He is Faithful that Promised
Hebrews 10:23 I: What is a Promise? 1. A declaration made as to another person. 2. No promise is better than the one who makes it. 3. The future is as bright as the Promises of God. 4. Clouds give Promise of rain. 5. Flowers and grass give promise of Spring. 6. Men make modern promises too lightly. II: Gods Promise to Abraham and his Seed. Genesis 12:1-2. 1. Abraham promised a land, a nation, a blessing to the whole world. 2. Gods promise to Moses as leader. 3. Gods promise to David. 4. Gods promise to Elijah. III: Gods Promise to the Church. Matthew 28:19-20. 1. His promise was power for the task. 2. Strength through trial. 3. His prsence to go with them. IV: Gods Promises hold a Condition: 1. To claim the Promise we must move by faith into action. (No faith, no...
He Shall Receive A Reward
Corinthians 1 3:1-15 Pauls heart was heavy because the church at Cornith had lest its influence in the city of Cornith. This chapter he gives the reason the Church had lost its influence. I: Lack of spiritual insight. 1. “I brethren couldn’t speak unto you as unto spiritual.” Not lost people he is speaking to. 2. “But as unto carnal” opposite to spiritual. a. Controlled by the flesh and worldly desires. b. Divisions in the household of faith. c. Immorality and drunkeness. d. Going to court with one another. e. These came from Carnal people. II: Other foundation can no man lay … 1. The only solid everlasting foundation is Jesus. We never build on creeds of men nor on men. 2. These people were missing the importance of the true...
Have Faith in God
Mark 9:14-29, Matthew 17:14-21, and Hebrews 11:1-6 I: Faith is essential to our daily living. 1. We must have faith in our selves. 2. We must have faith in others. 3. The business world would fail without faith. 4. The world would go mad without faith. II: Our faith can be placed in the wrong things. 1. Often, faith in ourselves or others brings us to shame. 2. Faith in our business is often shaken. 3. Faith in the false ways to Heaven is fatal. III: It is impossible to please God without Faith. 1. Without a living faith we become faithless. 2. When our faith is weak we are troubled by small winds of false doctrines. 3. A living faith will dare and die. 4. Faith in God keeps hope alive. IV: The 11th of Hebrews tells of men and women of Faith. 1. These men and...
He was Moved with Compassion
Matthew 9: I: A compassionate heart sent him to: 1. A manger as a baby. 2. To a life of sorrow and loneliness. 3. To a cross on Calvary and a grave that was not his. II: He was moved by people. 1. The multitudes tugged at his heart. 2. When they were hungry. 3. When they were misled by sin. 4. When they were burdened by the sorrows of life. 5. He had compassion on them while he was nailed to the cross of shame. III: He had compassion on individuals: 1. A widdow weaping over her sons dead body. 2. Martha and Mary weeping over a dead brother. 3. The impatient man by the pool. 4. The blind man that begged. 5. Wherever he met sickness and sorrow, he was moved to action. IV: He had compassion on the Individual that sin had bound. 1. The man that met him filled with...
Grace Abounding
The Christian life is a life of giving or it becomes a miserable life. Jesus came from Heavens splendor to Earth’s poverty as a gift to a lost and dying world. Jesus came not to be ministered to, but to minister. The root word from which we get Deacon and Pator means to serve. “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” I: To live or not to live a life of Grace. 1. Grace appears in chpt. 8 seven times. a. Early meaning: Beauty, order, health, love, contrasted with ugliness, chaos, and sickness. b. Later meaning: To impart these to others. 2. Grace will abound in giving freely. 3. He that soweth sparingly reaps sparingly. 4. He that looseth his life shall find it. II: The Church of Macedonia. 1. Moved by the grace of God. 2. “Gave...
God Put A Rainbow in the Sky
Genesis 9:8-17, Revelation 10:1-2 I: When God made the rainbow. 1. Judgment had been executed upon the whole world. 2. Destruction and waste caught the eye at every turn. 3. Gods wrath had burned brightly. 4. The rainbow appeared for the 1st time. II: The Rainbow was a sign for both God and Man to see. 1. It reminds God of his covenant with man. 2. It reminds man of the promise of God. 3. It reminds God of the frailness of man. 4. It reminds man of the goodness of God. 5. Man has marveled at the rainbow and forgotten that God made it as a sign of His judgment and goodness. III: The Rainbow is a reminder. Peter 2 3:3-4 1. It reminds man that God destroyed the old world by water. 2. It calls to mind that God will destroy the present one by fire. 3. God never...