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DTBM is a partnership of people from everywhere John Barnett has ministered (SC, CA, NY, MI, RI, OK, etc.) who help spread Gods Word through taking the lessons already taught to a local church and making them available free of charge all over the USA and the World. John Barnett founded DTBM in 1998, as a non-profit 501c3 Oklahoma incorporated, outreach ministry. Currently, DTBM is sending evangelistic and Bible teaching materials (books, study guides, CDs, radio shows, web-based materials, etc) to over 160 countries around the world. The main offices are in Tulsa but there are other locations we support for translation work (in Russia, Jordan, Brazil, Korea, etc.) and to produce daily broadcasts.

240518; WND

Welcome to our May/June prophetic update.

Bonnie and I are on our way to teach Church History classes in Europe. Thanks for praying for us as we serve as Gospel Missionaries. Our primary goal is to train Europeans to reach Europe with the Gospel of Christ.

This month’s course covers the “History of the English Bible & Global Evangelism”–from the early church to the present.

It has been amazing to prepare for these classes. When we get back, we hope to be able to post many of these soul-stirring lessons about how God directed the translation, distribution, and preservation of His Word.

But today’s class explains the prophetic trends happening all around us and an analysis of–

THE BIBLICAL EVENTS OF
The 1ST HALF,
The MIDDLE, and
The 2ND HALF of
THE TRIBULATION

Slides

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-20 Short Clip Standing Before Jesus— Was my life lived for God or just wasted on everything else? 1— Worship or Submission to God, is the Central Theme of the Bible: Rev. 22:1-11—Here we get to the […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-20 Short Clip 7—LIVING FOREVER IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES: Rev. 21:16-—Heaven is a 1400 mile in each direction cube, shaped like the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle. Each gate (v.22) is a single 1,500-mile high […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-20 Short Clip THE WONDERS OF HEAVEN REVEALED 1-MY CREATOR: Carried us from birth (Isa. 46:3-4) 2-MY GUARDIAN: Never sleeps (Rom. 8:28) 3-MY DESIGNER: Inventor of DNA (Ps. 139:13-14) 4-MY FRIEND: Lifelong Guide (Ps. 16:11) Your Best […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-20 Short Clip 4—Am I Excited to Taste the Joys of Heaven?: Rev. 21:1—Heaven with Jesus sounds wonderful, but let’s hold it off for a little while! Isn’t that how we become? Usually, not until we are […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-20 Short Clip 3—Everything Unconnected to God Burns: Rev. 21:1—As God’s Word says in 1 John 2:17: “the world passes away.” The universe, the earth, and the world’s systems: social, economic, cultural, and religious, are all consumed. […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-19 Short Clip 7—Heaven is Home. Life is Camping: Rev. 20:9—Just a note on the “camp” of the saints. Note they stay close to God’s Temple and close to each other. That has always been God’s desire […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-19 Short Clip DID YOU KNOW JESUS OPENS GOD’S EVANGELISTIC VISITOR CENTER IN JERUSALEM TO EVANGELIZE THE WORLD? Ezekiel 40-48 & Revelation 20:9 Devotional Truths– #5—SATAN’S HOLD ON FALLEN HUMANITY IS SUPER-POWERFUL: Rev. 20:7-8—Satan is chained in […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-19 Short Clip 4—The Millennium—The Rule of the Messiah: Rev. 20:4-6—“And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-19 Short Clip 3—WHAT’S THIS PIT WHERE SATAN IS CHAINED?: Rev. 20:1-3—“Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-19 Short Clip Our world is dying. Have you noticed it? -When you look at the pollution of our world, -When you hear as we did this week that 10% (or 866 species) of the world’s trees […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-03 Short Clip AN 8-MINUTE-SYNOPSIS OF GOD’S FUTURE PLANS– Using Revelation’s 7 Clear Events 1—Christ’s Church on Earth (Rev. 1-3) 2—Christ’s Church in Heaven (Rev. 4-5 & 19:1-10) 3—Tribulation Events in Heaven & on Earth (Rev. 6-18) […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-03 Short Clip Paul’s Gospel Presentation in Acts 17:24-31 Outlines the Bible God the Son is the Creator (Rev. 14) ACTS 17:24 God the Son is the Savior/Redeemer (Rev. 4-5) ACTS 17:27 God the Son is the […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-02 Short Clip JOHN WAS AT THE WORST TIME OF HIS LIFE: Revelation 1:9— The Apostle John has endured the horrors of the destruction of Jerusalem, the massacre of a million fellow Jews, the systematic hunting down […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-02 Short Clip So, the first rule of textual interpretation is: “What did God mean when He spoke to the original recipients of that portion of Scripture?”

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-01 Short Clip Applying the 25 Attributes of God (they’re all illustrated in Revelation) To Our Struggles & Fears Independence. Unchangeableness. Eternity. Omnipresence. Unity. Spirituality. Invisibility. Omniscience. Truthfulness. Goodness. Love. Mercy, Grace, Patience. Holiness. Peace. Righteousness, Justice. […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-01 Short Clip “Hears” means that the goal was to block any other voices, activities, or events—and tune into listening to God’s message. Like putting on your headphones or air pods and tuning out everything but one […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-01 Short Clip 4—REVELATION IS A DIVINE SOURCE OF DAILY BLESSING: Revelation 1:3— This is the ONLY book of the Bible that comes with a directly promised blessing from God to all who read these words and […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-01 Short Clip Paul’s testimony is that he choose to live in 1 Corinthians 4:1 “…as servants (huperetes) of Christ” the same word used of David in Acts 13:36. God’s two greatest servants, use the same word! […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-01 Short Clip The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants— things which must shortly take place. Revelation’s Seven Clear Events Christ’s Church on Earth (Rev. 1-3) Christ’s Church in Heaven (Rev. 4-5 […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-01 Short Clip Those clearly described events look even clearer with a chart picturing them. With the chart, the events that are explained and described in other parts of the Bible can be fit clearly into place. […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Revelation 1-22 For 2018 – 00 REV-001 181002AM We got our first clip from the out-take of the virtual classroom studio where we are training 300 students in 12 countries around the world. Today’s series is on […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio REV-40 Short Clip

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio REV-40 Short Clip Some of the more regular questions from Gen Z’s and Millennials are about Eternal Security & the Book of Life. Here is a session on that topic for you to consider with me. To […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio REV-40 Short Clip

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR1-01 NR8-07 REV-01 Short Clip We got our first clip from the out-take of the virtual classroom studio where we are training 300 students in 12 coutries around the world. Today’s series is on Revelation called “THE […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-36 WNS-23 Short Clip

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-35 WNS-22 Short Clip American society has grown so dependent on computers and other electrical systems that we have created our own Achilles’ heel of vulnerability…” Senator Kyl summed up the situation best when he said, […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-34 WNS-21 Short Clip Sheltering hope The final of the four Hebrew words for the hope that God gives us is describing SHELTERING HOPE–the word is CHASAH (2620): HOPE THAT OFFERS SECURE REFUGE. Turn with me […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-34 WNS-21 Short Clip This evening, join me as Jesus describes the most hopeless moment in our planet’s future; the moment when life is heading toward complete extinction. This moment is somewhere near the end of […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-33 WNS-20 Short Clip

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-33 WNS-20 Short Clip If you read and listen to the news with a Biblical mind, you can often hear a faint whisper of some of the truths God’s Word faintly in the background. Think about the […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-31 WNS-18 Short Clip

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-31 WNS-18 Short Clip Amemptos means— • I will never have to answer to God for my sins if I am in Jesus. • I will never be judged for my sins if I am in […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-30 ORS-06 WNS-17 Short Clip

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-18 WNS-05 Short Clip What are some final lessons? Things are temporary—build for eternity. Years ago someone put a poem on the wall of the McAuley Rescue Mission in New York City that captured the disjuncture […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-18 WNS-05 Short Clip I have been thinking about time all week long. New Year’s Day and birthdays always do that. Time is marching unstoppably toward the end–the end of the world, the end of life, […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-18 WNS-05 Short Clip Time is marching unstoppably toward the end–the end of the world, the end of life, the end of days. As we open to Luke 21 we are opening the door to the […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-17 WNS-04 Short Clip So what is valuable here? What is the currency of Heaven? Today — you and I are God’s priest’s on earth, offering to Him our worship that He receives in Heaven. This […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-17 WNS-04 Short Clip

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-17 WNS-04 Short Clip DRONE VIEW OF GOD’S THRONE TODAY– Watch with me as God pulls back the veil. Through John’s eyes in Revelation, we see Heaven as he seems to rise on the wings of […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-17 WNS-04 Short Clip WHAT’S LEFT WHEN BOWING AT CHRIST’S FEET? At the end of his life the great Reformer and servant of the Lord, Martin Luther shared what kept him going through such lifelong adversity […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-16 WNS-03 Short Clip I will—Trust God’s Promises so I won’t live a fearful life. 2 Timothy 1:12-14 For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-16 WNS-03 Short Clip

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-16 WNS-03 Short Clip We can learn from Christ’s description of the Age (Luke 21:8–19) The dangers Jesus warned of are what His church has faced from the beginning. There have always been deceiving teachers, persecution, […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-16 WNS-03 Short Clip The devastation of the earthquake and tsunami in 2004—has given us a tiny insight into what the world will be like at the end of the age. The world ended for at […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-15 WNS-02 Short Clip THE APPOINTMENT: This evening each of us has an unavoidable appointment. This appointment should constrain our flesh and motivate our spiritual hearts. The Time of this appointment is the Day of Christ. This […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-15 WNS-02 Short Clip

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR4-15 WNS-02 Short Clip THE FIRE: At Christ’s Throne there is the presence of a refining fire. God’s plan is to take all of our life, our time, our choices, our deeds, our priorities, our savings, our […]

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2001-03 Short Clip I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD (10:11) – JESUS IS ALL I NEED TO MAKE IT THROUGH LIFE AND GET TO MY HEAVENLY HOME, apart from Him is only aimless wandering.  Jesus said I […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2001-02 Short Clip “The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for Heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2001-02 Short Clip God’s Word says we must be Mastered only by Christ and nothing else. The evidence of being brought under the power of something is that we need it to make it through our day. […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2001-02 Short Clip It is not commanded, but it was expected as we saw by Jesus. And it was practiced as we see, by those of the New Testament Church era. So how about it. What was […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2001-02 Short Clip These practices had a powerful effect on those believers. One of the key attitudes we find displayed by the 1st Century editions of God’s saints is that they considered themselves exiles on earth, and […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2001-02 Short Clip HOW TO HUNGER FOR GOD? Triumphant living in the 21st century involves cultivating a growing hunger for God. How are you doing in the Total Yielding of your life to Christ? Most of us […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2001-01 Short Clip HOW TO REST IN GOD Triumphant living in the 21st century involves cultivating quietness in our lives. Jesus lived the perfect life, accomplished more than any human ever did, and yet Jesus was never […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR1-10 WWJ-02 Short Clip Have you started turning shovels of blessings into gold from the Gospels? There is a simple way to do just that: FINDING CHRIST IN MARK 5. Mark 2:8 But immediately, when Jesus perceived […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio NR1-10 WWJ-02 Short Clip The New Testament records 37 miracles that Jesus performed during His earthly ministry. These include sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, life to the dead, health to the sick – and […]

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2022 – 1 Peter-03 Short Clip First Peter 2:11-12—LUST IS ALWAYS TRYING TO AMBUSH ME: My lusts are always seeking to gain an opportunity to defeat me. Peter says we are foreigners in a secular society because […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2022 – 1 Peter-03 Short Clip 09–First Peter 2:13-17—LIVE AS GOD’S IDEAL CITIZENS: we are to live as model citizens for God. 10–First Peter 2:18-25—EXPECT TO SUFFER PERSECUTION: we are to suffer as needed but in a […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2022 – 1 Peter-03 Short Clip Historic Context: Peter is in the middle of a great personal persecution, and was writing to a group of local churches that are also facing fiery trials. Social Context: We know […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2022 – 1 Peter-02 Short Clip First Peter 2 Title: Submit to God each day. God lays down the pathway for spiritual growth for believers. Lessons: 1—First Peter 2:1a—SPIRITUAL GROWTH IS A CHOICE: Spiritual growth demands some […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2022 – 1 Peter-02 Short Clip First Peter 2 Title: Submit to God each day. God lays down the pathway for spiritual growth for believers. Lessons: 1—1 Peter 2:1a—SPIRITUAL GROWTH IS A CHOICE: Spiritual growth demands some […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2022 – 1 Peter-02 Short Clip Peter’s Biography— The life of Peter has three parts. Each of the eras of his life speaks of his love for Jesus. 1. In the Gospel of Mark we have Peter […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2022 – 1 Peter-01 Short Clip Peter was the most well-known Apostle in the Gospels (1 Peter 1:1a “Peter”). No one ever claimed greater loyalty to Christ as did Peter (Mark 14.31) No one ever was honored […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2022 – 1 Peter-01 Short Clip Have you pondered how hard it must have been to be a Christian in those ten years? Yet in that dangerous time to even be a believer, Peter boldly wrote to […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2019-06 Short Clip

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2019-06 Short Clip “He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver.” When I heard this passage preached a long time ago, I wrote in my Bible-1 “the more you have, the more you want.” That’s […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2017-03 Short Clip God Says Humility is the Pathway to Spiritual Maturity 1 Peter 5:5-6 (NKJV) Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2015-02 Short Clip THE BENEFITS OF HUNGERING FOR GOD The more we experience intimacy in fellowship with Jesus Christ the more we hunger for Him, and the greater our longings become to be with Him in Heaven. […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2015-01 Short Clip SOMETHING DULLED THEIR PASSION Most of us have caught the enthusiasm of the Early Church in Acts and the Epistles. They were contagiously in love with Jesus, and fearlessly proclaiming His truth. Most of […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio DYG-02 WFL-24 Short Clip Psalm 119 is a Psalm or song written by God to summarize the power and purpose of His Word. Longer than all but three of Paul’s epistles – we have a book within […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio DYG-02 WFL-24 Short Clip What was his plan to bring about lasting change in those he served? He started with his own life. He learned to point his heart frequently toward doing God’s Will. Ezra Invited God […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio DYG-02 WFL-24 Short Clip My last year in seminary was a final push to learn all I could about the Word. I spent the summer in LA and each Saturday I would check the church page. I […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2014-05 Short Clip God is asking us to give our mind surrendered to His control. God is looking for godly, mature believers who will make it a life-long goal to resist the temptation of self-absorption in all […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2012-06 Short Clip

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio DYG-02 WFL-24 Short Clip Following the Divine Directions for Life that are right and cause great rejoicing. Have you ever tried to put a bike or wagon together without directions? How about a desk or a lawn […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2014-04 Short Clip NOURISH YOUR SOUL IN GOD Today we can revitalize your walk in this old world by starting or restarting a habit of cultivating time alone with God. Time in the Word and time in […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2014-04 Short Clip Nurturing our lives on God’s Word produces strong, healthy, and focused lives! Ezra says that daily CLEANSING only comes by God’s Word: “How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio DWM-30 & WFF-38 & WFP-33 Short Clip

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2014-03 Short Clip WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST? To the jailer’s simple question, we can answer with God’s complete record of all that He wanted us to know, to hear, and […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2014-02 Short Clip

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2014-01 Short Clip CHRIST JESUS LEFT HIS PLAN FOR HIS CHURCH Please look at our marching orders as a church, given by Christ, just before He went back to Heaven: Matthew 28:18-20 (NKJV) And Jesus came and […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2012-05 Short Clip In John 15:14 He added, “You are My friends if you do what I command you.” Tips From Abraham the Friend of God Just before we go, can I show you from ancient times […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2012-03 Short Clip Welcome to our newest playlist. This is the series called “Straight From the Bible” and is a collection of some of John’s all-time favorite Q&A sessions. All of these videos are short and to […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio BAR-2012-01 Short Clip Welcome to our newest playlist. This is the series called “Straight From the Bible” and is a collection of some of John’s all-time favorite Q&A sessions. All of these videos are short and to […]

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudio2020Rev-17Short ClipTempted & Fallen: The Crash Site of HumanityThis is the crash site. This is where all pain, sorrow, rebellion, disaster, disease, war, murder, theft, terrorism, hatred, injustice, and death started.As we sift through these verses and piece together the remains of the fall we can see just what lies Satan told to tempt Adam and Eve. What’s amazing is that parts of these same four lies usually show up in every temptation since.Materialism: pleasure & happiness in material things, not spiritual truthReligion: there is not one road to God that is exclusive rather many that are inclusiveSATAN’S FOUR LIES – GENESIS 3.1. Doubt God’s Word v. 1a “Has God indeed said”. MATERIALISMWhat Satan wants is for us to DOUBT GOD.We doubt God when we doubt His Word.Satan wants us to believe that God’s Word is just like any other book. It is nice, helpful, but not absolute. He wants us to question God’s Word, avoid God’s Word, neglect God’s Word or whatever else it takes to get us out of regular contact with the Lord.This is a direct attack on the character of God. One of the great truths about our God is the moral attribute that we know God is Truth.2. Doubt God’s Goodness v. 1b “‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” MATERIALISMWhat Satan wants is for us to DOUBT GOD.We doubt God when we doubt His Goodness.Satan wants us to believe is that God is trying to hold out on us, He is robbing us of some good times, He is out of touch with our needs, He missed that disaster we just went through, He messed up on how He made us, He means well but doesn’t quite have everything under control.This is a direct attack on the character of God. One of the great truths about our God is the moral attribute that we know God is Good.3. Doubt God’s Authority v. 4 “You will not surely die”. RELIGIONWhat Satan wants is for us to DOUBT GOD.We doubt God when we doubt His Authority.Satan wants us to believe is that God is not in charge – we are in charge; God isn’t interested in our choices –we are in charge; God will not make us accountable for our deeds – we are in charge.This is a direct attack on the character of God. One of the great truths about our God is the moral attribute that we know God is Sovereign.4. Doubt God’s Plan v. 5 “your eyes will be opened” RELIGIONWhat Satan wants is for us to DOUBT GOD.We doubt God when we doubt His Plan.Satan wants us to believe is that there is a better way to immortality, an easier way to glory, a quicker way to happiness.Again this is an attack upon the very Word of God. God’s Word is sufficient. That is one of the characteristics God has given us about His Word.What the sufficiency of the Word means is “that everything God wants to tell us about how we should think about a particular doctrinal issue or to do in a particular situation is to be found in Scripture.” So God has a wonderful and perfect plan revealed in His Word. Every time we open His Word we can hear His plan. The question is not does God speak, it is–do we listen.Listening to God SpeakSatan’s ancient methods still work to bring forgetfulness of God, distance from His Word, and dreadful damage to our lives. How do we stay protected by God, and from Satan? The answer is always listening to God speak to us through His Word. God is Faithful and has warned us of these avenues the Devil always uses to try and hack into our system and derail us from serving God.Satan is seeking to devour us using his ancient playbook, which we will see as we study temptation in all the amazing details God’s Word gives to us.Turn with me back to 1 Cor. 10:13 where we see that the answer to our prayers is God Himself, the Faithful One, who is watching over us and seeking to come to our aid the instant we ask Him to.Please stand as we listen to perhaps the very best news all of us who are tempted will ever be.1 Corinthians 10:13 (NKJV) No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-34 FTF-10Short ClipMARY IS AN EXAMPLE OF UN-COMMON LIVING IN THE SPIRITRemember, the Holy Spirit can make any common life become un-common.The Holy Spirit can make any ordinary life to be extraordinary.The Holy Spirit can make any life headed nowhere to a life headed somewhere & like no one else.Most scholars would agree that The Mary, the mother of Jesus, was probably much like most all other girls of her day. Of all the writers of Scripture, it is Luke who highlights Mary with 12 of the 20 verses that name her are in Luke and one is in Acts.So 65% of all that we have comes to us through Luke. From the Scripture accounts we can conclude quite safely that:She was young: probably 14 or 15 when she was betrothed to Joseph.She was simple: which means she grew up in a sheltered, close, family-oriented atmosphere.She was plain: there is never any indication that she looked striking in any way.Let’s briefly meet this incredible woman. Starting in Luke 1:26 we can find seven uncommon choices that Mary made that are each tied to God’s Spirit.1. IT IS UN-COMMON THAT MARY LISTENED TO GOD’S WORDLuke 1:26-28 (NKJV) Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!” In v. 28 we see God sending a message to Mary and Mary listening. Sounds simple enough. Yet it is profound. Every day we all have something in common with Mary, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Job, David, and Paul: we can choose to listen, and hear God speak.Each of the great cast of God’s servants had one thing in common: they each heard and responded to God.Some heard God directly hearing His audible voice (like Adam, Enoch, and Moses). Others heard God’s voice relayed through the audible voice of a prophet (like Nathan confronting David); and others just like you and me today: listen to God speak through His Word, the Holy Scriptures called the Bible (like Daniel studying the prophet Jeremiah).UN-COMMON LIVING IN THE SPIRIT MEANS REALLY LISTENING TO GODThe common element of every servant of God’s life is that all listened to God speak and then responded in obedience. The real question of Christmas is are you giving God the gift of listening to His voice, and responding to Him? Jesus told us that hearing and doing His will was the clearest way we can show Him our love:John 14.21 (NKJV) He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”Do we love the Lord enough to give Him the time it takes to listen to Him speak? Do we love the Lord enough this Christmas to stop and listen until we hear what He wants? Do we love the Lord enough this Christmas to stop, listen, hear, and DO what he wants us to do? That is the real challenge of giving our attention to God this Christmas.REALLY LISTENING TO GOD MEANS LOVING GODWe all need to examine whether we are giving to God what those who truly love Him give.Either we hear God’s Word as just the word of men or as it truly is, the Word of God that effectually works in us who receive it by faith.Mary joined so many others that the Scriptures describe as responding to God: Adam and Eve in the Garden, Noah in the Pre-Flood world, Abram in Ur, Saul on the road to Damascus. Always remember that God is in the people seeking business.Salvation is of the Lord and it is God who seeks us, He initiates salvation for, Salvation is of the Lord (Jonah 2:9). Want to live an uncommon life in the Spirit? Listen to the Voice of God in His Word.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-34 FTF-10Short ClipIT IS UN-COMMON THAT MARY BECAME THE DWELLING PLACE OF GODLuke 1:34-37 (NKJV) Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?” 35 And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. 36 Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. 37 For with God nothing will be impossible.”Notice Mary’s response. Even after being sought out and given such an amazing message, humble Mary has airs, no pride, just a humbly troubled heart, that anyone would even say such a thing. Mary knew her own heart, she was nothing and was not worthy to be so greatly blessed by God.When the power of the Highest overshadowed her, Mary was surrounded by the Shekinah Glory, as God the Son entered her womb.Mary experienced God within. She let her body become God’s Temple.Wow, was Mary then the very first New Testament believer indwelt by Christ? That is what all of us believers now have the joy of being: the dwelling place of Christ. Though Christ was physically within her, He was also spiritually within her just as He “dwells in our hearts by faith” as Paul tells us (Ephesians 3:17).God doing the impossible is what our life for Him is all about. That is what Mary experienced, and that is what we also can experience as we give ourselves to Him.Want to live an un-common life in the Spirit? Live as God’s Dwelling Place.

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-33 FTF-09Short ClipNEXT, LIKE SIMEON SEEK THE SPIRIT-ILLUMINED LIFE GOD OFFERS:Luke 2:26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.Simeon learned what God wanted him to do in life.He was confident that the Lord had a plan and he rested by faith in God will for his life.Simeon sought to follow God’s plan. He said not my way but yours.Simeon found the Spirit-illumined life God offers.Do you have that calm assurance that you are following the plan of God? Remember what Simeon had grown up hearing?As a faithful Jew he would have often heard the Psalms and one of the most well know Psalms was David’s 16th Psalm that is a promise from God to “show us the path of life”. Look there with me and underline these words in your soul:Psalm 16:11 (NKJV) You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy;At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.God wants to illumine, guide, and direct His path for us, all we have to do is want to listen to His voice.Application: Have you ever invited the Spirit of God to illumine your mind by bowing and asking Him to “open my eyes that I may behold wonderful things” in Your Word (Ps. 119:18)? That is what the Spirit-illumined life is all about. Asking God to open His Word, which is His Will, which is His plan for our lives. That is the work of the Spirit God offers to each of us.Have you allowed the Lord to illumine His Word and open your eyes to see what He has planned for your life? The greatest joy in life comes from knowing and doing God’s will for your life.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-33 FTF-09Short ClipThe Holy Spirit is revealed in many ways in God’s Word: perhaps eighty times in the Old Testament, at least fifty times in the Gospels, nearly sixty times in Acts, and more than one hundred times in the rest of the New Testament. But today we need to see how:LUKE EMPHASIZES THE AMAZING HOLY SPIRIT @ WORKIt was the Holy Spirit that Gabriel announced would fill John the Baptist as he prepared the way for Christ’s coming (Luke 1:15).It was the Holy Spirit who caused Christ’s conception in Mary (Luke 1:35);It was the Holy Spirit who prompted Elisabeth to announce Christ’s presence within Mary (Luke 1:41);It was the Holy Spirit who spoke through Zechariah announcing that his son was Christ’s herald named John the Baptist (Luke 1:67);It was the Holy Spirit who led Simeon to find Jesus carried by Joseph & Mary in the Temple area (Luke 2:25-27).It was the Holy Spirit who baptizes believers into Christ’s church (Luke 3:16; 1 Corinthians 12:13);It was the Holy Spirit who led Christ out into His desert temptation (Luke 3:22; 4:1; Mark 1:12).It was the Holy Spirit who empowered Christ to preach the Gospel (Luke 4:14, 18).It was the Holy Spirit who indwells us the moment we are saved by Christ (Luke 10:20; Romans 8:9); and becomes the engagement ring or down payment of our eternal redemption (Ephesians 1:13).It was the Holy Spirit who empowered Christ to minister with joy (Luke 10:21).It was the Holy Spirit who was given as a gift to those who ask for Him from God the father (Luke 11:13; John 7:37-39).It was only by the Holy Spirit that Christ casts out evil spirits (Luke 11:20; Matthew 12:28).It was the Holy Spirit who empowered the disciples to preach the Gospel with boldness (Luke 12:10, 12).It was the Holy Spirit that was called the Promise of My Father by Christ that endued the disciples with power (Luke 24:49).SEEING THE SPIRIT AT WORK IN NORMAL PEOPLEToday as we head towards Christmas, we begin a more personal look at the Spirit. Instead of seeing just the didactic, doctrinal writings of the Epistles, we are going to spend these weeks using the characters of Christmas as illustrations. In the Gospels, we see the Holy Spirit greatly at work in both Christ’s life and those around Him. We can actually see how the Spirit can operate when we see what He does in those who surrender, yield, and seek to stay in step with Him. Simeon is introduced to us by God in Luke 2:22-35, and if it wasn’t for that introduction, he would be like untold billions of others throughout human history that were only known by those closest to them during their lives; and who died without leaving a trace.Even if God hadn’t added him to the Biblical record, and even if we had never read about Simeon, what he was will last forever.Simeon was an Old Testament saint, who lived in hope waiting for the coming Christ by faith; and died in faith, ready to go whenever God’s time came.Ready to go, what a way we all should live.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-33 FTF-09Short ClipFIRST, LIKE SIMEON SEEK THE SPIRIT-FILLED LIFE GOD OFFERS:Luke 2:25 And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.How does anyone get God to enter their life? God said long before Simeon’s day in Jeremiah 29:13, which was written six hundred years before Christ’s birth:Jeremiah 29:13 (NKJV) And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.Simeon sought God.Simeon opened his life to God, and surrendered to His control.Simeon wanted God’s way, and God controls surrendered people by filling them with His Spirit.Simeon was living the Spirit-filled life that God offers.Application: Pause and ask yourself:How long has it been since I asked God to take over my plans?How long since you parked the car of your life, turned off the ignition, pulled the keys out and surrendered both the keys, the steering wheel, and the driver’s seat to God?How long has it been since you were personally aware of His Presence in your heart and life each day?How long has it been since you cried out and told the Lord that you wanted to rely upon Him to lead and guide you?

