Sunday Sermons - Old Du Quoin Baptist Church

Jesus is humble and human, as we discussed in Part 1. But He is not only man, but He is the God-man. He is God in the flesh.

We must recognize who it is in the manger on Christmas, because our lives truly depend on it.

The yearly repetition of Christmas can make it easy to forget the magnitude of what Christmas is about.

God took on human flesh and became one of us. He associated with the lowly and the alienated to bring us back to God.

Paul concludes the letter to the church in Rome with a doxology praising the glory of God. Everything he has shared for the last 16 chapters has been great truth about God that glorifies His Holy Name.

We were created to glorify God and we were saved to glorify God. All things are for His glory.

As the letter to the church in Rome comes to an end, Paul gives a final pastoral charge to the church.

He encourages the church to be on watch for false teachers, to be vigilant, and to take heart in the guaranteed victory in Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving does not just come after we are content with all that we have, but giving thanks to God actually helps us to be peaceful and content in all things.

In Paul's greetings, we see an amazing tapestry of the individuals who comprised the early church. These are those who made the church function. They were not pastor, preachers, or evangelists, but the regular church members who had a love for the Lord.

God has a role for each of us to play in His church. If Paul wrote a letter to your church, would he find it necessary to mention you?

In this passage, we learn a lot about Paul's heart for mission and ministry. From it, we can also learn a lot about the type of heart we should have as followers of Christ.

Paul shows us that true ministry always flows from Christ, through the Holy Spirit, and to those who need to hear the Gospel.

Paul encourages the church in Rome by affirming his confidence in them that they are full of goodness, full of knowledge, and able to teach. We as a church should strive to have the same testimony.

Paul shows us that God's plan has always included the Gentiles and that both Jew and Gentile are a key component of God's people and God's work in the world.