Podcast Grace Church Abu Dhabi

Paul describes the difference between those who live according to the flesh and those who live according to the Spirit. He assures us that those who are in Christ by faith are also in the Spirit. We now enjoy the Spirit's life giving presence and the hope that one day, through the Spirit, God will give life to our mortal bodies.…

Paul brings the previous chapters to a conclusion by celebrating that there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because everyone who is in Christ has had their sin condemned in Jesus' flesh and has this confirmed by the Spirit's work of freeing them from sin.

To show how powerful sin is, Paul describes how hard sin is to battle against.

Paul has said some negative things about the Law of Moses, and so explains that the problem is the way our sin has responded to God's Law. He wants us to understand that the Law is holy, righteous, and good.

All of us were enslaved to sin because we were born under the law and had no righteousness of our own. Through Christ, we are set free from the bondage of our sin and through the power of grace, live holy lives in submission to God. Grace's reward is eternal life and sin offers death.

Through Jesus's sacrifice, we die to ourself and experience new life, and through Jesus's resurrection he redeems us in the next life. Now, we are called to die to self in order to be god's righteousness instruments for his kingdom.

In this message we dig into why those who have died to sin cannot continue living in sin, by showing how we died and rose with Christ. We also explore what exactly Jesus does to free us from sin's power, and how we can experience this in an ongoing way today.

To magnify what Christ has done for us, Paul spells out what Adam's sin did to humanity, and how Jesus saves all who trust him.

Paul explains why the hope of heaven will not put us to shame or disappoint us, and the reason he gives is because God has shown his love for us on the cross.

We have many reasons to rejoice in Jesus; even in our suffering!

Man-made religion tells us to try to earn blessings from God by obedience. But in this passage Paul explains why that is impossible, and why it's only faith that brings God's grace which guarantees his promises to us through Christ.

In this passage Paul tells us how ungodly Abraham was counted as righteous before God, and about the blessing that brings to all who experience it.

Now that Paul has helped us When we are amazed at being justified by faith, we will stop all boasting in ourselves, and boast only in the Lord.

Romans 3:21-26 marks a turning point in the book of Romans, where Paul moves from describing our sin and God's judgment against sin to how, in Christ, God has manifested his saving righteousness to all who have faith.

In John 6:60-71, many people leave Jesus. He explains that it is necessary for the Father to grant people to come to Him by the Spirit; and the twelve disciples recognize that they need Jesus because of his life giving Words.

Paul rests his case that every human being is completely sinful and culpable before God. God's law has no power to save us, as it only convicts of sin before God. However, in arguing his case, Paul is actually preparing us for the greatest news in the world, that Jesus Christ came into this world to saves sinners like you and me!…

God is faithful and righteous in judgement

Paul uses Socratic and hypothetical arguments to show the Jewish people that their lineage isn't a shield from God's judgment, because the covenant people of God must live by faith. Their disobedience dishonors God and shames his name among the nations, but Jesus did what Israel couldn't do, fulfill the law and be a light to the nations.…

In these four verses, Paul explains how God's judgement of Jews and Gentiles is fair. Jews do not have a pass because they have the Mosaic Law, for they must be doers and not merely hearers of God's Word. Gentiles, even though they don't have the Mosaic Law, are also without excuses because God's law is written on their hearts. Thus, the hope for a…

None of us are in a position to judge others, because all of us are guilty of sin. But if we are seeking Jesus, we will find eternal glory, honor and peace, paid by Christ at the Cross.

Because we've turned away from our glorious Creator, and worshiped creation, God is revealing his wrath by giving humanity over to sexual impurity, homosexuality, and all manner of sin. This shows what happens when we put something besides God at the center of our lives.

In this passage John gives four reasons why we should believe that Jesus rose from the dead, which will strengthen our faith in Christ, so we experience even more life in him.

To help us see how much we need God's saving power in Christ, Paul shows us the seriousness of our sin problem. Our sin is serious because it brings God's wrath, because our sin mocks and dishonors God – who is the greatest glory in existence.

In these two verses Paul explains that he is not ashamed of the gospel because it brings God's saving power to everyone who believes, and you can do this because it reveals God's gift of Jesus' perfect righteousness which covers everyone who believes.

In Romans 1:8-15 Paul explains that he longs to visit the church in Rome so they can encourage each other in Christ, and so he can share Christ with those who are lost. This challenges us to examine how we relate both to other believers, and to those were not yet believers.

