Jared Garcia Sermons

"And what a comfort is this, that, seeing God's love rests on Christ, as well pleased in him, we may gather that he is as well pleased with us, if we be in Christ!" —Richard Sibbes --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“The only kind of faith that counts for justification is the kind that produces love, that bears the fruit of love. The faith that alone justifies is never alone, but always yielding transforming fruit. So, when James says these controversial words, “A person is justified by works and not by faith alone (James 2:24), I take him to mean not by faith which is alone, but which shows itself by works.” —John Piper --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.” —John Stott --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“When the world is in the church; the church begins to disappear from the world.” —Mark Dever --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated sufferings.” —Adoniram Judson --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“A troubling reality in much of evangelical life is that convincing someone they are saved seems to take precedence over making sure someone actually is saved. This must change. Somehow questioning another person’s salvation became taboo in evangelical culture, when it could possibly be one of the most loving things you can do for another; it could mean the difference between seeds that sprout and bloom and seeds that are snatched away.” —Dean Inserra --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"The perseverance of the saints means that all those who are truly born again will be kept by God’s power and will persevere as Christians until the end of their lives, and that only those who persevere until the end have been truly born again." — Wayne Grudem --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.” — William Carrey --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"God has set forth Christ to be the propitiation through faith in his blood, and we ought to accept Christ as being an all-sufficient propitiation.... Whether my sin be little or be great, whether it be fresh or old, it is the same sin, and blessed be God has all been atoned for through Christ the propitiation. We ought to take Christ as being the death of every sin and of all sin, as having expunged and wiped out the great debt as well as the little; the ten thousand talents as well as the one hundred pence." —Charles Haddon Spurgeon --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"Make my life an alleluia, a song of praise to You each day. To proclaim Your grace and glory, fill my heart with Your praise, I pray. When I stand at the mountaintop, or in the valley of despair, This will be my cry, my song, my prayer: Lord, make my life an alleluia." —Ruth Elaine Schram --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"My people's [church's] greatest need is my personal holiness." — Robert Murray M'Cheyne --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