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-30 FTF-06Short ClipTHE NINE LIFE-ALTERING, PERSONALITY CHANGES THE SPIRIT OF GOD BRINGSLove is the absence of selfishness. It is the product of the Holy Spirit present in our lives (Rom. 5:5). Personal checkup question: Do I sacrifice my way so I can follow God’s way? Do I sacrificially deny myself so God gets His way?Joy is the spiritual quality that releases us from circumstances; because love and self-centeredness cannot co-exist. However, the Apostle Paul said that he was II Cor. 6:10 – sorrowful yet always full of joy.Personal checkup question: Do those that know me and watch my life see evidence throughout my daily life at work, school, and home as a more and more joyful person?Peace is the internal serenity that only God can give. Troubles are not absent. Rather, God is present! God promised to keep us in peace, if we will just cling to Him (Isaiah 26:3).Personal checkup question: Has peace through changes, upsets, unexpected twists, struggles, challenges, trails, and pains become more and more a way of life for me this year?Longsuffering/Patience is the absence of personal irritation at the actions of others. It is that bearing long with people that Paul spoke of in I Corinthians. Patience is also one of the Supreme attributes of God. It is His character that is revealed as being gracious and longsuffering. See Ex. 34:6; Num. 14:18; II Peter 3:9.Personal checkup questions: Ask yourself: am I more patient than I was three months ago, or less?KINDNESS is a beautiful reflection of God in our lives. It is the absence of an abrasive manner in my dealings with people. It is a chosen reflection of Ephesians 2:8 and 4:32 in my life. “Kindness is seen as that sensitivity toward others that issues into deeds of self sacrifice and love even toward the unlovely and undeserving ones”.Personal checkup questions: Is God changing my way of looking at people and responding towards people?GOODNESS is being Godlike! It is the opposite of fallen humanity. Look at how Jesus is described in Acts 10:38, when the Holy Spirit anointed His life: He simply went about doing good.Personal checkup questions: Am I a visibly better person than last year to those that feel my life up close?FAITHFULNESS is the idea here. God wants to produce in us a trustworthy and dependable life. Surrendering our schedules to God makes us the kind of person that keeps their own life in order so that you can count on them. Any part of my life that is out of control is reminding me that area is not under God’s control.GENTLENESS is the opposite of asserting ourselves. The Lord said that the meek were the ultimate winners (Mt. 5:5). Those who are servants of the Lord must not strive to get their own way (II Timothy 2:24). Spirit-filled lives resist selfish ambition (James 3:16) because it is a reflection of Satan, not of God. Remember Jesus described Himself as ‘meek and lowly’ (Mt. 11:29).Personal checkup questions: Would people say that I am assertive or gentle? Do I fight for my idea, plan, agenda, and preference, or am I willing to let another express their way?SELF-CONTROL is defined by the Greek Dictionary as “a virtue, which consists in mastery of the appetites and passions, especially the sensual ones.” The only force that can control or flesh is the Holy Spirit. When yielded to Him we become vessels that are worshipful sacrifices to Him, and no longer to self. Self cannot control self. Flesh is not able to harness flesh. Only the Spirit can discipline us for godly living (Titus 2:11-13).Personal checkup question: Am I beating under and giving knockout blows to my flesh like Paul was in I Cor. 9:27? Does it seem like God is taking over more and more of my life, my attention, and my schedule?These nine reflections of God are produced by His Spirit in every part of our lives surrendered to Him. So, look inside, are these nine reflections of God present in your daily life? Are these manifestations of God’s control growing?

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-30 FTF-06Short ClipTHE NINE LIFE-ALTERING, PERSONALITY CHANGES THE SPIRIT OF GOD BRINGSLove is the absence of selfishness. It is the product of the Holy Spirit present in our lives (Rom. 5:5). The whole law is fulfilled: by loving God and our neighbor, Jesus said. Love involves personal sacrifice for another.Personal checkup question: Do I sacrifice my way so I can follow God’s way? Do I sacrificially deny myself so God gets His way? Can others trace my progress in expressing God’s love? Do those who watch me see me as less selfish and self-seeking than I was last month, or last year?Joy is the spiritual quality that releases us from circumstances; because love and self-centeredness cannot co-exist. However, the Apostle Paul said that he was II Cor. 6:10 – sorrowful yet always full of joy.Personal checkup question: Do those that know me and watch my life see evidences throughout my daily life at work, school, and home as a more and more joyful person?Peace is the internal serenity that only God can give. Troubles are not absent. Rather, God is present! God promised to keep us in peace if we will just cling to Him (Isaiah 26:3).Personal checkup question: Has peace through changes, upsets, unexpected twists, struggles, challenges, trials, and pains become more and more a way of life for me this year? Do people notice your growing peacefulness?

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-30 FTF-06Short ClipGOODNESS is being Godlike! It is the opposite of fallen humanity. Look at how Jesus is described in Acts 10:38, when the Holy Spirit anointed His life: He simply went about doing good.Personal checkup questions: Am I a visibly better person than last year to those that feel my life up close? Do people see me doing good, to all those around me? Do people think of the presence God when they see how I act, or do they think of the absence of God?FAITHFULNESS is the idea here. God wants to produce in us a trustworthy and dependable life. Surrendering our schedules to God makes us the kind of person that keeps their own life in order so that you can count on them. Like Psalm 15 speaks of, they make and keep their word.Personal checkup questions: Am I making strides in reliability and dependability? Is my life less and less out of control, and more and more under God’s control? Am I faithful in punctuality, finances, promises, and my spiritual disciplines like prayer & the Word? Any part of my life that is out of control is reminding me that area is not under God’s control.

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-30 FTF-06Short ClipAs we open to Ephesian 5:18, we are learning what it means to Get Full, Stay Full & Live Full of God’s Spirit. This may be one of the most vital topics, in the Bible, for any believer.Sometimes, when we study a topic as massive as the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, we need to remind ourselves why this study matters. For a moment think of the record we find in Acts.We just spent several weeks looking at the ministry recorded in Acts for those 30 years from Pentecost and on to Paul being imprisoned at Rome. As we remember all those events, do you ever get puzzled at how they did it? If we are not careful we can even get overwhelmed at what amazing things those saints did for God, while struggling with huge obstacles.In fact as I read over some of those more vivid parts of the New Testament again this week, some of the words that came to my mind were: Unbelievable, incredible & unattainable.Isn’t that where most of us get to after a while? Unbelievable, incredible, but alas for me, unattainable! Three words frame many people’s view of Biblical living:UNBELIEVABLE, INCREDIBLE & UNATTAINABLEWhat do I mean? Think over with me what you know about just a few of those who lived across the pages of the New Testament:The Apostle Peter was a stumbling, bumbling man who always was sticking both feet, up to the ankles, into his mouth in the Gospels.In fact after the 1st Lord’s Supper, one servant girl in the dark, scarred him into uttering some horrible curses and denials of Jesus.Yet only days later he is standing up in front of 3,000 families, facing both the murderous religious establishment of Jerusalem, and their guardians, the Roman army; and was no less than totally fearless.He is never recorded as wavering again from that day onward. He faces the inevitability of personal pain and certain martyrdom with serenity. See why we think: unbelievable, incredible & unattainable?What is the plan of salvation, or the GOSPEL according to Jesus? That is our current online study class as we go through Paul’s ministry in the Books of Acts & the Epistles. We hope that you will follow along, mark your Bibles, and work through each class in this newest playlist.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-30 FTF-06Short ClipAs we open to Ephesian 5:18, we are learning what it means to Get Full, Stay Full & Live Full of God’s Spirit. This may be one of the most vital topics, in the Bible, for any believer.Sometimes, when we study a topic as massive as the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, we need to remind ourselves why this study matters. For a moment think of the record we find in Acts.We just spent several weeks looking at the ministry recorded in Acts for those 30 years from Pentecost and on to Paul being imprisoned at Rome. As we remember all those events, do you ever get puzzled at how they did it? If we are not careful we can even get overwhelmed at what amazing things those saints did for God, while struggling with huge obstacles.In fact as I read over some of those more vivid parts of the New Testament again this week, some of the words that came to my mind were: Unbelievable, incredible & unattainable.Isn’t that where most of us get to after a while? Unbelievable, incredible, but alas for me, unattainable! Three words frame many people’s view of Biblical living:UNBELIEVABLE, INCREDIBLE & UNATTAINABLEWhat do I mean? Think over with me what you know about just a few of those who lived across the pages of the New Testament:The Apostle Peter was a stumbling, bumbling man who always was sticking both feet, up to the ankles, into his mouth in the Gospels.In fact, after the 1st Lord’s Supper, one servant girl in the dark, scarred him into uttering some horrible curses and denials of Jesus.Yet only days later he is standing up in front of 3,000 families, facing both the murderous religious establishment of Jerusalem and their guardians, the Roman army; and was no less than totally fearless.He is never recorded as wavering again from that day onward. He faces the inevitability of personal pain and certain martyrdom with serenity. See why we think: unbelievable, incredible & unattainable?

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-29 FTF-05Short ClipTHE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRITThe Spirit is revealed in many ways. Mentioned perhaps eighty times in the Old Testament, at least fifty times in the gospels, nearly sixty in Acts, and more than one hundred times in the rest of the New Testament.The Holy Spirit attends the birth of Jesus, causing His very conception in Mary (Matthew 1:18, 20), and empowers John the Baptist from childhood (Luke 1:15).He leads Jesus into His desert sojourn (Mark 1:12).He is the agent by whom Jesus baptizes believers into His church (Matthew 3:11; 1 Corinthians 12:13) and by whom He casts out evil spirits (Matthew 12:28).God’s Spirit is the possession of all who are in Christ (Romans 8:9), the down payment of our ultimate redemption (Ephesians 1:13).Scripture also reveals that the Spirit can be lied to and tested (Acts 5:3, 9), resisted (Acts 7:51), grieved (Ephesians 4:30), and quenched (1 Thessalonians 5:19).

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-29 FTF-05Short ClipUNDERSTANDING THE HOLY SPIRITWe need to understand this incredible Third Person of God. We need to look at His work as a part of the Triune God we worship and adore. To start look with me at Genesis 1:The Spirit of God is the Agent of Creation. Genesis 1:2The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.The Spirit of God is the Agent of Conviction. Genesis 6:3And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”The Spirit of God is the Author of the Scriptures. II Samuel 23:2“The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, And His word was on my tongue.The Spirit of God is the one who reveals Jesus. John 16:13“However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.).The Spirit of God is the one who secures saints for heaven. 2 Corinthians 1:22who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.The Spirit of God is the one who makes us brand new. Titus 3:5not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.The Spirit of God is the one who cleanses our minds. Hebrews 9:14how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?).The Spirit of God is the one who calls us homeward. Revelation 22:17And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-29 FTF-05Short ClipTHE TRANSFORMING POWER OF THE SPIRIT OF GODIn one generation, spanning the lifetimes of Christ’s 12 apostles, the entire world was touched. The light of the gospel dawned upon countless hearts.There was no empire untouched. From China to Africa, from Britain to India, across the trade routes to the furthest outpost like a forest fire marching across a sin parched woods, the dry and barren lives of the world flamed to supernatural life. The fire of Pentecost burned into the lives of the world of that day the image and life and sacrifice of Jesus. And that fire has never stopped. This week the Fire of Pentecost has ignited the souls of even more formerly dry, lifeless and doomed sinners unto everlasting life.What am I describing? The birth and growth of the church: the supernaturally regenerated body of Jesus on earth. And who is accomplishing this incredible event? The Spirit of God, the Fire of Pentecost, and today:God’s Spirit is still washing clean sin-stained hearts,God’s Spirit is still breathing life into sin-darkened souls,God’s Spirit is still filling empty hopeless lives.God’s Spirit is still transforming barren lives into spiritual gardens.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-29 FTF-05Short ClipTHE BIRTH OF THE CHURCH AT PENTECOST
Across the sin-darkened canvas of the 1st Century world, a new day dawned. Starting about 30 AD a world that sat in darkness began to see the light.
What a transformation!
In just one generation,
People crippled by racial enmities,
People ripped apart by ethnic strife,
People marred by cruel inhumanity,
People drowning in sexual perversion,
People plunging headlong into self-indulgence,
People chained to idolatrous false worship: were gloriously changed.

THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD
In one generation, spanning the lifetimes of Christ’s 12 apostles, the entire world was touched. The light of the gospel dawned upon countless hearts.
There was no empire untouched. From China to Africa, from Britain to India, across the trade routes to the furthest outpost like a forest fire marching across a sin parched woods, the dry and barren lives of the world flamed to supernatural life. The fire of Pentecost burned into the lives of the world of that day the image and life and sacrifice of Jesus.
And that fire has never stopped. This week the Fire of Pentecost has ignited the souls of even more formerly dry, lifeless and doomed sinners unto everlasting life.
What am I describing? The birth and growth of the church: the supernaturally regenerated body of Jesus on earth. And who is accomplishing this incredible event? The Spirit of God, the Fire of Pentecost, and today:
God’s Spirit is still washing clean sin stained hearts,
God’s Spirit is still breathing life into sin-darkened souls,
God’s Spirit is still filling empty hopeless lives.
God’s Spirit is still transforming barren lives into spiritual gardens.

UNDERSTANDING THE HOLY SPIRIT

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-28 FTF-04Short ClipARE YOU QUENCHEDJesus talked about such a strong flow of water in a spiritual sense. Let’s turn there to John 7.37-38. Rivers of water is the way Jesus describes the normal life of believers, His children. Please stand and join me in reading these verses:On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.Jesus said I want rivers of water to flow out of your lives. Rivers of water would mean that when we were saved He flowed out of our lives making us joyous and thankful.I want you to be excited about your sins being gone.I want you to read the Bible like it was God meeting with you and talking to you.I want you to be flowing in your prayers to Me. He flowed out of our lives making prayer was so natural and uncluttered. It felt like the stars overhead had parted and we were walking right into Heaven before God’s Throne.THE JOY OF OUR SALVATIONYou know what? That’s how people are when they get saved. It’s unbelievable. They just can’t get enough of the Bible, they can’t get enough of the fellowship with God’s people, they can’t tell enough people that their sins are forgiven. They can’t tell enough people how they can be saved.And that is life as God made it to be with that mighty river of water flowing out of our lives. We were refreshed, we were victorious, we were rejoicing, we were serving joyfully. The Holy Spirit was flowing through our new lives like the rivers of water that flowed in that new house of ours. That is the life of a believer as God intended it to be.Then slowly something happened. You know what? The little “turning off the water valve” of the grieving and quenching of the Holy Spirit starts constricting little by little the water pipe of the Holy Spirit in their life.Almost imperceptibly things start drying up in their life; and almost without knowing it, their lives become waterless and barren and dry.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-28 FTF-04Short ClipAN OVERFLOWING LIFE IS A CHOICEJesus explained the Holy Spirit in our lives by using the image of a strong river of water flowing out of us. Each day we must choose to seek after God in our lives as believers. Not making a choice is the choice to neglect God. We either choose or neglect God each day.Just as getting into the Scriptures is a choice each day, so also is staying filled with the Holy Spirit. It’s not automatic, like online payments. Spirit-filled, Spirit-led, and Spirit-prompted life is a series of choices. Choices to love, obey, follow, surrender, and seek God’s control and power.A lot of people think the Christian life is like auto-pay—it’s not. We have to discipline ourselves to be remaining full and controlled by the Holy Spirit. In John 7:37, first Jesus describes salvation when He said: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.” That is salvation. That is coming to Him in faith and being supernaturally saved. Then Jesus described the result of salvation in verse 38: “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”Did you hear how Jesus described the normal life of the believer? God planned that the life of a born-again person become like a flowing river of life. Not anything like a little trickle—He said Rivers of water. What does that mean? Rivers of water would mean that when we were saved the Spirit of God comes into our lives making us joyous and thankful.RIVERS OF JOYWhen God’s Spirit flows out of our lives we are so excited about all our sins being gone. In fact, when we are involved with communion, it is such a time of remembering what Jesus did.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-27 FTF-03Short Clip6. FOLLOWING CHRIST IS HUNGERING AFTER HIS WORDJesus compared God’s Word to food (“man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word of God”). Jesus said we are not really living if we only feed our physical bodies and not our spiritual dimension. Jesus said we need to eat every day; and our spiritual lives are to be as consistent a part of our daily plans as eating.Jesus goes on to compare salvation to food. Those who eat of Him are saved. Look onward at John 6. Jesus said He was the bread of God (Jn. 6:35), those who ate Him live forever.Jesus says salvation is eating and drinking Him by faith through receiving His Word.John 6:35 (NKJV) And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.Then He said that what we eat are His words. Look at this amazing passage.John 6:63-68 (NKJV) It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. 68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Now turn onward to John 8:31,37,43,51 (NKJV):v. 31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” [Three elements: believers are those who abide/remain in Christ’s words; believers know/experience the truth of Christ’s words; believers are set free through believing/acting upon the truth of Christ’s words.]v. 37 “I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. [Three elements: Christ’s word remains in true believers; true believers desire to hear Christ’s words; true believers stand on the truth of Christ’s words within them.]v. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.” 51 Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.” [Three elements: believers know Christ’s words are true; believers hear/respond to Christ’s words; believers are eternally saved by clinging to Christ as truth.] That is why the early church taught that hearing & believing God’s Word leads us to salvation, and to partaking of Christ. As only physical food enters our body and nourishes it, to sustain our lives: so our souls are only fed by God’s Word entering into our minds.How did we believe on Christ? Through His Word.How did we receive Christ? Through His Word.How do we obey Christ? Through His Word.How do we follow Christ? Through His Word.How do we please Christ? Through His Word.How do we know Christ better and better? Through His Word.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-27 FTF-03Short Clip3. FOLLOWING CHRIST STARTS BY GOD IMPLANTING HIS WORD INSIDE US Move onward to James 1:21, from what may be the earliest book of the New Testament written by James who was the Pastor of the First Church of Jerusalem. Here is how he explained salvation to his congregation while Paul was still being trained.James 1:21 (NKJV) Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.Again we see that receiving God’s Word, believing God’s Word, and acting upon God’s Word are all tied to our salvation.We hear truth from God.We believe that truth from God.We respond to that truth from God God transforms us.One of the greatest confirmations of our salvation is seeing this happen each day. That is exactly what we see the Apostles teaching as they planted and established churches in the First Century.Now move onward to 1 Peter 1:22 to 2:3 and see how Peter describes this exact same process when he explains the relationship between salvation and our daily walk in Christ. Peter reminds us that both are tied to God’s Word.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-27 FTF-03Short ClipHow do we start? After establishing that the person is saved, the very next truth for them to learn is the:1. FOLLOWING CHRIST IS THE VITAL CONNECTION BETWEEN SALVATION & THE REST OF LIFEThis connection was taught by Paul in Colossians 2:6. Note with them what Paul said:Colossians 2:6 (NKJV) As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,The same way God saved us is how we are to follow Christ through life. We hear the Gospel from God’s Word, we believe the truth and respond in faith, and God transforms us. That is the pathway of salvation, and the pathway of each day of our life as believers. Taking God at His Word and seeing Him at work in us. That is simple, clear, and easily explained in Scripture.2. FOLLOWING CHRIST IS COMPLETELY TIED TO GOD’S WORDTurn to the Romans Road, one of the simplest explanations of salvation, and look at the final stop in Romans 10:13 (see also v. 5,8,11).Romans 10:13,17 (NKJV) For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.We are saved by hearing, and responding to the truth of the Word of God. The Gospel flows only from God’s Word, and nowhere else. Only by believing the Gospel contained in God’s Word the Bible can a person be saved.Only by believing the Gospel contained in God’s Word the Bible can a person be saved.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-27 FTF-03Short ClipFOLLOWING JESUS NOW & FOREVERFollowing Christ’s voice from His Word is how we were saved.Continuing to follow His Voice heard through His Word is our source of daily assurance.Jesus said that eternal life is all about following Him; and He summarized His entire plan for the disciples in just two words: “Follow Me” (Matthew 4:19). Those two words were what He spoke to Peter, Andrew, James and John as they fished and to Matthew as he sat at the tax office (Luke 5:27); and those two words are what He still calls for, as He walks through this world.Jesus called Himself the “Way”; and described salvation as the beginning of a life-long journey of following Him (John 14:6). This call to a life of following needs to at times be renewed as Jesus demonstrated after His resurrection, when Peter was restored to ministry as Jesus again said: “follow” Me (John 21:19).DISCIPLES ARE TAUGHT HOW TO FOLLOWSo Christ’s plan was to have close, personal “followers” who were also learners and doers of His Way. They listened and followed Him as they learned from Him how to do what He did. The book of Acts repeatedly describes the early believers as those who were “followers” of Christ Jesus, the Way. Open to Acts 9:Acts 9:2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. NKJVActs 18:25-26 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, though he knew only the baptism of John. 26 So he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. NKJVActs 19:9, 23 But when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. 23 And about that time there arose a great commotion about the Way. NKJVActs 22:4 “I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women, NKJVActs 24:14, 22 “But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets. 22 But when Felix heard these things, having more accurate knowledge of the Way, he adjourned the proceedings and said, “When Lysias the commander comes down, I will make a decision on your case.” NKJVThe Church at the beginning was simple, everyone was following Jesus, acting so much like Him they were described by unbelievers as little-Christ-imitators or “CHRIST-ians”. As the church gathered, they were taught that every facet of their lives were to be reflective of what they learned while following Jesus personally. Disciplemakers:WE TEACH HOW TO FOLLOW BY EXAMPLEThe Great Commission described a plan for having each person in Christ’s Church actually involved in a life-long learning process of following Jesus Christ.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-25 FTF-01Short ClipHAVE YOU BEEN PERSONALLY DISCIPLED?That personal, face-to-face discipleship model: is what Jesus Christ did in the Four Gospels when He called and trained His 12 disciples.That personal, face-to-face discipleship model: is what we see being done in the Book of Acts.That personal, face-to-face discipleship model is: what prompts the letters to individuals and churches that are called the Epistles of the New Testament. That personal, face-to-face discipleship model is: often rare in our fast-paced, overwhelmed lives; but it is priceless when given and received.I have to admit that no one ever came up to me and asked me if they could teach me the basics of the life of a believer. I went to Sunday School, Youth Group, and countless church services. All were good, all were filled with so much truth, but I never had that model of a Q&A, sit-down, face-to-face discipleship. I had only read about discipleship in books; and read about discipleship in missionary biographies.So when I started in college, I decided to stop waiting and start getting discipled. I made a list of men that impressed me with their study skills, teaching manner, preaching style, public prayers, Scripture memory, and soul-winning or evangelism skills. Then systematically over an eight-year period, I followed, wrote, called, and persisted with that list until I had sat with each one and asked them how to learn to do what they did. It was an amazing time. Concurrently with all that personal training, I began to practice what I was being taught, which was the:JOY OF POURING OUR LIVES INTO OTHERSWhat is the plan of salvation, or the GOSPEL according to Jesus? That is our current online study class as we go through Paul’s ministry in the Books of Acts & the Epistles. We hope that you will follow along, mark your Bibles, and work through each class in this newest playlist.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-24Short ClipTest #8—SALVATION IS: ENTERING GOD’S KINGDOM & FOLLOWING GOD’S WAY AND NO LONGER MINE MESSAGE EIGHTEEN (Paul): The next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 19:8-26 where salvation is described as a Kingdom, following a Way, which people follow instead of their own way.Acts 19:8-26SALVATION IS: REPENTING & BELIEVING IN THE KINGDOM OF CHRISTMESSAGE NINETEEN (Paul): The next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 20:21-25 where salvation is described as repentance, faith, and entering into God’s Kingdom.Acts 20:21-25SALVATION IS: FOLLOWING THE WAY OF GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS, SELF-CONTROL & JUDGMENT MESSAGE TWENTY (Paul): The next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 24:14-27, where salvation is described as a Way of Worship, that involves righteousness, self-control, and averts judgment; and that message makes the lost to fear.Acts 24:14-16; 24-25SALVATION IS: GOD-OPENED EYES & GOD-TURNED LIVINGMESSAGE TWENTY-ONE (Paul recounting Christ’s words): The next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 26:17-20 where we see the Gospel Message directly from Jesus, who is at work doing soul winning on Paul right here in the Book of Acts. Jesus describes salvation as opened eyes, turning, receiving, and being sanctified. Jesus who saved Paul, explained to him that the same miraculous events of salvation, accomplished by God’s power, was what God also wanted to see happen in the lives of lost people everywhere Paul preached:Acts 26:17-18 (NKJV) I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you, 18 to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’ So what did that mean to Paul? He explains it in v. 19-20:“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20 “but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.What did Paul tell the lost pagans? Did his message differ from one he had for the Jews? No, one Gospel, one salvation, one faith!SALVATION IS: ENTERING GOD’S KINGDOM & LIVING GOD’S WAYMESSAGE TWENTY-TWO (PAUL): is the final Gospel Message is in Acts 28:28-31 where salvation is described as coming into God’s Kingdom. The starting message in Acts is: repent; and the concluding message is: enter God’s Kingdom, both rarely if ever used today.Acts 28:28-31

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-24Short ClipTest #7—SALVATION IS: HEEDING GOD’S WORD FROM AN OPENED HEARTMESSAGE THIRTEEN (Paul): The next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 16:14 where salvation is described as the Lord opening a person’s heart to heed His Word.Acts 16:14-15 (NKJV) Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul. 15 And when she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.SALVATION IS: BELIEVING IN GOD THE SON AS THE LORD JESUS CHRISTMESSAGE FOURTEEN (Paul): The next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 16:25-34 where salvation is described as believing. Acts 16:25-34 (NKJV) But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed. 27 And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself. 28 But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, “Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.” 29 Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. 30 And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” 31 So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” 32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized. 34 Now when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household.SALVATION IS: FOLLOWING JESUS AS THE NEW KING OF MY LIFEMESSAGE FIFTEEN (Pagan description): The next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 17:1-7, where salvation is described by pagans, who observed the process they saw happening as lost people believed and received Christ, as: getting a new King of your life.Acts 17:1-7 (NKJV) Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2 Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.” 4 And some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and Silas. 5 But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious, took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. 6 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here too. 7 Jason has harbored them, and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king—Jesus.”SALVATION IS: REACHING OUT TO GOD AS TRUE CREATOR & REPENTING OF ALL IDOLSMESSAGE SIXTEEN (Paul): The next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 17:22-34 where salvation is described as God commanding all to repent.Acts 17:22-34

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-24Short ClipTest #6—ARE YOU TURNING AWAY FROM WORTHLESS THINGS WITH A NEW GOD-PURIFIED HEART? SALVATION IS: TURNING FROM USELESS THINGS TO THE LORDMESSAGE ELEVEN (Paul): The next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 14:15, 21, 27 where salvation is described by Paul after his journey through Asia Minor as turning to God who opens the door of faith.Acts 14:15, 21, 27 (NKJV) and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them, 21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, 27 Now when they had come and gathered the church together, they reported all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.SALVATION IS: ASKING GOD TO PURIFY MY HEARTMESSAGE TWELVE (Peter & James): The next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 15:7-9, 19-20 where salvation is described as turning to God and away from what offends God’s Word and people.Acts 15:7-9 (NKJV) And when there had been much dispute, Peter rose up and said to them: “Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. 8 So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, 9 and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.Acts 15:19-20 (NKJV) Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God, 20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-24Short ClipTest #5—SALVATION IS: KNOWING THE PEACE OF SINS GONE MESSAGE EIGHT (Peter): The next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 10:35-43 where salvation is described as believing, receiving the remission of sins, and God granting repentance.Acts 10:36, 39-43 (NKJV) The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all— 39 And we are witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed by hanging on a tree. 40 Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly, 41 not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, even to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead. 42 And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge of the living and the dead. 43 To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, whoever believes in Him will receive remission of sins.”SALVATION IS: TURNING TO THE LORD IN REPENTANCEMESSAGE NINE (Peter & others): The next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 11:17-21 where salvation is described as believing and turning.Acts 11:17-21 (NKJV) If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?” 18 When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.” 19 Now those who were scattered after the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but the Jews only. 20 But some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus. 21 And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.SALVATION IS: HAVING BOTH THE PENALTY & RECORD OF ALL MY SINS FOREVER GONE = FORGIVENESS OF EVERYTHINGMESSAGE TEN (Paul): The next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 13:38-39, 48 where salvation is described as forgiveness of everything to all who believe.Acts 13:38-48 (NKJV) Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins; 39 and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. 40 Beware therefore, lest what has been spoken in the prophets come upon you: 41 ‘Behold, you despisers, Marvel and perish! For I work a work in your days, A work which you will by no means believe, Though one were to declare it to you.’” 42 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. 43 Now when the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. 44 On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God. 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy; and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Paul. 46 Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first; but since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles. 47 For so the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have set you as a light to the Gentiles, That you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth.’” 48 Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-24Short Clip#4—DO YOU REALLY WANT JESUS TO RULE YOUR LIFE AS YOUR KING?SALVATION IS: BELIEVING WITH ALL YOUR HEARTThe next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 8:35-37:Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him. 36 Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?” 37 Then Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”SALVATION IS: WANTING JESUS AS THE LORD TO OBEYThe next Gospel Presentation is in Acts 9:4-6 which records the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, into Paul the Apostle. This event is described at length in Acts 22 and again in Acts 26.Acts 9:1-6 (NKJV) Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. 3 As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” 5 And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.” 6 So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

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2—SALVATION IS: WANTING JESUS MORE THAN MY SIN MESSAGE TWO (Peter):

As we move on we find the second Gospel presentation in Acts 3:19,26:
v. 19 “Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
v. 26 “To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”

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Ten generations of Christians, starting with Peter’s generation, met and hid at times in the Catacombs over a period of 300 years.

