Sovereign Grace Community Church, Abuja

Ordination Service Sermon| 25th, January 2025 | Pastor Osinachi Nwoko

The Biblically Relevant Church: Our Core Values Series | Lord's Day Sermon | 12th January, 2025| Enyinna Abazie

What does it mean to be a relevant church? Or a biblically relevant church?

 

In an age where people who profess to be christians are constantly seeking to align with the trends of the age and aligning with the culture in a bid to be relevant in a sinful world, we must ask ourselves what the mind of God is concerning the outlook of the church as far as the times we live in is concerned.

 

Are we called to adapt to the culture, modify our worship and liturgy to be friendly to the world we seek to draw to Christ?

 

Absolutely not! The scriptures supersede all things, all knowledge, all concepts, all culture. It sets absolute standards for everything else and demands alignment from all things, not the other way around. The Word of God is the ultimate rule for life and living and does not bend to the changing faces of a flawed world and its people.

 

Because the scriptures give only life, it does not bend to what does not give life. It sets cultures right, it teaches, it reproves, it corrects and it trains, so that a consistently failing world and its cultures can find bearing to the path of what is true and just.

 

A biblically relevant church is the church that sets the Word of God above all else and seeks to conform everything to what God has revealed. Therein is life!

Growth in Grace: Our Core Values Series | Lord's Day Sermon | 5th January, 2024 | Adeola Ogundele

Resolutions are good. By God's merciful design, he has ordered the world to operate in time, space and seasons. A text of prayer in the scriptures says "teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom". God intends for us to live conscious of time and seasons and so our progression in our walk with him is predicated upon the passage of same. So it is good to make resolutions that help us live as God wants us to.

Believers are called to a life of growth, not just in time but in the quality of our walk with God. While other forms of growth that pertain to our lives is recommended, the growth that the Lord esteems above every other is a growth in grace; the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

In Psalm 16:8, David notes about the Christ, "I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken"

 In the first installment of the series "Our Core Values", pastor Adeola highlights two ways we can grow in grace.

Have a listen and be blessed as you apply all of yourself to growing in the grace of our Lord the Christ.

Incomprehensible Love | Lord's Day Sermon | 29th December, 2024 | Martin Obono

The love of God is everlasting. It is without a beginning and an end, as far as our finite minds can comprehend. It is unfathomable. It transcends beyond reason and feeling. It is unconditional. It beats every sense of imagination.

All of these immutable attributes of God's love are encapsulated in one central fact; God's love is true!

The unconditionality of God's love means he loves us without anything we can do to merit it or anything innate in us. And he has done so before the beginning of time as we know it. This is Incomprehensible.

When you think about God's love, you do not cast your mind on things seen and unseen or what you call your reality or estate in life, you simply ponder upon the truth as revealed in His word.

While we journey through the checkered paths of this earth, in is inevitable that we look to find affirmation of God's love in our lives outcomes and experiences but we must know and believe that the true pointer of God's love for his children is the cross of Christ's death. There we received full access into God's love and how that it's faithfulness means it will endure till the end when we will be glorified in his heavenly kingdom.

Go and Prepare His Ways | Lord's Day Sermon | 22nd December, 2024 | Martin Obono

As a child of God, the primary purpose of your life and calling is to serve the Lord.

This is the consistent theme of the demands upon the life of the people of God from the very beginning. The people of God were called to a life of service to God, nothing less.

The first chapter of the Gospel of Luke details the birth and purpose of the life of John the Baptizer. John was sent by God to "go and prepare His ways", speaking in reference to our the imminent coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. This call, while it was specific to John as a herald of the Lord Jesus Christ, is not limited to him and his context. This is the call upon every believer. Every one who names the name of the Lord is called into the task of preparing the hearts of people to receive the salvation of the Lord.

There is no greater duty and indeed it is a privilege we bear when we share in the commission of the Lord. This Lord is coming back, and it is entrusted in our hands the duty of preparing his ways.

Listen to learn what this means to you as a child of God and how you can commit your lives to this privilege.

Hope Through The Resurrection | Lord's Day Sermon | 8th December, 2024 | Kwaw Andam

What a merciful God!

Writing in the first chapter of his first letter, the Apostle Peter says of God's mercy to sinners, 

"According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."

These are profound and deep words, bearing the heart of God concerning the promise of a" living hope" that He has promised and fulfilled in Christ for all who will believe. The hope that Peter speaks of is deeper than merely the positive expectation of a desired outcome; it is a hope that is rooted in a promise that is sure and cannot be thwarted by anyone and anything outside of itself. 

Jesus is the hope of the believer and all who are yet to come to faith can share in this hope if they believe. His resurrection, preceded by his life and death, was the unbreakable seal of this hope, guaranteeing that nothing can detail the eternal destiny of his children. 

Listen and hear what hope we have received through the resurrection of Christ.

The Fruit of the Spirit: Review Session 2 (Concluded) | Bible Study | 4th November, 2024

Jesus Is Lord | Lord's Day Sermon | 1st December, 2024 | Martin Obono

Why did Jesus perform the miracles He did? What was he trying to achieve when the gospel accounts tell of the compassion He had on the people when He fed thousands and healed multitudes of their infirmities. If Jesus objective in doing was not to merely meet a physical need, what else could He have been aiming at?

Jesus was trying to show not just His ability but His sufficiency. It was an expression of His deity; that He was able to meet these needs but more importantly, that He was God, their Lord. Jesus was underscoring His divinity. He is the bread of life and while He fed these thousands miraculously, His actual aim was to show that He was the true bread they needed; the bread that gives eternal life.

Deacon Martin Obono's sermon, predicated upon Jesus' disciples' stormy experience in Matthew 14:22-33, seeks to draw our hearts to the overarching aim of Jesus life and works on earth, to show that He Is Lord, not just over storms and life tough experiences, but over the hearts of men.

The Fruit of the Spirit: Review Session 1 | Bible Study | 27th November, 2024

The Salvation of God | Lord's Day Sermon | 24th November, 2024 | Kwaw Andam

The salvation of God is not restricted to the nation of Israel. And even though it came through a Jewish lineage, it is a promise for all of God's creation and it is effective and efficient for what it achieves in the hearts of men, able to convict and draw men to a saving knowledge and experience of Christ the redeemer. 

In Acts 28:28, the scriptures write:

"Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen." 

All people, throughout history and all over the world have received the privilege to believe and receive the salvation of Christ. 

It is by this conviction that the Apostle Paul, bound in chains, entreated and proclaimed boldly before the Roman council, the redemptive story of the messiah and how all men ought to believe it. 

In this sermon Kwaw Andam delved into several contexts in the scriptures that emphatically declare the preeminent power of Christ's salvation and how that it is able to save and restore all people to God.