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| Sermon Title | Scripture Text | Listen | Outline | Outline | Subject |
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| BUSINESS OF ANGELS, THE | Hebrews 1:7 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Humanity has a lot of stories and speculations about angels and their business on earth. Many fantasies have been woven around imagined things about them. This message deals with actual scriptural documentation about angels and their business on earth. |
BUSINESS OF ANGELS-2, THE | Hebrews 1:7 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Our message about the business of angels is finalized in this sermon. |
| CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK AND TROUBLESHOOTER’S GUIDE, THE | 2Timothy 3:16 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Christians are provided with a superlative handbook and guide-the Bible. This wonderful handbook and troubleshooter’s guide can give belieivers enormous understanding about the tools they have and the business they conduct for their Lord. Study of this book is imperative. |
| CHRISTIAN HANDBOOK AND TROUBLESHOOTER’S GUIDE-2, THE | 2Timothy 3:16 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | This is the final message about the Christian’s handbook and troubleshooter’s guide. |
| DEVIL DOUBLING DOWN, THE | Luke 22:31-32 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The Lord has exposed some private things in His word, and left others hidden. And the very fact of it demands that we look into why. Using Jesus’ statement to Peter here in our text this message attempts to help us see what must obviously be a message for believers that is to be applicable all through time for all of them. A significant point in the message is that the devil works incessantly against the people of God. |
| DEVIL’S DEVICES, THE | 2Corinthians 2:10-11 | Audio | No Outline | No Outline | The devil has a multitude of devices that he uses to tempt the people of God. By using the temptations of the flesh he designs and presents many things that appeal to our lusts. Believers are warned away from yielding to his offerings. |
| DEVIL’S DEVICES-2, THE | 2Corinthians 2:10-11 | Audio | No Outline | No Outline | The final part of our message about the devil’s genius attempts to lead believers into trespassing against the Lord. |
| EARNEST OF OUR INHERITANCE, THE | Ephesians 1:1-15 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The presence of the Holy Spirit as He indwells the believer is the seal of God that salvation is secure because of the saving and preserving power of Jesus Christ. |
| FINAL STATE OF HUMANITY, THE | Acts 24:14-15 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Misunderstanding about what happens to people after death has led to many errors and speculations. This message provides an examination as to what the bible teaches us about it. |
| HUMILIATED CHRIST, THE | Isaiah 53:1-11 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | An overview of the ministry and sacrifice of Jesus Christ is given in these scripture verses. This message examines the various aspects of His ministry, death, and victory and the necessity of all this for our salvation. |
| HUMILIATED CHRIST-2, THE | Isaiah 53:1-11 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The final part of our message about Christ’s life and death as our substitute as given to us in Isaiah. |
| INGATHERING, THE | Ephesians 1-14 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The great plan of God for the salvation of His people originated in “eternity past” and was brought to fruition by the coming of Jesus Christ. This eternal plan ensures that each and every child of God will be gathered home to God in the final end. |
| INGATHERING-2, THE | Ephesians 1-14 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The final part of our message on God’s eternal plan of salvation and its effects upon His people. |
| INVITATION FROM GOD, THE | Isaiah 55:1-3 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | This message considers one of the most broad, clear, and open invitations from God to be found in the Old Testament. |
| LIBERTY | Ephesians 1:1-14 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The apostle Paul takes some facts about the spiritual blindness of Israel to provide us with a profound message about the great truth of freedom that is a believer’s inheritance because of the Holy Spirit. |
| LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS | John 10:10; 2Corinthinans 3:17; Romans 4:5-8 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | For people to find true and lasting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, God has set rules that must be followed to actually obtain such. These rules and guidance is provided in this message. |
| LISTEN UP | 1Samuel 15:1-3; 7-9 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | That evil presence of the old creature in each of us always tries to find some exception to the things the Lord tells us. But, we are warned that not listening is rebellion and we are charged to listen to God. Our message examines the tendency to not pay attention, and how we can push it down and win a spiritual victory over our carnal nature. |
