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.
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
Main Idea: “Align your priorities with God’s priorities in order to build God’s house.”
1. Align your priorities with God’s priorities by considering your ways (1:1-11)
2. Build God’s house by obeying His Word (1:12-15)
Main Idea: “Follow the apostolic example of Christian freedom.”
1. What Paul meant by “Become as I am.”
2. The goal of following the apostolic example
3. Obstacles to following the apostolic example
Main Idea: “Beware of the danger of returning to spiritual slavery.”
1. What God has done to set you free
2. Be aware of the danger
Main Idea: “We become heirs of salvation through union with Christ, by faith, and not by law-keeping.”
1. Defining the “law.”
2. The law’s temporary role
3. The law is powerless to give life
4. How the law imprisoned
5. The goal of the law: Christ
6. The freedom of those in Christ
Main Idea: “We become heirs of salvation through union with Christ, by faith, and not by law-keeping.”
1. We are heirs by faith because of the relation of the promise to the law
2. We are heirs by faith because of the nature of the promise, that it was made to Christ.
3. Faith makes us heirs in Christ and through Christ
Main Idea: “Don’t be misled by relying on the works of the law for justification.”
1. Because of the Holy Spirit’s work
2. Because of what the Old Testament Scriptures say
Main Idea: “Beware of walking out of step with the gospel, because it implies that the grace of God is needless and the death of Christ was pointless.”
1. Acting as though justification is through the law makes the grace of God needless.
2. Acting as though justification is through the law makes the death of Christ pointless.
Main Idea: “Christian, do not forget that you are crucified with Christ and alive by Christ.”
1. How we as Christians are dead
2. How we as Christians are alive