In those early centuries of the church, the catacombs sometimes served as meeting and burial places for perhaps as many as a million Christians.

A common inscription found on walls there is “The Word of God is not bound.”

This hope shared by all believers was captured in the famous hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” as Luther declared, “The body they may kill; God’s truth abideth still.”

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First Peter 2 Title: Submit to God each day.

God lays down the pathway for spiritual growth for believers.

Lessons:
1—First Peter 2:1a—SPIRITUAL GROWTH IS A CHOICE: Spiritual growth demands some hard choices based upon the work of the Gospel. But, spiritual growth is only based on genuine, supernatural new birth that only God can produce—we can’t “do it” ourselves. Spiritual growth is only possible for those who are:

—genuinely saved by redemption (1 Peter 1:18-21);
—with God-purified souls (1 Peter 1:22); and
—and born again by the Word of God (1 Peter 1:23).

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Lessons:
1—First Peter 2:1a—SPIRITUAL GROWTH IS A CHOICE: Spiritual growth demands some hard choices based upon the work of the Gospel “therefore”. But, spiritual growth is only based on genuine, supernatural new birth that only God can produce—we can’t “do it” ourselves. Spiritual growth is only possible for those who are:
—genuinely saved by redemption (1 Peter 1:18-21);
—with God-purified souls (1 Peter 1:22); and
—that are born again by the Word of God (1 Peter 1:23).

What Did God through Peter—Teach them?
Live in Hope each day (1 Peter 1)
Submit to God each day (1 Peter 2)
Talk about Jesus each day (1 Peter 3)
Expect Persecution each day (1 Peter 4)
Resist the Devil each day (1 Peter 5)

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UNLEASHING HOPE AS WE ENDURE DANGER, HOSTILITY & PERSECUTION

The world of the NT when Peter wrote his three Epistles—was a terrible time in history, from AD 60 and 70.

For half those years the hatred and evils of Nero had led to the random acts of fierce persecution of Christians. Across the city of Rome, believers were killed from the arenas to the prisons.
Have you pondered how hard it must have been to be a Christian in those ten years?

Yet in that dangerous time to even be a believer, Peter boldly wrote to the saints of the Roman world about the Life of Jesus (Gospel by Mark) and about Reflecting Jesus to the very end (1 & 2 Peter). As Peter wrote those NT books, he had become the “Most Wanted” man of the day.

Peter demonstrated the holy boldness Christ can bring into the lives of His children.

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The world of the NT when Peter wrote his three Epistles—was a terrible time in history, from AD 60 and 70. For half those years the hatred and evils of Nero had led to the random acts of fierce persecution of Christians. Across the city of Rome, believers were killed from the arenas to the prisons.

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-02Short ClipWhat is the plan of salvation, or GOSPEL according to Jesus? That is our current online study class. We hope that you will follow along, mark your Bibles, and work through each class in this newest playlist.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-01Short ClipWhat is the plan of salvation, or GOSPEL according to Jesus? That is our current online study class. We hope that you will follow along, mark your Bibles, and work through each class in this newest playlist.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioESH-01Short ClipTHESE ARE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES FROM GOD HIMSELFNestled right in the midst of those incredible 326 English words, translated from the 225 Greek words, into the 16 verses of this chapter: we have the demonstration of genuine spiritual life-coaching, poured out from the heart of Timothy’s father-in-the-faith, Paul.Look at the basic divisions of this chapter:Timothy: Expose Evil Doctrines & Teachers (4:1-6a)Timothy: Nourish your own Soul spiritually (4:6b)Timothy: Reject all forms of profane & empty living (4:7a)Timothy: Pursue personal Godliness (4:7b-10)Timothy: Command and Teach others to Exercise themselves in Godliness (4:11)Timothy: Live an Exemplary Life (4:12)Timothy: Attend to Your personal Mastery of God’s Word (4:13)Timothy: Use the Giftedness God Gave to You (4:14)Timothy: Devote Yourself to Christ (4:15)Timothy: Never Stop Regularly Examining Your own Lifestyle (4:16)But each of these lessons Paul taught to Timothy surround a sense that they were ongoing, not just single-use. In fact, as we look more closely, the Spirit of God inspired Paul to use a word from the arena of sports as a very graphic illustration. Paul packages these spiritual truths in the form of athletic “exercises”, or “disciplines”, or “training sessions”: as the various translations of the Bible render the Greek work in v. 7. Look again with me at 1 Timothy 4:7b in your Bible. Each of you should have one of these before you:“and exercise yourself toward godliness.” (NKJV)“ Rather train yourself for godliness;” (ESV)“ On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness;” (NASB)“rather, train yourself to be godly.” (NIV)What is so important to note here is that “train yourself to be godly” in its context primarily refers to training ourselves in and by the Scriptures for the purpose of godliness. Our diet is to be the Scriptures, and we are to exercise ourselves in them. We will become godly only through the godliest Book ever written—God’s own Word.Our diet is to be “every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God”, and we are to exercise ourselves in God’s Word. We can see the key idea of this passage through one of the words that God chose to use to describe what He expects from us.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBP-08Short ClipWHAT CAN KEEP US FROM SERVING JESUS IN DAILY LIFE?Jesus answers that question in one of His most sobering postcards, the one to the final church called Laodicea. It was a literal church in the first century, and may well be a prophetic look at the very age in which we live. Here is what Jesus says to each of us who live in these dangerous times of great comfort, wealth, security, and freedom of unlimited choices.“Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing—and do not know that you are … blind, and naked—I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments … that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eyesalve, that you may see” (Revelation 3:17–18).Jesus is warning us to be careful of three grave dangers, these dangers are more virulent than melanoma or staphylococcus (both MRSA and VRSA). Here are three deadly spiritual pathogens :

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBP-08Short ClipGod opposes the “sluggards” mentioned 9x in Proverbs as well as “laziness” mentioned 15x in Proverbs. Here is a sample of 5 of the 24 passages on sluggards and laziness from Proverbs.1- Proverbs 6:6-11 Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise, 7 Which, having no captain, Overseer or ruler, 8 Provides her supplies in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest. 9 How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep— 11 So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.2-Proverbs 10:5 He who gathers in summer is a wise son; He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.3-Proverbs 15:19 The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns,But the way of the upright is a highway.4-Proverbs 22:13 The lazy man says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!”5-Proverbs 26:12-16 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. 13 The lazy man says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion is in the streets!” 14 As a door turns on its hinges, So does the lazy man on his bed. 15 The lazy man buries his hand in the bowl; It wearies him to bring it back to his mouth. 16 The lazy man is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who can answer sensibly.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBP-08Short ClipWORK IS A CREATION MANDATE. GOD SAYS NO WORK = NO EAT–Because God Is Opposed To Laziness. 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. 11 For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. 12 Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread. Work is a model established by God for it was God who worked for six days and then rested on the seventh, and God, of course, is the worker who continually sustains the universe. Man, being created in the image of God, then, is created as a worker. Work is also a part of the creation mandate. That’s the role of mankind. Stars shine, suns shine, moons shine, on the earth plants grow, animals do what they’re supposed to do, rocks do what they’re to do, mountains do what they’re to do, water does what it’s to do, clouds do what they’re to do, and we do what we’re to do. Remember, working hard is first a mindset (and so is laziness). Either we adopt God’s attitude (work), or the foolish mindset (sluggardliness).

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBP-08Short ClipDid you know that work is a command from God? Work is part of God’s will for us as we live our lives. The goal of life should never become avoiding work. Work is noble. Work is obedience to God. Work is satisfying and fulfilling.He said—Six days shall you labor.God commands us to work.Wise people want to work.Laziness is foolishness and foolishness is sin!Satan is attacking every part of what God established in Genesis:Six-day literal creation——-The role of men and women ———The home, marriage——-One man joined to one woman for life in sexual purity.And even a work ethic

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBP-07Short ClipContentment Must Become a Learned Way of LifeHow do we learn to be content and then model and teach contentment to our families? One of the best ways to start is to do a study of 1 Timothy 6:6–17, which describes seven principles that promote contentment.Principle 1—Remember that things are only temporary: Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and we can carry nothing out (1 Timothy 6:6–7). You cannot take it with you. There are no U-Haul trailers behind hearses. Principle 2—Only seek necessities, and wait for the rest: Having food and clothing, with these we shall be content (1 Timothy 6:8).We need shelter and the basic provisions of life, but everything beyond that is simply a great blessing. Whether it comes or goes is okay. God has said that all we are supposed to expect in life are food and clothing, so we should be happy with that.Principle 3—Avoid a consuming desire for prosperity: Those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and many foolish and harmful lusts, For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows (1 Timothy 6:9–10).America has been fed a prosperity diet. You might say, “That is not me—I am not rich.” If you own a car, you are rich. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world can’t afford a car. Your watch and the clothes you have on are worth more than what hundreds of millions of people on earth have. Tens of thousands even starve to death around the world each year, but Americans regularly throw away super-sized leftovers.Principle 4—Flee materialism: Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness (1 Timothy 6:11).Do you seek to accumulate possessions—or to grow in Christlikeness? Value what will count for eternity!Principle 5—Cling to eternal life: Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called. Keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing (1 Timothy 6:12, 14).We need a whole generation of people who are holding tighter to eternal life than they are to this world.The writer of Hebrews says, You had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven (Hebrews 10:34). When those Christians were persecuted and their jobs and possessions taken away, they still rejoiced because their focus was on Christ.If we’re not careful, before long our possessions can possess us. They then become an anchor that holds us back. The care of riches clouds our minds from seeking the purity of Christ.Principle 6—Fix your hope on God: Command those who are rich … not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God (1 Timothy 6:17).There is nothing wrong with wealth, but we are to recognize the danger of relying upon it. All that we own can evaporate as quickly as a blip on a computer screen. There are few things that are real possessions in this world. Through money, stocks, and bonds you are trusting that a company, a bank, or a government won’t fail. But the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy, can never fail us—and our trust in Him is certain!Principle 7—Give until it hurts: Let them do good, ready to give, willing to share, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life (1 Timothy 6:18–19).The real cure for materialism is to give until it hurts! Giving “until it hurts” means giving at the cost of personal sacrifice. For example, the widow gave both of her mites, or all that she had (Mark 12:42–44). The woman who anointed Jesus broke the flask of fragrant oil and irrecoverably gave all she had to Him (Luke 7:37–47). Sacrificial gifts are especially important to Jesus.That is why the last words that John wrote in 1 John, should speak to each of us:1 John 5:20-21 (NKJV) And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBP-07Short ClipContentment Must Become a Learned Way of LifeHow do we learn to be content and then model and teach contentment to our families? One of the best ways to start is to do a study of 1 Timothy 6:6–17, which describes seven principles that promote contentment.Principle 1—Remember that things are only temporary: Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and we can carry nothing out (1 Timothy 6:6–7). You cannot take it with you. There are no U-Haul trailers behind hearses. Principle 2—Only seek necessities, and wait for the rest: Having food and clothing, with these we shall be content (1 Timothy 6:8).We need shelter and the basic provisions of life, but everything beyond that is simply a great blessing. Whether it comes or goes is okay. God has said that all we are supposed to expect in life are food and clothing, so we should be happy with that.Principle 3—Avoid a consuming desire for prosperity: Those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and many foolish and harmful lusts, For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have stray ed from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows (1 Timothy 6:9–10).America has been fed a prosperity diet. You might say, “That is not me—I am not rich.” If you own a car, you are rich. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world can’t afford a car. Your watch and the clothes you have on are worth more than what hundreds of millions of people on earth have. Tens of thousands even starve to death around the world each year, but Americans regularly throw away super-sized leftovers.Principle 4—Flee materialism: Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness (1 Timothy 6:11).Do you seek to accumulate possessions—or to grow in Christlikeness? Value what will count for eternity! Principle5—Cling to eternal life: Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called. Keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing (1 Timothy 6:12, 14).We need a whole generation of people who are holding tighter to eternal life than they are to this world.Principle 6—Fix your hope on God: Command those who are rich … not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God (1 Timothy 6:17).There is nothing wrong with wealth, but we are to recognize the danger of relying upon it. All that we own can evaporate as quickly as a blip on a computer screen. There are few things that are real possessions in this world. Through money, stocks, and bonds you are trusting that a company, a bank, or a government won’t fail. But the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy, can never fail us—and our trust in Him is certain!Principle 7—Give until it hurts: Let them do good, ready to give, willing to share, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life (1 Timothy 6:18–19).The real cure for materialism is to give until it hurts! Giving “until it hurts” means giving at the cost of personal sacrifice. For example, the widow gave both of her mites, or all that she had (Mark 12:42–44). The woman who anointed Jesus broke the flask of fragrant oil and irrecoverably gave all she had to Him (Luke 7:37–47). Sacrificial gifts are especially important to Jesus.That is why the last words that John wrote in 1 John, should speak to each of us:1 John 5:20-21 (NKJV) And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBP-07Short ClipOh, the dreadful condition of being artificial! Many people know only the appearance and not the reality of Jesus Christ. Do you know the difference between appearance and reality? God does! In every generation He has had to pronounce this woe against certain ones: “These people draw near Me with their mouths, and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me” (Isaiah 29:13).Think of the excruciating eternal impact of being busy and active in the church— but ending up unknown by Jesus Christ! Is your heart in the same place that your mouth is saying you are? You talk and sing about the Lord, and perhaps even teach a class, but does your heart belong to Him? My Prayer for You This Week: Dear Lord Jesus, as You wrote this letter to the church at Sardis, You warned about the danger of those who professed something they never possessed. And while You were here on earth, one of Your constant emphases was dislodging people from a false sense of security—those who thought they were in the kingdom because they were Abraham’s seed, circumcised, going to the temple, sacrificing, giving, and serving—but had no heart for change. We pray that You would show us that the only true riches are in possessing Jesus Christ. To profess knowledge of You, and yet to not possess that life-giving, life-changing, born-again relationship with You, is the most horrible deadly condition we could be in. Oh Lord, open our eyes to behold Your wonderful truths! Thank You for the blessing of Your Word! Let Your Spirit pierce our hearts with the assurance of true riches in Christ. We pray in the lovely name of Jesus, and for His glory. Amen.

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBP-00Short ClipWeek-19b: Exploring Proverbs. The longer I spend in this Book the bigger this truth dawns on my heart.Wisdom is not just a topic or subject in God’s Word—it is THE message of God’s Word. Wisdom is found with God and nowhere else.Wisdom is the dividing line. There are only two kinds of people on the planet, only two kinds of people in the world, according to Scripture. There are wise and there are foolish. Those are the only kinds of people that exist. The world is full of fools, and sprinkled among the fools are the wise. God has given the guide to Divine Wisdom. Would you like to live God’s Way? It is the BEST LIFE possible. This how-to walk in the “wisdom that is from above” as James 3:17 calls it! The Book of Proverbs contains the ancient principles and God’s chosen applications of Scripture which the godly characters of the Bible illustrate in their lives from Genesis to Revelation. Come. Learn. Grow. Live.The word “proverb” means “to be like,” thus Proverbs is a book of comparisons between common, concrete images and life’s most profound truths. Proverbs are simple, moral statements (or illustrations) that highlight and teach fundamental realities about life

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBIs-12Short ClipThe Gospels record just 37 specific miracles that Jesus performed during His earthly ministry. Which one was the greatest?Think about it. If you analyze them they were wonderful but ALL were only temporary.• The paralyzed, lame, mute, and blind that Jesus gave back eyes, fingers, toes, and skin eventually lost them all again when they got sick and died some years later.• Peter’s mother-in-law was miraculously set free from a fever but years later died of other causes which may also have involved a fever.• The food miraculously created by Jesus was consumed by the five and four thousand, and used up – and hunger returned the next day.• The eyes restored to blind Bartimaeus were used, worn out, and dimmed by the time he died.• The hearing that the deaf received was subject to the natural downward slide of the human body and faded most likely by their death.• Those dancing feet after Christ’s touch that the lame possessed, soon turned to a shuffle and then stopped working altogether as they lay in bed awaiting death many years later.• Lepers who found fresh new skin and limbs saw them again return to wrinkles, weakness, and finally, immobility as circulation, respiration, and digestion all slowly were assaulted by the weight of many years.• So yes, Jesus performed many miracles – but all of them but one were TEMPORARY.The Greatest ofAll Christ’s MiraclesThe answer is the one that never faded, never aged, never ended. It was the miracle unfaded by time, untouched by health, unaffected by circumstances.That miracle, the greatest miracle is the one that Jesus Christ is still doing in our midst today. It is the miracle that I have personally experienced. It is the miracle that most of us in this room have also experienced. It is the greatest of all Christ’s miracles – the miracle of complete forgiveness.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBIs-12Short ClipIsaiah 53–THE GREATEST INTRODUCTION TO JESUS CHRIST THE SAVIORProof that God is the author of Scripture and Jesus its fulfillment is found in Isaiah 53, in the minute essential details exactly fulfilled in the death, burial, resurrection, ascension, intercession, coronation and salvation provided through Jesus Christ. Jesus Himself, the apostles of the New Testament, the writers of the New Testament in proclaiming the gospel point back to Isaiah 53 many, many times.There are references to Isaiah 53 in 15 of the 27 NT Books–Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, 1 Timothy, Titus, Hebrews, 1 Peter, and 1 John.Isaiah 53 is the Romans of the Old Testament.Romans is the greatest New Testament treatment on how a sinner can be right with God and escape eternal hell and enter eternal heaven.Isaiah 53 is the greatest Old Testament revelation on the same question.

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBIs-12Short ClipWhat is the question everyone should be asking? Here is the ultimate question—How can a sinner be right with God so as to escape hell and enter heaven? That’s the most important question. How can a sinner be right with God so as to escape eternal hell and enter eternal heaven? That’s the question. How can a holy God declare a sinner righteous? That’s the question.This is the great moral dilemma that exists in the world.God answers that question for the world.God sent Isaiah 53 to answer that ultimate question.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBIs-12Short ClipTHE ONLY TRUE & LIVING GODThere is only one God, the Creator. There is only one Savior, named Jesus Christ.The only True God is that Creator and Redeemer introduced to us on the pages of Holy Scripture.The True Savior came into the world as the Lord Jesus Christ, the only Savior.Biblical Christianity has the only God of all the 21 religions—Who died and rose again to give forgiveness and salvation to His people.That God who died for the sin of the world is the Lord Jesus ChristOnly Christianity presents a savior.There is only one way to God, one truth about God, and one life with God–and that is the truth of Christianity. There’s only one Savior, and He is the Lord Jesus Christ.THE ONLY HOPE OF SALVATIONOnly Christianity faces the reality that—No person can earn his way to God.No person can earn forgiveness.No person can earn salvation.No person can earn heaven by goodness, morality, religious activity, ceremony, ritual.The Bible is very clear that salvation is a gift for those who know they can’t earn it and cry for mercy, putting their trust for forgiveness and salvation and heaven in the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for their sins in their place and rose triumphantly from the dead, confirming that He had fully satisfied the justice and the wrath of God.All people are sinners, all who have ever lived are sinners, all are unable to save themselves, all need a savior.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBIs-10Short ClipWe are invited to have our life anchored by the truth about God our Rock. This life anchored to truth only started at our salvation, because it never stops growing. We live each day walking by faith and resting upon the solid foundation of trusting our Changeless God. Jesus came to reveal the Father to us. Jesus is the doorway to all that God has promised and revealed. Here are some of the most foundational of those truths about God that make for a very sure foundation:First, His Eternity: (that God is seeing everything at once vividly past, present, future);

Second, His Unchangeableness: (that God is unchanging in His perfections, purposes, and promises);

Third, His Wisdom: (that God chooses best goals and means to those goals);
Fourth, His Omniscience: (that God is knowing Himself and all things actual and possible);

Finally, His desire for us to stay connected through the Doctrine of Prayer: (our personal contact with God), because we know that “Prayer changes the way God acts”.

When believers are confused or untaught about the attributes of God, it leads to instability, and needless fears: so we need to dive in and know what His Word says. What are the key attributes that have to do with these Changeless Truths about God?

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBIs-10Short ClipFirst, His Eternity: (that God is seeing everything at once vividly past, present, future);Second, His Unchangeableness: (that God is unchanging in His perfections, purposes, and promises);Third, His Wisdom: (that God chooses best goals and means to those goals);Fourth, His Omniscience: (that God is knowing Himself and all things actual and possible);Finally, His desire for us to stay connected through the Doctrine of Prayer: (our personal contact with God), because we know that “Prayer changes the way God acts”.When believers are confused or untaught about the attributes of God, it leads to instability, and needless fears: so we need to dive in and know what His Word says. What are the key attributes that have to do with these Changeless Truths about God?

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBIs-09Short Clip#5—BECAUSE OF ITS SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY. Just the last few chapters of Job would be enough to prove the extra-terrestrial nature of this Book. Have you ever read an old biology book? Have you looked at an old Astronomy textbook? So much has changed. In fact, in nearly every area of the Sciences, there is flux, change, restatement, and casting out the old and disproved statements. Often there is a complete error and mistaken theories.But not with God, HE SAYS IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME!6. Meteorology is the study of our atmosphere. Only a few hundred years ago was it found that air above us has mass or weight. However in the first and oldest book of the Bible nearly 4,500 years ago Job said Job 28:24-25 For He looks to the ends of the earth, [And] sees under the whole heavens, 25 To establish a weight for the wind, And apportion the waters by measure. (NKJV)7. Hydrology is the water cycle of the Earth. Water circulates from the ground and seas to the air and back again. Scripture explicitly documents this fact. Ecclesiastes 1:7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. (KJV) Note: this was written 1000 BC before anyone knew of the hydrological cycle. Go back 4500 years ago to the oldest book in the world and listen to God discuss Evaporation, Condensation, Vapor Clouds and Precipitation – all the elements of hydrology, through Job. Job 36:27-28 For He draws up drops of water, Which distill as rain from the mist, 28 Which the clouds drop down [And] pour abundantly on man. (NKJV) Now that is Scientific Precision! Psalm 135:7 He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain; He brings the wind out of His treasuries. (NKJV) Job 26:8 He binds up the water in His thick clouds, Yet the clouds are not broken under it. (NKJV) Job 28:10-11 He cuts out channels in the rocks, And his eye sees every precious thing. 11 He dams up the streams from trickling; [What is] hidden he brings forth to light. (NKJV)8. Isostasy is the relatively new study of the rotational balance there is in our global earth between the height of mountains and the depths of the oceans. The desire to understand earthquakes and so on has caused this scientific inquiry. There must be a balance for the earth to not wobble. Did God know about this? He sure does. Listen to Isaiah 600 years before ChristIsaiah 40:12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,Measured heaven with a spanAnd calculated the dust of the earth in a measure?Weighed the mountains in scales And the hills in a balance? (NKJV)9. Geodesy studies the shape, size and gravitation forces on the planet. Although science thought the world flat for a time the Scriptures have ALWAYS affirmed the truth. The Earth Rotates (turning on an axis) is a fact that up to the 1400’s was absent from science. The thinkers of the day said the earth was flat. The Hindu writings affirm that it rested on the backs of elephants. But God gives Scriptural truth inJob 38:14It takes on form like clay [under] a seal (turning a cylinder in a axis to sign documents),And stands out like a garment. (NKJV) Wow, it rotates and its suspended in space!Job 26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place,[and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.The Earth Is Round Isaiah 40:22 [It is] He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants [are] like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. (NKJV)10. Geology Job 38:4-6 11.The Laws of Science: First Law of Thermodynamics. There are some rules of operations for our Universe. These are called the laws of thermodynamics. The 1st Law states ‘ultimately nothing is destroyed’. This also means that mass and energy are conserved. God says Isaiah 40:26; Ecclesiastes 1:10 So thousands of years before it was discovered God states that He keeps things from ‘missing’ and there is really ‘nothing new’. The Second Law Of Thermodynamics states that although there is a conservation of mass and energy (1st Law) all matter in the Universe is still involved in a breakdown going from order to disorder. Declining from the ORDER of the Cosmos to CHAOS and ENERGY to ENTROPY. The Scriptures affirm this Law although evolution denies it! Romans 8:21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. (NIV) why because it has been cursed in Genesis 3.

