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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 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.
Monday Sep 16, 2024
Sunday Sep 08, 2024
Sunday Sep 08, 2024
"But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light." 1 Peter 2:9
The purpose of Peter’s writing in 1st Peter: is to encourage the church and to do this, Peter found it necessary by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to remind the church of their identity and their purpose. One thing that can stabilize you in the midst of turmoil is the knowledge of who you are (identity) and why you are (purpose).
As children of God, why is our identity and purpose so important? This is the question that this sermon sought to answer. Deacon Martin Obono posited that knowing your identity will help you affirm certain things, refuse certain other things and form a basis for sound theology and doctrine.
The light was beamed on the four elements of 1st Peter 2:9 and we were invited to learn what it means to be a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation and a peculiar people.
Thursday Sep 05, 2024
Sunday Sep 01, 2024
Sunday Sep 01, 2024
One of the saddest periods in redemptive history is narrated or chronicled in the thirty second chapter of Chronicles. King after king of Judah is recorded as doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord. The entire council of the nation of Judah and all the people were exceedingly unfaithful, perverse in their ways and turning against every law of the LORD.
Sin is powerful. It sits deeply rooted in the heart of all men and will find expression in the most unrelenting ways it can devise. It drives the thoughts and actions of kings, rulers, men, women and children in all nations and through all generations. Left without restraint, it goes on and on, unto certain destruction. Indeed, destruction is the certain end of the sin trajectory.
We see the trajectory in the thirty second chapter of Chronicles as many kings progressively turned against the LORD, the God of Judah. In his mercy, God provided a means of turning away and making an escape from the destruction that lay ahead. But the people had other ideas. In their rebellious ways they carried on, mocking the very God that had offered them a way of escape until there was no remedy.
God is compassionate and merciful, not wishing that any should perish. And he has made a way of escape. In this sermon, Deacon Kwaw Andam took us through this narrative as he beamed the light on the consequences of unrepentant rebellion against God, but very importantly, the power of God's mercies to save us. A remedy has been provided for us in Christ.
Thursday Aug 29, 2024
Sunday Aug 25, 2024
Sunday Aug 25, 2024
How do we find fellowship with God? From where do our conviction and knowledge of God come? By what means does God execute his redemptive plan?
The answers to these pertinent questions form the bedrock of the biblical faith; faith that is predicated only upon the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
This same Christ who is the word of God, instituted the very means by which his people will receive the gift of his salvation. Through godly men called the apostles, the foundations and doctrines of the christian faith were laid and presented to the redeemed, all richly encapsulated in the written word.
Christian fellowship stands on the eternal purity, holiness and righteousness of God. This is the Apostolic doctrine, it is the source and foundation of the christian faith. There is no other.
We can only fellowship with the God of Light when we have been convicted and purified by the Apostolic doctrine, given by Christ himself to faithful men through whom he gave us his written word, sufficient for our salvation and sanctification. There can be no fellowship with the God of Light by one who walks in darkness.
"If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." (ESV)
1 John 1:6
Thursday Aug 22, 2024