To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Therefore, know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying,"In you all the nations shall be blessed." So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.Galatians 3:6-9The Apostle Paul confronted the confusion created by the Judaizers in the Galatian churches by reminding them that the Gospel, preached to Abraham 2000 years earlier, had promised salvation to all who would believe, regardless of race or nationality. Today, 2,000 years later, we may need to hear that again.We hope you enjoy Pastor Ray’s message: “The Gospel According to Abraham.”
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”Genesis 22:2The most significant of the 7 separations that tested the faith of our father Abraham was God’s commandment to sacrifice his only son. Sad to say, many in the modern American church have never considered how this account prefigured God’s sacrifice of His only Son 2,000 years later!“This is the only type in the Old Testament where God requires a human sacrifice; where God reveals the necessity for a human victim to atone for sin; for as it was that man had sinned, it must be by man, not the sacrifice of beasts, that Divine justice would be satisfied.”Arthur W. PinkWe hope you can be with us this weekend for Pastor Ray’s prophetic insights concerning... “The 7th Separation of Abraham”
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Abraham is the father of all those who believe...those who walk in the steps of his faith.Romans 4:11-12The Apostle Paul presents the life of Abraham as a pattern for the Christian life. This means that the 7 distinct ‘separations’ he experienced in the ‘flesh’ represent 7 distinct separations we will experience in the ‘spirit’. Do you know what they are?“The life of Abraham, as recorded in Genesis, is not just an obsolete narrative of something which happened in the far distant past. It is a portrayal of the experiences of Abraham’s children through the ages; a description of how God deals with his own in all time.”Arthur W. PinkWe hope you can be with us this weekend for Part 2 of Pastor Ray’s message: “The 7 Separations of Abraham”
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Abraham is the father of all those who believe...those who walk in the steps of his faith.Romans 11:4-12 (Condensed)The Apostle Paul presents the life of Abraham as a pattern for the Christian life; his journey will be our journey. But many Christians have never considered the seven distinct decisions he had to make to develop his faith and demonstrate his obedience to God. We call these “The 7 Separations of Abraham”. They are the signposts that mark our way to the ‘Promised Land’. Do you know what they are?“Abraham is the father of all those that believe. He is a standing pattern of faith, even as parents are examples to their children. He is the precedent of all those who are justified by faith.”Matthew HenryWe hope you can be with us this weekend for Part 1 of Pastor Ray’s message...“The 7 Separations of Abraham”
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe...Romans 4:11Our study of the Book of Genesis now brings us to chapter 12, where we meet the man who would become the patriarch of 3 of the world’s major religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. His name was ‘Abram’, which means ‘father’; later, God renamed him ‘Abraham’, which means ‘father of many nations’. But the New Testament calls him ‘the father of all those who believe’. Do we really understand what that means for you and me today?We hope you can be with us this weekend for a fresh look at one of history’s most consequential men: “Abraham: The Father of All Who Believe”
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....“Call no man your father on the earth; for one is your Father, which is in heaven.”Matthew 23:9Jesus’ rather puzzling pronouncement here was not a forbiddance of acknowledging and honoring our earthly fathers. It is a commandment against depending upon anyone or anything other than our heavenly Father to provide all our needs. We must resist any antichrist/socialistic/Babylonian system of government that puts itself in place of God as our Provider.“The Bible tells us that God is our Father; but more often than not, the people make the State their Father, because the State supposedly can provide us all the financial aid we need.”Gary DeMar, “God and Government”“The Father is the symbol, not only of authority, but also of provision.” ‘Our Father who art in heaven...Give us this day our daily bread’. To look to the State for sustenance is actually an act of cultic worship.”Herb Schlossberg, “Idols for Destruction”We hope you enjoy Part 3 of Pastor Ray’s message...“Nimrod and the Tower of Babel”
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....And they said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name; lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."Genesis 11:4Nimrod, the wicked great grandson of Noah, set up a city that offered men a way to heaven without God. In such a system, the state sees itself as God; and to those foolish enough to fall for it, the government becomes God. Don’t think it can’t happen here.“The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on earth. We must therefore worship the State as the manifestation of the Divine on earth; the State is God, marching through the world.”Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel(1770-1831)We hope you enjoy Part 2 of Pastor Ray’s message: “Nimrod and the Tower of Babel”
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....And Cush begot Nimrod. And he began to be a mighty one on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord." And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel.Genesis 10:8-9Nimrod, the wicked great-grandson of Noah, and Babylon, the kingdom he created, provide us with a prototype and a preview of the spirit of antichrist and the kind of government he always seeks to install—dangers are still with us to this very day."Nimrod", in Hebrew, means "the Rebel,” one of the titles given the Antichrist in 2 Thessalonians 2:8—where he is called "The Lawless One". The form of Nimrod’s rebellion was to head up a great confederacy in open revolt against God.Arthur W. PinkWe hope you enjoy Part 11 of our Bible studies in “Genesis: The Book of Beginnings”, “Nimrod and the Tower of Babel”.