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBIs-02Short ClipDoesn’t that sound like the current moral condition of the United States of America?The similarity is eerie, but actually, every one of those five questions is behind what God Almighty Himself is asking to His Chosen People of Promise, the nation of Israel. The primary targets of these questions were the people that God Himself confronts in Isaiah 1-5.As you sit with Isaiah open before you, may I ask a quick question? Why would we: in the New Testament Era, the Church Age, the time of Grace, turn back to the Old Testament, and start there as we study an important Biblical topic? Is there authority for our lives in the Old Testament?Because Jesus and the Apostles used the OT, and this BOOK MORE than any other.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBIs-02Short ClipIn this connection it is interesting to remember that our Old Testament Prophecies of Christ as “the Branch” correspond to the four Gospels:Isaiah 11:1 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots. (Jeremiah 23:5)Matthew—Jesus King of JewsZechariah 3:8:”For, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch.” Mark—Jesus the ServantZechariah 6:12 “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch.” Luke—Jesus the Perfect ManIsaiah 4:2 In that day the Branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and appealing For those of Israel who have escaped. (cf. Jeremiah 23:6) John—Jesus, God the Son

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBIs-01Short ClipOne noted Bible teacher once said–“We have a faith rooted in history—not mystery. The words on the pages of Scripture are supporting by simple elements we can dig out of the ground. They prove nothing, but they support everything. How can we expect to believe in the parts of the Bible we cannot verify—like faith, the Messiah, and heaven—if the Scriptures are not also true in the natural realm? The Bible is not primarily a history book, but what it says about history is true. The Bible is not a science book, but what it says about science is true. This reality reminds me of what Jesus said to Nicodemus: “If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?” (John 3:12). With our own eyes, we can see Hezekiah’s wall, Hezekiah’s Tunnel, and Sennacherib’s Prism.” They are real. So is our faith.

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBIs-01Short ClipIsaiah is the #1 SOURCE ON SOME OF THE BIBLE’S GREATEST MYSTERIES:Isaiah contains the two furthest reaching events in all of history: The most ancient event is the fall of Satan (14:12-17) and the most future event, the creation of the new heavens and earth (66:22).

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBIs-01Short ClipThe Book of Isaiah (and all its doctrines) was BELIEVED & TRUSTED BY—Jesus, Paul, John, Luke, Peter & the Early Church Isaiah is the PRIMARY SOURCE ON THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF CHRIST1-It is the MOST QUOTED BOOK: Isaiah is quoted from or alluded to over 470 times by 23 New Testament books. 2-It is the SALVATION BOOK OF THE OLD TESTAMENT: ISAIAH contains more references to salvation than any other Old Testament book (The word salvation appears 33 times in the writing of the prophets, and of these, 26 instances occur in Isaiah.)3-It is the SOURCE ON THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF CHRIST: Isaiah contains the only Old Testament prophecy concerning the virgin birth of Christ (cf. Isaiah. 7:14 with Matthew. 1:21-23).

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBIs-01Short ClipWelcome to the Book of Isaiah.This is the Book that Jesus trusted, believed, quoted, used, and offers to us as an example of how we should TRUST the Bible God’s Word.Do you really believe the Bible? I hope so. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God. Jesus shows us how we can know God’s plan for the future, for our life, and for all those we know and love.Jesus believed the OT Book of Isaiah was true—DO YOU? God the Son introduces Himself, and then proceeds in this book to—Explains sin (5)Explains His Method (6)Explains Cosmological War (14)Explains Earth’s Doom (24)Explains Only Solution (53)Explains the End of Days for Humanity (65-66)

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBG-16 SPC-56Short ClipSometime in the latter AD ’60s, Paul, the apostle looked out of the tiny grate that let in light to his subterranean dungeon. The Mamertine prison was only a stone’s throw from the epicenter of the world, the Roman Forum.Outside could be heard the crowds surging to the Circus Maximus, the games and the great festivals. The mightylegions returned from victory after victory with dazzling displays of plunder and captives.And there ten feet under the streets of ancient Rome in a damp, dirty hole in the ground, in that solitary dungeon of deprivation and discomfort, once again the Holy Spirit of God overshadowed the great apostle and began to breathe through him the very Word of God. As the victorious armies streamed into the Eternal City they had to pass within yards of that iron-barred dungeon. If a legionnaire had bothered to take a moment to look down that hole, he might have seen a faint glow of a candle as a worn-out old man, bound with chains, hunched over a scroll and laboriously wrote some words to an old friend.So, in the late Autumn of life sits the Apostle who dominates the early years of the church. Here awaiting execution in this most undesirable spot, is Saint Paul. Look at his last words from this very spot… 2 Timothy 4:6 For I am already being poured out (spendomai) as a drink offering (an Old Testament sacrifice of thanks to God), and the time of my departure is at hand. What is this? It is the voice of the “The Apostle of Thanks”As God’s missionary Paul wrote a travel diary – let me read it to you: 2 Cor. 11. “But whatever anyone dares to boast of…I also dare to boast of that…Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one–I am talking like a madman–with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I have received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I have been beaten with rods; once I was stoned. Three times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brethren; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches.” Most of those events are not in Acts so this is such an intimate look!Add to this the constant walks up and down those Roman roads and all that it entailed of over 1200 WALKING miles. Paul endured every form of hardship, encountering every extremity of danger (2 Cor. 11:23-27). Paul was attacked by angry townspeople, punished by cruel magistrates (Acts 16:19-24; 21:27). Paul was scourged, beaten, stoned, left for dead (Acts 14:19-20). Paul could only expect more of the same treatment and the same dangers (Acts 20:23). Paul was driven from one city, so he just went on to preach in the next (Acts 13:50-51; 14:5-7,19-21). Paul invested his whole life in missionary work, sacrificing to the Lord all of his personal time for pleasures, ease, and security (Acts 20:24; Rom. 1:14-15; Phil. 1:20; 3:8). Paul chose to keep on this course to old age, unaltered by the experience of hardness (Acts 28:17); thankless Christians (Gal. 1:6; 4:14-20); unjustified prejudice (II Cor. 12:15); and even desertion by his closest friends (11 Tim. 4:10, 16). Paul was unstopped by circumstances that caused anxiety, by personal wants, by hard and exhausting labor, by fierce persecution, by month after month of confinements, or even the specter of death (Acts 21:13; II Cor. 12:10; Phil. 2:17; 4:18; 11 Tim. 4:17).

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBI-11Short ClipGod was watching over His Word to fulfill it!Now we turn onward to the equally fascinating words of Ezekiel 38-39Trust The God Who Describes Russia As The Leader Of The Anti-Israeli Coalition Described In Ezekiel 38-39Twenty six hundred years ago, the prophet Ezekiel predicted clues to identify when this would happen,Ezekiel 38:8 (NKJV) After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely.Note this would happen in “the latter years” after the Israelites were scattered throughout the world and the land of Israel became a desolation for a long time. History is witness to all of this. But who does God predict will come against Israel?Who Is Coming Against Israel?In Ezekiel 38:1-6, the Hebrew prophet gives a list of obscure names that will form a united coalition. After I read these six verses listen to the historic records, geographic locations, and modern day countries that reside in those exact places described—and how they are all slowly aligning themselves against Israel.Ezekiel 38:1-6 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, 3 “and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. 4 “I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords. 5 “Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; 6 “Gomer and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops—many people are with you.Now listen to how the historic records, geographic locations, and modern day countries that reside in those exact places described—and how they are all slowly aligning themselves against Israel.The list in Ezekiel 38:5-6. It is actually quite amazing, almost like this mornings newspaper. Here are the players in one of the greatest conflicts of all time:1. Gog is described as being “of the land of Magog” and as the “prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.” Most Bible scholars believe Gog is not a name but a title, like Pharoah or Czar. He is a dictator who will hatch an “evil plan” (38:10).2. Magog according to the first century historian Josephus wrote in his classic work, Antiquities of the Jews, that the “Magogites” are the people that the Greeks refer to as “Scythians.” Study the history of the ancient Scythians and you will quickly discover that these were a brutal and bloodthirsty people that settled north of the Black Sea in the area we now call Russia and the former Soviet republics. In Moscow the State Historical Museum on Red Square has numerous Scythian artifacts prominently displayed. Russia is proud of its Scythian tradition, and this helps us pinpoint Russia as the modern country to which Ezekiel was referring.3. Rosh is probably Russia. True, Ezekiel never uses the word Russia. Instead, he says a dictator referred to as “Gog” will arise in the land of “Magog,” and will be the “prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.” Other Bible scholars note that when Ezekiel mentions “Rosh” he is using the root word for Russia. Others believe “Meshech” refers to Moscow and “Tubal” refers to the Tubal River in Siberia and the Siberian city of Tobolsk. Numerous leading Bible scholars agree that Russia will certainly be the leader of the anti-Israel coalition in what Ezekiel describes as “the last days.”4. Meshech is possibly as some Bible scholars say is Moscow, but others believe it refers to Turkey; MESHECH is the 6th son of Japheth (Genesis 10:2). Assyrian inscriptions locate this group as dwelling in Phrygia and Anatolia (which is modern Turkey). Herodotus the Greek historian calls these same tribes the Mushki, and says they came down from the Black Sea mountains which is NE of Turkey. Josephus in the 1st Century says that Meshech dwells in Eastern Turkey.5. Tubal as some Bible scholars say this refers to the city/region of Tobolsk in Russia along the Tobol River; others say it refers to a section of modern-day Turkey. (Interestingly, in 1964, massive reserves of oil and gas were discovered in the Tobolsk region of Siberia and people now refer to the region as the “energy center of Russia.”) Tubal is the 5th son of Japheth whose descendents migrated to the same general area. In the war records of the Assyrians these tribes are called Tibareni and Moschi and locate them on the SE shores of the Black Sea. Again all in southern modern day Russia.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBI-11Short ClipGod was watching over His Word to fulfill it!What happens?Note the details of Ezekiel 39The weapons burn for 7 years? (39:9-10) that is the usable life of atomic weapons. There are atomic sites all over Israel that could use this material!The burial takes 7 months (39:11-16) and is down wind east of the Dead Sea? Sounds like quarantine, hazardous cleanup and radioactive contamination procedures!There are three lines of interpretation for when this battle takes place:1. After the Millennium (this is the Revelation 20 battle).2. Part of Armageddon (this is the Daniel 11 battle).3. Or before the 70th week of Daniel 9:27.How Did Jesus Tell us to Apply Prophetic Studies?Turn back again to Luke 21. When Jesus explained the entire scope of end times events, He paused and concluded with two commands in v. 36 for us who listen to Him. We can learn what Jesus said were our responsibilities as believers (Luke 21:29–38)“Watch therefore, and pray always…” (Luke 21:36) Pray is the word for beg, implore and beseech, it is an intense word!Jesus revealed that all of the magnificent buildings of Herod would become rubble. . . and that nothing on earth ever lasts; but Jesus came to His disciples with an offer of something they could become a part of that never ends.What are you intensely asking (begging) God to be doing through your life that will last forever?Christ said here is something anyone in my family can do! Here is what you do that I love, and I make your investments in these areas last forever. Jesus said:• I collect all of your prayers – PRAY! Revelation 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of saints. (KJV)• I multiply sacrificial gifts – GIVE! Mark 12:41-44 (NKJV) Now Jesus sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into the treasury. And many who were rich put in much. 42 Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a quadrans. 43 So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury; 44 for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.”• I count souls you lead to me – WIN! Daniel 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise. 1 Corinthians 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. (KJV) 1st Thessalonians 2.19• I remember humble service – SERVE! Mark 14:3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. (KJV) do rest• I love believers that do outreach – GO! Matthew 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. (KJV)Prophecy Encourages us to Love, Follow & Serve God NOW

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioEBI-03Short ClipAs a student of God’s Word for over 40 years, there is one simple question that fills my heart and mind as I read the Bible, “What does this passage mean?”Bible teachers are called to explain the Bible, to help people understand what the Bible means, and how it fits together into one powerful message from God to us.The only way to apply God’s Word correctly is to understand first what God has said, what He meant, and then what response He desires from us. That is why we have started a monthly study of the elements of Biblical Interpretation.Someone long ago told me that my job as a Bible Expositor was to build a bridge that transported people from where live in the present, back to what God said and did in the historic context of His Word: and then to bring them back into their daily lives understanding what God expected from them.To build that bridge we must realize that there is a gap between them and us.1. A Gap of History (“they lived in a very different time”);2. A Gap of Geography (“they lived in a very different place”);3. A Gap of Culture (“they lived in a very different way”);4. A Gap of Language (“they spoke in a very different way”).So the first elements of Biblical Interpretation are bridges that help us create an understanding of the history, geography, culture, and language that surrounds the world of the Bible.The Bible was set in Real History that is Archaeologically VerifiableThe historicity of many of the world’s religious books is at times questionable, but God’s Word has been continuously verified by each new archaeological find. We can place most of the Biblical characters into a timeline that opens the doors to understanding historic events in light of God’s Word.The Bible Portrays Literal Geographic PlacesBiblical geography makes the Bible come alive. Since everything happened somewhere, it is vital to see the “where” of all of God’s dealings with His people and plan.The Bible Reflects Specific CulturesHere are links to the Virtual Tour Study Resources we are using:1. The Jerusalem Map: https://amzn.to/3xWMAtX2. The Holy Land Map: https://amzn.to/3f8zp0b3. The MacArthur Study Bible I use: https://amzn.to/33vqwsm4. The Best Cross-Reference Guide to the Bible: https://amzn.to/3vtFqLU5. The Oxford Holy Land Guide: https://amzn.to/3eCdAY36. The Larger Moleskin Notebook I use: https://amzn.to/3biMwLh7. The Smaller Moleskin Notebook I use: https://amzn.to/33vTNmN8. This is the personal-sized Bible I take with me everywhere as I travel, and that you see in the videos: https://amzn.to/3tM11ha9. These are the Bible Tabs I showed you on the videos: https://amzn.to/3boMDVt10. The ESV Audio Bible: https://amzn.to/3bJ4WF511. The NKJV Audio/Dramatized Bible: https://amzn.to/3u4BqA312. The KJV Audio Bible: https://amzn.to/3hHEnny13. The NIV Dramatized Bible: https://amzn.to/2RD1Uvf“As an Amazon Associate, I earn income to support us in ministry from qualifying purchases.”

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-19 GNB-13Short Clip3. Satan uses temptations to inflame our lusts on all three levels. Peiradzo 39 x1 Corinthians 7:5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.Satan works as a co-conspirator with your flesh and mine. He has the power to cause our flesh to be tempted. Temptation is our flesh longing to be satisfied: either by the cravings of our bodies chasing pleasures (lusts of the flesh) or the longing of our eyes chasing possessions (lust of the eyes), or by the boastings of our hearts and mouths chasing status (pride of life) as I John 2:15-17 says. Beware of playing with temptation lest Satan catches you in his trap, especially in the realm of sexual temptation as noted here. Solution: repent of playing with temptation, ask Jesus to deliver you from all evil in your life, and take the escape He makes for you as you cry out for help!

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-19 GNB-13Short ClipThe Targets ofSatan’s Attack2. Satan can lead us into destructive behavior, and can also cause bodily harm (as most clearly seen in Job’s boils).I Corinthians 5:5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.The man was delivered to Satan that his body might be afflicted, in order that his soul might be saved. Beware of the consequence engine. God is not mocked. We always reap what we have sown. Solution: repent and stop now, give your body back to God as a living sacrifice before God’s chastening starts.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-19 GNB-13Short ClipThe Targets ofSatan’s Attack1. Satan can fill our hearts as believers with a desire to misrepresent our devotion to God and be hypocritical.Acts 5:3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?“The sin of Ananias and Sapphira was energized by Satan (Acts 5:3); and he knows how to lie to the minds and hearts of church members, even genuine Christians, and get them to follow his orders. Always remember that the spiritual armor (Eph. 6:10–18) was given to believers, not to unbelievers; and it is believers who are in danger of being used by Satan to accomplish his evil purposes.Their sin was motivated by pride, and pride is a sin that God especially hates and judges (Prov. 8:13). While the church was praising God for the generous offering of Barnabas, Satan whispered to the couple, “You can also bask in this kind of glory! You can make others think that you are as spiritual as Barnabas!” Instead of resisting Satan’s approaches, they yielded to him and planned their strategy.It is easy for us to condemn Ananias and Sapphira for their dishonesty, but we need to examine our own lives to see if our profession is backed up by our practice. Do we really mean everything we pray about in public? Do we sing the hymns and Gospel songs sincerely or routinely? “These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me” (Matt. 15:8, NIV). If God killed “religious deceivers” today, how many church members would be left?We must keep in mind that their sin was not in robbing God of money but in robbing Him of glory. God didn’t demand they sell the property; and, having sold it, God didn’t demand they give any of the money to the church (Acts 5:4). Their lust for recognition conceived sin in their hearts (Acts 5:4, 9), and that sin led to death (James 1:15)”. Beware of allowing Satan to make you proudly affirm a deeper spiritual sacrifice and devotion than what God knows is real in your heart. Solution: repent of half-hearted devotion right now and surrender completely to Jesus Christ!The Targets ofSatan’s Attack2. Satan can lead us into destructive behavior, and can also cause bodily harm (as most clearly seen in Job’s boils).I Corinthians 5:5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.The man was delivered to Satan that his body might be afflicted, in order that his soul might be saved. Beware of the consequence engine. God is not mocked. We always reap what we have sown. Solution: repent and stop now, give your body back to God as a living sacrifice before God’s chastening starts.3. Satan uses temptations to inflame our lusts on all three levels. Peiradzo 39 x1 Corinthians 7:5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.Satan works as a co-conspirator with your flesh and mine. He has the power to cause our flesh to be tempted. Temptation is our flesh longing to be satisfied: either by the cravings of our bodies chasing pleasures (lusts of the flesh) or the longing of our eyes chasing possessions (lust of the eyes), or by the boastings of our hearts and mouths chasing status (pride of life) as I John 2:15-17 says. Beware of playing with temptation lest Satan catches you in his trap, especially in the realm of sexual temptation as noted here. Solution: repent of playing with temptation, ask Jesus to deliver you from all evil in your life, and take the escape He makes for you as you cry out for help!

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-19 GNB-13Short Clip10. Satan the fallen, warped and twisted one (as he is revealed in Isaiah 14:12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!) wants to twist your thinking by putting sinful ideas to appealing music. Have you ever compared the words or lyrics of the songs you like and listen to—with God’s Word? Based on the lyrics of your music, would the Pure and Holy God of the Universe ever own that music, listen to that music, memorize that music? Are you slowly getting less and less offended by the suggestions, blatant sins, and foul language you hear in the background of your life through music? That is Satan the fallen, warped one twisting your thinking!11. Satan the counterfeiter of truth (as he is revealed in II Corinthians 11:14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.) wants to confuse your emotions by corrupting your desires and drawing your affections to the wrong things. Whatever we love we look more like whoever or whatever it is. If we believe God’s Word is the ultimate truth we are guided closer each day to what God loves; if we are strangers to His truth then we are drawn further away from what pleases Him, glorifies Him, and magnifies Him. What is your source of truth God or Satan? There are only two sources of wisdom—above and below (James 3). Where is yours coming from? Do you know how to test the truth, verify the truth, and confirm the truth? Only God’s Word is the unfailing source of all truth needed for pleasing God. If you are not being filled by God through His Word with His truth—then you are being filled with counterfeit truth, not from God, nor pleasing Him. Loving the world (anything that doesn’t please God) is the sure road to confusion, corruption, and emptiness. That is how Satan the counterfeiter confuses your emotions, desires, and affections.12. Satan the original idolater and covetous one (as he is revealed in Isaiah 14:13-14 For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ [He coveted what wasn’t his but God’s.]) wants to get you drooling over stuff, to the neglect of your family life, church life, and spiritual life—in order to get it; and then he wants to darken you with discouragement once you get it because you will only want more. Is there an endless list in your mind of things you wish you could get, that others have? Like cars, houses, clothes, electronic gear, trips, money, and so on? Do you sit and try to find ways to get those things? Are you willing to sacrifice for them? Do you ever sacrifice time with God, time with the saints gathered at church, time in His Word, time in prayer—in order to get those things? Do the desires for those things sometimes push God right out of your thoughts? If your answer was YES to any of the above, watch out, you may be covetous and an idolater. Idolatry is ANYTHING that takes God’s rightful place in the life of His children. If work, entertainment, money-making, pleasure-seeking, collection-gathering, bodybuilding, beauty-enhancing, and so on have begun to erode God’s place in your life that is idolatry. Satan the original idolater and covetous one wants to make you drool for something other than God so that you begin to slowly neglect God, neglect His Word, neglect His gathered people, neglect memorization of His Word, prayer and other disciplines of a godly life.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-19 GNB-13Short Clip7. Satan the one who shoots flaming darts (as he is revealed in Ephesians 6:16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.) wants to fill your mind with doubts, lies, immorality, and false doctrine. On any given day to you feel unable to stop thinking, imagining, and replaying thoughts that displease God? Does God feel distant as His Spirit is grieved by the doubts about His Word, His commandments and expectations of your behavior as His child? Is God’s grace enabling you to say no to sin or are you deceived into thinking grace gives you a pass to continue in some besetting, habitual, secret sin? That is a flaming dart of Satan.8. Satan the murderer from the beginning (as he is revealed in John 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.) wants to addict you to violence, and condition you to enjoy killing and bloodshed through games and movies. Do you love action-packed movies that often feature people shot, blown up, and blasted away—as well as grisly, bloodied action heroes that get beaten, tortured, and end up taking out whole armies of opponents? God says specifically for us not to enjoy looking upon gratuitous violence (see Isaiah 33:15 He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, He who despises the gain of oppressions, Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes, Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, And shuts his eyes from seeing evil), Satan loves to kill and destroy. Who are you honoring by your movie watching and gaming—Satan or God? Beware of Satan the destroyer addicting you to violence.9. Satan the devouring lion (as he is revealed in I Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.) wants to debilitate your will and get you to do things you shouldn’t do. Does the crowd you run with slowly get you further and further away from God? Do the places you find yourself at with your friends slowly make you participate in more and more things that displease God? Is it harder and harder to say no to sin? That is Satan the lion devouring your will to obey God!

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-19 GNB-13Short ClipThis morning I urge you to re-examine what you are doing each day in life and why. Hold up all of your habits, desires, hobbies, spare time, recreation, sports, pursuits, collections, appetites, and all else to the scrutiny of God’s Word.To help us all to do that spiritual check-up, think with me through how God has revealed Satan and what that implies as to his attacks upon us. Here are the top dozen or so ways that Satan is at work against us as believers this morning…1. Satan the father of lies (as he is revealed in John 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.) wants to snatch the Word of God from your mind. Do the pursuits and activities you have chosen help Satan to snatch God’s Word from your mind? Is it hard to read the Word after you watch certain movies? Is your music collection more precious than your Bible? Do you seem to NEVER get anything out of the Bible or church anymore? That is Satan the father of lies snatching God’s Word from your mind!2. Satan as the evil one (as he is revealed in Matthew 6:13 NASB ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil. one [For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.]’) wants you to think little-by-little that sin is not so bad. Do the movies you watch, the TV shows you watch, the music you watch and listen to, the web explorations you make, the books and magazines you read make you think little by little that sin is really not that bad? That is Satan the evil one tampering with your thinking!3. Satan the unholy one (as he is revealed in I John 2:13 ‘wicked one’ I write to you, fathers Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men Because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, Because you have known the Father.) wants you to slowly learn to laugh at sin on television and in the movies. Do you laugh at shows and movies where there is sexual innuendo, and God’s absolute holiness and righteous standards are mocked? That is Satan the unholy one teaching you to laugh at sin!4. Satan the deceiver (as he is revealed in II Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.) wants to destroy your conscience bit-by-bit so it will no longer warn you. Did words that used to offend you no longer offend you? Do images that used to trouble your conscience as displeasing to God no longer trouble you? Do places you used to feel dishonored the Lord no longer feel that way? Do immoral, godless activities no longer make righteous indignation rise? Are you sitting in the gates of Sodom like Lot with evil just playing out in front of your eyes—without your righteous soul being vexed? That is Satan the deceiver destroying your conscience bit-by-bit!

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-19 GNB-13Short ClipWhile the crowds were singing praises to Jesus that first Palm Sunday—unseen and dangerous spiritual beings were at work. By Thursday evening of Passion Week Satan, himself had entered Judas to carry out the greatest crime of all—the unjust condemnation and execution of Christ. Unseen but dangerous…Every year millions of Americans buy and use millions of gallons of germ-killing, 99.7% effective, anti-bacterial substances—because we fear physical sickness and bodily disease from unseen but dangerous germs.Yet at the same time, many of those same Americans walk blithely through life surrounded by countless evil, soul-threatening, spiritual beings known as Satan and his demons that are also unseen but dangerous, but they take no precautions against them at all.Rather than protect their lives spiritually from deadly spiritual infections, viruses, and contaminants—many people deliberately infect themselves with agents that cause spiritual sickness. Deadly spiritual influences through unseen but dangerous beings that should be avoided, yet they read them, listen to them, think about them, buy them, hoard them, store them, collect them, and meditate upon them regularly.Are you aware that this morning Satan, the incredibly powerful, unseen but dangerous god of this world wants to poison your thoughts and emotions away from the purity of God’s truth? The super-powerful, fallen angelic crown prince against whom not even Michael the archangel dared to face off, has focused his attacks upon us in two areas: our thoughts and our emotions.If we stay unaware of Satan’s unseen but dangerous plan, he will start using the unguarded pieces of life; each little area that we fail to guard, Satan grabs, reconfigures for evil against us and makes another base to attack us.There Is A WarSwirling Within UsIn C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, Uncle Screwtape offers his nephew a little advice on the goal and strategy of Satan’s attacks.You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.How true. Don’t yield any ground in your life to the Devil. Nothing in life is neutral, nothing in life is harmless. Everything in life is either for God or against Him. Everything is either promoting God’s Glory or opposing it. Nothing is neutral when it comes to God; never forget that as you assess the daily patterns and habits of your life.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-18 WFL-31Short ClipLessons on Ending Well by Making the Right Choices Now from Psalm 71:1-241. Test God’s Promises by fleeing to the Lord instead of living in confusion. Psalm 71:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.2. Test God’s Promises by crying to the Lord before giving up to troubles. Psalm 71:2 Deliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape; Incline Your ear to me, and save me.3. Test God’s Promises by running into God’s Refuge – thus trusting God’s Word more than his fears. Psalm 71:3 Be my strong refuge, To which I may resort continually; You have given the commandment to save me, For You are my rock and my fortress.4. Test God’s Promises by asking for God’s help before becoming bitter. Psalm 71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.5. Test God’s Promises by remembering His faithfulness. Psalm 71:5 For You are my hope, O Lord God; You are my trust from my youth.6. Test God’s Promises by praising God for His plan for your life. Psalm 71:6 By You I have been upheld from birth; You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb. My praise shall be continually of You.

