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Balancing Love and Truth John was committed to the truth, there is no doubt about that. From the beginning we see him as a spiritually aware man who sought to know and follow the truth. When we first encounter John, both he and Andrew are disciples of John the Baptist. But like Andrew, John without hesitation…

INTRODUCTION Honesty Defined truthfulness, sincerity freedom from deceit or fraud We can all agree, christian and non-christian, that a Bible-based Christian must be truthful, sincere, not deceitful, and definitely not perpetrating a fraud. Christians Must Be Honest Note title of lesson Play on “do as…

24 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. What was heard from the beginning? 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked…

During the French Revolution, there were three Christians who were sentenced to die by the guillotine. One Christian had the gift of faith, the other had the gift of prophecy, the other had the gift of helps. The Christian with the gift of faith was to be executed first. He was asked if he wanted to…

Introduction Lets start with a passage out of the Johns 1st Letter 1 John 2:18 (NASB95) 18 Children, it is the last hour; ... Pastor Ben spoke last week about john and the early church bringing to light . Words like syncretism Gnosticism and Political Correctness We are not going to veer off from Bens…

Good afternoon! Today we are continuing in our current series looking at 1 John. In todays passage John addresses a crucial issue that was affecting the early Christian community: the presence of false teachers and their deceptive teachings. Just as the early believers faced challenges to their faith,…

This is our 3rd week in the teaching portion of our EMPTY acronym, our flyover of the New Testament. It’s a 40,000 foot flyover, but its giving us a sense of the overarching message of redemption and seeing the connections of the New Testament back to the Old, and the flow of the story from Genesis on.…

A couple of Churches were having problems with some squirrels The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrel infestation. After much prayer and consideration, they concluded that the squirrels were predestined to be there, and they should not interfere with God’s divine…

“The Work of the Enemy” Pastor James Montgomery Boice once said, “Some sections of the Bible give us Grand Theology, some move us to Grateful Responses to God, the Parables ask us if there has been any Real Difference in our lives.” Is your life different today? In other words, as you pick up God’s Word…

Authority What is authority? Who has authority? Does everyone with authority use it for good? Who gives authority? Who is your authority? It seems like everything they are an authority on everything. I mean you can hardly get on FB without a middle schooler telling you how to fight inflation, or shoot…

Living In The End Times # 6 1 John 2: 18-23 In our previous study John gave direction concerning spiritual victory for the believer. Regardless of our maturity level, we all need to grow in the Lord. Continued growth is essential in overcoming the difficulties we face. John knew the struggles present…

Nitzavim Introduction Torah Portion This Torah Portion goes from Deuteronomy 29:10-30:20 In our previous Torah portion we talked about Re’eh (beholding: a blessing, and a curse) We talked about having two choices related to obedience / disobedience = blessing / cursing Obedience to blessing We talked…

Introduction Torah Portion This Torah Portion goes from Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17 In our previous Torah portion we talked about consequences- Because; the heel - representing the walk; the difference between keeping and doing and the significance of numbers 2, 40 and the covenants of God - tablets We discussed…

Sometimes in life warning signs can be glaring in our face and so blatant that we must deal with them. And yet there are other times where they are subtle and we often miss them. A few weeks ago I went to a baseball game in Denver Colorado and outside the baseball park was a gentlemen who had a little…

Intro: Story of tickets we bought from a guy and the lady at the stadium told us they were fake. “You have to be careful who you trust these days.” There is only one we can place our trust in, and that is Yaweh. The one true God. So, how do we actually do this? That’s the question that so many people…

Review of last sermon: I. Deceptive Intrusion We looked at the way in which Peter and all the NT writers, most importantly, Jesus himself identifies the deceptive qualities of False prophets and teachers. They are called wolves…in sheep clothing or as we laid out last time, they are psuedo-didaskos (teachers…

Morning 8th May 2022

Can you lose your salvation? Why are false teachers dangerous? These are a couple answers we will be searching for as we continue through our letters of John.

Christ Wins 18 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went…

One of the earliest and most important lessons we Americans teach our children is how to tell time. This is because we live in a time-conscious culture. Whereas people in many other parts of the world worry much less about deadlines and dates, we are rather obsessed with time. Being early is not fashionable.…

18 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it…

White-anting... For many people fortunate enough to own a home, it is well known that protecting it is time consuming, expensive and not without risks. Our homes can be the biggest investment we make in our life. The greatest danger to that investment is not fire, storm or flood, but a silent little…

If you knew the world was ending soon, what would you do, where would you go? Would your inclination be to get busy, go places, or stay put? Many people think we are in the end of time, for a lot of reasons. Is that right or wrong, and how should we think about that? But we’ll see that knowing when the…

Secular - Did you know there are a lot of saying that have crept into the church which aren’t in the Bible? "God helps those who help themselves." " Cleanliness is next to godliness. " " In the last days, you will not be able to know the seasons except by the changing of the leaves. " " Money is the…

False Prophets and Teachers But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and…