Sermons

Are you praying for spiritual revival?

There are four circumstances involved in idolatry: compromise, corruption, commotion, carnality.

Communion is a time to worship Christ.  Three observations about Commununion are critical.

Key Words: Christ, Illustration, Memorial, Manifestation

What is the cause of your love for Jesus?  Is your love for Him all that it should be?



Key words: Love, Extravagant, Faith, Righteousness

Can you say that the things you hope for will come to fruition, and not fail?  There is a biblical hope that is sure and unfailing...it come when we are in Christ.

Key Words:  In Christ, Salvation, Inheritance, Suffering
 

We as the Church are looking with great anticipation and hope to life everlasting with our Lord and Saviour, who is King of Kings and Lord or Lords.  ALLELUIA !!

Key Words: ALLELUIA, King of Kings and Lord of Lords

Paul makes clear to the Christians at Colosae that we are "His Workmanship," and our responsibility is to continue daily by faith in Him alone!!

Key Words: Faith, Love, Hope, Walk, Reconciled

God's grace saves sinners; God's grace is selective; God's grace is Sovereign.

Key Words: Grace, Gospel

David was not a good father, but he was a man after God's own heart.  

Key Words: Committment, Honest, Fear of god, Honor, Glory, Heart for the peopls, Justice

Do you worry? Are you Anxious? Jesus teaches four ways that we can fight the sine of worry and anxiety.
     1. We must accumulate the right treasures
     2. We must see with clear vision
     3. We must serve the right master
     4. We must trust in the Father as we seek the King of God

Key Words: Anxiety, Worry, Sermon on the Mount
 

Psalm 143 is a set of verses that the Lord gave to me during this time of moving to PA.  In all the change, the Lord revived me, taught me, and encouraged me to seek his face.  How does God revive His People?  All of Psalm 143 is example of how God does this.

Key Words: Revival, Weary in well doing, Fainting in the way, A thirst for God

Jesus died by God's design, was raised from the dead, ascended into heaven, presented his blood as the sacrificial sin offering, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Masjesty on High, while his enemies were made his footstool.  Everything that happens in this life is because God is Soverign and his plan is on schedule.

Key words:. Sovereign, Plan, Prophecies fulfilled

Christ died for our sins, was buried, was raised from the grave, appeared to many and ascended to sit at the throne of the Most High God.  The Resurrection is not only of the body, but also of a new heaven and earth when Christ comes again in glory.

Key Words: Jesus Christ, Resurrection, Body, Heaven, Earth

The God man goes to Jerusalem, the place of his coronation - but the people did not know this.  The religious leaders didn't want this.  The fulfillment of the prophets and scripture was be culminated.

Key Words: Hosanna (save us now), Jesus wept, Jerusalem

 

Four Fears: Satanic Opposition, Our own sin, Final condemnation, Falling away.  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ our Lord.

Key wors/phrases: Fear, Jesus Christ drives away fear

God gave us a command to declare the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Our lives should always reflect the life and love of Jesus Christ.

Key Word: See, Call, Forsake, Return to your creator - the Lord God Almighty!!

Five incentives for embodying truth and changing the culture of Oakwood Baptist Church.

Key words: Died, Live, Raised, Hidden, Glorified

From no form and void: God created, God said, God saw, God called, God made, God placed, God blessed...do you get it?  It's ALL ABOUT GOD!


Key Words: GOD, Eternal, Sovereign, Self-existent, Self-sufficient

Are we really willing to completely obey God's commands?

Key Words: Obedience, God's word, Truth, Holiness, Urgency, Evangelism, Living Hope, God's Sovereignty.

God is a loving father first of all.  That love is shared between God the father and God the son and God the Holy Spriti.   That love bursts forth in the Holy Spirit and is shedd abroad in out hearts.

Key Words: Love, God, Jesus Christ,  Holy Spirit 
 

Jesus tells us that "sin happens" and how to remove sin from our lives.

Key words: Confront, Repent, Forgive, Reconcile

Our expectations often differ from our actual experiences.  This often brings about discouragement.  We can learn how to respond from the discouragement experienced by John the Baptist.

Key Words: Expectation, Experience, Discouragement

There is power of life and death in words;  "Your words will be either gifts that bless or weapons that wound."

Key Words: Words, Bless or Wound

What it means that Oakwood is a Pillar and Foundation of Truth

Key Words: Truth, Pillar, Foundation, Church of the Living God

The Pastor/Shepherd by GOD's design is charged to Lead, Feed, and Protect his peop.e

Key Words: God, Lead, Feed, Protect, GOD's people

 

For the child of God times of doubt/discouragement are a given.  What should he/she do in these times?   Our text presents an answer.

Key Words: Doubt, Unsettling, God's unfailing love

2nd Chronicles 15:2, "and he (Azariah son of Obed) went out to meet Asa and said to him,  "Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you while you are with him.  If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you."

Five essential spiritual qualities for a church seeking Reformation and Renewal.  Each of these qualaities must be present in the individual believer and in the corporate body.  For this to be true, we must believe GOD will honor our plea for his presence and power among us: Intercessory Prayer, Humility Confession, Confidence in God's Absolute Sovereignty.


Key Words: Intercessory Prayer, Humility, Confession, Confidence in th GOD's Absolute Sovereignty, Applied Theology

Pastor Fillinger gives an informal biblical prospective on "Rekindling leadership in America's churches."  Specifically one for Oakwood Baptist Church.