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Sovereign Grace Community Church is a 1689 Reformed Baptist church located in the Central Business District of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Join us in fellowship on Sundays at 10am and Wednesdays at 6pm. You can follow us on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube by searching @SGCCAbuja
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Sunday Oct 27, 2024
Sunday Oct 20, 2024
Sunday Oct 20, 2024
What does it mean when we read in Ephesians 5:23 that the husband is the head of the wife? The apostle, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, was expressing God's design as he had intended when he created the man and woman. God set an order for the relationship between all of God's creation, including in the dispensation of leadership between the man and the woman. And this design is good.
When God commands the husband to be the head of his home, He's done it because he knows it is the best. He's done it because he desires marriages amongst his children to be a reflection of Christ's love for them. There is no deprivation or bias. Understanding God's intent and embracing His wisdom in how he has designed this relationship to be is the way to find true fulfillment that guarantees the enjoyment of our marriages.
The abuse of this relationship, caused by sin, has not altered God's intent or diminished the beauty of his plan.
As we listen, we will learn what true biblical submission is and how this brings God's rich blessing to our homes and by extension, points many to the love that Christ has for his children.
Friday Oct 18, 2024
Sunday Oct 13, 2024
Sunday Oct 13, 2024
There's so much to unpack from Paul's letter to the Ephesians on the matter of leading a Godly family. Everyone was addressed; the husband, the wife and the children. A clear understanding of the intent of the scriptures on these matters is very crucial to being a family that lives as God has directed.
In previous sermons in this family series, Pastor Adeola has addressed the family unit as a whole and now proceeds to cast his lens on the sub-units, in this case, the wife.
A Christian wife is a spirit-filled wife. A spirit-filled wife is one who unreservedly submits to the will of the Lord concerning her place as a wife and a part of the family unit. This expectation of the wife has not been left to ambiguity; the scriptures speak clearly on this.
In this sermon, we learn who a spirit-filled wife is and all that the Lord has provided for her to conform to the image of Christ in her home.
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Sunday Oct 06, 2024
Sunday Oct 06, 2024
Pastor Adeola continues The Spirit Filled Family series in this sermon. He beams his light on the innate and visible evidences of a life that's been filled with the Spirit of God. Individuals make up families and Spirit Filled individuals make up Spirit Filled families.
Jesus spoke many times about selflessness and dying to self as inevitable markers of a person who desires to live by the Spirit. In the fellowship of believers, we're required to put aside our own desires and esteem the good of others above our own. This is the life that Jesus lived, it was the very driving force behind His coming in the flesh to die for our sins and this is an example we can't toss aside and still profess to be his children.
Selfishness is the sinful opposite. The heart that seeks its own good first is not one that is living a Spirit Filled life and this permeates the fabric of christian fellowship to poisonous effect. And indeed, loving others does bring us an enjoyment of love ourselves as we enjoy the unfettered delight of God's love.
As you listen, may God's love dwell richly in your heart as you learn to give of yourself to the good of others that the blessing of the Lord may rest upon you and your family.
Thursday Oct 03, 2024
Sunday Sep 29, 2024
Sunday Sep 29, 2024
Salvation is like a treasure. It is the pearl of great value. It is worth a man's every penny. One will scarcely sell all of their possessions to acquire one possession. But when salvation comes to a man, everything pales in value.
One who has been convicted of salvation is willing to give up everything to possess it. Salvation will cost you everything if it's true but it will give you the one thing that trumps every other.
Jesus said that anyone who will come to him must deny himself, take up his cross and follow him. When you give up everything for the kingdom of heaven, you lose nothing; indeed, you gain everything.
Monday Sep 23, 2024
Monday Sep 23, 2024
Pastor Adeola gives an introduction to what it means to be a Spirit Filled Family in the first installment of this series. A godly family is mirrored in the scripture. Vast amounts of texts of scripture have implicitly and explicitly shown what it means to be a family after God's will. Because of how highly God esteems the place of the family unit in redemptive history, it is imperative that we seek to learn directly from Him how we must lead a family as He has designed it to be.
Through the rest of this series, we will be learning God's design for the family so that we will submit to this design as we seek to glorify God with every facet of our lives.
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
God has spoken! What has he spoken and where has he spoken?
In Hebrews 1:1-4, the writer made an explicit statement; that God has spoken to us! Also unequivocally stated is how he has spoken to us. Other texts of scripture have severally made clear why God has spoken to us.
God speaks to us simply to fulfill the purpose for which we were made. The very purpose of our creation and all of the ways by which we must live, have been nicely wrapped in all of scripture; explicitly and implicitly, and handed to us, along with the provision for understanding and applying to our lives.
In this sermon, deacon Kwaw sought inform or remind the saints that God has spoken cumulatively throughout history and ultimately in his son Jesus Christ, and that he has preserved a written record of his word, all with the aim of reconciling man to God in an everlasting union. He outlined this in three significant points:
1. The permanence of what God has spoken: His written word will never pass away.
2. The purpose for which God has spoken: To reconcile those who had become his enemies through the fall.
3. The person through whom God has spoken: His son Jesus Christ, the ultimate and eternal expression of himself to man.