God's purpose in all this was to use the church to display his wisdom in its rich variety to all the unseen rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. — Eph 3:10 (NLT) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people. From the very first announcement of the Gospel in Genesis 3:15, to the initial word of promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3, to His regulation of that promise by His Word in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20), God gives life and health and holiness to His people through the agency of His Word. From the reforms under Josiah in 2 Kings 22-23, to the revival of God’s work under Nehemiah and Ezra in Nehemiah 8-9, to the great vision of the Valley of Dry Bones in Ezekiel 37:1-14, where God breathes the life of His Spirit into His dead people through the preaching of His Word, God always sends His Word when He wants to renew life in His people and assemble them for His glory.” —Mark Dever --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"These conversations went on and on with person after person. I stood literally amazed by the grace of God, not just upon one Christian passionate about sharing the gospel, but upon an entire community passionate about sharing the gospel. As I looked around, I observed a contagious culture of evangelism across the church. It is a culture of evangelism that is not ultimately dependent on events, projects, programs, and ministry professionals. Instead, it is a culture of evangelism that is built on people filled with the power of God’s Spirit proclaiming the gospel of God’s grace in the context of their everyday lives and relationships." - J. Mack Stiles --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"The emphasis [of Eph 4:11] is definitely on the ministry of gifted individuals who lead the church into unity. Christ not only gives gifts to the church; He gives people to the church for its edification and growth." —Timothy Berrey --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"Worship must be vital and real in the heart, and worship must rest on a true perception of God. There must be spirit and there must be truth. . . . Truth without emotion produces dead orthodoxy and a church full (or half-full) of artificial admirers . . . . On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought. But true worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in truth are the bone and marrow of biblical worship." —John Piper --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"Repentance isn't ultimately about us at all. It's about God. It's becoming so aware of God, his character, and what he has done that we actively seek to turn from sin and pursue righteousness." —Dave Harvey --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"We are called from various walks of life (tax collectors, fishermen, Pharisees, zealots, priests)—various life situations (single, married, slave, free), called at different times of life, called from all different racial backgrounds (Jew, Gentile), and called from different levels of spiritual darkness (the Apostle Paul v. the Thessalonians). Despite our diversity, we are called to the same hope of eternal life and glory. Unity of the body is not only true on earth but even in heaven." — Tim Berrey --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"Church membership is all about a church taking specific responsibility for you, and you for a church." —Jonathan Leeman --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"There are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done." —Hudson Taylor --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"One reason skeptics have questioned the historicity of the book [of Jonah] is the remarkable response of the Ninevites to the preaching of Jonah (3:5); we respond that this was a greater miracle than what the fish did. Jonah himself must have anticipated that God would do His work in their hearts to bring about repentance (as He did for the Gentiles in Acts 11:18)." —Robert D. Bell --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"Ezekiel’s sight of Messiah was an appropriate conclusion to a vision designed to encourage him and prepare him for his ministry. Similarly, as Christians behold the sovereign glory of Christ in the pages of Scripture and become overwhelmed with Him by faith, they can face whatever challenge or circumstance is before them." —Michael P. V. Barrett --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“Worshiping in spirit is the opposite of worshiping in merely external ways. It is the opposite of empty formalism and traditionalism. Worshiping in truth is the opposite of worship based on an inadequate view of God. Worship must have heart and head. Worship must engage emotions and thoughts. Truth without emotion produces dead orthodoxy and a church full (or half-full) of artificial admirers (like people who write generic anniversary cards for a living). On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought. But true worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in truth are the bone and marrow of biblical worship." — John Piper --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“Solomon had it all, tried it all, lost it all, repented of it all, and in the end saw it all from God’s perspective again.” - Jim Berg --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“Our fundamental responsibility to God is grounded in the fact that He made us and He made us in Himself. The essence of our rebellion is to deny that He made us that we have any responsibility to Him. The doctrine of Creation grounds all human responsibility before Him.” –DA Carson --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

New short series on the theology of Genesis, Ecclesiastes, Jonah, and Ezekiel. The series ends with a biblical theology of worship.

I commit my soul to my gracious God and Savior, who mercifully spared and preserved me, when I was an apostate, a blasphemer, and an infidel, and delivered me from the state of misery on the coast of Africa into which my obstinate wickedness had plunged me; and who has been pleased to admit me (though most unworthy) to preach his glorious gospel. —John Newton --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“Oh, no, you misunderstood. I was only a cobbler (shoe repairman).” —William Carrey

"To endeavor to give to every portion of the Word of God its full and proper force, without considering what scheme it favors or what system it is likely to advance... never to speak more or less than I believe to be the mind of the Spirit in the passage I am expounding." —Charles Simeon

If your face is now covered with sorrow, the time will come when you will bless God for that sorrow. The day will come when you will see great gain from your losses, your crosses, your troubles and your affliction. From your affliction this glory shall spring, and the deeper your sorrow the louder you’ll sing. —Charles Haddon Spurgeon --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"It is the property of true charity to cover a multitude of sins. It inclines people to forgive and forget offenses against themselves, to cover and conceal the sins of others, rather than aggravate them and spread them abroad. It teaches us to love those who are but weak, and who have been guilty of many evil things before their conversion; and it prepares for mercy at the hand of God, who hath promised to forgive those that forgive others. —Matthew Henry

My Lord Jesus Christ, for my sake, did wear a crown of thorns; why should not I then, for His sake, again wear this light crown, be it ever so ignominious? Truly I will do it, and that willingly. —John Huss

