Solid Rock Church Sermons

In the sermon this past Sunday, we revisited Isaiah’s story from week 2 of the All In series. We looked at Isaiah’s response to God’s forgiveness in his life and asked the question: “Why did Isaiah respond to the forgiveness of God with complete devotion and surrender?” In 2 Corinthians 5, the Apostle Paul explains that our salvation compels us to live for Christ and no longer live for ourselves. Isaiah’s experience compelled him to let go of trusting in himself and completely trust in God. When God called Isaiah to go, Isaiah responded by submitting his life to the mission of God because he believed the mission God had for him was better than his own.

Have you come to the place in your life where you are ready to completely trust God and submit your life to His mission?

In the sermon this past Sunday, we looked at how the first church devoted itself to the mission of Jesus immediately after hearing and responding to the Gospel at Pentecost. Those who were saved were baptized and devoted themselves to the mission of Jesus inside and outside the church. Their devotion was evident by the way their hearts overflowed with gladness and generosity toward one another through sharing their resources generously for the mission of Jesus.

Do you live in gratitude and generosity as a response to the grace of Jesus in your life? Do you believe that the mission to which Jesus has called Solid Rock is worth the investment of your life and resources?

In the second sermon of our 2018 All In series, we looked at Isaiah’s response to his encounter with the Holy presence of God. Like Isaiah, when we encounter the presence of God, it leads us to repentance and surrender. We surrender our deep, desperate situation to Jesus, as the only hope we have of being rescued. The redemptive rescue of Jesus leads to the mission of Jesus. Everyone who has been saved by Jesus has also been called to His mission. God calls us to engage and invest in the same mission through which He saved us.

Have you truly surrendered your life to Jesus through faith and repentance? Have you surrendered your life to the call God has for you to engage in the mission of Jesus?

In our first sermon of the 2018 All In series this past Sunday, we looked in Matthew 25 at a parable in which a wealthy man went on a journey and entrusted his servants to manage his resources while he was gone. Through this parable, we are reminded that everything we have belongs to God, and we have been entrusted with God’s resources according to our abilities. Therefore, God expects us to invest everything He has entrusted to us for His Mission through giving generously to the church, living within our means, meeting our financial obligations, and enjoying what’s left. Ultimately, we have been entrusted to manage God’s money for God’s mission.

Do you trust God’s intentions enough to invest everything He has entrusted to you into His mission? Are you truly willing to live All In for the Mission of Jesus?

This past Sunday, we continued in our SR Vision series by answering the question,“What is Biblical community?” We discussed that Biblical community is designed by God, with an intentional purpose to eternally change the lives of those who are in Christ Jesus. Biblical Community is set apart because it is solely centered on the Truth of the Gospel. When we live in true Biblical community, we reflect God’s purpose and glory. We do this by living out the Gospel in our everyday lives and walking in His truth, transparency, and grace.

As we kicked off the SR Vision sermon series this past Sunday, we began by looking at what worship truly is and what it has to do with God’s work in transforming our lives. With New Year’s Resolutions fresh on our minds, most of us have been evaluating the changes we want to see in our lives in 2018. As we seek positive change, we need to remember that true change doesn’t come from behaving differently; it comes from beholding the glory of God. WE can’t change US. We are only changed by beholding something better, something more beautiful, something more powerful. If you truly want to behave differently, you need to be wiling to behold differently: to think deeply about the holiness of God, to behold the majesty of His beauty, and to be overwhelmed and overcome with His goodness in your life.

What are the areas of your life that you truly want to see changed in 2018? In what ways can you position your life to be a reflection of God’s glory to the world around you?

In the final sermon of the Advent series, we looked at the essence of Christmas. What is Christmas really about? Christmas isn’t merely the celebration of the birth of Jesus, but it is the celebration of God’s plan to rescue sinners through Jesus. God gave his Son as a gift to us, that He would live a perfect life, die a sacrificial death and resurrect victoriously over death. Through faith in Him, we can have peace with God and peace with our fellow man. Through God’s gift, His one and only Son, we can be transformed from enemies of God to children of God by faith.

In the third sermon of the Advent series, A Son is Given, we looked at the significance of Jesus being called the Son of Abraham. The Apostle Paul saw a very deep and profound connection between Jesus and Abraham and, according to Paul, this was the center of the Gospel. He even mentions that when God made his original promise to Abraham in Genesis 12, God was “preaching the Gospel beforehand” to Abraham and because Abraham believed God, it was credited to him as righteousness. This is the center of the Gospel message: by faith in Jesus, sinners are made righteous. Abraham was considered perfectly righteous before God, not because of what he did but because of whom he believed in. Jesus was born as the Son of Abraham to fulfill all that God had promised to us through Abraham, that He would bless us by sending to us a righteousness that can only be attained by faith. This is the true gift of Christmas.

How did God fulfill His promise to make Abraham’s name great and bless all other families through him? Have you truly received the righteousness that can only come from believing in Jesus?

In the second sermon of our Advent series, A Son is Given, we looked at the significance of Jesus being identified as the Son of David. In order to understand the real meaning of this title, we looked deep into the Old Testament to a promise God made to King David in 2 Samuel 7 that God would establish the throne of David forever through one of his descendants. When the Angel Gabriel tells Mary she will give birth to the Son of God, he indicates that this baby will be the One to whom God referred in His promise to King David. The promise wasn’t just made to David; it impacts us all. God promised that He would one day send a Savior and King to save people from their sin and death and, as a free gift, give them ‘forever in Heaven with Him’. When we think about the meaning of Christmas, the celebration isn’t only about the birth of Jesus; the true celebration of Christmas is how the birth of Jesus sets in motion His life, death and resurrection and how that guarantees us eternity with Him.

When you think about forever, what is it that you are most looking forward to? What does the Bible say is required of you in order to know you will spend eternity with Jesus in Heaven?