Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church Sermons

Sermon Title: Time To Fight  Galatians 5:15-18 Big Idea: The battle against sin demands that we diligently fight against the remnants of sin in our hearts through the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit.  1. Obey the Lord’s Command, v16a 2. Embrace The Promise of The Command, v16b-17 3. Rejoice In the Certainty of Your Freedom, v18

Sermon Series:            “The Gospel: God’s Power in Our Salvation” Sermon Text:               Romans 5:1-11 Sermon Title:               “Glorification: Tomorrow’s News – Today” Sermon Slides:            * * SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide= * SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:    Glorification is the Best News of the Gospel. It is the Capstone of our Salvation in Jesus… and the Consummation of Christ’s Glory to Us. * * SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Glorification is… the Capstone of our Salvation in Jesus. (vv. 1-9)   * * SLIDE 4 – Point 2: Glorification is… the Consummation of Christ’s Glory to Us. (vv. 10-11) * * SLIDE 5 – Sermon Uses: Three about God’s Glory. * SLIDE 6 – We Must Deflect All Glory from Ourselves… * SLIDE 7 – …So, We May Give All Glory to God Alone. * SLIDE 8 – This Releases Us… to Live All of Life for the Glory of Jesus Christ.

Sermon Series:            “The Gospel: God’s Power in Our Salvation” Sermon Text:               Romans 6:1-14 Sermon Title:              “Sanctification: A Growing Obsession with Jesus” Sermon Slides:            * * SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide= * SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:    If Justification is Good News … Sanctification is More Good News. And our Sanctification Progresses … as our Obsession with Jesus Grows. * * SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Our Sanctification Begins … By Our Union with Jesus. (vv. 1-10) * SLIDE 4 – Justification = God’s Legal Verdict of ‘No Condemnation’; His forgiving and declaring us righteous in Christ, because of Christ alone. Justification is God’s verdict and our new status. * SLIDE 5 – Sanctification = Our Actual Renewal in the Power of Christ’s Crucifixion, Death, and Resurrection by the Holy Spirit. Sanctification is the Spirit’s work and our new habits. * SLIDE 6 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 7 – 1st Principle (from vv. 1-2): “There are two kinds of people in our world – those who are dead to sin by God’s grace, and those still dead in sin who trust in their works.” * SLIDE 8 – 2nd Principle (from vv. 1-2): “Our Justification is not our license to keep sinning … but our license to become holy.” * SLIDE 9 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 10 – 1 Cor. 12:13 – “For also by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.” * SLIDE 11 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 12 – 1st Principle (from vv. 9-10): “Justification overturns sin’s final penalty … but Sanctification overcomes sin’s present power.” * SLIDE 13 – 2nd Principle (from vv. 9-10): “Justification is the Gospel at work for us. But Sanctification is the Gospel at work in us. We will be changed!” * SLIDE 14 – Conclusion (Point 1): “The additional Good News of Sanctification is that we’ve received real power over our remaining sin that will produce real holiness in us. We will be changed … because the change is inside us!”   * * SLIDE 15 – Point 2: Our Sanctification Progresses … As Our Obsession with Jesus Grows. (vv. 11-14) * SLIDE 16 – Matthew 5:29 – “But if your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.” * SLIDE 17 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon * SLIDE 18 – Principle (from vv. 11-14): “You may lose a battle (or a string of battles) against sin, but you’ll never lose the war. For God’s grace of justification rules you … not the Law of condemnation.” * SLIDE 19 – Conclusion (Point 2): “Sanctification is More Good News not only because we are liberated from the power of sin, but because we’re fully empowered to walk, talk, and live like Jesus! We will look like Him!” * * SLIDE 20 – Sermon Uses: Three for our Gospel Sanctification. * SLIDE 21 – You Can’t Be Sanctified if You Haven’t Been Justified … So Have You? * SLIDE 22 – Our Sanctification in Jesus… is Also by Grace through Faith in Christ. * SLIDE 23 – 1 Peter 3:15 – “But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts.” * SLIDE 24 – Phil. 2:12-13 – “So then, my beloved … work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” * SLIDE 25 – Stop Trying to Be Perfect … Instead, Trust Harder in the Perfect Savior.

Sermon Series:            “The Gospel: God’s Power in Our Salvation” Sermon Text:              Romans 8:1-4 Sermon Title:              “The Condemnation of Condemnation” Sermon Slides:            * * SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide * SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:    The Law of Death and Condemnation … has been Overcome by the Law of Life and Freedom. * * SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Two Laws at Work … The Weight of Sin and the Wealth of Grace. (vv. 1-2) * SLIDE 4 – Romans 2:15-16 – “They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.” * SLIDE 5 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 6 – Rev. Thomas Watson (1620-86) – “Wicked men, while they live, are blinded by the god of this world. But when they are dying, the eye of their conscience will begin to be opened and they shall see the wrath of God … a sad prologue to an eternal tragedy.” * SLIDE 7 – Romans 6:20-21 – “For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.” * SLIDE 8 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon * SLIDE 9 – Romans 7:24 – “Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?”   * * SLIDE 10 – Point 2: The One Body of Jesus … The Condemnation of Condemnation. (v. 3) * SLIDE 11 – John 2:18-21 – “So the Jews said to him, ‘What sign do you show us for doing these things?’  Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’  The Jews then said, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking about the temple of his body.” * * SLIDE 12 – Point 3: All Things New … The Freedom of Freedom in Christ (Sermon Uses). (v. 4) * SLIDE 13 – Our Justification in Jesus … Brings a New Language to the Believer. * SLIDE 14 – Our Justification in Jesus … Brings a New Walk in Freedom. * SLIDE 15 – Our Justification in Jesus … Brings a New Destiny for Eternity.

A BECKONING FROM THE LORD OF PRAYER (Luke 11:1-4) Big Idea: Christ lived out & fulfilled the Lord’s prayer, and he invites us to become like him as we pray just as he taught us. 1. Father, an invitation to intimacy with our heavenly Father, just like Jesus 2. Hallowed be your name, an invitation to worship the Father, just like Jesus 3. Your kingdom come, an invitation to The Great Commission & a longing for the realization of heaven, just like Jesus 4. Give us each day our daily bread, an invitation to trust in God’s provision, just like Jesus 5. Forgive us our sins & lead us not into temptation, an invitation to holiness, just like Jesus