Fellowship Renewed Church

With His Wounds We are Healed (Part V: Isaiah 53:7-9)

Preaching/ teaching by Pastor Eric Williams.
"He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,    yet he opened not his mouth;like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,    and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,    so he opened not his mouth.8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;    and as for his generation, who consideredthat he was cut off out of the land of the living,    stricken for the transgression of my people?9 And they made his grave with the wicked    and with a rich man in his death,although he had done no violence,    and there was no deceit in his mouth."
Isaiah 53:7-9 ESV
March 12, 2023

With His Wounds We Are Healed (Part IV: Isaiah 53:4-6)

Preaching/ teaching by Elder Jimmy White.
"Surely he has borne our griefs    and carried our sorrows;yet we esteemed him stricken,    smitten by God, and afflicted.5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;    he was crushed for our iniquities;upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,    and with his wounds we are healed.6 All we like sheep have gone astray;    we have turned—every one—to his own way;and the Lord has laid on him    the iniquity of us all."
Isaiah 53:4-6 ESV
March 5, 2023

With His Wounds We Are Healed (Part III: Isaiah 53:2-3)

Preaching/ teaching by Pastor Eric Williams. 
"For he grew up before him like a young plant,    and like a root out of dry ground;he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,    and no beauty that we should desire him.3 He was despised and rejected by men,    a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;and as one from whom men hide their faces    he was despised, and we esteemed him not."
Isaiah 53:2-3 ESV
February 26, 2023
 

With His wounds We Are Healed (Part 1: Isaiah 52:13-15)

Preaching/ teaching by Pastor Eric Williams
"Behold, my servant shall act wisely;    he shall be high and lifted up,    and shall be exalted.14 As many were astonished at you—    his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,    and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—15 so shall he sprinkle many nations.    Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,for that which has not been told them they see,    and that which they have not heard they understand."
Isaiah 52:13-15 ESV
February 5, 2023

Shepherd the Flock of God (1 Peter 5:1-4)

Preaching/ teaching by Pastor Eric Williams 
"So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: 2 shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; 3 not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. 4 And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory."
1 Peter 5:1-4 ESV
Sam Taber also took his Elder vows to end today's service. 
January 29, 2023

Your God Reigns (Isaiah 52:7-12)

Preaching/ teaching by Pastor Eric Williams
"How beautiful upon the mountains    are the feet of him who brings good news,who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,    who publishes salvation,    who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”8 The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice;    together they sing for joy;for eye to eye they see    the return of the Lord to Zion.9 Break forth together into singing,    you waste places of Jerusalem,for the Lord has comforted his people;    he has redeemed Jerusalem.10 The Lord has bared his holy arm    before the eyes of all the nations,and all the ends of the earth shall see    the salvation of our God.
11 Depart, depart, go out from there;    touch no unclean thing;go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,    you who bear the vessels of the Lord.12 For you shall not go out in haste,    and you shall not go in flight,for the Lord will go before you,    and the God of Israel will be your rear guard."
Isaiah 52:7-12 ESV
January 22, 2023

Here I Am (Isaiah 51:1-52:6)

