The Rose of Sharon
Genesis 1:11-13 God has a wealth of blessings stored in the grass, herb, and fruit tree. I: Grass, (5,000 species): 1. What would our world be without grass? 2. Grass has blessed man wherever he lives. 3. Grass clothes the Earth with coats of green, blue, brown, etc. 4. It feeds the wild and tame beast alike. 5. The grass of by-gone years bless thru coal, etc. 6. “You never miss the water till the well goes dry.” (Texans). II: Herb. 1. His word was made popular by the old-fashioned Medicine show. 2. It gives us food for our bodies. 3. From it comes medicine. 4. It holds healing in its leaves or roots. III: Fruit Trees: 1. What would man do without them? 2. Apples, peaches, plums, pears, apricots, etc. 3. Wherever man goes and settles there is some...
True Security
Acts 6:1-8 It is next to impossible to help one who doesn’t believe there is anything wrong with him. If he feels there is no need for health, finances, moral or spiritual, than you wast time in trying to help him. I: Israels False Securities: 1. We are the children of Abraham. a. God has always favored us. b. Why should God cease to favor us? c. Other nations were the ones God punished. 2. It was a time of peace abroad, (Peace, peace when there was no peace). a. Military victories filled the people with pride. b. They had the best! 3. Prosperity – Luxury was the rule of the day. 4. Luxury and ease was their aim in life. a. Put away the evil day. b. Lie upon beds of ivory. c. Eat lambs and calves. d. Chant to the sound of Viol. e. Drink wine. f. Not...
The Ungodly Are Not So
Psalm 1:1-6, 37:1-40 I: The Contrast: 1. The godly man guards his direction, leisure, company, and loves to meditate on the Word of God. 2. The ungodly are unattached, lost as to direction, blown by the storms of life, and the wrath of God. 3. One loves God, the other self. II: The Portrait of the godly man. Psalm 37 1. “Trust in the Lord and do good … thou shalt be fed.” vs. 3. 2. “Cease from anger and forsake wrath; fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.” vs. 8. 3. “Delight themselves in the abundance of peace.” vs. 11. 4. “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.” vs. 23. 5. “The end of that man is peace.” vs. 37. III: “The Ungodly aren’t so.” 1. “Ungodly”...
Work out Your Own Salvation
Phillip 2:12-16 When we regard Christian religion as a performance and not an experience, we lose the dynamic living faith and the Christian life, becomes a wearisome performance. The fog of unbelief seeps in and chokes our joy and confidence. “Christianity is full of joy, but it’s not a joy ride.” I: “For it’s God who is at work within you.” 1. “It’s God that…” God’s personality. 2. Gods presence … working through us. 3. God’s energy … Giving you the will. 4. God’s moral standard. 5. God helps to move the will. 6. God’s power. Power for the task. 7. God’s good pleasure. Work out what he works in. What is He trying to work in you? II: “Without...
What is Sin?
Romans 6:16-23, 7:13 Sin is a crooked, preverse, distorted, rotteness of the soul. Sin drives the brain mad, makes the heart desperately wicked, blinds the eyes, defeans the ears and sets the tonge on fire of Hell. I: The Reality of Sin: 1. Sin isn’t a fancy of the mind nor a thing we can ignore. 2. Satan is real and not a myth. 3. Sin is real to Adam and Eve. 4. Men good and bad know that God’s wrath is upon sin. a. Adam & Eve tasted the penalty. b. Israel as a Nation found that it was real. c. Ahab and his wicked wife paid the price. d. David gathered many a heartache from his crop of sin. II: The Results of Sin: One word, death. 1. The whole body & soul is effected. 2. The soul that sins shall die. The wages of sin is death. 3. Members of...