Paying the Price
Samuel 2 24:24 I: Looking for a bargain, (Dr. Chapman). 1. Living without work. 2. The gambler. 3. The tramp. 4. A “give me,” comples. 5. Spanish gold hunters. II: Looking for a Spiritual Bargain: 1. Quality at a reduced price. 2. Spiritual dead beats. 3. We are willing to sit still while the wicked get our children. 4. We want our religion made easy. “Cheap relition ends in false religion.” (Jeroboma). III: Early Christians Paid the Price: 1. They stood the hardships. 2. They stoop persecution. 3. Life became sweet when everything was easy. IV: Sacrifice. 1. A partial sacrifice will bring a limited blessing. 2. God doesn’t want the blind, lame, halt, nor your green bread. 3. Will a man rob...
Proper Authority in Worship
Cor. 1 11:1-16, Ephesians 5:21-33, and Peter 1 3:1-7 Context: “Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.” I: The Wrong Method of Worship: 1. The worshiping wasn’t wrong, but the method was. 2. The woman wasn’t condemned for praying & prophecying, but the way they were doing it was wrong. 3. Both men and woman were bringing reproach upon the Church by the way they dressed. 4. The woman went without a veil, a sign of sin in Corinth, and a sign of independence of her husband. II: God’s Order of Authority in the Church: 1. “The head of Christ is God.” 2. “The head of every man is Christ.” 3. The head of woman is the man. 4. The divine order was being set aside and the church suffered. III:...
Out of the Grave Clothes
Ephesians 2:1-22 Dead in trepasses and sins – a graveyard. You hath be quickened – changed the graveyard. I: Sin is death to God. 1. The soul that sins it shall die. 2. In the day that ye eat thereof. 3. The wages of sin is death. 4. She that lives in pleasure is dead which she lives. 5. This is the 2nd death. II: There are 2 deadening influences that cause this graveyard to be populated. 1. The prince of this world. a. It has always been this sin. b. He is like a roaring Lion. c. He is a deceiver of the brethern. d. He fans into flame, every foul thought or deed taht finds lodging in our lives. 2. The course of this world. a. Continually pressing us into its mold. b. The thoughts of the world. c. The walk of the world. d. The talk of the world, (no...
Presumptuous Sins
Numbers 15:29-31, Peter 2 2:10, and Psalm 19:1-14 I: No poor vision made for presumtuous sins. Numbers 15: 1. Every sin was covered except presumptuous sins. 2. Four things make a sin presumptuous: a. Sinning against light and knowledge. b. Deliberate sin. c. Sin designed for sin. d. Sin committed by rash confidence in one’s own strength. II: Sin against light and knowledge. 1. God’s universe utters knowledge. 2. Nature cries out against sin. 3. We refuse to obey the light we have. 4. Sinning against a godly home and friends. III: Sin against God’s warnings. 1. The warning of death. 2. Sickness warns. 3. Danger warns. IV: Premeditated and Designed Sins: 1. Not in hast or moment unguarded, but sinning with thought and design. 2. Deliberately...
Not by Might, Nor by Power.
Zachariah 4:6, Nehemia 4:1-6, and Zechariah 1:1-6 I: 70 yrs. of captivity finished. 1. 70 yrs. to pay for sins. 2. A new generation arose. 3. God’s time had come. 4. Few of God’s people were ready. a. Zerubbabel (42,000 – 537 B.C). b. Ezra (1,755 – 458 B.C). c. Nehemiah and his staff (445 B.C). II: The Building of the Temple: 1. Everything was in ruins. 2. Opposition took the form of compromise & ten through the King. 3. 16 yrs. of failure. 4. They turned to their own houses & built their own business. III: The Building of the Walls. 1. Nehemiah got under the burden. 2. Sanballat the Horonite, & Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite were grieved. 3. The work was attracted by: a. Scorn: “They laughed us to scorn.” b....
Paying the Price
Samuel 2 24:24 I: Looking for a bargain, (Dr. Chapman). 1. Living without work. 2. The gambler. 3. The tramp. 4. A “give me,” comples. 5. Spanish gold hunters. II: Looking for a Spiritual Bargain: 1. Quality at a reduced price. 2. Spiritual dead beats. 3. We are willing to sit still while the wicked get our children. 4. We want our religion made easy. “Cheap relition ends in false religion.” (Jeroboma). III: Early Christians Paid the Price: 1. They stood the hardships. 2. They stoop persecution. 3. Life became sweet when everything was easy. IV: Sacrifice. 1. A partial sacrifice will bring a limited blessing. 2. God doesn’t want the blind, lame, halt, nor your green bread. 3. Will a man rob...