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2751. How To Be Truly Wealthy

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... book of Ecclesiastes, one of the most brutally pessimistic books of the Bible, was written from the perspective of King Solomon, one of the richest, most powerful men, during a time of unprecedented prosperity. King Solomon had everything that the human heart could desire, and he had it in abundance. So why does he sound so hopeless? Then Yancey recalled that modern-day existentialist literature, which is steeped in apathy and despair, had its start in Paris during a time of great prosperity and peace too ...

2752. The Bold And Beautiful

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... he was not celebrating those who are perpetual doormats, whose demeanor says, "Walk on me, walk on me." When Christ said, "Blessed are the persecuted," he was not paying homage to those who refuse to stand up for their rights. Just the opposite. Christ desires people who are willing to take stands even when they are threatened with persecution. Those earliest followers of Christ understood this. This is why they could face all kinds of violence from the state and from their neighbors. Christ was not calling ...

2753. Temptation Island

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... . We are all sinners saved by grace. According to the Bible our sin goes all the way back to our first parents, Adam and Eve. "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." Two boys, ages 8 and 4, were discussing Adam and Eve. The 8-year-old asked: "How did Adam and Eve die?" And the 4 ...

2754. I Wish Life Came With An Eraser!

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... capable of doing that, capable of giving us a new and fresh start, free of our past sins"”an eraser that could turn back the clock to a time before our mistakes had left us shaking our heads and wondering, "How could I have done that?" That universal desire for life's eraser is what makes 2 Corinthians 5 such a loved chapter. Paul writes to the church at Corinth to say that in Christ we are recreated, made new, born again. If anyone is in Christ there is a new creation, everything old has passed away ...

2755. "Why Don't We Just Tell Them Our Names?"

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... cross would understand each other perfectly. Something of the past is faded and gone, and if our action can't restore it, at least we can let the world know of our rage. (3) When a great and noble people has been defeated, a certain segment claiming a desire to recapture the past moves toward radicalism. Blame and envy become the roots of violence and evil. And fear--fear in knowing that the new world order is destroying the way of life which they knew and loved, even if that way of life is filled with ...

2756. Counterfeit Christianity

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... However, Jesus found a superficial righteousness in many of Israel's teachers of the law. Obedience became a public performance for others to see rather than an inner devotion to the living God. Christ wanted conduct which flowed out of character--not out of a desire to play to the gallery. Thus Jesus warned us of those who masquerade an outer beauty, but inwardly are rotten and shallow. Appearances can be deceptive and destructive. All that glitters is not gold. A bank put up this sign: "It is better to be ...

2757. Ready For A Change

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's table as the holiest person in the realm. Maybe even more so, for later in this passage, Jesus summed up his ministry like this: "It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. But go and learn what this means, "˜I desire compassion, and not sacrifice,' for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners." And that is still Christ's message to us today. It's a disturbing thought, but it's clear from this passage that Christ didn't come for those who have it all--who ...

2758. What Are You Afraid Of?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... darkness, coming into the light, learning to live by the law of gentleness and love instead of the law of payback.(2) What a terrible way to live--in constant fear of your own neighbors, never knowing when a minor slight might launch a desire for the severest form of revenge. And yet many people in our world live like that--in constant fear. The bloody "ethnic cleansing" in Sarajevo has left hundreds of children with serious emotional problems. American army nurses serving in Sarajevo reported back in the ...

2759. His Name Was Rocky Johnson

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... , how many of us open our Bibles, see what Jesus might say on a particular subject, and then, if what Jesus says isn't in harmony with what we currently believe, do a complete U-turn? It is much more likely that we will interpret Scripture according to our own desires. People are all over the map when it comes to Jesus. That's why we need to listen to what comes next. Jesus asks, "But who do you say that I am?" we hear that familiar answer, "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God." I'm convinced ...

2760. It's A Good Thing There Weren't Unions . . .

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day." But the landlord answered one of them like this, ""˜Friend, he answered one of them, "˜I did you no wrong! Didn't you agree to work all day for $20? Take it and go. It is my desire to pay all the same; is it against the law to give away my money if I want to? Should you be angry because I am kind?'" Then Jesus added these cryptic words, "So the last will be first, and the first will be last." (LB) Obviously this story took ...

2761. The Difference Between Looking Good And Being Good

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the Law of Moses. In some ways they were the best people in the land. Following God's commands was the focus of their lives. Nothing wrong with that. But somewhere along the way, the Pharisees seemed to miss the point. In their desperate desire to obey God's laws, they begin piling on more and more rules. Soon, the Pharisees had compiled more than fifty volumes of rules and laws that a Jew must follow to be considered righteous. And there were some significant differences between how the Pharisees ...

2762. Reaching Our Full Potential

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... . One life has an immeasurable impact on this world. And when we invest our lives in glorifying God, God will honor that investment by multiplying it far beyond anything we could do with simple human effort. There is a beautiful prayer by John Piper that expresses the desire to let God work through us for His glory. Piper prays daily, "Lord, let me make a difference for You that is utterly disproportionate to who I am." (6) That is the prayer of a man who is an obedient servant of God. Lois Cheney in her ...

