Jim Osman (Kootenal Church)

No Christian enjoys suffering — and the Apostle Paul knew that better than most. Called by God from the start of his ministry to endure affliction for the name of Christ, Paul wrote 2 Corinthians as a deeply pastoral letter to a church that had caused him tremendous pain. Yet rather than retreat from suffering, Paul broke into praise. In this sermon from 2 Corinthians 1:3–7, Simon Pranaitis shows how Paul's doxology reveals three God-given relationships that transform even the worst suffering into joyful hope. First, through God the Father — the Father of mercies and God of all comfort — believers receive real, active comfort in every affliction. Biblical comfort is not a weak shoulder-pat; it is God's strong encouragement, consolation, and intervention on behalf of his people. Second, through Christ, suffering and comfort both come in abundance. Union with Christ joins believers to his sufferings, but the comfort that follows is not merely equal — it overflows in proportion to the suffering endured. Third, through the church body, believers share in mutual endurance and a hope firmly grounded in Christ's death, resurrection, and return. Suffering is not an individual endurance test. It is a corporate responsibility. The saints at KCC are called to stop hiding their pain, stop avoiding others in theirs, and actively participate together — finding comfort in God, giving it to others, and embracing affliction as evidence of belonging to Christ. ★ Support this podcast ★ (https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/)

"There is no purpose so great that we are justified in disobeying God in it's pursuit. Not even the glory of God, because you cannot pursue the glory of God in disobedience to God." By Dave Rich, Teacher | April 12, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Lesson Files: https://mykcc.link/ce23 Description: In this lesson we continue examining antinomian errors — where grace diminishes law — covering Christian Pragmatism (the dangerous idea that the end justifies the means), Free Grace Theology (an overcorrection that separates belief from any resulting life change), and the concept of Sovereign Constraints applied to how we define our needs and how Scripture addresses addiction — challenging the modern medical model by affirming that through Christ, the power of sin is broken and no believer is beyond the reach of repentance and freedom.

👉 Struggling to understand God's sovereignty? Get Jim's new book God Doesn't Try (with Dave Rich, Foreword by Costi W. Hinn) and discover how God accomplishes His will perfectly in salvation, the church, and the end times. 👉 Order now: https://jimosman.com --- By Simon Pranaitis, Pastor | April 12, 2026 | Worship Service Description: The apostle Paul teaches saints in the church at Corinth and the surrounding region of Achaea that God is the source of all comfort and grants comfort in suffering. Union with Christ means that suffering abounds, yet comfort also abounds. Paul’s suffering and comfort allowed him to minister to the believers in Corinth and he calls them and us by extension to minister in suffering by pointing to our hope in Christ. Scripture: Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Make room for us in your hearts. We wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took advantage of no one. I do not speak to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and to live together. Great is my boldness toward you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I have been filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction. For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side—conflicts without, fears within. But God, who comforts the humbled, comforted us by the coming of Titus; and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, as he reported to us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more. For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while— I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to repentance. For you were made to have godly sorrow, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. For godly sorrow produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world brings about death. For behold what earnestness this very thing—this godly sorrow—has brought about in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter. So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness on our behalf might be manifested to you in the sight of God. For this reason we have been comforted. And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame, but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus proved to be the truth. And his affection abounds all the more toward you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling. I rejoice that in everything I am encouraged about you. - 2 Corinthians 7:1-16 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/2Corinthians4:13-18?partner=kootenaichurch Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch Read your bible every day - No Bible? Check out these free resources: https://www.blueletterbible.org/ https://word.ofgod.link/nasb/John1:1-51?partner=kootenaichurch Daily Bible Reading App - Multi Version, Offline http://youversion.com Solid Biblical Teaching: Justin Peters Ministry: https://justinpeters.org/ Grace to You Sermons: https://www.gty.org/library/resources/sermons-library The Way of the Master: https://biblicalevangelism.com The online School of Biblical Evangelism will teach you how to share your faith simply, effectively, and biblically…the way Jesus did.

