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SALVATION

Are you a Christian
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 5 March 2023
Synopsis: The answer to the question “What is a Christian?” will vary greatly depending on whom you ask. To some, it means you were born in a “Christian” nation, or you come from a “Christian” family. To.....
Salvation of God - Part 3
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 29 January 2023
Synopsis: - SCRIPTURAL DEFINITION OF SANCTIFICATION - AGENCY OF SANCTIFICATION - IMPORTANCE OF SANCTIFICATION - NATURE OF SANCTIFICATION - TIME OF SANCTIFICATION
Salvation of God - Part 2
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 4 December 2022
Synopsis: Regeneration is a unique feature in New Testament religion. In heathen religions the permanence of character is universally recognised. Though these religions prescribe penances and rituals.....
Salvation of God - Part 1
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 27 November 2022
Synopsis: JUSTIFICATION: As satisfying the claims of the law, the atonement secured our pardon and righteousness. Eph 1:7 (NKJV) In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins…
LOVE THE CHIEF OF VIRTUES - Part 1
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 14 August 2022
Synopsis: During a tour of the US in 1962, the theologian Karl Barth lectured at the campus of the University of Chicago. During the Q & A time, a student asked Barth if he could summarize his whole life’s.....
True Repentance - Part 3
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 29 May 2022
Synopsis: True repentance is a gift of God. Acts 5:31. Repentance follows Godly sorrow. 2 Corinthians 7:9-10. Humility accompanies true repentance. Job 42:1-6. A hatred of sin accompanies true repentance......
True Repentance - Part 2
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 15 May 2022
Synopsis: True repentance is a gift of God. Acts 5:31. Repentance follows Godly sorrow. 2 Corinthians 7:9-10. Humility accompanies true repentance. Job 42:1-6. A hatred of sin accompanies true repentance......
The crux of the matter - Part 3
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 8 May 2022
Synopsis: A number of psalms foretell the person and work of Jesus. They are called Messianic psalms i.e., while written by David they have a secondary application to the Messiah (Christ) who was the “Son of.....
The crux of the matter
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 15 April 2022
Synopsis: The word CRUX comes from the Latin crux “cross” The basic, central, or critical point or feature: the crux of the matter; the crux of an argument.
No man cared for my soul - Part 2
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 10 April 2022
Synopsis: Jesus longed to give those who were “weary and burdened” rest for their souls: Matt 11:28-30 (NIV) “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you.....
No man cared for my soul
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 13 March 2022
Synopsis: While hiding in a cave from his enemies, David cries in despair that “no man cared for my soul”. Psalm 142:4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would acknowledge me:.....
Active Faith
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 9 January 2022
Synopsis: James 2:14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If.....
Funeral service - Valerie Heggie
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 15 October 2021
Synopsis: People generally don’t like to think about death, so funerals also give us a chance to reflect on our own mortality. Benjamin Franklin famously said, “In this world nothing can be said to be.....
Funeral - Lynette Rautenbach
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 12 October 2021
Synopsis: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we.....
Is your name in the Book of Life
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 12 September 2021
Synopsis: God has a record of those who belong to him: Phil (NIV) 4:3 Yes, and I ask you, loyal yokefellow, help these women who have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel, along with Clement and.....
ARE YOU READY
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 13 June 2021
Synopsis: Are you ready to surrender your life to God? Are you ready to witness? Are you ready to do good works? Are you ready to face temptation? Are you ready to suffer for the sake of Christ and the.....
The true meaning of Christmas
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 25 December 2020
Synopsis: In our secular age it can be very difficult to discover the true meaning of Christmas. - Some see Christmas simply as a time to have drunken parties. This is how they honour the birth of the.....
Three signs of the crucifixion
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 21 June 2020
Synopsis: Matthew records three miraculous signs that God gave on the day of Jesus’ crucifixion. 1) Darkness over the land. 2) The curtain in the Holy of Holies being torn. 3) The earthquake and the.....
Funeral Brenda
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 3 June 2020
Synopsis: Are you saved? - Do you realize that you are a sinner? - Do you take responsibility for your sin? - Do you realize who Jesus is? - Do you confess your faith in Him openly?
Living water
Sermon by Prudence Mabasa on 22 March 2020
Synopsis: John 4:13-14 (NIV) Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in.....
3 chairs
Sermon by Ashley Illman on 17 November 2019
Synopsis: 1st Chair – commitment (people want to change the world) 2nd Chair – Compromise (people look just like the world) 3rd Chair – Conflict (people Are of this world)
Funeral - Lynn Cameron
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 6 June 2019
Synopsis: Death is not a popular topic of conversation and people in general avoid having to deal with it. We cannot however avoid death as somewhere along the line we are confronted with our own mortality,.....
Funeral - Elize Mathiesen
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 3 May 2019
Synopsis: Our idea as humans of what is good and what is evil is very different from what God says is good and what is evil. Modern psychology states that man is inherently good and that a person’s.....
THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS
Sermon by Richard Bandawo on 19 April 2019
Synopsis: We are living in a day when the message of the church is changing. Churches, and even whole denominations, are moving away from the old message of salvation through the blood of Jesus, and are.....
Saving Faith
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 24 March 2019
Synopsis: You are saved by faith.  You cannot be saved by works. Romans 4:1-5 NKJV What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the.....
Free from the curse
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 3 March 2019
Synopsis: In the OT, we also see that someone who was hung on a tree was under God’s curse: Deut 21:22-23 If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and his body is hung on a tree, you must not.....
Room for Jesus
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 25 December 2018
Synopsis: There was no room for Jesus at his birth. But there was no room for him even in his death - and so he was buried in a borrowed tomb. And there had been no room for him in his ministry: Sadly the.....
The importance of the blood
Sermon by David Khoza on 10 October 2018
Synopsis: We must never forget the importance of the blood and the atoning sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.
Funeral - Allan Fleet
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 13 July 2018
Synopsis: James 4:13-16 Now listen, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money. Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow......
God so loved the world - Part 2
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 25 February 2018
Synopsis: The chorus of the hymn, “The Love of God” goes: O Love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless and strong! It shall forevermore endure The saints and angels song. When the author F.M......
Spiritual blindness
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 18 February 2018
Synopsis: Scripture often employs the imagery of blindness to describe the spiritual condition of persons who are either unable or unwilling to perceive divine revelation. The things of God are perceived.....
God so loved the world - Part 1
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 11 February 2018
Synopsis: John 3:16 is probably the most well-known and widely quoted verse in the Bible It has rightfully been called THE GOSPEL IN A NUTSHELL. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one.....
Are you prepared for eternity
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 4 August 2017
Synopsis: Nate Saint (1923-1956) the missionary pilot who, along with 4 others (including Jim Elliot) was killed while attempting to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador. He said, “People who do not know.....
A Man Named NOT SURE
Sermon by Des Burrows on 11 June 2017
Synopsis: John 20:24 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them,.....
Funeral - Charlotte Bate
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 6 May 2017
Synopsis: James 4:13-16   Now listen, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money. Why, you do not even know what will happen.....
THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS
Sermon by Richard Bandawo on 30 April 2017
Synopsis: For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the Power of God.
A man named Deceived
Sermon by Des Burrows on 16 April 2017
Synopsis: Matthew 13:34-35 (HCSB) Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and He would not speak anything to them without a parable, so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:.....
Jesus in the Old Testament - Part 5 - The ark
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 4 September 2016
Synopsis: It’s apparent that the ark is a type of Jesus. The ark was a shelter and refuge from the storm. Col 3:3 … your life is now hidden with Christ in God. Just as the ark was God’s chosen method.....
Funeral - Nancy Small
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 18 January 2016
Synopsis: Funeral service of Nancy Small.
The broad road and the narrow road
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 18 December 2015
Synopsis: The funeral service of Marion Greene. Matthew 7:13-14 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is.....
You cannot hide from God
Sermon by David Makiyi on 12 April 2015
Synopsis: 2 Chron 18:20-26 Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will entice him.’ ‘By what means?’ the Lord asked. ‘I will go and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his.....
Death
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 1 February 2015
Synopsis: Death is man’s final appointment on earth. Death is not a popular topic of conversation and people in general avoid having to deal with it and either embrace the lie that everyone goes to heaven.....
No room in the inn (Christmas)
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 25 December 2014
Synopsis: Luke 2:7 She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. Does our modern world have room for Jesus this Christmas? Some see Christmas.....
The book of life
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 3 August 2014
Synopsis: God’s prophet Moses says that God has written a book: Exodus 32:32 “… if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.” The apostle John tells us that the book, called the book of life,.....
The value of a soul - Part 3 (The pearl of great price)
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 27 April 2014
Synopsis: Your soul is the most valuable possession you have. (1) More valuable than the body: Matt 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. (2) More valuable than.....
Funeral of Nick Georgakis
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 13 February 2014
Synopsis: When life caves in, you do not need reasons, you need comfort. You do not need some answers; you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation; he comes to us with his presence. We.....
The death of the godless
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 13 October 2013
Synopsis: Will a loving God send sinners to hell? Who spoke the most about hell in the Bible? Was the story of the rich man who went to hell a parable? Is there consciousness in hell, “soul sleep” or.....
The Parable of the TWO sons – Part 2
Sermon by Des Burrows on 22 September 2013
Synopsis: “What was he listening to that made him decide to do what he did?” And the key for us, Christians, is getting God’s word into our inner being. Because what we listen to enters the mind and give.....
Doctrine of salvation - Part 2
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 15 September 2013
Synopsis: Christianity teaches that Jesus is not a mere man, a prophet, a guru or something similar, but the Saviour of the world, the only “name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” (Acts.....
The parable of the TWO sons
Sermon by Des Burrows on 15 September 2013
Synopsis: This parable is one of the best known stories that Jesus told. It is a story about coming home. - Of repentance and reformation. - Of return and forgiveness. - Of acceptance and restoration. - Of.....
