Marysville Christian Church Sunday Messages

Identity is very important. As Christians, we need to remember "whose we are" in order to walk in our true identity. Otherwise, this world and the enemy will do all that they can to identify us. Our guest speaker Anthony Whitley gives a great message to help us find our true identity in God.

Our thoughts can take us down the path of conviction and repentance or down the path of condemnation and cause us to take our eyes off Jesus and instead focus on what the enemy desires.  This is a trap and can cause us to live a miserable life away from the seat at the table that God desires to give us.  How do we effectively overcome this?

God set a place for us at the table in the presence of our enemies.  But our image of God and who He is ends up not being in line with who He truly is.  As a result, we end up surrendering our seat at the table to the enemy because we end up believing Satan’s lies.  How do we combat this?  Do we truly know who God is and the fullness of His power and authority in our lives?

God set a place for us at the table in the presence of our enemies.  But far too often we end up inviting the enemy to the table with us.  What does this look like?  What kind of power does the devil really have in our lives.  How do we overcome his attempts at persuading us away from God?

Jesus knew it was impossible to live without constantly being tempted by Satan’s bait.  That’s why we need to learn how to deal with Satan’s trap.  Jesus wanted us to learn that forgiveness is the Master’s key to freedom which is the way to escape the trap the enemy puts before us.  

Pride is destructive, difficult to detect, and Proverbs tells us that the higher you lift yourself up in pride, the harder you’ll fall in disgrace.  In other words, the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.  It’s very easy to become obsessed with ourselves but how do we avoid the trap of pride in a culture filled with “selfies and self-help?”

No matter how people may try to portray it, no one has ever lived a perfect life without messing up.  But the devil will try to get us to take the bait of shame or guilt knowing how it will impact our faith in God and our walk with Him. Look at how Adam and Eve walked fully exposed to God without shame before sin came into play.  This week we look at how we overcome these feelings of guilt and shame.

As Christians we know we’re supposed to be forgiving, but what does that mean?  There’s a difference between being patient and forbearing vs. being passive-aggressive.  In this message, we look at the prophet Elijah and his running in fear from Jezebel.  So many times, we try to convince ourselves that running, and hiding is the right thing, but it eventually leads to even greater heartache.  

The bait of Revenge - It’s right to want justice, but it’s wrong to want to take revenge. This seems contradictory in our natural minds. We often think, “If I don’t make it right… who will?”. How do we approach this change in mindset and what does Jesus have to say about it?

We are in dangerous times and our battle is spiritual. Our enemy likes to set traps to get us off track and away from what God is trying to do in us. He often uses our relationships in these attacks and in this timely message we take a look at the trap of offense. What do we do when we feel offended?