SERMON TOPIC: Covenants - Part 9b - The Abrahamic Covenant
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 21 March 2021
Sermon synopsis: God had insisted that the covenant would be established with Sarah’s son, even though Abraham originally tried to convince God that it would be simpler to establish it with Ishmael instead. When.....
SERMON TOPIC: Covenants - Part 9a - The Abrahamic Covenant
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 7 March 2021
Sermon synopsis: We soon see man’s failure in the dispensation of Human Government. The command to “fill the earth” was given to Noah’s descendants (Gen 9:1). In direct contravention to this instruction, the people.....
SERMON TOPIC: Covenants - Part 8 - The Noahic Covenant
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 21 February 2021
Sermon synopsis: This general covenant was made between God and Noah following the departure of Noah from the ark. Many see it as a royal grant because God promises never to destroy the earth again with water. This.....
SERMON TOPIC: Covenants - Part 9c- The Abrahamic Covenant - JACOB
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 11 February 2021
Sermon synopsis: Just as Isaac was chosen over Ishmael, so Jacob was chosen over Esau. There are other examples of God choosing younger brothers over older ones.
SERMON TOPIC: Covenants - Part 7 - The seed of the woman
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 4 October 2020
Sermon synopsis: With the demise of the Edenic covenant, God immediately establishes a new covenant with mankind, or more specifically with “the seed of the woman.”
There is hope for mankind! God promises a.....
SERMON TOPIC: Covenants - Part 6 - Adamic covenant
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 20 September 2020
Sermon synopsis: Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15 portray Adam and Jesus as 2 covenant heads for mankind. Adam broke his covenant (Hos 6:7) but Jesus made a New Covenant (1 Cor 11:25). Adam sinned and brought a Curse,.....
SERMON TOPIC: Covenants - Part 5 - Edenic covenant
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 6 September 2020
Sermon synopsis: This covenant is conditional in nature (Suzerain Vassal). Adam’s part of the bargain was only one condition i.e. not to eat from a forbidden tree and a curse (penalty clause) for not doing so.
The.....
SERMON TOPIC: Covenants - Part 3
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 26 July 2020
Sermon synopsis: Let’s look at the covenant of parity (a conditional covenant between equals) established between Jacob and Laban.
SERMON TOPIC: The Flood
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 8 March 2019
Sermon synopsis: We will look at the following questions briefly:
1) Where did the water come from to flood the earth?
2) Where did all the floodwater go to?
3) Did it rain before the flood?
4) What were the.....
SERMON TOPIC: Genesis - The effects of Adams disobedience
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 15 February 2019
Sermon synopsis: Man died spiritually.
Man faced physical death as he was banished from Eden. (God placed a guard at the garden of Eden.)
Adam’s sin affected the animal kingdom.
Adam’s sin affected the.....
SERMON TOPIC: What does "After its kind" mean
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 1 February 2019
Sermon synopsis: Repeatedly in the creation account (Gen 1:11,12,21,24, 25) we are told that God created plants and animals ACCORDING TO THEIR KIND. These passages seem to imply that no kind of animal or plant would.....
SERMON TOPIC: The Gospel is in Genesis
BY: Mark Ambler ON: 17 November 2018
Sermon synopsis: While salvation is not based on belief in a historical Genesis, understanding the doctrine of salvation is inseparable from the history of mankind’s fall and promised redemption described in the.....
SERMON TOPIC: Genesis and The Sanctity of Life - Part 2
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 11 November 2018
Sermon synopsis: Does the Bible endorse capital punishment?
Is abortion wrong?
Is euthanasia wrong?
SERMON TOPIC: The Gap Theory
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 9 November 2018
Sermon synopsis: There are two variants of the theory:
PASSIVE GAP THEORY (Restitution Creationism, Creatio Ex Materia)
According to this view God simply waited for millions of years after creating the heavens and.....
SERMON TOPIC: Creatio Ex Nihilo and the views of Old Earth Creationism
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 19 October 2018
Sermon synopsis: This study looks at creatio ex nihilo (the idea that God created the Earth and the rest of the universe out of nothing) versus creatio ex materia (the idea that heaven and earth already existed in a.....
