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18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. What is a Church Overseer? 1 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires…

1 If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God: 3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in…

Introduction: Our nation has recently come through a very trying election season. For Christians, every season can seem trying. We sometimes forget that we do not belong to the kingdoms of this world, but to the heavenly kingdom of God. We have dual citizenship and try to influence earthly kingdoms with…

If you were to stand before God, and He were to ask you this question, “ Why should I let you into Heaven ,” how would you respond? How would you answer? How Would You Answer? Through out the years, I have posed that situation/that question to numbers of people and, in response, I have received three…

As we continue in our journey through 1 Timothy 3 , we come to the statement that an elder must not be a lover of money. What is meant by a lover of money? Is it wrong to have wealth? Are we using our money properly? Are we greedy, or are we giving? Belief about money Since the Great Depression this…

People often ask, and if we are honest, we all want to be able to know the Will of God. One of the problems is that, we, our culture, think we are smart. If you think about it. I have seen Nuclear Bombs detonated when they were tested. I remember when we first sent a person into space and then landed…

We looked last week at being sober-minded. Not being drunk on the things of this world and being blind to the directives of God. We spoke about how our passions can take the drivers seat in our lives. They can guide us, and govern us, when we care more about the opinions of man, than the opinion of God.…

Ephesians 5:21-33 We have been studying about having a godly home. Our relationships are the backbone of our homes. You must work at your relationships. We looked first at having a home of self-sacrifice. We learned we needed to follow God, not our own desires. We needed to walk in love, put off sin…

Does God love the elect more than the unelect, or does he love them the same? If you want to understand more about the love of God, I encourage you to read The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God by, D. A. Carson. I am indebted to his work on this topic. If I am to answer this question we will need…

The meaning of respectable The Greek word for respectable is kosmios. To better understand this, we are going to first look at the root of kosmios, kosmos. When you hear kosmos we think of space, the universe…which is correct, that is what the word means. It means, the universe, the world, sometimes…

The Second Coming and Subsequent Judgments What is the second coming? The second coming is that event when Jesus Christ—the King of kings and Lord of lords—will gloriously return to the earth at the end of the present age (after the tribulation period) and set up His 1000-year kingdom on earth. The very…

God's plan for the Bride of Christ backs those who lead, blesses those who serv, and bestows worship on the Bidegroom.

1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: 2 That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and…

Leverage your triggers; when emotions stir, remember to pray!

Our Special Weapon Intro: Picture with me for a moment, a Christian Soldier putting on all his armor and stepping out to battle. The Enemy begins marching toward the soldier, he digs in with his boots of peace, his heart racing. He adjusts his helmet of salvation, cinches up his belt of truth and breastplate…

Sermon Key Passage In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his…

Introduction: We have mentioned already that this book is one of the Pastoral Epistles - consisting of 1 and 2 Timothy as well as Titus. And we discussed how these books are all about order in the church. Well today we come to a difficult passage for our culture. This is a sermon that was really not…

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Paul , an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that…

Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ. Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and keep the traditions just as I delivered them to you. But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Every man praying or…

I write these things to you, hoping to come to you soon. But if I should be delayed, I have written so that you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. And most certainly, the mystery of godliness…

Judges 13:25-14:20 Last week we were introduced to a man, Manoah, and his wife. They were told they were going to have a son, a son that was going to be great! He will begin to deliver Isael out of the hand of the Philistines. Because of the cycle of sin that Israel was stuck on, once the last judge…

Introduction We will be continuing in chapter 3 of Paul’s letter to is son in the faith Timothy. The man that Paul had left to oversee the church in Ephesus. Paul had warned many years earlier that wolves would appear from among the flock. They were to be on guard for these people to arrive. Paul’s letter…

Introduction Today we continue Paul’s instruction on prayer to Timothy. The instruction was aimed at correcting some concerns that Paul had from hearing about some behaviors and attitudes in the church in Ephesus. Hearing these concerns and not having the ability to come to Timothy at the moment he wrote…

Intro As you learn to ride a motorcycle, one of the things you have to learn to do is fight your feelings. Sometime your natural instincts will get you killed. God made our reactions to work best at a running pace, but when you start going 60kph, or 100kph with a hunk of metal with over 100hp between…