Veritas Church Sermons

BIG IDEA: Because of God’s measureless mercy and lavish love, we have been graciously given new life in Christ, so that God might forever display his glorious grace. 

OUTLINE: Five facets of our new life in Christ:

1. Its Author

2. Its Source

3. Its Nature

4. Its Victory

5. Its Purpose

RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Union With Christ: The Blessings of Being In Him by Sinclair Ferguson; A Body of Divinity by Thomas Watson; The Lectio Continua Commentary: Ephesians by Ian Hamilton; The Letter to the Ephesians: An Exegetical and Theological Commentary by Thomas Schreiner; 

BIG IDEA: The Christian’s story begins like everyone else’s: being born dead in sin, colluding with God’s enemies, and deserving God’s wrath.

OUTLINE: 

1 You Were DEAD

Severed from the Source

Collaborating with God’s Enemies

Born an heir of wrath

2 You WERE Dead

RESOURCES: 

ESV Study Bible; The Letter To The Ephesians by Schreiner; The Message of Ephesians by Stott; Ephesians by Merida; The Letter to the Ephesians by O’Brien; Let’s Study Ephesians by Ferguson; ‘Things Unseen’ podcast by Ferguson; Ephesians by Hamilton; Ephesians by Boice; Ephesians For You by Coekin; Ephesians by Allen; Pilgrim Theology by Horton. 

BIG IDEA: The infinite power of God toward us who believe has been demonstrated in Christ’s resurrection, ascension, reign, and union with his church. 

OUTLINE: 

God’s Power in Christ’s Conquering

God’s Power in Christ’s Kingship

God’s Power in Christ’s Communion

RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; ESV Expositional Commentary: Ephesians by Benjamin Merkle; The Lectio Continua: Ephesians by Ian Hamilton; Ephesians: An Expositional Commentary by James Montgomery Boice; The Letter to the Ephesians: An Exegetical and Theological Commentary by Thomas Schreiner; Ephesians Commentary by John Calvin; The Ascension of Christ: Recovering A Neglected Doctrine by Patrick Schreiner; Reformed Systematic Theology: Volume 3 by Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley; 

BIG IDEA: Pray for the Spirit’s work in our midst that we might know the glorious God and his glorious salvation. 

OUTLINE: 

The Petition for Illumination

The Purposes of Illumination

To Know the Hope

To Know the Riches

To Know the Power

RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; BDAG ed. Frederick William Danker; The Letter to the Ephesians: An Exegetical and Theological Commentary by Thomas Schreiner; The Lectio Continua Commentary: Ephesians by Ian Hamilton; An Expositional Commentary: Ephesians by James Montgomery Boice; Ephesians Commentary by John Calvin; A Call to Spiritual Reformation by DA Carson; Concise Theology by JI Packer; 

BIG IDEA: Christians should listen for, give thanks for, and pray for God’s work in the life of the saints.

OUTLINE:

1 Listening For God’s Workmanship

2 Giving Thanks For God’s Workmanship

3 Praying For God’s Workmanship

RESOURCES:

ESV Study Bible; Ephesians For You by Coekin; Let’s Study Ephesians by Ferguson; Ephesians by Stott; The Letter To The Ephesians by Schreiner; A Call To Spiritual Reformation by Carson; Ephesians by Chapell; New Testament Commentary by Baker; Ephesians by Allen; Ephesians by Merida.

BIG IDEA: The inexhaustible Fountain of Love has shown his love and is the source of love among us. 

OUTLINE: 

The Perfection of Love

The Communication of Love

The Congregation of Love

RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Tyndale New Testament Commentaries: The Letters of John by John Stott; The New American Commentary: 1, 2, 3 John by Daniel Akin; A Body of Doctrinal Divinity by John Gill; The Pleasures of God by John Piper; Heaven Is A World of Love by Jonathan Edwards; God Is by Mark Jones; Reformed Systematic Theology by Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley; Enjoying God: Finding Hope in the Attributes of God by RC Sproul; 

BIG IDEA: God is just, the Rock of righteousness who is never wrong. 

OUTLINE: 

The God of Justice

His Works of Justice

Our Response to Justice

RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Understanding the Bible Commentary Series: Deuteronomy by Christopher Wright; The New American Commentary: Deuteronomy by Eugene Merrill; The Justice and Goodness of God: A Biblical Case for the Final Judgment by Thomas Schreiner; Reformed Systematic Theology by Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley; The Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock; The Attributes of God: An Introduction by Gerald Bray; Everyone’s A Theologian by R.C. Sproul; Enjoying God: Finding Hope in the Attributes of God by R.C. Sproul; Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer; 

BIG IDEA: God is infinitely majestic and pure, and his holiness demands our worship, confession, and witness.

OUTLINE: 

God’s Matchless Majesty

God’s Perfect Purity

God’s Covenantal Call

RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; The Book of Isaiah: A Commentary by Edward J. Young; Isaiah Commentary by John Calvin; Holiness by John Webster; The Holiness of God by R..C Sproul; The Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock; Reformed Systematic Theology by Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley; 

BIG IDEA: God is good. 

OUTLINE:

1 He is always giving

2 the best possible gifts.

RESOURCES: The Existence & Attributes of God vol II by Charnock; God Is by Jones; Knowledge of the Holy by Tozer; Reformed Systematic Theology by Beeke & Smalley; The Doctrine of God by Bavinck; The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing by Pennington; Matthew vol I by Doriani; Sermon on the Mount by Stott; ESV Study Bible.

BIG IDEA: Being immutable, God is therefore impassible and cannot be acted upon by creatures.

OUTLINE: Is God impassible?

1) Yes.

2) Really?

3) So?

RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Commentary on the Whole Bible by John Gill; Commentary on the Whole Bible by Matthew Henry; Gnomon of the New Testament by Johann Albrecht Bengel; Commentary on the Holy Scriptures by John Peter Lange; English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole; Notes on the Whole Bible by Albert Barnes; Complete Commentary by John Trapp; Does God Suffer? by Thomas Weinandy; God Without Passions: A Primer by Samuel Renihan; None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God by Matthew Barrett;