Even So We Speak

As we close out the 6th chapter of Romans we see a universal law that is true from Genesis to Revelation---"the wages of sin is death".

There will never be two places that you HAVE TO be at the same time---it will either be one or the other. There may be two places you WANT to be at the same time, but there will never be two places that you HAVE TO be at the same time... ...because DUTIES DON'T CONFLICT!

There will never be two places that you HAVE TO be at the same time---it will either be one or the other. There may be two places you WANT to be at the same time, but there will never be two places that you HAVE TO be at the same time... ...because DUTIES DON'T CONFLICT!

There are two judgments in the Bible in which every single person in the world will face one of the two:  Great White Throne Judgment Judgment Seat of Christ No one will stand at both and no one will avoid both And which one an individual faces is determined by how they respond to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

When you read through the plagues in Egypt and the heart of Pharoah growing harder and harder and refusing to let the people of Israel go, you are seeing a picture of the time of the Tribulation. God will be sending judgments to this earth and the heart of lost man is going to grow harder and harder. 

The blessed man in Psalm 1 does not walk, stand, or sit anywhere near sin or things that will cause him to stumble because he delights in the word of God and it keeps him firmly rooted and grounded like a tree planted by the rivers of water. That is the same way that God desires every believer to be to have success in the Christian life.

When we get saved we are freed from sin but not free from our flesh. Our spirit is going to desire to do the things of the Lord, while our flesh is going to desire to go back to the old life. We don't have to obey our flesh but we DO have to choose between the two. Our entire Christian life is making choices between the flesh and spirit. 

In order for us to live the Christian life, there are three key words in Romans 6: KNOW, RECKON and YIELD.

A study on why the King James Bible was written the way that it was and proof that is the true word of God because God promised to preserve His word. 

Even though our spirit and soul are saved after salvation, our flesh is not. We have living inside of us the "old man" and the "new man". These two natures inside of us are polar opposites and seek to get us to follow them. And this battle will never end until the rapture of the church or or death in this life. 

When we get saved we are dead unto sin which means that sin no longer has a hold on us as believers. We are buried with Christ by baptism and we are spiritually circumcised from our flesh. However, God didn't leave us in that condition. He also breathed into our spirit the breath of life through the word of God.  Therefore, in order to live the Christian life, we can't just focus on the fact that we are dead unto sin, but we are also alive unto God through Jesus Christ.    

When Moses and Aaron confronted Pharaoh and turned Moses' rod into a snake, Pharaoh's two magicians Jannes and Jambres performed the same sign miracle. How did they do that? These two magicians are a picture in the Bible of the Antichrist and the false prophet who will be able to perform real sign miracles for the purpose of deceiving the people. 

Before Moses could ever approach Pharaoh as instructed by God to let Israel out of Egypt, Moses had to convince the children of Israel that he had indeed been sent by God. In order to convince them, God gave Moses and Aaron the ability to perform signs and miracles. All the signs and miracles were not to convince Pharaoh or the Egyptians of anything, but they were meant for the children of Israel only. In fact, God PURPOSELY hardened Pharaoh's heart so the He could put these plagues of Egypt on display for the children of Israel to see. 

The time of the Tribulation will be much different than the time of the church age because the gospel of the kingdom will be preached, accompanied by signs, wonders, and miracles. Today we are going to take a birds-eye-view of the time of Jesus' earthly ministry up to the church age and see what changed and why there are no signs and miracles today, buy why they will return during the Tribulation.

Before we can begin studying the signs and wonders that the Antichrist and the false prophet will perform during the Tribulation, we need to understand what it has to do with the nation of Israel. In this lesson we are going to look at the fact that signs are for the Jews, not for the Gentiles.

The reason why the subject of baptism is so confusing and is often taught wrong is because when the word "baptism" appears in the Bible, many automatically associate it with water baptism. The truth is there is more than one baptism in the Bible and today we are going to look at every one of them and how they differ from the spiritual baptism we Christians receive when we get saved.

