Community Baptist Coweta - Refill

In this message we explore how the Apostle Paul instructs the believers in Ephesus to live a transformed life as Holy Spirit filled Christ followers. Chapter six of his letter, Paul specifically speaks to children and parent about their calling as Christians and how they are to live unified in the body of Christ. Paul tells children to first obey and honor their father and mother but also that parents should bring up their children in the way and instruction of the Lord.

Our families and our homes are under attack. So many marriages are failing and the foundation of our homes are crumbling. God call us in the spirit of Nehemiah 4:14 to fight against this attack. In this weeks message we look at how we can combat three of the major schemes the enemy uses to try and destroy our marriages and homes.

God’s word instructs all believers to walk in wisdom. In this weeks message we look at what wisdom is, what the antithesis of wisdom is and whether or not it is wise for followers of Jesus Christ to consume alcohol. We also take a look at the new song God has put on our hearts and in our mouth through the filling of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus told all those who would follow him as recorded in John 8:12 that al those who follow Him would never walk in darkness but have the light of life. Paul interacts the Ephesians and subsequently us to walk in the light. In this weeks message we look at how we can do that and what walking in the light means for a believer.

We all are created in the image of God and are therefore His image bearers. Due to the fall and the entrance of sin into our world that image is marred and distorted. Faith in Jesus begins to restore that image to a true reflection. One of the main characteristics that should be displayed in a follower of Christ’s life is that of love and not love by any other standard than God’s love; gospel love. In this weeks message we look at how we are to live a life as image bearers of God marked by love.

God instructs us in His word not to grieve the Holy Spirit. In this weeks message we look at who exactly the Holy Spirit is and how He can be grieved.

God provides for the bird yet he doesn’t put their food into their nests. Work is a reality of our world and when viewed properly through the lens of Scripture we see that work is actually a blessing that was a part of God’s perfect creation before the fall that gives us a purpose (not an identity), a way to provide for ourselves and family as well as a means by which we can partner with God in the advancement of the gospel of Jesus Christ. In this weeks message we look at the characteristics each follower of Jesus Christ should display in their work.

Christians often just sit and soak up information about the Bible. However, Isaiah 6 tells believers that they have not just been saved from their sin and the wrath of God, they have been saved to tell others about the truth found in God's Word. Believers are to move from a consumer mindset into a contributor mindset once they are saved.

What makes you angry? What is it that really gets your blood to boil? Anger can cause a ton of destruction in our lives and the lives around us yet God says in his word there is a type of anger that is not sinful and actually beneficial. In this weeks message we look at how we can be good and angry.

Gods word tells us that we will give an account for every word we have spoken. Now that is a scary thought. It should also be a sobering thought and a reason for us to give pause and assess in light of God’s revealed word just what is in our mouth, life or death? In this weeks message we look at what the Apostle Paul said shouldn’t be in a believers mouth and what should be.

Everyone has a different idea of what church clothes are and are not. In previous eras of our society one never went to church without putting on their “Sunday Best”. But what exactly is our “Sunday Best” and is God only concerned with us wearing it on Sunday? In this weeks text of Ephesians 4:17-24 the Apostle Paul shows us that as followers of Christ we are to take off the old and put on the new. He shows us ultimately exactly what our “Sunday Best” really is and what it really looks like.

Paul likens the Church to a body and shows that each member of the body have a unique and specific role to play in the health and the function of that body. In this weeks text of Ephesians 4:7-16 we see Paul laying out 6 key nutrients the body of Christ must make a priority to strengthen the body and keep it healthy.

As the Apostle Paul shifts his letter from who believers are in Christ and the new identity that establishes to how we live that out on a daily basis in a variety of relationships and contexts he emphasizes the need for this to be done in the unity of the local church. We see in this weeks teaching that if we do not maintain unity within the body of Christ we will allow the devil a foot hold which leads to division and a weakened church and witness to the lost and dying world around us.

This weeks teaching shows us 7 Biblical principles on Fatherhood.

In this passage we examine Paul's Posture, Paul's Prayer and God's Power. Paul's prayer is that the church would be strengthened by the Spirit, Christ would be at home in their hearts, they would understand His deep love for them, and they would experience the fullness of God. These things are possible in and through His power working in us.

God has giving us a great mission to accomplish. How do we effectively do this in an increasingly hostel world? The Apostle Paul shows us in our text this week we are most effective in doing the work God has given his church to do when we focus on the Presence of God.

What is the Church? Who makes up the Church? How does one become a part of the Church? As God's change agents in this broken world it is important for us to understand the answers to these questions. In the teaching this week we will look at Ephesians 2:19-22 and see that Paul reveals to us 4 things that the church is and what that means to us today.

The sin of man created a great wall of division both vertically and horizontally. Sin created a vertical wall of separation between God and sinful man, it also created a horizontal wall of separation between peoples. There was none more hostile that the Jew on one side and the Gentile on the other. In this weeks teaching we see how the cross of Jesus Christ tore down both of those walls reconciling man to God and creating one new man, the Christian, from the former two; the Jew and the Gentile.

How are faith and works compatible in the Christian faith? Scripture tells us throughout that it is only by faith that we can be saved and this is a gracious gift of God. Yet we also see the call for us to do good works. Paul in his Epistle to the Ephesians shows us that the root of salvation is grace and the fruit of that salvation is good works. We are not saved by our good works but for them. In this weeks teaching we see that a faith without works is dead.

God's grace is an amazing thing that is hard to fully comprehend. How is it that the God of the universe would show such love and mercy to sinners? The depth of God's grace is unfathomable yet is undeniable in the hearts and lives of all those who have come to faith in Jesus Christ. There is a story found in 2 Samuel 9 that gives us a beautiful picture of God's grace and love towards us. In the story a man who has nothing to offer in and of himself is brought out from a desolate land to be seated at King David's table as if he were one of his own sons. In this weeks teaching we see an insightful picture of God's grace displayed between King David and a man named Mephibosheth.