Sunday sermons from Reality Church London by Pastor Bijan Mirtolooi and others. We are a community following Jesus, seeking the renewal of our city. For more information, please visit www.RealityChurch.London or email us at info@realitychurch.london
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Marriage and the Gospel | Ephesians 5:21-32
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This week Pastor Bijan explores the true purpose behind marriage and the ultimate reality to which it points.
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What is Ours in Christ | Romans 8:5-17
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This week Pastor Girma shares with us the amazing realities and truths that are found in Romans 8. These truths equip and encourage the Christian to face all things.
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Light in the City | Ephesians 5:1-14
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This week we recommence our Ephesians Series after our Easter break. Pastor Bijan explores how Ephesians 5:1-14 commands that the Christian is to live counter-cultural for the common good, and how we may a light in our city.
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This Easter Sunday, Pastor Bijan explores the transforming power of the resurrection and how we too may experience Jesus as he meets his people in community, when they're desperate, in their obedience, and all through grace.
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This week Pastor Girma explores how Psalm 131 deals with the topic of rest and humility in a restless and prideful world.
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This week we look at Psalm 126 where the writer beautifully acknowledges the reality of joy and sorrow within our world. How do we wrestle with both joy and sorrow before our ever-present, ever-kind God.
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What Are You Waiting For? | Psalm 130
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This week Pastor Bijan continues our series looking at rhythms and practices which mark out the renewed life. Particularly, focusing on the topic of waiting and what does it look like for the Christian to be in a season of waiting in their day to day life.
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This week Pastor Tim Chaddick explores the concept of envy and how we may crowd it out with true worship.
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Continuing in our three-part series looking at Rhythms of renewal, Pastor Bijan looks at Psalm 121. Exploring how we may crowd out fear and anxiety by faith. Trusting that it is the LORD who is on our side!
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Worry and the Kingdom | Luke 12:22-34
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Jesus’ question posed here exposes our worry and the fragility of the foundation of our lives. The themes around idolatry as a form of salvation (to calm our worries) could be explored. The need for certainty for the future given that Jesus links our worry and fear to trying to stay alive longer. It exposes concern for the future.…
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Filled with the Spirit | Ephesians 5:15-20
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This week Pastor Mike Sohn from the globe church continues our series through Ephesians. Exploring Paul's instructions on how to live the wise, godly, Spirit-filled life.
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Today Pastor Bijan explores how right in the heart of the practical sections of the book of Ephesians, Paul expresses the core reality of the Gospel. That, as those who are deeply adored by God, we are to walk in love, as we imitate Christ.
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Be Kind and Angry? | Ephesians 4:25-32
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This week Pastor Joel Wade from Christ Church Mile End continues our series studying through Paul's great letter to the Ephesians. Exploring how we are now to relate to our emotions, in light of the new self we have been given in Christ.
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The New Self | Ephesians 4:17-24
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This week Pastor Bijan explores what it means to ‘put off’ the old self, practices of repentance, and what it means to ‘put on’ the new self, living in and living out the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Mature in Christ | Ephesians 4:7-16
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Christians need to grow in maturity. But what is Christian maturity and what does it look like? Paul addresses these questions in Ephesians 4:7-16. In today's sermon we explore the goal of Christian life, growing up and into Christ.
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Unity & the Bond of Peace | Ephesians 4:1-6
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The idea of unity is one of the core themes throughout the book of Ephesians. Join us today as Pastor Israel focuses on what unity is, what it looks like in the church, and how it is to be pursued.
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More Than All We Ask | Ephesians 3:14-21
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In this sermon, Pastor Bijan picks back up our series through the book of Ephesians. Exploring Paul's great prayer at the end of Chapter 3. In this prayer, Paul's desire is that the church would know and experience the great truths of the gospel.
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What Jesus Gives: Joy Overflowing | John 2:1-11
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Jesus’ first miracle is called a sign, something that points beyond itself to a greater reality. This story is a sign of what Jesus gives to his followers: joy overflowing. At Christmas we sing ‘joy to the world’, and this passage shows us how we can experience the joy that Jesus gives.
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The ‘mystery’ revealed in the gospel is God’s reconciling all things in Christ. The wonder of wonders is that the church becomes both an example of that revelation, as well as a proclaimer of it.