SERMON TOPIC: Genesis and The Sanctity of Life
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 14 September 2018
Sermon synopsis: God has given us a free will and all through life we are faced with choices. (Every choice has consequences).
- Does the Bible endorse capital punishment?
- Is abortion wrong?
- Is euthanasia.....
SERMON TOPIC: Are there 2 creation accounts
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 7 September 2018
Sermon synopsis: A frequent claim is made that there are two different (and contradictory) creation accounts in Genesis 1 and 2.
- This alleged contradiction is used to try and prove that two different authors.....
SERMON TOPIC: Genesis - The tree of the knowledge of good and evil
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 2 September 2018
Sermon synopsis: Scripture makes it clear that the trees in the Garden of Eden were actual trees, there is no hint that they were meant to be seen as just symbolic.
In Western Christian art, the fruit of.....
SERMON TOPIC: Genesis - Cains Wife
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 31 August 2018
Sermon synopsis: At the historic Scopes Trial in Tennessee in 1925, William Jennings Bryan, the prosecutor who stood for the Christian faith, failed to answer the question about Cain’s wife posed by the ACLU lawyer.....
SERMON TOPIC: The seed of the woman
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 24 August 2018
Sermon synopsis: There is a prophetic sense to the passage in Genesis 3:15, called the Protoevangelium (First Gospel), the first proclamation of the Good News: for, during the punishment of the serpent, God refers.....
SERMON TOPIC: Genesis E - The age of the earth
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 19 August 2018
Sermon synopsis: The question of the age of the earth has produced heated discussions on Internet debate boards, TV, radio, in classrooms, and in many churches, Christian colleges, and seminaries.
The primary.....
SERMON TOPIC: Genesis D - Why was there light before the sun was created
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 17 August 2018
Sermon synopsis: We know today that all it takes to have a day-night cycle is a rotating Earth and light coming from one direction. The Bible tells us clearly that God created light on the first day, as well as the.....
SERMON TOPIC: Where was the garden of Eden
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 11 August 2018
Sermon synopsis: Of course, some atheists will deny that there ever was a Garden of Eden. A few Christians and Jews claim that the Garden was not literal, but the Genesis narrative is simply a poetic allegory for.....
SERMON TOPIC: Genesis C - Who was the author
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 5 August 2018
Sermon synopsis: Pentateuch means the first five books of the Bible. These books are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The word Pentateuch comes from two Greek words that mean "five books" or.....
SERMON TOPIC: The Trinity in Genesis
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 3 August 2018
Sermon synopsis: God: This is the ancient Hebrew word Elohim. Grammatically it is a plural word used as if it were singular. The verbs and pronouns used with Elohim should be in the plural, but when Elohim refers to.....
SERMON TOPIC: The serpent in Eden
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 28 July 2018
Sermon synopsis: WAS THE SERPENT IN GENESIS 3 A SNAKE THAT COULD SPEAK? Are snakes evil? Christians believe that the serpent in the garden was Satan. But why? Who was the nachash and the serpentine seraph?
SERMON TOPIC: Genesis - A - Why was it written
BY: Ken Paynter ON: 20 July 2018
Sermon synopsis: Adam is an important person in the Gospel narrative.
But did he really exist? Was he a historical person or not?
We saw in our last study that taking Genesis literally is foundational to the.....
SERMON TOPIC: Science and The Bible - Part 2
BY: Leston Blackburn ON: 17 October 2010
Sermon synopsis: Science and The Bible - Part 2
SERMON TOPIC: Science and The Bible - Part 1
BY: Leston Blackburn ON: 10 October 2010
Sermon synopsis: Science and The Bible - Part 1
SERMON TOPIC: The seed of the woman
BY: Gavin Paynter ON: 9 February 1997
Sermon synopsis: The most ancient prophecy we have is in Genesis 3:15, where a promised deliverer who would be "the seed of the woman" would redeem us by breaking the power of Satan ("He shall bruise you on the.....