Redemption Church in Brookfield, WI

When All We Can See Is Our Suffering

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: Ruth 1

Primary Claim: We can’t always see or understand how God will redeem our life.

Sermon Points:

Three things to remember when God deals bitterly with us.

1. It’s hard to see God clearly when we suffer.

    

2. We can always turn to God & his people.

    

3. We may not be as “empty” as we feel.

The Only Son Worth Boasting In

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: Galatians 6:11-18

Claim: Let’s boast in God’s crucified Son, and nothing else!

Sermon Points:

Two very different kind of boasting:

1. Corrupt Boasting
2. Cross Boasting

Application Points:

Those who boast in the cross of Christ will become:

1. Self-forgetful
2. Other-worldly
3. Family-oriented

The Family That Reaps Eternal Life

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon Points:

Sowing the Spirit:

1. 1. Call to action: Take responsibility.
      • For one another’s spiritual well-being
      • For our own spiritual well-being
      • For the Church’s spiritual mission

• Clarification: We can't fool God.

Big Idea: The way we live today has real consequences — both now and for all of eternity.

Application Points:

Am I really sowing the Spirit?

1. Am I taking responsibility for my own spiritual well-being?
2. Am I taking responsibility for the spiritual well-being of my brothers & sisters?
3. When I grow weary, will I press on and keep doing good, or give up?

Keeping in Step with the Spirit

Preacher: DAnny D'Acquisto

Passage: Galatians 5:16-26

Claim: Let's allow God's desires to determine our behavior.

Sermon Points:

How we should walk:

1. Our Desires: Why we walk the way we do.
2. Our Discernment: How we walk.

Application Points:

If we want to keep in step with God's Spirit:

1. We need to pay very close attention to our desires.
2. We will never be controlled by God's desires, until we crucify our own.
3. If we truly belong to Christ we will keep in step with God's Spirit.

Standing Firm In The Freedom Of Our Family

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: Galatians 5:1-15

Primary Claim: Let’s stand firm in the freedom of our Father’s grace.

Sermon Points: 

How do we “stand firm” in our Father’s grace?

1. By rejecting ministry practices that lead us to rely on our flesh.

2. By rejecting leaders and the views they use to justify them.

3. By committing to love the brothers we are standing firm with.

Takeaways:

1. Our spiritual freedom can be at stake in the way we “do church.

2. Some professing Christian leaders and their views must be rejected.

3. We will never stand firm on our own.

The Family Born From Above

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: Galatians 4:21-31

The Claim: We need a heavenly perspective about God's promised family.

Sermon Points:

1. Paul's Argument: We are God's heavenly children, not just his earthly children.
2. Paul's Appeal: We have to be very clear about which family we're a part of.

Application Points:

1. Not everyone who thinks they're a son of God really is a son of God.
2. It really matters that God's heavenly sons are gathered together in local churches.

How the Family Treats Each Other

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: Galatians 4:12-20

Sermon Points:

Paul's relationship with the Galatians:

1. How it used to work - When the Galatians had no regard for their flesh, they received Paul as if he was Christ.
2. Why that changed - When the Galatians started relying on their flesh, Paul became their enemy.
3. What can fix that - When Christ is formed in the Galatians, their family relationship can be repaired.

The Claim: Let's get back to treating one another as if Christ is living in us.

Application Points:

If Christ is living in us:

1. We will care for our brothers, even when our flesh is weak.
2. We will receive our brothers, even when they tell us hard truths.
3. We will make much of our brothers, rather than ourselves.

 

The Father Who Turns Slaves Into Sons

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: Galatians 4:1-11

Preface: The Flesh & The Elementary Principles of This World

Sermon Points:

What we gained when we were adopted in christ:

1. Total freedom from our slavery to this fallen world.

    

    

    

2. All authority over everything in heaven and on earth.

    

3. An intimate spiritual knowledge of God the Father.

Application Points:

1. Relying on our flesh will never set us free from our sin.

2. We will never inherit all things by relying on our flesh.

3. We will never make God our Father by relying on our flesh.

The Claim: We will never gain more than God the Father.

The Family God Promised to Create, Part 2

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: Galatians 3:23-29

Primary Question: What has changed about God's family - now that he's sent His promised Son?

Sermon Points:

1. Before God's Son came: Israel's law was a guardian leading us to Christ.
2. Now that God's Son has been revealed: Faith is how God unites all people in Christ.

Primary Claim: God is now uniting all nations into one spiritual family by faith in His Son.

Application Points:

Now that God's Son has come...

1. Faith in God's Son sets us free from the law.
2. Faith in God's Son unites us to one another.
3. Faith in God's Son supersedes our earthly identities.

The Flesh, The Spirit & The Family

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: Galatians 3:1-14

Primary Claim: Only God’s Son can keep us in God’s family by the power of God’s Spirit.

Sermon Points: 

If we go back to relying on our flesh:

1. We are neglecting God’s spiritual power.

    

2. We are excluded from God’s spiritual family.

    

3. We are still under God’s spiritual curse.

If we keep relying on Christ's crucified flesh:

1. We have access to God’s own Spirit.

    

2. We are included in God’s spiritual family.

    

3. We will receive God’s spiritual blessing.

Application Points:

1. We have no spiritual power in and of ourselves.

2. God’s crucified Son has all the spiritual power you will ever need.

3. God’s Son was crucified to get you into His spiritual family.