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-18 WFL-31Short ClipEver feel drowned by sorrow?Ever feel overwhelmed by grief?Then reach out and grab the Lord by faith like you would do if it was the horn of the altar like it is the feet of the only One who can save your beloved child, or like it was the wall that alone can stand between you and your enemies, or like the only weapon you have to stay alive when attacked. That is the way the man after God’s heart did it – and that is how we should respond!So whenever we feel drowned by sorrow, whenever we feel overwhelmed by grief — be careful – we are on sacred ground as a believer.o We are at a place where God’s Voice is heard most clearly,o We are at a place where God’s Presence is felt most closely,o We are at a place where God’s Guidance is given most powerfully.And that is the message of our text this morning. Open with me to the 6th Blessing of Affliction. It is found in Psalm 119.107:I am afflicted very much; Revive me, O Lord, according to Your word.The 6th blessing of Affliction is seen in Psalm 119 as:AFFLICTION FORCES US TO TEST HIS PROMISES.Listen to the expanded message of Psalm 119:107 –o I am afflicted (remember the usage of this Hebrew word # 6031 implies an affliction that affects us in a physical way);o Very much (remember this is the same word used to describe the extent of the waters of the Global Flood of Noah and the Ten Plagues of Moses upon Egypt);o Revive (remember that this is the same word as the one that describes God’s deliverance of Rahab out from the complete destruction of Jericho)o Me, O Lord, according to YOUR WORD (remember this is that synonym for the Bible that describes God’s Word as the Divine Voice that guides us through life [Strong’s #1697]).Afflictions allow us to experientially test God’s promises.Affliction is a blessing.Trials refine us, pain opens our eyes to the realities of life, and sorrow tunes us into what really matters. And on and on through life, it goes. Traumatic and painful experiences actually help us be more aware and a part of the world around us.This morning we find that when troubles come, and we experience affliction it forces us to test the Promises of God. Remember that this is the 6th point in our discovery in Psalm 119 — of the Seven Blessings of Affliction.

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-16Short ClipWhat is Affliction? As mentioned 37x in the Old Testament affliction takes at least 7 forms noted below:1. Affliction is the ill-treatment Hagar got from her jealous and vengeful boss Sarai. Genesis 16:11 And the Angel of the Lord said to her: “Behold, you are with child, And you shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael Because the Lord has heard your affliction.2. Affliction is the lack of love that Leah got from her husband Jacob. Genesis 29:32 So Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, “The Lord has surely looked on my affliction. Now, therefore, my husband will love me.”3. Affliction is the lost wages and broken promises Jacob got from his employer and father-in-law Laban. Genesis 31:36 Then Jacob was angry and rebuked Laban, and Jacob answered and said to Laban: “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued me?4. Affliction is the hatred, jealousy, and betrayal that Joseph experienced from his family, and his employers – as well as the neglect and broken promises of his friends. Genesis 41:52 And the name of the second he called Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”5. Affliction is the underpayment and overwork of the Hebrews by unkind and evil masters. Exodus 3:7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.6. Affliction is the pain Hannah endured because of her inability to have children, and the added insensitivity and cruelty of her family members to her pain. 1 Samuel 1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the Lord and wept in anguish.7. Affliction is the unkind words, slander, accusations, and insults thrown upon David by his adversary Shimei. 2 Samuel 16:12It may be that the Lord will look on my affliction, and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing this day.”

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-16Short ClipThe Real Key to Your Best Life Now is understanding that affliction in our lives is much like the fires of Daniel 3 that the three Hebrew boys were made to enter. That fiery furnace has a powerful lesson. If we read carefully the account, that the fire only burned away that which hindered them from walking with the Lord, as they were in the fiery furnace! So in our lives affliction burns away what hinders our walk, and THEN God can start building the BEST Life possible for us NOW!What is Affliction? As mentioned 37x in the Old Testament affliction takes at least 7 forms noted below:1. Affliction is the ill-treatment Hagar got from her jealous and vengeful boss Sarai. Genesis 16:11 And the Angel of the Lord said to her: “Behold, you are with child, And you shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael Because the Lord has heard your affliction.2. Affliction is the lack of love that Leah got from her husband Jacob. Genesis 29:32 So Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, “The Lord has surely looked on my affliction. Now, therefore, my husband will love me.”3. Affliction is the lost wages and broken promises Jacob got from his employer and father-in-law Laban. Genesis 31:36 Then Jacob was angry and rebuked Laban, and Jacob answered and said to Laban: “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued me?4. Affliction is the hatred, jealousy, and betrayal that Joseph experienced from his family, and his employers – as well as the neglect and broken promises of his friends. Genesis 41:52 And the name of the second he called Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”5. Affliction is the underpayment and overwork of the Hebrews by unkind and evil masters. Exodus 3:7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.6. Affliction is the pain Hannah endured because of her inability to have children, and the added insensitivity and cruelty of her family members to her pain. 1 Samuel 1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the Lord and wept in anguish.7. Affliction is the unkind words, slander, accusations, and insults thrown upon David by his adversary Shimei. 2 Samuel 16:12It may be that the Lord will look on my affliction and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing this day.”

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-16Short ClipWhy Does God Let Good People Suffer so much Pain?Why does God allow good people, His own children, born-again believers—to suffer? The problem of pain and suffering is as old as mankind, and so is the consistent answer God has always given. We all share something in common, the painful problem of afflictions.Affliction: Job said it was unavoidable, Paul said expect it as part of God’s plan, and Jesus said don’t fear I won’t take it away just go with you through it!Listen carefully and mark your Bibles with me. This one lesson you learn this morning may impact you all the rest of your life. Today we are looking at pains and problems, trials and troubles, and afflictions and adversities. What they are and why they come. And when they do come – how to respond.The Christian life will sometimes be painful and full of problems. To get an idea of the scope of affliction just interview a few characters of the Bible. Does following the Lord have a price attached?

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-15 LNB-31 WFL-12 WFP-11Short ClipWhen you and I pray we always go through the One and ONLY OPERATOR. He always answers the call, but doesn’t always put that call through for us. This morning we need to consider why our Operator Jesus Christ the Son of God would ever have to say — “I am sorry, I can’t put that call through for you.” And if you listen carefully to Him speak through His word, you will never have to get those dreadful words again. The rules for placing a call, and being put through are VERY CLEAR, right here in the COMMUNICATIONS GUIDE that Jesus our OPERATOR left us.Let’s listen to Jesus in Matthew 6 and then go from cover to cover and see all the calls that won’t go through and why! So what stops and or hinders prayers from getting put through to our Heavenly Father?7. BITTERNESS PRAYING IS NOT PUT THROUGH: Mark 11:25-26 “And whenever you stand praying if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. 26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.” 8. SELFISH PRAYING IS NOT PUT THROUGH: John 5:30 I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-14 LNB-28 WFL-09 WFP-08Short ClipExercise the Discipline of Supplication to Pray all the time.First, we need to I read an article in a missions newsletter once called NON-STOP PRAYER that got me started on cultivating some fresh habits of prayer. In 1 Thessalonians 5:17 Paul says pray without ceasing. So if the Word of God says, “Pray without ceasing”, we can. Right? If you’ll just start practicing this concept, you will be taking vital steps toward obeying this teaching.Here are just a few simple habits that many of us have learned to practice. These simple methods can revolutionize the prayer life of those who find extended prayer difficult:o READING PRAYER: Don’t simply read through letters, but read and pray. After each paragraph quickly pray about what you just read.o WATCHING PRAYER: When you watch something take place live, or on TV, immediately pray about what you are seeing. Especially do this after news programs.o TALKING PRAYER: When you talk on the telephone, pray for the person you’re talking with. If it is a believer, you can pray together on the phone. This will likely lead you to a double ministry of prayer and encouragement!o LISTENING PRAYER: As you hear things in a meeting, on the radio, or almost anywhere – quickly lift to God in prayer what you are hearing.o WRITING PRAYER: As you shoot off emails – send them with a touch of God requested by prayer. When you write a letter or card (which is a great ministry in itself), pray about what you are writing and, of course, for the person you are writing to.

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-13 LNB-20 WFL-22 WFP-14Short ClipNow let’s examine these in order of Ezra’s use. The top three prayers of Ezra are: quicken or revive me, teach me, and give me understanding. In that order, lets listen to his prayers and learn from him the power and joys of a Word-filled life!1. Revive me (impv-# 2421: to preserve alive, let live; to give life; to quicken, revive, refresh; to restore to life; to cause to grow) Psalm 119:37 Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, And revive me in Your way. Psalm 119:40 Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me in Your righteousness. Psalm 119:88 Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth. Psalm 119:107 I am afflicted very much; Revive me, O Lord, according to Your word. Psalm 119:149 Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness; O Lord, revive me according to Your justice. Psalm 119:154 Plead my cause and redeem me; Revive me according to Your word. Psalm 119:156 Great are Your tender mercies, O Lord; Revive me according to Your judgments. Psalm 119:159 Consider how I love Your precepts; Revive me, O Lord, according to Your lovingkindness.

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Short ClipToo often it seems we’re only motivated to pursue God when we encounter a problem in our daily walk But meditating on the Word of God should be the daily way we go about getting His life-giving truth into the core of our souls – down into the place where the vital decisions of our lives are made every day.Meditation is the process by which God’s Word passes from your head down into your spirit where its power can be released. “Meditation is the digestive faculty of the soul .” Even though Jesus was physically depleted from 40 days of fasting, He was so strong in spirit from seeking God and meditating on the Word that He wielded a few words and they were a powerful weapon to defeat His adversary.To apply this, here are six simple but important principles I use to deepen and enrich my meditation in God’s Word:(1) PRAY FIRST: Ask God for the Spirit of wisdom and revelation into God’s Word (Ephesians 1:17) He wants to give us insight through our meditation! It’s very important that we understand that fact so we don’t keep letting our feelings and emotions stand in the way of our time with the Lord. You may have to fight through a case of the “blahs” – but God never does!(2) GRAB SOMETHING: Write the scripture down in your notebook or journal. Writing down the scripture takes a disciplined effort, and the more disciplined you are, the more opportunity you give the Holy Spirit to speak to you. When you write something down you tend to think about it in a deeper way. You analyze it more carefully, and your thoughts are more penetrating.(3) STOP FOR A MOMENT: Write down what you understand from that particular scripture. At this point you might think, “This thought is nothing new – nothing unusual. Why bother writing it down? I’ll wait until I think of something really unusual.” But if you do that, your mind is going to start floating away on another subject. So write down your thoughts, even though they might not seem very profound to you at the time.(4) LISTEN TO GOD: Apply the understanding to your life. As you continue to meditate, the Lord will probably begin to fill you with incredible insight concerning His character and His love. When you receive these “nuggets of gold” in your heart, don’t just relax and be content to store them away for safekeeping – start to apply them to your life! Ask yourself:(5) ANSWER HIM: Respond to God. Nine times out of ten, meditation will bring you to a point where you’re bursting with a new response to God. Don’t lose that moment by hesitating! Seize the opportunity to respond with all your heart to the living God!(6) START A NEW HABIT: Seek Wisdom. Meditating and receiving understanding from the Lord is not just a quiet and passive activity. We don’t just sit there with an open Bible while the Lord fills us to the brim! Instead, the Lord requires us to take an active stance in meditation. As the truth of God penetrates your mind it attacks and demolishes the sin it confronts. John 17:17 was what Jesus told us, Mt. 4 He demonstrated it! Jesus said the way we become holy is through the Word. Remember this book will keep you from sin and sin will keep you from this book!Now let’s stop talking about it, and do it. So where should we start? How about the first book and chapter many people are discipled from – Colossians 3?

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These verses are calling us to one of the simplest but most neglected spiritual practices – the godly practice of meditation. The simple exercise of getting alone, closing the doors of distraction be they computers, television, sports, or hobbies in order to read and dwell upon the truth of God and the wisdom stored up in His Word. Anyone who will choose to practice godly meditation, God’s Word is going to explode with a richness of wisdom and spiritual fire within our souls.

Solitude is getting alone with God because I love Him.
Simple Devotion is listening to God in His Word.

Too often it seems we’re only motivated to pursue God when we encounter a problem in our daily walk But meditating on the Word of God should be the daily way we go about getting His life-giving truth into the core of our souls – down into the place where the vital decisions of our lives are made every day.

Meditation is the process by which God’s Word passes from your head down into your spirit where its power can he released. “Meditation is the digestive faculty of the soul .” Even though Jesus was physically depleted from 40 days of fasting, He was so strong in spirit from seeking God and meditating on the Word that He wielded a few words and they were a powerful weapon to defeat His adversary.

To apply this, here are six simple but important principles I use to deepen and enrich my meditation in God’s Word:

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-09 WFL-04Short ClipHere are the simple habits that make our death precious in the sight of the Lord. These are the marks of a healthy spiritual life that takes the sting out of death from Psalm 116.1. v. 1 Believe in Him that He is listening and watching and responding in love.2. v. 2 Cry out to Him. Get used to talking to the Lord. Pour out your heart, your fears, your woes – share them with Him.3. v. 9 Follow Him through your daily life. He is the Shepherd and we are His sheep.4. v. 13 Drink Him. He is our cup of salvation. We thirst and He alone satisfies. Let Him into your life to meet your deepest needs!5. v. 14 Obey Him. Do what He says. Give in and submit to Him.6. v. 16 Serve Him. Tell Him that, say it aloud and offer it as an offering.7. v. 17 Thank Him. Think through all the many blessings and benefits the Lord has heaped upon you. If you have troubles, listen to some children pray. They thank the Lord for eyes to see, warm “blankies” to sleep under, food to eat and all the other simple and sweet blessings of life.8. v. 18-19 Live for Him. From now on live for His glory, talk of His blessings, come into His presence, worship and adore Him.

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDYG-06 WFL-33 Short ClipTHINKING DEEPLY ABOUT GOD IN A SHALLOW WORLDMeditation — or as some of your Bibles translate this word ”take pains with “. What is meditation? Meditation can be described and selecting the digestive faculty of the mind. What we take into our minds we process by meditation.Meditation is thinking deeply about something; meditation digests what we have learned. There is a terrible spiritual condition of Biblical anorexia — a lack of hunger for God’s Word and its twin sister — Biblical bulimia. Both are the result of a severe deficiency of Biblical meditation.When we meditate were taking God’s Word, examine it, and turn it over and over in our minds. That is the only way to proper nutrition in our unhealthy world. Surrounded by confusing voices, twisted paths, and hurried lives — God has just the cure for His children.Paul instructs Timothy to devote himself completely to Jesus Christ. He gives him a simple list of items to follow; they start back in verse seven. He is first to exercise himself toward godliness; then he is to command and teach the truth. In verse 12 is commanded to be an example in all that he does. Then he is to get focused and use his gifts. Then we come to verse 15, meditate on these things. Paul says to think deeply, to digest these, and to apply them to his life.In the New Testament world, the Word Paul chose for meditation carries the idea of “being in something” and “giving yourself totally to” that. Like to a napkin absorbing water, it’s hard to keep them apart — the napkin draws water to itself. The believer draws the Word into his life.Meditation controls our thinking; it dominates us. One way to look upon meditation is to think of all of the applications to life that is certain verse could have for us. I would challenge you this morning — start applying God’s Word to your life.o Think deeply about what the verse implies your response should be to God.o Think of every possible application that a Scripture can have in your life. If you do that — you are meditating.A word to all you students — what would you think of a computer class that had no computers for you to work at? Would you feel cheated if you never held a mouse, never typed on a keyboard, never looked at a monitor? Do you get the idea? You’re not really studying the Bible if you read it and never apply it to your life. Meditation is the application to my life.If you are an aviation student and have never seen an airplane, never taken a flight, never gone to the airport — haven’t you been cheated? Take the Word, apply the Word, and live the Word.If you’ve ever succeeded in anything you understand what meditation takes.Anyone who succeeds at anything has learned to completely focus. The young child learning to walk is completely focused on walking. Later in life when he learned to ride a bicycle — it took absolute concentration. Any sport that’s mastered has to be fully concentrated in focus to be achieved.This morning God wants us to succeed. He wants us to achieve the maximum life for us possible on Earth. And to do that we need to stay focused in spite of all the distractions around us.GOD’S TEAM OF WORD-FILLED LIVESThere is a collection of individuals I like to look on as God’s Team. They were men and women who lived extraordinary lives, yet they were ordinary people. As far as we can see from God’s Word the only unique aspect each of these shares is the fact that they had what I call a Word Filled Life.

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioBNW-05 GEN-29 LWP-17Short ClipThe key to the past history of planet Earth is the Bible.The key that unlocks all the mysterious past events in human history is God’s Word.The key to opening the vistas of future history for the destiny planet Earth hurtles towards, is the Word of God. Across the face of our world seethes ethnic rivalry, genocide, ancient hatred,and religious and regional warfare. Where did the races and nations come from?Nationalism is rising from the Balkans to the Orient. Terrorists seek to causeconcessions to gain independence in the Basque country, Northern Ireland,Palestinian areas and other places. How did all this start? Genesis10 gives us the birth of the nations. So, the Bible is the key to the present, which is written in God’sWord in the past!Open with me to perhaps the most fascinating chapter in the Bible, The Table of theNations. God’s map of all the human families. The ultimate genealogy. All of ourrelatives are found in just one chapter of God’s Word!As we look over these 32 verses tonight you will come to the same conclusion I have. Namely, the Biblical explanation of national and tribal origins is far superior to any evolutionary ideas, both morally and genetically. Note that the Bible does not mention the concept of “race” at all, only languages, peoples, tribes, and nations. The most important difference between groups of men, of course, is not skin color, but language. It is only the language barrier that could enforce isolation and inbreeding among men, and it is only such inbreeding that could have produced the many distinctive physical characteristics of the different groups.

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view:CloudFront | SermonAudioDWM-30 & WFF-38 & WFP-33Short ClipThe shadow of a sixty-year-old man was silhouetted against the canvas of the tent. The flickering candle cast a golden aura inside as he knelt beside a small wood and canvas cot. Rhythmic tropical rain lightly pelted the tent as he prayed beside his bed. The prayer was one he had written out many years before. If you were able to hear that night what God heard it would have sounded much like this:O Lord since Thou hast died, To give Thyself for me,No sacrifice would seem to great, For me to make for Thee.Outside the native porters, guides and cooks who had followed this man for nearly 20 years through the jungle heard the low sound of his voice communing with God as he always had done before bed. Then the candle flickered out and they also retired to sleep through the rainy night.The next morning the cold and stiff body of David Livingstone was still kneeling beside the cot when his beloved native brothers found him. He was so thin from the countless bouts with malaria, his skin darkened by the years of Equatorial African sun was loosely draped over the bones of his earthly tent now vacant. His spirit had soared immortal, making its flight from the darkness of a disease-ridden, weak, and failing body to the realm of light and life in the presence of Jesus his King to whom he had consecrated his life.WHO WAS DAVID LIVINGSTONE (1813-1873)?• David Livingstone was born in the Scottish city of Blantyre in 1813.• At age ten he began working fourteen-hour days in the cotton mill to help support his impoverished family. There he learned by snatching sentences from a book on his spinning jenny, followed by two hours of night school. These disciplines kept him from being totally uneducated.• He was converted at twelve, and had a profound spiritual awakening at twenty and resolved to be a medical missionary in China. From that point onward Livingstone studied Greek, theology, and medicine at Glasgow, returning to the mill during vacations to help pay expenses. • Qualified in medicine, he was sent by the London Missionary Society in 1840 to South Africa, since the Opium War had closed China. Livingstone’s heart had been fired by missionary Robert Moffat’s words about having seen “the smoke of a thousand villages” where no missionary had ever been.• Livingstone and his wife, Mary, Moffat’s daughter, stayed in three homes in three years, ever moving further up-country. He was an evangelist, doctor, teacher, builder, gardener, shoemaker, and carpenter. But all the time his eyes were on the “unknown north” beyond the fearsome Kalahari Desert.• In 1852 Livingstone sent his wife and children home before he embarked on a four-year, six-thousand-mile journey that took him to Angola’s Atlantic coast, then east to the Indian Ocean at Mozambique. • When Livingstone’s wife died in 1861, he threw himself fiercely into his work. He disappeared from sight for ten years; and when found by Henry Morton Stanley of the New York Herald in 1871, Livingstone refused to go home. • David Livingstone, the renowned and noble missionary to Africa, wrote in his journal, People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called sacrifice, which is simply paid back as a small part of the great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? • At his death in 1873, such was their love for him that his native assistants bore his body fifteen hundred miles to the coast. With that background listen again through the tent as you can dimly see in the dark jungles of Africa the shadow of a sixty-year-old man silhouetted against the canvas of the tent. The flickering candle cast a golden aura inside as he knelt beside a small wood and canvas cot. Rhythmic tropical rain lightly pelted the tent as he prayed beside his bed. The prayer was one he had written out many years before. If you were able to hear that night what God heard it would have sounded much like this:O Lord since Thou hast died, To give Thyself for me,No sacrifice would seem to great, For me to make for Thee.Lord send me anywhere, Only go with me; Lay any burden on me, Only sustain me.Sever any tie, Save the tie that binds me to Thy heart.Lord Jesus my King, I consecrate my life Lord to Thee!

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In the last book of the Bible, we find that Jesus went on a journey visiting seven churches on that particular Sunday, recorded in chapters 2-3. Jesus went to church, reminding us He comes to watch us as we gather today.

When Jesus chose to use the number seven (always used in the Bible for completion, or a complete set of something) He was demonstrating to us what He saw in all churches at that time, in every place, and also I believe, what Christ’s church would be characterized by throughout all the ages.

The Day Jesus
Came to Church

The final church in the list is Laodicea in Revelation 3. As we turn to Christ’s letter to that final church we see not only what Jesus saw at that geographic place and in the people there, but also what He said the final era of His church, at the end of the age, would look like. We each are living in what I earnestly believe is the final or Laodicean age of Christ’s church described in Revelation 3:14-22.

As we listen to His letter, we should hear what most of the church in America looks like to God, and what many of us here this morning may actually look like as Jesus walks around here this morning, unseen by us, but seeing us clearly. Please stand, and as I read these words, instead of following along, you may want to look around and see Christ walking up and down these aisles saying these very words to each of us!

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Welcome to our newest playlist.

This is the series called “Straight From the Bible” and is a collection of some of John’s all-time favorite Q&A sessions.

All of these videos are short and to the point. We hope they will strengthen, encourage, and help many who are seeking to know the Lord or know Him better!

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Paul lived with integrity. As he faced prison for his testimony he declared in Acts 24:16:

This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.

This statement Paul made in Acts should stir all of our hearts. Paul said that he always strove to not have any conscious un-repented of sins in his life.

That is integrity.

Integrity is a beautiful word to describe the life of a believer who has great power in their prayers.

Webster defines integrity with three statements and corresponding words:

1 : firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values: incorruptibility
2 : an unimpaired condition: soundness
3 : the quality or state of being complete or undivided: completeness

Each of those elements is what God says we are to have in our lives and to pray for in the lives of those we love.

Personal
Integrity

As we turn to Ephesians 4, we are listening as the Apostle Paul sat chained to the wall and to a guard in a Roman prison, and he prayed. His prayers fanned out across the ancient world, encouraging struggling pastors, strengthening church planters, stirring the hearts of new believers, and on and on went the stream of prayers.

Paul never ceased to pray until the Roman executioner severed his body and his spirit soared into the presence of God. Up to that moment, he labored night and day in prayer.

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God loves things to be according to His specifications. He likes us to follow the code He has established in His Word. When Moses went up the mountain in Exodus 24:18–25:40, God showed him the detailed plans for the Tabernacle, the most written about physical building in the Universe. More chapters are devoted to the detailed descriptions of this building than any other in the Bible. God spent more time on the Tabernacle than He does on the Creation of the Cosmos, the Flood and even the last week of Christ’s life.

The Tabernacle was so important to God that He wanted it built and operated just right. God wanted His Glory and plan to be reflected by everything done in that tent. The same is true in another temple He has built.

Did you know that there is another building that has even more detailed instructions than even the Old Testament Tabernacle? It is your New Testament body, the temple of the Living God. God has a very special way He wants you to take care of and use that building He lives in.

We are
God’s Building

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Welcome to our newest playlist.

This is the series called “Straight From the Bible” and is a collection of some of John’s all-time favorite Q&A sessions.

All of these videos are short and to the point. We hope they will strengthen, encourage, and help many who are seeking to know the Lord or know Him better!

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Now that is a lot of love that a husband is to have for his wife. That is a high standard for a husband to keep, but there is still a higher standard. Scripture says, “Husbands, love your wives just as Christ also loved the church.”

Who then can understand, who then can plumb the depths of the love of Jesus for His people? But this much we do know about the love of Christ for His people.
o It is unconditional or free love (Rom. 5:8).
o It is a volitional love. He chooses to love us (Deut. 7:7; Eph. 1:6,7).
o It is an intense love (John 13:1; Eph. 5: 2,25).
o It is an unending love (John 13:1; Jer. 31:3; Rom. 8:39).
o It is an unselfish love (Phil. 2:6, 7).
o It is a purposeful love.
o It is sacrificial love. Eph. 5:2, 24; Gal. 2:20; 1 Pet. 3:18; Rom. 5:6-11; 1 Pet. 2:24).
o It is a manifested love. John 10:1-14; 14:1-3; 13:34,35; 15:9-10; Rom. 8:32; Phil. 4:13, 19; Heb. 4:14-16).