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Needy & Needed | Ephesians 2:19-22
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By describing the church as a ‘temple,’ Paul is reminding us that every Christian in the church is both needy and needed.
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This week, Efrem Buckle the training and mentoring director at London City Mission joins us this week as we continue our look through the book of Ephesians. The same gospel that reconciles people to God also reconciles people to each other. The gospel can tear down any ways erected between peoples today.…
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Alive in Christ | Ephesians 2:1-10
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A Christian is someone who was dead in their sin but has been made alive with Christ. This sermon explores the heart of the gospel and what a gospel-shaped life looks like.
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The Same Power | Ephesians 1:15-23
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The very same power that raised Christ from the dead is the power that God says is for his people, working in them and through them. This sermon explores what that power is and why it matters.
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He Works Everything Out | Ephesians 1:3-14
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A Christian is someone who can rest and is safe in God’s plan. Predestination, while sometimes a controversial or confusing doctrine, is here presented by Paul as a great hope and an immense comfort.
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In this passage, we’re told that a Christian has ‘every spiritual blessing’ in Christ. This sermon explores what those blessings are as well as the foundation for the promise: what it means to live in union with Jesus Christ.
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God gives his people commands because he longs for their joy. Every ‘law’ from God is a manifestation of his love for his people and the world he made. Growing in maturity as a follower of Jesus means obedience to God’s commands from a place of delight, not merely duty.
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To grow, sometimes there are things that have got to go. This sermon explores what ‘pruning’ means in the Christian life, and why and how pruning (surrender, self-denial, discipline) is part of Christian growth.
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Vision Sunday | Abide | John 15:1-8
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Today Pastor Bijan, on our Vision Sunday explores the veryThe heart of the Christian life is abiding in Jesus, living in union with him.This sermon explores what it means to abide in Jesus, and how to abide inJesus.
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According to the bible, work and rest go hand in hand. God is serious about rest. During the exodus of the Israelites out from captivity by the Egyptians, God told His people that not only was he bringing them out of captivity but that also he would bring them into the promised land, the land of rest.…
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The Renewal of Work | 1 Peter 2:9-10
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In 1 Peter 2, Peter describes the whole church — not just clergy — as ‘priests’. This is just one of many places in the Bible which points to the doctrine of the ‘priesthood of all believers’. In all of our work we are called to worship God and serve others. If work can be worship that means the old divide between ‘secular’ and ‘spiritual’ vocation…
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The Fall of Work | Genesis 3:17-24, 11:1-9
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Genesis 3 shows us the impact of sin on work. As we saw last week, work was once a delight, but now it can feel like drudgery and duty. Gen 11 shows us that instead of looking to God, human beings seek an identity from what they build, what they do with their hands. This sermon will not only explore the impact of sin and the fall on work, but also …
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Faith at Work | Genesis 1:26-28 & 2:15
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God placed humankind in the Garden of Eden to work itand take care of it (Genesis 2v15). Interestingly, the words “work” and “care” are often used in the bible to describe the priest’s service to God in tabernacle worship.. The point Genesis is making, then, is that in Eden the function of tending the Garden was itself an act of worship and service…
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Contentment | Philippians 4:10-20
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Paul ends his letter on the theme of contentment. Whether in lack or in abundance,God’s people can rejoice and do all things because of Christ in them. For our sakesChrist, though rich, became poor, that we might become rich in him (2 Cor 8:9).
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These verses tell us to rejoice always, as well as offer practical guidance for how torejoice always, by offering everything to God in prayer. The cross is the ultimateexample that God turns sorrow into joy (John 16:20-22).
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Paul’s great hope, even in the mist of suffering and opposition, is the awareness thatChrist will return. Such confident hope in the future transforms our life in thepresent. Christ left the glory and comfort of heaven and came to earth, so that ourcitizenship could be in heaven.
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Ambition and Desire | Philippians 3:1-14
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Paul here describes ambition in a godly sense, “pressing on toward the goal forwhich God has called me…” In a city like New York ambition is rampant. Thissermon can distinguish between selfish and godly ambition. Christians can prizeChrist as their ultimate treasure because we were the joy (treasure) that Christpursued through his death on the cros…
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Looking Out For Others | Philippians 2:19-30
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Paul recommends Timothy and Epaphroditus as examples of Christian brotherly kindness, showing what it means to put others ahead of oneself. Christians can serve others, even risking our lives for others, because Christ gave himself up for us.
