The New Covenant is a continuation of the Abrahamic Covenant of grace and replaces the Mosaic Covenant of works. Grab onto 5 New Covenant Promises this New Year from Ezekiel 36:25-27. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on January 2, 2022.
David wanted to build a house for God, but God turned the table and blessed David with this promise, "The LORD will make a house for you...I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever." Jesus is the fulfillment of that promise. He is the king we can hope in and his is a kingdom we can live in even as we await his second advent and the culminatio...
The Mosaic Covenant reveals God's perfect holiness and our inability to keep His holy law. It reveals our need for God's grace. Jesus had to be our lamb and our law keeper. His life and His sacrifice provided the righteousness we lack on our own. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on December 19, 2021.
The Abrahamic Covenant is an astonishing unilateral covenant that God made with Abraham. In Genesis we see the Covenant Call, the Covenant Cut, and the Covenant Kid. In addition we see God's faithfulness through the ages to bring to fulfillment this covenant through His Son, Jesus Christ. This message was preached by Pastor Josh White on December 12, 2021.
The Noahic Covenant is a promise to all living creatures that God has, in this age of grace, hung up His war bow. In this time of common grace, He is waiting patiently for sinners to enter Christ, the better ark, so that when He judges the world by fire and makes all things new, those found in Christ will be saved to enjoy the future promised kingdom. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on December 25, 2021.
Genesis 2 & 3 reveals a covenant of works and grace. Adam, as humanities' covenant representative, disobeyed God and brought death to all. But God, being rich in mercy, promised a new representative, the better Adam–Jesus Christ–who would fulfill the covenant of works and through whom we inherit the promises of God. This message was preached by Gabe Medina on November 28, 2021.
God is a triune God... one God eternally existing as three persons: the Father, Son and Spirit. He did not create out of need, but out of an overflow of abundant joy and love and fellowship that He wanted to share with His creatures. Our world came from the overflow, the excess of God's happiness within the Trinity. This God from eternity past planned for our rescue and redemption so that we might share in His life and love. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on November 21, 2021.
Our mission is to tell the world about the saving love of Jesus. What can we glean from Jesus when He met the Samaritan woman at the well? What did He do that was staggering and that we can emulate as we interact with the individuals that cross our path? This message was preached by Pastor Marcelo Tolopilo on November 14, 2021.
The doxology of Romans 16:25-27 enables us to praise God for strengthening us with the Gospel, to praise God for strengthening us with the word and to praise God for strengthening us with faithful obedience. "To the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ. Amen." This message was preached by Pastor Josh White on October 24, 2021.
Romans 16 has much to teach us on the nature of the church. The church is a diverse family on mission. We should affectionately greet it and guard it. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on October 17, 2021.
How should we as God's children make decisions in concert with God's will? How do we make plans, and how do God's plans and our plans mesh? This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on October 10, 2021.
The glory of God is God's holiness put on display (that God is better than anyone and anything). We were made to glorify God by reflecting this, but we have failed to do that. There is One, however, who came as the radiance of His glory, an exact imprint (Heb. 1:3). Jesus glorifies God by making good all of His Father's promises and by including all believers in His glory. Our response? Take JOY in Him. Praise. Rejoice. Hope. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on October 3, 2021.
"Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law" (Ro. 13:8). Why should we obey this commandment and how do we do it? Paul unfolds the answers in this timely passage. Listen in for "the hour has come for you to wake from sleep." This message was preached by Gabriel Medina on September 19, 2021.
"Let every person be subject to the governing authorities" (Romans 13:1). Is this absolute command hard to accept? Paul gives 4 motivations in Romans 13 for taking God at His word. In addition, this message explores the only biblical reasons for disobeying the governing authorities. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on September 12, 2021.
How do we present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God as it says in Romans 12:1? All biblical commands flow from Gospel transformation ("by the mercies of God"). Christ is our example and God's Spirit the power behind our obedience, an obedience that enables to love our enemies and do good to them. This message was preached by Gabriel Medina on September 5, 2021.
There is no peace without forgiveness, neither peace with God nor peace with our fellow man. Matthew 18 provides 4 principles for peacemaking: 1. Forgiveness is required. 2. Forgiveness is the goal of peacemaking. 3. Forgiveness is a promise and a process. 4. Forgiveness is a re-gifting of the Gospel. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on August 29, 2021.
"The Agape" - genuine God-given love shows the world that we are Jesus' disciples and shows the world who God is. Agape love, what is it? Romans 12:9-13 describes the love we should have for one another within the body of Christ and should radiate out to a lost world. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on August 22, 2021.
How are we to be transformed by the renewing our minds? We must think rightly about ourselves by growing in humility and grace, and we must think rightly about the church, a union and communion of believers using their gifts to bless one another and display the Gospel to the world. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on August 15, 2021.
Our Missionary Identity: 4 Maxims 1. No one believes the Gospel without being told the Gospel. 2. Your scars for the mission are beautiful. 3. You are simply the messenger. 4. Trust the power of the message. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on July 25, 2021.
Why did Israel reject their Messiah? What did human self-righteousness have to do with it? What is self-righteousness? How can it keep us from knowing and loving God? What can be done about it? This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on July 18, 2021.
The covenant promise of baptism is meant to strengthen our faith. In it we are reminded that we are clean in Jesus–our moral stain has been removed, we are new in Jesus–our immoral heart has been replaced, and we our filled with the Holy Spirit–we are no longer powerless against sin. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on July 11, 2021.
God is faithful to His promises! How is this demonstrated through His sovereign election of all believers? Knowing that God's choice wasn't based upon our goodness or "good" works should humble us and give us confidence and courage as we share the Gospel with a lost world. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on July 4, 2021.
If you could have one wish, what would it be? How about "God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose"! How can we know & trust this promise? Because God is unleakingly sovereign, shockingly brilliant and incomparably good. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on June 20, 2021.
It seems the prayer life for most Christians can be a struggle. Romans 8:26-27 brings great encouragement, showing us why the Holy Spirit helps us in prayer and how the Spirit helps us. This message was preached by Pastor Josh White on June 13, 2021.
What is this world and our lives coming to? God's answer: Incomparable Glory! Yet while we wait... the creation is groaning for this glory. And we groan not only because we suffer but because we've tasted the first fruits of our future glory with Christ. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on June 06, 2021.
What does it mean to be adopted by God? How does the Father, Son & Holy Spirit participate in our adoption and what is the outworking of this reality in the life of a believer? This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on May 30, 2021.
The Ascension reminds us that Jesus is right now reigning in heaven with all authority to empower us, His church, to live for Him here on earth. And He has showered gifts upon us through the Holy Spirit so that we might be equipped to do the work of the ministry. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on May 16, 2021.
Christians have always been resident exiles on this earth. How should we live as we sojourn here? Jeremiah gives us five (5) strategies so that we might not only live but thrive as strangers and aliens in a foreign land on Mission with our dear Savior. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on May 9, 2021.
The Gospel does not leave us "saved" but "enslaved." Rather, in and through the Gospel we experience true freedom. The answer to Paul's cry of despair (Romans 7:24) is a call to believe in the Gospel and its power to free us from habitual sin and trust in the Holy Spirit's to enable us to live out our life in Christ. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on May 2, 2021.
What can we expect when we rely on the Law or on our own power in our fight with sin? Utter failure (i.e. Romans 7). The Law is no match for sin's power; we are no match for sin's power. The Gospel is the only remedy for sin's power. This message was preached by Pastor Erick Cobb on April 25, 2021.
