Covenant Waterfall Presbyterian Church

Temple Turnaround | Psalm 73

Preacher: Alex Hewitson.
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Doctrine of God 10 | The Spirituality of God

Part 10 of Covenant Waterfall's catechism class on the Doctrine of God: The Spirituality of God.
Teacher: Rev. Antonio Coppola.
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Deliverance for the Innocent | Psalm 7

Preacher: Alex Hewitson.
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Doctrine of God 9 | The Impassibility of God

Part 9 of Covenant Waterfall's catechism class on the Doctrine of God: The Impassibility of God.
Teacher: Alex Hewitson.
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God Who Works In You | Philippians 2:12-18

There are times in our lives when we find ourselves ensnared in sin, keep falling into the same sin, feel powerless against it. We identify with the Apostle Paul’s own struggle in Romans 7:19, “For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.”  This can be incredibly debilitating and you can feel like a constant failure as a Christian. Perhaps you have the assumption that although Christ has saved us by grace, it’s up to us to live out our lives for Christ in our own strength, having a “in by God’s grace, stay in by own works” mentality.
Paul is writing to Philippian church which is facing pressure and persecution from the culture around them. Paul encourages them here to persevere in their faith in the face of these trials – to resist temptation to sin, to go along with pagan culture. He tells them to work out their salvation with fear and trembling. But he doesn’t leave it there – he reminds them that they’re not alone in this, they're not abandoned to get on with the Christian life in their own strength – not in by God’s grace, stay in by own works. Instead he reminds them of gospel truth – God is still working in them by the power of his Spirit – he is the One who is sanctifying them, he is empowering them to resist temptation and live for his glory. We will see that because it is God who works in you by his Spirit, you are able to live a life that glorifies him.
Preacher: Rev. Antonio Coppola.
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Doctrine of God 8 | The Simplicity of God

Part 8 of Covenant Waterfall's catechism class on the Doctrine of God: The Simplicity of God.
Teacher: Rev. Antonio Coppola.
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The Lord Jesus Christ | Philippians 2:1-11

Since the time of Christ, people across the world have wrestled with who Jesus really was. No serious historian would ever deny that he lived on earth some 2000 years ago. The real issue is a matter of his identity. The twentieth-century Christian thinker, C.S. Lewis put it aptly in his classic, Mere Christianity:
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
Today many people are willing to acknowledge that Jesus existed, that perhaps he was a spiritual man, a prophet, or great teacher. That sort of Jesus you can ignore. But if Jesus is who Scripture reveals him to be - the Lord himself – then that has immense implications for all of us.
In our passage this morning, Paul bears these implications upon the Philippians. Instead of being consumed with their own sense of self-importance, selfish ambition and arrogance, they are to look to Christ’s humiliation unto death on a cross, and his exaltation as Lord of all. Only response – not indifference to Jesus, but to bow down and worship him!
Preacher: Rev. Antonio Coppola.
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Doctrine of God 7 | The Infinity of God

Part 7 of Covenant Waterfall's catechism class on the Doctrine of God: The Infinity of God.
Teacher: Rev. Antonio Coppola.
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The Gift of Suffering for Christ | Philippians 1:27-30

The Philippian church to which Paul is writing was facing pressure from the surrounding pagan Greco-Roman culture to conform. Paul had experienced not just this pressure, but also persecution, when he and Silas arrived in Philippi for the first time to plant the church. In Acts 16, we see that they were both arrested for preaching Christ. Paul understands the hostility that the Philippian church is facing, so he writes now to encourage them to live a life of gospel faithfulness in the midst of pressure from the culture. He encourages them to see that suffering for the sake of Christ is a gift and therefore urges them to stand firm in living a life worthy of the gospel.
Preacher: Rev. Antonio Coppola.
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Doctrine of God 6 | The Immutability of God

Part 6 of Covenant Waterfall's catechism class on the Doctrine of God: The Immutability of God.
Teacher: Rev. Antonio Coppola.
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