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Free Grace Baptist Church - November 13, 2019 Bible Study
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Free Grace Baptist Church - November 10, 2019 AM
Acts 12:25–13:3 grounds a careful examination of the first Christian missionary journey, asking how missionaries are to be called, qualified, and sent. The sermon argues that the Holy Spirit works through the local church — not apart from it — to identify, cultivate, and commission gospel ministers, as demonstrated by the church at Antioch separating Barnabas and Saul. Paul's earlier calling in Acts 9:15–16 frames the entire first missionary journey as the deliberate outworking of Christ's sovereign purpose to bear his name before Gentiles, kings, and Israel. Hearers are pressed to take the centrality of the local church in missions with full seriousness, to pray for qualified men to be raised up, and to trust that Christ is triumphantly advancing his kingdom through these means.
Free Grace Baptist Church - November 3, 2019 AM
Acts 12 presents the first major instance of civil opposition to the church, as Herod Agrippa I executes James and imprisons Peter. This exposition traces the passage through four movements: the persecution of the church, Peter's miraculous deliverance, the swift judgment of God upon Herod, and the unstoppable advance of the Word. The sermon grounds the church's response to persecution in constant, corporate intercession — not as a last resort but as the primary weapon of spiritual warfare — and applies the triumph of Acts 12 to the present reality of the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church.
Free Grace Baptist Church - October 20, 2019 PM
The positive duties of the first commandment — to know, love, fear, obey, trust, and worship God alone — are expounded from Deuteronomy 5:6-21 as the necessary implication of the prohibition 'You shall have no other gods before me.' The sermon argues that these responses flow naturally from the heart conquered by sovereign grace, and that idolatry, whether material or mental, is the root sin underlying all other violations of God's law. Hearers are called to reject false conceptions of God, cultivate the knowledge of the triune God as revealed in Scripture, and render the whole-hearted allegiance the Creator demands and deserves.
Free Grace Baptist Church - October 13, 2019 AM
Acts 11:19-30 traces the northward expansion of the gospel from Jerusalem to Antioch, showing how scattered believers preached the Lord Jesus to both Jews and Gentiles, and how the church that formed there became a model of what a local congregation ought to be. The sermon examines three movements in the passage: the evangelistic preaching that established the church, Barnabas's investigation and exhortation to continue with the Lord, and the year-long teaching ministry of Barnabas and Saul. From these movements, six characteristics of the Antioch church are drawn out — evangelistic, converted in membership, doctrinal, Christ-centered, charitable, and established by the sovereign hand of God — and applied directly to the life of a confessional Reformed Baptist congregation.
Free Grace Baptist Church - October 6, 2019 PM
What does it mean that the Father has 'bestowed' his love on sinners so that they should be called children of God? Expounding 1 John 3:1 in the context of a Lord's Supper service, this sermon examines the divine love under four headings: the call to consider it, the object in view, the blessed result of adoption, and the attendant conflict with the world. The love of God is grounded in his impassibility and immutability — he is 'most loving' not as an emotional fluctuation but as an unchanging perfection — and the doctrine of adoption is carefully distinguished from and harmonized with John's language of new birth, following B.B. Warfield's analysis. The sermon closes by directing communicants to fix their minds on Christ rather than on themselves as they receive the bread and cup.
Free Grace Baptist Church - October 6, 2019 AM
Acts 10:44–11:18 records what the preacher calls the 'Gentile Pentecost' — the decisive moment when the Holy Spirit falls upon Cornelius and his household, confirming that God has granted repentance unto life to the Gentiles apart from circumcision or the works of the Mosaic law. The sermon expounds two movements: first, the conversion itself, with its cessationist reading of the tongue-speaking as a corporate, historically unrepeatable sign of Christ's lordship rather than a pattern for individual Christian experience; second, the controversy in Jerusalem, where Peter's defense silences the objectors and causes them to glorify God for Gentile inclusion in the covenant of grace. The practical burden is threefold: cherish the unity of Jew and Gentile in the one body of Christ, submit to immediate believers' baptism as the New Testament pattern, and rest in justification by faith alone in Christ alone, which excludes every form of faith-plus-works soteriology.
