Jernigan Memorial Nazarene: Recent Episodes
Jernigan Memorial Nazarene
Formerly spiritually dead Ephesian Christians following their sinful lusts. This should have drawn God’s wrath but rich in mercy and great in love saved them by His grace through Christ. They were saved to work for Him.
God tells His prophet, Jonah, to go and preach to wicked Nineveh. Instead, he runs away from the Lord to go to Tarshish in a ship that he takes from Joppa. He thinks he can escape the presence of the Lord by changing his geographical position. A...
The word of the Lord comes to the prophet Jonah. Someone used by God to communicate His message.
God’s servants know God’s daily renewal and are motivated by the prospect of glory to come. Their current trials are light in comparison with the weight of that glory that will be theirs.
Only Jesus Christ can justify a sinner. Given that ‘all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Faith in Christ is seen by God and justifies us because we have no righteousness of our own. Christ shed His blood as a ‘propitiation’ which means...
In a place called Peniel, Jacob wrestles all night with who Is believed to be an Angel of God or an Old Testament appearance of Christ. He prevails in this prayer and overcomes in his struggle. This leaves him with a limp to remind him of his walk...
Benefiting from God’s grace enables us to resist the devil, to draw near to God, and to weep over our sins and double mindedness. God thus enables us to cleanse our hands and purify our hearts and minds. As we humble ourselves, God will exalt us.
By faith, unforgettable characters like Abraham, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and Daniel were rewarded when it was put in God. Simple faith makes an uncomplicated confession of trust in and following of the Lord. Their eyes are on heaven. God is not...
Abraham, a friend of God, laughs in disbelief when he is told he will bear a son. Sarah, his wife, the mother of nations, laughs when she finds out she will give birth to Isaac. His name translates to ‘He laughs’. God laughs for joy! Finally, Sarah...
Living for the audience of one. Just as Timothy has heard God’s truth from Paul, he is to commit the same message to faithful men in order that they may teach others.
We serve a God of unlimited creative potential. The prophet Ezekiel prophesies God’s word, and as in a vision, dry bones becomes living bodies. The breath of God enters them, and the hopelessness is revived brought to life by God’s Spirit.
The psalmist pleads for physical and spiritual revival through God’s mercy, producing salvation, rejoicing and peace.
The message of the Lord Jesus Christ cuts the hearers to the heart. Peter urges them to be saved, to take advantage of God’s promise, and to repent of their sins. We look to the supernatural divine power on full display in this scripture.
At the conclusion of last supper and before leaving the upper room the disciples, along with Jesus, sing a hymn together. Christ’s eternal purpose and destiny is soon to find fulfilment at Calvary. He tells His disciples that He will drink with them...
There is an empty space in our souls that only God can fill. We can try to fill that space with possessions of life but consistently fall short. We find, through Paul’s prayer to the Ephesian church, the answer to our dilemma. Look to God’s power of...
Our attitudes and our words are affected by walking with God. With God’s help we begin to be better listeners as well as careful speakers. He helps us to want to tame our tongue.
The help that comes to those who love God is higher than the hills. It comes from the Lord Himself. He is going to prepare a place for those who trust in Him. Heaven, a prepared place for a prepared people.
We can come with boldness, knowing that we are cleansed and accepted by our faithful God. Boldness is not the same as presumption!
The knowledge of Christ’s presence with us produce’s a joy in the believer that is hard for the non-believer to understand. When we think of His glorious coming again, we are filled to an overflowing of genuine, pure Joy!
Staying close to the God of Elijah. As we carry the mantle of those before us, as does Elisha, we crave with all our hearts to receive the same spirit of God that transformed him. Taking the baton of faith, we can ask God to reveal Himself as He did...
Paul brings us a request to display, for all to see, a knowledge of Christ’s presence in our lives. The reason is a certainty of knowing and believing “the Lord is at hand”. We honor His authority to guide us toward love.
There is a new quality of life of the Christian that rejects former sinful ways, words, and works. A new quality of life is shown by tender-heartedness, showing forgiveness to others, and avoiding grieving the Spirit.
We need a biblical perspective of holiness. Our perspective of holiness are affected by the filters we apply to Gods call. It begins in salvation until a pure heart gives all to Him. By walking in the light and staying connected to the source of...
We are commanded to ‘walk in the Spirit’. Only in so doing can we conquer the lust of the flesh, because it is the Spirit, given through faith’s response to God’s promise, that gives liberty.
What can we expect from entire sanctification? Does it mean we lose our human nature, or our human desires?