God delivers His people from bondage by grace through a blood sacrifice. But His primary focus in His redemption is freedom from the spiritual bondage of our own sin, not liberation from external oppression.
Yahweh is a God of dominance. He suffers no challengers to His supremacy, and He demonstrated the futility of those challengers when Moses faced off against Pharaoh in Exodus 5-10.
The Christian’s present life is a preparation for Jesus’ evaluation and reward at the Judgment Seat of Christ. God’s eternal reward is based upon His grace, not our merit. God abounds in loving kindness, so let us live with a view to His gracious promises.
The same grace that awakens fear is the grace that brings us home. In this message from Luke 23:32-43, and 2 Corinthians 12:1-10, Pastor Josh Beakley teaches about the four distinct reactions to fear that the Gospel awakens within Christians.
There is a stark contrast between what man emphasizes and what God says, and we must remember that our fate after we die is settled not by what we feel but rather by what God has spoken.
People will spend eternity exactly where they belong. In the first message of this five-part series, Pastor Josh Beakley begins at the end of the story – after death, the resurrection, and the final judgment – to the final place everyone will spend eternity.
