February 2022

19 Feb

Together with Christ Jesus

Grace, Love and Peace to each and everyone in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

For the last three week we have learnt about how we are saved.

We learnt that we are saved
1. Because of God’s rich mercy
2. Because of God’s great love
3. Because of God’s grace

Today we will learn what does God’s mercy, love and grace do to us

Ephesians 2:6

Together with Christ Jesus He also raised us up and seated us in the heavens,

So now let us understand what salvation does to us.
* Salvation ensures or gives confidence in our spirit that we receive God’s Mercy, Love and Grace
* Salvation ensures that we are eligible to enter heaven
* Salvation ensures that we are eligible to use the authority of God
* Salvation ensures that we can boldly enter the throne of Grace

Now Ephesians 2:6 goes on a little more deeper and says now what is our position once we are saved.

We all know that because of Christ’s death on the Cross we have access to God when the veil was torn and the gap between God and man was filled by Jesus Christ.

Now this verse explains some more deeper insights.
We all believe that God raised Jesus from death.

This verse goes on to tell that we also were raised up with Jesus Christ.

I know this is not an easy aspect to comprehend but understand that when Jesus was raised from the death we also were raised from the death.

I think this is more deep.
We don’t tell we will be raised
We don’t tell we will be seated one day

It talks about while we were one earth we have a greater place

Jesus was raised up and so are we
Jesus is seated at the right hand of God and so are we seated in the heavens.

This verse talks about the authority and the position that we have as a born again believer.

Ephesians 2:1

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins

Sermon preached by Pas. Naveen John on February 19, 2022 @ 7:00 PM in Bible Study

08 Feb

ServicesBy calvaryagchurch

Authority Belongs To Us

Grace, Love and Peace to each and everyone in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Knowing what belongs to us will give us a greater idea of who we are, what we can ask and what we can claim.

As a believer there are certain truths that we need to understand and if we don’t know or understand we will be doing everything wrong.

We have learnt so far that:

New Creation belongs

Healing Belongs to us

Blessing Belongs to us

Righteousness Belongs to us

This week we will understand that Authority belongs to us

Genesis 1:26-28 – AUthority to rule over everything on earth

26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Psalm 8:3-6 – Everything under our feet

3When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon, and the stars, which you have set in place, 4what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? 5You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 6You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet

Psalm 115:16 – Earth belongs to man

The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to man

Matthew 28:18 – 20 – All authority has been give

18 Then Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Acts 19:8-17 – Authority over demons and powers of darkness

8Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God. 9But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. 10This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord. 11God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, 12so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured, and the evil spirits left them. 13Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.” 14Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. 15(One day) the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?” 16 Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding. 17When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor

Mark 16:17-18 – Authority over poison and deadly creatures

“these signs shall accompany those who believe. In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well”

Sermon Preached by Pastor. Naveen John on February 13, 2022 – Sunday Evening Service

08 Feb

ServicesBy calvaryagchurch

Promise Killer

Grace, Love and Peace to each and every one of you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

We have learnt so far about three different aspects:

* Killer of the Word of God
* Killer of thoughts
* Killer of dreams

We learnt that what kills our dreams

* Ourselves, Family, Friends, relatives
* Pride kills

Today we will be learning about Promise killer

Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

God does not change His promise
God does not change His heart
God does not change His words

Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

So what kills the promises of God in our life

James 1:14-15 – Own desires kills the promise of God
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

1 Samuel 15:23 – Rebellion
For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”

1 Samuel 15:23 – Rejecting the Word of God
For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”

James 4:6 – Pride kills the promises
But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Stories who lost their promise
Saul the first king
Reuben

1 Chronicles 5:1
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father’s marriage bed, his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel; so he could not be listed in the genealogical record in accordance with his birthright,

Judas Ischariot

Acts 1:17-20
For he was one of our number and was allotted a share in this ministry.” 18 Now this man acquired a field with his unrighteous wages. He fell headfirst and burst open in the middle, and all his insides spilled out. 19 This became known to all the residents of Jerusalem, so that in their own language that field is called Hakeldama (that is, Field of Blood). 20 “For it is written in the Book of Psalms:

Let his dwelling become desolate;
let no one live in it; and
Let someone else take his position.

Leviticus 26:14-20
14 “But if you do not obey Me and observe all these commands— 15 if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands—and break My covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you—wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it. 17 I will turn[c] against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you.

18 “But if after these things you will not obey Me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins. 19 I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, 20 and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

Sermon Preached by Pas. Naveen John on February 13, 2022 – Sunday Services

08 Feb

Bible Study TopicBy calvaryagchurch

How Are We Saved – Week 3

Grace, Love and Peace to each and every one of you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Can someone tell the verse from Mark 11:22-24

So today let us understand how we are saved ?