Lost but found
Sermon by Richard Bandawo on 28 July 2013
Synopsis: Jesus told the lost son (prodigal), the lost sheep, and the lost coin as one, inter-related parable. REPENTANCE IS THE THEME OF THE PARABLES. The transformed person better appreciates God’s love and.....
The importance of the blood
Sermon by Gordon Calmeyer on 18 May 2013
Synopsis: 1 Cor 11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my.....
Doctrine of salvation - Part 1
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 21 April 2013
Synopsis: Sin is breaking God’s law or falling short of the standard that God has set. So sin is always against God. Although David committed adultery with Uriah’s wife and was responsible for his death, he.....
How to become a Christian
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 20 April 2013
Synopsis: The most important question anyone can ask was the one the Philippian jailor asked Paul and Silas, "What must I do to be saved?" (Acts 16:30). How can I become a Christian and be saved from the.....
Colossians 1
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 27 January 2013
Synopsis: Colossians 1:21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you.....
The wrath of God
Sermon by Siegfried Aussel on 10 June 2012
Synopsis: Rom 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel a righteousness.....
When Jesus Comes
Sermon by Des Burrows on 4 March 2012
Synopsis: Luke 18: 6-8 (NIV)  6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting.....
The fool
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 18 September 2011
Synopsis: 1 Corinthians 1:20-27. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world.....
The lost and the saved
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 16 September 2011
Synopsis: The Biblical perspective of what it means to be lost and why we need to be saved. Luke 15:7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than.....
Born Again Christians
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 14 August 2011
Synopsis: "Born again" is a phrase we have heard about in a bad light more often than a good light in the secular world and press. Let us look at scripture to see if this is biblical and if and why it is.....
Salvation
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 11 July 2011
Synopsis: Salvation doesn't only begin at Calvary; it continues at Calvary and it ends at Calvary. We never move away from Calvary.
Different perspectives on death
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 21 September 2010
Synopsis: Funeral of Irona Sandra Oelofse (27 Aug 1946 - 16 Sep 2010).
The doctrine of Salvation (Soteriology)
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 22 August 2010
Synopsis: Salvation is spoken of in 3 tenses. All of these 3 tenses are summed up in 2 Cor 1:10. He has delivered us (past tense) from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us (present tense). On him we.....
Closed Door Conversions
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 2 May 2010
Synopsis: Closed Door Conversions
Born Again
Sermon by Graham Sahling on 11 April 2009
Synopsis: One of the most controversial subjects in Christian circles in this modern age is the New Testament teaching, introduced by Jesus Christ, of the new birth or the “Born again experience.” Jesus.....
What will you do with Jesus
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 21 March 2008
Synopsis: Pilate asked the crowd, “What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?” (Matt 27:22) God has made man with a free will - and of all the choices we ever make the most important is what we.....
Behold I stand at the door and knock
Sermon by Sam Ennis on 30 September 2007
Synopsis: Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. [NKJV]
The fool - Part 2
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 23 September 2007
Synopsis: Jer 17:9-10 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and.....
The fool - Part 1
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 2 September 2007
Synopsis: Psalm 14 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good. 2 The LORD looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if.....
Who do men say I am
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 5 June 2005
Synopsis: Who do you say Jesus is? Was Jesus a great prophet or did he claim to be more than this? Why is the question that Jesus asked his disciples at Caesarea Philippi (Matthew 16) the most important.....
The Narrow Road and the four lane highway to hell
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 18 November 2001
Synopsis: The message of the exclusiveness of Christianity as the only way to God is not something contrived by Christians, but was taught plainly by our Lord himself. Matt 7:13 “Enter through the narrow.....
Rejection of Jesus
Sermon by Gavin Paynter on 14 March 2001
Synopsis: Jesus faced rejection from all - ultimately even his Father - in order to bring about our salvation.
Born again
Sermon by Phil Edwards on 20 September 1998
Synopsis: John 3:1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God......
Some mocked, some delayed and some believed
Sermon by Leslie Spence on 13 August 1995
Synopsis: Leslie Spence, a Methodist minister from Northern Ireland shares at the Brakpan Assembly. He relates about his work in Northern Ireland, including his prison ministry. He then preaches on the 3.....
4 things lost, 3 things found
Sermon by Graham Sahling on 9 July 1995
Synopsis: In Luke 15 Jesus tells us about a lost sheep, a lost coin and a lost son. 1 out of 100 sheep is a 1% loss. 1 out of 10 coins is a 10% loss. 1 out of 2 sons is a 50% loss. The sheep, the coin.....
Our Sacrifice
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 16 April 1995
Synopsis: (1)Why did Jesus have to die? (2) Why did it have to be a blood sacrifice? (3) Why did He have to offer His flesh? (4) Why did it have to be a death on the cross? Couldn’t God have used a different.....
Becoming a Christian
Sermon by Ken Paynter on 9 April 1995
Synopsis: How to become a Christian and how to lead someone to Christ.