First Baptist Church of Crawfordville Florida - Sermons Teaching Preaching Inspiration Help and Hope: Recent Episodes
Doug Apple
Let's open our Bibles to Romans 2:17-24.
Hypocrisy deceives the hypocrite, damages unbelievers, and dishonors God.
Let's open our Bibles to Romans 2:12-16.
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God will judge everyone based on the light that they were given.
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Hearing the Law does not justify before God; only doers of the Law will be justified.
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Those who do not have God's Law still have an inner sense of right and wrong that condemns them when they violate it.
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On judgment day, God will judge the secrets of everyone through Christ Jesus according to the gospel.
Let's open our Bibles to Romans 2:6-11
There are only two destinations after death: eternal life or eternal wrath.
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Every person will stand before God in judgment.
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God will impartially judge everyone according to his deeds.
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God determines whether a person's deeds are good or evil.
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The way to persevere in doing good is to experience the power of God for salvation through believing the gospel.
Let's open our Bibles to First Corinthians chapter 15.
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The Fact of the Resurrection
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The Order of the Resurrection
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The Nature of the Resurrection
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The Mystery of the Resurrection
Let's open our Bibles to Matthew 21:1-11 and look at some things we find in the story of Jesus' triumphal entry.
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The adoring crowds
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Fulfilled prophecy
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A moment of sadness
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Diverse reactions
Let's open our Bibles to Romans 2:1-5.
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You are prone to self-righteously judge others for the very same sins you commit.
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Self-righteous hypocrisy brings you under God's judgment.
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The riches of God's kindness, forbearance, and patience should lead you to repentance, not to presume on His grace.
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If you don't deal with your hard, unrepentant heart, you're storing up wrath for the coming Day of God's Judgment.
Let's open our Bibles to Romans 1:24-32.
God is gracious in allowing people to pursue their desires.
Paul demonstrates one way people pursue their desire in homosexuality.
Homosexuality was completely accepted by the culture around them.
Only one sin is unforgivable - blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
We are only complete when we repent and accept Christ as Lord.
Let's open our Bibles to Romans 1:18-23.
God is just in pouring out His wrath on the human race because we have sinfully rejected His revelation of Himself and have worshipped the creature rather than the Creator.
Let's open our Bibles to Ephesians 5:25.
Christlike love should characterize each husband's relationship with his wife.
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Love is the priority for husbands.
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Love is possible for all husbands.
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Love is portrayed as a self-sacrificing, caring commitment that shows itself in seeking the highest good of the one loved.
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Because the gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, we must believe it and proclaim it boldly.
Let's open our Bibles to Romans 1:16-17.
God wants all whom He has saved to be "serving saints."
Let's open our Bibles to Romans 1:8-15.
Join us as we start Paul's magnum opus, Romans, and take a look into the author and setting of the book!
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 24:50-53.
Seeing Jesus ascended on high should cause us to worship and rejoice!
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 24:44-49.
Our mission is to proclaim repentance for forgiveness of sins in Christ's name to all nations.
Repentance means to turn to God from our sin.
To fulfill our mission, we must have the power of the Holy Spirit.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 24:36-44
Though we are prone to unbelief, and though Christ's death and resurrection on our behalf seems too good to be true, it is true and we must believe it.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 24:13-35.
God will turn our disappointment to hope if, with His people, we will seek the risen Savior through faith in His Word.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 24:1-12
We must trust in the risen Lord Jesus Christ, who is the foundation of the Christian faith.
Our faith rests on the historical event of Jesus' bodily resurrection, not in subjective experience or feelings.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 23:50-56.
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To take a stand for the Lord, go often to the foot of the cross.
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To take a stand for the Lord, be prepared to pay the price.
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To take a stand for Christ, "show up" and do what you can do.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 23:46.
To die well, you must live and die by trusting in God.
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Trusting in God means knowing Him as our Father, even in severe trials.
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Trusting in God means taking everything to the Father in prayer.
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Trusting in God means leaning on the promises of His Word.
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Trusting in God means entrusting your eternity to Him.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 23:39-43.
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Salvation is always by God's grace, apart from any human works.
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Salvation is received through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.
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Salvation is granted instantly, freely and abundantly.
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Salvation is available to any sinner right up to the point of death.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 23:34
Jesus' prayer on the cross reveals our great need and God's greater grace.
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This was not a prayer for pardon apart from repentance.
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This was not a prayer to cancel God's temporal judgement on Israel.
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This was not a prayer for every person in the crowd, but only for some.
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This was not a prayer granting forgiveness to all the spiritually ignorant.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 23:26-49.
The cross displays for us:
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The awfulness of human sin.
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God's dreadful judgement
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God's amazing love.
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God's amazing Savior.
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Let's open our Bibles to Acts chapter 10.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 22:7-23
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Deal with past sins so they don't pull you down to destruction.
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Set Godly goals not worldly ones.
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Determine to please God even if it means alienating people.
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Do not compromise your conscience, even if you think it will gain what you want in life.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 22:7-23
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When we come to the Lord's Supper, we should look to ourselves.
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When we come to the Lord's Supper, we should look to Christ.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 23:1-12.
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The men who rejected Christ teach us lessons to avoid.
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The Christ they rejected shows us why we should repent and trust in Him.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 22:63-71.
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Sinners presently sit in judgement on Jesus.
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The day is coming when Jesus will sit in judgement on sinners.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 22:54-62.