Up from the grave He arose; with a mighty triumph o'er His foes; He arose a victor from the dark domain, and He lives forever, with his saints to reign. He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose! hymn by Robert Lowry He is RISEN, He is risen INDEED! Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch

The Resurrection of Christ is not just a Sunday morning doctrine — it is the foundation that holds up the entire Christian life. In this exposition of 2 Corinthians 4:13–5:10, Pastor Jim Osman draws out four concrete certainties that resurrection hope produces in the life of the believer and the minister of the gospel. First, our testimony is true. Because Christ is risen, Paul could not be silenced — not by beatings, shipwrecks, or the constant threat of death. The same risen Christ who will raise us up guarantees that what we proclaim is not myth but historical fact. Second, our suffering isn't wasted. Paul calls his afflictions "light and momentary" — not because they weren't severe, but because resurrection changes the math. Every trial endured with patient dependence on God is working an eternal weight of glory that no affliction in this life can diminish. Third, our immortality is pledged. This tent we live in will collapse, but God has prepared an eternal dwelling — a resurrected, glorified body fit for the new creation. The indwelling Holy Spirit is the down payment on that promise. Fourth, our service will be rewarded. We will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, and what is done in this body — every act of obedience, every sin mortified, every sacrifice made — carries eternal weight. This episode is a call to fix your eyes on what is unseen, because resurrection hope is what keeps believers from losing heart. ★ Support this podcast ★ (https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/)

‼️ Struggling to understand God's sovereignty? Get Jim's new book God Doesn't Try (with Dave Rich, Foreword by Costi W. Hinn) and discover how God accomplishes His will perfectly in salvation, the church, and the end times. 👉 Order now: https://jimosman.com --- By Jim Osman, Pastor | April 5, 2026 | Worship Service Description: The Resurrection of Christ is the center of Christian doctrine, life, and ministry. We can see four encouragements for life and ministry grounded in the Resurrection. We are certain that our testimony is true (4:13-15). We are certain that our suffering isn’t wasted (4:16-18). We are certain that our immortality is pledged (5:1-5). We our certain that our service will be rewarded (5:6-10). An exposition of 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:10. Scripture: But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I BELIEVED, THEREFORE I SPOKE,” we also believe, therefore we also speak, knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and will present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God. Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For our momentary, light affliction is working out for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. - 2 Corinthians 4:13-18 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/2Corinthians4:13-18?partner=kootenaichurch Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch Read your bible every day - No Bible? Check out these free resources: https://www.blueletterbible.org/ https://word.ofgod.link/nasb/John1:1-51?partner=kootenaichurch Daily Bible Reading App - Multi Version, Offline http://youversion.com Solid Biblical Teaching: Justin Peters Ministry: https://justinpeters.org/ Grace to You Sermons: https://www.gty.org/library/resources/sermons-library The Way of the Master: https://biblicalevangelism.com The online School of Biblical Evangelism will teach you how to share your faith simply, effectively, and biblically…the way Jesus did.

Death haunts everything — every joy, every marriage, every birth. But Pastor Jim Osman opens this exposition of 2 Timothy 1:8–11 with a declaration that cuts through every shadow: death has died. Writing from prison and facing his own execution, Paul calls Timothy to suffer for the gospel rather than retreat from it. His case rests on the gospel itself — a gospel dense with grace from eternity past to eternity future. God granted believers a saving, calling, and predestining grace before the foundation of the world. And He provided a Savior who, through His own death, abolished death and brought life and immortality to light. Christ didn't remove death from existence — He rendered it powerless. The fear that once held humanity in lifelong bondage — the uncertainty, the guilt, the dread of standing before a holy God — has been stripped away. In its place stands the certain hope of resurrection and the unshakeable promise of no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. The gospel is worthy of suffering for. And one day, death itself will be swallowed up in victory. ★ Support this podcast ★ (https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/)

