Sovereign Grace Community Church, Abuja

The Heart of Man | Lord's Day Sermon | 25th February, 2024 | Pastor Adeola Ogundele

“This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.”

Our Lord spoke these words to highlight the importance of the state of the heart when we profess our love and worship to God. He sought to establish that true faith and worship starts necessarily from the heart and proceeds to our professions such that any profession that is not rooted in a heart that has been redeemed, is deemed false and abhorrent to God. The scriptures teach that the heart of man is desperately wicked and so only one that has been regenerated by the Holy Spirit is capable of offering true worship to God. In this sermon, our pastor, Adeola Ogundele, labored to steer our hearts to these truths so that we may reevaluate our hearts and prove that we truly love the Lord.

God's Creation; Genesis 1: Part 1 | Bible Study | 21st February, 2024 | An Exposition of the book of Genesis

The Role of Women in the Church Part 2 | Lord’s Day Sermon | 18th January, 2024 | Pastor Adeola Ogundele

What does it look like for a woman to be a laborer for Christ? God made all things for Himself, to fulfil His plan in the midst of His people and He has made both male and female equal but distinct in order to reflect who He is. God’s design is for women to reflect something of who God is in a way that men cannot and likewise for men. And this is not subjective; scriptures have made it unambiguously clear what distinctive roles God has assigned to women within the context of the church so that they can express themselves as co-laborers in God’s kingdom in a way that glorifies Him. In this sermon, being the second part in the series, our pastor, Adeola Ogundele delves into the scriptures to flesh out with great clarity, what the intent of God is concerning the remarkable role of women in the body of believers.

The Book of Beginnings: An Introduction | Bible Study | 15th February, 2024 | An Exposition of the book of Genesis

The Role of Women in the Church | Lord’s Day Sermon | 11th January, 2024 | Pastor Adeola Ogundele

The role of women in christian ministry is a significant but restricted one. There are spiritual implications attached to the exercise of roles within the church and all believers are called to labor for the sake of the gospel; male or female. The creation story in Genesis shows that God has made male and female male in equality but we also see throughout scripture that He has assigned specific roles to both, a pattern established in creation and restored in the church. In this series, we will see what these specific roles imply and how God has designed that we function in exercising our duties to one another as a body of believers.

Bible Study : The Faces of Love | 7th February, 2024 | An Exposition of 1st Cor. | Enyinna Abazie

How Not To Destroy Your Church | Lord’s Day Sermon | 4th January, 2024 | Pastor Adeola Ogundele

Spiritual unity in the body of Christ is more than just getting along to be productive. Rather it is about relationship, characterized by God's perfect love. In this sermon Pastor Adeola Ogundele explains that God loves and desires unity. He is at work in the universe to unite and redeem all things to himself just as He is triune and there is no one like him in the universe, being a perfect union himself. God's people must reflect the reality of who he is in oneness and He has chosen christians as a demonstration of what He can do with a fallen world, bringing people together who apart from the grace of Jesus Christ could not be brought together. Therefore, Christians should remember we are all united to Christ and that we can fight our sinful nature through the power of the Spirit, prayer and mortification of the flesh and with gentleness we can fellowship with one another.

Bible Study : The Faces of Love | 31st January, 2024 | An Exposition of 1st Cor. | Martin Obono

The Purpose of Your Life | Lord’s Day Sermon | 28th January, 2024 | Kwaw Andam

Without God, our lives are vanity upon vanity. There are no good options for satisfaction in life ‘under the sun’ outside of faith in Christ. The pursuit and acquisition of possessions, power, popularity and pleasure is tantamount to despair and emptiness because life must be viewed from ‘above the sun’ with God in mind.  It is only when we consider God in reverence, acknowledge Him and desire to please Him, will we experience peace and contentment. Our Deacon, Kwaw Andam takes us through two conclusions, two commandments and two convictions to explain we were created by God, are beings with temporal bodies and an eternal soul to save and will meet God as judge before whom we must give account for the life we lived.

Fighting Temptation | Lord’s Day Sermon | 21st January, 2024 | Wole Akande

Satan is a crafty and cunning adversary, lying, plotting and distorting God's commands and goodness to tempt believers to sin against God. When Adam fell into sin in the garden of Eden, Satan was further empowered in his rebellious defiance of the one true God as he carried on his attempt to turn many away from God through his tempting ways. But in Jesus, we have a savior who resisted and overcame temptation in the wilderness by knowing the Word, living and walking by the Spirit, and through prayer. Because Jesus overcame sin, we too have victory through his full obedience to God's command. Armed with this truth, believers in Christ are able to overcome and his ways. Brother Wole Akande labored to bring these truths into our hearts as he preached from Genesis 3.