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Sermon by Pastor Bob Johnson / July 14, 2024
Series: Summer Walk, 2024
Title: Walk in Unity
Text: Ephesians 4:2-6
Topic: Unity
Theme: The Unity of the Church
Sticky Statement: Church Unity Parades God’s Beauty.
Introduction
Recap last week and the Series “Summer Walk”
Challenge: Read Ephesians over the next six days. One chapter a day.
Ask God to speak to you through your reading.
Big Idea: Who you are in Christ transforms how you live for Christ
Today, we transition from the command to walk worthy to the practical instructions on how to do it.
The first part of Paul’s letters to the church is doctrinal, and the second part is practical. This passage is critical—it’s the hinge from doctrine to action, the bridge from biblical truth to practical application.
Read Ephesians 2:1-6
The main emphasis of this text is verse 3 – “Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
Paul’s emphasis is UNITY – Walk in Unity!
Our union with Christ produces a oneness with each other.
Because of our union with Christ, we are instructed to walk in Unity.
Three Forces of Division
– divides
– divides
– divides
THE ORIGIN OF UNITY
The origin of unity is the !
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one (UNITY); and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (John 17:22-23)
Beginning of His public ministry – Matthew 3 & 4 – The Holy Spirit, the Son, and the Father are together testifying to Christ’s move toward the Triune God’s mission of redemption.
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. (Mat 3:16-17)
The Big Idea: Church Unity Parades God’s Beauty.
- The reason for walking in Unity
The of God
Unity – Oneness or harmony
Truth comes before unity. Unity without truth is hazardous.
Look at verse 17:17, 23: “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth…that they may be made perfect in one (UNITY)”
Ephesians 1:4-7; 2:4-7; 3:6
The of God
No longer divided but united under the banner of grace!
Unity is an essential element of the church formed by the gospel and maintained upon a foundation of truth.
Ephesians 2:7-9
The unity of believers displays the beauty of God
- The responsibility for walking in unity.
This is a communal walk with an emphasis on individual responsibility.
1st Responsibility = Forebearing One Another in
Eph 4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Forbearing = Hold oneself up against, put up with, endure.
It is to your benefit to act in love toward one another. It is to your benefit to put up with each other.
What does this look like? “ALL”
LOWLINESS = HUMILITY
Lowliness – Humility of mind becomes those who are called.
Humility gives us proper perspectives of self and others.
MEEKNESS = GENTLENESS
Meekness gives us the proper posture for interacting with one another.
LONGSUFFERING = PATIENCE
Patience gives us proper disposition for viewing fellow members of Christ’s body.
2nd Responsibility = Endeavoring to Keep the
Eph 4:3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Endeavouring to Keep=
Present active participle
-This participle demands action
-Active voice means it’s a continual action.
–Endeavouring: to make effort, diligence, be prompt or earnest.
-“To keep” is a verb used like a noun phrase. It means to guard against loss or injury.
-It implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus.
You are to continually make an effort to guard against anything that would disrupt unity.
What disrupts unity?
You are either part of the division or part of the reconciliation.
- The reality for walking in unity.
Eph 4:4-6 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
The basis for oneness
One – Primary Numeral =
One body – The body of Christ
One Spirit – The Holy Spirit living within you
One Lord – Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords
One baptism – Spirit and water baptism
One God and Father – Most personal description – God is absolute, transcendent, sovereign, immanent, and omnipresent
The blessing of oneness
One – First = One hope, one faith.
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Sermon by Pastor Tim Block / July 7, 2024
Series: Summer Walk – a Study on Ephesians 4
Text: Ephesians 4:1
Who you are in Christ transforms how you live for Christ
Ephesians 4:1 – walk worthy
“Walk” – how we live on a daily basis
Context of Ephesians 4:1
- The apostle Paul wrote this letter to believers living in the city of Ephesus
- In this letter, Paul reminds them of what Jesus has done for them
Structure of Ephesians:
- Chapters 1-3: Who we are in Christ
- Chapters 4-6: How we live for Christ
“Worthy”- axios (greek) – balancing the scales
Read Ephesians 2:9
“Glory” – kabod (greek) – weight, heaviness
Who God is. Who we are. Who we are in Christ.
