LCM Sermons

What a blessing it is to be taught how to receive the one thing that matters! Our passover lamb and his apostles have gone before us to show us how it must be attained. We learned in this sermon entitled "The Only Thing That Matters" that we need those midnight hour kind of moments in our lives if we truly want to experience the deliverance of resurrection power. Even though the tenth plague is absolutely necessary, it is not intended to destroy us, but to bring about perfect freedom under the mighty hand of our God. Let this message preached by the heads of households of Hebron spur you on to go after the only thing that matters.

The Lord is stirring us up as a body, and we are rightly responding to the revelation that has come from heaven. Our Pastors (Judah and Wade) gave us a raw, heartfelt exhortation to have our hunger and spiritual appetite increase. This increase is not for one singular person but rather the family unit as a whole. As heads of households, we were charged to take sober assessment to rightly discern what our families can handle and to cultivate in our homes a spiritual appetite for the very Lamb of God. Although this is not something that is done overnight, we are taking our stand to commit to examine and search our homes to cultivate an appetite and desire for our King, not allowing anything else to get in the way. We are going to let our appetite and hunger to draw near him, drive us on!

Our weaknesses will not kill us! This was the encouragement we received from brothers Paul Rosales and Marlin Sosa in this message entitled "Let's Go Die With Him". Instead of our weaknesses killing us, we learned that they actually served the purpose of leading us to the resurrection of our God when we choose to die willingly. Making this choice of our own accord makes way for the opportunity for him to raise us up. We must remove all unbelief that keeps us from willingly laying down our lives just as Jesus did.

The Spirit of God is moving in our midst, and we are responding in full surrender! “Who is Able?” preached by Pastor Nik and Pastor Matt is a resurrection message you will want to listen to again and again. We learned that to experience true resurrection, we must experience death over and over. We came to the understand that there is not a single death or a single resurrection that we are aiming for and this biblical truth can be seen through the lives of men of God like Moses, Isaiah, and Peter. We have to be undone in the presence of our Father. Not comparing ourselves with ourselves but comparing ourselves to His holiness, majesty, and glory. This is where we will find out that there is only one who is able.

In this honest reflection, Pastors Nick and Payton reminded us that the process of the Lord making us to know always begins in weakness. This weakness leads us away from pride and self-dependency, and towards a deeper more intimate walk with him. This messages encourages us to continually press into whichever way the Lord is disciplining us because he it is the vehicle by which he is allowing us to share in his holiness. When we can see it in that light, we can choose to continually take up our cross and take our seat at his table.

We were challenged! We were confronted! We are all the better for it! As believers, we know that we are to have pure, holy, and godly desires. Yet we still find that we have a whole lot more fleshly cravings and unhealthy desires than we would like to admit. In this sermon entitled “Hosanna”, Pastors Wade and Matthew illustrate for us in a honest and candid transparent message that is made to cause us to wrestling with what is going on in our hearts. There are unhealthy appetites and carnal cravings we long for that are right next to the good that we know we should do. We are not oblivious to what the word says we are to do (our king has made it known and plain to us). It is the unhealthy desires that we allow to compete and frankly we give into, in order to fulfill what is only an insatiable pit that is never satisfied. So, we say Hosanna! Lord saves us! Humble us! Transform us so that not only are our speech and deeds pure but that our heart, desire, and spiritual appetite are for righteous!

In many ways, this message is about finding the most important lost coin of all. It is at the core of everything that we do and why we do what we do. When we are able to press on to acknowledge him, to know him more intimately, only then can we know what we must do. Brothers Adam Corra and Justin Treaster stirred our souls with their own interactions with these concepts and encourage us to press on to know him better. We are the clay that he is molding, and therefore we can love every bit of his workings in our lives because it means he is near to us. Listen to this message entitled "Pressing On" and press on to acknowledge him!

“Groom Conscious” preached by Pastors Nik, Payton, Matt and Wade was aimed at helping us to fix our eyes and heart on the one groom who has paid the purchase price for us. The purchase price that he paid with his life is the demonstration of the love that he has for us. Knowing this, we are compelled to love him in a way that causes everything else that competes for that love to fade away. From the beginning of the betrothal to now, our great groom has been carrying us and he will continue to carry us until we are united with him. The one who is, who was, and who is to come has eyes that burn intensely for his bride. The question that we must ask ourselves is, do I show the same love back to him? Will I allow the fire that is in his eyes burn away and purify what does not belong in me, that I may reflect that same fiery love!?

Rebekah trusted Abraham's servant to get her all the way through the desert until she was one with her groom. In the very same way, the Spirit of Holiness is guiding us to becoming one with our great king, Jesus Christ. We are in a great time of preparation where we are learning that the mere anticipation of being united to him is what will drive us along in the sanctification process. Our longing for him is what keeps causes us to desire to be set apart for him. As the sermon was titled, it's "Holiness or Die Trying"! Listen to this message from brothers Abimbola Daramola, Justin Treaster, and Adam Corra and be inspired to draw near to the groom at all costs.

What a revelatory time we had this morning! We were led on a spiritual journey through the biblical narrative and imagery of the betrothal process of a bride to her groom. In this sermon entitled “Coins and Camels”, we examined the serious commitment that the believer has made to our groom King Jesus. A commitment that is part of the betrothal process, promising to make ourselves ready to be with him on that day. This betrothal process requires daily examination of our deeds, making sure to search for those areas that seeks to get in the way of our sincerer love and devotion to our king. With a beautiful surprise of a lifetime, we were immensely blessed to participate in the engagement of our beloved brother and his bride to be.