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2476. How to Live a Sizzle-When-It-Drizzles Life

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul. Now I think that the vast majority of us ‘normal’ people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. She continues: Living with Adam, loving Adam, has taught me a lot about the truth. He has taught me to look at things in themselves, not at the value a brutal and often senseless world assigns to them. As Adam’s mother, I have been able to see ...

2477. John 10: 1-10

John 10:1-21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... be saved” (v.9). In John’s gospel salvation is always expressed as the purpose for which Jesus came into the world. Being the gate, the way by which people must enter, is Jesus’ purpose here on earth (3:17; 5:34; 12:47). The pastoral image continues as Jesus describes this salvation as the freedom to “come in and go out.” Within the walls of the sheepfold the flock is safe, secured by the gate from all external forces that would seek to harm them. Outside the gate those who follow their shepherd ...

2478. What More Can He Give?

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

James McCormick

... thought: “That’s us. That’s what we do to God.” Day after day, year after year God blesses us, calls to us, and reaches out to us. Finally, He sends His love to us through Jesus’ death on the cross. But so many hear the story of that and continue to do “business as usual”. So many hear the story of that and keep on living as if it had never happened. We are so careless with that greatest of all loves! The Bible says that “God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ ...

2479. EXEGESIS: 1 Peter 4:12-14; 6:6-11

1 Peter 4:12-19

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... suffering. 1 Peter ties this rejoicing to the joy to be experienced when Christ's "glory is revealed" (v.13). Confident faith in the triumphant return of Christ enables Christians to "be glad and shout for joy" in the midst of suffering (v.13). 1 Peter continues in v.14 with the example of being "reviled" or "insulted" specifically in "the name of Christ." Such social and physical abuse results in one's being "blessed," "because the spirit of glory, which is the Spirit of God, is resting on you" (v.14). 1 ...

2480. A Mother Who Lived Her Faith

2 Timothy 1:5

Illustration

Marian Wright Edelman

... church organist and fund-raiser. She lived out "our father's legacy of service in and outside the home," Marian reflects. Marian's mother prospered by giving and led by serving. After her husband died, Mrs. Wright opened her home for 12 foster children. She continued to operate the Wright Home for the Aged, located behind the church, until she died. This selfless woman cooked three meals a day for senior citizens, some of whom were younger than she was. Finally, her family convinced her to hire a cook. This ...

2481. A Sudden Storm that Tests Everything

Matthew 7:24-29

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Phil Thrailkill

... the "tilt" of the Tower. The foundations were shored up and reinforced; the upper levels of the tower were built on at an angle to try to at least make the top of the tower look straight. Nothing worked. The Tower of Pisa has continued to stand for over 800 years now; it now leans more than 18 feet away from center position. Even with all our modern technology, this building can never be made perfectly straight. Architectural specialists predict that eventually the structure will fall down because Bonnano ...

2482. Matthew 10:24-39

Matthew 10:1-42

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... principalities established on the world’s fractured foundation will fight to the death against the radical restructuring of existence that Jesus’ messiahship offers. Conflict, hostility, rejection, and even death will be the experience of those who confess the name of Jesus and continue his mission. The allusion to Micah 7:6 made in 10:21 is now made explicit in v.35. The family itself will become a battleground in this new messianic age. The verb Matthew employs to describe this family dissension is ...

2483. First-Class Christianity

Ephesians 5:18-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... staff, nor the ordained minister, nor the deacon, nor the Sunday School teacher who is to be filled, but every Christian is to be filled with the Holy Spirit. This verb is also in the present tense. In the Greek language that denotes continuous action. In other words, you are to be continuously filled with the Holy Spirit. The baptism of the Holy Spirit lasts a lifetime. The sealing of the Holy Spirit lasts for all eternity. But the filling of the Holy Spirit is to be renewed moment by moment and day by day ...

2484. Freedom Faith Brings

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... keeping the law, then you've got to keep the whole law. He said back in chapter 3 and verse 10, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them." Obeying one part of the law does not excuse you from ... bent down and snipped the strings off the quail. They were freed, at last. Do you know what happened? Those birds simply continued marching around and around in the same old circle. Finally, the man had to shoo them off. But even when they landed ...

2485. The Sword of the Lord

Hebrews 4:12-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... life to this book. God is not the God of the dead, He is the God of the living. He is the living God and a living God gives living words. The participle, living, is in the present tense which denotes continuous action. In other words, literally translated it says, "the word of God is continuously and always living. That means you cannot kill it. Through the centuries the enemies of God have tried to kill the Bible, and at times they thought they had "buried" the Bible. But this corpse has a habit of coming ...

2486. Don't Sweat the Sin Debt

John 19:30

Sermon

James Merritt

... and tried for that crime again. That is the word that Jesus used on the cross when he said, "It is finished!" What He literally said was "Paid in full!" The devil does not want you to know your sin debt has been paid in full. He wants you to continue to go to the bank of guilt and make a payment on the mortgage of sin. Dr. Harry Ironside used to tell about a young man who was a soldier in the Russian army. This young man's father was a friend of the Czar, Nicholas I. Because of this ...

2487. What to Do When Life Is the Pits

1 Peter 5:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... action. In other words, it says "cast your cares upon the Lord, because He is always every day in every way at every moment caring for you." God doesn't just care for you constantly, He cares for you continuously. The biggest lie ever told in the history of the human race is this one: "Nobody cares." Friend, God cares. From your birth to your death, from the womb to the tomb, from the cradle to the grave, and every moment in between, God cares for you. III. Strengthen Your ...