Preaching/ teaching by Pastor Eric Williams 
“Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,    you who seek the Lord:look to the rock from which you were hewn,    and to the quarry from which you were dug.2 Look to Abraham your father    and to Sarah who bore you;for he was but one when I called him,    that I might bless him and multiply him.3 For the Lord comforts Zion;    he comforts all her waste placesand makes her wilderness like Eden,    her desert like the garden of the Lord;joy and gladness will be found in her,    thanksgiving and the voice of song.
4 “Give attention to me, my people,    and give ear to me, my nation;for a law will go out from me,    and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.5 My righteousness draws near,    my salvation has gone out,    and my arms will judge the peoples;the coastlands hope for me,    and for my arm they wait.6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,    and look at the earth beneath;for the heavens vanish like smoke,    the earth will wear out like a garment,    and they who dwell in it will die in like manner;but my salvation will be forever,    and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
7 “Listen to me, you who know righteousness,    the people in whose heart is my law;fear not the reproach of man,    nor be dismayed at their revilings.8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment,    and the worm will eat them like wool,but my righteousness will be forever,    and my salvation to all generations.”
9 Awake, awake, put on strength,    O arm of the Lord;awake, as in days of old,    the generations of long ago.Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,    who pierced the dragon?10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,    the waters of the great deep,who made the depths of the sea a way    for the redeemed to pass over?11 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return    and come to Zion with singing;everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;    they shall obtain gladness and joy,    and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
12 “I, I am he who comforts you;    who are you that you are afraid of man who dies,    of the son of man who is made like grass,13 and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker,    who stretched out the heavens    and laid the foundations of the earth,and you fear continually all the day    because of the wrath of the oppressor,when he sets himself to destroy?    And where is the wrath of the oppressor?14 He who is bowed down shall speedily be released;    he shall not die and go down to the pit,    neither shall his bread be lacking.15 I am the Lord your God,    who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—    the Lord of hosts is his name.16 And I have put my words in your mouth    and covered you in the shadow of my hand,establishing the heavens    and laying the foundations of the earth,    and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”
17 Wake yourself, wake yourself,    stand up, O Jerusalem,you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord    the cup of his wrath,who have drunk to the dregs    the bowl, the cup of staggering.18 There is none to guide her    among all the sons she has borne;there is none to take her by the hand    among all the sons she has brought up.19 These two things have happened to you—    who will console you?—devastation and destruction, famine and sword;    who will comfort you?20 Your sons have fainted;    they lie at the head of every street    like an antelope in a net;they are full of the wrath of the Lord,    the rebuke of your God.
21 Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted,    who are drunk, but not with wine:22 Thus says your Lord, the Lord,    your God who pleads the cause of his people:“Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering;the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;23 and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,    who have said to you,    ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;and you have made your back like the ground    and like the street for them to pass over.”
52 Awake, awake,    put on your strength, O Zion;put on your beautiful garments,    O Jerusalem, the holy city;for there shall no more come into you    the uncircumcised and the unclean.2 Shake yourself from the dust and arise;    be seated, O Jerusalem;loose the bonds from your neck,    O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus says the Lord: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.” 4 For thus says the Lord God: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing. 5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and continually all the day my name is despised. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am.”
Isaiah 51:1-52:6 ESV
January 15, 2023

The Lord God Helps Me (Isaiah 50:4-11)

Preaching/ teaching by Pastor Eric Williams 
"The Lord God has given me    the tongue of those who are taught,that I may know how to sustain with a word    him who is weary.Morning by morning he awakens;    he awakens my ear    to hear as those who are taught.5 The Lord God has opened my ear,    and I was not rebellious;    I turned not backward.6 I gave my back to those who strike,    and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard;I hid not my face    from disgrace and spitting.
7 But the Lord God helps me;    therefore I have not been disgraced;therefore I have set my face like a flint,    and I know that I shall not be put to shame.8     He who vindicates me is near.Who will contend with me?    Let us stand up together.Who is my adversary?    Let him come near to me.9 Behold, the Lord God helps me;    who will declare me guilty?Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment;    the moth will eat them up.
10 Who among you fears the Lord    and obeys the voice of his servant?Let him who walks in darkness    and has no lighttrust in the name of the Lord    and rely on his God.11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire,    who equip yourselves with burning torches!Walk by the light of your fire,    and by the torches that you have kindled!This you have from my hand:    you shall lie down in torment."
Isaiah 50:4-11 ESV
January 8, 2023

Out With the Old (colossians 3:1-17)

Preaching/ teaching by Elder Jimmy White 
"If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self[d] with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave,[e] free; but Christ is all, and in all.
12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."
Colossians 3:1-17 ESV
January 1, 2023

The Birth of Jesus Christ

Preaching/ teaching by Pastor Eric Williams 
December 25, 2022