Four Oaks East Podcast

Pastor Funmi OjetayoText: Titus 2:11-14Big Idea: stop striving and start resting—in the grace that transforms today and the glory that secures tomorrow.
The Epiphany of Grace (vv. 11-12)1. The Person of Grace (v. 11)2. The Power of Grace (v. 12)
The Epiphany of Glory (vv. 13-14)1. The Beatitude of Glory (v. 13)    Fact One: Jesus is coming back.    Fact Two: Jesus is God.2. The Blueprint of Glory (v. 14)

Preacher: Kyle KraeftText: Isaiah 26:3-4Big Idea: A Fixed Frame is a Fortress of Flourishing
1. A Full Flourishing- Isaiah 24:1, 3-6 - Isaiah 25:6-9- Exodus 24:9-11- Psalm 84:5-7
2. A Fixed FrameRemember the PlotRecognize the ParadoxRest in the Person
3. A Fortress Through Faith- Let desert discomforts deepen dependence- Let people help you with practices- Let promises pull you to presence- Let gladness overtake you
Isaiah 35:9 They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads.Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. 
 
 

Pastor Joshua HughesText: Matthew 1:18-25
Big Idea: We can trust and follow Jesus because he came to rescue us and will come to rescue us so we can be with him forever.
I. Jesus came to dwell among us to save us from sin’s power
II. Jesus will come to save us from sin’s presence so we can dwell with him

Pastor Funmi OjetayoText: Matthew 8:1-17Big Idea: Jesus' healing restores the joy that sickness steals by restoring our fellowship, reviving our confidence, and renewing our ministry.
I. Sickness isolates, but Jesus’ healing restores fellowship.II. Sickness challenges control, but Jesus’ healing revives confidence in His authority.III. Sickness hinders service, but Jesus’ healing renews ministry.

Pastor Joshua Hughes
Text: Matthew 5:1-20
Big Idea: In the darkness and disintegration of sin, we can come to Jesus who came and is coming to make us whole.
1. Jesus came to make you a whole, redeemed human
2. Jesus will come to make you a whole, resurrected human

Text: Matthew 4:12-17
I. Darkness
II. Danger“I don’t have any phobias, but I do feel afraid…There are the usual racing thoughts: love, squandered potential, unlikely vanities, loss of income. Injustices committed against me; chores. Will I get cancer? Knowing that everyone worries they have cancer helps only a little bit. My ultimate anxiety is not that a certain fear will come true. Rather, I experience panic as mostly meta: the horror of being trapped, in this mind-set, for the rest of my life.” 
III. Dawn

Pastor Joshua Hughes
Text: Matthew 28:11-20
Big Idea: The resurrection rule of Christ supplies and sends his church into its disciple-making delegation.
1. Jesus is authorizing
Ephesians 1:20-23
2. Jesus is advancing
3. Jesus is abiding
Two ways to live:1. Be a denial-maintainer2. Be a disciple maker

Pastor Joshua HughesText: Matthew 28:1-10
Big idea: Jesus defeated death to remake reality.
1. The resurrection is an end
- for servile fear- for sad futility- for sorrowing fatalism
2. The resurrection is a beginning
- of a new witness- of a new worship

Pastor Joshua HughesText: Matthew 27:57-66
Heidelberg Catechism Q41 “Why was he ‘buried?'" Answer. "To confirm the fact that he was really dead.”
“One reason for God wishing his Son to be buried was to give better testimony that He had died a real death, on our account.”- John Calvin
Big Idea: Jesus really died and was buried, so we can be assured that in coming to him we can really live.
1. The Wealthy Attendant
2. The Women Keeping Vigil
3. The Worried Opposition
 

Pastor Funmi OjetayoText: Matthew 27:45-56Big Idea: Jesus’ undeserving death creates undeserving life for us.
I. The Darkness of God's Judgment (v. 45)II. The Separation Wrought by Sin (v. 46-49)III. The Choice to Die (v. 50)IV. Everything Changes (v. 51-54)V. Faithful Women Ministering (vv. 55-56)
Two Takeaways from the King's Death:1. In the death of Jesus, we see the seriousness of sin.2. In the death of Jesus, we see the depth of the Father’s love.