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4051. Going the Second Mile

Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

James Merritt

Mark Twain once said this about the Bible: "I have no problem with those parts of the Bible I don't understand. It's those parts of the Bible I do understand that gives me fits." The passage that we are going to study certainly fits into that category. This passage illustrates something I bet most of you have never thought about before. One of the easiest things in the world to do is to become a Christian. It is ridiculously easy. ...

4052. The Church Is Alive and Well

Matthew 16:13-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... the spiritually blind. Only God can open the ears of the spiritually deaf. Only God can give life to the spiritually dead. That is why Jesus said in John 6:44, "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him." I want you to understand something. God uses preachers, and God uses preaching. "It pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe." (I Cor. 1:21) But I want you to know that people are not saved by the sermon, they are saved by the Spirit. I can ...

4053. God Really Cares

Matthew 27:46

Sermon

James Merritt

... angry with the Son that bore the sin; He was angry with the sin that befouled the Son. When you look at this statement you should see two things: 1) How much God loves the sinner; but 2) How much God hates the sin. When you see that you'll understand one other beautiful truth. III. The Majesty of Salvation At Calvary Jesus drained the cup of God's wrath dry so we would never have to drink one drop. Do you know what that means? GOD REALLY CARES. Incidentally, it is not wrong to ask "Why?" when we go through ...

4054. Putting Mom in Heartbreak Hotel

1 Kings 2:5-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... of Joab's life. I. Joab's Pretended Loyalty To put it bluntly, Joab was not on the inside what he pretended to be on the outside. Oh, he had a pretended loyalty to David. In fact, his loyalty to David came naturally. a. A Family Loyalty Now you will understand Joab a little better if you know who his mother was. His mother was a woman named Zeruiah. In case you are wondering who Zeruiah was, she was David's sister. That's right, not only was David his king, David was his uncle. I can just imagine growing up ...

4055. Is Your Conscience Clear?

1 Timothy 1:18-19

Sermon

James Merritt

... is no divorce. If you have ever been haunted by the ghost of guilt, you know that there is not a greater source of peace than a clear conscience. Someone once said, "There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience." If you are a Christian, you need to understand that the Bible teaches your faith in God is to be held with a pure conscience. Paul spoke to Timothy in I Tim. 3:9 of "holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience." The word pure literally means "clean" or "without dirt." Now it is very ...

4056. I Love My Church

1 Chronicles 29:3

Sermon

James Merritt

... get done. Because if Jesus loved this church enough to give His life, you know He would love the church enough to give a tithe and an offering. Now let me ask you another question. If you do support this church financially, why do you? I want you to understand that God not only sees what you give, God sees why you give it, and even if you give, and give generously, if you give for the wrong motive or the wrong reason, God writes zero over your account. Question – Do you give to this church for any other ...

4057. Saving Private Ryan

Acts 1:8

Sermon

James Merritt

... We must never forget the fact that we are in a mission field right here in America. Did you know that there are 170 million people in this country who do not know Jesus Christ as Savior and as Lord? You see, I want you to understand that our media ministry is really a mission ministry. There are one hundred million households in this nation with televisions. Touching Lives now has the potential of reaching seventy million of those households. We are now in all fifty states, fourteen countries, and the most ...

4058. Body Building at Its Best

1 Corinthians 12:13-27, Ephesians 4:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... a position we hold. What a privilege we have. What a power we handle. The church is not an organization, it is an organism. It is not a dead building, it is a living body. You will never understand the place the church is to have in your life, and the place you are to have in the church, until you understand and grasp the implications of this truth the church is the body of Christ. I. The Unity That Binds the Body "For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves ...

4059. Try a Little Kindness (Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness)

Galatians 5:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... , "Well, I just got mad when he said you were stupid looking." Nancy said, "What else did that big fathead say?" it is so important, as much as we can, to be kind not only with the deeds that we do, but with the words that we say. Now please understand that kindness is not softness. What I mean by kindness is not a sentimental indulgence that tolerates wrong and evil in other people. Suppose I go to the doctor, he examines me and he discovers I have a tumor. Now if he says, "I don't want to cause this ...

