The Unexpected
Acts 1:9-11, Matthew 24:29-31, Revelation 1:7, and Thessalonians 1 4:16-17 Many hours brake upon us with the unexpected sorrow, tribulation, or great joy. The hour will come upon the great masses of the world because they don’t expect Him. Only 2 really looked for him to appear the 1st time. I: Signs of his 2nd coming: 1. Times of distress among the nations. 2. The love of many shall wax cold. 3. Strange things happening to the world. 4. As in the days of Noah, (Preoccupied). Eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage. II: These Things Shall Happen When He Comes: 1. “This same Jesus will come in the same manner.” Acts 1:9-11. 2. “The voice of the archangal, and with the trump of God.” Thessalonians 1 4:16. a. “The...
The Unequal Yoke
Cor. 2 6:14-18, Deuteronomy 7:1-8 Christians ought not to be yoked up with non-Christians. God’s people ought not to yoke up with Satan’s children. Christians should love sinners, should be good neighbors, should visit them and have them visit in their homes, but Christians aren’t to be yoked with non-Christians in marriage, lodges, or anything so essential to life as to hinder our testimony. I: The Yoke that binds a Christian, non-Christian is uneven. 1. One belongs to God, the other to Satan. 2. One is headed for Heaven, one to Hell. 3. Their conversation and walk is essentially different. 4. How can 2 walk together except they be agreed? 5. The entire spiritual load is pulled by the Christian and often while the other is completely balked....
The Signals of God
“How do you know God guides your life?” Numbers 9:15-23 Signals are important to any organized force. Regardless how they are conveyed, they must be obeyed if they are successful. Napoleon’s defeat at Waterlee came about by a failure to heed the urgency of an order. (Alexander). I: God’s Signal of His Presence: 1. “The angel of God which went before the camp.” Exodus 14:19. 2. The cloud present at the crossing of the Red Sea. 3. Present at Mt. Sinai. 4. When the Tabernacle was completed. II: The Signals of God: 1. A cloud by day, fire by night. 2. When the cloud moved, they moved. 3. When the cloud stayed, they stayed. 4. Thus they moved thru unchartered ways. 5. If any chose to remain behind or go ahead, they were cut off from...
The Sower
Mark 4:1-9, Matthew 12:1-9 I: Jesus teaches by parables. 1. Jesus spoke in their language. 2. Some had eyes that couldn’t see and ears that couldn’t hear. 3. He taught them from a boat. II: Sower, seed. 1. The sower went out. a. He was wise to go out of the city into fields. b. He knew the seed needed someone to bear it to the planting place. 2. The Seed: a. Precious seed and good seed. b. This wasn’t cull seed. c. The price of this seed was high, (Carl Massey’s Potato seed). III: Soil and Sequence: 1. “Some fell by the way side, (Hard path).” The trodden path. 2. “Some fell on stony ground,” (little soil). 3. “Some fell among thorns,” (too many bushes). 4. “Others fell on good ground.”...
The Darnell Seed
Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 The Parable of the tares and the wheat: Darnell seed, poison, deceiving an opiate. I: The Parable Interpreted: 1. The field is the world. 2. Good seed the children of the Kingdom. 3. The tares are the children of the wicked one. 4. The enemy is the Devil. 5. The harvest is the end of the world. 6. The reapers are the Angels. II: “And I saw.” Revelation 20:10-15. 1. “A great white throne.” 2. “I saw the dead great and small…” 3. “The Books were opened.” 4. “Another book was opened.” 5. The dead were judged. 6. “Every man according to his works.” 7. “Death and Hell were cast into the lake of fire.” III: The difference between wheat and tares. 1. Tares...