🚨 Struggling to understand God's sovereignty? Get Jim's new book God Doesn't Try (with Dave Rich, Foreword by Costi W. Hinn) and discover how God accomplishes His will perfectly in salvation, the church, and the end times. 👉 Order now: https://jimosman.com --- By Jim Osman, Pastor | March 29, 2026 | Worship Service Description: The Gospel is worthy of our suffering and our service. In the gospel we are given amazing blessings. God has granted us a redeeming, calling, and predestining grace (v. 9). God has provided us a Savior Who destroyed death and brought life (v. 10). Christ has abolished death. An exposition of 2 Timothy 1:8-11. Scripture: Oh how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For they are mine forever. I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation. I perceive more than the aged, Because I have observed Your precepts. I have restrained my feet from every evil way, That I may keep Your word. I have not turned aside from Your judgments, For You Yourself have taught me. How sweet is Your word to my taste! Sweeter than honey to my mouth! From Your precepts I get perception; Therefore I hate every false way. - Psalm 119:97-104 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/2Timothy1:8-11?partner=kootenaichurch Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch Read your bible every day - No Bible? Check out these free resources: https://www.blueletterbible.org/ https://word.ofgod.link/nasb/John1:1-51?partner=kootenaichurch Daily Bible Reading App - Multi Version, Offline http://youversion.com Solid Biblical Teaching: Justin Peters Ministry: https://justinpeters.org/ Grace to You Sermons: https://www.gty.org/library/resources/sermons-library The Way of the Master: https://biblicalevangelism.com The online School of Biblical Evangelism will teach you how to share your faith simply, effectively, and biblically…the way Jesus did.

By Dave Rich, Teacher | March 29, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Lesson Files: https://mykcc.link/ce22 Description: This lesson highlights that both rigorism and antinomianism are ethical imbalances: one idolizes law at the expense of grace, the other abuses grace by neglecting law. True Christian ethics, according to Scripture and confessions like Westminster’s, hold law and grace in faithful harmony—where obedience is the grateful fruit of saving faith, not its condition or its substitute. Scripture: For the time already past is sufficient for you to have worked out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, maligning you, but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. - 1 Peter 4:3-5 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/1Peter4:3-5?partner=kootenaichurch

Special Instrumental of The Old Rugged Cross. Gospel means good news! The bad news is we have all sinned and deserve the wrath to come. But Jesus the Messiah died for our sins, was buried, and then raised on the third day, according to the scriptures. He ascended into heaven and right now is seated at the Father's right hand. Jesus said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel." Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch

Pastor Jim Osman opens in Psalm 119:97–104 with the psalmist's breathtaking declaration — "Oh, how I love your law!" — and shows what that kind of love actually looks like and what it produces in the life of a believer. This passage divides naturally into two halves, each anchored by a defining affection. The first four verses trace the fruit of loving the Word: wisdom that surpasses enemies, insight that exceeds teachers, and understanding deeper than age and experience. But the psalmist isn't boasting about himself. He's boasting about the Word of God — that one person armed with Scripture is better equipped for life and eternity than the accumulated wisdom of all the world's academics and sages without it. The second half moves from love to its necessary companion: a genuine hatred for every false way. Pastor Osman presses hard on this point — you cannot truly love truth without hating falsehood, and you cannot love God without hating evil. Spurgeon's insight frames it memorably: hatred is a stabbing affection, and the believer who rightly hates sin in himself will attack it, pursue it, and put it to death. The sermon closes with a direct challenge: the blessings of Psalm 119 are not for the lazy or negligent. They are reserved for those who consistently, relentlessly, and faithfully read, meditate on, and obey the Word of God. There is no shortcut to Christian maturity — only one path. ★ Support this podcast ★ (https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/)

