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2901. The Lord of the Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38

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James Merritt

... , Rear Admiral Robert Peary, who is credited as being the first person ever to reach the North Pole, was on one of his many polar expeditions one time headed north with one of his dog teams. At the end of the day, when he stopped to take a bearing on his latitude, he was perplexed to discover that he actually was farther south than he had been at the beginning of the day. The mystery was eventually solved when he found out that he had been traveling on a gigantic ice floe. Ocean currents were pulling the ...

2902. God Really Cares

Matthew 27:46

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James Merritt

... the creature, but all of creation. Because of sin, roses have thorns, gardens have weeds, women know the pain of childbirth, man sweats as he works, and the end of life is death. But now the second Adam is paying for what the first Adam did, and even creation cannot bear to watch. There are two things you need to see in this one statement: You need to see the holiness of God, and you need to see the sinfulness of man. Why did God forsake His Son? Why did God turn his back on His Son? Why did God put ...

2903. Let Me Tell You about the Birds and the Bees

Proverbs 5:15-23

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James Merritt

... , clear consciences, marriages, and peace with God. But it also leaves the scar of spiritual defeat. God can forgive sexual sin. But you study the life of King David and you will find that he was never restored to his former power or position. The tree of promiscuity always bears bitter fruit. Though the wound heals, the scar always remains. May I just stop right here and say a word to all of us dads. There is something I have pasted in the front flyleaf of my Bible that I cut out of a book that I want to ...

2904. Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments

Proverbs 24:11-12

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James Merritt

... still a woman, and a handicapped child is still a child. A person's nature and worth are not changed or devalued by handicap. d. Handicaps do not merit the death penalty. Abortion is killing a child. Then whether or not that child is handicapped or not has no bearing on the matter. In fact, if one can argue that an unborn child should be killed because it will be handicapped, then the argument could also be made that we should kill people who are born who have handicaps. The fact is, it is no more right to ...

2905. Putting Mom in Heartbreak Hotel

1 Kings 2:5-6

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James Merritt

... He is God's chosen. They are convinced of that with all of their heart. He also believed that David was the Good Shepherd. David's skills as a shepherd were legendary. People knew of the time that young David, just a stripling lad, killed a lion and a bear while protecting his flock. Joab knew that in all things, whether it be as a savior, a sovereign, or a shepherd, David was absolutely sufficient. He was all that Israel needed. As a shepherd, as a singer, as a soldier, as a sovereign, David was God's man ...

2906. Preach the World and Reach the World

2 Timothy 4:1-5

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James Merritt

... Bible. They probably know very little about that!" That advice is extremely similar to the counsel that the Apostle Paul gave to his young protégé Timothy two thousand years ago. I have built my ministry on two pillars: biblical exposition and personal evangelism. I want to bear my soul and share my heart and I want to be very candid right up front. I see a generation of preachers, both boomers and busters, who are getting away from these very two things. You can sum up Paul's advice to Timothy with this ...

2907. Confronting a Christless Culture

2 Timothy 3:1-17

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James Merritt

... . He gives us three helps on how to confront a Christless culture. I. He Warns of Perilous Times That Will Shock You He says, "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come." (v.1) The word perilous literally means "hard to bear" or "hard to deal with." The last days are going to be dangerously different and difficult days. He then lists nineteen characteristics of this poisonous and perverse period that will usher in the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now as you read this list ...

2908. Saving Private Ryan

Acts 1:8

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James Merritt

... of the earth." (Acts 1:8) When Jesus left this earth, He had missions on his mind. He came as a missionary from heaven, that He might make us missionaries for heaven. A great Baptist theologian named Dr. W. T. Conner, said, "Our mission is to bear witness to Christ from Jerusalem to the uttermost part of the earth. Any form of Christianity that does not have throbbing through it a mighty missionary and evangelism impulse, is a degenerate form of Christianity."2 In Acts 1:8 the Lord Jesus has already given ...

2909. Doing Right When You Have Been Done Wrong

Ephesians 4:31-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... had ruined his ministry. In fact he was convinced she had ruined his life. He thought he would never recover. He was convinced no one would ever let him minister again with those charges against him. Bitterness overwhelmed him. Hate began to pour into his heart. He just could not bear what this woman had done and he could not undo the damage she had caused. One day in his quiet time, struggling even to pray to God, he asked God if He would ever use him again. In his heart he said God said to him, "I can use ...

2910. Bridging the Generation Gap

Ephesians 6:1-4

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James Merritt

... you think about it, it is extremely profound. The pain of childbirth is twofold: there is the pain of bringing the child into the world, and there is the pain of bringing that child up in the world, and the latter is greater. The physical pain of bearing a child is tremendous, but usually lasts only a few hours. But the pain of rearing that same child lasts a lifetime and never lessens.1 Every time I preach on the subject of parenting, I always feel extremely inadequate. I know there are many parents out ...

2911. Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win (Fruit of the Spirit: Patience)

Galatians 5:22

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James Merritt

... testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing." The word for complete means mature. God's goal for you is maturity, and patience may be a bitter plant, but it always bears sweet fruit. For full- blown patience makes for a full-grown Christian. Troubles and troublemakers are in your life to develop longsuffering, and you will never graduate to maturity until you go to the school of hard knocks and learn the discipline of ...

2912. A Trip to God's Woodshed

Hebrews 12: 5-11

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James Merritt

... a coincidence that it comes in that order. For when your love for God cools, and you backslide, and you fall into sin, the first thing to go is your joy. When joy walks out the door, peace goes out the window. b. Productivity Discipline allows us once again to "bear the fruit of righteousness." (v.11) You see, God uses discipline to prune us, that we might be more productive. He does it for two reasons: (1) to make us stop doing what we ought not to be doing, but also (2) to help us start doing what we ...

