Northwest Gospel Church Sermons Camas/washougal

In our test this week, the Apostle Paul continues to instruct Christians how to live in light of our new life found in Christ. After teaching on marriage and the call for husbands and wives to model the gospel, Paul now turns to children and parents as well as servants and masters. This text teaches us that Christ is the Lord of offspring and offices.

In our text this week, the Apostle Paul continues to instruct Christians on how they are to live, in light of the fact that Christ has made them alive. In this text, we see that to walk wisely in the Lord’s will, we need to be Spirit-filled.

In our text this week, the Apostle Paul continues to condemn sin and teach on the ways Christians are to live. Paul explains that although we were once children of darkness, we are now called to live as children of the light. In this text, we learn that in this dark world, we are called to live as light.

This week the Apostle Paul continues to call Christians to put off the old self and put on this new. However, in this text, Paul does this by giving specific, practical examples of how Christians are to live in light of the gospel. This week we see that we listen to the Spirit so that we live like the Father and love like the Son.

This week, our text brings us to the Apostle Paul teaching the Christians in Ephesus about the new life they have in Christ. Paul also directs them in how they should live their lives in light of this new life. He calls them to cast off their old sinful selves and put on their new selves. Here, we see that we live new lives because Christ gives us new minds.

The Apostle Paul continues to teach and edify the Christians of the church in Ephesus. Paul's teaching in this text centers on Christ's work to build His Church. Through various gifts and people, Jesus is building up His Church in unity, in maturity, and in Christ-likeness. In this section of Ephesians 4, we learn that Jesus grows His Church by gifting His church.

This week we come to a turning point in the Apostle Paul's letter to the Ephesians. X created unity so maintain it. As Paul instructs the Church at Ephesus in how they should conduct themselves, he calls them to unity in how they identify, in how they live together, and in what they believe.

He is risen! This week, our text brings us to the Apostle Paul explaining a mysterious gospel truth. Jesus has destroyed the power of death. Christians do not need to fear death, because we are no longer slaves to sin. Paul declares that we can't beat death, but death couldn't beat Jesus.

This week brings us to another prayer from the Apostle Paul. He writes to his readers, focusing on the power and work of the Triune God, in order that his readers would grow in spiritual maturity and strength. Through this prayer, we see that spiritual strength for a God-glorifying life comes from spiritual sight of the ever-loving Christ.

This week, we come to Ephesians 3. In this section we see Paul informing his readers of the mystery of the gospel, that Gentiles are coheirs along with Jews in Christ. Paul explains to the readers that God’s plan is realized in Christ and revealed in the gospel.

This week, our text looks at unity between Jew and Gentile Christians. Paul calls on these Gentile Christians to remember that they were once far off and strangers to God, but through Jesus now equal with the Jews. We see that we used to be hopeless strangers, but in Christ we have a peace-making savior.

This week, we move into the next chapter of Ephesians. In Ephesians 2:1-10, we continue to see Paul explain our sinful condition, God's intention to bring his elect back to himself, and how God executes his plan of salvation and redemption. Paul continues his letter declaring that God gives life in Christ to those that are dead in sin.

This week, we see a prayer of thanksgiving from the Apostle Paul. Paul selflessly prays for the spiritual needs of the Christians reading the letter. Reading this grateful prayer, Paul's exhortation to his fellow Christians, we pray, "Lord, open our eyes."

This week our focus turns from God the Father and God the Son (Eph. 1:1-12) and turns to God the Holy Spirit. In Him, we have our salvation secured and our future inheritance guaranteed. In this text, we see Paul declaring that in Christ, our hope is sure because the Spirit in us is secure.

As Paul gets into the meat of his letter to the Ephesians, we are given both the gospel story and the proper response to that story. This anthem of praise not only speaks of God's praiseworthiness, it also tells us who we are because of his great work... and our response? Praise!