Clean Hands and Pure Heart
Psalm 24:3-4 Through God’s Laws we learn what pleases and displeases God. Things that were displeasing in the Days of Moses are still displeasing. The Standards of Acceptable Behavior are still the same. Clean hands and pure hearts are still required of Gods People. I: The Requirements of Justice. 1. Integrity: Justice and only Justice. Psalm 16:18-20. No respect of Person before the Law. No taking of gift to blind the Judge. 2. Necessisity for Respect of the Law. Psalm 17:8-13. Contempt of Law was punished by death. He that acted in disrespect of the Law sows Anarchy. Law and order must have the coroperation of all the people. 3. Obligation of Truth and nothing but Truth. Psalm 19:15-21 a. 2 witnesses required. b. False witness to be punished. vs. 18-19 c....
Christ Interprets Life
John 6:22-44, 10:10, and Cor. 2 4:8-18 I: The day following. 1. The feeding of the 5,000. 2. The attempt to make him king. 3. He walked on the sea. II: The crowd was in quest of life. 1. They saw no life in the miracles. 2. They failed to see life in Christ’s teachings. 3. To them life was a full stomach. 4. They placed life in the material. To place life on the material is to meet heartache, disappointment, and eternal death. III: Christ was there to impart life. 1. The fundamental difference was in the interpretation of life. 2. Real life is the eternal spiritual. 3. Christ came to redeem man and to satisfy the longing heart. IV: Labouring for the eternal bread. 1. Read the bible like digging for hidden treasure. 2. Wrestle in prayer as though you...
Cheating is too Costly
Matt. 7:24-27, Cor. 1 3:10-15 Cheating brings you failure in the hour of real testing. Cheating will paralyze the heart throb of your conscience. I: Cheating gives temporary relief. 1. Cheating says get it the easy way. 2. Cheating makes us want something we have not earned. 3. Cheat wants to dance without paying the fiddler, a good time at your expense, and a growing church without growing members. 4. Cheating wants the fruit of faithfulness without being faith-full. II: Cheating is the crown of hypocrisy. 1. It wants to be respected by good people while living like the devils children. 2. Cheating carries the constant fear of exposure. (John, I’m here). 3. Cheating causes us to lose respect for ourselves and project our failure to others. 4. Cheating...
By the Law is the Knowledge of Sin
Romans 3:19-31, Exodus 20:1-19 “I do the best I can, live by the Golden Rule.” We set our own laws of right and wrong! I: God gives laws to Moses. 1. 3rd month out of Egypt. 2. At foot of Mt. Sinai. 3. Majestic conditions. 4. Deadly seriousness. II: Law was to reveal sin. 1. Exceeding sinfulness of sin. Rom. 7:13 2. Showed man what he was like a mirror let down from God, like plume line, lamb, ray of sunlight in dusty room. 3. Law had no power to impart to man that he might overcome sin. III: The law tells me. 1. 4 commandments concerning God. a. No other gods before me, anything that is between. b. Graven image. c. Gods name in vain. d. Keep sabbath. 2. 6 laws to govern relationship of man. a. Honor father and mother. b. Shall not kill. c. Commit not...
Burying the Past
Rom. 6:1-13 I: Jesus said: “They that be whole need not a physician but that they are sick.” 1. “These people would not repent of their sins, they couldn’t even blush.” Jeremiah 8:5-7, 12. 2. Isaiah 1:1-6, 18 3. God has made a way to busy the past, the old life, the old desires. II: Blotting out our sins. 1. Have mercy upon me, O God according to thy loving kindness, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Psalm 51:1 “Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine inquities.” Psalm 51:9 “Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me.” “I have blotted out as a thick cloud, thy transgressions and as a cloud thy sins return into me for I have...