In this lesson, we examine how God sovereignly chose and sovereignly provided for Jacob. We also examine Jacob’s vision of a heavenly staircase and how that vision connects with Jesus Christ.
In this lesson, we examine how God sovereignly chose and sovereignly provided for Jacob. We also examine Jacob’s vision of a heavenly staircase and how that vision connects with Jesus Christ.
In this sermon, Pastor Babij examines Jesus’ return to Nazareth, Jesus’ hometown. Pastor Babij explains how the town’s inhabitants, as they continually question and take offense at Jesus, actually display the most heinous sin of all before God. Pastor Babij also points out how many today are just like the people of Nazareth and explains how Christians ought…
In this sermon, Pastor Babij looks at the narrative sandwich regarding Jairus’ dying daughter and the woman with the bleeding issue. In part 1, Pastor Babij focuses on the desperate woman with the bleeding issue, explaining how her encounter with Jesus reveals more about the identify of Jesus, the compassion of Jesus, the power of Jesus, and…
In this sermon, Pastor Babij investigates Jesus’ interaction with the man possessed by a legion of demons in Mark 5. Pastor Babij explains that this account is really focused not on the demoniac, but on Jesus, showing the following about Jesus: His preeminence, His power, His mercy, and His mission. Jesus directly contrasts everything that a demon…
In this sermon, Pastor Babij examines the account of Jesus calming the wind and waves on the stormy Sea of Galilee. While this event is instructive when it comes to how the believer perseveres through trials and suffering, Pastor Babij explains that this episode is ultimately about who Jesus is. Truly, who Jesus is and who…
In this sermon, Pastor Babij shows that many in the crowds following Jesus during His earthly ministry did not actually believe in Him; some in the crowd just wanted miracles and freedom from Rome, others thought Jesus was insane, and still others claimed Jesus used demonic power. Pastor Babij explains Jesus’s response to these attitudes and what being a true…
In this sermon, Pastor Babij explains Jesus’s answer to the Pharisees when they accused His disciples of working on the Sabbath. Jesus’s answer reveals the folly of legalism: how it distorts the true intentions of God’s law and suffocates real worship of God.
In this sermon, Pastor Babij explains that no one has even been like Jesus Christ: no one was announced in the Old Testament like Jesus was, no one has a human pedigree like Jesus had, and no one displayed deity like Jesus did by rising from the dead. In light of Jesus’s supremacy, how should we respond?
In this sermon, Pastor Babij explains why viewing Jesus as a helpless or conquered human at the cross is totally inaccurate. Pastor Babij discusses six ways that Jesus’s supernatural power was demonstrated in His death so that we, too, might confess with the centurion, “Truly this was the Son of God!” (Matthew 27:54).
In this sermon, Pastor Babij explains how Jesus’s answer to the Pharisees regarding fasting actually points to a grand truth: salvation requires total submission to Jesus and His gospel; all other man-made religious traditions and ideas about God must be discarded.