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Sometimes we fail the Lord badly.
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We don't face up to our own pride.
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We come under satanic attack.
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We grow spiritually dull and distant.
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We respond to crisis in the flesh, not in the Spirit.
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We compromise our witness by our words and behavior.
Since God has been faithful in His promises throughout Scripture, God will be faithful in His promises with us.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 22:39-53.
If we do not pray as Jesus prayed, we will fall into temptation as the disciples fell.
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The trials we face can be either a test that strengthens us or a temptation that brings us down.
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Just as Jesus prayed and resisted temptation, so should we.
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The disciples failed to pray and they succumbed to temptation.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 22:31-38.
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We all have failed the Lord.
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When we fail the Lord, His grace points the way back and gives us hope.
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The starting point to experience God's grace is to trust in Christ as your sin bearer.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 22:24-30.
The greatest in God's sight are those who humbly serve.
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The great example of servanthood is Jesus Christ.
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The great enemy of servanthood is self.
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The great encouragement to servanthood is Christ's grace in spite of our sins.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 22:1-6.
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Satan uses religion more than any other tool to keep men in his domain of darkness.
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People can even profess and belong to true religion and yet be in league with Satan.
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At the core of evil religion are three things:
--lack of genuine conversion
--the rejection of Jesus as Lord
--the promotion of selfish desires under the guise of religious commitment
4. Evil religion brings initial happiness and gain, but final ruin.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 21:25-38.
Since Christ is certainly returning, we need to be alert and ready, not dull and surprised by His coming.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 21:5-24.
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God knows in advance all things that will take place in this world.
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God has ordained in advance all things that will take place.
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Although God has ordained all things, He is not responsible for evil.
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God will righteously judge all who reject His Son.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 21:1-4.
Come see what Jesus wants us to learn about the Widow's Mite (and what it doesn't mean about giving)!
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 20:41-47.
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True religion is to know Christ as Lord.
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False religion is being religious to impress people.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 20:27-47.
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You should care about doctrine because Jesus did.
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You should care about doctrine because your life here depends on holding in faith to sound doctrine.
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You should care about doctrine because your life hereafter depends on holding in faith to sound doctrine.
Our very hope of eternal life hinges on holding to sound doctrine about salvation and the promises of God regarding the life to come.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 20:19-26.
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Religious hypocrisy is a dangerous and foolish sin that we must guard against.
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We must submit to proper government authority.
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We must submit to God above all.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 20:9-18
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Gos expects fruit from His people.
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God's great patience is seen in sending His repeated, gracious messengers.
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God's great love is seen in sending His beloved Son.
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God's righteous judgment is coming on those who reject His Son.
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God's certain, final triumph in Christ should motivate us to live accountably to Him.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 19:45 to 20:8.
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Authority is a fundamental question of life: who has the right to govern?
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God's authority always confronts our selfish lives.
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When God's authority in Christ confronts our selfish lives, we must honestly submit to the truth.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 19:28-44 where we study Jesus' entry into Jerusalem shortly before His crucifixion, as well as His weeping over Jerusalem.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 19:11-27.
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The kingdom is not here in its full and final form.
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The Master has entrusted to all of us the same resource to use for Him.
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We must do business with the gospel in a hostile environment.
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When the Master returns. we will all be called to give an account of our business.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 18:31-34
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The Plan of Suffering
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The Predictions of Suffering
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The Proportions of Suffering
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The Power Over Suffering
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The Perceptions of Suffering
The rich young ruler approached Jesus...and there is so much we can learn from this story found in Luke 18:18-30.
How is it that we come about being saved?
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 18-9-14.
The real sinner's prayer is this simple, "God be merciful to me, a sinner."
The wrong way to approach God is by our own works.
Let's open our Bibles to Zechariah 9:9-10 and Matthew 21-1-11.
Because Jesus Christ is King and He is coming to reign, we who are subject to Him should rejoice greatly.
Let's open our Bibles to John 4:7-26.
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To drink the living water of salvation, acknowledge your need to God.
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To drink the living water of salvation, confess your sins to God.
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To drink the living water of salvation, bow before God on the heart level.
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To drink the living water of salvation, believe in Christ for who He is.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 18:1-8.
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We ought to pray at all times.
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We are prone to lose heart and to give up on prayer.
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A main reason we lose heart in prayer is the delays in God's answers.
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To be in God's kingdom, we must be personally related to God's King Jesus.
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To be in God's future kingdom, we must faithfully await its consummation when Jesus returns in glory to judge everyone. a. To be in God's future kingdom requires patient endurance in the present. b. To be in God's future kingdom requires discernment in the present.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 17:20-37.
God has blessed us more than we can imagine. We should not be oblivious to His blessings, or worse, taking credit for His blessings. Today we talk about how we should respond to God's blessings.
Let's open our Bibles to Luke 17:11-19.
When we encounter difficult commands in Scripture, our focus should not be on more faith. The idea of more faith exalts man, not God.
We put our faith in God because He has never failed. The Lord is trustworthy! We put our trust in Him, and it is no credit to us. All the glory goes to our great God!
When relationships go bad, what is the source of the problem? Let's find out, and dive into the solutions as we open our Bibles to Luke 17:1-4.
We need to be on our guard when it comes to relational sins, and we need to work to resolve them using the Biblical formula.
We are either going to scoff at Jesus or submit to Jesus. Let's begin our study in Luke 16:14-18.