The Glory of Church and Home
What makes a church glorious. Ephesians 5:21-23 (Fame, Honor, and Distinction). I: “Ichabod” the Glory is Departed. 1. Sometimes we never miss the water until the well runs dry. 2. Eli and Phineas. 3. Nations lose the glory. 4. Churches lose their glory. 5. Individuals lose their glory. II: Maintaining Glory in the Home. 1. Proper authority. 2. Proper respect. 3. Christ entered and Church conscious. “I have no faith in a women that talks of heaven and makes hell out of her home with an old gatling gun tongue.” “The indulgent father is sowing hell for himself.” Billy Sunday. 4. The churches glory is measured by the glory found in its homes. III: The Glory of the Church. 1. Dr. R.G. Lee: “Glory plumes its wings for...
The First Shall be Last
Contract or Consecration. Matthew 19:16-30, Matthew 20:1-16 I: The Rich Young Ruler. 1. “There came one running and kneeling.” Openly not ashamed, humbled himself. 2. “Good Master.” A right conception of Christ. There is none good but God. This was probably what he meant. 3. “What shall I do?” I’m willing to bargain. 4. He went away grieved. a. Jesus was not out to make bargains. b. How many churches would have been thrilled to accept him! c. Peter must have been disappointed because of what he say (but he thought and thought). 5. Jesus said “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle …” II: “So we have Left All, and Have Followed Thee.” 1. The rich young ruler got what he...
The End of the Road For 25,000 Americans
Every 2 1/2 minutes, someone in the United States tries to commit suicide. Most of them fail. Yet each year 25,000 Americans are successful – a strange but necessary usage of the world! Although suicide is called the “West Coast weakness,” every West Coast clergyman knows the troubled people who come West because they found life in the EAst intolerable. The “West Coast weakness,” is simply the end of the road for many who have traveled a long way, and when the golden symbols of a new life in the West grow pale, restricted by the forbidding vast Pacific, they then and there abandon all hope — and finally life itself. The suicide of Marilyn Monroe — young, beautiful, affluent, and a symbol of pleasure – has done much...
The Churches Witnessing
“Just as a single individual cannot achieve the purpose of Christ alone, so a group of individuals constituting a Church cannot carry out Christ’s commission by themselves. The essential conception of Democracy calls corporation. No church cut off with fellowship with all other churches can be true to the New Testament idea. A Church that refuses to cooperative with other churches of like faith and order has voided its charter as a Democratic body.” Dobbins I. The Church and its members: 1. We must teach more than the New Birth. 2. The New birth revolutionizes a man: New hopes, desires, and aims in life. 3. A Christian must find God’s plan to work out his Christianity. The Church is that plan. 4. No man can work out his own salvation by...
The Book of our Faith
“Heaven and Earth shall pass away.” Matt. 24:35, Heb. 4:12, Isiah 55:10-11 A new navigator chartered a course for a C 47 from Labrador to the Agores. “The Agores should be right there.” Fulfillment proved the navigators readings of 8 hrs. earlier correct. Fulfillment in human life has proved again and again the truth of the Bible as God’s word. I: The 5 Alps Climbers. 1. “The People of the Book.” Whitefield asked a Roman Catholic Miner, “What do you believe?” 2. “We believe that with the bible in our hands we are able to deal with every problem of life.” 3. “We believe that it is the final authority for conduct of life! The whole structure of Christianity is built upon it.” 4. Dr. E.V....