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Month: October 2025

Is Christ In You? – Pastor Chris Black

The Apostle Paul had a very strained relationship with the church at Corith. He loved them greatly, yet they were always going astray with false teachers and Judaizers. These false apostles would sow doubt and discord in the church until people would turn on Paul and question his authority, apostleship and his spirituality. But this church had problems with carnality and strife, splits and divisions, a case of perverse sexual immorality and profaning the Lord’s supper. Paul turns the tables on them in the final chapter of his second letter by challenging them. He presses them to examine themselves on whether they are in the faith. He tells them to prove themselves and to know that Christ is in them.

Ephesians Session 6 – Pastor Chris Black

Last week we went through chapter 5 where we learned we’re supposed to imitate the heavenly Father like children by walking in love. We were admonished not to take part in fornication, uncleanness, covetousness, corrupt and filthy speech. Instead, we were told to be filled with the Spirit through spiritual singing, giving thanks, and being submissive to proper authorities. He then begins the commands for the Christian family starting with the marriage relationship.

Truths About the Spirit World – Pastor Chris Black

The Holy Bible is not like any other book in the world. It is God-breathed and Holy Ghost inspired. Contained in the Bible are numerous accounts of supernatural occurrences that captivate the imagination and confound reason. Both science and pop culture are looking for proof of the multiverse or other dimensions. But all truth comes from God and what God has let us know in His Bible is, there is a spirit world. We live in a natural world bound by physical laws but there is another world that parallels it – the spiritual world which is not subject to physical laws.

Ephesians Session 5 – Pastor Chris Black

Last week we went through chapter 4 which dealt with how we should walk as new creatures in Christ, the ground upon which Christian unity is built (the 7 ones), the gifting of offices for the maturing of the saints and to prepare them for ministry, then commands on putting off the old man and putting on Christ. This is done through renewing the mind.

Ephesians Session 4 – Pastor Chris Black

Last week we went through chapter 3 where Paul reveals to the Ephesians that this dispensation of the grace of God has been revealed unto him. The mystery that was hid in God from the foundation of the world is that God would call out a bride for His son that is a joint-body of Jew and Gentile, that Gentiles would be fellow-heirs and on the same ground as the Jews by the gospel. He recorded another prayer that he was praying for them, the first was for enlightenment and the second for enablement. He prays for them to know the love of Christ and be filled with the fulness of God and finishes with God’s exceeding abundant ability to do more than we ask or think.

There Is Nothing Hid From God – Pastor Chris Black

What we just read was Ezekiel’s vision of him being visited by the glory of God and then being transported through visions from where he was in captivity, to the temple in Jerusalem. The northern kingdom of Israel had already been taken into captivity 100 years earlier because of their idolatry. This was to serve as a warning to the southern kingdom of Judah, but they heeded it not. They went right on in their abominations and idolatrous practices and were self-deceived in believing that God didn’t see it not did He care.

Ephesians Session 3 – Pastor Chris Black

Last time we went through chapter 2 where our salvation was laid out beautifully. We were like the rest of the world; we were dominated by the flesh and were influenced by the powers of darkness. But God saved us by His grace and showed us mercy because of His great love for us. We’re saved by grace through faith and are now His workmanship unto good works. We are no longer less than the Jews or at enmity with them because Christ has made peace between us and the church is the dwelling now for the presence of God.