Read Isaiah 64:6 / Romans 3:23
Read Ephesians 1:3-14
Sermon by Pastor Brent Snook / June 30, 2024
Text: Psalm 19:7-11
In the Christian life, everything revolves around the Bible
2 Timothy 3:16-17 – “All scripture is given by inspiration of God,
and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished
unto all good works.”
John 17:17 – “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is
truth.”
3 Great Truths About the Bible
I. The Bible is an book
Inspired = God-breathed (the literal breath of God)
II. The Bible is an book
III. The Bible is an book
a. Instrumental unto
b. Instrumental unto
c. Instrumental for
WHY WE SHOULD BELIEVE THE BIBLE
A. BECAUSE OF ITS ACCURACY
B. BECAUSE of ITS ACCURACY
Read Jeremiah 33:22
C. BECAUSE OF ITS
D. BECAUSE OF ITS FULFILLED
E. BECAUSE OF ITS
HOW WE CAN BENEFIT FROM THE BIBLE
Psalm 19:7-11 – the benefits of the Bible
A. God’s word us
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul.
Law = Torah (a law for life; a rule for living)
B. God’s word us
Testimony = to bear withness
C. God’s word us
The statues of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart.
Read Jeremiah 15:16
D. God’s word us
Pure = clear
E. God’s word us
F. God’s word us
Read Psalm 19:10
Sermon by Pastor Brent Snook | June 23, 2024
Series: Fight for Your Family
Text: Song of Solomon (selected passages)
Dr. Christiaan Barnard – the South African heart surgeon to have performed the first successful heart transplant
The Song of Solomon
- a love poem
- communication between two lovers
Read Proverbs 18:21 and 1 Peter 3:10
“Too many couples just don’t communicate – and therefore, they don’t connect.”
Five Levels of Communication
- The level
- The level
- The level
- The level
- The level
Intimacy: comes from the Latin word intimus (‘inmost”)
A Biblical example of intimate marital communication is The Song of Solomon
Four Factors of Intimate Communication
I. words
A. Men are oriented
B. Women are oriented
II. words
Read Song of Solomon 5:2
Read Song of Solomon 5:10
III. words
Read Song of Solomon 1:9-11, 15-16
Read Colossians 4:6
What grace is: it is not giving others what they deserve but what they need
Read Song of Solomon 5:16 “His mouth is most sweet” – referring to his words
IV. words
Read Song of Solomon 2:8-14
Read Proverbs 9:17-18
“If you want your honeymoon not to end – start your marriage right.”
Read 1 Corinthians 7:3-5
Ecclesiastes 4:12 “A threefold cord is not quickly broken” – You. Your spouse. God
Sermon by Pastor Brent Snook / June 16, 2024
Series: Fight for the Family
Text: Psalm 128
I. THE BENEFITS OF A CHRISTIAN HOME
A. Christians live longer and healthier
Read Psalm 128:1, 5-6
Read Proverbs 10:27, Exodus 20:12
B. Christians are more successful in their
Read Psalm 128:2,4
Read Joshua 1:8, Psalm 1:1-3, Genesis 39:1-3
“The church is interwoven in every facet of our life. In
the corporate world, those who have faith do better
than those who do not. Fortune Magazine revealed
that 91% of the CEO’s of the ‘Fortune 500 Companies’
claimed a church affiliation, indicating that to a
degree their accomplishments were a result of the
value they learned either in church or the Bible. Since
54% came from lower middle class or poor families,
the evidence is good that the church played a role in
their accomplishments.” – Zig Ziglar
C. Christians are more capable to pass on their
Read Psalm 128:3
“Several years ago, a survey revealed that when
mom and dad took (not sent) their children to
church, 76% of the children followed their
parents in their faith. If only the father took the
children to church the percentage dropped to
55%. Interestingly enough, if only the mother
took the children to church, the percentage
dropped to 15%. If neither took the children to
church, only 9% became active Christians.”
