Husband, Wife, and Christian Home
“The beginning of every honored Institutions on Earth is at the Family Hearth.” The pools of state and Local Government reach back into the home. The attitudes toward life and all its relationships come from the home. The 1st Nursery was a home, the 1st School was a home, the 1st Hospital was a home, the 1st Manufacturing Establishment was in the home. The 1st religious Institution was the home. We as a Nation can never rise about the Spiritual Lever of our home.” Matt. 24:27 Dr. Perry Webb — San Antonio, Texas. Missionaries, the best witness we give is in the qualities of our homes. The Home is our 1st line of defense (The Great Wall of China). The 1st Home established by God in a simple Wedding Ceremony. Dr. Elder: “A friend...
God’s Beautiful Woman
The test of real beauty Proverbs 31:10-31 I: King Lemuel’s Mother’s Council 1. Find a virtuous woman — her price is far above rubies. 2. Her husband trusts her. 3. She is industrious. 4. She has compassion for the needy. 5. She is confident in her care for her own. 6. Strength and honor is her best clothing. 7. She has control of her language. 8. Wisdom and kindness is in her tongue. 9. Her children rise up and called her blessed, her husband also. “Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain.” Proverbs 31:30, Tim. 1 2:9, and Peter 1 3:3. II: Peter’s Description of the Beautiful Woman. 1. Subject, submissive to husband. 2. A life so dedicated to God that a lost husband can be saved, ex: Mrs. Pat Boone. 3. Chaste: Pure in respect...
The Qualifications of a Godly Mother
Prov. 31:10-31, Peter 1 3:1-8 I: “Who can Find a Virtuous Woman?” the Search. 1. Something to search for. 2. Must possess a definite quality. 3. Virtue is requires; (strength of character, moral standards, a chaste countenance). 4. Her price is far above rubies. II: The Heart of her Husband doth Safely, Trust in her. 1. He trusted her to do him good. 2. He trusted her to conduct herself right. 3. He trusted her speech in Public and Private. 4. He can trust her to choose good friends. III: “Her Compassion Looketh Well to the Ways of her Household as a Mother.” 1. “She eats not the bread of idleness.” 2. “She rises while it is yet night.” 3. “Her candle goeth not out by night.” 4. “She is not...
Light
Light is essential to life both physical and spiritual. Gen. 1:1-5, Cor. 2 4:6, Matt. 5:14-16 I: “The Spirit of God Moved upon the Face of the Waters.” 1. Here we have a dark picture of chaos where God alone can work and put things in place. 2. With the theory of Evolution starting here, eternity wouldn’t be long enough to bring order. 3. God alone can bring order out of such a world and he alone can bring order to a sin-sick person. II: “And God said Let There Be Light.” 1. Here we have light without the sun. a. The lights of the great North. b. The Phosphorous Lights of the low lands. c. The Lightening bug (Light without heat). 2. Light has physical traits. a. It can be divided. b. Every metal gives off its individual...
Why Did Jesus Come?
John 10:7-11 I: Man Stumbled in Darkness: 1. He stumbled toward eternity without God. 2. Jesus came to light the way home. 3. The ordinary shone when Jesus came. 4. The ugly was made beautiful (Mary Magdaline, Woman at the well). 5. A tax collector’s life made to light-up. 6. The lame made to walk, blind to see, the fearful put at rest. II: He Came to: 1. Bind up the broken hearted and bruised. 2. To bring good news. 3. To put a new song in the heart, Joy. 4. To seek that which was lest, and bring it home. 5. He paid the ultimate price to bring Christmas to this world. 6. A world gone grey and weary needs the Spirit of Christmas! 7. Who is qualified to tell them? Who will dare put Christ first in everything we do this Christmas? If the manger, cross, and...
“He Giveth Songs in the Night.”
Acts 16:23-40, Job 35:10 I: From Prayer Meeting to Jail. 1. The Church at Phillipi was founded in prayer. 2. It was on the way to prayer that Satan tried to stop them. 3. It was from a prayer meeting that Paul and Silas were taken to prison. II: Paul, Silas, and God. 1. Whipped and abused. 2. Thrown into prison and fastened with chains. 3. They prayed and sang, (were these men Baptist)? 4. There, prayer was not one of petition. 5. Adoration and worship. (Spiritual joy) 6. The other prisoners listened. “Attentively.” 7. Their closeness with Jesus gave songs in the night, and shook the jail doors open. 8. It’s impossible to shut one up from the fellowship of God. III: Paul, Silas, and the Jailer. 1. A brutalized Roman jailer was sleeping. 2. He...