Repentance
“Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” (James 4:7-8) This sermon is a discussion of repentance. Ppt: Clean Hands and Pure Hearts Outline: Clean Hands and Pure Hearts To …
Continue reading Sermon: Clean Hands and Pure HeartsMany 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 Present
“This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as …
Continue reading the Digest (Issue 2.5): Walking in the Light – 1 John 1 – Abuse and MisapplicationJesus specifically said there is only one path to salvation, and very few will travel upon it (cf. Matthew 7:13-14). The religious world today says there are multiple paths. Among all the differences, is there a path which is infallibly safe? A path which, if taken, will inevitably lead one to heaven? The Bible says …
Continue reading Sermon: The Infallibly Safe Path“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). The first sermon examines the text of 1 John 1, considering the Gnostic heresy John dealt with, and the proper …
Continue reading Sermon: Walking in the Light (Parts 1 & 2)Part 3 in a series of lessons seeking to identify the one church in the New Testament (cf. Ephesians 1:22-23; 4:4). “And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved” (Acts 2:47b). The church of the New Testament was the body of the saved. How were they saved? What “plan of …
Continue reading Sermon: Identifying the One Church (3) – Plan of SalvationJohn 8:1-11 records an event in which the Pharisees and scribes used a woman caught in adultery in a conspiracy to find something of which to accuse Jesus. The account is severely abused by some. This record is examined. Ppt: Three Deaths at Calvary Outline: Three Deaths at Calvary Download: mp3
Continue reading Sermon: Jesus, and the Woman Caught in Adultery