Free Grace Baptist Church - October 2, 2019 Bible Study
Genesis 28 records God's sovereign confirmation of the Abrahamic covenant blessing to Jacob at Bethel — a man fleeing for his life after his own deception, yet met by Yahweh in a dream of angels ascending and descending a ladder between heaven and earth. The passage is expounded under three movements: Jacob's relocation to Padanaram, Esau's futile attempt to secure parental blessing through marriage, and Jacob's vow at Bethel. The dream is interpreted on two complementary levels — as a declaration of divine providence over Jacob's solitary journey, and as a messianic anticipation of Christ as the one mediator between heaven and earth, the interpretation Christ himself provides in John 1:51. The chapter marks a turning point in Jacob's life, from grasping deceiver to worshipping covenant-keeper, and sets a paradigm for all Israel of worship, tithing, and trust in Yahweh's faithfulness.
Free Grace Baptist Church - September 22, 2019 AM
Acts 10:9–16 presents Peter's vision of the great sheet as more than a curiosity about dietary law — it is a decisive turning point in redemptive history, signaling the formal inclusion of the Gentiles in the covenant promises of God. The sermon works through three particulars of the vision: its occasion (Peter's noon prayer on the housetop), the vision proper (the sheet with clean and unclean animals), and God's explanation ('What God has cleansed you must not call common'), tracing the contrast with Ezekiel 4 to show that where Ezekiel's unclean diet symbolized Israel's defilement among the Gentiles, Peter's vision announces the Gentiles' purification alongside Israel. The exposition addresses the threefold division of the law — moral, ceremonial, and judicial — demonstrating that the food laws were ceremonial and always purposed by God to be abrogated by Christ's fulfillment, with implications for how new covenant Christians navigate Christian liberty, avoid judgmentalism toward one another, and proclaim a gospel that comes to helpless sinners without additions or conditions.
Free Grace Baptist Church - September 18, 2019 Bible Study
Genesis 26 traces Isaac's sojourn among the Philistines, his expulsion from Gerar, and his return to Beersheba, and the narrative is deliberately constructed as a series of parallels with the life of Abraham. The chapter demonstrates that the covenant promises of land and seed — sworn by God to Abraham and now confirmed to Isaac — are preserved not through the patriarchs' virtue but through God's sovereign faithfulness. Isaac's prosperity, the recovery of his father's wells, and the covenant made by his former adversaries all illustrate how God causes even a man's enemies to be at peace with him when his ways please the Lord. The exposition closes with the observation that every episode of Genesis points forward to the singular seed, the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom all the nations of the earth are blessed.
Free Grace Baptist Church - September 15, 2019 AM
Acts 10:1–8 introduces Cornelius the centurion — a devout, God-fearing Gentile who prays, gives alms, and teaches his household — yet the passage presses a decisive question: was he already saved? This sermon argues from five lines of evidence within Acts 10–11 that Cornelius was not yet in covenant with Christ, and that the chapter's primary emphasis is the formal inclusion of the Gentiles in the covenant of grace through the preaching of the gospel. Against Roman Catholic inclusivism and Protestant pluralism alike, the sermon insists that remission of sins comes only through faith in the name of Jesus Christ, as Peter declares in verse 43, and that God honors the ordained means of gospel preaching as the instrument of that salvation.
Free Grace Baptist Church - August 18, 2019 AM
Psalm 5 is a prayer tutorial in which David models how to approach God in desperate and messy circumstances, not by appealing to personal righteousness but by preparing ordered petitions, meditating on the character of Yahweh, and resting in confident trust that God will surround the righteous with his favor. The sermon works through four movements in the psalm: prepare your prayer, know your God, make your request, and declare your confidence. A sustained emphasis falls on the character of God — his holiness, his hatred of evildoers, and his intimate, covenant nearness as Yahweh — as the necessary foundation for all genuine prayer. The congregation is urged to pray not chiefly for deliverance from difficult circumstances but for righteousness within them, echoing David's petition in verse 8: 'Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness.'
