Sovereign Grace Community Church, Abuja

A Study Through Colossians: Praying Apostolic Prayers Part 4 | Lord's Day Sermon | 15th February 2026 | Adeola Ogundele

A Study Through Colossians: Praying Apostolic Prayers Part 4 

Sunday School | Evangelism: Raising Disciples | 15th February 2026

Sunday School | Evangelism: Raising Disciples

Back To Basics- Walking with God in Everyday Life: Fasting for Ordinary Christians | Bible Study | 4th February 2026

Back To Basics- Walking with God in Everyday Life: Fasting for Ordinary Christians

Where are You?: Gen 3:9 | Lord's Day Service | 8th February 2026 | Martin Obono

This sermon centers on the first recorded question God asks humanity: “Where are you?”, a question not of location but of spiritual condition. Though first spoken in Eden, it remains God’s searching call to every generation.
The message begins by tracing humanity’s original state. Man was created in God’s image, endowed with dignity, moral responsibility, and the capacity for relationship with God. Adam was placed in the garden not only as a steward but as a priest, guarding God’s dwelling place and living in unbroken fellowship with Him. Creation was declared “very good.”

The fall, however, marked a tragic reversal. Adam’s silence in the face of deception, his failure to guard truth, and his disobedience fractured communion with God. Sin introduced fear, shame, and hiding. When God asked, “Where are you?” He was not seeking information but extending a merciful summons to repentance.
The sermon then addresses man’s present condition. All humanity stands fallen in Adam. Sin and death spread to all, not merely by imitation but by representation. This explains the universality of guilt and the deep instinct to cover shame through self-effort, morality, religion, or good works. Like Adam’s fig leaves, human coverings cannot restore fellowship with God.

God’s response reveals His grace. In Eden, He clothed Adam and Eve with garments made through sacrifice, pointing forward to the Gospel. Salvation has always required God’s provision, not human effort. That provision is ultimately fulfilled in Christ, the second Adam, whose obedience brings life where Adam’s disobedience brought death.

The sermon identifies four spiritual postures among hearers:
those clothed in Christ and secure;
those clothed but lacking assurance;
those naked yet unaware;
and those naked who know their need and cry out for mercy. Scripture consistently affirms that only those clothed in Christ’s righteousness can stand unashamed before God.

The Gospel is presented as God’s final and sufficient answer to the question “Where are you?” Humanity is either in Adam or in Christ, there is no neutral ground. Christ still seeks the lost, calling sinners out of hiding and offering rest, forgiveness, and restoration.

The sermon concludes with a call to self-examination and repentance. For believers, the question demands continual humility and obedience. For those outside Christ, it is an urgent invitation to leave hiding, abandon self-made coverings, and be clothed in the righteousness God freely provides through Jesus Christ.

The Covenant Faithfulness of the Lord: Psalm 117 | Lord's Day Service | 1st February 2026 | Olumide Olumide

Drawing from Psalm 117, the shortest chapter in Scripture yet placed at the centre of the Bible, Pastor Olumide presents a sermon on the universal call to praise God and the theological depth behind that command. The Psalm’s brevity does not diminish its weight; rather, it concentrates the grand story of redemption into a global summons, “Praise the Lord, all nations! Extol Him, all peoples!”

The sermon begins by identifying the object of praise: “the LORD” (Yahweh), the covenant name of God revealed in Exodus 3. This is not a generic call to worship any deity, but a summons to know and worship the covenant God of Israel, the self-existent “I AM.” The nations cannot truly praise unless they first know who He is. Knowledge of God precedes acceptable worship. God has made Himself known in two ways. First, through general revelation in creation. The order, beauty, and sustaining power of the universe testify to His eternal power and divine nature, leaving humanity without excuse. Yet creation, though glorious, is insufficient for salvation. Therefore, God graciously gives special revelation, His Word, ultimately fulfilled in Christ. Only through the Word can sinners know God savingly.

The Psalm’s global scope reflects God’s redemptive plan. The nations are called because God’s covenant purposes were never limited to Israel alone. From the promise to Abraham onward, God’s design was that all peoples would be blessed through Him. The church now carries this missionary responsibility: to proclaim His glory so the nations may know Him and join in praise. Evangelism is therefore an act of worship, extending the call of Psalm 117.

The reason for this universal praise is given in verse 2: God’s steadfast love and enduring faithfulness. His covenant love, supremely revealed in Christ’s incarnation and atoning death, shows a condescension beyond comprehension. While humanity deserved judgment, God pursued, redeemed, and reconciled His people. The cross is the ultimate display of the steadfast love that “endures forever.”

Finally, the sermon addresses the manner of praise. Praise is not confined to church songs but is expressed in lives shaped by God’s character: in obedience, reconciliation, gratitude, proclamation, and daily acknowledgment of His goodness. When believers live in peace, pursue holiness, forgive others, and walk in assurance of God’s sustaining grace, they display His glory. Psalm 117 thus becomes both invitation and commission: a call for every person to submit to Christ, and for God’s people to live as witnesses of His steadfast love until all nations join the chorus, “Praise the Lord.”

