Sovereign Grace Community Church, Abuja

The Folly of Double-Mindedness | Lord's Day Sermon | 31st May, 2026 | Pastor Osagie Azeta

Pastor Osagie Azeta’s sermon, based on Elijah’s challenge on Mount Carmel, warns against double-mindedness—trying to follow God while holding on to competing loyalties.

It explains that modern idols can be anything that promises identity, security, satisfaction, or success apart from God, including career, comfort, reputation, or possessions. Such divided devotion leads to spiritual instability and prevents believers from experiencing the fullness of God’s blessing.

The sermon calls believers to repentance and wholehearted devotion to Christ, emphasizing that true spiritual growth, fruitfulness, and lasting satisfaction are found only when God is given first place in the heart.

The "I AMs" of Christ (Part 4) | Bible Study | 27th May, 2026

The "I AMs" of Christ (Part 4) | Bible Study

Encourage One Another With These Words | Lord's Day Sermon | 24th May, 2026 | Martin Obono

In his exposition of Paul's First Epistle to the Thessalonians in 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18, Pastor Martin Obono explains how believers, both in Thessaloniki then and in believing churches now ought to encourage each other. The believers then were troubled about two things: what happens to Christians who die before Christ returns, and how the Lord’s second coming would unfold. 

Christians grieve death, but not without hope, because those who die in Christ are described as “asleep” and will rise again. We have a hope of resurrection and eternal communion with Christ. Furthermore, the coming of the Lord should be seen as a union rather than an escape. Christ’s return will be certain, public, sudden, and glorious, with dead believers rising first before living believers are “caught up” to meet the Lord. The joy of Christ's return is in our being with him, rather than in our leaving the earthly pains, trials and sorrows behind. Our sources of encouragement as believers are therefore resurrection, reunion and close intimacy with Christ forever. 

The sermon concludes by explaining Paul’s instruction to “encourage one another with these words.” Christians are meant to comfort each other with the hope of resurrection, reunion with fellow believers, transformation at Christ’s return, and everlasting closeness with Jesus. The preacher ends with a personal challenge: are listeners truly prepared for Christ’s return, and can they confidently say they will be caught up to meet Him?

Sunday School | Stewardship: Spending | 24th May, 2026

Sunday School | Stewardship: Spending

The "I AMs" of Christ (Part 3) | Bible Study | 20th May, 2026

The "I AMs" of Christ (Part 3) | Bible Study

You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me | Lord's Day Sermon | 17th May, 2026 | Martin Obono

The many things people trust, love, and depend on more than God are highlighted in this sermon. Using the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Daniel 3, Pastor Martin explains how Nebuchadnezzar’s golden image represented human pride and the desire to replace God with something else. He went on to show that idolatry is not limited to carved statues but anything that takes God’s place in our hearts. Things like success, money, comfort, approval, power, or security can become an idol. Just as Babylon pressured people to bow before the image, believers today also face pressure from culture, society, and personal ambition to compromise their loyalty to God.  

Pastor Martin further highlighted the courage and faith of the three Hebrew men who refused to bow, even when threatened with the fiery furnace. Their response showed that true faith is not built on the promise of an easy life but on trust in God, regardless of the outcome. They believed God was able to save them; yet, they also declared that even if He chose not to, they still would not worship another god. This challenges Christians to examine their own hearts and ask what they are truly relying on for meaning, safety, identity, or satisfaction. Anything we fear losing more than we fear dishonoring God may already be ruling our hearts.  

This sermon concludes by pointing to the comfort of God’s presence in suffering. When the men were thrown into the fire, they were not alone. God was with them in the furnace. This becomes a picture of Christ, who entered suffering and judgment to save His people. Ultimately, the message reminds believers that faithfulness to God may come with difficulty, rejection, or loss, but Christ remains present with His people through every trial. Because of this, Christians are called to worship God alone, stand firm under pressure, and trust that no idol can offer what only Christ gives.

The "I AMs" of Christ (Part 2) | Bible Study | 13th May, 2026

The "I AMs" of Christ (Part 2) | Bible Study

I am a Worm | Lord's Day Sermon | 10th May, 2026 | Enyinna Abazie

In this sermon on Psalm 22:6, Deacon Enyinna Abazie opens with startling words, “I am a worm and not a man,” showing that they ultimately point to the suffering of Jesus Christ on the cross. Beginning with a contrast between modern self-affirmation culture and the humility of Scripture, the sermon argues that Christ’s words expose the emptiness of prideful self-exaltation and reveal the true posture of dependence before God. Through careful exposition of Psalm 22 and its fulfillment in the Gospels, the preacher demonstrates that the psalm is prophetic in nature, with its descriptions of mockery, pierced hands and feet, divided garments, and abandonment all finding their fulfillment in the crucifixion of Christ.

The sermon then reflects on why Christ would describe Himself in such humiliating terms. Drawing from Philippians 2 and the writings of theologians such as Spurgeon and Flavel, it presents the incarnation and crucifixion as the deepest display of Christ’s humility. The eternal Son of God willingly descended from heavenly glory into human weakness, suffering, rejection, and death to save sinners. To say “I am a worm” is to behold Christ crushed, despised, and made low for the sake of His people. His suffering was not accidental, but the deliberate path of obedience and love through which redemption was accomplished.

Finally, the sermon applies this vision of Christ’s humility to the Christian life. Believers are called to adopt the same mind that was in Christ: a life marked by lowliness, dependence on God, servant-heartedness, repentance, prayer, and submission to the Father’s will. True Christianity is not self-exaltation but self-emptying; not confidence in human strength, but trust in God alone. The message closes with the encouragement that Christ Himself teaches His people to become gentle and lowly in heart, inviting all who are weary to come to Him and find rest, transformation, and salvation.

Sunday School | Stewardship: Christian Giving | 10th May, 2026

Sunday School | Stewardship: Christian Giving

The "I AMs" of Christ (Part 1) | Bible Study | 6th May, 2026

The "I AMs" of Christ (Part 1) | Bible Study