Free Grace Baptist Church - August 11, 2019 PM
Matthew 7:24–29, the parable of the two builders, presses the closing application of the Sermon on the Mount onto every hearer within reach of Christ's words. The sermon examines the wise builder who hears and does, the foolish builder who hears but does not do, and the astonishing authority with which Christ delivers both. The central diagnostic question is not whether one occupies space in the company of hearers, but whether one has built upon the only foundation that survives the storm of divine wrath — the righteousness of Christ received by faith alone.
Free Grace Baptist Church - August 11, 2019 AM
Acts 9:26-31 records Paul's first post-conversion visit to Jerusalem, where his attempt to join the disciples was met with fear and suspicion before Barnabas vouched for him to the apostles. The sermon traces three interlocking themes: the indispensable ministry of supporting figures like Ananias and Barnabas, the biblical pattern of bold gospel proclamation modeled by Paul and attested throughout Acts, and the threefold blessing — peace, edification, and multiplication — described in the summary statement of verse 31. The application presses the congregation to pursue these blessings not through programmatic gimmicks but through walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, and to pray earnestly for those who preach the Word.
Free Grace Baptist Church - July 21, 2019 AM
Acts 9:1–9 records the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, the arch-enemy of the early church, and the sermon works through this passage in two movements: the hostility of Saul and the sovereign confrontation by Christ on the Damascus road. The preacher argues that the violence and ruthlessness of Saul's pre-conversion mission magnifies the richness of divine grace, because Christ's effectual call reaches even the chief of sinners without any prior disposition toward God on Saul's part. Drawing on parallel accounts in Acts 22 and 26, Galatians 1, and 1 Timothy 1, the sermon applies this reality as an encouragement to those who fear themselves beyond the reach of redeeming grace, and as a rebuke to any confidence in moral or religious achievement as a ground of acceptance before God.
Free Grace Baptist Church - June 9, 2019 AM
The Christological unity of Scripture — the truth that the Old Testament prophets testified to Christ by the Spirit of Christ — grounds the believer's hope under suffering and shapes a properly Christocentric hermeneutic. Drawing from 1 Peter 1:10–12, this sermon argues that the Spirit of Christ was personally present in and through the prophets, disclosing the sufferings of Christ and the glories that follow, so that the Old Testament is not Israel-centric but Christ-centric in its ultimate focus. The sermon calls believers to read Scripture not merely for cognitive information but as a supernatural encounter with Christ himself, whose revealed glory transforms the reader into his likeness and sustains eschatological hope in the face of suffering and persecution.
Free Grace Baptist Church - June 2, 2019 PM
David's adultery with Bathsheba and the murder of Uriah the Hittite set the stage for Nathan's confrontation in 2 Samuel 12:1–15, where the prophet's parable ensnares the king and the sentence 'You are the man' falls with full force. The sermon traces three movements: God's sovereign initiative in sending Nathan, the detailed indictment that makes plain how God's own prior grace renders David's sin all the more senseless, and the astonishing brevity of David's confession — two Hebrew words — met immediately with full pardon. The central pastoral application is that genuine repentance neither grovels nor bargains, because atonement rests entirely on the doing and dying of Christ, not on the intensity or duration of the penitent's prayer.
Free Grace Baptist Church - June 2, 2019 AM
Acts 8:9-25 presents the account of Simon Magus, a former sorcerer who professed faith and was baptized in Samaria, yet subsequently attempted to purchase the apostolic ability to confer the Holy Spirit. The sermon works through Simon's request, Peter's sharp rebuke, and Simon's reply, while holding in tension the genuine ambiguity the text leaves about whether Simon's profession was true. The preacher draws out the contrast between the gift-character of God's grace — which can never be bought, bribed, or trafficked — and the spirit of simony that has recurred throughout church history, pressing hearers to examine not Simon's salvation but their own, and to rest their standing before God on Christ's blood and righteousness alone.
Free Grace Baptist Church - May 12, 2019 PM
The fifth commandment — 'Honor your father and your mother' — carries a weight far beyond domestic courtesy. Expounding Deuteronomy 5:16 alongside its supporting texts across both Testaments, this sermon argues that the command governs every sphere of God-ordained authority: family, church, workplace, and civil Commonwealth. The sanction attached to its violation, from capital penalties in the Mosaic law to its appearance in the New Testament vice lists, reveals that dishonor of parental authority is symptomatic of a deeper insubordination to God himself. The sermon closes with the gospel reminder that obedience to the fifth commandment cannot secure salvation — only the righteousness of Christ imputed to the believing sinner does that — but redeemed hearts will seek to keep what God commands.
