Sermon
Saints
Stonebrook Community Church
Speaker: Matt Heerema
January 18, 2026 · 35 min
Summary
Paul opens 1 Corinthians by declaring who the troubled Corinthian church is in Christ—saints, sanctified, called, enriched, and destined for blamelessness—before addressing their numerous sins and errors. The pastor traces God's redemptive narrative from creation through Christ and explains how Paul's hundred corrective commands all flow from these foundational truths about Christian identity.
Highlights
Be who you are. You are this, be it, saints. Every single Christian regardless of social status, apparent level of gifting, apparent level of spiritual power has been chosen by God, holy, gifted, lacking nothing.
Why are we wasting our lives playing in the mud puddles when we have been invited to swim in this ocean of grace?
The problem is that they are acting like people who belong to the secular pagan world instead of people who belong to Christ.