| LOOKING AT CHASTENING | Deuteronomy 8:5-6 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The chastening of the Lord is not talked about much in the bible nor by men. But we are reminded that chastening is evidence from God that He loves us as His children. This message looks at several aspects of the Lord’s chastening. |
| LORD IN OUR MIDST-OR NOT, THE | Exodus 33:1-3 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Lack of spiritual order and health in individuals, or in a church may provoke the Lord to distance Himself from us. Although Jesus promised to always be with us, this does not mean that he will collaborate with us in error or unspiritual pursuits. |
| LORD OUR SAFETY AND STRENGTH, THE | Exodus 33:1-3 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The final message about how believers or churches can distance themselves from the Lord by poor spiritual health. |
| LORD PREPARES PEOPLE FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH, THE | Isaiah 28:23-29 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The text of this message teaches a very deep spiritual lesson about how the Lord deals with His elect as they go through life and as they go through various experiences. |
| LORD PREPARES PEOPLE FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH-2, THE | Isaiah 28:23-29 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The final part of our message on the Lord dealing with His people as they go through life. |
| MANNER OF GOD’S LOVE, THE | 1John 3:1 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Five unique ways in which the manner of God’s love for His people manifests itself. These ways and their impact on humans is presented. |
| MORE EXCELLENT MINISTRY, THE | 1Corinthians 1:1-7; 18-31 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Religion serves a lot of non-spiritual purposes among humanity and exhibits many types of “ministries.” However, this message expounds the ministry of love as the highest form of human endeavor when people intend to serve the Lord. |
| NAMES OF CHRIST, THE | Isaiah 9:6 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The five names of Christ presented in the book of Isaiah reveal the many faceted characteristics of the divine Savior. The message reviews and comments on these names. |
| NAMES OF CHRIST-2, THE | Isaiah 9:6 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | This is the final message about the five names of Christ written in the book of Isaiah. |
| PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY, THE | James 1:22-25 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Christians are recipients of a kind of freedom (liberty) that not every person has. The perfect law of liberty ensures this to believers through the work of God, but benefitting from it is conditional on our hearing and doing. |
| POWER OF LIES, THE | Proverbs 6:16-19 | Audio | No Outline | No Outline | Proverbs gives us a list of things that God especially hates. Lying is one of them and is mentioned twice in God’s list. This message examines the judgment of God on lying, and the depraved condition of the human heart that breeds it. |
| PREEMINENT CHRIST, THE | Colossians 1:18-20 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | In all the history and future of mankind, Jesus Christ is the preeminent central figure who reveals to us the message from God. This fact is ignored for the most part by fallen humanity, but that attitude does not reduce the significance of the fact. |
| PREPARATIONS OF GOD, THE | Jonah 1:1-3 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Jonah teaches believers that even when our lives are not in good spiritual condition, God prepares the way before us, even when we are headed for trouble. It is the loving mercy and protection of the Lord that spares us from catastrophe when we wander. By our experiences with this, God helps us make an attitude adjustment. |
| PURPOSE FOR MORAL INSTRUCTIONS IN GOD’S WORD, THE | Titus 2:11-12 | Audio | No Outline | No Outline | Preachers sometimes spend a lot of time moralizing in their sermons. While it is never a waste of time to remind the Lord’s people that they should be pure in their lives, it is also important for believers to know why it is that many teachings in the bible teach about morality. This message deals with that subject. |
| SIX JEWELS FROM THE LORD | Psalms 19:7-9 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | In these verses of Psalms 19, David unfolds six precious spiritual jewels that the Lord has provided for our spiritual upbuilding. |
| SIX JEWELS FROM THE LORD-2 | Psalms 19:7-9 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Final part of the sermone about six precious spiritual jewels that the Lord has provided for our spiritual upbuilding. |
| SNARE OF ECUMENICALISM, THE | 2Peter 2:1-3 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | As the world of religion moves steadily toward the blending into one global form of hybridized religion, the people of God should be aware of this trend and understand that this is exactly where Satan wishes them to go. It is also exactly the place that many false religions wish to go. The church of the Lord Jesus Christ will never join them. |
