sexually broken." God created the body, male and female, in his image. We noted from last's weeks message, that the body and gender are blessed, powerful, and valued. This Sunday's sermon will focus on how the body and gender are for God's glory.
    In Paul's time and our time, the body and gender are not given the worth and value that God gives to them. Too many in first century Rome saw sex as an entitlement for the high born in society. Slaves and plebs bodies didn't count for anything. What Christianity brought was the sexual revolution that changed the world by giving equal value to men and women regardless of their social standing. What enabled them to build and live in such a radical community? They looked back at the cross, while facing the future resurrection so that they might presently live for God's glory. Jesus' death and resurrection gave the justification and affirmation of love their hearts needed to endure and outlast the culture. The gospel's power is still producing that kind of loyal love in all those who have been bought with the price of Jesus blood.

    33 min
  • Glorify God in Your Body

    Sermon by Kenny Foster, Senior Pastor, from Genesis 1:26-28 & 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

    This week we begin a new series of messages on the gospel and human sexuality. When Jesus rises from the dead and appears to the disciples on the mountain, he declares that all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to him, it wasn't just about evangelism. Jesus' authority is good news for the sexually broken too. Christ's supreme authority over all things, including sexuality and gender, seems to be lost in our culture and also for many Christians. 37% of professing evangelicals believe that gender is a matter of choice. How does this mesh with the teaching of Holy Scripture?

    Scripture teaches we are made in the image of God as male and female. This means we were made for God. So if we are made in the image of God, male and female, and our bodies are made for God, then gender is not something we decide, but it is a powerful gift from God. (Genesis 1:28) And if the body is a powerful gift from God we are at our happiest when we glorify God in our bodies. A self-focused and self-indulgent attitude toward gender and sexuality does not make a person happy or holy. It only leaves a person shamed, unfeeling and disconnected. The gospel is good news for the sexually broken since the power of Christ's resurrection makes our bodies his members and makes us one spirit with him. (I Cor. 6:17) Seeing how Christ uses his power for us, empowers us to know the holiness and reverence that we should have for our bodies and our sexuality. This grace shows us that Christ, who is the image of God, took on flesh, and suffered shame in giving himself, so that we might have the honor of being remade into His image.

    32 min
  • That the World May Believe

    Sermon by Joshua Suh, Associate Pastor, from Deuteronomy 29:10-15 & John 17:10-23.

    God's vision of the Church is precisely what humanity needs, but what does that mean for those who follow him? Jesus' prayer for his people is the relevant, proverbial match that lights the fuse that sets the tone for what his people need and should prioritize in their journey through the world.

    30 min
  • In One Body Through the Cross

    Sermon by Kenny Foster, Senior Pastor, from Isaiah 57:15-21 & Ephesians 2:11-22.

    This is the third sermon in our series on God's vision of the Church, a vision we at Grace are seeking to live. We have heard what God's vision of the Church is, the preferable future where heaven and earth, and all therein, are reconciled to the Father through Jesus Christ. Last week we heard why this vision of the Church, it is so that all nations, all of creation, in heaven and earth, might be gathered to worship God.  This third message will focus on how God's vision of the Church is accomplished. Both our Old Testament reading and our New Testament reading proclaims that it is God who accomplishes this unity and diversity through the power of the Cross. Or, as Paul would write, "..that he [Jesus] might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility." Christ's death on the cross provides the power for making a diverse group of ethnicities one body, whereby God comes makes them into his dwelling place by the power of the Spirit.

    36 min
  • All the Nations Shall Come and Worship

    Sermon by Joshua Suh, Associate Pastor, from Psalm 86:8-13 & Matthew 28:16-20.

    Our series on God’s vision continues this week as we ask “Why?” If God's vision is to gather the nations as one in Jesus Christ and the Church, the Body of Christ, is the expression of God's vision, then our obedience to the vision is inescapable. This is obedience to the Lord’s Great Commission wherein God summons the nations. The call is for all nations to worship Him. Thus, obedience to the call is an act of worship. Worship is the "why" behind the vision God has for the Church.

    32 min
  • The Plan of the Mystery

    Sermon by Kenny Foster, Senior Pastor, from Isaiah 56:1-8 & Ephesians 3:1-13.

    This Sunday's sermon will begin a series on the vision of the Church. Not just the vision of Grace, although it is included, but the vision that God has in mind for the Church universal and absolute.
    What is the vision God has of the Church? Our text reveals that God has a promise, a plan and an eternal purpose that he has brought into the world through the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ. If you love the Lord, then you have to love his vision of the church. Anything less is a vainglorious pursuit.

    33 min
  • Lord of the Sabbath
    Sermon by Joshua Suh, Associate Pastor, from Psalm 103:1-5 & Luke 13:10-17. What does it mean that Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath? As followers of Christ, how are we to keep the Sabbath holy? Through his encounters with Jewish leaders at the synagogues, he teaches us that the Sabbath is not about religiosity, but about glorifying God for the restoration and redemption that he has brought through Jesus Christ.
    33 min

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