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401. Mission Possible

Acts 1:8

Sermon

James Merritt

... of Jesus Christ Himself, who in Luke 13: 3 made this statement, "I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish." (Luke 13:3 NASB) The third belief is inclusivism. This is slightly different from pluralism in this respect. Inclusivism claims that one religion is explicitly true and that although Christ may be the only way to heaven, God will also accept faith in other gods and other ways if that faith is sincere. In other words, though these people believe there is no salvation ...

402. The King and His Throne

Acts 1:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

403. Name Dropping

Exodus 20:7

Sermon

James Merritt

... ." That is why the Bible says in Romans 10:13, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved." (Romans 10:13, NKJV) Why does that verse say to call on the name of the Lord, not just on the Lord? Because there are many who claim to be Lord, but there is only one Lord who is the saving Lord and His name is Jesus Christ. Do you know why God has even given us His name to begin with? Because He was giving to us the possibility of a personal relationship, and He wants us ...

404. Heaven: One Way And One Way Only

John 14:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... be tolerant. The definition of tolerance has undergone a radical transformation. Basically, tolerance today means that all beliefs, values, life-styles and truth claims are equal. No one truth is absolute and all truth is relative and what is true for you may not be true for ... of Salvation" that is laid out in the Koran and even then you are not sure you are going to make it. Judaism also claims that you must worship one god and you must obey God's law found in the Bible, so even though it is a different ...

405. Why Believe the Bible?

John 17:17

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James Merritt

... Bible because it is just another book. To many non-Christians the Bible is no more than an antiquated collection of myths and fables. To others it is a good book, but it is not God's book. On the other hand, 2 billion people, 1/3 of this world, claim to believe in the God of this book and believe that this is the book that God wrote. Indeed, even the men who wrote it believed they were writing the very words of God. The biggest single fact that people have to deal with concerning the Bible is this - it ...

406. The Masterpiece

Matthew 1:1-17; Luke 3:23-28

Sermon

James Merritt

... going back through Jesus' earthly father, Joseph. In Luke the genealogy is maternal going back through Jesus' mother, Mary. Don't miss this because it is incredible. The legal right to the throne of David had to be established so that Jesus could rightfully claim to be the Messiah and that legal right came through the Father. Matthew's genealogy proved that Jesus came from the line of David that went through Solomon. Joseph marries Mary, the mother of Jesus, adopts Jesus and becomes his legal father and as ...

407. Handling Objections

Psalm 1:1-6

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James Merritt

... and what a person has not heard. God has given witness throughout the creation of the world that He exists and no person is totally, truly, ignorant that there is a God. You (the person who raised the question) are certainly not one of the ones who can claim you haven't heard. The question we must deal with is, "What are you doing to do with what you have heard?" Your objection is the very reason why the church practices what is called "missions" which is taking the Gospel around the world so that everyone ...

408. Enduring the Trials of Faith

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... , Mr. Atha comes quite unexpectedly. Jean Marie has endured the great trial of faith and discovered Jesus, who has returned to claim the world. Morris West's epic tale describes how one man was challenged to look beyond the obvious in order to ... fare? Our faith is tried through sickness or death. Do we continually ask why — why my relative or friend is sick, why God chose to claim a member of my family? Or, do we seek ways from which we can draw renewed and strengthened faith from the trial we must endure ...

409. Wisdom's Delight

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... the beginning of knowledge" (Proverbs 1:7). In this section of Proverbs, Wisdom is in effect presenting her credentials. By portraying herself as the first of God's creations and of having been there with God at the birthing of the world, Wisdom is not claiming to be equal to God, but she is telling of her honored place next to God himself. Those credentials are important, for Wisdom wants her audience to heed her instructions, something they will only do if they are convinced that she is right. She wants ...

410. I Am the Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... from the vine. Abide, apart, and now the final word – ask. Now there’s a sermon in that 7th verse. If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you will and it will be done for you. This is one of those stupendous claims of Jesus, which even when we’ve mustered up all our faith and believe it, we’re still so baffled by it that we don’t take advantage of it, we don’t respond to it, we don’t lay hold of the promise that he offers. So, let this ...

411. I Am the Bread of Life

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not that bread from heaven, but my father giveth you the true bread from heaven, for the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life to the world. Then said they unto him, Lord ever more give us this bread. And then Jesus made his claim. I am the bread of life, he who comes to me shall not hunger and he who believes in me will never thirst. It’s absurd to apologize for mystery. So we’ll not bother to apologize or to explain or to rationalize, but simply nail these truths down as ...

412. Living In The Spirit Of Peace

Galatians 5:22-25, Colossians 3:14-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... , without a doubt, without a worry, without strings attached. You are forgiven and your sins have been buried as far as the east is from the west. We are "justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ." We claim that because Jesus told us to claim. We say it because Jesus said it about us first. The Grace of Assurance, is part and parcel of "the peace that passes all understanding [that] keeps our hearts and minds in Christ." This Peace, this Shalom can only be born in us ...

413. The Upside Down Life

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... bat. Rosie O’Donnell once did this on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, I think. Another method is to strap your whole body to a flat surface that then completely flips upside down, the body suspended head down, feet in the air. Inversion advocates claim when you exercise while in this upside down position — in other words, when you do sit-ups or torso twists upside down — you are helping your squished, painful vertebrae to expand, realign, and even regenerate. Strengthened by exercise and set free from the ...