🆘 Struggling to understand God's sovereignty? Get Jim's new book God Doesn't Try (with Dave Rich, Foreword by Costi W. Hinn) and discover how God accomplishes His will perfectly in salvation, the church, and the end times. 👉 Order now: https://jimosman.com --- By Jim Osman, Pastor | March 22, 2026 | Worship Service Description: The psalmist extolls the Word of God for the blessings it brings to the mind and life of the believer who possesses its truths. If we are to enjoy those blessings, we should follow his example and cultivate two things. First, we should cultivate a love for the Word that enlightens the mind. Second, we should cultivate hatred for falsehood that guards our steps. An exposition of Psalm 119:97-104. Scripture: Oh how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For they are mine forever. I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation. I perceive more than the aged, Because I have observed Your precepts. I have restrained my feet from every evil way, That I may keep Your word. I have not turned aside from Your judgments, For You Yourself have taught me. How sweet is Your word to my taste! Sweeter than honey to my mouth! From Your precepts I get perception; Therefore I hate every false way. - Psalm 119:97-104 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/Psalm119:97-104?partner=kootenaichurch Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch Have questions? https://www.gotquestions.org Read your bible every day - No Bible? Check out these 3 online bible free resources: Bible App - ESV, Offline: https://www.esv.org/resources/mobile-apps Word.ofGod.link- Multi Version, Online Only: https://word.ofgod.link/nasb/John1:1-51?partner=kootenaichurch Daily Bible Reading App - Multi Version, Offline http://youversion.com Solid Biblical Teaching: Kootenai Church Sermons: https://kootenaichurch.org/kcc-audio-archive/john Grace to You Sermons: https://www.gty.org/library/resources/sermons-library The Way of the Master: https://biblicalevangelism.com The online School of Biblical Evangelism will teach you how to share your faith simply, effectively, and biblically…the way Jesus did.

By Dave Rich, Teacher | March 22, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Lesson Files: https://mykcc.link/ce21 Description: This lesson maps the ditch on the law-heavy side of the road: errors that minimize grace by overweighting human effort or performance. Pelagianism denies the need for grace entirely - man can earn God's favor on his own merit. Scripture flatly contradicts this: we were dead in sin, not merely sick (Ephesians 2:1-3). Legalism adds human works to Christ's finished work for justification - the Galatian heresy Paul fought tooth and nail. We are justified by faith alone, not faith plus circumcision, calendars, or performance. Moralism makes obedience the center rather than union with Christ. Obedience flows from abiding in the Vine, not the reverse. When ethics becomes the main thing, Christ gets displaced. Fundamentalist separation error turns boundary-keeping into the mission itself rather than holiness flowing from love for Christ. Biblical separation is about purity for witness, not isolation for its own sake. Scrupulosity weds moralism to anxiety - either turned inward (endless self-doubt despite Christ's advocacy) or outward (harsh judgment of others). The cure is resting in Christ's intercession and remembering God knows our frame. The common thread: each error trusts something other than or in addition to Christ's work - whether human ability, religious performance, moral effort, separatist identity, or anxious perfectionism. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. - Ephesians 2:8-9 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/Ephesians2:8-9?partner=kootenaichurch

📘 Struggling to understand God's sovereignty? Get Jim's new book God Doesn't Try (with Dave Rich, Foreword by Costi W. Hinn) and discover how God accomplishes His will perfectly in salvation, the church, and the end times. 👉 Order now: https://jimosman.com --- By Jim Osman, Pastor | March 15, 2026 | Worship Service Description: False Teachers are apostates whose return to their filth demonstrates that the aren't and never were true converts. An exposition of 2 Peter 2:21-22. Scripture: For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them. The message of the true proverb has happened to them, “A DOG RETURNS TO ITS OWN VOMIT,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.” - 2 Peter 2:21-22 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/2Peter2:21-22?partner=kootenaichurch Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch Have questions? https://www.gotquestions.org Read your bible every day - No Bible? Check out these 3 online bible free resources: Bible App - ESV, Offline: https://www.esv.org/resources/mobile-apps Word.ofGod.link- Multi Version, Online Only: https://word.ofgod.link/nasb/John1:1-51?partner=kootenaichurch Daily Bible Reading App - Multi Version, Offline http://youversion.com Solid Biblical Teaching: Kootenai Church Sermons: https://kootenaichurch.org/kcc-audio-archive/john Grace to You Sermons: https://www.gty.org/library/resources/sermons-library The Way of the Master: https://biblicalevangelism.com The online School of Biblical Evangelism will teach you how to share your faith simply, effectively, and biblically…the way Jesus did.

By Michael Anderson | March 15, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Scripture: I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you soon, but in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth. And by common confession, great is the mystery of godliness: He who was manifested in the flesh, Was vindicated in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Proclaimed among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in glory. - 1 Timothy 3:14-16 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/1Tim3:14-16?partner=kootenaichurch