“I will lift up my eyes to the hills—From whence comes my help? My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth.” (Psalm 121:1-2) We need the Lord’s help to get to heaven. His help ensures we remain faithful and ready for judgment. Ppt: Outline: To download, right-click on the title in the …
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Psalm 121 describes the help God offers His people. God is constantly extending His helping hand for our salvation. He protects us and provides for us that we may be saved in the end. What help does He offer to keep us saved? Ppt: Outline: To download, right-click on the title in the track list …
Continue reading Sermon: Help from the LordJesus has given us assurance of His and the Father’s protection – “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater …
Continue reading Sermon: The Divine ProtectionMany live their lives as if there is no hurry to get right with God. They count the Lord’s longsuffering as slackness concerning His promise to come in judgment (cf. 2 Peter 3:9). This lesson discusses the folly of the complacent notion that there is no hurry, and contrasts such with the urgency of the …
Continue reading Sermon: No Hurry?Joshua 7 records the failure of Israel to conquer the small city of Ai. Also recorded is the reason for the failure – Achan’s sin. Several things can be learned from this passage, one of which is the fact that sin severs fellowship with God, and MUST be dealt with in the way God requires. …
Continue reading Sermon: When Sin is PresentIn Genesis 19, God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Righteous Lot was shown mercy from the Lord, as he was spared from the destruction along with his family. “When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, ‘Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be …
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At this juncture in his epistle, Paul has reached his points of application. He has written of the spiritual blessings in Christ, the way in which the Ephesians were redeemed, and God’s use of himself in the revelation of the mystery, along with his prayer for the Ephesians’ realization and appropriation of the strength offered …
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“These things” to which the brethren are to be looking forward to concern the discontinuing of the present state of the “heavens,” “elements,” “earth and the works that are in it” (v. 10). “All these things will be dissolved” at “the coming of the day of God” (v. 11-12). These things are continued in reservation …
Continue reading 2 Peter 3:14-18Maintaining unity within a local congregation is imperative. In Ephesians 4, the apostle Paul mentions some characteristics that are necessary for each individual to posses in order to “keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” (Ephesians 4:3). Ppt: Keys To Unity Outline: Keys To Unity Audio: mp3
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If King Josiah heard some of the excuses given for not serving the Lord, I’d expect him to be thoroughly disappointed. I would also expect him to have some good responses to those excuses. The following are a few excuses that might be given for not living acceptably. Based on the account of Josiah in …
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