Genesis 1 – Pastor Chris Black

The word “Genesis” means origin or beginning and it explains the beginning of the creation. The book of Genesis also is the seed bed for everything where everything is planted that comes to fruition in the book of Revelation. In picture form and type you can see nearly everything that will happen throughout the Bible. You can see Calvary in Genesis 22 when Abraham takes Isaac to Mount Moriah to be offered as a burnt offering. You can see the church in the account of Rebekah being sought out and brought to Isaac.

Galatians Chapter 6 – Pastor Chris Black

Last time we went through chapter 5 where Paul spells out the works of the flesh and contrasts it with the fruit of the Spirit. He then admonishes the Galatians to walk in the Spirit or they will fulfill the lusts of the flesh. The way of law works won’t produce the fruit of the Spirit but will cause divisions and strife. Walking with Christ is the only way that the Spirit produces His fruit through us.

The Necessity of the Next Generation – Pastor Chris Black

In this bazaar story about a widow and her sons, there is a great and powerful spiritual truth that will help us if we take hold of it. The woman is between two generations. Her husband was the son of a prophet, and he left a testimony of fearing the LORD, but he is now dead and gone. She has two sons coming on (the next generation) but she owes a debt that she can’t pay, and the creditor is coming to take her two sons into slavery because of it. If he takes her two sons away, she may very well starve to death and die. So, without the next generation being liberated, she’s looking at her decline and possibly, her death.

Removing the Veil – Pastor Chris Black

In this portion of the scripture we just read, Paul is making a comparison of two glories. The glory in the giving of the law and the glory in the establishment of grace (which he calls the ministration of the spirit). When Israel had provoked the LORD to wrath by worshiping the golden calf and dancing nude before it, Moses threw the two tables of the ten commandments and broke them at the base of the mountain. God told Moses afterwards that He would not go up to the promise land amid the people because they would provoke Him to destroy them and that He would not go Himself before the people in their wars with the Canaanites but He would send an angel to go with them. Moses pleaded with the LORD to change His mind and Moses found grace in the eyes of the LORD. So God renewed the covenant that was made with Abraham and told Moses He would go with them. Then Moses makes a unique request

Galatians Chapter 5 – Walkthrough

Last time we went through Chapter 4 where Paul builds on the idea that the law did not give anyone sonship status but treated everyone as slaves and infants. Everyone that broke the law at any point fell under its curse. Jesus Christ died under the law to redeem us from the curse of the law and lift us above it through the adoption of sons. Under grace we are the sons of God and he illustrates this point through the examples of Abraham’s marriages to Hagar and Sarah. The women represent the covenants (law and grace) and the sons represent what they produced – a slave and a son. Ishmael was a product of the flesh and Isaac was the child of promise. In Christ, we are as Isaac was…children of promise.

The Power of The Holy Spirit – Pastor Chris Black

In the last two weeks I have preached about the person and purpose of the Holy Spirit. Today I bring you a message about the power of the Holy Spirit. What we just read were the last words ever spoken by our Savior to the apostles. He chose not to answer their question about restoring the earthly kingdom to Israel but maintained focus on the kingdom of God and spoke of the necessity of the baptism of the Holy Spirit before they could start their ministry. This is part of a pattern that Jesus Christ himself followed by not starting his earthly ministry until He was endued with power by the Holy Spirit coming upon him. This teaches us that it is not only hard but it is impossible to do the work of God in the power of the flesh. We are in a spiritual battle with the kingdom of darkness and that battle must be fought with spiritual power.