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2651. Manual Labor Is Not the President of Mexico

Proverbs 6:6-8

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James Merritt

... will tell you that to find someone who will work, work hard, do the job right, and finish the task is as rare as public prayer in a public school (that's another topic for another discussion). I do not believe you can do anything more for both the character and the reputation of your children, than to warn them of the dangers of laziness, and pass on to them a strong work ethic. I. The Signs of Laziness When you read the book of Ecclesiastes, one thing you conclude in a hurry is that whatever faults Solomon ...

2652. My God Is Real

Psalm 14:1-7

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James Merritt

... and then God speaks about the fool. "They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, no, not one." (v.3) The word corrupt in the Hebrew language literally means "soured milk." This is the person in whom the milk of character has curdled. You will never understand atheism unless you realize it is not so much a mental problem as it is a moral problem. The atheist is not a person who cannot believe, it is a person who will not believe. He does not have a head problem ...

2653. The Lion King

Revelation 5:1-14

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James Merritt

... ? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to Him shall be the obedience of the people." (Gen. 49:9-10) The lion, as you know, is called the "King of the jungle." This speaks to us of the kingly character of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is coming to this earth to rule and reign over all of the earth. He is a lion, but He is also a King; He is the Lion King. He is coming to this earth as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as ...

2654. The Client

Zechariah 3:1-7

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James Merritt

... I teach you a wonderful lesson about what it means to be God's client? God will never defend His children's sins, but He will defend His children. Now this is where the story takes a tremendous turn because even though you think there are only three characters in the story, there are really four. There is the judge (that's God), there is the defendant (that's Joshua), there is the prosecuting attorney (that is Satan). But you also need an attorney for the defense, and here is the amazing thing. The judge is ...

2655. The Sin of Silence

1 John 1:9-10

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James Merritt

... God with it first, God will cleanse you of that sin and take away that guilt. II. Expect God's Faithfulness If we do confess our sins, here's what John goes on to say, "God is faithful and just." Now why did he remind us of those two specific character qualities of God? Well you see, first of all, God is faithful to His promise. The Bible says in Isa. 55:7, "Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our ...

2656. Science and the Bible

John 17:17, 1 Timothy 3:16

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James Merritt

... Hopkins University in the early Twentieth Century. In his time he was one of the most respected scientists in all the world. Listen to what he said about the Bible and science: I accept the Bible as the word of God because of its own miraculous character, born in parts and the course of the ages and yet completed in one harmonious whole. Without the Bible, all God's precious parables in nature, His other book, are utterly lost, and nature, exploited merely for lucre are for the pride of science, is degraded ...

2657. What Is A Christian?

Acts 11:26

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James Merritt

... had. In this city you could see the groves of Daphne and the sanctuary of Apollos. It was in this city that a pagan world began to take notice of people who walked differently, who talked differently, who lived differently, who exhibited a character and a compassion never before seen in the history of the world, and they began to call these people "Christians." Now you notice that we are told that "the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch." "Disciples" and "discipleship" are words that dominate ...

2658. Saved to Share

Acts 26

Sermon

James Merritt

... birth you enter into an eternal family. Jesus once said, "He who is not with me is against me." (Mt. 12:30) We are all born "against Jesus Christ." As I think about Paul, I think about an actress named Amanda Donohoe, who was in a TV role where her character spit on a crucifix. She said she enjoyed doing that: "I'm an atheist, so it was actually a joy. Spitting on Christ was a great deal of fun—especially for me being a woman….I can't embrace a male God who has persecuted female sexuality throughout the ...

2659. Focus on the Finish

Galatians 6:7-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... away with it after they die. But we are told plainly "God is not mocked." That word mock comes from a word whose root meaning is "pig snout." Literally translated it says, "You can't thumb your nose at God." You cannot fool God. It is an insult to the character and the knowledge of God to think that you can sin and get away with it. You can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool God any of the time. Why is ...

2660. Face the Music

Hebrews 9:27-28

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James Merritt

... is impossible. Euripidies, the Greek poet, called death "The debt we all must pay." Now there are two things about death that are extremely troubling. One is the certainty of it. Dustin Hoffman is the Academy Award winning actor who has played some incredible characters. In a recent interview someone asked Hoffman what epitaph he wanted on his tombstone. He said I want it to read very simply: "I knew this was going to happen." You think about this. Human beings are the only living organisms in the universe ...

2661. Why?

Job 3:11-12, 16, 20, 23

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James Merritt

... , put it this way: God either wishes to take away evil, and is unable; or He is able and unwilling; or He is neither willing nor able; or He is both willing and able. If He's willing but unable, He is feeble, which is not in accordance with the character of God. If He is able and unwilling, He is envious, which is equally at variance with God. If He is neither willing nor able, He is both envious and feeble, and therefore not God. If He is both willing and able, which alone is suitable for God, from what ...

2662. Come On Baby, Light My Fire

Matthew 3:11-12

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James Merritt

... ever seen a picture of the Holy Spirit? You see, we tend to think of the Holy Spirit in very impersonal terms. I heard about a first grade Sunday School class that was having a party. The teacher asked all of the children to come dressed as a Bible character. Well, one little boy came dressed in a shepherd's outfit with a slingshot, and he said, "I'm David." Another little boy came wearing a wig with long hair and sponges underneath his shirt and his arms and chest, making him look big and strong, and said ...