Ephesians 2:4-5

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us,5 made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!

The Word of God explains that we are saved.

How are we saved – Verse 4 & 5 gives us three reasons why we are saved.

1. Because of God’s rich mercy

2. Because of God’s great love

3. Because of God’s grace

Bible gives us a clear picture about God’s Grace

Ephesians 2:8-9 (Grace of God is a gift)
For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift— 9 not from works, so that no one can boast.

Romans 3:24 (Grace of God freed us)
Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.

1 Corinthians 15:10 (Grace of God makes us like God)

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

Hebrews 4:16 (Grace of God helps us in time of need)

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Grace of God is Gift

Grace of God frees us

Grace of God make us like God

Grace of God helps us in time of need

Sermon Preached by Pastor. Naveen John on February 12, 2022 @ 7:00 PM – Bible Study

08 Feb

MenProsperityBy calvaryagchurch

Financial Planning – Week 2

Grace, Love and Peace to each and everyone in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Planning helps us to focus on doing right
Planning helps us to move in the right direction
Planning helps us to move forward
Planning helps us from being distracted
Planning helps us from turning backwards

Our learning from last week is we need money but:
* Don’t allow money to be your master
* Be faithful in handling money
* Do not set your heart upon money

This week we will see some more details about financial blessing and planning.

Luke 12:16-21 (Rich towards God)
16 Then He told them a parable: “A rich man’s land was very productive. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What should I do, since I don’t have anywhere to store my crops? 18 I will do this,’ he said. ‘I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones and store all my grain and my goods there. 19 Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’

20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared—whose will they be?’

21 “That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

So today we will be learning how to be rich towards God
How to be rich
Matthew 6:19-21 (Bible tells where we should collect treasures)
19 “Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But collect for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Luke 12:31-34 (Bible tells how to collect treasures in heaven)

“But seek His kingdom, and these things will be provided for you. 32 Don’t be afraid, little flock, because your Father delights to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make money-bags for yourselves that won’t grow old, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Mark 12:41 – 44 (Best way of storing is by giving tithes)

And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”

Sermon preached by Pas. Naveen John on February 12, 2022 @ 5:00 PM – Men’s Revival

08 Feb

ServicesBy calvaryagchurch

Righteousness Belongs To Us

Grace, Love and Peace to each and everyone in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

2 Corinthians 5:21 – God made us righteous

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

1 Corinthians 1:30
But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

Hebrews 4:14-16 – Righteousness from God helps us to approach the throne room of God

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold fast to the confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tested in every way as we are, yet without sin. 16 Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.

Philippians 3:8-9 – By faith in Christ Jesus we become righteous

8 More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ—the righteousness from God based on faith.

Romans 4:4-5

4 Now to the one who works, pay is not considered as a gift, but as something owed. 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes on Him who declares the ungodly to be righteous, his faith is credited for righteousness.

Sermon preached by Pas. Naveen John on February 6, 2022 @ 6:00 PM – Sunday Evening Service

08 Feb

ServicesBy calvaryagchurch

Dream Killer

Grace, Love and Peace to each and every one of you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

We have learnt so far about two different aspects:
* Killer of the Word of God
* Killer of thoughts

This week we will be learning about Dream Killers

Lets learn a little more about dreams
There are two kinds of Dream
* Dreams from our thinking
* Dreams from God

Many neglect the dreams that come to us and lose God’s guidance.

God communicates to people in dreams. Some of them are symbolic (like the dreams in Daniel), and some involve explicit instructions from God.

Ecclesiastes 5:3
3 For dreams result from much work and a fool’s voice from many words.

The Bible tells there are dreams that God provides
Acts 2:17
‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

So we all know about a young man who had dream so let us see what killed his dreams

Genesis 37:5-11
His own family or brothers killed the dream
5 Then Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. 6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: 7 There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”

8 “Are you really going to reign over us?” his brothers asked him. “Are you really going to rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.

9 Then he had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun, moon, and 11 stars were bowing down to me.”

10 He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him. “What kind of dream is this that you have had?” he said. “Are your mother and brothers and I going to come and bow down to the ground before you?” 11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

Daniel 2:1-3
Pride killed the dream
2 In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled him, and sleep deserted him. 2 So the king gave orders to summon the diviner-priests, mediums, sorcerers, and Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. When they came and stood before the king, 3 he said to them, “I have had a dream and am anxious to understand it.”

