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We make disciples, gather together, and
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Romans 13 is a foundational passage for understanding civil government, but it has often been applied incorrectly to defend sinful tyranny. This sermon covers Romans 13 as well as several other harmonious passages in order to see clearly what God has commanded related to obedience and disobedience of civil authorities.
Paul turns the focus from orthodoxy to orthopraxy in Romans 12, giving a series of imperatives related to spiritual worship. We are commanded to be living sacrifices (rather than dead ones), serving the body of Christ, loving enemies, weeping with mourners and rejoicing with the joyful.
Romans 9-11 gives us a clear overview of how we should view unbelieving Israel: we should look with joyful expectation at their future repentance and faith in Christ. This week, Pastor Dan walks us through Romans 11 and the tremendous plan of God to bring Himself glory through their salvation. Thus, we should not “boast against the branches.”
Romans 10 continues Pauls Discourse on election as it relates to Jews and the Church, but turns his focus to how it is that so many Jews have rejected the Messiah. Pastor Daniel walks us through the reason: salvation is by faith for those who repent and believe in Christ’s atoning work.
Christ is Lord over heaven and earth, including every nation on earth (Matthew 28:18), and we are commanded to make disciples of the nations, teaching them to obey His commands. The founding fathers of the United States recognised the Lordship of Christ and affirmed His authority and rule. Pastor Daniel addresses the biblical foundation for human governments and addresses the history and future of America as a federal country of Christian states.
Romans 9 is a critical passage as it relates to God’s sovereignty over salvation. It covers key topics related to election, predestination, and God’s will while emphasising that salvation is by faith and not our works. Pastor Dan walks us through this critical passage while addressing the perennial topic of Calvinism.
Romans 8 is a profound passage of Scripture. It addresses a multitude of related issues from suffering to sanctification to the perfect plan of God. There are significant theological (soteriological) truths here, and there are some simple, but no less profound, truths related to comfort in both painful and joyful circumstances. Pastor Dan walks us through all of it in this sermon.
The battle against sin seems impossible at times. We don't realise how difficult it is to live righteously until we try to live righteously. We have many failures, but Christ ultimately gives us the victory! Dan Rogatto walks us through Romans 7 and the hope we have in Christ for sanctification.
The fact that Jesus paid for all of the sin we have ever done or ever will do does not mean we should go on sinning. When we were baptised into Christ, our old life died with him. Now, we live in newness of life with Him in HIs resurrection! The key is to recon our selves dead to sin.
Romans 5 provides a clear explanation of our federal headship. We were once under Adam’s headship and thus under sin because Adam (as our federal head) sinned against God. But, as Romans 5 explains, Christ Jesus obeyed where Adam disobeyed. Those who are in Christ have transferred into the headship of Christ, the Last Adam. Thus, we have eternal hope and life in Christ!
Romans 4 describes the connection between the faith of Abraham and the faith of all of God’s people. Just as Abraham believed God and it was counted as righteousness, so it is with us. Adam Cawrse walks us through this critical doctrine.
Having shown that no one lives up to God’s standard of righteousness, Paul demonstrated that justification is by grace. This chapter explains what it means for God to declare us righteousness by faith in Christ and not by our own works.
It is easy to look at the sins of Romans 1 and think that we are better because we acknowledge that sin is bad, but the truth is that we do not live up to our own standards of morality. Both the law-oriented Jew and the moralist gentile are found in wanting compared to the righteousness of God. We need a perfect Savior!
Paul’s Epistle to the Romans is a profound work of systematic theology designed to explain how the gospel brings glory to God by revealing His righteousness. Pastor Daniel walks us through Romans 1 which explains how a people who suppress the truth of God heap up sin. Increase in homosexuality, murder, hatred of God, and all kinds of sin increase as unrighteousness people worship the creation rather than the Creator.
False teachers have been a problem for the church since the beginning. By God’s grace, Scripture provides us ample tools for recognising and repelling them. Christ Jesus refers to false teachers as wolves in sheep’s clothing. Wolfsbane is the natural repellent to wolves. Pastor Dan walks us through a systematic study of Scripture as it relates to recognising and repelling false teachers.
The incident at Babel is an example of human pride contrasted with God’s power and plan. God will always make sure His plan is accomplished. Moreover, HIs plan is not for division but multiplication. Pastor Dan asks us through the dispersion from Babel in Genesis 11 and the reunification through the Gospel at Pentecost in Acts 2.
This passages addresses the end of the flood and the new start for God’s creation. God makes a promise not to destroy the earth again. However, recognising that man still has sin in his heart, God makes a provision for capital punishment. All the while, He keeps His promise to send the Snake Crusher by preserving the Image of God and the like from Eve to Mary.
Jesus is the Seed of Woman sent to crush the serpents head! He has died to pay our sin debt, taking the punishment for our sin, and He has risen from the dead, defeating death. The serpent’s work is defeated, and Christ is victorious! John 20 gives us an account of the resurrected Jesus, defeating the curse in a garden just as the curse was made in a garden.
Genesis 7 gives us the account of the flood itself. God demonstrates His justice by pouring out His wrath on evil while graciously sparing a remnant. He is a both just and merciful. In this sermon, Pastor Dan exegetes Genesis 7 and addresses the physical evidence for this profound act of judgement.
Recently, it has become popular to study the Nephalim mentioned in Genesis 6 and make speculations as their relationship to giants and paranormal activity. While this is an interesting study, it is not the focus of Genesis 6. In this sermon, Pastor Dan briefly addresses the question of the Nephalim before focusing on the primary content of Genesis 6: God’s wrath against sin, and HIs plan to rescue a remnant by His grace.
