Yesterday, Pastor Emilio preached on 1 John 4:2-6 (which was a continuation of his sermon on 1 John 4:1 “A Call to Discernment“) and had the following two points to make with sub-points:

Discerning Between Two Spirits

Orthodox
Heterodox

Three Discoveries in the Spirit of Truth vs. the Spirit of Error

Triumph of Believers Over False Teachers

Doctrine Assures the Believers
He [...]

Last week and this week Pastor Jay has been in 1 Corinthians 5 which is a chapter talking about the last step of church discipline (corrective discipline). Last week we started to look at five questions concerning Biblical church discipline and got through the first two questions:

Question 1: When should we in-act Church Discipline? [...]

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This past Sunday Pastor Jay preached on “Three Aspects of Paul’s Fatherly Ministry” from 1 Corinthians 4:14-21. The outline is as follows:
- In his fatherly ministry, Paul:

Admonishes his children
Exhorts his people to imitate his:

Preaching ministry
Humility
Sufferings

Disciplines the church

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This past Sunday Pastor Jay preached from 1 Corinthians 4:6-13 on Paul’s two rebukes on the Corinthians church. Jay gives the overview in this one minute clip below:
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In describing Paul’s first rebuke for their pride Jay explained what Paul mean when he wrote, in 1 Corinthians 4:6, “…not to [...]

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Yesterday Pastor Emilio Ramos preached from 1 John 4:1 a message called “A Call to Discernment“.
As Pastor Emilio explained, we live in an age where it is still critical to have discernment, just like is was for John’s audience in the 1st century (Listen to the 1 minute clip below):
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This past Sunday Pastor Emilio preached from 1 John 3:16-24 a sermon titled, “How God’s Children Love, are Assursed, and Obey”.

During his first point we learned that Christian love is rooted in the gospel, that we love because Christ first loved us (1 John 4:19), in the 3 minute clip below Emilio explains what it [...]

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This past Sunday Pastor Emilio preached from 1 John 3:4-8 a sermon titled, “Contrast between God’s and Satan’s Children”. Below is a 1 minute clip from the intro:
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The outline is as follows:

Sin is antithetical to Christ

Sin is rebellion
Jesus removes sin
Jesus is our standard

Sin is antithetical to the child of [...]

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How great is the love the Father has lavished on us,
that we should be called children of God!…
- 1 John 3:1
This past Sunday Pastor Emilio preached from 1 John 3:1-3 and gave us the who, when, and the how of the children of God:

Who are the children of God?

They are regenerate
They are adopted
They are sojourners

When [...]

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This past Sunday Pastor Jay preached from 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 and gave us 4 ways in which we should view Christian ministers.
We should view our ministers as…

Slaves/Servants
Stewards
Those who are required to be faithful
Those who will ultimately be judge by God

In expounding point 2, the question is raised- “Stewards of what?” Stewards of the mystery- “What [...]

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“When Christians unto carnal men give ear,
Out of their way they go, and pay for ’t dear,
For master Worldly-Wiseman can but show,
A Saint the way to Bondage and to woe.”
- Pilgrim’s Progress (when Christian meets Worldly-wiseman)
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Yesterday, Pastor Jay gave 4 reasons why we are to reject the world’s wisdom. One of the [...]

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