Daniel 4:28-33
28 All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of 12 months, as he was walking on the roof of the royal palace in Babylon, 30 the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built by my vast power to be a royal residence and to display my majestic glory?”

31 While the words were still in the king’s mouth, a voice came from heaven: “King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared that the kingdom has departed from you. 32 You will be driven away from people to live with the wild animals, and you will feed on grass like cattle for seven periods of time, until you acknowledge that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and He gives it to anyone He wants.”

33 At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was executed. He was driven away from people. He ate grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky, until his hair grew like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

Sermon preached by Pas. Naveen John on February 6, 2022 @ 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM & 10:30 AM – Sunday Service

08 Feb

Bible Study TopicBy calvaryagchurch

How Are We Saved – Week – 2

Grace, Love and Peace to each and every one of you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

2 Timothy 2:15 KJV
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not
to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Ephesians 2:4-5
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us,5 made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!

The Word of God explains that we are saved.

How are we saved – Verse 4 & 5 gives us three reasons why we are saved.
1. Because of God’s rich mercy
2. Because of God’s great love
3. Because of God’s grace

Bible gives us a clear picture about God’s Love

1 John 4:16-19 – God is love
And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us.

1 John 4:9 – 11 – God’s love is sacrificial
9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Romans 8:37-39 – God’s love is inseparable
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Isaiah 54:10 – God’s love is unshakable
Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

Psalm 136:26 – God’s love endures forever
26 Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever.

Sermon preached by Pas. Naveen John on February 5, 2022 @ 7:00 PM in Bible Study

08 Feb

MenProsperityBy calvaryagchurch

Financial Planning – Week 1

Grace, Love and Peace to each and everyone in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Moving forward from this week, we will be learning about Financial planning.
“Money and possessions are the second most referenced topic in the Bible –
money is mentioned more than 800 times – and the message is clear: Nowhere in Scripture is debt viewed in a positive way.”

As men we need to have proper planning for money because money is a great servant but a worst master.

Matthew 6:24
“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.

Luke 16:10‭-‬15
Whoever is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much. So if you have not been faithful with the unrighteous money, who will trust you with what is genuine? And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what is your own? No household slave can be the slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t be slaves to both God and money.” The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and scoffing at Him. And He told them: “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God’s sight.

Psalm 62:10
Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

Our learning from today is we need money but:
* Don’t allow money to be your master
* Be faithful in handling money
* Do not set your heart upon money

Sermon preached by Pas. Naveen John on February 5, 2022 @ 5:00 PM in Men’s Revival

08 Feb

ServicesBy calvaryagchurch

Blessings Belongs To Us

Grace, Love and Peace to each and everyone in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Knowing what belongs to us will give us a greater idea of who we are, what we can ask and what we can claim.

As a believer there are certain truths that we need to understand and if we don’t know or understand we will be doing everything wrong.

We have learnt so far that:
New Creation belongs
Healing Belongs to us

This week we will understand that Blessings belongs to us

We receive what belongs to us by faith.
Devil is a liar and he keeps telling that:
This time you will not get healing
This time you will not get promotion

But we declare by faith that I am not going to get healed but I am already healed by the blood of Jesus.

The Word of God says By HIs stripes we are healed.
I am not trying to get healed because Jesus already brought my healing on the cross by paying the price on the cross.

There are many times, doctors or medical science tells that they cannot do anything.
Don’t worry they cannot do anything but your faith can do everything
The God that you serve can do everything.

2 Corinthians 5:21
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Galatians 3:14
He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

Let us see something important which we have been ignorant
So many times the Bible talks about blessing.

But every time the Bible talks about blessing it says Blessed, it does not say you will receive the Blessed.

Let us see
Matthew 5
“The poor in spirit are blessed,
for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
4 Those who mourn are blessed,
for they will be comforted.
5 The gentle are blessed,
for they will inherit the earth.
6 Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are blessed,
for they will be filled.
7 The merciful are blessed,
for they will be shown mercy.
8 The pure in heart are blessed,
for they will see God.
9 The peacemakers are blessed,
for they will be called sons of God.

Psalm 1
Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,

Psalm 119:2
Blessed are those who keep his statutes
and seek him with all their heart.

Sermon preached by Pas. Naveen John on January 30, 2022 @ 6:00 PM in Sunday Evening Service

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Together with Christ Jesus

Authority Belongs To Us

Promise Killer

How Are We Saved – Week 3

Financial Planning – Week 2

Mark 12:41 – 44 (Best way of storing is by giving tithes)

Righteousness Belongs To Us

Dream Killer

How Are We Saved – Week – 2

Financial Planning – Week 1

Blessings Belongs To Us