BE A HEALER, NOT JUST A COMFORTER
Text: Proverbs 27:5-6 5 Open rebuke is better than secret love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. BE A HEALER, NOT JUST A COMFORTER Memory Verse: 2 Timothy 4:2 “Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage […]
SPEAK TRUTH IN LOVE, NOT LIES IN KINDNESS
Text: Mark 10:19-23 19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother. 20 And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth. 21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, […]
SIGNS THAT SHOWS YOU ARE USING SPIRITUAL PAINKILLERS
Text: 2 Timothy 4:3–4 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables SIGNS THAT SHOWS YOU ARE USING […]
THE GOSPEL IS SURGERY, NOT SEDATION
Text: Jeremiah 23:28-32 28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. 29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock […]
THE DANGEROUS COMFORT OF SPIRITUAL PAINKILLERS
Text: 2 Timothy 4:3–4 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables THE DANGEROUS COMFORT OF SPIRITUAL PAINKILLERS Memory Verse: Proverbs […]
SPIRITUAL PAIN IS NECESSARY
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. SPIRITUAL PAIN IS NECESSARY Memory Verse: Acts 2:37 “When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and […]
BALANCING GRACE AND TRUTH
Text: Romans 2:1-4 1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. 3 And thinkest thou this, O man, […]
THE COST OF COMFORT WITHOUT CONVICTION
Text: Ezekiel 3:18-19 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 19 Yet if thou warn […]
DIAGNOSIS BEFORE RELIEF
Text: John 16:7-11 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and […]
TRUTH THAT HURTS, THEN HEALS
Text: John 8:31-32 31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free TRUTH THAT HURTS, THEN HEALS Memory Verse: Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is alive […]