Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin

S04E06 – Will You Cast Out the Demons That Torment You?

It’s week 6 and we’re at the Mount of Transfiguration. This mountain is where Jesus took Peter, James and John to the top and demonstrated His glory, known as transfiguration. Peter, James and John experience an incredible, intense moment of worship, face-to-face with the manifest presence of God. After this, they walked down to meet a father, desperate at the foot of the mountain, where he asks Jesus to cast out a demon from his son.

Sometimes we’re in the place of the dad in the valley who is desperate for a miracle. Sometimes we’re the disciples coming down from the mountain top sent on mission to gather, anoint and pray for those who need it.

“Those moments refuel us, those moments inspire us that we’re connected to Him...but the point of our life is not to sit and soak in that moment for our own glory. It’s to be used by Him to be squeezed out wherever he takes us.” – Pastor Joby Martin

Along with this podcast, we encourage you to listen or watch Pastor Joby teach through each week, correlated with chapters in the book. Watch or listen to sermons at coe22.com/sermons or subscribe to The Church of Eleven22 wherever you listen to podcasts.

S04E05 – With What Weapon Will You Fight the Enemy?

We have an enemy who wants to steal, kill and destroy. He’s been at it in our lives since the beginning of human history, even with Jesus. What will you do when temptation comes your way? With what weapon will you fight?

In week 5, we’re at the Mount of Temptation where Jesus himself was tempted by the devil. Jesus never reasons with the enemy. He combats temptations of Satan with Scripture and truth of the Word.

“If you want to stand in victory against the enemy–the victory that Jesus has already secured for us–then stand on the truth and don’t waffle on the lies. You decide. Either you will be conformed to these lies, to the patterns of the world, or you will be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” – Pastor Joby Martin

Along with this podcast, we encourage you to listen or watch Pastor Joby teach through each week, correlated with chapters in the book. Watch or listen to sermons at coe22.com/sermons or subscribe to The Church of Eleven22 wherever you listen to podcasts.

S04E04 – Are You Chasing Blessing or the One Who Blesses?

This week we visit the fourth mountain – Mount of Beatitudes. This is the same mountain where Jesus famously preached the Sermon on the Mount.

Jesus starts the Sermon on the Mount with eight blessings. As followers of Jesus, we get to live in blessing and in the kingdom of God, not because of how we perform or the boxes we check, but because we are in right-standing with the Lord. Identity precedes activity.

“When we see God in light of who He is, it allows us to see ourselves in light of we really are, and our depravity is greater than we ever infinitely imagined. And as we continue to grow in Him, our understanding of His glory and His wonder and His majesty is infinitely greater than we ever imagined.” – Pastor Joby Martin

Along with this podcast, we encourage you to listen or watch Pastor Joby teach through each week, correlated with chapters in the book. Watch or listen to sermons at coe22.com/sermons or subscribe to The Church of Eleven22 wherever you listen to podcasts.

S04E03 – Why Are You Still Holding On to That Idol?

Anything that competes for the worthiness of the one true God is an idol. We serve a faithful God who loves us enough to strip away idols to bring us closer to Him.

In the book of Exodus, Israel was covered in idol worship. God sent a prophet, Elijah up to Mount Carmel to face the king of Israel and 850 prophets of false gods. When the Israelites called out to these idols, they were ultimately let down. Because that’s what idols do­; they always lead to disappointment.

When God’s not giving you what you want, do you still trust Him?

“It’s not the amount of faith you have; it’s the object of your faith that matters” – Pastor Joby Martin

Along with this podcast, we encourage you to listen or watch Pastor Joby teach through each week, correlated with chapters in the book. Watch or listen to sermons at coe22.com/sermons or subscribe to The Church of Eleven22 wherever you listen to podcasts.

S04E02 – Who Tells You Who You Are: You…or Jesus?

This week, Pastor Joby, Charles and Ali talk about Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt and the introduction to the Ten Commandments.

After God led Moses and the Israelites out of Egypt and into freedom, God called Moses up to Mount Sinai to lay out the Ten Commandments. The order of this is important, and this episode explains why.

3 while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: 4 ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.  – Exodus 19:3-4

Along with this podcast, we encourage you to listen or watch Pastor Joby teach through each week, correlated with chapters in the book. Watch or listen to sermons at coe22.com/sermons or subscribe to The Church of Eleven22 wherever you listen to podcasts.

S04E01 – Do you live as though you can save yourself?

Welcome to season 4 of the Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin podcast. We’re so excited to dive deeper into Pastor Joby’s new book, If The Tomb is Empty.

In this season, Pastor Joby is joined by his co-author, Charles Martin, and host Ali Parsons. We invite you into a conversation for the next seven weeks as they talk through the book, chapter by chapter, and how each event leads to Mount Calvary and the empty tomb.

In week one, they talk about Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah and ask the question, do you live as though you can save yourself?

Along with this podcast, we encourage you to listen or watch Pastor Joby teach through each week, correlated with chapters in the book. Watch or listen to sermons at coe22.com/sermons or subscribe to The Church of Eleven22 wherever you listen to podcasts.

Get a copy of the book at coe22.com/books.

S03E06 – The Kingdom of God and Satisfaction

In the sixth week of The Upside Down Kingdom series, Pastor Joby taught through the kingdom of God and satisfaction.

Last week we asked the question, what are you doing with your one and only life? Often the comforts of this world have the ability to quiet God’s calling and lull us into spiritual sleep. When we take our eyes off the mission God calls us to in the great commission, we end up chasing pleasure instead of purpose. God has put eternity in our hearts so we would live for his glory.

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis

The next season of Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin starts next week! Season 4 will cover the next sermon series and Pastor Joby’s new book, If The Tomb is Empty. We’re looking forward to what God will do through the next seven weeks.

If you missed the sermon from this week, watch it at coe22.com/sermons.

S03E05 – The Kingdom of God and Work

What are you doing with your one and only life?

This week we dive into the kingdom of God and work. God’s calling looks different for everyone, but we know God created each and every one of us for one purpose: to live out the great commission laid out in Matthew 28:19, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

The key question is this: what is your role in the great commission? How are you leveraging your time, talent, and treasures God has given you? Are you living your life on-mission where you are?

If you think God might be calling you to full-time ministry, learn more about The Church of Eleven22’s School of Ministry at coe22.com/schoolofministry.

If you missed the sermon from this week, watch it at coe22.com/sermons.