The Rock Church of Fenton Sermons

God promised to bring salvation to all men, granting them forgiveness and eternal life. This salvation is only in Jesus as He alone is the fullness of God, resurrected from the dead with the power to save. Salvation is only received by faith and not works. If salvation were as the result of works, man would be able to put God in his debt. As it is, salvation is a gift to be received, not a prize to be earned. Salvation makes new. When a person is truly saved, they are transformed into a new person bearing the fruit of joyfully concurring with the law of God in the inner man. Have you been made new by receiving the promise of salvation? Are you proclaiming and urging others to believe on Jesus to be saved?

The Bible declares that God works all things together for good to those who love God. The Lord will use trials that we encounter to render the fruit of endurance and strength. God can use evil that is committed against the believer for good. Affliction strips us of ourselves and drives us to the Lord and His word, positioning us where He will use us most. God can use your failure. Like Peter, having thrice denied Jesus, all of your failures can be turned to a testimony of God’s grace and mercy if we will just give it to Him. Have you given all of your life to Jesus, who can make it new?

The Bible says that God’s promises are fulfilled as “yes” and “amen” in Christ. God promises that He will never change. He will change Who He is; from everlasting to everlasting, He is God. We may not completely trust in our fellow man, but we can trust the eternal character of God. His word never changes. Heaven and Earth will fade away, but His word will stand forever. God never changes what He hates. Many things are described as an abomination to Him, and time and culture will not alter that. God’s love never changes. He loves His own with an everlasting love and promises to never leave us nor forsake us. Do you know this never-changing God by faith?

It’s easy to trust God when prayers are answered exactly the way we hoped. But what about when life doesn’t make sense? When tragedy strikes, prayers seem unanswered, or you’re walking through a season of painful waiting?

How do we continue to trust God’s goodness and sovereignty when His plans look different than our own?

Join us as we wrestle with these honest questions and discover the hope found in God’s unchanging character. Together, we’ll explore how God is at work in every circumstance, even the ones we don’t understand, and how He faithfully uses every season for His glory and our good.

The Bible encourages believers to test the spirits of teachers to see if they are of God. They are to be tested by Jesus, as anyone who denies Jesus as coming in the flesh is not of God. They are to be tested by the Holy Spirit in that the Spirit gives power to discern truth and error. They are to be tested by the Word of God. A false teacher cannot accurately proclaim the Word nor can an unredeemed hearer receive its truth. Until a soul is made alive by the Spirit, the Word of God cannot be fully understood. Have you been made alive so as to hunger and thirst for righteousness?

Clouds without water are often found to be the tyrants among the people of God. A tyrant is a terrorist, not a shepherd. They care nothing for the sick, broken, scattered, and lost. Those they do encounter, they seek to dominate with force and severity rather than compassion. Tyrants would rather enslave people to systems of dependency and control than see them set free in Jesus. Tyrants ultimately are seeking to make disciples of themselves rather than Jesus. Like the Pharisees long ago, the modern-day tyrants actually view the grace of Jesus as a threat to their position and power. Are you under the influence of a tyrant? Have you come to the place of walking in the freedom that only the true Savior can give?

Jeremiah gave clear warning about lying, false prophets among the people. Those who are liars will give false comfort. They coddle people in their sin rather than expose their iniquity that they may be free. They make false predictions. Often claiming to know the end of the world, or God’s will for a person, they lead people astray in appearing to be uniquely enlightened. Liars are what people want. Their very existence is evidence of what the masses crave. People want a voice to entertain them, confirm their bias and promise them the realization of their desires. What do you want? The true God calls for repentance from sin and faith in Jesus?

A heretic is someone appearing to teach truth while planting deception and falsehood. The bible gives several warnings about heretics. They creep into the assembly of believers unnoticed. They deny the truth about Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the true gospel. A heretic can be recognized by their fruit. They will ultimately show themselves by exploitation, adultery, greed, and corruption. Have you believed in the true Jesus or a portrayal of a false Jesus? Will you pray for discernment about what and who you are allowing to have spiritual influence in your life?

The Bible encourages those who follow Jesus that there will be thorns in the flesh at times. Thorns are messengers from Satan. They come to us in the form of people, illness, discouragement and spiritual attack. Thorns prevent the spoil of our heart. When God uses us, it comes with the risk of pride. Thorns in the flesh can be the very thing that keeps us qualified to continue to be used by the Lord. Thorns prove that God’s grace is enough. Though God could remove all of our thorns, he sometimes chooses to allow them to remain so that we might rely upon his grace rather than a cure. The power of Christ is displayed in our weaknesses. Do you know Jesus today? Do you have a thorn in the flesh? Be encouraged as you rely upon God’s grace to carry you.

The Bible tells us that truth and lies will bring the fruit of peace or anxiety. To speak the truth allows us to walk in confidence whereas lies are a net we set for ourselves. Truth and lies are acts of love or hate. Love is an action that rejoices with the truth, hatred is disguised with lying lips. Truth and lies show whether we follow Jesus or Satan. Jesus is the embodiment of the truth. Satan is the father of lies. Regardless of what we profess, the integrity of our words reveals the condition of our soul. Who are you truly following?