https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/harvestgillette/podcasts/188447/ The newest sermons from Harvest Reformed Presbyterian Church on SermonAudio. Religion & Spirituality Harvest Reformed Presbyterian Church http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification https://vps.sermonaudio.com/resize_image/sources/podcast/1440/1440/harvestgillette.1726698640.jpg https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/harvestgillette/podcasts/188447/ en Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:16:24 +0000 30 Caleb Nelson no The newest sermons from Harvest Reformed Presbyterian Church on SermonAudio. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/harvestgillette/sermons/416241457155029 The resurrection exposes the deadness of our old relationship to sin. It used to be the master and we its slaves. That relationship is dead now, because Jesus lives. That means that we need to reckon ourselves dead to sin. We looked at ten sins that are not appropriate for resurrected Christians, and we saw that the solution is a new identity in the New Man who is the maturing Body of Christ. That identity is available to you exclusively through the death and resurrection of the Son of God. Well, this week we are going to return to that Colossians text to see what the apostle says about clothing the resurrection body. You are raised with Christ; what, then, should you be doing? You should put on five virtues that counteract the ten vices of the old Adamic way of life, and you should walk in forbearing and forgiving love that binds everything together in perfect harmony. Because you have been raised from spiritual death with Jesus Christ, your identity has been transformed and you need to dress in love and follow peace. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/harvestgillette/sermons/416241457155029 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 14 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Caleb Nelson 0:38:27 no Caleb Nelson - Your Changing Body https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/harvestgillette/sermons/482416585968 Part of maturity is learning to have the mind of Christ, the humility to stop arguing and complaining! https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/harvestgillette/sermons/482416585968 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 07 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Caleb Nelson 0:32:14 no Caleb Nelson - Your Changing Body https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/harvestgillette/sermons/4224122126233 We gather this morning to celebrate the resurrection of the Son of God from the dead. Jesus is alive, and that is why we are here instead of at the coffee shop, the movie theater, or the gun range. We have been talking and singing about the resurrection for the whole service, and now is the time to apply it to ourselves. Paul does exactly that in our passage this morning. He says that if you have been raised with Christ, you should fix your thoughts on heaven and kill sin. Life drives out the opposite of life — the death that sin brings. The resurrection is anti-sin. So if you are walking in lust, greed, lies, abuse, and slander, you can have a pretty solid notion that you have not actually been raised with Christ. But if you have, then you need to fix your thoughts in heaven and act to kill sin. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/harvestgillette/sermons/4224122126233 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Caleb Nelson 0:36:09 no Caleb Nelson - Your Changing Body https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/harvestgillette/sermons/326241512322202 We have just read Matthew 21's account of the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem. That was a coming, a preliminary coming, of the Great King into the City of the Great King. That's what Ps 48 calls Jerusalem, and our Lord Himself used that same title in the Sermon on the Mount. Now, what the gospels highlight is that the cleansing of the temple immediately followed the triumphal entry. The King cleans His house, purging evildoers from the place of His worship. The place where God dwells must be a clean place; the church must be free of all wickedness. That is something that the triumphal entry highlights. We have knowledge and we have community, and together those two tools grow us up to maturity. We talked last week about how the Lord wants us to get along with each other according to the community rules He described in Matthew 18. This week we are going to look at more rules and practices of a mature Christian community. Children, lost sheep, and forgiveness are important; so is cleanliness within the church. Now, Christ left the earthly Jerusalem and ascended up to Heaven, and even now His Father is sending the rod of His strength out of Zion so that He can rule in the midst of His enemies. Aside from the triumphal entry texts and the psalms, this passage in Deuteronomy is the clearest biblical description of how we need to live when God is in the midst of His people. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/harvestgillette/sermons/326241512322202 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Caleb Nelson 0:35:33 no Caleb Nelson - Your Changing Body https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/harvestgillette/sermons/319241546124974 This morning is the second sermon in our series on Your Changing Body. Last week we saw the need for maturity from Ephesians 4. There we looked at the two things God has given us — knowledge and community, and how both bring us to maturity. This week, I want to continue looking at community. Jesus' fourth discourse in Matthew specifically addresses our life in the church, telling us what sort of community we ought to build. The community that grows us up to maturity has three major characteristics according to Jesus. In one sense, this is just an elaboration of Paul's quick summary: the Church community speaks the truth in love and connects with one another. This discourse of Jesus explains more of what it looks like to speak the truth in love, and how to stay connected in the face of sin within the community. It takes up all of ch. 18, and it leads us through the place of children in the church, why and how to go after the lost one in the church, and forgiveness in the church. Obviously we are going to have skim over this text; I'm not going to attempt to address every facet of our text this morning. But I hope to show you that we need to love children, seek our lost brother, and forgive those who sin against us, because all of these things reflect our Father's love for children, His mission to seek the lost, and His forgiveness for us. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/harvestgillette/sermons/319241546124974 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 17 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Caleb Nelson 0:35:02 no Caleb Nelson - Your Changing Body https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/harvestgillette/sermons/312241415101536 Easter Sunday is only three weeks away. Last year I spoke to you about Hebrews 2 and how Christ's resurrection has delivered us from the fear of death. This year, though, we are going to take a break from Hebrews to do a five-week miniseries titled Your Changing Body. I'm deliberately taking this cringe-inducing title from one of those old health textbooks you were forced to read as a teenager. The fact of the matter is, our church body here is changing. There are some new faces in the pews. There are only a few families left who were here when I started pastoring this church eight years ago. As our body changes, we need to be sure that we are changing toward maturity. We don't just want to grow — as much as we all like to grow. We want to grow up. There's a difference between growing and growing up. One refers only to the size, but the other to maturity. So in our series, we are going to look at five different components of maturity that Scripture relates directly to Christ's triumphal entry, death, resurrection, and ascension. We will start today with the last one of those — His ascension, which we have also been talking about in Hebrews for the last several months. Ephesians 4 has a lot to say about how Christ's ascension into heaven relates to our maturity, our growing up as a body of Christians in Gillette, Wyoming. What I hope to show you this morning is that because Christ has ascended to the Father's right hand and from there poured out the gift of the fivefold ministry, our church can and must grow up to a grace-powered maturity that looks like Jesus. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/harvestgillette/sermons/312241415101536 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 10 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Caleb Nelson 0:41:14 no Caleb Nelson - Your Changing Body