Sustained by joy in trial and pain, I trust Your wisdom and mercy. Through suffering that Your love ordains, more like Your Son You will make me. For Christ embraced the cross of shame, beholding glorious joys to come. O give me faith like His to see that suffering lifts me to glory. Let death and hell against me rise, through death I’ll gain eternal joys. All pow’rs of Hell will bend the knee before my great King of glory! —Paul Keew & Brian Pinner --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"[John Bunyan] appeared in countenance to be of stern and rough temper, but in his conversation mild and affable; not given to loquacity or much discourse in company, unless some urgent occasion required it; observing never to boast of himself or his parts, but rather seem low in his own eyes, and submit himself to the judgment of others; abhorring lying and swearing, being just in all that lay in his power to his word, not seeming to revenge injuries, loving to reconcile differences and make friendship with all; he had a sharp quick eye, accomplished with an excellent discerning of persons, being of good judgment and quick wit.” —Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“Relationships will push you beyond the limits of your ability to love, serve, and forgive. They will push you beyond you. At times they will beat at the borders of your faith. At times they will exhaust you. In certain situations, your relationships will leave you disappointed and discouraged. They will require what you do not seem to have, but that is exactly as God intended it. That is precisely why he placed these demanding relationships in the middle of the process of sanctification, where God progressively molds us into the likeness of Jesus.” —Timothy Lane & Paul Tripp --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“Marriage is patterned after Christ’s covenant relationship to his redeemed people, the church. And therefore, the highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the covenant relationship of Christ and his church on display. That is why marriage exists. If you are married, that is why you are married. If you hope to be, that should be your dream.” —John Piper --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“Our jobs are one of the primary ways God intends to make us more like Jesus. He uses our work to sanctify us, develop our Christian character, and teach us to love him more and serve him better until we join him on the last day in resting from our labors.” —Sebastian Traeger & Greg Gilbert --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“There is more political power in the gospel and in being the church than there is in electing a president, installing a Supreme Court justice, or even changing a constitution.” - Jonathan Leeman --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"Fight fire with fire. Attack the promises of sin with the promises of Christ. The Bible calls lust "deceitful desires" (Ephesians 4:22). They lie. They promise more than they can deliver. The Bible calls them "passions of your former ignorance" (1 Peter 1:14). Only fools yield. "All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter" (Proverbs 7:22). Deceit is defeated by truth. Ignorance is defeated by knowledge. It must be glorious truth and beautiful knowledge... We must stock our minds with the superior promises and pleasures of Jesus. Then we must turn to them immediately after saying, "NO!" - John Piper --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"Standing before the cross we see simultaneously our worth and unworthiness since we perceive both the greatness of his love in dying and the greatness of our sin in causing him to die." - John Stott --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn't just join a local church because it's a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a lcoal church because it's the expression of what Christ has made him--a member of the body of Christ." - Mark Dever --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"Resolution 28: Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly, and frequently, so that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same." - Jonathan Edwards --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." --John 13:34-35 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God." --Jerry Bridges --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“You can’t make sense of the Bible without understanding that God is holy and that this holy God is intent on making a holy people to live with him forever in a holy heaven.” --Kevin DeYoung --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“If your face is now covered with sorrow, the time will come when you will bless God for that sorrow. The day will come when you will see great gain from your losses, your crosses, your troubles and your affliction. From your affliction this glory shall spring, and the deeper your sorrow the louder you’ll sing.” —Charles Spurgeon --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“Sustained by joy in trial and pain, I trust Your wisdom and mercy. Through suffering that Your love ordains, more like Your Son you will make me.” --Paul Keew and Brian Pinner --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"Chosen by the Father's mercy, Set apart to serve his Son, Sanctified by his own Spirit, Praise the holy Three-in-one! Saved by resurrection power, Shielded in his faithful love, Now no enemy can tarnish My inheritance above." --Paul Keew --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“God is not a God who is whimsical. He doesn’t have plan B’s. He saved you sovereignly because He decided to.” –John Piper

“God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.” –John Piper --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

“Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.” –William Carrey --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app