2488. You Can Take It to the Bank

2 Peter 3:1-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... , are going to be ridiculed, ignored, held up to scorn. He said: "Knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.'" (vv.3-4) The last days are going to see people who will laugh and mock at those of us who take seriously the word of God. They will make fun and call us "flaming fundamentalists," and "Bible ...

2489. The Right Connection

John 15:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... week a year intimate fellowship with Him, so that you become a fruit-bearing branch. You see, salvation commences with a union, it continues with a communion, and it consummates in a reunion. But until that reunion takes place, we are to be a branch in ... s never been saved. John said, "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us." (I Jn. 2:19) Now a branch without ...

2490. Till Death Do Us Part

Matthew 19:1-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... tripled. When you include separations, some experts say that between 50 & 60% of marriages end in divorce. To get a handle on how staggering this is, consider that just a century ago, only 7% of all married couples divorced.4 Toffler was right because people continue to remarry after divorce. 45% of today's weddings involve at least one divorcee, and more than 75% of all marriages are re-marriages.5 People don't understand that running from one unhappy marriage to another, really doesn't work. While 40% of ...

2491. Fiscal Fitness

Proverbs 3:9-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... 's savings per household is $4,201 less than one-third that of Germany, and less one-tenth that of Japan.15 One man had been sitting at a calculator for about three hours not saying a word. Finally, he looked up and said to his wife, "Honey, if we continue to save at our present rate, by the time I retire we are going to owe $700,000. Keep in mind that debt is the opposite of savings. The reason is simple: You either earn interest or you pay interest. Savings earn interest, debt pays interest. I know it is ...

2492. There's God In Them There Hills

Psalm 19:1-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... be possible.3 Forty miles above the earth there is a thin layer of air called the ozone layer. If you compressed it, it would be only a quarter of an inch thick, and yet without it life could not exist. Eight kilo rays fall upon this planet continuously from the sun. Without ozone we would be burned, blinded, and broiled in just a day or two. The ultra violet rays come in two forms. Longer rays, which are deadly and are screened out, and shorter rays which are necessary for life on earth, and are admitted ...

2493. Whatever It Takes

1 Corinthians 9:19-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him forever." The Israelites were permitted to keep fellow Jews as slaves for only six years. On the seventh year they were to be set free. But if a Jew voluntarily chose to continue serving as a slave, his master would literally put his ear against the doorpost, take an awl and drive it through that ear. The hole in that slave's ear was a sign to everybody he was not a servant because he had to be, but because he wanted to ...

2494. The Battle of New Orleans

2 Timothy 3:1-4:8

Sermon

James Merritt

... God. There is no question in my mind that God has blessed Southern Baptists because we have honored His word. You see, it is the word of God that saves sinners and turns them into saints. That is why Paul said to young Timothy: "But as for you, continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." (2 Tim. 3:14 ...

2495. Fill'er up Lord

Ephesians 5:18-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... the staff, not just the ordained minister, not just the deacon, not just the Sunday School teacher, but every Christian is to be filled with the Holy Spirit. This verb is also in the present tense. In the Greek language that denotes continuous action. In other words, we are to be continuously filled with the Holy Spirit. The baptism of the Holy Spirit lasts a lifetime. The sealing of the Holy Spirit lasts for all eternity. But the filling of the Holy Spirit is to be renewed every day. Anyone knows that you ...

2496. Star Witness

John 1:35-51

Sermon

James Merritt

... nights for the last two years. Beginning on May 7, on Sunday night, we are going to expand that service by moving it to the Fellowship Hall and invite everyone who would like to attend and be a part of this very important ministry. We will continue to have our regular Sunday night service in the Worship Center where I will be doing most of the preaching. Brother Rick will be spending most of his time on Sunday nights leading the contemporary service while Bruce will be leading in the regular service. Then ...

2497. The Great Depression

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... letter from a woman who listens to him on the radio. Here’s what she said: Dear Dr. MacArthur: I am a 27-year-old female. When I was 14 I began to experience depression frequently. I was not a Christian nor was I raised by Christian parents….my depression continued as I grew older, and as a result became worse as time passed. I became a chronic suicide case…. When I was 20 I went to a psychiatrist who diagnosed me as a manic depressive. He put me on lithium and told me I would be this way for the ...

2498. Romans 8:26-30

Romans 8:18-27

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... in the past tense. For Paul the immediacy of “justification” is already underway. No wonder the apostle sees in all of life the promise of hope, the working “together for good” of all things. The second half of today’s text, vv.31-39, continues Paul’s case for hope and champions the divine design for “good” to ultimately triumph. In the first portion of this argument Paul boldly asks the rhetorical question, “If God is for us, who is against us?” The inclusiveness of Paul’s argument is ...

2499. Deal with It, Get over it, and Get Help

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... resilient and created ingenious tapping codes that allowed all the American prisoners held captive with him to secretly communicate with each other. The “paradox” Stockdale is famous for is his unflinching attitude of utter faith and absolute realism. When asked how he managed to continue day after day for eight years Stockdale explained, “I never lost faith in the end of the story,” he said . . . “I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the ...

2500. How To Be An Easter Person

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... if Jesus Christ were nothing more than a dead hero, perhaps an annual visit to a church would be sufficient. But if he is a living Lord, that’s not enough. If he is the living Lord, then it seems fitting to join with his people and worship him continually, not annually. How often you visit his church is evidence of whether you believe him to be a dead hero or a living Lord. SECONDLY, AN EASTER PERSON IS ONE WHO REMEMBERS GOD’S WORD. The angels said to the women on Easter morning, “Remember how he told ...

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