2913. Courage Under Fire

Jude 1:22-23

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James Merritt

... , do as the Romans do." Well, I've got news for you. If you were in Rome, and do as the Romans do, you won't win the Romans, the Romans will win you. Don't ever get yourself into a compromising situation under the pretext of trying to bear witness for Jesus. The greatest danger that a lifeguard faces, when trying to rescue a drowning person, is not the waves, the wind, or the water. The greatest danger is the one who is drowning. Because if that lifeguard is not careful, he will be pulled under and drowned ...

2914. The Love of the Harvest

John 4:34-38

Sermon

James Merritt

... about the harvest, it is Billy Graham. Billy Graham said this: The evangelistic harvest is always urgent. The destiny of men, and of nations, is always being decided. Every generation is strategic. We are not responsible for the past generation, and we cannot bear the full responsibility for the next one; but we do have our generation. God will hold us responsible as to how well we fulfill our responsibilities to this age, and take advantage of our opportunities.1 We are standing on the threshold of ...

2915. Don't Believe the Lie about the Truth

John 8:32

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James Merritt

... , if there is no such thing as truth, the man named Jesus Christ was not only not a great teacher, He was either a liar or a fool. For He said, "For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth." (Jn. 18:37) We must, in our generation, pass on to the next generation the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, about the truth. In one single statement the Lord Jesus Christ tells us the truth about truth. I. There Is a Danger ...

2916. Who's In Charge Here

Judges 21:24-25

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James Merritt

... a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience' sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending ...

2917. The Family That Prays Together Stays Together

Luke 18:1-8

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James Merritt

... To Pray Confidently Now the key to understanding this parable is found in what Jesus said after he told the story: "Then the Lord said, ‘Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them?'" (vv. 6-7) Now you won't understand this parable unless you understand that Jesus was not teaching by comparison, He was teaching by contrast. You see, we are not like the widow, and God is not like the judge. The widow was a stranger ...

2918. The Key That Unlocks the Door to Spiritual Power

Mark 14:36

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James Merritt

... United States, and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age, made more sinister and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of a perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.'"1 Jesus, in the garden of Gethsemane, was in, I believe, His finest hour. Spiritual freedom from sin, and eternal forgiveness of ...

2919. Why Were the Wise Men Wise?

Matthew 2:1-12

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James Merritt

... men from the wrong way. It was the Holy Spirit who protected these men the whole way. They were being led by the Holy Spirit. IV. They Were Wise in the Presents They Brought These men did not go empty-handed. When they came to Jesus, they came bearing gifts fit for a king. Notice the kind of gifts they gave: a. They Were Expensive Gifts We are told in v.11 that they "opened their treasures." The Greek word for treasure is the word that gives us our English word thesaurus. Now the word thesaurus literally ...

2920. Thou Shalt Not Judge - True or False?

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... he himself is rightly judged by no one." You see, it is not wrong to confront a person with his sin, it is wrong if you don't. Lev. 19:17 says, "You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him." If you love your brother you will confront him when he is wrong, and allow him to suffer the consequences of his wrong doing. Dr. William Bennett in his brilliant book, The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals, makes ...

2921. Fiscal Fitness

Proverbs 3:9-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... ; Howard Hopson, President of the largest gas company; Arthur Cutten, the greatest wheat speculator; Richard Whitney, President of the New York Stock Exchange; Albert Fall, the Secretary of the Interior in President Harding's cabinet; Jesse Livermore, the greatest "bear" on Wall Street; Ivar Krueger, head of the world's greatest monopoly; Leon Fraser, President of the Bank of International Settlements. Rich, wealthy, affluent, with more money than they could ever spend in five lifetimes. Yet, twenty-five ...

2922. Mom: The Heart of a Godly Family

Proverbs 31:10-31

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James Merritt

... the following confession: Looking forward to the time when my earthly career will end, I desire to set forth at the very beginning of this will, as the most important item in it, a confession of my faith in Jesus Christ as my Savior. I also desire to bear witness to the fact that throughout my life, in which there were unusual joys and sorrows, I have been wonderfully sustained by my faith in God through Jesus Christ. This legacy was left me by my consecrated mother, a woman of strong faith, and to it I ...

2923. America: You Are Too Young to Die

Psalm 80:1-19

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James Merritt

... heard the cries of warning from men on watch above, and he ran up just in time to hear the crashing sound of splintering wood. He watched in horror as this cannon, rolling out of control, was headed from the starboard side to the port side bearing down on two sailors who were frantically trying to work with some sails, and did not even see the cannon coming. Without a moment's hesitation, this naval officer through himself in front of this cannon and somehow stopped it before it reached those two shipmates ...

2924. Whatever It Takes

1 Corinthians 9:19-23

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James Merritt

... of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: religious, non-religious, meticulous moralists, loose living immoralists, the defeated, the demoralized—whoever. I didn't take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ, but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I've become just about every sought of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life. I did all of this ...

2925. The Other Side of Worship

1 John 1:1-4

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James Merritt

... as one "our hands have handled." John said I have seen Him, I have heard Him, and I have touched Him, I have felt Him, and I am telling you He is real. But Jesus is also real in expression. "The life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us—"(v.2) The word manifest means "to reveal something previously unknown." God knew that the only way anybody can ever know Him is if He reveals Himself to others. Jesus ...

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