The Word Unleashed - Radio

Many professing Christians and the local churches they attend proclaim that Scripture is their ultimate authority—but deny it in practice. For a church to be a biblical church, they must affirm that the Bible is God-breathed, it is sufficient, and that it speaks authoritatively for all of life, including how churches should conduct themselves.

It’s common today for churches to profess a high view of God but completely disregard His clear commands for Christ’s church. On today’s program, Tom Pennington demonstrates from Scripture that all biblical churches must have a high view of God—and their philosophy of ministry must flow from that commitment.

As leaders in Christ’s church, we don’t get to establish our own guiding principles. But rather, we must do exactly what Christ commands. In this series, we will discover several hallmarks that Scripture defines are essentially to be a biblical church.

At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, our Lord Jesus Christ speaks about the reality of deception, specifically that it’s possible to profess Jesus as Savior and Lord and not be truly saved.

In Matthew 7, Jesus describes the danger of making a false profession of faith in Jesus Christ—one that isn’t truly genuine. He describes this person as the foolish builder, one who is ultimately a false disciple. But He also describes the wise builder, who is found to be a true Christian.

A common misconception about Christianity is that, at its core, it is rooted in blind faith. But in reality, the Bible teaches that true Scriptural faith is rooted in three great realities: knowledge of the truth, mental assent to the truth, and an authentic trust or confidence in that truth.

The gospel of Matthew is one of the four New Testament gospels that presents the good news of Jesus Christ—that salvation is of grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, to the glory of God alone. And Matthew does this by explaining that Jesus of Nazareth is the promised Messiah of the Hebrew Scripture—and our divine Savior & King.

The God-Man—Jesus Christ—perfectly obeyed God’s law in all points and never sinned once. This key truth is why Jesus alone can truly save people from their sins

After having an encounter with Jesus, Matthew came to terms with his sins, repented of them, and trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness and salvation. As this marvelous story unfolds in Mark 2, it provides a blueprint for Jesus’ mission to the world: to save sinners from their iniquities, transgressions, and sins.

Mark 2 demonstrates that no one has out-sinned the saving work of Jesus Christ. In fact, Jesus' primary mission on earth was to save wretched sinners from the shame, guilt, and condemnation of the penalty their sin deserves.