North Side Sermons [greenwood, Sc]

In regards to our personal holiness, God's Word is clear that handling your mind and body in the area of sexual purity is vital to your sanctification.

Scripture commands us to put off the old self that has died to sin through Christ and put on the holiness that He gives us.

Our pursuit of holiness is a personal struggle. With God's guiding hand, we "strive... for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord."

What are the essential spiritual disciplines each believer needs in the pursuit of holiness?

Every person is in the pursuit of something. As children of God, our pursuit should be towards holiness, the holiness of God.

In the fight against sin, we must be properly equipped to defend the advances of the enemy and fight back with the proper weapons.

There will come a day when every man will be judged before the throne of God. On that day, we will not be judged by the world’s standard but by God’s standard.

God has given knowledge of his existence to every man, through the display of his glory in nature and his righteousness in our moral conscience. However, sin causes man to suppress the truth of God and deceive himself in thinking that God doesn't exist.

You can't celebrate the good news of the Gospel until you grasp the bad news of the wrath of God. Hell is God eternally departing from the soul that has consistently departed him.

The gospel is the good message of how God gives salvation to provide righteousness through faith. Therefore, I may be ashamed of my past, performance, and progress, but I am not ashamed of the gospel.

Shame is the first recorded result of sin. Where guilt is a sense of doing something wrong, shame is the sense that we are wrong or something is wrong with us. Only God can cover shame, and He accomplishes this through the Gospel.

Salvation is much more than just being forgiven. The gospel changes our very nature and we become a people who desire to grow more like Christ.

The gospel of God has centered around the person and work of Jesus Christ from the very beginning. In Paul's introductory comments in the Book of Romans, we see that he had committed his life for the sole purpose of spreading this gospel.

My life will be determined by the choices I make between what is easy and what is right. The wise will leave their simple ways and experience life. The foolish will maintain their simple ways and experience death.

The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.

Sex can either be delightful or devastating. The Book of Proverbs gives clear warnings against immorality and adultery.

Work is not a curse, but it has been cursed by sin. God wants His people to work for His glory and our good.