Ilagan Christian Church

Topic: Sin

  • Accusation or Conviction?

    Satan’s accusations and the Holy Spirit’s conviction can both make us feel guilty, yet they differ in origin, purpose and outcome. Learning to tell them apart is part of spiritual maturity.

  • Faithfulness

    Everyone prizes faithfulness in others. This study traces it back to its source in the faithful God, and shows why our faithfulness to one another depends on our faithfulness to Him.

  • The Tree of Life

    From the tree in Eden to the tree of life in the new creation, this sermon traces how humanity’s exile from God’s presence is undone in Christ.

  • Self-Evident Existence

    The existence of God is self-evident. Creation declares His glory, and the denial of God comes not from lack of evidence but from suppressing the truth.

  • The Problem of Evil

    Confronting the problem of evil head-on: God is not its author, evil has no equal claim with good, and every person must first face their own unrighteousness.

  • The Dangers of Unbelief

    Doubt is a form of unbelief that runs through Scripture’s stories — from Zacharias and Sarah to Peter and Thomas — and this sermon traces its danger and God’s patient response to it.

  • The Peril of Unbelief

    Israel saw God’s works for forty years and still fell in the wilderness. Unbelief and doubt shut people out of the blessing God has promised.

  • The Gospel and the Law

    This message traces how God’s law indicts sinners, reveals sin, and yet still guides the believer’s sanctification, even though it can never justify.

  • The Faithful and Just Forgiver

    A two-part study of 1 John 1:9 on why a holy God can forgive sinners without compromising His justice.

  • The Shameful Nakedness of Noah

    Noah’s drunken, exposed shame after the flood becomes an unlikely picture of the gospel: the God who clothed Adam and Eve, and let His Son be stripped naked on the cross, to cover ours.

  • Mortifying Sin

    Because God is infinitely holy, growing in holiness means growing in hatred of sin. This message lays out the Christian duty, danger, and battle plan for mortifying sin.

  • Obedience

    Christ’s willing obedience calls believers to whole-hearted obedience of their own, and there is no neutral ground before God: everyone is already a slave either to sin or to righteousness.