LCM Sermons

“Paying the Cost” preached by Pastor Matthew and Pastor Wade, continues the “set out” direction we received from our New Years’ Service. Viewing through the biblical lens of the Nation of Israel and their experience with following the pillar of cloud, we learned that there is a price to pay for setting out. In setting out, we must be aware of the internal grumblings and external arguments that arise because of the desire to be comfortable without having to go through the affliction. Instead, we are joyfully embracing the afflictions that come with setting out because it is where we find the comfort of our King!

When the pillar of cloud moved, the people of God set out in Moses' time. They picked up their tent pegs and moved out as ordained by the Lord. Based on direction we received during our New Years Eve Bonfire, we've been called to do the same. Pastor Wade and Pastor Matt took this time to strengthen us in accord with this endeavor and to give clear direction as to how the people of God learn to set out at the Lord's direction and at his timing. They also clued us into some of the pitfalls that hinder from doing so with joy. Because of this strong, fatherly message we know that we have already been equipped with what we need. The only thing left is to look to the cloud with expectation to set out and that is exactly what we're doing.

As 2022 comes to a close and we reflect on all that the Lord has done in our body in 2022, our need for a proper perspective has never been greater. Pastors Payton Parsons and Matthew Perot helped us with this sermon entitled "Third Generation Thinking" to put into proper perspective why it is that we do what we do. By gaining a greater perspective of what the Lord intends for our generations, we can look at our children and prepare them in light of what their grandchildren will need them to be. This kind of perspective is rare, yet is how our priesthood will continue from generation to generation.

We have been given a precious revelation today! “Don’t Keep Christ in Christmas” is the perfect sermon as we near a close to the year 2022. Both Pastors Judah and Wade help bring us into contact with a very real and tangible revelation that the bible clearly demonstrates. Since we have been given the right to become children of God, Christ in us makes us just as He is. He is the incarnation, the Word made flesh, and so are we! We are the incarnation of Christ, the manifestation of Him to a lost and dying world. Though we are imperfect, we will guard, grow, and give what we have because Christ in us causes us to be the hope in the world. This is a revelation that not many believers have tapped into, but it is the biblical reality we need to take hold of!

It pleased God to make his law great and glorious. Brothers Justin Treaster and J.J. Molock lead us on a riveting study of the scripture relating to this subject matter. What they found was that to God, to make his law glorious and to make his son glorious are one in the same. What's more is that Romans 8 tells us that we are sons who are being led by the spirit of the father. We can take a survey of our lives over the past decade and see exactly how he has been making us more glorious as sons. What's left for us is to make our sons more glorious in the same way that God does, by the Word.

We had an amazing time this morning! What a joy it was to having Pastor Wade and Brother Gabriel back with us! They shared with us about the beautiful work that the Lord is doing in the land of India and what he is doing in the Israel family. From the sermon “Consecrated Family”, we learned from our Pastor and Brother that all fatherhood derives its origin from the Heavenly Father, and it is through the familial relationship of a father and son that the kingdom is transmitted. From the life of Abraham, the nation of Israel and all the way to Paul in his day, we were reminded about how we are called to be a consecrated family through our devotion to the word of God and our relationship with one another.

During the holiday season, most people are less alert and more angsty due the busyness that our traditions induce. Good thing we are not most people, but are supernatural sons of God that are building his kingdom on the earth. Therefore, Pastors Matt and Payton admonished us with this sermon entitled "Alert and Sober-Minded" to be just that, alert and sober-minded. They clarified what it means to be alert, not overwhelmed, and what it means to be sober-minded, knowing what the Father wants to happen in any given situation. All of this is so that we can pray, and there is nothing more powerful than when saints of the living God pray in partnership with the God of all the earth. Let this message stimulate towards love and good deeds!

Pastors Matt and Nik led us in a fantastic reflection on the growth that has taken place in the time since we received the New Years' mandate to build up the body. Through setting the table for our brothers and engaging in Team Unity Formation meetings, the Lord has matured us through cycles of death and resurrection. We were reminded that although the sifting is an absolutely necessary and God-ordained, it is not the point of God's working. The point is to draw us near to our brothers and to share in God's goodness together. Like Judah and his brothers, we must engage in "Team Drinking" and not closet drinking. The pattern that we see in scripture is one that we receive from the heavens together, as a unit, and that is our endeavor.

Brother's Carlos Rueda, Adam Corra, and Paul Rosales preached this amazing and inspiring word entitled "Smile Back". When we begin to realize just how good our father is to us in any and every kind of circumstance, when we realize the fact that he is smiling on us, it causes us to smile back! We restore the joy of our salvation when we realize that he favored us long before we even had anything worth producing. The fact that he delights in us, and not our performance is inoculating us from basing our value on our performance and we are finding confidence in his performance.

“Loyal Love” preached by Pastor Wade and Pastor Matt is a beautiful reminder of the character of our good Father. Our Father demonstrates his loyal love to us by reviving us continually through cycles of death, and we get to reflect him by showing the same loyal love back to him and to our fellow brothers. We are called to be the good Samaritans, showing that same loyal love to others. As we continually experience that loyal love that he pours out on us and respond with praise, that loyal love will flow from us to others.