| SNARE OF ECUMENICALISM-2, THE | 2Peter 2:1-3 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Part 2 of the message on the dangers of Ecumenicalism. |
| SNARE OF ECUMENICALISM-3, THE | 2Peter 2:1-3 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Part 3 of the message on the dangers of Ecumenicalism |
| SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR AWAY | 2Kings 22:8; 10-13 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | One of the great problems of the day among God’s people is the failure to read and study the word of God. But failure to do so is not new. Our two bible texts show that this was a failing of the children of Israel in the days when they got in trouble with God. Then, as now, it has the same consequences. |
| SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR AWAY-2 | 2Kings 22:8; 10-13 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Part 2 of the message on failure to study and know the Word of God. |
| SPIRIT OF FAITH-RENEWAL WHILE DYING, THE | 2Cor. 4:13-16 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The great work of faith in the soul of a believer brings forth a new creature in Christ Jesus. This new creature enters into a covenant with God as Father and the spiritual things of the kingdom begin to unfold for that person. Faith becomes the anchor of life, and even as the mortal human fades away, the new creature in Christ is renewed each day. |
| STAY IN CHRIST | John 15:1-8 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The spiritual world is hard for the mind of man to comprehend. From the beginning of humanity, people have delved into the spirit world and have always come up with the wrong answers when doing so without the guidance of God. Christ’s teaching in the text of this sermon uses metaphor to teach points about the essential spiritual need for true disciples to stay connected to Him in order to understand spiritual things and to be fruitful in their spiritual lives. |
| STOP AND THINK | Galatians 6:1-3 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | A message on how the Lord’s children should deal with sin in their lives and in the lives of others. |
| STRAYING | Psalms 119:176 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The subject of this message is about why we go astray; that is, what causes us to go astray. When we begin to think about our straying, we have to realize that we do so as a result of at least 3 related things. These are expanded on with suggestions for the child of God. |
| STRAYING-2 | Psalms 119:176 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Completion of the message about believers straying |
| STRENGTH IN JOY | Nehemiah 8:1-10 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | This message teaches us that when we do the work of the Lord, have our lives in order, and know that we are in fellowship with our Lord, we are in the best possible place to feel a true joy. This is “joy in the Lord, and it is this joy that is our strength of faith and determination as believers to live for, and serve the Lord. |
| STUDY THE BIBLE | Romans 15:4 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | While education is being touted in America and other nations, quality of education has degenerated in this decade. This message encourages all people to go back to the Word of God, the Bible, and study it for a great education in things that really count. |
| SYMPATHY, MERCY & PITY | Colossians 3:12 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Statistics and actual events are used in this message to convey the fact that across the world there is a shocking absence of pity, mercy and sympathy by humans for most of their fellow-beings. These facts are mentioned to set the stage for a message declaring that we need to be aware of the coldness of mankind and to stir believers to examine their own hearts about this subject. |
| TEACHING ANGELS | Ephesians 3:10 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Angels have knowledge far above men about the business of God. However, some things about the gospel effect upon humans is apparently not understood by them. The bible tells us that they desire to look into the working of gospel salvation and they look to the things going on in the churches of the Lord Jesus Christ to try to get further understanding. |
| THE POWER OF LIES | Proverbs 6:16-19 | Audio | No Outline | No Outline | People of all persuasions are tempted to hide behind falsehood when put into what they see as a threatening situation. Believers are encouraged to recognize this weakness and use the power of the Lord’s Word and the Holy Spirit’s guidance to avoid this trap. |
| THINKING | Philippians 4:8 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Believers are encouraged to think on things that are not only upbuilding, but point to all the positive things of the Lord. |
| THINKING-2 | Philippians 4:8 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | This message is the final presentation encouraging believers to think on things that are spiritually positive. |
| THY KINGDOM COME | Matthew 6:10 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The wonderful model prayer of our Lord teaches us, among other things, to long for and ask for God to bring His kingdom to fulness on earth. |
