Biblical, Christ-centered Expositional Preaching from Sovereign Grace Church in Midland, TX - Pastor Billy Raies
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Flee from idolatry by fleeing to Christ so that you will have the grace you need to fight against the day to day schemes and seductions of the devil.
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No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation He will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
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We fight the temptations produced by presumption and pride through the power of persevering grace in Christ.
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God calls us to become all things to all people that by all means we might save some for the sake of the gospel.
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The Apostle Paul demonstrates subjecting your personal rights to the sake of the gospel
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We must know God's truth so that we can display God's love, even when it requires us to limit our liberties.
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We must know God's truth so that we can display God's love, even when it requires us to limit our liberties.
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God supplies us with contentment in Christ so that whether we are single or married, we can live lives of undivided devotion to Him as we wait for His return.
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God gives us grace to see the gospel as both the model and the motivation for our marriage.
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God uses the gospel to give us grace to make Christ to center of our marriages, not ourselves.
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The one who fears the Lord will always be secure.
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Be content in the situation or circumstance in which you were called - God's call to salvation and faithful service to Him is independent of one's state (situation or circumstance).
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Heavenly Father, thank you for the grace that uses my circumstances to sanctify me; please give me the grace to sanctify my circumstances to glorify You.
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God calls husbands and wives to regularly celebrate their marriage covenant by coming together in their one flesh union to serve their spouse, stop sinful temptation, and silence satan's lies.
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Christ purchased us for God through the death of His body on the cross so that we could glorify God through our bodies for the sake of cross.
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Be who you are in Christ, not who you were before Christ.
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Because Christ suffered the greatest wrong to forgive our sins, we can suffer great wrongs by forgiving one another so that the world will know we are Christians by our love.
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The Church is called to display Christ's love by rescuing the sinful, growing the godly, and declaring the gospel.
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God calls us to be spiritual fathers and mothers who demonstrate His love through Christ-centered lives that compel imitation.
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God gives us great comfort in being citizens of Christ’s already and not yet Kingdom so that we can have great courage in living cross-centered lives right now.
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God calls us to put off self-exalting pride and put on self-forgetting humility by remembering God's glorious grace.
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Remembering the resurrection replaces the fear of the death with the hope of eternal life and empowers us to live for the glory of Christ today.
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God calls pastors to be examples of what it means to be servants of Christ who faithfully steward the responsibility and privilege of giving the gospel to God's people.
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God calls all believers to be builders of Christ's church.
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Overview: When our eyes have been opened to the extravagant worth of Jesus, we live to declare his extravagant worth to a watching world. We do this by giving who we are and what we have in loving adoration and humble worship of Jesus.
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The spiritual maturity of a Christian is centered on Christ crucified and revealed by the Holy Spirit.
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God calls us to be cross-centered people who trust Him to use our weakness as a platform to display the Spirit’s power in the proclamation of the gospel.
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We are saved by grace alone and given a new identity in Christ alone so that our only boast is in God alone.
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God calls the foolish to faith through the wisdom of the cross.
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God calls us to be a house united by remembering our identity in Christ and the centrality of the cross.
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When we make the gospel of grace of first importance, it transforms not only how we see ourselves but also how we see and relate to others in the body of Christ and beyond.
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The promises of God are worth waiting for when our eyes are on the presence of the Promise Maker.
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Advent calls us to remember that God gave great sinners a Great Savior for Christmas.
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We must first see Christmas as a judgment, so that we can celebrate it as a joy.
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God desires us to have assurance that we know him by helping us discern true doctrine and by abiding in true love.
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If we walk in the light of Christ’s truth and love, we have fellowship with God and with one another.
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The life of a believer is compelled by a sincere love for Christ and revealed by a sacrificial love for Christ's people.
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Fruitfulness in our mission requires reliance on our Messiah.
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