4060. A Trip to God's Woodshed

Hebrews 12: 5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... to God's woodshed. We find here the doctrine of divine discipline. I. The Powerful Reasons for Discipline We need to understand immediately that the purpose of discipline is not to discourage us, it is to encourage us. The word "exhortation" in v. ... whether it is a saved person or a lost person, you may get away from your sin, but you'll not get away with your sin. Please understand that discipline is not a sign that God does not love you, it is a sign that He does. "For whom the Lord loves, He chastens." ( ...

4061. God's Prescription for a Healthy Christian

Jude 1:17-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... don't want God telling them how to live. Mark Twain was an atheist, but he said something one time that has the great ring of truth. He said, "It is not that part of the Bible that I don't understand that gives me so much trouble; it's that part that I do understand that gives me fits." d. They Are Spiritually Defective The real problem of the apostate is he is lost. Jude characterized the apostate as one "not having the Spirit." (v.19) These are synthetic saints, counterfeit Christians. For the Bible says ...

4062. The Right Connection

John 15:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... just can't sit around." There is far more to life than just sitting down doing nothing. Every person has been put on earth for two reasons: First of all, to know God in their heart; secondly, to show God in their life. Now if you are a Christian, you understand purpose number one. But far too many Christians never go on to purpose number two. Too many people get into God's family, but they don't grow in God's family. Now the Lord Jesus not only saves you so that you will live with Him in heaven, but ...

4063. A Man on the Run

Jonah 1:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... 't know, but when I get to heaven I'll ask Jonah." The critic said, "Well, what if Jonah is not in heaven?" The preacher said, "Then you can ask him." But you see, that whale was really a woodshed where God took Jonah and whipped him for his disobedience. Understand that God sent the storm, and God sent the fish to do two things in Jonah's life. First of all, he drove Jonah to prayer. "Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish's belly." (2:1) Quite frankly, this is what Jonah should have done ...

4064. Don't Get Too Big For Your Spiritual Britches

Judges 16:20

Sermon

James Merritt

... , and he is caught in the cords of his sin." You see, there was only one thing that could defeat the strongest man on earth, and that was sin. There was only one kind of sin that could defeat him, and that was his sin. Do not fail to understand that it was sin that put his eyes out. It was sin that put him in chains. It was sin that had him grinding at the wheel. Sin's arithmetic has been described in this fashion: Sin adds to your troubles, Subtracts from your energy, Multiplies your difficulties, Divides ...

4065. Joy to the World

Luke 2:8-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... to God, and God alone. God Himself said in Isa. 43:11, "I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no savior." He said again in Isa. 49:26, "All flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, and your Redeemer." Now you will never understand the meaning of Christmas, nor the real joy of Christmas until you get into your heart that Christmas is the coming of a Savior. The title Savior, the noun salvation, and the verb to save, are found in every book in the New Testament. The origin of these words ...

4066. Like a Good Neighbor, Jesus Is There

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

James Merritt

... to help her. Which one of those people would you have helped the quickest? The Lord Jesus told a story about a Good Samaritan that not only relates to this newspaper story, but also had great implications for a person's relationship with God. Now not everybody understands the real meaning of this story. A little boy returned home from Sunday School, and his mother asked him what lesson the teacher taught that day. He said, "It was about two preachers who saw a man in a ditch, but they didn't stop because he ...

4067. Nothing Great Happens Without It

Luke 14: 25-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... that I agree with wholeheartedly. "I think the main reason people do not come to Christ is because they do not want to pay the price. But Christ will not compromise and He will not negotiate."[1] Now, when Jesus speaks of bearing a cross, you have to understand what a cross represented 2000 years ago. Today we would talk about the electric chair or the gas chamber, because a cross was the symbol of one thing—a symbol of death. There was only one reason that a man would take up the cross, and that is ...