So how can we as husbands love our wives with Christ’s love? Here are just a few ideas:

A PRIORITY OF TENDERNESS. A husband who believes his primary ministry is marriage will express his love by giving her a lot of tenderness, respect, chivalry, and courtesy (Eh. 5:28; Col. 3:19; 1 Cor. 13:4, 5). Do not use jokes about her or make cutting remarks to her in front of other people. Speak to her in a gentle and respectful way. Treat her as you would a valuable jewel rather than a piece of cinder or a garbage can.
A PRIORITY OF PRAISING HER. A husband who believes his primary ministry is marriage will love her by expressing appreciation and praise generously and in large doses (1 Pet. 3:7; Prov. 31:28).

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THE HUSBAND’S MANDATE
There are, of course, many passages in the Bible that speak of the man’s part in marriage. Some of the key passages are Genesis 3:16; Ephesians 5: 23-33: 1 Timothy 3:4,5; Psalm 128; 1 Peter 3:7: 1 Corinthians 7:3,4: Proverbs 5:15-19; Colossians 3:19. As I read these passages I hear God saying that the husband has two primary responsibilities to his wife.
1. He is to be his wife’s leader.
2. He is to be his wife’s lover.
Continuing the list–
8. A PRIORITY OF SHARING. A husband who believes his primary ministry is marriage will love his wife by allowing her really to share your life (1 Pet. 3:7-“heirs together of the grace of life”).
9. A PRIORITY OF LOYALTY. A husband who believes his primary ministry is marriage will express his love by refusing to compare her unfavorably with other people, especially other women.
10. A PRIORITY OF HER. A husband who believes his primary ministry is marriage will express his love by demonstrating to her that, apart from your relationship to Jesus Christ, she has first place in your life.

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THE HUSBAND’S MANDATE
There are, of course, many passages in the Bible that speak of the man’s part in marriage. Some of the key passages are Genesis 3:16; Ephesians 5: 23-33: 1 Timothy 3:4,5; Psalm 128; 1 Peter 3:7: 1 Corinthians 7:3,4: Proverbs 5:15-19; Colossians 3:19. As I read these passages I hear God saying that the husband has two primary responsibilities to his wife.
1. He is to be his wife’s leader.
2. He is to be his wife’s lover.
5. A PRIORITY OF THE STRENGTH OF YOUR PRESENCE. A husband who believes his primary ministry is marriage will You may love your wife by protecting her (Eph. 5:28).
6. A PRIORITY OF HELPING. A husband who believes his primary ministry is marriage will express love to his wife by assisting her to fulfill her chores and responsibilities.
7. A PRIORITY OF SACRIFICE. A husband who believes his primary ministry is marriage will express his love by sacrificing for her (Eph. 5:25; Phil 2:5,6).

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THE HUSBAND’S MANDATE
There are, of course, many passages in the Bible that speak of the man’s part in marriage. Some of the key passages are Genesis 3:16; Ephesians 5: 23-33: 1 Timothy 3:4,5; Psalm 128; 1 Peter 3:7: 1 Corinthians 7:3,4: Proverbs 5:15-19; Colossians 3:19. As I read these passages I hear God saying that the husband has two primary responsibilities to his wife.
1. He is to be his wife’s leader.
2. He is to be his wife’s lover. Continuing the list–
3. A PRIORITY OF KIND WORDS. A husband who believes his primary ministry is marriage will practice one of the simplest, yet most neglected, ways of communicating love – by way of words spoken kindly, warmly, and directed toward his wife. John 7:46 The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!” Remember those words in the hymn In the Garden? “He speaks and the sound of His voice…”
4. A PRIORITY OF KIND DEEDS. A husband who believes his primary ministry is marriage will love his wife by providing for the satisfaction of her varying needs. Matthew 20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

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And now becoming very specific, I want to suggest some ways in which a wife may help her husband. She may help her husband in word and in deed, at home and at heart.
THE WIFE’S MANDATE
First, A PRIORITY OF GRATITUDE. A wife who believes her primary ministry is marriage will express regular gratefulness to her husband. Appreciation should be expressed freely and in a variety of ways. Romans 13:7 Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. 1 Peter 3:6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror.
Then, A PRIORITY OF CONFIDENCE. A wife who believes her primary ministry is marriage will be showing confidence in his decisions. Disdain, lack of confidence, anxiety, or strong opposition over his decisions may cause him to become indecisive, defensive, or reactionary. If the wife doubts the wisdom of important decisions, she should ask questions in a non-threatening way, assuming that there are some facts she does not know and that he really does want what is best for them both (1 Cor. 13:4-8). 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

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And now becoming very specific, I want to suggest some ways in which a wife may help her husband. She may help her husband in word and in deed, at home and at heart.
THE WIFE’S MANDATE
12. A PRIORITY OF AGREEMENT. A wife who believes her primary ministry is marriage will be cooperating with him in raising children (Eph. 6:20; Prov. 31: 26-28, 1 Tim. 5.13: 14). 1 Timothy 5:13-14 And besides they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not. 14 Therefore I desire that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
13. A PRIORITY OF LOYALTY. A wife who believes her primary ministry is marriage will be building loyalty to him in the children. The wife’s attitudes toward the husband are quickly picked up by the children. Lack of respect or confidence in his leadership, complaints about what he has or has not done will have a debilitating influence on the children. She must avoid taking sides with the children or anyone against her husband. She must support and cooperate with him in discipline. All differences of opinion about discipline should be settled away from the children. Amos 3:3 Can two walk together unless they are agreed?

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And now becoming very specific, I want to suggest some ways in which a wife may help her husband. She may help her husband in word and in deed, at home and at heart.
THE WIFE’S MANDATE
10. A PRIORITY OF BEAUTY. A wife who believes her primary ministry is marriage will be keeping herself beautiful, especially in the inner person. 1 Peter 3:3-5 Do not let your adornment be merely outward—arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel— 4 rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. 5 For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands,
11. A PRIORITY OF DEVOTION. A wife who believes her primary ministry is marriage will be maintaining a good spiritual life I Pet. 3:1,2,7 Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, 2 when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear. 7 Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

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And now becoming very specific, I want to suggest some ways in which a wife may help her husband. She may help her husband in word and in deed, at home and at heart.
THE WIFE’S MANDATE
A PRIORITY OF INDUSTRIOUSNESS. A wife who believes her primary ministry is marriage will be an industrious, frugal, diligent, ambitious, and creative member of the team (Ps. 128:3; Prov. 31:10-31).
A PRIORITY OF HELPFULNESS. A wife who believes her primary ministry is marriage will be offering suggestions, advice, and corrections when needed in a loving fashion. Proverbs 31:26 She opens her mouth with wisdom, And on her tongue is the law of kindness.

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And now becoming very specific, I want to suggest some ways in which a wife may help her husband. She may help her husband in word and in deed, at home and at heart.
THE WIFE’S MANDATE

5: A PRIORITY OF CONTENTMENT. A wife who believes her primary ministry is marriage will be satisfied with her position, her possessions, her tasks (Phil. 4:6-13; Heb. 13:5,16). Philippians 4:6-13 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. 9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you. 10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me has flourished again; though you surely did care, but you lacked opportunity. 11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

6: A PRIORITY OF PATIENCE. A wife who believes her primary ministry is marriage will be long-suffering, forgiving, and forbearing (Eph. 4:2,31,32; Col.3:12-14). Colossians 3:12-14 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. 14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

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Some classic psychological facts about anger.
 The average man loses his temper six times a week. The average woman three times a week.
 Women get more often angry at people, men get angrier at things — flat tires, machines, dull razors, etc.
 Single adults express anger twice as often as married adults.
 At home is where we are most likely to express our anger.

Anger is most frequent and intense towards those we love, not towards strangers. Anger is a very normal human reaction. Jesus got angry. In the Old Testament, it says 375 times that God got angry. The Bible says, “In your anger, don’t sin.” There’s a right way and a wrong way to get angry. There’s a harmful way and a helpful way.

Four ways people commonly express their anger. These are learned responses. Everybody expresses anger in the way they learned to express it. Some of you learned it from your parents, some of you from television, from friends, your wife/husband. You’ve learned how you respond. Someone has given titles to the four typical responses. Picture yourself as one of these four.

THE MANIAC: explodes like a walking time bomb, a hair-trigger temper, out of control. When he gets angry, she gets angry. Let it fly, throw things, cuss, yell, stomp up and down, throw a temper fit. A powder cage. A good example in the Bible of the exploder, the maniac, is Cain, who was the first murderer. Genesis 4:5, 8, “Cain became furious and he scowled in anger. And while they were in the field, Cain attacked [circle “attacked”] his brother Abel, and killed him.” This type of person immediately regrets their anger, they’re embarrassed, they regret what they’ve said and what they’ve done. They apologize. They’re ashamed. We all know this type of anger.
THE MUTE: is the exact opposite. This is the silent type. Holds it, clams up instead of blowing up. They will not admit that they’re angry. They conceal how they feel. This is the crockpot version of anger — stewing and simmering and all on the inside. When I swallow my anger my stomach keeps score. This person is susceptible to high blood pressure, ulcers, headaches, tension headaches, backaches, all kinds of things. All kinds of illnesses can be traced to bottled-up anger. There is a man, Dr. F. I. MacMillan, who wrote None of These Diseases, who has listed 51 types of illnesses that can be caused by bottled up anger, being emotionally upset and holding it in. A good example of this is Jeremiah, the weeping prophet. Jeremiah 15:17-18 I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers, Nor did I rejoice; I sat alone because of Your hand, For You have filled me with indignation.18 Why is my pain perpetual And my wound incurable, Which refuses to be healed? Will you surely be to me like an unreliable stream, As waters that fail? NKJV

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LOOK FOR GOD (1 Corinthians 10:13) LOOK FOR GOD – He’s there. The apostle Paul gives us hope in this verse of Scripture. No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, that you may be able to endure it.
The LONGER you meditate on this verse, the BIGGER the shadow looming over it becomes. It is God who towers over this passage: God is there all the time. He tells us He is faithful. When we think we are alone, we are not alone. God has already measured and limited the attack upon us. He has already provided an escape route if we will only look for it and take it. If it were just us facing temptation, we would be hopelessly defeated. But God knows that already and so He is there. All the time. All the way. Every time. And He has the best way out marked for us. What a Mighty God we serve!
A father once told of his son’s first serious conflict at school. His boy was being picked on by two or three bullies. They punched the youngster a time or two, pushed him over when he was riding his bike home from school, and generally made life miserable for the lad. They told him they would meet him the next morning and beat him up.
That evening the dad really worked with the boy at home. He showed him how to defend himself, passed along a few helpful techniques, and even gave him some tips on how he might try to win them over as friends. The next morning the lad and dad prayed together knowing that the inevitable was sure to happen. With a reassuring embrace and a firm handshake, the father smiled confidently and said, “You can do it, Son. I know you’ll make out all right.”
Choking back the tears, the boy got on his bike and began the lonely, long ride to school. What the boy did not know was that every block he rode he was under the watchful eye of his dad…who drove his car a safe distance from his son, out of sight but ever ready to speed up and assist if the scene became too threatening. The boy thought he was alone, but he wasn’t at all. The father was there all the time.
And in even greater measure, the God of the Universe has gone ahead. He has been tempted in every way like us and triumphed. He has joined us in every temptation and makes the way of victory marked and open for us. Look for God! He is always faithful!
WHERE should we look for God?
1. We need to look for God when we are on THE MOUNTAIN OF DESPAIR like Abraham. When we do we find GOD SUPPLIES ME. Genesis 22:1-14
2. We need to look for God when we are in THE DEN OF PASSION like Joseph. When we do we find GOD SEES ME. Genesis 39:1-9
3. We need to look for God when we are in THE CAVE OF FEAR like David. When we do we find GOD SUPPORTS ME. Psalm 142; 56
4. We need to look for God when we are in THE SPOTLIGHT OF PRIDE like Daniel. When we do we find GOD SENDS ME. Daniel 2:24-28
5. We need to look for God when we ARE SINKING IN THE FURY OF THE STORM like Peter. When we do we find GOD SAVES ME. Matthew 14:24-31
6. We need to look for God when we are in THE GRIP OF PAIN like Paul. When we do we find GOD IS SUFFICIENT FOR ME. II Corinthians 12:7-10
7. We need to look for God when we are in THE GLOOM OF FAILURE like Jeremiah. When we do we find GOD IS SHAPING ME. Jeremiah 18:1-6

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WOL2022-REV-21 220627AM This morning I dialed into a small group Bible Study that has been using the DTBM Academy Revelation Course for the past 5 months. We have heard from groups like this in the UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and around the USA. God is GREATLY at work in many parts of this […]

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WOL2022-REV-13 Lost humanity believes in evolution and denies Biblical creationism, so the Creator shows them His power. Earth-dwellers worship Mother Earth, so God first allows natural disasters to amplify (6-8). Lost humanity is fascinated with demons, so God opens the pit and lets humanity taste the searing torments of Satan’s demons (9). Lost humanity seeks […]

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If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-21 220627AM This morning I dialed into a small group Bible Study that has been using the DTBM Academy Revelation Course for the past 5 months. We have heard from groups like this in the UK, Canada, […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-20 220414AM Welcome to class #20 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. This course is called HOW IT ALL ENDS–an Expositional Bible Study course I just finished teaching to 300 college students, leading them […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-19 220414AM Welcome to class #19 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. This course is called HOW IT ALL ENDS–an Expositional Bible Study course I just finished teaching to 300 college students, leading them […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-18 220414AM What does God want us to learn in Revelation 18? Many things.  There is life beyond money.  Life is more important than possessions.  You can’t take it with you.  Life is […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-14 220412AM Welcome to class #14 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. This course is called HOW IT ALL ENDS–an Expositional Bible Study course I just finished teaching to 300 college students, leading them […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-14 220412AM Welcome to class #14 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. This course is called HOW IT ALL ENDS–an Expositional Bible Study course I just finished teaching to 300 college students, leading them […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-13 220411AM Welcome to class #13 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. In chapter 9, the apostle John introduces us to the dreadful realm of the fallen spirits and their abode: the abyss. At […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-13 220411AM Welcome to class #13 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. In chapter 9, the apostle John introduces us to the dreadful realm of the fallen spirits and their abode: the abyss. At […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-12 220411AM Welcome to class #12 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. This course is called HOW IT ALL ENDS–an Expositional Bible Study course I just finished teaching to 300 college students, leading them […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-12 220411AM Welcome to class #12 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. This course is called HOW IT ALL ENDS–an Expositional Bible Study course I just finished teaching to 300 college students, leading them […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-11 220411AM END OF WORLD TRENDS: Global Diseases will get more lethal, Global Warming will get hotter, Global Water shortages will get worse, Global Food Scarcity will get more frequent, Global Conflicts will get bigger & deadlier, […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-11 220411AM END OF WORLD TRENDS: Global Diseases will get more lethal, Global Warming will get hotter, Global Water shortages will get worse, Global Food Scarcity will get more frequent, Global Conflicts will get bigger & deadlier, […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-10 220408AM The Kingdom Invasion of God Promised in the Old Testament is Launched in REVELATION 5: The Ultimate Kingdom is when we surrender to God’s Rule. Each day, each of us is to ask God to […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-10 220408AM The Kingdom Invasion of God Promised in the Old Testament is Launched in REVELATION 5: The Ultimate Kingdom is when we surrender to God’s Rule. Each day, each of us is to ask God to […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-09 220408AM Welcome to class #9 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. This course is called HOW IT ALL ENDS–an Expositional Bible Study course I just finished teaching to 300 college students, leading them […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-09 220408AM Welcome to class #9 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. This course is called HOW IT ALL ENDS–an Expositional Bible Study course I just finished teaching to 300 college students, leading them […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-08 220407AM When they came to Christ they had to go on living in that world. To make it through life without getting neutralized, defeated, and sidelined, God’s Word taught them the key to godly living, which […]

If the YouTube video above is not available, here are two other ways to view: CloudFront | SermonAudio Rev2022-08 220407AM When they came to Christ they had to go on living in that world. To make it through life without getting neutralized, defeated, and sidelined, God’s Word taught them the key to godly living, which […]

WCC-07 Short Clip How To Be Stirred Up As A Christian

WCC-07 Short Clip How To Stir Up Others

WCC-05 Short Clip We See Our Redeemer

WCC-04 Short Clip Salvation Frees Us From Legalism And Externalism

WCC-04 Short Clip Salvation Frees Us From Guilt And Fear

WCC-03 Short Clip During Communion We Pause To Look In Three Directions

WCC-03 Short Clip Communion Is A Time Where We Can Reflect On Our Forgiveness

WCC-03 Short Clip Christians Are To Proclaim Christ’s Death In Communion

WCC-02 Short Clip The Wonders Of Redemption

WCC-02 Short Clip Proclaim Christ In Communion

WCC-01 Short Clip We Have A God Who Justifies

WCC-01 Short Clip God Redeems Us From The Slave Market Of Sin

WCC-01 Short Clip God Chastens The Redeemed

WCC-01 Short Clip Christ’s Work On The Cross Removes All Sin

AFHA-120 890108AM FINDING HOPE IN A HOSTILE WORLD: Welcome again to our study of the epistle of 1st Thessalonians. We noted as we began our study last Sunday evening 3 things: FIRST, it is EARLY – probably the third of 27 NT books. After First James [45] and Galatians [48]. SECOND, ITIS SPECIFIC – It […]

I am leading an extension class for Biblical Apologetics through the British Museum in London, pointing out the amazing, scientific evidences for the Bible as the INSPIRED Word of God that can be found in nearly every hall of this vast museum

HFG-19 Short Clip Sanctification Must Follow Justification

HFG-18 Short Clip Called To Receive God’s Cleansing

HFG-18 Short Clip The Need To See God’s Holiness In The Balance

HFG-18 Short Clip Remember God’s Holiness

HFG-18 Short Clip Realize Our Sinfulness

HFG-18 Short Clip God’s Desire Is For His People To Be Consecrated

HFG-17 Short Clip God Explains The Doorway Of Heaven

HFG-16 Short Clip What We Do When We See Christ In Absolute Holiness

HFG-15 Short Clip Three Types Of People Who Need To Hunger For God

HFG-15 Short Clip The Tabernacle Is A Picture Of Christ And His Work

HFG-15 Short Clip The Theme Of Every Book And Every Doctrine

HFG-14 Short Clip What It Means To Be Hungering For God

HFG-14 Short Clip We Do Have Time For God

HFG-14 Short Clip God Changes People, Not Culture

HFG-14 Short Clip Citizens Of Heaven’s Worldview Is God Centered

HFG-14 Short Clip Point The World To Things Above

HFG-13 Short Clip Prescriptions For Healing The Hurry Sickness

HFG-13 Short Clip Prayer, Fasting, And Resting

HFG-13 Short Clip Fasting From The World, Hungering For God

HFG-12 Short Clip God’s Moral Character Determines Right And Wrong

HFG-12 Short Clip God’s Law Leads To Christ

HFG-12 Short Clip Reflection Of His Character

HFG-12 Short Clip Reflection Of His Attributes

HFG-12 Short Clip Write His Law On Our Hearts

HFG-11 Short Clip What Is God’s Law?

HFG-11 Short Clip Pride – The Deadliest Sin

FTGC-49 220607AM Dear 52 Greatest Chapter Friends, We are down to the final stretch of finishing our year together, surveying the whole Bible. These are exciting days to watch the world events and see them through the window of the Scriptures. This week is a start on God’s plans for us living at the end […]

FTGC-48 220607AM Dear 52 Greatest Chapter Friends, We are down to the final stretch of finishing our year together, surveying the whole Bible. These are exciting days to watch the world events and see them through the window of the Scriptures. This week is a start on God’s plans for us living at the end […]

FTGC-47 220607AM Dear 52 Greatest Chapter Friends, We are down to the final stretch of finishing our year together, surveying the whole Bible. These are exciting days to watch the world events and see them through the window of the Scriptures. This week is a start on God’s plans for us living at the end […]

FTGC-46 220607AM Thanks for your love, support & prayers. Here’s the next week of our journey through the Bible we are taking this year with the small group that prays and supports us each week as we serve the Lord as missionaries. Bonnie & I just got back after 13+ weeks on the road. We […]

HFG-08 Short Clip Seek To Display Compassion Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Hungering For God here. Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection of resources he uses in his […]

HFG-08 Short Clip Are You Reflecting God Who Is In You? Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Hungering For God here. Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection of resources […]

HFG-07 Short Clip God Produces Compassionate People Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Hungering For God here. Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection of resources he uses in his […]

HFG-07 Short Clip God Doesn’t Want Believers Hardened Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Hungering For God here. Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection of resources he uses in […]

HFG-07 Short Clip Compassionately Sharing Your Bread Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Hungering For God here. Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection of resources he uses in his […]

HFG-07 Short Clip Believers Are Called To Be Salt And Light Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Hungering For God here. Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection of resources […]

Learning How to WAIT. Paul the Man God Prepared: When God saved Paul in Acts 9, He was saving the modern day equivalent of an Ivy League scholar, with the personal discipline of a Special Forces Commander, all rolled up into Communicator that could speak and write in a way that captured people’s hearts and […]

Ancient Egypt at its Zenith fifteen centuries before Christ was awesome. The Pyramids were over a thousand years old, and stood towering ominously over this proud and powerful people. The ‘God-Kings’ or Pharaohs as we call them, were sons of Khnum, descendants of RA and the bearers of divinity to the masses. Astride the Mighty […]

HFG-06 Short Clip God Wants Us To Have A Biblical Worldview Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Hungering For God here. Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection of resources […]

HFG-06 Short Clip God States His Worldview To Us Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Hungering For God here. Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection of resources he uses […]

Concerned About Your Health Rev2022-07 220407AM Welcome to class #7 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. This course is called HOW IT ALL ENDS–an Expositional Bible Study course I just finished teaching to 300 college students, leading them through a personal study of each verse of the Book of Revelation. Every chapter, [...]

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Heaven Empty-Handed Rev2022-06 220407AM Welcome to class #6 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. This course is called HOW IT ALL ENDS–an Expositional Bible Study course I just finished teaching to 300 college students, leading them through a personal study of each verse of the Book of Revelation. Every chapter, every verse, [...]

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Church Almost Went Extinct Rev2022-05 220406AM Welcome to class #5 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. This course is called HOW IT ALL ENDS–an Expositional Bible Study course I just finished teaching to 300 college students, leading them through a personal study of each verse of the Book of Revelation. Every chapter, [...]

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Plan For His Church Rev2022-04 220406AM Welcome to class #4 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. Jesus writes a list of commendations, one serious warning, and a promise, and sends it by messenger to the port of Ephesus. And the moment this messenger walked into the city, holding this letter from Jesus, [...]

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Purpose For Your Life Rev2022-03 220406AM Welcome to class #3 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. This course is called HOW IT ALL ENDS–an Expositional Bible Study course I just finished teaching to 300 college students, leading them through a personal study of each verse of the Book of Revelation. Every chapter, [...]

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To Impact Our Lives Rev2022-02 220405AM Welcome to class #2 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths. This course is called HOW IT ALL ENDS–an Expositional Bible Study course I just finished teaching to 300 college students, leading them through a personal study of each verse of the Book of Revelation. Every chapter, [...]

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Want Us To Know Rev2022-01 220405AM Welcome to class #1 of our 20 classes summarizing & applying Revelation’s truths called the HOW IT ALL ENDS SERIES. Here is the Expositional Bible Study course I just finished teaching to 300 college students, leading them through a personal study of each verse of the Book of Revelation. [...]

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REV-26 The Altar of Incense Shows up Seven Times in Revelation. This altar is seven times noted (6:9; 8:3 twice; 8:5; 9:13; 14:18 and 16:7) in heaven; and is not an altar of burnt offering. Jesus was offered once and there are no animal sacrifices in heaven needed. So the only other altar is [...]

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2020REV-18a – When The World Passes Away 200503PM “No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon [earthly treasures]” (Matthew 6:24). A cataclysmic day is on the horizon [...]

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HIAE-08 220306AM Transcript How it all ends, God wants us to know. He, through the ministry of Christ, told us that after this manner, we’re supposed to be praying. Prayer is the only thing in the spiritual world we’re supposed to endlessly do. All the other things, you only eat meals at certain times so [...]

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HIAE-07 220306AM Transcript This evening we are on our seventh stop and it’s such a blessing. How it all ends. We’ve been looking at the book of Matthew chapter 6. We looked at the Lord’s prayer, thy kingdom come. Then we moved right into Matthew 24, where Jesus continued that exposition of how the kingdom [...]

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HIAE-06 220306AM Transcript The God of the Universe wants all of us to know and reorient our lives around the reality of the ending. It’s always important. Even as a child, you were very interested in asking your parents where are we going? When will we get there? Those kinds of things. When will this [...]

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HIAE-05 220306AM Transcript We’re on part five of eight. Can you believe it? We’re way past halfway. We’re looking at how it all ends. Which is basically what God concluded His revelation of Himself to the world through His word with this amazing book of Revelation. What we’re going to look at specifically is chapter [...]

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HIAE-04 220323AM Here’s the next session of the 8 Prophetic Conference we taught last week called: How It All Ends. The list of Biblical Signs of Christ’s Return will not actually be full-blown until the Tribulation time. Each of the signs of Christ’s Return He said–are trends. These trends are speeding up—the last seconds of [...]

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HIAE-03 220321AM Here is our third session at the prophetic conference we just finished at Word of Life in Hudson, Florida. Using God’s Word to explain what the Bible prophecy says about these fearful days our world is going through. These trends are speeding up—the last seconds of the countdown clock of Christ’s return are [...]

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HIAE-02 220320AM Here is the next session, part two of the eight messages we just finished at Word of Life’s Winter Conference in Hudson, Florida. What a precious time we had with those dear saints! When Jesus told His disciples, and us, about the future He built every word of it around one spot on [...]

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HIAE-01 220319AM God wanted all of us who live through the Last Days to know–How it ALL Ends. So God sent us as a gift. That is the message of the Book of Revelation. Bonnie & I just spent a week of ministry with several hundred dear saints studying Matthew & Revelation and examing current [...]

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2020REV-15f 200425PM Short Clip Salvation is amazing. Through seven divine works of God, guilty sinners are made ready for dwelling in the Presence of God forever, and their bodies formerly slaves to sin instantly become the very dwelling place, and the temple of God. How does God do all that? He does it through the [...]

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TRU-08 120422AM Short Clip Towering over all our daily lives and worship we offer as believers: is the Throne of our God the King. When we pray it’s to the Throne of our Hallowed Father who is King in Heaven that we are to address our prayers. When we struggle it is to [...]

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Before we return to Revelation 9, which would be opening to one of the darkest chapters of the Bible, we should ask ourselves why would we even want to study through this chapter? Why do we need to study what God says about Satan, demons, and the bottomless pit? Is that something that believers in [...]

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ROK-09a Short Clip As the disciples listened to Christ’s explanation of things to come for their city Jerusalem, and their people the Jews: they must have been stunned. Jesus described a long, tortuous history for Jerusalem and the Jews. Filled with wars, conquests, persecutions, and globally felt disasters. Note it was ongoing. Not “a [...]

