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Good morning, Gateway Chapel! If we haven’t met before, my name is Chris I’m the pastor of Gateway Chapel and we are a church family that seeks to encourage one another as we hear, love, and obey Jesus together. If you’re interested in learning more about following Jesus with us, the connect cards in…

Opening Prayer: Heavenly Father, As we come together, we humbly bow before You, acknowledging Your sovereignty and majesty. As we delve into Your Word, we ask for Your guidance. Open our hearts to receive Your truth with humility. May Your Spirit stir within us a deeper understanding of what it means…

“Rejoice in suffering.” “Rejoice and be glad…for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds.” Do you know my natural inclination is when I read these kind of statements? “Oh, oh, okay! Sure.…

1 Peter 4:7-19 Good morning church! I want to dig right in this morning, so turn to 1 Peter chapter 4 if you haven’t already and I’ll begin reading where we left off. 7 But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers. 8 And above all things have fervent love for…

Good morning church! Opening . If you have your Bible go ahead and open it to 1 Peter 4:12-19 . This morning we are wrapping up the end of chapter 4, but beginning Peter’s last section of his letter. In this last section Peter returns to one of the common themes he’s covered throughout the book: suffering.…

12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Because of the eternal hope that we have in Christ , we are to live obedient lives to Christ…

1 Peter is the first letter that we have from the Apostle Peter in the New Testament. The overall theme of the book is that believers should follow Christ’s example by joyfully enduring persecution. 12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing,…

How are you doing? Have you taken the time to assess how you’re doing? It really is important for our own health (not just personally, but as a church) to take the time to stop and ask ourselves, how are we doing? When we see unrest around our world, and in our own communities it can raise the anxiety…

Introduction: If you would please turn in your Bibles to 1 Peter 4:12-19 Illustration: Imagine you are a Christian living in a country where your faith is illegal and persecuted. You face constant threats, harassment, and violence from the authorities and the society. How would you feel? How would you…

We are looking verse by verse through the practical teaching of Romans. Now in Romans 13:8-10 , we learn about the Believer’s Relationship with His Fellow Citizen. Last week we looked at the Believer’s relationship with the government, now the citizenry side of the believers relationships continue. God…

We have allowed comfort to over shadow sanctification If you have spent anytime reading the New Testament you know we have two natures: flesh Spirit We can only nurture one or the other each has an inverse impact on comfort and suffering Serving the flesh means immediate comfort and long term suffering…

Goal: To comfort hearers with the promise that in trials and temptations God will make us strong, firm, and steadfast. Pericopal Series: Living in the Hope of Our Inheritance 1. Living Our Unchangeable Inheritance (1 Peter 1:3–9) 2. Living in Reverent Fear (1 Peter 1:17–21) 3. Living through Unjust Suffering…

We are just finishing up our birthday season. We have Christmas, then Nancy and Grace’s birthdays are in January, and David’s and mine are in February. That makes for a lot of gifts being given in two months. The kids have been thrilled. I am looking at the house, wondering what we are going to do with…

Contend :To strive in opposition or against difficulties; struggle Earnestly : being very sincere; putting forth genuine effort Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which…

Main Idea Rejoice in being counted worthy to suffer for Christ Last week, we looked at the second trial of the apostles held by the Sanhedrin. If you remember the first trial from chapter 4, the Council’s hands were tied. An undeniable miracle had been performed, and though they wanted to make any sort…

This is our 3rd week in the teaching portion of our EMPTY acronym, our flyover of the New Testament. It’s a 40,000 foot flyover, but its giving us a sense of the overarching message of redemption and seeing the connections of the New Testament back to the Old, and the flow of the story from Genesis on.…

Intro: In Philippians 2:12 , The Apostle Paul encourages us to… “ ...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling ;” This does not mean that we are to “work for our salvation”… Because we cannot earn it… It is a free gift. But to work out our salvation is referring to our responsibility, as believers,…

1 Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. 3 For the time that is past suffices for…

Announcements Are there any announcements? We have a few opportunities to serve: People needed to mow People needed to clean the church Healthy snacks and drinks are needed for children’s church See Pastor John Introduction Good morning and welcome to FCC where we worship the Lord in Spirit and in Truth,…

Faint Not Courage To live for God It is not always easy, Faint not 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:9–13 (KJV 1900) 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy…

Therefore Because Christ suffered we need to have the same mindset We need to get sin out of our lives we need to know that the world will hate us we need to support one another bear each others burdens use our gifts to build each other up The suffering church needs all the support it can get from the…

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” William Shakespeare uses this line in his play Romeo and Juliet to convey that a name is nothing but a name… OR IS THERE??? Is there something more to this name “Christian”???… follow along as we read from 1 Peter…

How are you to respond when suffering unjustly for Jesus? Are you to retaliate? Join Pastor Steve as he looks at Peter's response to suffering persecution in 1 Peter 4:12-19.

Growing up I was deaf for the first six years of life. Reading was difficult, and on top of that I was dyslexic but that would not be discovered until I was in my thirties. Great effort was given to language arts and over time I began to appreciate the structure and form of communicating through words.…

Judgement is a reality so let Christ be Lord, testify through suffering for him, be purified by him and don’t be an idiot so that you escape condemnation. Scene 1/ There are some confronting truths that the Bible teaches; one of those is that God will judge sin – We understand the idea of judgement for…