A Study Through Colossians: Praying Apostolic Prayers Part 3 | Lord's Day Sermon | 25th January 2026 | Adeola Ogundele

Pastor Adeola continues the unfolding of Paul’s apostolic prayer in Colossians, focusing on the evidence and outworking of genuine salvation. He begins by reminding the church that Paul writes with deep gratitude to God, not only for the miracle of salvation itself, but for the visible fruit of salvation in the lives of the Colossian believers. Salvation is not merely professed, it is demonstrated. A changed life, new desires, and transformed interests testify that grace has truly taken root. Persistent, unrepentant sin contradicts the claim of belonging to Christ.

Paul’s thanksgiving also reflects the danger of Christian faithfulness in their context. His prayer is therefore not centred on changing circumstances, but on the inner condition of the believer. Apostolic prayer seeks that Christians be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, not simply to know facts about God, but to know Him personally, to understand His salvation, and to delight in His purposes.

A central tension addressed in the sermon is the gap between what believers know and how they live. Sanctification is described as the gradual closing of this divide. As spiritual wisdom increases, obedience deepens, and resistance to God’s Word diminishes. The example of Enoch, who “walked with God,” illustrates this alignment, a life marked by fewer inward arguments with God and growing submission to His authority.

From Colossians 1:10, the sermon outlines the marks of being filled with God’s will: walking in a manner worthy of the Lord, bearing fruit in good works, joy, and gratitude for salvation. This call to holiness is not a demand to prove worthiness. Salvation remains grounded in Christ’s mediation, not human merit. Yet grace produces a new orientation of the heart: truly valuing God, putting Him first, and living in a way that reflects what we claim to believe. The ultimate purpose of life is God’s pleasure. When God conquers the heart, the believer lives for Him rather than for self.

Choosing self-will over God’s will is described as ingratitude and dishonour, echoing the example of David, whose sin distorted the reflection of God’s image. Persistent patterns of displeasing the Lord raise serious questions about the genuineness of one’s salvation. The transformation required is not achieved by human resolve but by divine grace.

The sermon concludes by reaffirming the role of apostolic prayer as the means by which believers receive sustaining grace. This grace that moves them from lives that displease God to lives that please Him. To know God’s will, in Paul’s sense, is to be inwardly changed so that obedience, gratitude, and devotion increasingly define the Christian life.

Sunday School | Evangelism: What is the Gospel? | 25th January 2026

Sunday School | Evangelism: What is the Gospel?

Back to Basics- Walking with God in Everyday Life: Praying Through Everyday Life | Bible Study | 28th January 2026

Back to Basics- Walking with God in Everyday Life: Praying Through Everyday Life | Bible Study 

Back To Basics- Walking with God in Everyday life: Feeding on Scripture in Ordinary Life | Bible Study | 21st January 2026

Back To Basics- Walking with God in Everyday life: Feeding on Scripture in Ordinary Life

A Study Through Colossians: Praying Apostolic Prayers Part 2 | Lord's Day Sermon | 18th January, 2026 | Adeola Ogundele

This week, Pastor Adeola continues the examination of Paul’s apostolic prayer in Colossians 1, pressing deeper into the meaning and necessity of being filled with the knowledge of God’s will. The message opens with a pastoral exhortation: the Christian life is not sustained by occasional exposure to teaching, but by consistent immersion in the life of the church and the Word. Spiritual growth is neither accidental nor passive; it requires deliberate participation in the means God has provided.

Returning to Paul’s prayer, the sermon emphasizes that apostolic prayer is fundamentally God-centred, not transactional. Paul does not pray for comfort, control of outcomes, or circumstantial relief. Instead, he prays that believers would be filled with the knowledge of God’s will, leading to lives worthy of the Lord, marked by fruitfulness, endurance, patience with joy, and gratitude rooted in redemption.

A major concern addressed is the poverty of contemporary Christian prayer, particularly within Nigerian Christianity. Despite widespread religiosity, scripture memorisation, and prayer activity, there is little evidence of deep transformation. This disconnect reveals that Christianity has often been absorbed into existing pagan frameworks rather than reshaping them. Prayer becomes a tool for managing fear, securing results, or manipulating spiritual forces, rather than an act of submission to God’s revealed purposes.

Pastor Adeola draws a sharp distinction between natural knowledge and spiritual knowledge. Natural knowledge can accumulate information about God without producing obedience, humility, or holiness. It often leads to pride, hypocrisy, and stagnation. Saul is presented as a tragic example, retaining outward authority and success while having lost the presence of God. Knowledge that does not lead to obedience is not saving knowledge.

The sermon confronts false notions of spiritual maturity that equate growth with visions, prophetic spectacle, or supernatural insight detached from character. Such pursuits, Pastor Adeola warns, are not unique to Christianity and can exist entirely outside submission to Christ. The knowledge Paul prays for is knowledge that aligns the heart with God’s purposes, shapes conduct, and produces endurance amid suffering.

Finally, the sermon calls the church to repentance and reformation. The greatest danger is not ignorance, but self-deception, knowing God’s Word without doing it. Paul’s prayer reminds believers that spiritual growth requires dependence on the Spirit, submission to God’s will, and a life increasingly shaped by obedience. Apostolic prayer seeks not control over life, but conformity to Christ, so that every part of life becomes an offering of praise to God.