Sovereign Grace Community Church

This message examines the aftermath of the gold calf episode, which saw God's judgment of Israel in slaughter and alienation, climaxing with His renewal of the covenant through Moses' mediation.

This message examines the episode of the gold calf and its significance for Israel's relationship with God, but in terms of the nation's role in God's purposes for the world bound up in Abraham and the covenant with him.

Following the ratification of the covenant and the fellowship meal of Father and son, Yahweh called Moses to return alone to the mountain to receive another record of the covenant that He Himself would write. He would give Moses the two tablets of the covenant, but also instruction for His dwelling place among His covenant people and His provision of a mediating priesthood. This message examines the relationship of the sanctuary and priestly system to the covenant and their role in its administration.

This message examines the circumstances surrounding the formal institution of God's covenant with Israel, including the recording of the covenant charter, the people's stated commitment to it, the covenant's ritual ratification in blood, and Israel's fellowship meal with Yahweh on His holy mountain.

This message examines the making of the covenant at Sinai and its various features and components. But it does so particularly in terms of the covenant's function in Israel's life as the Abrahamic people, chosen by God to be His instrument for achieving His restorative purpose for the world.

This message examines God's preparation of Israel for entering into covenant relationship with Him after the redeemed nation arrived at Mount Sinai.

This message considers the series of tests - by which God tested Israel and Israel tested God - that transpired during the three months between Israel's deliverance at the Red Sea and their arrival at Mount Sinai.

This message examines Israel's Exodus from Egypt, both in terms of its historical significance and its importance in the unfolding salvation history as a prototype that portrayed and anticipated a future counterpart. In that second and final Exodus event, God would liberate the entire creation from its bondage and regather it to Himself in His Son, thereby fulfilling His own destiny to become "all in all."

This message examines the circumstances surrounding Jacob's exile in Egypt. Jacob was now Israel, and so it was that his exile was to be the exile of the entire covenant household - the household that would become the nation of Israel. God had disclosed to Abraham years earlier that a long season of exile was ordained for his descendants, and Joseph and his story were the primary instrument for this circumstance coming about.

This message examines the account of Jacob's return to Canaan after twenty years in Haran, and particularly the episodes associated with Mahanaim/Peniel and Shechem.

Isaac was the first covenant heir, but his son Jacob played a more prominent role in the history of Abraham's covenant family, first and foremost because he was the direct source of the nation of Israel and the first to bear that name. The book of Genesis attests Jacob's preeminence by devoting half of its content to telling his story. This message examines the immediate outcome of Jacob's obtainment of firstborn status and the covenant blessing, namely his twenty-year exile in Haran.

This message considers the role of Isaac as the first covenant heir in the progress of God's covenant with Abraham and its outworking in the salvation history culminating with Jesus the Messiah. In particular, it examines the way the Genesis author constructs his narrative treatment of Isaac and the circumstances of his life as covenant heir.

This message examines the matter of resurrection as a crucial biblical concept - not so much the historicity of Jesus' resurrection or how it relates to His atoning death, but the nature, basis, and purpose of His resurrection and its significance for human beings and the wider creation.

This message examines the episode of Isaac's sacrifice in the light of God's covenant with Abraham and Isaac's status as the chosen heir through whom the covenant and its promises would be perpetuated. In particular, it considers the relationship between Abraham's obedience and God's sworn affirmation of the covenant with Isaac as covenant heir.

This message examines the first part of the Abraham narrative in Genesis, spanning God's call and covenant with him, Abraham's movement through the land of Canaan, and his various triumphs and failures leading up to the birth of the covenant heir.

This message follows and builds on the content in week 7 of the God With Us (Sacred Space) series. Specifically, it considers the post-fall world from the time of Cain until God's calling of Abram as recorded in Genesis 5-11.

This message considers the significance of the two trees in Eden's garden-sanctuary, and the effect of eating from the forbidden tree on sacred space and man's relationship with God.

This message examines the episode and general significance of the fall in the light of the creation account in Genesis 1-2. It draws from and builds on the content in the fourth and fifth sermons of the previous God With Us series.

This new series involves a fresh consideration of our previous God With Us sermon series from 2007-2008. This first message parallels the first three God With Us sermons and gives a brief overview of the Genesis creation account and what God intended to communicate about the creation's nature, form and purpose.

This message introduces a new study revisiting the God With Us series preached in 2007-2008. It addresses initial considerations regarding the concept of sacred space and its relation to the Genesis creation account.