| TRUSTING THE SHEPHERD | Psalms 23:1-6 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The 23rd Psalm may be the best-known Old Testament chapter. This message examines the many blessings that David named as he wrote and published this song. |
| TRY THE SPIRITS | 1John 4:1-2; 6 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Believers are charged to use the Word of God to test whether or not the things they think and plan to do are actually of the Holy Spirit-not from some other source. The threat to this lies in the fact that modern-day religion contains a plethora of things that are the creation of Satan. |
| ULTIMATE TRUST | Job 13:15 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | In Job’s trials and the account of them we find some of the most revealing truths about the abiding power of faith in God. We find the most telling testimony about how that faith enables believers to put their trust in God in the most destructive of times. |
| USING CHRISTIAN LIBERTY WISELY | Galatians 5:13-25 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The Lord has called believers to Christian liberty. We are to use that liberty wisely, never as a means to abuse or mislead others. |
| USING CHRISTIAN LIBERTY WISELY-2 | Galatians 5:13-25 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The final part of our message on Christian liberty. |
| WAITING | Genesis 15:1-16 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The life of a believer on earth is one of waiting. We truly are campers here on earth waiting for the time when we will be settled in our eternal home. To help us in this wait, the Lord has given us the Holy Spirit for guidance, and we wait for the fulness of our spiritual life to grow. |
| WAITING-2 | Genesis 15:1-16 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Part 2 of our message on waiting. |
| WELL OR SICK, RIGHTEOUS OR SINNER? | Luke 5:31-32 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Christ contrasts sick people with well people to weave a brilliant lesson about the reality of salvation being the greatest need that a lost sinner has. |
| WELLS OF SALVATION, THE | Isaiah 12:1-3 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The comfort that God is able to give His children and the lost sinner coming to Him in repentance is examined. |
| WHAT TO DO | Acts 9:1-6 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Religious people who follow error in their religion would do well to take a lesson from Saul of Tarsus about how they must approach the Lord. Saul asks Jesus Christ, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do,” and in that he reveals the truly submissive spirit that has yielded to the Lord totally. |
| WHAT TO DO ABOUT GOD | Psalms 139:1-4 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The question of what to do about God is the most serious one a human being can ask during this short life-span that we live. Few people ask it, but all will, sooner or later. For that reason, people have a great need to think about what to answer. This message looks into the question and possible answers. |
| WHEN THE LORD COMES CALLING | Genesis 16:1-10; 16-33 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The Lord’s visit to Abraham just before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah provide us with an incident that enables us to look at several facets of this visit and how they fit with a spiritual lesson for each of us. |
| WHEN THE MIS-DIRECTED ARE RE-DIRECTED | Ezekiel 20:28-41 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Israel became mis-directed in their worship of the Lord. He reveals a plan to bring the back to order. His message gives us a great text for guidance to His church about redirecting a congregation that may have drifted off-center in their worship or service. |
| WHY BE A MEMBER OF THE LORD’S CHURCH? | Matthew 16:18 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Joining a church is apparently becoming less and less important to the American public. This message exposes this trend and presents spiritual arguments for why Christians should always seek to join one of His churches. |
| WILL OF MAN OR POWER OF CHRIST | Psalms 110:3 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | The question of whether salvation is wrought by the will of man or by the power of Christ to change the heart and soul of a person. |
| WORDS OF ADVICE | 2Tmothy 2:10 | Audio | No Outline | No Outline | The verses in 2Timothy give us good advice on how we may be faithful and effective in our service to the Lord, and avoid degrading spiritual interactions. |
| WORLDLY WISE | Luke 16:1-8 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | Commendation from a temporal boss to a crooked underling provide us with a message about how believers may wisely use the resources committed to their trust by the Lord and be praised and awarded by the Lord at the last. |
| WORSHIP | John 4:6-29 | Audio | Adobe | MSWord | This message looks at some of the worship history of mankind and contrasts the fabricated worship of the temporal creature against the type of worship God demands, which is worship of Him in spirit and in truth. |