Fork Union Baptist Weekly Sermon Podcast

Matthew 23: 1-12 ”Three Signs of False Religion”

Sermon date: 8/21/2022

This is the last Tuesday of Jesus’ life.  Jesus speaks to the crowds and his disciples and addresses the spiritual failure of the Pharisees and teachers of religious law.  Jesus points out their hypocrisy and how they didn’t practice what they preached.  They also burdened people with too many rules and forced obedience to them.  Thirdly, the Pharisees suffered greatly from pride and felt they were more religious than others. 

Listen to Pastor Anthony go into more detail on these verses, he reminds us that we are all brothers and sisters in Christ and that greatness is measured by our service, we are called to serve not to rule.

Matthew 22: 41-46 ”What Do You Think?”

Sermon date: 8/14/2022

This is the last week of Jesus’ life.  In these passages, Jesus turns the tide and asks the Pharisees this question: “What do you think about the Messiah?”. 

Pastor Anthony teaches us that Jesus wanted to stir their hardened hearts and to help them realize that eternity boils down to what we believe about the Messiah, that we need to reveal our hearts to God. 

Some questions we should reflect on are:
What do I think about Jesus? 
What has He done and where has He delivered me from? 
What is my testimony?

2 Timothy 3:16 ”Leading By Example”

Sermon date: 8/7/2022

All scripture is God breathed and inspired by God, scripture is a guidebook for us to do God's work on earth.  Follow along with guest speaker Corven Flynn as he shares examples from the bible on leading with God's word.

Matthew 28: 18-20 ”Youth Retreat Testimonies”

Message date: 07/31/2022

This biblical passage mandates that we invest in our youth because they are the future leaders of the church, by doing this investing we make new disciples.  Today’s message features testimonies from our youth about what they learned from the retreat they attended.

Matthew 22: 34-40 ”How to Obey the Law”

Sermon date: 7/24/2022

This is the last occurrence in the bible where the Pharisees tried to trap Jesus by asking Him which commandment is the most important.  Jesus' reply was to love God with all of your heart, soul and mind and secondly to love your neighbor as yourself.  Pastor Anthony guides us through these passages by revealing what God wants from us.

Matthew 22: 23-33 ”The What Ifs”

Sermon date: 7/17/2022

Once again Jesus is questioned about resurrection, this time by the Sadducees.  They were trying to trap Him into their nonbiblical version of the truth.  They scoffed at the idea of resurrection because it could not be explained by rational thoughts.  Pastor Anthony instructs us about the importance of knowing the scriptures and helps us understand that the resurrection will far exceed anything we have in life.

Matthew 22: 15-22 “Dual Citizenship”

Sermon date: 7/10/2022

Jesus said “Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God”.  These passages illustrate to us two false ideas of citizenship: first that religion (not faith) is supreme above everything else and secondly that government is supreme.  Pastor Anthony outlines the sins of those who have a false sense of citizenship and then teaches us the truth about being a good citizen.

Matthew 22: 1-4 ”The Greatest Invitation Ever”

Sermon date: 7/3/2022

Today’s sermon from the book of Matthew is on “The Parable of the Great Feast” which represents us coming to the Kingdom of God.  In this lesson, God invites us to His kingdom and provides us with the proper clothing and righteousness so we can enter into paradise.  Pastor Anthony takes us step by step through this parable and helps us understand all that Jesus was teaching us about entering heaven.

“The S.E.E.D Ministry”

Sermon date: 6/26/2022

Sowing Edible and Evangelical Deeds (S.E.E.D.).  Malcom Warfield and Dwayne Phillips travelled to an orphanage in Honduras this past May to both preach the Word of God and to help them be more self sufficient by planting acres of vegetable seeds.  Listen to them recount their trip and how they’ve affected positive change in the children’s lives.

1 Kings 2:1-4 “A Real Man”

Sermon date: 6/19/2022

Happy Father’s Day!  Today’s passage from 1 Kings is about King David speaking with his son Solomon and explaining it takes courage to be a man.  The instructions he gave to Solomon were to raise up future fathers and to follow the ways of the Lord in order to be successful. 

Pastor Anthony encourages all men to live up to their responsibilities as fathers to raise Godly men.  We need to be like David and serve our generation with the will of God.