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TRU-13 120527AM Short Clip The context of all the tribulation and judgment of Revelation 6-20 is the worship around the Throne of Revelation 4-5. That is what is amazing. All the destruction ravaged scenes on earth during all those chapters are punctuated with the serenity of the songs around the Throne. What a picture [...]

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ROK-28 130922PM Short Clip Before we even try to unpack those 21 verses, may I remind you again of what Jesus said about this book? Revelation 22:16a (NKJV) “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. The Events in Revelation are God’s Truth they are not Fictional [...]

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ROK-25 130901AM Short Clip The Destination & Application of Our Prayers. Each time we pray in Christ’s Name that prayer rises before the Face of God our Father. God our Father is seated in the Throne Room of the Universe as the Almighty Lord overall. He is all-powerful, He is all-knowing, He is the all [...]

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TRU-27 130106AM Short Clip Please open with me in your Bibles to God’s final written communication to humanity. God’s Final Written Communication to Humans The Book of the Revelation is unique. These 404 verses were sent to the Earth by God the Father, through His Son: the Lord Jesus Christ. Those final written words are [...]

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ROK-27 130915AM Short Clip In Genesis 6-8, God sent the first ecological disaster of human history in the catastrophic Global Flood of Noah. It was less than 5,000 years ago, when God completely devastated the surface of the entire planet. Through 40 days of rain, plus most likely the fountains of the deep (volcanic [...]

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210811AM NREV 01c Short Clip What did God think that we, His Church needed as the Earth shakes, the Universe groans all around us? What did God consider vital for those who faced what He calls the “last days”—when persecution looms, materialism is pervasive, immorality is normalized, demonism is welcomed, and Biblical godliness is out [...]

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ROK-23 130818AM Short Clip Many Slumbering Prophecies None of these seals of Rev. 6 have yet been broken and launched upon Earth. They still slumber like a giant volcanic eruption, as the white-hot magma rises and slowly builds to an explosive force, just waiting to be triggered. When they do, the superman, humans [...]

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TRU-16 120916AM Short Clip As we open to Revelation 5: we have come to the greatest portion, of the greatest book, about the greatest place there could ever be anywhere: the Place of God’s Personal Presence called Heaven. Today, Heaven’s worship, distilled before us in our Bibles, into words we each can understand: is [...]

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NREV 02a 210811AM Short Clip The first stop on Jesus’ medical inspection tour is Ephesus. And it doesn’t take long for Him to find a serious spiritual heart condition. But you wouldn’t know it to look at them. Ephesus appeared to be thriving. It was easily the largest church in Asia Minor. Paul had pastored [...]

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How Does Revelation 6 Fit with the Rest of God’s Word? Since God inspired all of the Scriptures, is this section of the Bible consistent with the rest of the Bible? What is so amazing is that these first four elements of Revelation 6’s four seals follow exactly the same script for the Tribulation period, [...]

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Six Truths From God to Each of Us in Revelation 6:1 There are 29 words we each need to ponder in Rev 6:1, each word God has spoken is vital Truth-1: “Now I saw” one long chronological Event. Truth-2: “When the Lamb opened,” Jesus is the Central Character of Revelation. Truth-3: “One of the seals” [...]

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FTGC-52B 220227AM Here’s John in his farewell class to his 52 Greatest Chapter students as he explains Revelation & applies it. How can we understand what’s going on in Russia, & Ukraine, Taiwan & China, Israel & Iran, and every other dangerous situation around the world? Jesus explains EVERYTHING in Matthew 24 and then [...]

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FTGC-52A 220226AM Dear Fellow Students, Thanks for praying as we prepare for the next 10 weeks on the road teaching the NextGeneration. I just finished this class last night as we work to finish up our year-long 52 Greatest Chapter journey. Thinking about Revelation while so many amazing prophetic events are happening all around us [...]

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FTGC-51 220219AM Dear 52 Greatest Chapter Small Group Student Family, We are traveling and unable to get some of the weeks done on schedule, so we are releasing the last three weeks (#50-52) and then hope to circle back when we are off the road, and back in the USA to get those other weeks [...]

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They are former angels—Satan the dragon’s army. They are deadly, vile, malignant, and very intelligent (in Greek, “demon” means “intelligence”). These aliens to our planet are highly skilled, incredibly powerful, and usually invisible warriors. Demons can hear us talk, pass through walls, fly through space, inhabit human and animal bodies, alter human behavior, and afflict [...]

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Crowns are for Christians. There are five. Will you get one? The CROWN OF LIFE to all who love the Lord Jesus Christ and persevere to the end. The perseverance of saints is one of the pieces of evidence of salvation. Thus the one who is loyal unto death gets the Crown of Life [...]

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AN OVERVIEW OF THE END OF DAYS IN REVELATION Chapter 6 starts the judgments, and from that moment to the climactic return of the King in Revelation 19, the river of God’s wrath just keeps flooding the earth. Note the rapid devastation. We begin in chapter 6 with the Lord beginning to unroll the seven [...]

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One Moment after Death Luke 16:19-31 We are in the midst of studying prophetic Scriptures that are coming to pass just as God promised that they would. This morning I want to look at the most frequently fulfilled prophecy of all. The one event that God promised would happen, warned everyone to prepare for—and yet [...]

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TRU-09 120429AM Short Clip This morning there is just one truth I want you to hold onto, and think through, with me: God has told us EXACTLY how He wants to be Worshipped. That description of how God has told us He wants to be worshipped is the title of our study today: [...]

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ROK-07c Short Clip ARE YOU INVESTING IN THE ETERNITY PORTFOLIO? Christ’s Simple Guide to Money. If we could slip into the back of the crowd and hear some of those messages on money, possessions, and eternity that filled Christ’s teaching times, here is what we would hear: 1. Jesus said your money can’t stay [...]

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In Revelation 10:7, we again see the term “mystery of God,” which is summarized in all the revelation of the Word of God. This mystery is God’s waiting and watching while the ravages of sin have run seemingly unhindered throughout all history. As the rebellion of humanity and the blindness of His people continue, God [...]

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TRU-02 120219AM Short Clip God wants us to orient every day of our lives to the truth that He is seated above each moment of our lives. Opening to Revelation 4 & 5 is much like remembering that the blazing stars of a cloudless night are always there, we just rarely see them. So, we [...]

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God’s Plan Pictured for Us–Almost every Bible teacher, who interprets the Scriptures normally, (the way we would any other thing we read), comes to the conclusion that all of the prophecies in the Old Testament about Israel as a nation, are like the events described in Revelation 6-19: They are all events in the future. [...]

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ROK-24 130824AM Short Clip God Designed the Book of Revelation Now take that thought a step further. Even the order of the events written down in Revelation, was also exactly engineered by God. John wasn’t sent a box of stories to arrange as he pleased, like a cosmic scrapbook. Rather, this book comes as [...]

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In the whole universe, there is only God and His Creation. The Bible clearly tells us that the entire universe is involved with what is happening on earth because, after God is finished with the Tribulation and the Millennium, He is going to destroy the whole universe and make it brand new. Everything that is [...]

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181011AM Rev 6-22 Short Clip The impenitent earth dwellers face only doom in their lives. They have told God to leave them alone, and so He will—forever: These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power … (2 Thessalonians 1:9, emphasis added). God responds [...]

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2020REV-17a 200502PM Short Clip The god of this world named Satan the Adversary of God—has two viruses he has been infecting all of humanity with since the dawn of the human race: Religion (making my own way to God) & Materialism (things are more important than God) -Religion is trying to achieve God’s favor by [...]

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ROK-22 130811AM Short Clip We have come this morning to the next doctrine in Revelation 6. We have come to the Day of the Lord & Christ’s Centrality to Everything. All of human history, all of God’s Word the Bible, and the entire universe in which we live: centers upon Jesus Christ, God the Son. [...]

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The Pathway that Leads to Death: Only Professing Jesus, Not Possessing Him What would lead a church to be declared “dead” by Christ? How did they get so far from Him, His life that is abundant, and His Spirit that is to overflow our lives? The answers to those questions are perhaps some of [...]

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To the NextGeneration of God’s servants across the world, it is a joy to train them in the most Faith-Building, Life-Changing exercise of all: seeing Prophecy as God’s Signature Across His Word. Are you confident in your faith? Do you know the Bible can be trusted? You can be because God left a way [...]

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Heaven is the word God uses for where we as believers are headed. Heaven is mysterious to many; and a place of many fanciful speculations. But, God’s Word has given us all He wants us to know about Heaven. As we open to Revelation 4, we open to the first words of the only [...]

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Tomorrow morning when you wake up, aliens are lurking around ready to attack. Our demonic enemies—more lethal than any terrorist, or murderer, or hardened criminal, will be waiting for you. With a flaming arrow ready he will watch for the exact moment to shoot that fiery missile into your mind. Are you ready to deflect [...]

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This passage in Revelation 15 speaks of Jesus Christ’s coming triumph. What does “the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony” in verse 5 signify? The Old Testament states seven elements of the tabernacle. Element One—The Way to the Presence of God: This is seen in the shekinah—God’s sign of His glorious presence from Eden [...]

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2020REV-16c – Christ’s Compassion As Mankind Gets A Taste Of Hell 200426PM Short Clips My Prayer for You in Revelation 14: Father, as we reflect upon what is coming in this chapter, we feel the sober nature of this passage—that Your judgment falls upon the earth after Your patience and mercy come to an end. [...]

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ROK-10c Short Clip The Angered Judge Returning, is the theme that covers the Bible from Acts 2 to Revelation 22. Probably the most profound summary of the Gospel ever preached was preached by the man that most embodies the message. That man wrote most of the New Testament, preaches the most messages recorded outside the [...]

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TRU-05 120311AM Short Clip Awesome has lost a bit of its meaning to us in the 21st Century. In the Bible, God is described as awesome, and when He is present there is such a sense of wonder: that it bordered on fear. This awesomeness was an overpowering sense of God’s glory that could be [...]

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Revelation’s 404 verses contain over 800 quotations, allusions, and connections to the rest of the Bible. There is no new doctrine contained in these 22 chapters, only clarification on how they will come to pass. This is the ONLY book of the Bible Jesus came down to supervise as the conclusion of God’s Revelation. Moses [...]

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ROK-16b Short Clip The Man Daniel Jesus Paul & John All Described—MEET THE BEAST—HE’S THE GREATEST HUMAN GENIUS, PEACEMAKER, GENERAL, ORATOR, DECEIVER, BUSINESSMAN & RELIGIOUS GURU—OF ALL EARTH’S HISTORY First, Jesus Himself affirmed all of Daniel’s prophecy by quoting it, Matthew 24:15 (NKJV): “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of [...]

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Salvation stopped the immorality in most believing men’s lives back then—but salvation did not make them or their wives instantly close, intimate, and life-sharing friends and lovers. Just as modern pre-marital moral laxity has scarred many young couples into a troubled, often superficial marital relationship, so were most of the marriages of the New [...]

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Where did the devil come from? He was formerly the highest-ranking angel in heaven—Lucifer. Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 tell us that Satan was perfect in his original creation and that he was the “covering cherub” over the throne of God, reflecting His glory. He walked in the garden of God and then fell into [...]

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ROK-31 131110AM Short Clip One of the reasons God has left us as believers on earth is to resist the Devil and stand against Satan’s plans. God wants us aware that Satan is alive and well on planet Earth, We are to neither ignore nor fear Satan, we are to resist him. That is the [...]

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TRU-15 120610AM Short Clip As we open our Bibles to Titus 2, God has declared that each of us has been forever set free. Starting in Titus 2:11 we are looking at the third and final word, that God chose to describe the wonders of redemption. Redemption, as we’ve seen, is what God wants [...]

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What can keep us From Seeing Jesus in Daily Life? Jesus answers that question in one of His most sobering postcards, the one to the final church called Laodicea. It was a literal church in the first century, and may well be a prophetic look at the very age in which we live. Here [...]

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Avoiding the Pitfalls–Peter who is writing at the end of his life, lays out for the early church these very practical keys to a life that pleases God; and avoids the pitfalls that are so easily entangling and distracting believers from their calling in Christ. Here again, are his five lessons that revolve around [...]

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ROK-33 131124AM Short Clip Jesus is the Author of Hell, the Preacher of Hell, and the One who threatens humans with endless hell fire’s torments. The conclusion that anyone who reads the New Testament Gospels can only be: Jesus believed there was a literal Hell, Jesus warned of a literal Hell, and Jesus threatened [...]

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Revelation 13 explains (as do other scriptures) what I consider to be one of the saddest doctrines in the Bible—the teaching about the Antichrist, which tells us that the FALSE Christ will be universally embraced by the world after the TRUE Christ has been rejected! (Emphasis added to the verses below.) “Therefore when you see [...]

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Revelation Ch 1 5 02 181002AM Short CLip With DIGITAL DISTRACTION and all the loss of former spiritual patterns, many believers have slipped away from daily spiritual nourishment, daily spiritual exercise, and the transforming power of Biblical fellowship & accountability. HOW’S YOUR SPIRITUAL HEALTH TODAY? Jesus diagnoses the biggest culprit of spiritual lethargy in Revelation [...]

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When Jesus first explained the End of Days to His disciples He used as His central point, the coming of the worst human who ever will live. The antichrist is the greatest fiend, the most powerful, destructive, evil, wicked, and harmful human who will ever live. Jesus mentions him in Matthew 24:15 (as we will [...]

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181010AM REV 6-22-8 Short Clip In Revelation 17 we find the collapse of the apostate world’s church. In the process, we see Satan’s harlot bride: the delusion of religion. From Eden onward, Satan has been building his church. Although Eve was tempted and fell into sin, she never joined the old serpent’s assembly. Cain was [...]

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ROK-18b Short Clip Jesus Preceded the Lord’s Supper with a Summary of the Future. Look at the incredible message about Christ’s coming to bring in His Father’s rule on earth. Look at how much Jesus says as we survey Matthew 24-25. The essential points Jesus gave to His disciples, and to us, were: First, the [...]

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BYT-42 090315AM Short Clip Christ’s first Epistle in Revelation explains how to Learn to Live a Holy & Sanctified Life in the midst of an Evil World. In the midst of all this debauchery, Jesus Christ had planted a church at Ephesus, one that was well-pleasing to God; and the Ephesian believers were honored [...]

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ROK-01 130113AM Short Clip Almighty God who sees everything, knows everything, and is infinitely wise, has a plan. That plan involves ending the sin, death, evil, and rebellion in this world. That plan has been written down and is ours today. As we start our study of this next section it reminds us that ONLY [...]

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ROK-10e Short Clip Impending Doom is Central to the Gospel. Let me illustrate that as we close, by turning with me to 2 Thessalonians 1:6-9. Here is Paul, writing from His heart, his first epistles, inspired by the Spirit to record exactly what God wants us to hear. When Paul told those Athenians that they [...]

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FTGC-50 220210AM Dear 52 Chapter Students: Here’s a video of my small group that meets each week we are able to find Wifi as we travel and teach the Next Generation. Really enjoyed this week of reading and using the Devotional Method on the Book of the Revelation! I even added a clip from the [...]

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FTGC-45 220125AM It took me two weeks to work through this chapter with my small group, so here it finally is. How relevant to these days in which we live. God will sustain, protect, and bless all those who live by faith, walking through life as pilgrims and strangers. Hope this blesses your walk of [...]

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FTGC-44 220101AM The Book of Hebrews has 13 chapters and 303 verses, but chapter 10 contains two vital truths that we each much heed. 1). First, God has only one road, one way, one plan of salvation and it centers on the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross—ONCE as the lamb of God offered [...]

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FTGC-43a 211024AM TITUS 2 UPDATE: Bonnie & I have finished up teaching through most of Paul’s Epistles in Greece and now have started our final weeks in Rome where I am teaching Romans, Galatians, Hebrews & Revelation. These sure are exciting days to serve the Lord. Christ’s church was born into a sin-warped, sin-darkened [...]

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FTGC-43 211201AM Christ’s church was born into a sin-warped, sin-darkened world of mixed-up marriages, sin-scarred lives, and confused families. But men and women who were gloriously saved did not automatically become great wives and mothers, or husbands and fathers. When they came to Christ and were forgiven, God graciously gave them everything they needed to [...]

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FTGC-42 211128AM DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE FACING Spiritual Terrorists Daily? Each day we walk through life—Satan’s dark realm has well-placed archers, arrows ignited, and ready to shoot. Impure thoughts are a flaming arrow that the shield of faith can extinguish. So are the flaming darts of anger, pride, fear, despair, covetousness, jealousy, [...]

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FTGC-41 211125AM A blessed Thanksgiving to each of you. We are back home for the Holidays and got down to the studio to keep up with each of you in our small group. Thanks for your encouragement, prayers, and support! Jesus most often warned His disciples about the coming, global deception of the End of [...]

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FTGC-40c 211015AM We are still teaching for a few more weeks in Greece. Some of the classrooms we are using are very rural and have long drives across mountains and along VERY winding and steep roads. That extra travel time has gotten us way behind in recording our 52 Greatest Chapter weekly lessons. Here is [...]

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FTGC-40b CRT-01 080720PM We are actually staying in Corinth, Greece teaching the Life & Letters of Paul this week. I am unable to get a normal 52 Chapter lesson done while teaching full-time in these classrooms, so please excuse a bit of a delay in getting the next few lessons to you. Thanks for [...]

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FTGC-40a MOI-30 900422AM We are actually staying in Corinth, Greece teaching the Life & Letters of Paul this week. I am unable to get a normal 52 Chapter lesson done while teaching full-time in these classrooms, so please excuse a bit of a delay in getting the next few lessons to you. Thanks for praying [...]

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FTGC-40 211118AM What’s the greatest verse in the Bible? Verse 21 may be the answer. 15 Greek words. If you understand this verse, you understand the Gospel. Fifteen Greek words define the meaning of the reconciliation message. “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf that we might become the [...]

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FTGC-39 210926AM It’s amazing to launch this week’s chapter from here in Greece where we are teaching for the next several weeks. Praying for your growth in God’s Word as you continue on our journey through the Scriptures in these 52 weeks. FTGC Week-39 1 Corinthians 15 Title: Resurrection, The Gospel of Life Eternal & [...]

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ROK-26 130908AM Short Clip The Silence Before the Storm As we open to Revelation 8 today, we are going to find again that in each chapter there are incredible insights into our Great God. Each of this book’s 404 verses is like tiny windows into understanding a bit more of our All-Powerful and Almighty God. [...]

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Paul gives a serious warning to Christians not to defile their bodies because the Holy Spirit lives within their bodies: “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a price. So glorify God [...]

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WNS-23 050515AM Short Clip The approach of the Pale Rider may be on the horizon according to the special report delivered at the United Nations on March 30th of this year. Two-thirds of the world’s resources ‘used up’ The sound of the pale horse’s hoofbeats is getting louder. The human race is living beyond its [...]

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TRU-18 120923AM Short Clip How They Worship Jesus in Heaven These are the first targets of the glorified saints’ worship in Heaven. 1. They Worship Jesus as the Owner of the Universe: “You are worthy to take the scroll. Jesus Christ the Lamb is the only rightful Heir of all things. Only He [...]

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VISITING: Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday when He visited the Seven Churches of Revelation 1-3, today as He visits us, and forever. He still longs for our submission and participation in the sanctifying work of the Spirit, using His Word in our lives. Why not pause and in your hearts look up into the [...]

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181011AM Rev 1-5-4 Short Clip HOW PAUL OVERCAME THE LUST-FILLED ROMAN CULTURE: Shedding (Eph. 4:22) Thinking (Eph. 4:23) Wearing (Eph. 4:24) Start the Habit of Grace-prompted Shedding Ephesians 4:22 First, Paul is asking believers to start a habit of grace-prompted shedding. This is “putting off” old habits like old clothes are so comfortable and [...]

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TRU-12 120520AM Short Clip Today as we open to Revelation 5:9, we are analyzing the words of the first song we see ourselves singing in heaven—the song of our redemption. We who were slaves to sin, and lost sinners: were purchased by Christ’s blood. The God who so loved the world that he [...]

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TRU-23 121028AM Short Clip No one understands the Gospel better than our Lord & Savior, the Author & finisher of our faith, Jesus Christ. Today we continue on our journey through the Gospel recorded by the Apostle John. As we open to John 5 we are listening and watching the eyewitness record of [...]

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2020Rev-05b 200412AM Short Clip We are seeing the start of the Global Tracking that Jesus said would characterize the Antichrist’s power. Sounds like what was going on in the early church. Remember “The Near-Extinction of Christianity”: But the closest Christianity ever came to being wiped out was during the reign of the emperor Diocletian. He [...]

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181011 Rev 1-5-5 Short Clip The very anticipation of catastrophic world events on top of everyday personal trials can be so overwhelming that at times it may feel like life is just too painful to even go on. Have you ever felt that way? Jeremiah did. In the Old Testament, without all the benefits and [...]

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TRU-03 120226AM Short Clip God is Absolutely Holy Surrounded by: Flaming Holy Angels, Quakes, and Smoke. First, notice the smoke. Our God is a consuming fire, so, each time the Holy Throne of God comes down to be revealed to us as humans, there is this sight of the smoke from that consuming fire. This [...]

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TRU-25 121118AM Short Clip There is no book, media, or form of communication that compares with God’s Word. In every way it is the complete revelation of God to us about the salvation we so need, are so undeserving of, and which has been so graciously given. As we have opened to the final [...]

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TRU-06 120318AM Short Clip God wrote down an inspired record of the history of the world: from the time when John was sitting on Patmos in AD 95, right up to the very end of days. That is what you are holding in your hands today. The online world mourned for a few moments [...]

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We got our first clip from the out-take of the virtual classroom studio where we are training 300 students in 12 countries around the world. Today’s series is on Revelation called “THE BOOK NOT FROM THIS PLANET” explaining Divine Prophetic Scriptures. It is amazing to see the hunger these NextGeneration servants of the Lord [...]

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SFTB-00 Welcome to our newest playlist. This is the series called “Straight From the Bible” and is a collection of some of John’s all-time most favorite Q&A sessions. All of these videos are short and to the point. We hope they will strengthen, encourage, and help many who are seeking to know the Lord [...]

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ROK-23b Short Clip THE WORST DAY OF HISTORY IS WHEN GOD SHAKES THE WHOLE EARTH. Seal # 6 in Revelation 6:12-17: is when the Wrath of God is unleashed and the whole Earth shakes. What an awful time that will be. God unleashed six forms of wrath and touches every level of humanity. When [...]

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ROK-01e Short Clip When the Real Horror is Unleashed. It says in Rev. 9:3 that these demons sweep across the face of the Earth like a dark, thick plague of locusts. If the terrifying quake of chapter 6 seemed bad, this is so much more terrifying. Like the sound of a locust cloud screeching overhead [...]

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WNS-24 050522AM Short Clip Jesus said that the generation that sees His plan unfold for the end of days–will witness His second coming. That promise has kept the church throughout the centuries in the Word, on their knees, and ready to go at any moment. But are we really close enough to think that we [...]

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From Q&A-29, Q&A-30, Q&A-60, & 2020REV-15 Short Clip God Makes Understanding World Events Simple As we open to Daniel 2, note with me how simple God makes understanding the future. God sends us a picture that describes the history of the world of Daniel (620-530 BC) to the end of human history on Earth as [...]

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PRIDE PROVOKES GOD’S ENMITY James 4:4-5 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns [...]

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ROK-03d 130203AM Short Clip Note with me how Peter taught the early believers of the First Century how to face horrible times of pain and suffering in life. First Century Believers Faced Horrible Tortures I Peter 4:12 (NKJV) Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though [...]

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The most important decision you will ever make in life is how you want to die! The saints at Smyrna wanted to die in Jesus.Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, was martyred2 on Saturday, 23rd February, A.D. 155. It was the time of the public games; the city was crowded; and the crowds were excited. Suddenly the [...]

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In Ephesians 1, we see that when believers come to Christ they are: chosen, sealed, spiritually filled, spiritually led, protected, rewarded, servants, and owned. This is exactly what God does for the 144,000 Jews who become Christians. The Holy Spirit of God seals them, so they likewise get to experience the great Shepherd’s betrothal gift [...]

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Jesus offers inexhaustible joys: We don’t know what if anything Jesus said as He walked around that site of His 1st sign miracle but since He has a pattern of expounding on these sign miracles, He likely would have told the people that the world’s joy always runs out and cannot be regained, but the [...]

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It was a joy last month to speak at a Prophetic Bible Conference. My text was a summary of the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Here’s one of my challenges last month, to such a great group wanting to maximize these unsettling and confusing GLOBAL times for the Lord.

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181011AM Rev 18 Short Clip Revelation 18:4-8 is a repetition of the continually repeated warning. God wants us, His saints, to live out our high calling. We are called to be holy in all parts of our lives. To “separate from” and “get out of Babylon” is called for seven times in the Word of [...]

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MOI-15 010722PM Genesis 12:3 tells us: “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” Remember how God said that those who harm Israel He will curse? Is there any way to track that? Historically, every nation [...]

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ROK-20 130728AM The Wrath of God & The Depravity of Humanity in Revelation 6:1-17 As we continue through Revelation this morning, we have come to one of the key doctrines of the Bible, the Doctrine of the wrath of God. The wrath of God is part of the absolute justice of God. No sin can [...]

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ORS-2016d Answering Life’s 3 Greatest Questions This Passion week we are looking at Who Was He, What Did He Do, and Why Did He Come? The answer to these three questions solves the biggest questions every person needs to be answered: Origin: Where did I come from? That question is only answerable when we come [...]

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MOI-26 990606PM THE PROPHETIC HORIZON AND REVELATION 6-9, 19 Welcome to the final lesson of our APPROACHING HOOFBEATS SERIES. This has been a Biblical study of the Judgment of God upon the earth during the Tribulation. But as we look at how events going on right now and see they are so similar to those [...]

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TRU-26 121125AM It is here Jesus explains that we belong to Him. Here Jesus says you are My Sheep. Here Jesus describes the eternally secure life we have in Him. The more we understand what Jesus says about us as His sheep, about shepherding, and what it means to belong to Him, the more thrilling [...]

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ROK-05 130224AM Peter most clearly explains the Day, of the Lord’s Second Coming as King, and we need to frame our understanding of Rev. 6-19 through the other Scriptures God has already given to us. Avoiding the Pitfalls Peter who is writing at the end of his life, lays out for the early [...]

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MOI-33 900527AM Two thousand years ago, God spoke to His church and warned “Man is destined to die once and after that to face judgment.” Heb. 9:27 NIV Let’s grasp that verse from God. 1. It’s destined for man to die. RIGHT? From Eden onward, mankind who sins, dies. No one escapes on their own. [...]

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So it gets so bad either you take the mark, get signed by the Beast as under his ownership, or you die. Life and death are in his hands. Fear will be so great most of the world will bow, let him sign them as belonging to him. Souls signed by the devil are irrecoverable [...]

