Oftentimes, religion causes us to make rules and regulations that we think makes us a “better” or “varsity” Christian. In this clip, Pastor Mark gives several examples and ultimately tells how Jesus, not rules or religion, is the only thing that saves us.
In this sermon from Romans 2:12-29, Pastor Mark talks about five religious traps people can fall into and how God ultimately wants relationship, not religion.
2 Peter 2:17-22 –These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved. For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are … Read more
2 Peter 2:10-16 – Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones, whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which … Read more
2 Peter 2:4-10 – For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood … Read more
2 Peter 2:1-3 – False prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. … Read more
In this sermon from 2 Peter 2, Pastor Mark preaches about false teaching and the fact that what God creates, Satan also counterfeits and that it’s most important to stick to the Bible in order to not self-destruct.