414. The Right Kind of Power

John 14:23-29

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Robert Allen

... hate and to help people to find their way to peace with God and with each other, then the atomic bomb is not the kind of power that is needed. The power that is needed is the power to accomplish a purpose. This is the kind of power that Jesus claims. He does not claim a power of coercion, but the power of persuasion. He does not claim a power of force, but a power of devotion from within. He does not ...

415. The Church As Family

Matthew 12:46-50

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... you decide to be born. How is it you determined the faith or lack of it you were taught as a child? Before the age of accountability we were nurtured toward maturity and given the moral framework that will shape our lives for eternity. Welcome to the family. We are claimed by God and whether or not it is clear to us God has chosen us. And today we have an opportunity to choose him. We are family because we have a common parent. We are family. J. J. Packer once said, “If you want to judge how well a person ...

416. and Forgiveness Come Easy When You’re Filled with The Spirit

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... disciples on that first Easter in the locked house. It is how he approaches you and me today. When Jesus came to the disciples, Luther claimed, he showed them his hands and his feet, and then his side. Just like I was trying to get you to see when we told ... had some reservations. Take it as if God himself had spoken these words to you! In the same 1540 sermon, Martin Luther went on to claim what a great treasure it is to hear that you are forgiven, since it is God himself forgiving us.8 That's a blessing for ...

417. Why We Need the Pledge of Allegiance

Matthew 13:31-35, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:47-52

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... when we vote in November. Time magazine is not likely to declare God as a list topper in one of its annual collections of "most powerful leaders in the world." God doesn't have his own political party, though a few small groups attempt to lay claim to him as leader. Back in 1951, shortly before he was forced from his throne by a military coup, King Farouk of Egypt confided bitterly to British Lord Boyd-Orr, "There will soon be only five kings left — the kings of England, diamonds, hearts, spades, and ...

418. Personal Politics

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... against you go and show him his fault, just between the two of you" (Matthew 18:15 NIV). This instruction strips me of my most destructive weapons and forces me to rehumanize the very one from whom my heart wants to pull away in disgust. Jesus does not claim it will be an easy thing to do. No psychologist would pretend the process is a lark, or carries us along like a carnival ride. Hurt is painful, and so is restoration. Keep It Communal Second, Jesus challenges us to keep these matters under the eye of ...

419. LENT: The Passion of Christ: "Raised"

John 20:1-18

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... that there is a tomb in the Garden of Gethsemane, the olive garden where Jesus spent so much time with the disciples. The Garden of Gethsemane was owned by Joseph of Arimathea and this person claims the tomb was there. In Jerusalem itself, there are two places that are celebrated as the tomb of Christ. The first is within the current walls of the city, but was actually outside the walls of the city when Jesus walked among us. It's the Church of the Holy ...

420. Romans 4:1-5, 13-17

Romans 4:1-25

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... him in a new relationship with God. Our text for today now skips ahead to the second stage of Paul’s argument. Paul is now taking on the Jewish assurance that it is through upholding the Torah, the laws Moses received from God, that they may continue to claim the status of righteousness before God. After God’s promise to Abraham that he would be the father of many descendants (Genesis 15:4-5), God then declares a second promise, a promise of “land” (Genesis 17:8), a promise that by Paul’s time had ...

421. Unity and Hope

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... to be going the way we desire, we turn to the stories of faith and are encouraged through the example of those who have gone before us. The apostle Paul, writing to the church at Rome, a church he had not yet visited, made an amazing claim, “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, so that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.” When we discover how others dealt with a variety of problems and setbacks yet held on to their faith ...

422. The Best Gift of All

Titus 2:1-15

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Timothy J. Smith

... teen, a father ill in the hospital over Christmas. It was then Rose says that she discovered the really important thing about Christmas is people, “and that reaching out to them in love and caring warms the heart and nourishes the spirit. When that happens,” she claims, “Christmas is the best it can be.”[1] In striving to be like Jesus we see human need through his eyes and we respond as Jesus would. We come tonight to once again receive the gift God has given us — Jesus Christ. To accept God’s ...

423. Building a Solid Foundation

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

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Timothy J. Smith

... how he related to the Corinthians. Finally, all that we do, and all that we have belongs to God. Paul states, “All belong to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.” Everything we do we do for the glory of God as Paul claims later in his letter, “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31). Richard Foster has written several popular books on prayer and spirituality. In one of them he recalled an experience he had as a ...

424. Let It Go

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... centuries later, the Church has fallen back into the original confusion that Nick-by-night showcased with Jesus. We know what Jesus is saying. We know that being born “anothen” requires a whole new perspective on faith and life. But even as the church has claimed the “born again” label, we are still stuck in Nick-by-night mode. We still want to limit our faith to logic and rationality, to what we think and intellectually comprehend. That is why churches have more by-laws than by-products. That is ...

425. Get Off Your

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is not an act of pride, but an act of humble service. Followers of Jesus were the original "Transformers." Faith in Christ "transforms" us, not conforms us. Face it. If you claim to be a Christian, you are claiming to be something more than you are. You are claiming to be more than the sum of your parts. You are claiming to manifest Jesus and be a "transforming" presence in the world. As a "transformed" member of the Transformational "Body of Christ," you have something more to offer than yourself. You have ...

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