THE LIGHT OF GOD’S GLORY 2
Text: 2 Corinthians 4:1-7 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. […]
THE LIGHT OF GOD’S GLORY
Text: 2 Corinthians 4:1-7 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. […]
THE CROSS AND THE SPEAR: PIERCING THAT BRINGS LIFE
Text: John 19:32-36 32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: 34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came […]
THE HEART OF THE RESPONSE: TRUE REPENTANCE
Text: Ezekiel 18:21–23 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness […]
JOHN’S STAND, OUR CHALLENGE
Text: Isaiah 58:1-3 1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask […]
BREAKING STRONGHOLDS: TRUTH AS A DEMOLITION TOOL
Text: 2 Corinthians 10:4–5 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; BREAKING STRONGHOLDS: TRUTH AS A […]
THE DANGER OF MODERN CHRISTIANITY: THE UNPIERCED HEARTS
Text: Jeremiah 17:9–11 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. 11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so […]
THE SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS OF CONVICTION
Text: Proverbs 3:11-12 11 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction: 12 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. THE SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS OF CONVICTION Memory Verse: Romans 2:4 “Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, […]
SPIRITUAL SURGERY: WHEN THE WORD TOUCHES THE ROOT
Text: Luke 3:7-8 7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say […]
TRUTH LEADS TO RESPONSIBILITY: “WHAT SHALL WE DO?”
Text: Luke 3:1–10; Micah 6:6-8 1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, […]