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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Bill Bush · Aug 30, 2022
A genuine follower of Christ is called not merely to know about Jesus, but to pursue an ever-deepening, personal knowledge of Him — the kind the apostle Paul described as surpassing everything else in value. The primary means of that knowing is God's Word, which is alive, powerful, cutting, and exposing. Like a surgeon's scalpel, it gets to the heart of every problem, produces spiritual energy, and calls us to rest not in ceasing activity but in surrendering to God's will — so that His power can work through us and we can take the baton of faith and pass it on.
Pastor Bill Bush · Jan 28, 2019
In John 8, Jesus confronts people who claimed to believe in Him yet wanted what He offered while rejecting who He truly is. True freedom is not found by following a list of rules or relying on religious heritage, but by personally knowing Jesus — the great I Am — through His Word. To reach that freedom, a person must honestly admit three things: that they are powerless to fix their own brokenness, that the way they are currently trying to make life work is not working, and that without surrendering fully to Jesus, they will inevitably end up opposing Him rather than following Him.