II. THE BEHAVIOR OF A CONSISTENT HERITAGE
Read Proverbs 17:6b, Proverbs 23:24, 1 Corinthians 11:1
“Whatever parent gives his children good
instruction, and sets before them at the same
time a bad example, may be considered as
bringing them food in one hand and poison in
the other hand.” David Jeremiah
“Don’t you think it would be easier to change
you than to try to change two, three, or four
children? If you are the one who is causing all of
this, instead of trying to change your children,
why don’t you change you and then, when they
see you, they will change.” Charles Swindoll
Sermon by Pastor Brent Snook / June 9, 2024
Series: Fight for The Family
Text: Daniel 1
I. WHAT TO TEACH TEENAGERS
A. CONVICTION
Read Daniel 1:3-7, Philippians 4:8
B. CHARACTER
Read Daniel 1:8
Definition of Character: The will to do what is in the eyes of God – regardless of the consequences or the cost
2 Things about Character:
- Character demands a to do what is right no matter what it might cost you.
- Character depends upon believing in an absolute standard of and .
C. COURAGE
D. COMPANIONS
Read Prov 13:20, I Corinthians 15:33
II. HOW TO REACH TEENAGERS
A. them
B. to them
C. them
D. on God
Sermon by Pastor Jeff Moss / June 2, 2024
I. Hezekiah’s Confession
Read 2 Chronicles 29:6-8
II. Covenant
Read 2 Chronicles 29:10
“Change isn’t change until there’s change.”
III. Consecration
Read 2 Chronicles 29:20-32
IV. Correction
Read 2 Chronicles 30:5-9
V. Courage
Read 2 Chronicles 32:7-8, 20
Sermon by Pastor Brent Snook / May 26, 2024
Series: Fight for Your Family
Bible Texts: Psalm 127 and Nehemiah 4:13-14, 4:20
Fight for your family and God will fight for you. – Pastor Brent Snook
Read Psalm 127
I. CONSTRUCTION OF THE FAMILY
Read Psalm 127:1
Read Galations 6:7-8
“Do not be deceived”
II. CONSERVATION OF THE FAMILY
Read Psalm 127:1
Several ways the family is being destroyed:
- Immorality (Prov 9:17-18, 1 Cor 6:18)
- Alcohol
- Selfishness
- Social Media
- Sports
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:15)
III. CONTENTMENT OF THE FAMILY
Read Psalm 127:2
Read 1 Timothy 6:6
IV. CHILDREN OF THE FAMILY
Read Psalm 127:3-5
A. The desirability of children
B. The directability of children
An arrow must fulfill two purposes:
- it must be shot in the right
- it must hit the right
Read 3 John 4
Simple tips to point your children to God:
- Read Bible to them
- Let them hear you for them to know God
- Let them hear you that they will love God
- Be to every spiritual question they ask
- Buy them Christian bible and
- Find time everyday to read the together
- Pray for your children everyday and be
C. The dependability of children
Read Psalm 127:5
Sermon by Pastor Brent Snook / May 12, 2024
Text: Mark 10:13-16
NEW SERIES: FIGHT FOR YOUR FAMILY
1. HIS LOVE FOR CHILDREN
Children: an eternal investment
2. HIS LINK TO CHILDREN
4 reasons children learn so well:
Their curiosity level
Their memory factor
Their humility factor
Their trust factor
A. PRAYER
1. Pray regularly
2. Pray offensively
3. Pray defensively
4. Pray intensely
B. STANDARDS
C. INVOLVEMENT
D. TRAINING
E. COMMUNITY
F. DIRECTION
G. PERSEVERANCE
4 BIBLICAL GOALS TO HELP MOVE CHILDREN IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
IDENTITY
CHARACTER
RELATIONSHIPS
MISSION
3. HIS LESSON OF CHILDREN