The term “wrath” is defined as “the emotional response to perceived wrong and injustice.” When humans express wrath, it always comes out as “anger, indignation, vexation, or the visible expression of one’s irritation.” However, when God speaks His wrath, it is as holy as His love, grace, and mercy.
Divine wrath is a crucial component of God’s perfect holiness. Without His wrath, there can be no holiness. Therefore, biblically, divine wrath is God’s correct and righteous response to sin. In a positive light, wrath, in perfect harmony with all his divine attributes, is God’s holy action of retributive justice towards those persons whose actions deserve eternal condemnation.
This Sunday at 6:00 PM, we are excited to continue our in-depth study of Paul’s letter to the Romans, focusing on the theme, ‘The Just Shall Live by Faith.” In this sermon, Paul clarifies, ‘The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.”
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Ray Overholt was a “profane man” who needed a Savior.  Overholt sang in a country band at a Battle Creed, Michigan dance hall. However, in 1958, at the height of his career, the Holy Spirit touched his heart, and he was moved to write the gospel song “He Could Have Called Ten Thousand Angels.”

Overholt couldn’t believe God was calling him to do this, for he didn’t know much about Jesus. Overholt said: “I opened the Bible and began to read the portion of Scripture that describes Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, telling Peter to put away his sword. Jesus told Peter, if He asked, the Father would send 12 legions of angels to deliver him, but it was to such suffering He had been called. I didn’t know then that that would have been more than 72,000 angels.”

After reading the passage, Overholt says he thought “He Could Have Called Ten Thousand Angels” would be a good title for the song. “I wrote the first verse and put it in my guitar case, gave the club my notice that I was quitting, and while trying to find out who Jesus was and writing the song, I was saved.” The song says:

“They bound the hands of Jesus in the garden where He prayed.
They led Him through the streets in shame.
They spat upon the Savior, so pure and free from sin.
They said, “Crucify Him; he’s to blame.”
Upon His precious head, they placed a crown of thorns;
They laughed and said, “Behold the King.”
They struck Him, and they cursed Him, and mocked His holy name.
All alone, He suffered everything.
He could have called ten thousand angels to destroy the world and set Him free.
He could have called ten thousand angels but died alone for you and me.”

In Matthew 26:53-54, Jesus told Peter, “Do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? How could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?” Instead, Jesus calls those who are lost to come to the cross where He was crucified for their sins. The Apostle Peter said, it is to such suffering on behalf of others that we have been called.

This Sunday, we will continue our sermons from 1 Peter: A Living Hope — “The Suffering Jesus.” While Christians are called to stand firm in their faith, God has also called us to prepare to be persecuted because of our convictions.

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What is your passion in life? What is that goal, that intrinsic desire, that longing that motivates you to keep on keeping on, in spite of the difficulties, hardships, setbacks, and even defeats? Your passion can be identified by asking yourself what brings you the greatest joy in life?

We all have personal responsibilities – those things we must do because of our position in life. However, what encourages us to get those essential things done is our desire to get back to that activity that really defines who we are. When a Christian discovers their passion, they usually find it connected to the perfect will of God for their lives.

The Apostle Paul’s passion to spread the gospel to the Gentiles was driven by his belief that God had given him that mission. He considered himself to be a God’s bondservant, one whom God had called, saved, sanctified, and sent to convince others of the power of God to save them from the eternal wages of their sins.

Sunday at 6:00 PM, we will continue our study of Paul’s letter to the Romans, “The Just Shall Live by Faith.” In this sermon, Paul makes it clear: the message he is proclaiming is not his own, but rather it is the “Gospel of Jesus Christ!”

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Persecution is the deliberate mistreatment or ridicule of a person or group of people based on their race, country of origin, religion, or political opinion. According to both Christian and secular historians, the Jews have been, and continue to be, the most oppressed ethnic group in the history of humanity.
However, anti-Christian violence in America is rising. According to the Family Research Council, the number of attacks on churches in 2023 (436) was twice as high as it was in 2022 and eight times as high as it was in 2018.
Pastors are being targeted. On Tuesday night, dozens of bullets were fired at Pastor Greg Locke’s home in Tennessee. Several months ago, a trailer full of Bibles was pulled into the church parking lot and set afire.
Conservative politicians are being targeted. Christian schools are being targeted. Pro-life organizations are being targeted. Evangelical Christians are the number one enemies of secular humanists, and if Donald Trump wins the election in November, Christians can expect such violence to increase.

