Sermons

Repentance and faith are so closely intertwined that one cannot exist without the other.
You cannot belief without repenting and you cannot repent without believing.
The two belong together like the sun’s heat and the sun’s light. They are distinct but cannot be separated.

What happened on the day of Pentecost was the Holy Spirit for us, what happened was the church! When the Holy Spirit comes into your life, He testifies and reveals Christ to you so that He can reveal Christ through you. To change you and to empower you so that you can take Christ into a lost world.

What do you need to receive from the hand of God? Faith is the means by which we receive. In order to receive we must ask, but when we ask we must ask with faith.

There is a warning that is very important for us today. Jesus is warning us about the danger of an empty profession. In other words, saying yes to God is of no value if you do not do what He says.

There is only one life that I can now offer to Christ and that is actually the life I am living right now. No life is perfect. No life is what we want it to be this side of heaven. This life with all its challenges we are facing, all the difficulties we have on our plate today, this is the life we are able to offer to Christ right now. Real life with all its troubles, that is what Christ is laying claim to. This is what I have to surrender and offer to Him.

How can we grow in obedience to God? The distinction between faith and obedience is really important. Faith is not obedience, and obedience is not faith. To confuse faith and obedience will lead to frustration and you will be looking for righteousness and peace in the wrong places.

Today we focus on the positive dimension of repentance. Turning from as much as you know of your sin; that is negative, turning to give as much as you know of yourself; that is positive. It is important for us to recognise that repentance always involve the negative and the positive. 

There is a fear that faith relieves, and there is a fear that faith brings. God has given us promises as well as warnings, and the faith that rejoices when it hears God’s promises trembles when it hears God’s warnings.

The most important thing about you, what will matter about you forever, is not how many people knew you, not how many people follow you on social media, not a list of great things you have accomplished, but the relationship you have with Jesus! How you walked with God in faith!

The more your sin has grown, the more difficult your battle will be to kill it.
Therefore, warfare against a grown sin needs to be immediate.