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....So Noah went out of the Ark, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: "And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you...”Genesis 8:18; 9:8-9Upon exiting the Ark, God entered into a covenant with Noah that affects us all to this very day. You may be amazed to learn all it contains.“God’s covenant with Noah is unconditional and based on God’s faithfulness. It establishes the sanctity of life as humans made in God’s image, the institution of capital punishment for murder, and the regularity of the seasons, all symbolized by the rainbow as a perpetual sign between God and the man.”J. Sidlow Baxter, “Explore the Book”We hope you enjoy Part 10 of our Bible Study of Genesis: The Book of Beginnings”, “The Noahic Covenant”.
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household...Hebrews 11:6Too many of God’s people have never explored the prophetic implications in the Genesis account of Noah and the Ark. It’s not just about a man and a boat. It concerns our salvation in Christ!We hope you enjoy this fresh look at the faith of Noah and...“The Ark of Our Salvation”
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.Genesis 4:8The perpetual war between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman, prophesied by God in Genesis 3, finds its first fulfilment in Genesis 4, when Adam’s eldest son kills his younger brother. The prophetic implications of the first murder in human history must not be missed!“Cain and Abel stand as representatives of two great classes of people. They typify respectively, the lost and the saved; the self-righteous and the broken spirited; the formal professor and the genuine believer; those who rely upon their own works and those who rest upon the finished work of Christ; those who insist upon salvation by human merits and those who are willing to be saved by Divine grace; those who are rejected by God and those who are accepted and blessed.”Arthur Pink, “Gleanings in Genesis”We hope you enjoy Part 2 of Pastor Ray’s teaching on...“The War Between Two Seeds”
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....And the Lord God said to the serpent...there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her Seed: by Him will your head be crushed and by you His foot will be wounded.Genesis 3:15 (BBE)We cannot properly interpret the present without a biblical understanding of the past. The conflict between good and evil in our day is a continuation of God’s decree in the Garden of Eden. A war between the seed of the serpent and the Seed of the woman.“In these two seeds we see the history of mankind, for everything recorded in the Bible, and in the annals of humanity, can ultimately be traced back to what happened in the Garden. Everything, and I mean everything, goes back to these two seeds.”Bill Cloud, “The Enmity Between the Seeds”We hope you can be with us this weekend as Pastor Ray continues our studies in “Genesis: The Book of Beginnings” with a message on: “The War Between Two Seeds”.
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....“Echoes of Eden”: a study of how all the events of human history are ‘echoes’ of mankind’s fall into sin as described in Genesis 3. In Part 1, we presented the ‘mechanics’ of the Fall; in Part 2, we looked at the ‘effects’ of the Fall. This week we will consider how, in the midst of God’s judgments upon the serpent, the woman, and the man, He predicted the coming of a Savior!