2763. Hungry For Bread

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... for him too. As he says in verse 40, "I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me." Why is it so hard for us to take those words at face value? We say that our greatest desire is to see Jesus. Do we really mean it? Then there is a simple solution: reach out to the poor and needy of society. According to this passage, we will see Jesus in their faces. A man named Michael Christensen spent some time with Mother Teresa in the slums of ...

2764. Why He Came

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... straight by spending time before the throne of God. And the busier they are, the more urgent it is that they take time to pray. Jesus took time to pray. NOTICE ALSO THAT JESUS TOOK TIME FOR PEOPLE. Jesus was no ascetic who shut himself off from others in his desire to commune with God. He was "a man for others," as he has been so aptly described. He may have preferred to stay in the garden, or on the mountaintop, or in the home of a friend, but there were people who needed him and so he was out doing ...

2765. Light Shines Into The Darkness

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... hurt would be healed, if I knew without any doubt when I stood beside the coffin of someone I love that they were immediately transported to streets of gold--if there were no struggle at all to our faith--would we develop inwardly the kind of maturity that God desires in creatures with whom God will share eternity? Besides, if God were to show God's self to us, in all God's glory, would we still have our sense of freedom? Would not God's presence overwhelm us to the point that we would immediately bow our ...

2766. If God Is For Us

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... people, no individual can lay absolute claim to God's blessing. On the contrary, history teaches that humanity usually fights against God. By our very nature, most of our everyday transactions as well as our global wars, are the product of self-seeking, often sinful, desires. At times like that, God may very well be against us. God loved Israel. But often Israel discovered themselves on the opposite side of an issue from God's will. And thus that tiny but important qualifier: "IF God is for us . . ." Is God ...

2767. Beginning Again

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... people good. He came to give dead people life!" Paul is not reminding the Ephesian believers of their past to cause them shame. In fact, he sympathizes with them when he says in verse 3, "All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else." All of us once lived like that. We were all in the same boat. None of us is better than anyone else. So what do we do with our past? What do we do with ...

2768. Needed: Peacemakers

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... feet square, more like prison cells than homes. Their income averaged from 25 to 50 cents a day. The district swarmed with undernourished children, covered from head to toe with various kinds of skin diseases. Once embedded in the slums, Kagawa's desire to give his life for the underprivileged, which had been taking root in his soul for some time, burst into a full-blown purpose. Persecuted and threatened, he was unmoving. He feared neither man, vermin, filth, nor disease. The itch, the pest, tuberculosis ...

2769. Faith-based Living

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... . As we look back over our lives, we see our every need supplied right on time. We see prayers answered years after they were prayed. In other circumstances, we thank God for prayers that God, in His great wisdom, chose not to answer according to our desires. But faith-based thinkers don't have to rely on hindsight. The great thing about faith-based thinking is that it allows you to rejoice ahead of time in the knowledge that God is loving, just, and powerful, and that He will meet every need according ...

2770. Beautiful Words Of Life

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... they never reach out to others. Why? It is because Christ's spirit, Christ's acceptance, Christ's empowerment have never penetrated their hearts. The disciples knew they could never leave Jesus. Oh, they had the freedom to do so, but they would never have the desire to do so. Because, in him, they had found life. They felt good about themselves in his presence, so they could feel good about others. They felt pure in his presence, so they could have pure motives in relating to others. They felt his love and ...

2771. A Failure To Communicate

Hebrews 1:1-4, Hebrews 2:5-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... New Testament vowed that Jesus spoke with that kind of authority. Jesus is the perfect revelation of God. "He is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being . . ." You want to know what God is like, you want to know what God desires, you want to know what God's purpose is for creating the heavens and the earth--look to Jesus. There you will find an answer to life's most profound questions. And what is that answer? Here it is, God is love. At the center of Christ's revelation is ...

2772. Christ's Promise To His Saints

John 11:17-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... of cancer eight years earlier. The reporter said, "Chastity thought that a visit to the other side could help her deal with losing Joan." When Chastity visited the medium, he assured her that Joan's and Sonny's spirits were present. (2) We can appreciate the desire to want to communicate with our loved ones after they have passed away. But the Bible warns us against trusting mediums or other people who claim they can contact the dead. The Bible tells us to trust God, because Christ has the power over life ...

2773. Living In The Kingdom Of God

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... said, "Solitude is a state of mind, which effectuates its reactionary tendencies and inoculates those with hypersensitivity. However, having been a victim of claustrophobia during my adolescence, I find habitation in the environment of nature's wonders not only serene and desirous, but fundamentally mandatory." The couple left in silence, and after a short drive down the road the wife turned and asked her husband, "Well, why don't you say something, Einstein?" (1) In his own way, the old settler was saying ...

2774. A Picture Of A King

Psalm 72:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Surely, Solomon contemplated his father's wicked deeds, and the power that made them possible. Solomon himself amassed more riches, honor, and power than any other king before him. And yet, he writes in the book of Ecclesiastes, "I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure . . . Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, chasing after the wind . . ." (Ecc. 2: 10-11). In the end, Solomon found his power to be ...

2775. I Can Make It By Myself . . .

Nehemiah 8:10

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... the way to have strength and joy. I have an acrostic to share with you today. [Show your JOY acrostic and explain that if we put Jesus first in our lives and then think about others next (remember Nehemiah told the people to think of others), and put our own desires last, we will have JOY in the Lord!] Prayer: Thank you that You do give us the strength to live our lives in joy! AMEN

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