Redemption Church Sermons

It's ok to not be ok because Jesus is inviting me into God's kingdom and into a relationship with him no matter my spiritual condition or life situation.

Many people have an understanding of the cross and what it means.  Many don’t understand what the resurrection means for us in the here and now. It's impossible to recognize Jesus without the resurrection!  In this message we see what the resurrection rescues us from and we see what the resurrection rescues us to.

The fruit of your life reflects the one you follow.  The one you follow reveals your spiritual condition.  Your spiritual condition is darkness or light. Living in darkness is being spiritually blind and living in the light is all about making the truth visible according to the Gospel.  In this text we are encouraged to be the light by constantly exposing what needs to go and constantly expressing what Jesus has done!

We are called to imitate Jesus in all that we do. Paul contrasts what it means to love Jesus versus what it means to lust after the world. The question to consider is do you believe Jesus is better?

Those that are greatly loved, greatly love! The Gospel shouts, "you have been greatly loved by God!" It's this reality that encourages us to love others as Jesus has loved us - with a selfless and a sacrificial love. Live out these verses this week by "walking in love" and so express the gospel to those that God has placed around you!

The behavior in our life is evidence for who is worthy of our life. After learning that we must put off sin and put on the Gospel we are given specific examples of sins to get rid of in our life. Paul wraps up Ephesians 4 with a powerful statement to forgive as your have been forgiven! This statement makes it clear that we can never abandon the Gospel!

It's in these verses that we are given our new pattern of living based on our position in Jesus. In light of all that Jesus has done for us, we are to now turn from sin, rehearse the gospel, and embrace our new identity in Jesus. These verses close out with the encouragement that we have a righteousness not of our own to pursue a holiness not on our own!

This week, as we continued in our Ephesians series, we were encouraged to grow in spiritual maturity as we press into Jesus. Spiritual maturity is a long walk in the same direction. We pray that you just don't learn a bunch of stuff about Jesus....but rather your heart is moved to greater affections for Jesus through this message. We trust you'll be encouraged by God's Word.

What does a worthy life for the Gospel look like? In Ephesians 4, we unpack this thought: from our identity flows our activity.   We see that our identity refers to our position with Christ and our activity refers to our practice for Christ.  We hope you are challenged to live your life based off the incredible identity that Jesus provided you.

In our last message of our membership series we continue to unpack what it means to be a member at Redemption Church.  Members are owners!  This week we worked through 1 Peter and saw how the elders will care for the owners of the body by shepherding the body, providing oversight to the body, and being proven examples for the body.