2663. Your Word is Your Bond

Matthew 5:33-37

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James Merritt

... they say. The Pharisees, and others like them, had forgotten the truth of Prov. 12:22, "Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who deal truthfully are His delight." In fact, let me tell you the truth about a person who tells the truth. A person of character doesn't have to use God's name to prove he is telling the truth. His own name should be enough. You see, if you are known to other people as a person of honesty and a person of integrity, you don't need to swear to anything, because people ...

2664. When God Speaks You Better Listen

Jonah 1:1-17

Sermon

James Merritt

... three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will rise in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here." Jonah is a very interesting character in the Bible. If he were going to college today he would certainly go to the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, because he was the original "Runnin' Rebel." Jonah got off to a bad start with God, and then did everything he could to make it worse ...

2665. O Holy Night

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... even before Jesus was born. "…who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God." The Greek word for equal is the word isos. An isosceles triangle is a triangle with two equal sides, and the word means "equal in size, quality, character, and number." In every way Jesus Christ was and is God. Even though He did not cling to His equality with God, He claimed it, and those who heard Him knew that He claimed it. John 5:18 tells us, "Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill ...

2666. Why You Should Trust In God

Proverbs 3:5-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... when Adam woke up to find Eve poking him in the chest. He said, "Eve, what are you doing?" She said, "I'm counting your ribs." Now there is a reason why God demands total trust, and that is because He deserves nothing less. Think about it. His character makes it impossible for Him to fool us because He cannot lie; His wisdom makes it impossible for Him to fail us; He cannot make a mistake. Therefore we should totally trust Him. Partial trust is the same thing as total unbelief. If you're going to trust ...

2667. Me, Myself and God

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

We have been studying the 23rd Psalm together and there have really been only two characters in the Psalm—the shepherd and the sheep. But now a third party has been added—enemies. Do you ever feel surrounded by enemies? Do you ever feel like you are all alone; that all the world is against you and you can’t count on anybody? Do you ever ...

2668. Guilt: How to Keep Your Conscience Clear

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... at all.1 Perhaps the most powerful and poisonous of all human emotions is the emotion of guilt. Guilt can make a person afraid of their own shadow. There is a story told of the time when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the English writer, who created the character Sherlock Holmes, decided to play a practical joke on twelve of his best friends. He sent each of them a telegram that read: “Flee at once….all is discovered.” Within twenty-four hours all twelve fled the country. The worst trip you will ever take is ...

2669. Why You Should Spend Time with God

Psalm 37:4-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... with His heart. Years ago Merv Griffin used to have a talk show. On one of those shows he interviewed Charlton Heston. Charlton Heston played the part of Moses in “The Ten Commandments.” Merv Griffin asked Charlton Heston if any of the characters he had portrayed in his religious movies had changed his spiritual outlook. Heston thought for a moment and then said, “Playing Moses did change my spiritual outlook.” Merv Griffin said, “Why?” He said, “Well, Merv, you can’t walk barefoot down Mt ...

2670. The Empire Strikes Back

Jude 1:14-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... and age in which we live from the days of Enoch. Whenever a nation falls into spiritual apathy, they will fall into social apathy. When people get to a point where they do not care about the coming of the Savior, they won’t care about the character of the President. II. The Factual Promise of The Second Coming Enoch’s message was this: “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints.” (v.14) In the Greek language the verb comes is in the past tense. What it literally says is this: “Behold ...

2671. Pulling Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... . That is what the cross is all about. God wants to restore us to the beautiful creation God intended from the first for us to be. There is a parable of God’s plan in Kurt Vonnegut’s strange and disturbing book, Slaughterhouse Five. The central character is an optometrist named Billy Pilgrim who lives a rather ordinary existence in a fictional town in New York State. However, when the novel begins, he is a prisoner-of-war in Dresden, Germany during the Second World War. At one point in the novel Billy ...

2672. A Time for Penance and a Time for Partridge

Ps 100, Col 2:1-7

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... to get home this year….dust off the fine china….unfold the good napkins….and make time for a sometimes-messy conversation with the people who know us best. "This is the year," she adds, "when we will find out how we are doing on the character test. Namely, have the events of autumn left us hardened or humbled….bitter over what we have lost, or grateful for all that we have left (which we, until recently, took for granted)?" On one hand, the Bible commands gratitude, quite apart from whether we feel ...

2673. The True Feng Shui Life

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... are 10,000 feng shui teachers, and it’s hard to find a Hong Kong resident who isn’t a believer in feng shui, whether they can afford to practice it or not. The real meaning of “feng shui” is wind-water. Feng-shui are the two Chinese characters for “wind” (feng) and “water” (shui). Feng Shui is literally the art of bringing together the wind and the water, the heavens and the earth, to partner in your life. And this is precisely what Jesus proposes to do for us if we follow him. To bring ...

2674. Great Is Your Faith - Sermon Starter

Matthew 15:21-28

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Brett Blair

... critic wrote of a concert pianist the four words: "He was a failure," you could always say: That was his opinion. But if one of the world's great musicians wrote, "He was a genius," then you are apt to take the remark more seriously. There was a character in the Gospel who Jesus once described with four immortal words: Great is your faith. She was a Canaanite woman who came from the country to the north of Palestine, a country hostile to the Jews. She was presumably married, she had at least one child; but ...

2675. A Point of Reference

Matthew 16:13-20

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King Duncan

... point so that we can say, "Here. Here is how the good life is lived." For Christians there is such a reference point - and that is Jesus. What would Jesus do? That is the question that continually helps us in our quest for right living. Jesus not only revealed the character of God but he also patterned the ideal life for humanity.

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