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Sermons by Pastor David Whitney, Senior Instructor of Institute on the Constitution and pastor of Cornerstone Free Church in Arnold, MD.

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SUNDAY August 24, 2025

Order of Worship

Theme: The transformation which accompanies true faith is called sanctification with the end goal that we will be individually and corporately grown to the full stature of Jesus Christ the perfect man.

Welcome & Call to Worship
“Praise My Soul the King of Heaven” #1
“To God be the Glory” #56
Prayer & Children’s Lesson
“Blessed is the Man” - hymns and songs pg.1
“We’re Marching to Zion” #416
Offering - “His Eye is on the Sparrow” #624
Responsive Reading - #658 “Children of God”
Congregational Prayer
Hearing God’s Word
“Growing Up”- Pastor Whitney
Responding to God’s Word
“Standing on the Promises” #410
Benediction and Postlude

“Growing Up”
36th In our series the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians

I. The Most Consequential Question - What is Man?
* A. The Behaviorist conception
* B. The Transhumanist belief
* 1. Man is but a biological machine
* 2. His software can be hacked or upgraded

II. The Biblical Truth About Man
* A. Made in the Image and Likeness of God - Genesis 1:26-27
* 1. Thus on mankind the highest honor was bestowed
* 2. Fallen into sin & Redeemable only through the finished work of Christ on the cross - Romans 3:23
* B. The path forward is a complete transformation of the soul - Ephesians 4:11-13
* 1. The process towards perfection is called sanctification
* a. The perfection will happen at our departure from this world - 1 John 3:2-3
* b. Such knowledge doesn’t produce complacency but exertion in holiness here and now
* 2. The end goal is that individually and corporately we will grow to the full stature of Jesus Christ the perfect man
* a. The Holy Spirit is continually working on our individual sanctification
* b. We either resist or participate in that work
* 3. The Holy Spirit is also working on us all together as the body of Christ
* a. He is melding us together into the perfect society
* b. A Society of persons made in and restored to God’s Image.