Home Sweet Home?
“Is it well wit thee? is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child?” Kings 2 4:26 Are we making a success of our homes? “Train up a child in the way he should go.” Christianity in the home will settle the destiny of the Nation. The greatest need of America is solid Christian homes. Prov. 22:6 “I have no faith in a woman that will talk about Heaven and make Hell out of her home with an old gating-gun tongue.” B.S. “I believe that the downfall of most men and women can be traced to some defect in the home.” “Obedience to the Laws of God and Man are taught in the home.” Billy Sunday I: How Shall We Train Our Children? 1. Shall we leave it to the schools? Shall we leave it to the Church, or shall...
He that Loveth His Life Shall Lose It
John 12:20-27 To often we refuse to do the unpleasant task because there is a more pleasant and easier way to please self. The Greeks were knocking at his door for admission. Sheep of another folded. I: “Now is My Soul Troubled.” 1. The burdens of a lost world. 2. The grain of wheat must be planted. His life to be given for others. 3. A shameful death, the agony of separation from the Father. 4. He was walking with: Abraham to Mt. Moriah, a. Setting with Job on the ash heap. b. With David as he wept for Absolem. c. Elijah under the Juniper Tree. d. With Jeremiah as he watched a Nation die. 5. It is questionable if any life reaches its prime, or unfolds its beauty until there has dark valley crossed with cries of pain and the soul has tasted the cup of...
God’s Christmas Gift
John 3:16 I: If I had the Money to Give, What I Would Like to Give. 1. If I could meet all the financial needs of family and friends. 2. If I could give material gifts without limit. 3. If I could feed all the hungry world. 4. If I had a Medical Clinic to heal all the lame, fault, and blind. 5. If I could restore all the Human Race to perfect health. What Joy! But I don’t have. II: If I had the Power. 1. Calm the storm that tossed lives. 2. Bring peace to every troubled heart. 3. Believe the fears of death and life. 4. Reunite every broken home. 5. Bring peace to every battle field. 6. Beat every sword into plow shares. 7. Assure every man a way to heaven. WHAT A GIFT! And I can through Christ. III: “God Gave.” 1. His gift was not fancy wrapped....
God Calls Again
Mark 14:66-72, John 21:15-17 I: Seven Steps in Peters backsliding. 1. “Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.” (conceited) 2. Peter was asleep when he should have been praying. (ease) 3. In haste, without consideration, he cut off a mans ear. (rashness) 4. Following afar off, close enough to see what was taking place. 5. Evil company, warming by the wrong fire. 6. Open denial, fear, shame, and disappointment. a. He denied knowing him to the little maid. (Peter have you forgotten)? b. He denied the 2nd time. (Peter have you forgotten the mighty works he did)? 7. Blasphemy, bitten filthy, ungodly words fell from his lips. II: The Rooster Crowed, God Called. 1. His bitter stinging words put the rough soldiers...
Eternal Life
John 3:14-18, Cos. 3:1-3 The word Eternal means: “Without beginning or ending of duration.” “The eternal God is thy refuge of endless duration, imperishable, perpetual, ceaseless, continued, infinite time.” Deut. 33:27 I: How do We Obtain Eternal Life? 1. Not by works, lest any man should boast. 2. Not by the change of attitude or habits. 3. “For God so loved the World that He gave his only begotten Son, (His son is life).” John 1 1:2 4. By drinking the water of life. John 4:14. 5. Eating the bread of life. Rev. 2:7. 6. Eating of the tree of life. Rev. 2:7. 7. Believing on Jesus Christ. John 3:18 II: In whose Hands is Eternal Life? 1. Eternal life belongs to God. 2. Works does not obtain nor can they lose Eternal Life. 3....
Eternal Life or the Wrath of God
John 3:14-21, 3:36 Here we have the two greatest contrasts found in the Bible. One hand, we have the bright picture of everlasting life, and on the other we have the darkness of Gods wrath. Here we have the choice to two ways set before us. Verse 18 tells us we must choose one of these two ways. I: What is Eternal Life? 1. Eternal life is real life. “Lay hold on Eternal life.” Tim. 6:19 Buried in his Cadillac John Rice: “How much do you own that direction?” Much we call life is not life, but death. “She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.” Tim. 5:6 2. “Eternal life is an abundant life.” John 10:10 Full of beauty, joy, abounding in overflowing life. 3. Eternal life is satisfying life. Soul yearning is...