When we get saved we are baptized into Christ. This is our spiritual baptism that takes place the moment we get saved and what puts us in the church body. We are put into Christ, and at the same time Christ is put into us. Our spiritual baptism is an operation of the Holy Spirit that guarantees that we can never lose our salvation, because the Holy Spirit is the "earnest" of our inheritance.

While the Bible says that our flesh is dead after we get saved, in reality, it's really alive. However, God wants us to "reckon" it as dead as we "calleth those things which be not as though they were". God wants us to push past all the physical evidence that we can SEE that we are alive and believe by faith that we CANNOT SEE that we are dead to sin and alive unto God. 

One of the most common arguments that people have today (even among professing Christians) : "Is the Bible relevant today? How can any of those "outdated stories" told thousands of years ago apply to what is going on today?  In this study we will answer that question...

When Jesus saved us, while breathing into our dead spirit the breath of God, and making us a son of God, the Lord also, at the same time put our flesh to death to help us not to do the sinful things that we used to do. Just like we get saved by faith in believing Jesus died, was buried, and rose again, we are sanctified and set apart in the Christian life by faith that we are dead, and our life is hid with Christ in God.

Introduction to Romans 6

What happens after we die? There are many religions and different groups and individuals who have their opinion about what happens when we take our last breath, but this is what the Bible has to say about the matter of what happens AFTER DEATH...

As we finish our study in Romans 5, we see the comparison and contrast between the first Adam and the last Adam (Jesus). 

There are three prominent gardens in the Bible: The Garden of Eden The Garden of Gethsemane The Garden Tomb And every person in the world (saved or lost) is spiritually in one of these three gardens, and only one of these gardens will lead someone to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. 

In today's lesson we start laying down some groundwork with the first Adam and the last Adam by comparing and contrasting them and how Jesus came to undo what the first Adam did.

When we get saved it is not just a "one-and-done" type of operation. We have been saved from all of our PAST sins, we are presently BEING SAVED by the life of Jesus so that we can come to Him when we sin, and we are saved from the wrath to come and from any FUTURE sins that we commit. Our salvation through what Jesus did on the cross is perfect and it is complete!

One of the great mysteries of the Bible is not that God would love us so much that He would give up His Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins, but WHY He would do such a thing when we are helpless to do anything for Him to pay Him back for such a sacrifice. 

While the phrase "peace with God" only appears once in the Bible (Rom 5:1), the phrase "peace with God" appears twice and there are conditions attached to them. We get peace WITH God the moment we get saved, but we don't get peace with God unless we LET the peace of God rule in our hearts. God will put us through trials and tribulations in our life so that we develop patience, experience, and hope. This is the process for Christian maturity and there NO shortcuts! 

After establishing that we are justified by faith without works in Romans 4, Romans 5 begins to discuss the benefits that we have that go along with salvation.  In the first two verse we see that we have peace with God, we have access by faith, and we can rejoice in hope and it is ALL because of what Christ did for us with His work on the cross!

Studies in 2 Peter with Pastor Jeremy P. Wakefield Emmanuel Baptist Church (Cedar Point, North Carolina) 2 Peter 1:5-11 // Necessary Growth in the Christian Life (Part 3) 

Studies in 2 Peter with Pastor Jeremy P. Wakefield Emmanuel Baptist Church (Cedar Point, NC) "Necessary Growth in the Christian Life" (Part 2) 2 Peter 1:5-11 

Studies in 2 Peter with Pastor Jeremy P. Wakefield Emmanuel Baptist Church (Cedar Point, NC) 2 Peter 1:1-4 and 2 Peter 1:5-11 Contained in this message is Part 2 of the Sufficiency of Scripture for Life and Godliness (2 Peter 1:1-4) and the beginning of the next study, "Necessary Growth in the Christian Life" (2 Peter 1:5-11) 