This Sunday, we will continue our sermons from 1 Peter: A Living Hope – Preparing for Persecution. The title of this sermon is “Heavenly Citizens – Earthly Servants.” As Christians, we are called to stand firm in our faith. However, God has also called us to prepare to be persecuted because of our convictions.
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The word gospel means “good news.” While the word’s origin was in the pagan world, in the New Testament, the gospel refers to the fact that God took the initiative to do something about man’s sinful plight. John 3:16 is used as a simple definition of the gospel: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Because we all have sinned, we all deserve to be separated from God forever. But the GOOD NEWS is that God gave His Son to take our punishment. As a man, Jesus died for our sins. As God, Jesus died for the sins of all men. To prove His deity, Jesus rose from the grave, having conquered sin and death once and for all, and that’s GOOD NEWS!!!
Sunday at 6:00 PM, we will continue our study of Paul’s letter to the Romans, “The Just Shall Live by Faith.” In this sermon, we want to look at the power of the gospel to radically transform the lives of those who believe it and receive it

According to the latest report from the American Worldview Inventory from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, “the depth of depravity in America today is shocking! There are corrupt politicians, dishonest journalists and media outlets, broken social institutions, immoral religious leaders, and unconstitutional government programs and policies.”
The report begs the question: How did we get here? What happened so quickly to change America from a primarily Judeo-Christian worldview to Marxist-Socialism? According to veteran researcher George Barna, “The indisputable cultural decline is a direct result of the spiritual collapse of Christianity in the nation.” As I have often preached, the problem in America is not the rising of darkness but the absence of light.
This Sunday, we will continue our sermons from 1 Peter: A Living Hope – Preparing for Persecution. The title of this sermon is “The People of God.” It’s a call to action for all of us, for rather than expecting the systems of the world to accommodate our way of life, Christians should be willing to stand firm in our convictions as a witness to those persecuting us. We all have a role to play in this.

You may find this hard to believe, but the greatest threat to Christianity today is not the government, another religion, or a self-indulgent society. The greatest threat to Christianity is today’s church—false preachers preaching a false gospel, resulting in a low view of God, a casual view of Christ, and a comfortable view of sin.
It cannot be stressed enough—our current understanding of “church” poses the most significant threat to true Christianity. It undermines the purpose and power of the gospel and it tarnishes the value of our worship of God. To witness a genuine revival in our time, which is unlikely, a second reformation is imperative. We must return to the authority, inerrancy, and sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures.
Sunday at 6:00 PM, we will continue our study of Paul’s letter to the Romans, “The Just Shall Live by Faith.” In this sermon, the Apostle Paul said his message was not of man but of God. Therefore, Paul was God’s man with God’s message for God’s people.

I’m afraid that many folks who heard the call of God to be saved came to Jesus to get their ticket punched so they could go to heaven when they die. Once the visit with the Lord was over, they went back to their old way of living, and unless something drastic happens, they will never know what it means to have that personal, intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus!
God has called us out of the world, to send us back into the world, not to become entangled by the world, but to show others how to overcome the world through the power of the one who called us out of the world. Can you comprehend that?
So, how does it feel, knowing that YOU are the people of God, a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of God’s possession – those God has called out of the darkness and the depravity of this world, and to whom He has imparted the light of His glory, making you uniquely significant?
This week, as we continue our sermons from 1 Peter: A Living Hope – Preparing for Persecution. The title of this sermon is, “Blessed to be a blessing!”

Sunday evening at 6:00 PM, we will continue our study of Paul’s letter to the Romans entitled, “The Just Shall Live by Faith.”

In our first sermon we looked at the Apostle Paul as a man and a messenger of the gospel. In this sermon, we look at Paul’s message, which he said was not of man, but of God. Therefore, the Apostle Paul was God’s man’ with God’s message for God’s people.

Contrary to the contemporary preachers today, those whom God calls to be saved, He also calls to serve, and He also calls to suffer, not only the everyday problems of living in this sinful world but the persecution of living for Christ in an Antichristian world.

While thousands of Christians suffered severe persecution and martyrdom over the years, according to the Voice of Martyrs, more Christians have been martyred for their expressed faith in Jesus Christ in the last century than in all the centuries before combined, and such persecution is rising in the West.

This week, as we continue our sermons from 1 Peter, entitled “How Should We Then Live,” our focus will be on preparing for persecution, i.e., as Christ suffered for us, we are now being called to suffer for Him.