Fellowship Bible Church Sermons

Comparing Various Bibles

June 12, 2022 SS, Various.In this message Pastor Matt Postiff shares his study on the key differences in variations of the Holy Bible.

Divorce and Remarriage under the Law of Moses

June 8, 2022 PM, Matthew 19:1-12.This passage inevitably raises controversy. I trust you can
handle differences between believers with grace and mercy. I have taught for years that the standard for Christians is no divorce, but if there is divorce, no remarriage. That is clear regardless of your emotions or experience in the matter. The bottom line for me is that God has established marriage as a very high and holy calling. It is no joke, and it is to be maintained, jealously guarded, protected, nurtured, strengthened, etc.. We ought not focus on the exception clause, as if that is the main point of this passage—because it is not. It is only a sub-point that might apply in certain difficult situations, but does not soften the reality that divorce is SIN or
demonstrates a deep-rooted SIN problem in marriage.

Questions and Answers

June 5, 2022 PM, Various.In tonight's message, Pastor Postiff answered questions about gender, slavery, and college for young people.
Our Scripture reading was found in 2 Chronicles 12:1-16.

The Unforgiving Servant

June 5, 2022 AM, Matthew 18:21-35.True Christians have been forgiven a mountain of sin against God and
have been welcomed into God’s family as justified saints. God’s
children act like God their Father does (Matthew 5:48; Philippians
2:15; 1 John 3:1-2, 10, 5:2). God is forgiving. Therefore, we should
be too. We have been forgiven so much more sin than we can
count or list; it is relatively nothing for us to forgive an offender
against us. Look at the examples of Christ (Luke 23:34) and
Stephen (Acts 7:60).
This means that we always live with an attitude and heart ready to
forgive because we understand our own wickedness and the great
pardon we have received. When an offender comes to us and asks
us to forgive, that readiness is exercised by actually forgiving the
person. Thus, the offended comes together with the offender and
a “transaction” of forgiveness is finalized.
The professing Christian who does not understand this and/or does
not practice it, thus demonstrates that they do not truly
understand the forgiveness of God. He or she apparently did not experience that forgiveness, or else would automatically
understand the need to practice real forgiveness.
The practical challenge for us is not to intellectually understand what
we have studied today. The difficulty is to do it when we have been
hurt. When our hurt consumes us, we demonstrate selfishness and
not love for others. This is when our heart gets clogged up with self
and cannot extend forgiveness to another. This is not godly.
In another side of this, we need to know how to apologize and ask
forgiveness. The two men in the story had a desperate need—huge
debt that they could not pay. They had no problem asking for the
debt to be forgiven because they understood the consequences if
they did not. We all have a similar need in our sin-debt toward
God, and our sins toward others. But the problem is pride. We do
not want to admit we are wrong. We think somehow we can avoid
paying our debt to God or that we can make the things toward
others go away with time or other clever techniques. We need to
humble ourselves and ask to be forgiven by admitting our sin to
God and to others whom we have wronged. Far better that, than
carrying around unresolved guilt all the time.
Our Scripture reading was found in Ezekiel 39:1-29.

The Lord’s Table Service and its relation to the Impossible

June 5, 2022 SS, Various.In this mornings message we study that which is impossible with man was solved in Jesus Christ, through His sacrifice on the cross for our sins and providing the hope in Him and through Him, eternal salvation with Him. Amen!

Creation Account and God’s Righteous Judgements

June 1, 2022 PM, Genesis.In this message guess speaker Drew Nelson speaks on the creation account from Genesis 1, Life in God's Garden from Genesis 2, the Temptation and Fall of Men from Genesis 3, how Abraham Interceded for Sodom from Genesis 18, and a look at Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction from Genesis 19.

The Glories of the Coming Kingdom

May 29, 2022 AM, Various.The recent troubles in our world have been a heavy weight to carry in
our hearts. We long for world peace, harmony amongst all
peoples, safety for our children, the absence of violence, true
unbiased justice, pure and useful politics, moral leadership, rich
agriculture, economic freedom and opportunity, prosperity,
medical and technological advancements, stability of international
borders, and the general flourishing of the human race.
We must remember that present afflictions are momentary and light
compared to the eternal and exceeding weight of glory that will be
revealed in the children of God (2 Cor. 4:17). Despite the absence
of that wonderful state of things today, the Christian God
promises—and will deliver—a kingdom on earth that will put to
shame even the best that this world has offered over 6,000 years
of history. Christians will have the opportunity to share in the glory
of Christ (1 Peter 5:1). One of God’s purposes in saving us is that
we would possess the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that will
be on display in a big way in the soon-coming kingdom era.
Yet for now we groan, earnestly desiring a better body (2 Cor. 5:2-4).
The entire creation groans under the weight of the curse due to sin
(Romans 8:22-23) and awaits the full bodily redemption of the
people of God. When that happens, then the world will be under
the control of moral and upright leaders. It will occur when Christ
returns and inaugurates what the Bible calls the kingdom of the
God of Heaven (Daniel 2:44). In effect, that kingdom will endure
forever as God works out His plan to bring about the end of the
current world and re-create a new Heaven and new earth and
what we think of as “heaven” begins. Before Heaven is the
kingdom age of unparalleled blessing on this earth. It will display at
least eight glorious characteristics.
Our Scripture reading was found in Ezekiel 38:1-23.

Gender-Based Biblical Truths on Raising Children

May 29, 2022 SS, Various.Boys and girls are called to model biblical characteristics and attributes, based on their gender. In a world of sexual confusion and perversion, it's critical Christians raise their children following true biblical models.

Unrepentant People, Part 2

May 25, 2022 PM, Matthew 18:15-17.The Lord Jesus just said (18:14) that it is not the will of the Father in heaven that any of the little ones—ones who believe in Jesus—should perish. We learned from that paragraph about finding lost sheep that the Lord cares for His people, and none of them will be permanently lost. They might stray for a while, but not forever. It is because the Lord desires every sheep to be rescued that He instructs His disciples (and us) about what to do when a professing brother strays from the flock. The sinner does not do that by wandering to the mountains like a sheep with Alzheimer’s or dementia. He does so by living in sin and not repenting. For the church family, it is imperative to take the steps necessary to persuade the brother to repent and come back to the fold because God desires His people to be safe in the fold. The ministry of the church toward unrepentant sinners is often called church discipline. Regardless of the name of it, its goal is to bring sinners back, not push them away!

Unrepentant People

May 22, 2022 PM, Matthew 18:15-17.The Lord Jesus just said (18:14) that it is not the will of the
Father in heaven that any of the little ones—ones who
believe in Jesus—should perish. We learned from that
paragraph about finding lost sheep that the Lord cares
for His people, and none of them will be permanently
lost. They might stray for a while, but not forever.
It is because the Lord desires every sheep to be rescued
that He instructs His disciples (and us) about what to do
when a professing brother strays from the flock. The
sinner does not do that by wandering to the mountains
like a sheep with Alzheimer’s or dementia. He does so by
living in sin and not repenting. For the church family, it is
imperative to take the steps necessary to persuade the
brother to repent and come back to the fold because God
desires His people to be safe in the fold.
The ministry of the church toward unrepentant sinners is
often called church discipline. Regardless of the name of
it, its goal is to bring sinners back, not push them away!
Our Scripture reading was found in 2 Chronicles 11:1-23.