Studies in 2 Peter with Pastor Jeremy P. Wakefield Emmanuel Baptist Church (Cedar Point, North Carolina) Sermon: The Sufficiency of the Scriptures for Life and Godliness (Part 1) 2 Peter 1:1-4

Studies in 2 Peter with Pastor Jeremy P. Wakefield Emmanuel Baptist Church (Cedar Point, NC) Sermon: "Keep Looking Ahead" (2 Peter 1:1-9)

From the preaching series, "The Church Remains," Pastor Wakefield preaches from Acts 23:1-11.  Sunday, September 8, 2024 (AM Service) 

In the last portion of Romans 4, Paul directs our attention to the fact that the examples given in the chapter of Abraham and David's faith are given for our benefit to give us a picture of how we are saved by grace through faith without works, just like they were. The Bible also gives us many stories in the Bible that serve as pictures of our salvation and how we should live the Christian life. 

There are many who believe that the Bible contradicts, and one of the places they claim it does is between Romans 4 and James 2. Romans 4 states that Abraham was justified by faith and James 2 states that Abraham was justified by faith and works. However, the seeming "contradiction" between these passages disappears when you rightly divide the word!

In Romans 4 Paul discusses about Abraham being circumcised and the fact that he was declared righteous by God BEFORE he was circumcised, proving that circumcision had NOTHING to do with salvation. 

When writing to the church at Philippi, it is clear that this was a group that Paul cherished and one that could join in with his rejoicing!   In order to have a proper understanding of the context of "joy in the church at Philippi," it is important to go back to Acts chapter sixteen to the founding of the church.   In Acts sixteen, the writer - Luke - gives to us the record of the arrival of Paul and his missionary team. They come to the riverside where people are gathered. If we were passing by that day we would likely not notice anything unusual. But with the hindsight of Scripture, we know that what was taking place was the unfolding of God's redemption plan.   What takes place in Acts is a pivotal part in the history of God's plan as those that turned the world upside down with the good news of the Gospel have, for the first time, brought the message to the European continent.   Listen today as Pastor Jeremy Wakefield gives us a review of the founding of the church at Philippi.

Joy. Do you know what it means to experience real, lasting joy? Most of the time our lives fill like a bucket with holes in it and our joy just leaks everytime something goes wrong. It's hard to "rejoice evermore" (1 Thessaonians 5:16) when we are hit with pain and sorrow, suffering and affliction from every side. James says to "Count it all joy," but we just don't know how sometimes. Well, the apostle Paul gives us a wonderful example of what it means to have joy "in the face of" anything! Paul wrote Philippians from prison. In this study, he is going to help us answer the question: can we have joy?

Romans 4 begins by proving salvation by faith without works by using the examples of Abraham and David to prove that they could not have been saved by their works, because their works were not perfect before God.

Today we are going to finish this series by taking a birds-eye-view of chapters 15-22 of the book of Revelation and the time of the Tribulation, and some final thoughts about understanding the Bible.

Today we are going to take a birds-eye-view through chapters 8-14 of the book of Revelation and the time of the Tribulation period.

Today we are going to take a bird-eye-view through the first seven chapters of the book of Revelation and the time of the Tribulation period. 

Today we are going to take a brief overview of the New Testament epistles, from Romans to Jude.

Today we are going to take a survey view of the entire book of Acts. 

Today we are going to look at a survey of the events in the gospels from the birth of Jesus to His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension into heaven.

As we introduce the survey of the New Testament, we are going to compare the four gospels. Many have asked the question of why there are four gospels and that they somehow contradict. We will see that they do not contradict, but they are four different views of the life and ministry of Jesus. 

Today we are going to finish our survey of the Old Testament from the time of the kings to the time of the 400 period of silence between the two testaments. 

Now that we have learned about reading and studying the Bible, we are ready to look at understanding the Bible. We are going to begin to take a birds-eye-view through the entire Bible by looking at the first half of the Old Testament.