In the first seven verses of Romans, Paul gives the readers four reasons why they should give time to reading and learning this letter, covering who is Paul, what is Paul's gospel with Mitch, what will they receive through this letter.

In our final sermon on the book of Job, we raised two questions that focus on the two main truths taught in this book (where do trials ultimately come from, and what is the purpose of trials), and one final question which is raised in the last chapter of this book (what should we hope in as we go through trials?).…

There is a right way, and a wrong way, to ask God "why am I facing trials?". In Job 38-41 God explains to Job that the way he has been asking Why has been wrong, and Job is transformed in the process.

Elihu not only corrects Job's wrong thinking, he also explains that one purpose God has in every trial is to purify us from sin so we will have the joy of beholding him even more clearly now and forever.

After Job's terrible losses, he wrestles with the question of whether his trials have any meaning or purpose. His friends respond by giving what God says is the wrong answer, and we look at various Scriptures to show why their answer is wrong.

In the first two chapters of Job, we see God taking Job's wealth, children, and health from him. In this sermon we explore God's loving purpose in this, and see God's infinite, all-satisfying worth displayed.

God's final promise: he will make all things new--a new heavens, a new earth, and a new city for the family of God who thirst for living water without cost, without tears or mourning or death.

In this sermon we bring our prayer week to a close to talking about how we can keep the growth in prayer God has give us over this past week. We look at Jesus' words to us in Luke 18:1-8 (Always pray and do not lose heart), the promise of James 4:8 (drawn near to God and he will draw near to you), and then give 14 practical suggestions for growing …

As we begin our Week of Prayer, we take a look at what Jesus promises about prayer, from Matthew 7:7-11, how we can be even more effective in prayer, and what God might do through our prayer this week.

Paul calls us to live as wise believers because the days are evil by examining our lives, making the best use of the time, and understanding the will of the Lord.

The fourth truth we learn from Matthew about Jesus' birth is that he was born for the purpose of saving his people from their sin. In this sermon we focus on questions like: what is this sin that we need to be saved from? Why is this so important? And how does Jesus save us from sin?

One of Matthew's main points is that Jesus was born of a virgin, which is important because it means that Jesus was not just a man, but was GOD with us. The fact that God came to earth and became a man in Jesus is important because it shows how much we matter to God, it gives us clear knowledge of God, and it means we can have complete payment for …

In emphasizing that Jesus is the Son of David, Matthew points back to the prophecies showing that God would raise up a king in the line of David who would be fully God and yet born as a baby, who would become our righteousness before God, whose reign would spread through the whole world, finally judging all the wicked and removing all the effects o…

One of the crucial truths Matthew wants us to understand about Jesus' birth is that he is the promised and prophesied son of Abraham, who would save people from every nation, tongue, and tribe from God's curse and bring them into the blessing of Abraham, which is the gift of the Spirit.

In Psalm 63:1-8 David teaches us about worship by describing how he longs for God, how he's met God in worship in the past, and how he is confident that he will meet God in worship again.

We are seeing that church involves face to face connections with real flesh and blood believers who love each other, care for each other, and encourage each other. So what is biblical encouragement? What does it look like? And why is it so important? Paul tells us in 1 Thessalonians 3:1-10.

An exploration into what it means for Church to be the body of Christ

God's move to cause His Gospel to spread through His Church is unstoppable. We find encouragement from the story of Cornelius' conversation to regain our pace in living on mission with God post the Covid pandemic.

Some of the readers of this letter had fallen into the habit of not meeting regularly with other believers. So in these verses the author helps them see what God wants to do in our lives as we meet together, and why this is so urgent.

God’s Plan A for this world is to build a spiritual house, The Church, which Jesus is the cornerstone, and the gates of hell will not prevent it. All who have faith in Jesus are united by God as living stones. God has given the church the keys to the kingdom in the Gospel of Jesus, and God through the Holy Spirit reveals who Jesus is to the world b…

Covid has weakened our understanding of the church, but Jesus' prayer in John 17 corrects many of those misunderstandings, showing us that church involves face to face relationships that are focused on Christ, empowered by beholding his glory, and shining the truth of Jesus to the world around us.

When Jesus appears to his disciples they are frightened, doubting, and thinking he's just a spirit, and not risen from the dead. In this passage we see what four things Jesus does to transform them, so they end up worshiping him as the resurrected Messiah and continually blessing God in the temple.

In this passage we see how two of Jesus' disciples were blinded by foolish unbelief, and what Jesus does to make their hearts burn with passionate faith in him.