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MOI-20 990321AM Biblical Prophecy Teaches us Not to Fear—But Follow God’s Roadmap Daniel 9 records perhaps the most amazing prophetic passage in all the Bible. Who would ever dream of predicting an event 500 years into the future and naming a specific day on which it would occur? One man did just that. His [...]

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TRU-16 120826AM When God Finally Answers Generations of Prayers for Justice in Revelation 5:9b-14. Unanswered prayers: what happens to them? As we open to Rev. 5, we find the answer to one of the great mysteries of God’s Word: Where do all our prayers go? After we prayed them, God heard them, and then what? [...]

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ESH-09b 140309AM There is an event coming on the horizon that could make a way for the Jews to build their temple in Jerusalem. If a coalition of Moslems and Arabs joined the Russians in attacking Israel. And if that attack was repulsed in such a devastating way that 80% of the armies were destroyed, [...]

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ROK-12 130428AM Which Comes First: Global Peace or Global Holocaust? Is Earth sliding straight down the slope into the fiery destruction, demon hordes, solar scorching, and global holocaust as described in Revelation? In other words, will things get darker and darker, and disasters amplify until the Tribulation scene bursts into view? The answer God’s [...]

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TRU-21 121007AM Only worshippers are in Heaven. Worship is what the Father seeks. Jesus came to seek and to save lost sinners, and make them worshippers of God. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. The driving message of salvation is worship. [...]

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MOI-36 920126PM A gap, or unexplained period of time, follows the 69th week (Dan. 9:26). Daniel 9:27 references the end-time Antichrist; thus the gap is about 2,000 which anticipates the church age. 1. THE CHURCH AGE (Worshipping – Waiting – Winning) – Before His death and departure, Jesus promised to “build my church” (Matt. [...]

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ROK-32 131117AM As we open to Isaiah 14 this morning, we are viewing the spiritual realm beyond our physical world. Above all the vast reaches of the cosmos, above all the swirling galaxies, shining stars, and circling planets God made some special creatures, fashioned for His own service—the angels. And in this angelic host of [...]

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Do we as present-day believers get to escape all of the dangerous times of death and destruction of the Tribulation? In a precise, accurate, Biblical, and theological way the true answer is: YES. Christ’s church is not destined or appointed to go through that wrath (I Thessalonians 5:9). However, if we go through just [...]

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TRU-20 121007AM One of the most remarkable elements of Revelation is seeing into Heaven. But one of the most vital truths we learn from learning about Heaven is that God affirms that: There is Only One Road That Leads to Heaven Heaven is where God is, His Throne, His perfected worship, and the [...]

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MOI-11 010603PM Listen to this incredible summary of all specifics God has revealed about His Chosen People of Destiny, the Jews. 1. GOD PICKED HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE OF DESTINY AS THE JEWS, DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM, CALLED ISRAEL. 2. GOD PRESENTED A LAND TO HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE OF DESTINY THE JEWS WITH CLEARLY DEFINED BOUNDARIES 3. [...]

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MOI-38 990620PM That hideous doctrine of hell is fading. How often have you thought of it in the past month, for instance? Does it make a difference in your concern for others, in your witness? Is it a constant and proper burden? Most believers would have to say no. But the individual isn’t the [...]

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TRU-19 120930AM Four Foundational Truths To Guide us Through Life are: 1. God’s Voice from Heaven in Rev. 4-5 describes the Real Heaven: There is only one Real Heaven and Rev. 4-5 describes what it looks like, so none of the other accounts that you read or hear about Heaven, other than the truths of [...]

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BYT-33 081005AM At the END of the World & TODAY, there are Ten Words That Determine Everything. Worship Your Creator is what God wants us to do! In order that we never miss those vital words, God put them at the front of the Bible. These are the first words Jesus and the Apostles read [...]

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TRU-22 121021AM God the Savior is Not Willing That Any Should Perish God is not willing that any should perish in a Christ-less and Eternal Hell. God wants everyone to hear His truth, receive His Gospel, and repent unto life eternal. This desire is seen starting in the Garden of Eden when [...]

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ROK-01d An SUV-size space rock flew past our planet over the weekend and was detected by a NASA-funded asteroid survey as it departed. Near-Earth Asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known NEA: [...]

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Now turn in your Bibles, if you would, to 1 Corinthians chapter 3. 1 Corinthians chapter 3 and verses 10-15 and that really is the text that ties all of our look in the second class and Proverbs together and, if you see in the slide in front of you, how to make sure your [...]

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TRU-04 120304AM Most of our lives are dominated by the physical world: our health, the weather, our family, our car, our job, etc. The Holy Scriptures each of us hold were designed to transport our minds away from our physically dominated world that is easiest for us to see and feel, and to transport our [...]

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ROK-12a Short Clip Is Earth sliding straight down the slope into the fiery destruction, demon hordes, solar scorching, and global holocaust as described in Revelation? In other words, will things get darker and darker, and disasters amplify until the Tribulation scene bursts into view? The answer God’s Word gives may surprise you. Ultimately [...]

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ROK-24e Short Clip God’s Amazing Ownership of His Bond Slaves (v. 2-3). That’s the Doctrine of Salvation: God calls, chooses, seals, fills, and uses these 144,000: calling both them and us, His bondslaves. Revelation 7:2-3 (NKJV) Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried [...]

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MOI-60 980920PM IN HEAVEN WE SEE THE WONDERS OF JESUS. In Revelation 21:9-27 we find the wonders of Jesus. Here is the guided tour God has laid down in His Word. HEAVEN IS NEW 1. THE FIRST NEW THING IS THE NEW HEAVEN (21:1). This does not necessitate the annihilation of the present heaven; however, [...]

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201128AM I can’t believe it. When I wasn’t looking Bonnie pulled out her phone to capture my launch of the Isaiah Class. So you get to peek in as we look halfway around the world to East Asia via Zoom. I can see those precious faces of some of the most gifted and surrendered believers [...]

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201010AM EBIs-11f Short Clip God wrote down an inspired record of the history of the world: from the time when John was sitting on Patmos in AD 95, right up to the very end of days. That is what you are holding in your hands this morning. The online world mourned for a few moments [...]

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WFJ-27 971019PM GAMMA FLASH: WHEN JESUS RETURNS THE UNIVERSE MELTS—WHEN ASTRONOMERS SAW A PREVIEW. On March 9, 1979, nine satellites stationed at various points in the solar system simultaneously recorded a bizarre event deep in space. It was, in fact, the most powerful burst of energy ever recorded. Astronomers who studied the readings were awestruck, [...]

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WFJ-18 970413PM WHAT DOES GOD WANT US TO DO WHEN WE HAVE UNEXPECTED DELAYS IN LIFE? We have learned that the theme of this book is EXPECTANT LIVING – A life awaiting Christ that pleases Him. In 5 chapters Paul gives the five aspects of this kind of living. 1. Ch. 1 – It [...]

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WFJ-29 971109PM What caught the hearts of the apostles and stayed with them to the death? What stirred the early church to the deepest reaches of their souls? What welled up from the lips of Christians in prisons, pain, deprivation, and hardship living? CHRIST’S ANY MOMENT RETURN The reality that Jesus who rose would at [...]

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WFJ-40 900225AM Take God at His Word Exhortations for Blameless Living #3 I Thessalonians 2:13 As we look for Paul’s blueprint for Blameless Living, turn to Acts 17:1-9 to give us the introduction to this third of Paul’s powerful exhortations. Paul walks to Thessalonia from Philippi: Walks 30 miles to Amphipolis 30 more miles [...]

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WFJ-20 970518PM “How to have a Quake-Proof Life? Trust your Father!” EARTHQUAKES… The most awesome release of energy on our planet. One quake can rival all atomic weaponry combined. Yet 20,000 times each day the earthquakes somewhere on the planet. . . . When we lived in California earthquakes became a way of life. Earthquake [...]

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WFJ-36 980301AM PLEDGE TO LAMB (REVELATION 12:11)–This morning The Lord God Almighty, The Ancient of Days Majestic in Holiness, Endless of Days has invited us to eat at His Table. We have most all of us eaten with Him before. We usually know THE WHY – to remember His death, His body, His [...]

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WFJ-28 971102PM Rapture 101: When Jesus Returns (I Thessalonians 4:13-14). The climax of all human history is coming. The purposes of God long hidden in His eternal counsels are now made clear. Jesus will soon step back into history, no longer the suffering servant, He is Lord of All. Look closely as God pulls [...]

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WFJ-26 970921PM Pursuing the Quiet Life. I Thessalonians 4:11-12 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. Christians not only [...]

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WFJ-19 970511PM PAUL SHOWS US HOW TO TURN OUR SPARE TIME INTO ETERNAL GOLD. Well, Paul – what do you do in your spare time? I practice this love for you that makes me have: 1. FAMILY THOUGHTS 2:17 Warm thoughts of you as my family 2. BATTLEFIELD THOUGHTS 2:18 Memories that we are in [...]

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WFJ-37 900121AM OUR FOCUS THIS MORNING: I Th. 2:19-20 The second great upward look of this epistle – In brief it crystalizes our FUTURE JOY OF HOMEGOING You remember chapter one as it emphasized our PRESENT HOPE OF SALVATION. There are two vital aspects we learned: 1] In salvation we were wondrously placed [...]

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WFJ-23 970720PM LIVING PURITY—How to be Blameless When Jesus Comes for YOU! (I THESSALONIANS 4:1-8). The city of Thessalonica is a thriving city – the second largest in Greece today. In Paul’s day that meant lots of temptations for the eyes, the mind, and the flesh. What did he prescribe? Abstinence from anything that [...]

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WFJ-25 970914PM In God’s book, a lack of love is the worst situation a person could enter. In fact, God considers loveless living much worse than things we consider repugnant. Love is critical to God, a lack of it is fatal. In Ezekiel 16.49 the Lord tells Israel their condition is fatal because of their [...]

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WFJ-30 971130PM The most comforting passage in the Word of God is in II Corinthians where the word ”comfort is used 10 times in 5 verses. Note the origin of comfort: 1. v. 3 THE SOURCE OF COMFORT IS God’s DEVOTION 2. v. 4 THE SHARING OF COMFORT is God’s delight 3. v.5 THE SUPPLY [...]

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WFJ-29 971116PM Look for a moment if you would please to our portion of study tonight: First Thessalonians 4:18 Therefore comfort one another with these words. NKJV. Martin Rinkart was a pastor at Eilenberg, Saxony during the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648). Because Eilenberg was a walled city, it became a severely overcrowded refuge for political [...]

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WFJ-38 900128AM A man, perhaps 45 years old. A believer for about 17 years sits to pen a letter to a precious band of saints. It was the Thessalonians who had listened and embraced the gospel on his second outreach from the church at Antioch. Gives the theme for an EPITAPH! Found in excavations [...]

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WFJ-33 971228PM LIVING IN GOD’S FAMILY: It’s true. Nothing, absolutely nothing on this earth is more important to us when the chips are down than the members of our family. Do everything possible to cultivate those relationships. Author, J. Allan Petersen, writing on this very subject, tells of a traumatic experience he endured that [...]

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WFJ-30 971207PM How can we prepare for the end of the world? By understanding God’s Word! What will a believer be like who is prepared? They will be: 1. LIVING CONFIDENTLY v. 1-2 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.2 For you yourselves know [...]

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WFJ-22 970608PM THE MYTH OF LUST: YOU ONLY GO AROUND ONCE SO GO FOR THE GUSTO! (I THES. 4:1-8). Researchers have found that even in the world of nature the myth persists that bigger is better. One group of scientists made a cardboard version of a female butterfly during mating season and placed it [...]

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WFJ-34 980111PM LIVING IN GOD’S FAMILY ( I THESSALONIANS 5:15-28): Imagine you are sitting down to eat a very special family meal. Say, Thanksgiving dinner. That’s not too hard to see how we just did so recently. But picture these folks around the table: a lifelong Irish Catholic IRA terrorist escaped from Dublin prison sitting [...]

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WCC-01a Short Clip Confess the Wonder of: Our Forgiveness. Because of our sin—we are all debtors to God’s Righteousness; so we need forgiveness. Listen to these life-giving words in the Scriptures, and then hold on in your hearts: the truth of what God has done for us.  “as far as the east is from [...]

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WFJ-24 970907PM WINNING THE MIND WARS—HOW TO HAVE A CHRISTIAN MIND (I THESSALONIANS 4:5-8) Do you have a Christian mind? Did you know that researchers say that the average human mind thinks over 10,000 thoughts each day? What you do with all those thoughts will shape your Christian mind! The start of all spiritual growth [...]

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ROK-08c Short Clips Mortify My Personal Worldliness. James reminded the First of all churches, the one in Jerusalem, that friendship with the world, especially that which causes us to lust for what we don’t have: makes God our enemy (James 4:4). Pursue Friendship with God. James went on to say that each time we draw [...]

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WCC-07 161016PM THE 4 VITAL ELEMENTS OF AN END OF DAYS SMALL GROUP (Hebrews 10:24-25). Tonight our goal is to practice the words from God in Hebrews 10:24-25. As we turn there we are looking at the simple reality of applying God’s Word. How do we stir up others for God? God says we [...]

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ROK-12c Short Clip WATCH FOR COMING GLOBAL PEACE & THE RISE OF ANTICHRIST. Part of what God Says is coming means that Global Deception Comes First. Notice that the first horse is White. “a white horse” (Rev. 6:2b). Just as 2 Corinthians 11:14 reminds us, Satan can transform himself to appear as an angel of [...]

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ROK-08b Short Clip Paul’s Course Guide to Learning Contentment: There are seven courses that Paul had to take in the School of Contentment. We know Paul learned these truths because he either wrote about them or reflected them as lessons learned from the Word. Embrace the Goodness of God. God is good all [...]

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ROK-09b Short Clip The Amazing Distortion of God’s Truth–Now let me give you a summary of Islamic Eschatology’s three great signs. The first sign is a man who comes as the end of human history. We have heard much more about him since the President of Iran started praying at the UN for the coming [...]

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WNS-29 050612AM STAY ALERT: THE ONLY PROTECTION AGAINST THE COMING BEAST–IS THE IMPLANTED TRUTH OF GOD. Anchored to Christ & The Fundamentals (Matthew 24:24). As the end of the physical world approaches, so does earth’s darkest spiritual hour. Satan knows that God has plans to save “a great multitude which no one could number, [...]

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ROK-04e Short Clip Peter’s Lessons on the End of the World, Materialism, Contentment & the Un-Cluttered Life. So Peter lays it out for those saints in Century 1, and for all of us since. Inspired by God who jealously wants all of our attention, all of our affections and cravings, Peter passionately pens his final [...]

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WCC-04a Short Clip LIFE TRANSFORMING TRUTH # 4:SALVATION MEANS AN END TO ALL GUILT, ALL MY SINS ARE ON JESUS Colossians 2:14a having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. NKJV [...]

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ROK-15 Short Clip God’s Voice from Heaven in Rev. 4-5 describes the Real Heaven: There is only one Real Heaven and Rev. 4-5 describes what it looks like, so none of the other accounts that you read or hear about Heaven, other than the truths of God’s Word, are accurate or inspired. How should we [...]

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Resisting Idols: Pleases God. So what is the answer God wants from us? Look back at 2 Peter 3:10-11. God said we keep our lives from suffering loss, from having the legacy of our life destroyed: • By living for what lasts v. 10 or what do we have that won’t burn! • By [...]

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ROK-08a Short Clip We were saved to serve God, but Satan wants to distract us from God using the world’s allurements. One of the greatest needs in life is contentment. Contentment comes only by the application of the doctrines of God to my life. Any lack of contentment signals a deficiency in experiencing God’s [...]

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ROK-08d Short Clip Paul’s Course Guide to Learning Contentment: There are seven courses that Paul had to take in the School of Contentment. We know Paul learned these truths because he either wrote about them or reflected them as lessons learned from the Word. Embrace the Goodness of God. God is good all the time; [...]

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ROK-10d Short Clip The Fall of Adam–We watch Adam and Eve sinfully rebelling and then hiding from their Creator in Genesis 3. Then we see the decline and fall of the human race to such an extent God had to drown every one of them but Noah’s family of eight souls in Genesis 4-9. [...]

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WCC-01b Short Clip Confess the Wonder of: Our Redemption Because of our sin—we are all slaves to unrighteousness, so we need redemption. Jesus died to take slaves and make them forever free—that’s redemption! A Sinner stands before God as a slave and is granted freedom by Christ’s payment. Christ’s death to pay the price of [...]

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ROK-14d Short Clip This hurricane of apostasy is blowing stronger, but it has been around for a long time. In fact, things were so bad in Christendom, the visible church of followers of Christ, about one hundred years ago, that the greatest Bible teachers of that generation banded together to put up the flag of [...]

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ROK-06 Short Clip Here are the ten life-altering truths that we have meditated on for 30+ years as Bonnie & I regularly look at how materialism may be creeping into our lives. These ten statements are very useful for self-examination: Ten Life-Altering Truths to Fight Materialism 1. You can’t take it with you – [...]

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181002AM REV 1-5-6 Here is the lesson I taught in connection with the visit to the Lateran Church here in Rome. Pergamos to Rome: Three hundred years later, Rome moved into power, Julius Caesar had all the priestesses and priests of Semiramis moved from Pergamos to Rome. That’s history. You can read that yourself. Julius [...]

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211027AM Today I led our class across the Castel Sant’Angelo Bridge where Martin Luther walked on his way to visit Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome in 1510. It was on this trip that God’s Word was engrafted into his heart and Luther was born again (while on the Santa Scala Steps as we cover in [...]

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181002AM REV 1-5-5 Here’s a clip from a class I am teaching here in Rome during this Halloween/Reformation Day season. It is an overview of where the Roman Catholic Church originated. The PERGAMUM Connection: Babylon, Balaam, the Beast, & the Final World Religion (Revelation 2, 13, 17 & 18) From those early days after Creation, [...]

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211016AM We got to spend our rainy, cold, dreary fall day in Greece this Saturday—off visiting the Biblical sites of Berea and Vergina today. One incredible moment was standing and looking at the crown of Alexander IV, son of Alexander the Great. Since this is a museum inside the tombs they encourage QUIETNESS, so I [...]

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2110012AM Isthmia Today’s field trip with our class in Corinth was five miles south to the huge temple complex and gymnasium of Isthmia, home of the Isthmian Games in Paul’s days. Here’s part of my challenge to all the classes that joined us. Be diligent—no coasting is allowed: “Hold fast what you have” (Revelation 3:11b). [...]

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211001AM Corinth Today after class, Bonnie & I drove to Corinth and just walked around. Here’s a summary of this morning’s devotions. I was pondering how Paul wrote one of my favorite Epistles (the Book of Titus) FROM the city of Corinth. So he wrote four Epistles FROM Corinth and two Epistles TO the saints [...]

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211016AM Crete I snapped this clip as we were preparing to depart from Crete where we had such wonderful classes and move on to Thessalonica. We are continuing through two months of teaching the Life & Letters of Paul–an overview/introduction to all his 13 Epistles. JESUS ASSURES US THAT DEATH FOR HIS CHILDREN IS [...]

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181002AM REV 1-5-5 We have been h teaching NextGeneration students here in Rome this month, and in our free moments, we keep visiting more Biblical sites to study and ponder our lessons on Romans & Galatians. We have done the Seven Hills, The Circus of Nero/St. Peter’s, the Ancient Churches, each of the Forums (Imperial, [...]

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211030AM God superintends all things for His plan to unfold. Watching these spots where God opened Luther’s heart is such a thrill. Hope you enjoy them as much as we are as we teach here in Rome this month. LUTHER’S TRIP TO ROME AND CONVERSION (1510) In the autumn of the year 1510, after his [...]

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211017AM Thessalonica Today’s devotional challenge for our class in Thessalonica was on our walk through the huge Roman baths Complex under St. Demetrius Church. Paul wrote to this church from Corinth on his Second Missionary Journey. They faced persecution right from the start. That is why they were such a vibrant and fruitful assembly. Do [...]

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181002AM REV 1-5-9 Pick a Good Study Bible Today I would like to go on a treasure hunt with all of you. Most of us have at one time or another read or heard about some of the great treasure finds of history. From the golden treasures of Ancient Pharaonic Egypt, in King Tut’s tomb [...]

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SEVEN HUGE REASONS There’re seven specific biblical reasons why I believe that Roman Catholicism is anti-biblical and also wrong. The first is the mass. The second is the role of Mary. The third is the persistent usurpation or usurping of scriptures by tradition. In other words, if you put the tradition of the church in [...]

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3 Purgatory: Well, thirdly, not only the Mass and Mary, but the Roman Catholic Church has perverted the marvelous message of salvation and substituted the road to purgatory. PURGATORY Roman Catholicism describes purgatory as “a place or state in which are detained the souls of those who die in grace, in friendship with God, [...]

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Q&A 211201AM BE CAREFUL OF MISPLACED PRIORITIES! Today while teaching through another chapter of God’s Word I paused to answer a series of questions from our NextGeneration students. Bonnie & I are serving students in distance learning and remote classrooms in the USA, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Singapore, and several smaller island nations. [...]

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YOU DON’T NEED A PRIEST From APO-10, NR6-01, & REV-35 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – Is Romanism Biblical? 930307PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like [...]

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WHERE DOES CATHOLICISM LEAD From APO-03 & NR6-13 – To Purgatory & BACK! 990912PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon [...]

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POWERS DOES THE MOTHER From APO-10, NR6-01, & REV-35 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – Is Romanism Biblical? 930307PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? [...]

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POWERS OF THE ROSARY From APO-10, NR6-01, & REV-35 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – Is Romanism Biblical? 930307PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? [...]

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ROMAN CATHOLIC INDULGENCES From APO-12 & NR6-08 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – Adding to the Gospel to Earn Salvation 930321PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like [...]

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TWO MESSAGES OF SALVATION From APO-03 & NR6-13 – To Purgatory & BACK! 990912PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with [...]

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ROMAN CATHOLIC SACRAMENTS From APO-12 & NR6-08 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – Adding to the Gospel to Earn Salvation 930321PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like [...]

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7 REASONS WHY APO-11 & NR6-07 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – God’s Simple Plan of Salvation 930314PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. [...]

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MANUFACTURES UNBIBLICAL DOCTRINE From APO-11 & NR6-07 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – God’s Simple Plan of Salvation 930314PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? [...]

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Q&A-83 141228PM The Roman Catholic Church is a massive part of world history and present day events. But where did it come from? What is it even about? What does the Roman Catholic Church stand for?

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IMPORTANT TRUTH TO KNOW From APO-11 & NR6-07 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – God’s Simple Plan of Salvation 930314PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. [...]

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ROMANISM IS ANTI-CHRISTIAN From APO-10, NR6-01, & REV-35 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – Is Romanism Biblical? 930307PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. [...]

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FALSE DOCTRINE OF MARY From APO-02 & NR6-12 – Mary Worship 990905PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large [...]

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ERROR OF THE CATHOLIC MASS Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection of resources he uses in his [...]

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TRADITION ABOVE GOD’S WORD From APO-11 & NR6-07 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – God’s Simple Plan of Salvation 930314PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. [...]

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MAKES IMAGES FOR WORSHIP From APO-11 & NR6-07 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – God’s Simple Plan of Salvation 930314PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. [...]

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TRUTH THAT ROMAN CATHOLICISM DOESN’T From APO-11 & NR6-07 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – God’s Simple Plan of Salvation 930314PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like [...]

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SATAN’S DEADLY CHURCHES From APO-01 – What is Romanism? 990829PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection of [...]

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Satan Uses World Religions Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection of resources he uses in his study [...]

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ROMANISM SEEPING INTO From APO-24 & EBG-20 & NR6-05 & SPC-11 – Where did the Church of Today Come From Q&A? 040111PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? [...]

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ROMANISM IS NOT From APO-02 & NR6-12 – Mary Worship 990905PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection [...]

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ROMAN CATHOLICS VS TRUE CHRISTIANS From APO-02 & NR6-12 – Mary Worship 990905PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a [...]

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CATHOLIC MASS NOT IN From APO-01 – What is Romanism? 990829PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large [...]

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CATHOLIC MASS CRUCIFIES CHRIST From APO-01 – What is Romanism? 990829PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large [...]

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REVELATION’S 7 AGES From APO-18 – Catholic Origins 991107PM THERE WILL BE SEVEN STAGES OF CHURCH HISTORY CHRIST FADING FROM HIS CHURCH: The Church throughout the Ages: SEVEN SUCCESSIVE STAGES IN CHURCH HISTORY. For just a moment, let me give you a perspective- there are seven letters in Revelation 2 – 3 that give [...]

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REV 1-5-6; Queen of Heaven Hocus Pocus & Lent 181002AM BEWARE: What are some of the pagan rites that have crept into the Church? To name a few would be: The incense burning before images, the orders of priests and monks that are so contradictory to Christ-like humility, the calendar of observances that each originate [...]

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PAGAN ROOTS CATHOLIC BELIEFS From APO-19 – Constantine 991114PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection of [...]

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MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH From APO-02 & NR6-12 – Mary Worship 990905PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a [...]

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JESUS CAN SAVE YOU From APO-11 & NR6-07 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – God’s Simple Plan of Salvation 930314PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like [...]

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JESUS OR MARY From APO-02 & NR6-12 – Mary Worship 990905PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large [...]

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PAGANISM INTO THE CHURCH From APO-18 – Catholic Origins 991107PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection [...]

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EVOLUTION ROMAN CATHOLIC BELIEFS From APO-12 & NR6-08 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – Adding to the Gospel to Earn Salvation 930321PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The [...]

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DON’T PRAY ROMAN CATHOLIC From APO-02 & NR6-12 – Mary Worship 990905PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a [...]

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NOT WORSHIP CATHOLIC IDOLS From APO-12 & NR6-08 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – Adding to the Gospel to Earn Salvation 930321PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The [...]

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DO NOT ELEVATE TRADITION From APO-12 & NR6-08 – Why I am Not A Roman Catholic – Adding to the Gospel to Earn Salvation 930321PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The [...]

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MARY MOTHER OF JESUS From APO-02 & NR6-12 – Mary Worship 990905PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with [...]

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CONSTANTINE COMBINED ROMANISM CHRISTIANITY From APO-19 – Constantine 991114PM Check Out All The Sermons In The Series You can find all the sermons and short clips from this series, Apologetics – Church History here Looking To Study The Bible Like Dr. Barnett? Dr. Barnett has curated an Amazon page with a large collection of [...]

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CITIZENS OF HEAVEN From APO-25 & BYT-34 – The Biblical Convictions of a Citizen of Heaven – On Earth 081026AM CITIZENS OF HEAVEN We were sitting at a meal recently with Gen Z’s from three continents. Seven countries other than the USA were all facing me, all young believers. I had just covered Genesis 1-9 [...]

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WWJ-46 040314AM There are really two ultimate questions in life. 1st – “Do you have a personal relationship with God?” And once you answer that, 2nd – “Is there another way to God?” We are in the Gospel by Mark 3.31-35. Jesus stops and looks around at those seated at His feet one day [...]

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