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Everything Without Grumbling | Philippians 2:12-18
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‘Grumbling’ here means complaining, offering unbalanced criticism, and an overallunwillingness to be helpful. Such attitudes and speech are not in line with the gospeland contribute to disunity in any community. Christ is God’s gracious word to us,enabling us to speak gracious and life-giving words to others. Join us today as guest preacher Mike So…
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Unity & Humility | Philippians 2:1-11
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The key to unity in the church is each person developing humility that is patternedafter Christ’s example. Christ’s humiliation leads to his exaltation. That’s thepattern all Christian relationships should be based off of (1 John 4:10-11). Join us today as Bijan encourages us to seek unity through humility all the while looking to Jesus.…
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To Live is Christ | Phillipians 1:18-30
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Today Pastor Jeremy Treat, teaches us about Paul's explosive statement in the first chapter of Philippians. To live is Christ, to die is gain. Exploring the practical implications of this statement and the fundamental reality of what it looks like to be securely united to the risen Lord, Jesus Christ.…
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Thankfulness & Joy | Philippians 1:1-18
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As Paul begins his letter he does so with gratitude and joy for the church in Philippi.Joy should be one of the main characteristics that mark the people of God, even asthey partner together to serve God in their city. The cross of Christ brings about anew family (cf. Eph 2). That new family works together to advance the gospel, all inanticipation …
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The love of Jesus for his people is so certain, so secure, so strong, that nothing in all the cosmos can threaten it. To be infallibly loved by an infinitely good saviour? There’s nothing more we could need.
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Romans 8:28-30 | All Things for Good
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Our passage today does not say everything that happens is good. It says that God works all things for good for his people, culminating in their glorification — safe with him in his kingdom forever as their truest selves. To know deep down that God is working all things for good provides hope and peace even as we walk through the fiercest storms…
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Suffering and Glory | Romans 8:18-27
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Paul never minimises the sufferings Christians experience, but he does say that those sufferings pale in comparison to the coming glory. So, Christians are those who wait with hope. Waiting is hard (waiting rooms are the worst places in the world to be), but having hope in the waiting changes everything. As we wait in hope, we rest in the reality t…
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Led By The Spirit | Romans 8:14-17
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The Spirit helps Christians experience their adoption. The doctrine of adoption means we are members of God’s family, his sons and daughters. What the Spirit does is take that objective reality and help us experience in subjective ways. Knowing by experience that we are God’s children gives us courage to face anything…
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Today Pastor Girma preaches a special sermon on the topic of gratitude. We focus on the abundant generosity of the God whom we worship and look at our response to this. Particularly we look at how we can instill practices of gratitude in our daily lives.
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Our Small Heart, God's Big Heart | Jonah 1:1-3, 2:9-10, 3:10, 4:4-11
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In our final sermon in the series of Jonah, we take a step back and look at the big picture of the book.
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Compassion for the Great City | Jonah 4
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Chapter 4 is the climax of Jonah’s story, as we see Jonah’s heart contrasted with God’s heart. Jonah wants to see Nineveh destroyed. God, by contrast, has compassion for the great city, and longs to pour out mercy. As we wrestle with the Jonah story, we’re meant to turn the mirror on ourselves, to ask: how do we view our city? Jesus, the anti-Jonah…
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Here in Jonah 3 we see three kinds of ‘repentance’. Jonah (even if begrudgingly) fulfils God’s call to preach in Nineveh. The Ninevites repented at Jonah’s preaching. And God ‘relents’ from destroying the city. Here in this chapter, we learn something important about repentance, and how repentance is always first and foremost a fruit of God’s work …
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‘There is no sin so great that Christ’s grace is not greater still’. ThoughJonah deserved judgment, God gave him mercy. God’s never-endinglove comes to Jonah in the provision of a great fish, which savesJonah’s life and brings him back to the pathway of obedience. Whilstin the fish’s belly, Jonah experiences the reality of faith and prayer ina new …
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