4068. It Was the Birthday of a King

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... ) Now the name Immanual tells us of his person, but the name Jesus refers to his purpose. The name Jesus literally means "Jehovah saves." Jesus had only one purpose in coming to this world, and that is to seek and to save that which was lost. Now you need to understand that back in those days Jesus was an ordinary Jewish name. It was as common in that day as the name John is common today. When Mary named that boy Jesus nobody stopped to ask what she meant by that name. There were a lot of other little boys ...

4069. Manual Labor Is Not the President of Mexico

Proverbs 6:6-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... presence on the job is worse than his absence from it. The sluggard also represents wasted treasures. It's a tragic picture that is painted in Proverbs 24:30-31: "I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding; and there it was all overgrown with thorns; its surface was covered with nettles; its stone wall was broken down." With the sluggard, what could and should have been a beautiful clean home, will look like a dump. What should look like a nice car, will be ...

4070. Fiscal Fitness

Proverbs 3:9-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... you nor your children will ever learn a greater lesson than this (if you have not learned it already) money is not guaranteed to make you happier, it may make you sadder! Principle Number Six: Money has wings. Do not overwork to be rich; because of your own understanding, cease! Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make them-selves wings; they fly away like an eagle toward heaven. (Prov. 23:4-5) To put this verse another way: Money talks, I'll not deny I heard it once, it said ...

4071. What Church Is All About

Psalm 100:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... God. The foundational truth of the Bible is: Jehovah is Jesus. To put it another way: The Old Testament says the Lord is God. The New Testament says Jesus Christ is Lord. The Bible says there-fore, Jesus Christ is God. You cannot worship God until you know and understand this truth. There is only one God, only one Lord, only one Master, only one King, and his name is Jesus. b. God Is A Creating Force "It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves." (v.3) Now this statement primarily refers to the Nation of ...

4072. Why Every Christian Should Be an Optimist

Psalm 121:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... , God is your help. In your time of tragedy, God is your hope. If we would only realize how powerful our mighty God is, we would understand that when God is the only help we have, He is also the only help we need. Take the sun for example. It is a ball ... is this: The secondary target that day was Nagasaki, and the missile was the world's second atomic bomb. I understand that Satan and this world is seeking to drop their fiery bombs of doubt, discouragement, depression, despair, and disappointment on ...

4073. The Law of the Harvest

Psalm 126:5-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... you to begin reading every day one chapter in the gospel of John." She said, "But I don't even believe the Bible." I said, "I understand that, but I want you to do it anyway." She said, "It won't do any good." I said, "Then you won't mind reading the ... want you to ask two questions: (1) Who did Jesus claim to be? (2) What am I going to do about it?" I said, "Do you understand?" She said, "Yes." I said, "All right, there are twenty-one chapters in John's gospel. If you read one chapter a day that will be ...

4074. God, Elvis, and O.J. Simpson

Psalm 139

Sermon

James Merritt

... in, one policeman said, "We never thought he would run." Yet, when you study the life of O. J. Simpson you come to understand his entire life has been built around running. Simpson came from a broken home. His father ran out on his family, and left ... whether you get into a car, or get on an airplane, God knows it. He sees your every movement. b. God Knows Your Every Motive "You understand my thought afar off." (v.2b) God can read your mind, and he can do it without a crystal ball. At least twice in the ...

4075. What to Remember When You're Having a Bad Hair Day

Romans 8:28

Sermon

James Merritt

... are promise, providence, and purpose. I. Remember God's Promise to You Now there are three words that are extremely important in understanding and appreciating what this verse really says. The first word is the word "we." Paul says, "And we know that all things ... , and this is one thing you can know. You may not always like what God is doing in your life, and you may not always understand what God is doing in your life. But you can know that God is involved in your life 24-7 making all things work together ...

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