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?" So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself."Genesis 3:7-10The 4 effects of man’s fall into sin, recorded in Genesis 3, have been repeated in human behavior for over 6,000 years. Do you know what they are?“How evident it is that we all shared in the first sin and died in Adam. The first man stood in a federal position; and the fact that he acted in a representative capacity is seen by the fact that all his children share his nature and perpetuate his transgression.”Arthur W. PinkWe hope you enjoy Part 2 of Pastor Ray’s teaching on “Echoes of Eden”.
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God actually said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"Genesis 3:1Mankind’s first encounter with Satan, described in Genesis 3, established a tragic pattern of behavior that has echoed down through human history and even to our present day. We cannot understand our present predicament apart from our past. Or, as one said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” We can fix this.“The third chapter of Genesis is one of the most important chapters in all the Word of God. What has often been said of Genesis as a whole is particularly true of this chapter: it is the seed plot of the Bible. Here we find the Divine explanation of the present fallen and ruined condition of our race. Here we learn the subtle devices of our enemy, the Devil.”A.W. PinkWe hope you enjoy Part 4 of Pastor Ray’ teaching series on “Genesis: The Book of Beginnings”: “Echoes of Eden”
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Genesis 1:1And God saw everything He had made, and indeed, it was very good. Genesis 1:31Reading the first and last verses of the first chapter in the Bible raises a question: “If God is good, and everything He created was very good, where did evil come from?” You might point to the original sin of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3. But you’d be mistaken...The origin of evil was in heaven, not on earth.We hope you enjoy Part 3 of our Bible study series in...“Genesis: The Book of Beginnings.”
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Genesis 1:1The first book of the Bible is the most important book in the Bible. Because God has given us, within its pages, the seminal seeds of all the truth He intends to fully reveal.“Genesis has been called the ‘seed plot’ of the Bible for in it we have, in germ form, almost all of the great doctrines which are fully developed in the books of scripture that follow.”A.W. PinkWe hope you enjoy this second study in our teaching series on the Book of Genesis: “Genesis: The Seed Plot of the Bible”...To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville...."Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord God, “that I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.”Amos 8:11"All the research indicates that biblical literacy in America is at an all time low.”Dr. Kenneth Berding, Talbot School of TheologyThe rising rate of biblical illiteracy among Christians is contributing to the increasing corruption of American culture. We have to get back to the Bible! The question is, where do we begin? The answer is, begin with the beginning!We hope you can be with us this weekend for Pastor Ray’s new series of studies on the most important book in the Bible: “Genesis: The Book of Beginnings”.
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'Acts 26:14Saul of Tarsus, in his encounter with the risen Christ, was given the parable of the ox goad as a reminder of the self-inflicted pain that comes upon men and nations that kick back against the will of God. Saul surrendered and became Paul the Apostle. Could we see something similar happen in America today?“The ox kicks against the goad to spite the husbandman for having goaded him onward; but instead of hurting the husbandman it hurts itself. If you think, O man, that you can stop the progress of Christ's Church, you might as well bid the universe to stand still!”Charles SpurgeonWe hope you enjoy Pastor Ray’s message, “Kicking Against the Goads”.
To support the ministry of Celebration Church please click here: https://subsplash.com/celebrationchurchtn/giveSubscribe to receive our latest content: https://tr.ee/2b6XuDKlaS...FOLLOW US►► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwmccollum/►► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rwmccollum/►► Twitter: https://twitter.com/rwmccollum#celebrationchurchnashville #online #jesus #celebrationchurch #church #onlinechurch #sermon #nashville....“Do you think that I came to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.”Jesus, in Luke 12:51There is a ‘Christianity Lite’ version of the Gospel that craves unity at all cost. We must ‘be nice’. Compromise is ‘king’. But there is a polarizing power in the true gospel that is exposing good and evil, separating light and darkness, and dividing those who truly believe from those who do not. Sometime, division is a good thing. We hope you can be with us this weekend for Part 2 of Pastor Ray’s message, “Christianity Lite: Tastes Great-Less Filling”.