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Opening Prayer: Heavenly Father, As we come together, we humbly bow before You, acknowledging Your sovereignty and majesty. As we delve into Your Word, we ask for Your guidance. Open our hearts to receive Your truth with humility. May Your Spirit stir within us a deeper understanding of what it means…

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household…

Our Response to the Daily Grind We Abide in Christ 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. We Allow the Word to Abide 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and…

Good Morning church. It is good to be together. Even though it is still cold outside. We believe that the purpose of the church is summarized in three things: Glorify God Equip the Saints Share the Gospel This morning, my message is primarily focused on that second task - to equip the saints. In full…

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. Called to Good Works This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain…

An old saying goes, “A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to come unraveled. 16 Rejoice evermore. 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and…

Prayer is coming into communication with the living and active God... Prayers moves us from the: Physical to the Spiritual Temporal to the Eternal From self-focus to God-focus This week we are going to look at the NT How Not to Pray 5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to…

2 Thessalonians 3 https://storage.sermon.net/adb837d8ec6776c8a4fde701fc35cca8/63e6cdcc-150f919-1/content/media/113683/JesusRevolution-OfficialTrailer.mp4/vb4000_ab192_fps1920x1080.mp4 Do we have any fans of Boston Sports? Red Sox, Boston Bruins, the New England Patriots, I think they might have a basketball…

What Good is the Past? Lessons learned Won’t make that mistake again An opportunity for growth Faithfulness of God What God brought into our lives to teach us What God spared us from though we deserve it As we begin our study of the book of Deuteronomy we enter into it with a desire to learn from those…

Over the last few weeks, we have looked at God’s promises… We looked at his promises about giving. Then we looked at God's promises of heaven, and then we looked at God's promises of His Spirit, the Holy Spirit last week. Today, I want us to look at God's promises about your future. Now, you ought to…

Primacy of Prayer for ministry and life 2 We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, 17 pray without ceasing, 25 Brothers, pray for us. 3 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the…

Introduction Called as Pastor of FBC Bagdad five years ago yesterday. 18 Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law. We must continually place ourselves under the authorities set over us by God, or we will eventually walk out from under authority…

Our Scripture lesson comes from... The earth is the Lord ’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. May God bless this the reading of His holy and infallible Word. As we look at the Eighth Commandment, we…

Introduction: 6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us. 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were…

Introduction: 1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, 2 and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one. 4 And…

This morning I want us to think about the important biblical idea of fellowship. What is biblical fellowship? Whatever it is, it has something to do with potlucks right? Baptist buffet is probably part of the etomology of the Greek word of koinonia right? What really is biblical fellowship? 1 Behold,…

The Power of the Church The power of the church is its God-given authority to carry on spiritual warfare, proclaim the gospel, and exercise church discipline Spiritual Warfare 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but…

Scripture Text 13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have…

Signs for the Second Coming of Christ, Pt.6 The Revelation of the AntichristThe Abomination of Desolation 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 2 Thessalonians 2:1–12 (NKJV) 2 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind…

25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, We are separated to God 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the…

Introduction Winchester mansion in San Jose, CA. Sarah, the widow of William Winchester, manufacturer of the Winchester repeating rifle. When he passed away in 1881, she inherited $20.5M = $550M. With $1K per day = $27K/day. She moved to California and bought a farmhouse and immediately hired carpenters,…

Introduction Summarize: In the unification of the Jew and Gentile, we see the fullness of the Triune God revealed The Trinity teaches us about the character of God The character of God teaches us how we are obedient to God The Trinity gives us a model to understand other parts of the Christian life.…

Attributes of Jesus 7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. Holy One - Set apart, distinct, unique, truly God True One- Genuinely Messiah, Words are true, you…

Introduction Summarize: Context of v11-22: The unity of the corporate body of the Church v11-13 all are brought near through the blood of Christ and not by any effort of man. Exposition 11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the…

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15 / Warning Against Idleness 6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us. 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us,…