Work out Your Own Salvation
Phillip 2:12-16 When we regard Christian religion as a performance and not an experience, we lose the dynamic living faith and the Christian life, becomes a wearisome performance. The fog of unbelief seeps in and chokes our joy and confidence. “Christianity is full of joy, but it’s not a joy ride.” I: “For it’s God who is at work within you.” 1. “It’s God that…” God’s personality. 2. Gods presence … working through us. 3. God’s energy … Giving you the will. 4. God’s moral standard. 5. God helps to move the will. 6. God’s power. Power for the task. 7. God’s good pleasure. Work out what he works in. What is He trying to work in you? II: “Without...
What is Sin?
Romans 6:16-23, 7:13 Sin is a crooked, preverse, distorted, rotteness of the soul. Sin drives the brain mad, makes the heart desperately wicked, blinds the eyes, defeans the ears and sets the tonge on fire of Hell. I: The Reality of Sin: 1. Sin isn’t a fancy of the mind nor a thing we can ignore. 2. Satan is real and not a myth. 3. Sin is real to Adam and Eve. 4. Men good and bad know that God’s wrath is upon sin. a. Adam & Eve tasted the penalty. b. Israel as a Nation found that it was real. c. Ahab and his wicked wife paid the price. d. David gathered many a heartache from his crop of sin. II: The Results of Sin: One word, death. 1. The whole body & soul is effected. 2. The soul that sins shall die. The wages of sin is death. 3. Members of...
The Unexpected
Acts 1:9-11, Matthew 24:29-31, Revelation 1:7, and Thessalonians 1 4:16-17 Many hours brake upon us with the unexpected sorrow, tribulation, or great joy. The hour will come upon the great masses of the world because they don’t expect Him. Only 2 really looked for him to appear the 1st time. I: Signs of his 2nd coming: 1. Times of distress among the nations. 2. The love of many shall wax cold. 3. Strange things happening to the world. 4. As in the days of Noah, (Preoccupied). Eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage. II: These Things Shall Happen When He Comes: 1. “This same Jesus will come in the same manner.” Acts 1:9-11. 2. “The voice of the archangal, and with the trump of God.” Thessalonians 1 4:16. a. “The...
The Unequal Yoke
Cor. 2 6:14-18, Deuteronomy 7:1-8 Christians ought not to be yoked up with non-Christians. God’s people ought not to yoke up with Satan’s children. Christians should love sinners, should be good neighbors, should visit them and have them visit in their homes, but Christians aren’t to be yoked with non-Christians in marriage, lodges, or anything so essential to life as to hinder our testimony. I: The Yoke that binds a Christian, non-Christian is uneven. 1. One belongs to God, the other to Satan. 2. One is headed for Heaven, one to Hell. 3. Their conversation and walk is essentially different. 4. How can 2 walk together except they be agreed? 5. The entire spiritual load is pulled by the Christian and often while the other is completely balked....
The Signals of God
“How do you know God guides your life?” Numbers 9:15-23 Signals are important to any organized force. Regardless how they are conveyed, they must be obeyed if they are successful. Napoleon’s defeat at Waterlee came about by a failure to heed the urgency of an order. (Alexander). I: God’s Signal of His Presence: 1. “The angel of God which went before the camp.” Exodus 14:19. 2. The cloud present at the crossing of the Red Sea. 3. Present at Mt. Sinai. 4. When the Tabernacle was completed. II: The Signals of God: 1. A cloud by day, fire by night. 2. When the cloud moved, they moved. 3. When the cloud stayed, they stayed. 4. Thus they moved thru unchartered ways. 5. If any chose to remain behind or go ahead, they were cut off from...