Free Grace Baptist Church - May 5, 2019 AM
Christ declared 'I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me' — a claim as offensive to the ancient world as to the modern, yet the only word that addresses the guilt, ignorance, and rebellion of sinners. Working through Acts 8:1–17, this exposition traces the Spirit-confirmed extension of the gospel from Jerusalem into despised Samaria, showing how Philip's preaching of Christ — not social commentary, not racial reconciliation programmes, but Christ as prophet, priest, and king — produced joy in a city that had been alien to the covenants of promise. The sermon argues that the cross, and only the cross, is the answer to ethnic hostility, civic disorder, and personal despair, and calls hearers to attend to the preached Word with the same urgency the Samaritans showed when Philip came among them.
Free Grace Baptist Church - April 24, 2019 Bible Study
Genesis 18:1–15 presents the Lord's appearance to Abraham at Mamre, where the promise of Isaac's birth is reiterated — this time directed toward Sarah, who laughs within herself at what she judges a physical impossibility. The study examines the identity of the three visitors (most likely the angel of the Lord and two attendant angels), the exemplary hospitality of Abraham as a model for Christian brotherly love, and the rebuke issued to Sarah's unbelief. The passage pivots on the question of verse 14 — 'Is anything too hard for the Lord?' — and calls believers to ground their confidence not in circumstantial possibility but in the omnipotence of God, whose covenantal promises are not contingent on human capacity.
Free Grace Baptist Church - April 21, 2019 PM
Ephesians 4:7–16 presents the ascended Christ as the sovereign giver of gifts to his church — gifts that are men appointed to the ministry of the Word. This exposition argues that the purpose of those gifts is not to provide an outlet for individual expression but to bring about corporate maturity, doctrinal stability, and Christlikeness among the people of God. Listeners are pressed to examine whether they genuinely value word-based ministry, hold fast to the unity of the faith, and live as model members of Christ's new-creation temple.
Free Grace Baptist Church - April 10, 2019 Bible Study
Genesis 17:15–27 is examined within the framework of the Abrahamic covenant, with particular attention to the declaration concerning Isaac, the obedience of Abraham, and the theological relationship between circumcision and baptism. The study draws a careful distinction between the covenant of circumcision — which governed membership in Old Covenant Israel by a works principle (Genesis 17:14) — and the covenant of grace, arguing with Nehemiah Coxe that the two must not be conflated. Colossians 2:11–12 is then opened to demonstrate that spiritual circumcision (regeneration) is the antitype of physical circumcision, and that baptism is the retrospective outward sign of that inward grace already received through faith — a sign that presupposes faith and therefore cannot legitimately be administered to infants.
Free Grace Baptist Church - April 3, 2019 Bible Study
Genesis 17 presents the formal ratification of the covenant of circumcision with Abraham and his descendants, distinguished carefully from the covenant of grace revealed within it. The sermon traces the progressive enhancement of God's promises — seed, fruitfulness, kings, land, and the covenant formula 'I will be their God' — while insisting that the covenant of circumcision operates simultaneously on physical and spiritual levels without the two being conflated. Drawing on Galatians 3–5 and Nehemiah Cox, the exposition argues that to identify the covenant of circumcision with the covenant of grace is an exegetical misstep that yields infant baptism and mingles the law principle with the grace principle in a way the Apostle Paul expressly forbids.
Free Grace Baptist Church - March 31, 2019 AM
Stephen's defense before the Sanhedrin in Acts 7:44–53 serves as a window into the Old Testament's typological structure, tracing the Davidic covenant from 2 Samuel 7 through the construction of Solomon's temple to its ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ. The sermon argues that both tabernacle and temple functioned as types and shadows pointing forward to Christ, and that Israel's idolatrous attachment to the physical temple — trusting the structure rather than the God it signified — mirrors the Sanhedrin's rejection of the very Messiah those institutions were designed to anticipate. Drawing on Isaiah 66, Solomon's dedicatory prayer, and Matthew 16, the preacher shows that Christ is himself the true temple, the Son of David who builds the house of God, and that all the promises of God find their 'yes and amen' in him. The application is direct: neglect of the Old Testament impoverishes Christian experience, and those still outside Christ are called to look to him — as Israel looked to the bronze serpent — for forgiveness and righteousness received by faith alone.
