Sermons

Christ died for our sins, was buried, was raised from the grave, appeared to many and ascended to sit at the throne of the Most High God.  The Resurrection is not only of the body, but also of a new heaven and earth when Christ comes again in glory.

Key Words: Jesus Christ, Resurrection, Body, Heaven, Earth

The God man goes to Jerusalem, the place of his coronation - but the people did not know this.  The religious leaders didn't want this.  The fulfillment of the prophets and scripture was be culminated.

Key Words: Hosanna (save us now), Jesus wept, Jerusalem

 

The Church is God's spouse.  We are to love God with a ourwhole heart and not allow illicit lovers to come between us.

Key Words: Spirit vs Flesh, World, Devil 

Wisdom is at the center of peacemaking.  When we sow in peace and use the wisdom which comes from above, we reap a harvest of righteousness.

Key Words: Source of Wisdom, Knowledge, Peacemaking, Harvest of Righteousness

The tongue speakes that which is a reflection of the heart.

Key Words/Phrases: Heart, Spiritual battle, Mature, Cures, Bless

We are saved by Faith Alone.  If we have true faith we will do the work that God has ordained for us.  Faith is completed by works.

Key words/Phrases:  Dead faith works, Faith Works

Four Fears: Satanic Opposition, Our own sin, Final condemnation, Falling away.  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ our Lord.

Key wors/phrases: Fear, Jesus Christ drives away fear

God gave us a command to declare the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Our lives should always reflect the life and love of Jesus Christ.

Key Word: See, Call, Forsake, Return to your creator - the Lord God Almighty!!

You cannot stage God's love if you have not the Love of God in your heart for all who are made in God's image.  Jesus said," Love your neighbor as yourself."

Key Words/Phrases: God's Love, Prejudice, Discrimination, Lack of Love

What voice are you listening to moment to moment...the WORD of God or the confusion of the world?  Hear the WORD, accept the WORD, and produce some fruit.

Key Words/Phrases: Liisten, Receive, Embody, Repeat

 

James wrote this general epistle to the twelve tribes in the dispersion telling them to joy in their trials, as he encouraged them through the Holy Spirit.

Key Word/Phrases:  Trials, Testing of your faith, The Holy Spirit of God

Five incentives for embodying truth and changing the culture of Oakwood Baptist Church.

Key words: Died, Live, Raised, Hidden, Glorified

From no form and void: God created, God said, God saw, God called, God made, God placed, God blessed...do you get it?  It's ALL ABOUT GOD!


Key Words: GOD, Eternal, Sovereign, Self-existent, Self-sufficient

Are we really willing to completely obey God's commands?

Key Words: Obedience, God's word, Truth, Holiness, Urgency, Evangelism, Living Hope, God's Sovereignty.

God is a loving father first of all.  That love is shared between God the father and God the son and God the Holy Spriti.   That love bursts forth in the Holy Spirit and is shedd abroad in out hearts.

Key Words: Love, God, Jesus Christ,  Holy Spirit 
 

Jesus tells us that "sin happens" and how to remove sin from our lives.

Key words: Confront, Repent, Forgive, Reconcile

Our expectations often differ from our actual experiences.  This often brings about discouragement.  We can learn how to respond from the discouragement experienced by John the Baptist.

Key Words: Expectation, Experience, Discouragement

Christ humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death,m even death on a cross.  Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Key Words:  The Triune God,  Humbled, Above

God is not only with us, and for us, but is acutally in us.  Christ is in us through the Spirit who indwells us.

Key Words: Immanuel, In us, Union with Christ.

God is not against us, but for us.  The incarnation is how God shows his favor toward us.

Key Words: Immanuel, For us, Incarnation

The main event of history is Jesus, the Son of  God coming into the world.  God chose to be with us, not away from us.

Key Words: Immanuel, With Us, Nativity.

There is power of life and death in words;  "Your words will be either gifts that bless or weapons that wound."

Key Words: Words, Bless or Wound

What it means that Oakwood is a Pillar and Foundation of Truth

Key Words: Truth, Pillar, Foundation, Church of the Living God

The Pastor/Shepherd by GOD's design is charged to Lead, Feed, and Protect his peop.e

Key Words: God, Lead, Feed, Protect, GOD's people

 

For the child of God times of doubt/discouragement are a given.  What should he/she do in these times?   Our text presents an answer.

Key Words: Doubt, Unsettling, God's unfailing love

2nd Chronicles 15:2, "and he (Azariah son of Obed) went out to meet Asa and said to him,  "Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you while you are with him.  If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you."

Five essential spiritual qualities for a church seeking Reformation and Renewal.  Each of these qualaities must be present in the individual believer and in the corporate body.  For this to be true, we must believe GOD will honor our plea for his presence and power among us: Intercessory Prayer, Humility Confession, Confidence in God's Absolute Sovereignty.


Key Words: Intercessory Prayer, Humility, Confession, Confidence in th GOD's Absolute Sovereignty, Applied Theology

Pastor Fillinger gives an informal biblical prospective on "Rekindling leadership in America's churches."  Specifically one for Oakwood Baptist Church. 

Do we know our power, know our enemy, know our armor and put it on.  Pauls gives us the answers to these and other questions.

Key words: Word, God, Power, Armor, Satan

Jesus prayed for all His disciples then and those to follow to make His love known in the world.

Key words: Jesus, Cross, Prayer, God, Love