Listen to weekly sermons from Immanuel Baptist Church wherever you are. Rooted in Scripture and centered on Christ, our messages are designed to inspire, challenge, and encourage your walk with God.
1. Substitution
2. Imputation
3. Justification by Faith
Main Idea: “True followers of Christ make the cross their only boast, because they know the cross is their only hope.”
1. Those who are false boast in the flesh.
2. Those who are true make the cross of Christ their only boast.
3. How to get a deeper sense of the preciousness of the cross of Christ
Main Idea: “You will reap what you sow.”
1. Share with those who teach you God’s Word.
2. Do not be deceived.
3. Don’t grow weary.
4. Do good.
Main Idea: “Bear one another’s burdens.”
1. The call to burden-bearing love
2. An obstacle to this love
3. How to overcome this obstacle
Main Idea: “If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.”
1. The fruit of the Spirit described
2. Practical helps for keeping in step with the Spirit
Main Idea: “If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.”
1. The List of Vices: “Works of the flesh”
2. The warning to those practicing such things
3. Practical helps in keeping in step with the Spirit
Main Idea: “God delays His judgement in patience, but He will surely come to refine His people and judge the wicked.”
1. The people’s complaint against God
2. The promise of God’s coming
3. The results of God’s coming
Main Idea: “Christian, walk by the Spirit.”
1. What it is to “walk by the Spirit”
2. Why we are called to walk by the Spirit
3. A word of encouragement
Main Idea: “Use your freedom to lovingly serve one another by the power of the Holy Spirit.”
1. How do we use our freedom?
2. Why? It fulfills the law.
3. Why? Because failing to do so destroys Christian community.
4. How? It is by the Spirit that we find the strength to use our freedom in this way.
Main Idea: “When the situation is serious, a serious response is needed.”
1. Serious error requires a serious response
2. Serious truth calls for the willingness to make serious sacrifices
Main Idea: “Through the Spirit, by faith, eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.”
1. The way of deadly ritualism
2. The way of saving faith
Main Idea: Don’t submit to spiritual slavery by trying to work for what Christ has already given you.
1. Two women, two sons, two covenants
2. Who are you?
3. How this knowledge helps us avoid getting scammed into spiritual slavery