Free Grace Baptist Church - March 24, 2019 AM
Stephen's defense before the Sanhedrin in Acts 7:44–45 opens a window into the Old Testament theology of divine dwelling — tabernacle, temple, and conquest — showing that God's entire redemptive economy pointed forward to Christ as the true temple. Working through Exodus 25, 29, 40, Leviticus 9–10, 16, and Joshua 3–24, the sermon traces how the tabernacle of witness was given by divine command, designed for the purpose of God dwelling among his people, and completed under Moses only to reveal a new tension: even the godliest man could not enter the glory-filled sanctuary without atoning blood. The Book of Leviticus resolves that tension by prescribing the bloody knife and smoking altar that typified Christ's substitutionary sacrifice, and Joshua shows that the conquest of Canaan was accomplished by the strong arm of Yahweh alone — a pattern that mirrors the believer's ongoing mortification of sin by the Spirit. The application is direct: attachment to types and shadows after Christ has come is idolatry, and the only way to dwell in the presence of God — now or in the New Jerusalem — is through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Free Grace Baptist Church - March 20, 2019 Bible Study
Genesis 16 exposes the impatience of Sarai and Abram as they resort to human ingenuity — surrogate motherhood through Hagar — to secure the seed God had promised rather than waiting upon him to fulfill it in his own time and means. The passage is set against the backdrop of Genesis 15, where God had already specified that the heir would come supernaturally from Abram's own body, making their scheme not merely socially problematic but a failure of faith in the very word of God. Yet the same chapter that records their faithlessness also records God's faithfulness: the angel of the Lord meets the fleeing Hagar, names her unborn son, and promises a multitude of descendants — a display of divine common grace extended even to the non-elect. The exhortation is to believe the promises of God, use lawful means, and refuse to substitute human engineering for patient trust in divine sovereignty.
Free Grace Baptist Church - March 17, 2019 PM
Romans 1 confronts humanity with the universal condemnation that falls upon Jew and Gentile alike: God's righteousness is revealed in the gospel precisely because all people suppress the truth of God in unrighteousness. The sermon traces Paul's argument from general revelation — God's invisible attributes made plain in creation — through the progressive moral descent that follows the rejection of the Creator, culminating in divine judgment expressed as God giving humanity over to its disordered desires. The remedy is the righteousness of God revealed through faith in Jesus Christ alone, which the apostle sets against the backdrop of universal guilt in order to magnify the grace of justification freely given.
Free Grace Baptist Church - March 13, 2019 Bible Study
Genesis 15 presents the Abrahamic covenant in two movements: the reiteration of God's promise of seed and land to a childless and landless Abram (vv. 1–6), and the solemn ratification of that covenant through a self-maledictory oath ceremony (vv. 7–17). Verse 6 — 'he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness' — is expounded as the locus classicus of justification by faith alone, with faith understood as the empty instrument that receives an alien righteousness imputed from Christ, not a meritorious work brought to God. The unilateral passing of the divine presence between the animal pieces is shown to anticipate Calvary, where Christ became the curse for covenant-breakers, sealing in blood what God swore to Abraham.
Free Grace Baptist Church - March 10, 2019 AM
Stephen's defense before the Sanhedrin in Acts 7:30–36 centers on the call and rejection of Moses as a deliberate typological argument: the same Israel that rejected Moses now rejects Jesus, and in doing so rejects the very law and temple they claim to honor. The sermon works through six attributes of God revealed in the burning-bush theophany — God as revelatory, covenantal, holy, compassionate, delivering, and self-existent (I AM) — showing that this theology proper undergirds Moses's commission and, by extension, Christ's. The typological parallel between Moses (ruler and deliverer) and Jesus (ruler and Savior) anchors Stephen's defense and issues a direct summons: the same Christ who heard Israel's groaning in Egypt hears the groaning of sinners in spiritual bondage today, and he has both the compassion and the power to deliver.