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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Romans 8:29-30
Scripture teaches that the accomplishing and application of our salvation was planned by God before He created the world. Salvation was not a last-minute response to Adam’s sin. God planned it before the creation of the world. In this sermon, Pastor Tony continues his series on the Golden Chain of salvation. This sermon covers the perseverance of the saints in the context of Romans chapter 8.
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Romans 8:29-30; Galatians
Are blessings earned by obedience and thereby forfeited by poor performance? Is sanctification by God’s grace alone or dependent on God’s grace and our works? Paul’s letter to the Galatians proves the importance of these concepts and in his third sermon on sanctification; Pastor Tony answers these questions and completes his review of sanctification.
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Romans 8:30
Can someone belong to Christ, but not live as a follower of Christ? Can a person receive Christ as Savior but not as Lord? Is it possible for a person to be justified but not conformed to the likeness of God’s Son? Can justification and sanctification be separated? In this sermon, Pastor Tony reviews the inseparable links between justification and sanctification. The connection between faith and fruit or faith and deeds is clearly seen in Scripture.
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Romans 8:29-30 In eternity past, God chose—foreknew or foreloved—and predestined a host of Adam’s fallen race to be His children. Those whom God predestined, He also called. Those whom God calls to salvation are justified, adopted, and eventually glorified. But there is even more to salvation. After He adopts us, He by His Spirit works in us to sanctify us. In this sermon, Pastor Tony continues his review of the Golden Chain of redemption with his first of three sermons on sanctification.
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Romans 8:30
Several of the steps in which God applies redemption to His children are included in Romans 8:30. Here and elsewhere the Scriptures teach that the redemption accomplished by Christ is progressively applied to lives of God’s children. In this sermon, Pastor Tony reviews the steps in the order of salvation or the steps in the application of Christ’s redemption from Romans chapter 8.
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
Luke 2:1-20 Luke unashamedly proclaims a whole new era of permanent peace that was to be ushered in by the long-promised Messiah whose way would be prepared by John the Baptist. Pastor Tony reviews the prophesy of Zechariah recorded in the first chapter of Luke and others in the Old Testament regarding the long-promised Horn of Salvation.
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Luke 1:26-38
Luke wrote “an orderly account” so that those of us who read his gospel might “know the certainty of the things you have been taught.” He recorded the miraculous births of both John the Baptist and Jesus the Messiah. In this sermon, Pastor Tony reviews the promise of a Redeemer and the birth of Jesus.
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Malachi 3:1-5; 4:1-6; Luke 1:5-25, 57
In the last book of the Old Testament, God promised to send a messenger before the long-awaited Messiah would arrive. Malachi said that the Messiah was coming soon—but there was silence in Israel for over 400 years. In this Advent sermon, Pastor Tony unfolds the Old and New Testament prophesies and accounts of John the Baptist and Zechariah’s role in the amazing events.
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
I Corinthians 11:17-34
As recorded in I Corinthians chapter 11, the church at Corinth was experiencing some challenges to their unity. Similarly, today, Christ’s church seems hopelessly fragmented over issues of both doctrine and practice. The sacraments are the center of some division and controversy in the Church. In this sermon, Pastor Tony answers some questions about the way the Presbyterian Church in American observes the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper.
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Romans 8:30
In this sermon, Pastor Tony reviews the Westminster Confession of Faith’s chapter on Adoption (Chapter 12) in the context of an overview of the order of salvation. In Christ, we partake the grace of adoption and enjoy all the liberties and privileges of the children of God. We become the righteousness of God and are adopted as His children through Christ having paid the penalty for our sins.
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