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              Our Sunday Evening Message for April 13, 2025

                           

                                         "Striving For Perfection"

                                      Text: Philippians 3: 12-14

                                 (No Evening Service For May 11, 2025)                   

Our Sunday evening messages are focused on Bible teaching usually on one of the books in the New Testament. My goal is to explain the text by comparing scripture with scripture. My method of teaching is expository in nature with the attempt to explain each verse according to the context. I am a slave to the text. Wherever the text leads me that will be my focus. It is my goal that my congregation in our Sunday evening service walk away understanding the Word of God as the Holy Spirit directs me as their pastor.

In this study, I walk you through the Epistle of Philippians. It is only four chapters long, but it is rich in encouragement in living a fruitful Christian life. Our study will be expository in nature breaking down each verse so that you can  understand the text.

In this study, we focuses on the word "perfect" in our text. Paul says to these Philippian believers, "Let us there fore, as many as be otherwise perfect.."  The word "perfect'" here does not mean sinless perfection. Paul is referring to spiritual maturity. When you received Christ as your Savior, you became a part of the family of God. You entered this family as a little spiritual babe. There is a growing process that should occur in our walk with Christ maturing us to a spiritual adult. So the word "perfect" is the opposite of being a babe in Christ. As the Hebrew writer writes "For everyone that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe." (Hebrews 5:13)

 

I encourage you to listen to this message in it's entirety as I try to walk you through the meaning of this text. May this message encourage you as it did those who attended our evening service.

 

 

 

 

 

                                            Pastor Michael R. Martin

                                 

 

 

 

 

                                                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rev. Michael R. Martin

                  Pastor

Contact: (336) 613-6878

mike-martin@triad.rr.com

 

4-13-25Phil. 3: 15-Part 2
00:00 / 53:33
4-6-25Phil. 3: 15-Part 1
00:00 / 37:34
3-30-25Phil. 3: 12-14-Part 2
00:00 / 39:56
3-23-25Phil. 3: 12-14-Part 1
00:00 / 43:01

           

         Our Sunday Evening Message for September 8, 2024

                           

                        "When The Sovereign Becomes A Servant"

                                      Text: Philippians 2:5-11

                                          

Our Sunday evening messages are focused on Bible teaching usually on one of the books in the New Testament. My goal is to explain the text by comparing scripture with scripture. My method of teaching is expository in nature with the attempt to explain each verse according to the context. I am a slave to the text. Wherever the text leads me that will be my focus. It is my goal that my congregation in our Sunday evening service walk away understanding the Word of God as the Holy Spirit directs me as their pastor.

In this study, I walk you through the Epistle of Philippians. It is only four chapters long, but it is rich in encouragement in living a fruitful Christian life. Our study will be expository in nature breaking down each verse so that you can  understand the text.

In this message, we focus on one of the most majestic description of the person of Jesus Christ. These seven verses(v.5-11) speaks of how Christ left the portal of Glory to take on human flesh to go to Calvary to die for the sins of all humanity. In these verses, Paul presents the person of Christ as our pattern to live by in our attitude in serving others. Christ pattern is when He, the sovereign, takes on becoming our servant.

 

I encourage you to listen to this message in it's entirety as I try to walk you through the meaning of this text. May this message encourage you as it did those who attended our evening service.

 

 

 

 

                                            Pastor Michael R. Martin

                                 

 

 

 

 

                                                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CBC Pic-Pastor.jpg

Rev. Michael R. Martin

                  Pastor

Contact: (336) 613-6878

mike-martin@triad.rr.com

 

9-8-24 Phil. 2: 5-11
00:00 / 38:27
9-1-24Phil. 2:5
00:00 / 40:19
8-25-24Phil. 2:2-4
00:00 / 42:16
8-18-24Phil. 2:1
00:00 / 35:18
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