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4251. How to Make Heaven Happy

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... to make heaven happy. The Lord Jesus told a parable that some call, "God's lost and found department" that describes what makes heaven happy and how we can make heaven happy. I. Realize That People Without Christ Are Lost Now to understand this parable, you have to understand the background. "Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, ‘This man receives sinners and eats with them.' So He spoke this parable to them, saying:" (vv ...

4252. Survivor

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... had the steward made friends out of people who were formerly his enemies, but he had forced his manager to be honest and taken away any illegal liability that he might have incurred had the master been discovered. Now that you understand exactly what the steward did, then you can understand exactly what the master said. “So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.” (v.8) Now this is where ...

4253. What’s the Big Deal about Baptism?

Mark 1:9-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... of a person who is married, baptism is to be performed only on a person who is a believer. III. What Is The Significance Of Baptism? There are three words I want to share with you today that if you will write them down and remember them you will always understand why baptism is a big deal. a. Identification Think about this for a moment. Why was Jesus baptized? Jesus was not a sinner. Jesus did not need to become a believer. He is the one we are to believe in. He wasn't professing His faith in God. He was ...

4254. Don’t Sweat the Big Stuff

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

James Merritt

... of its ingenuity and creativity cannot come close to duplicating. The point is very simple. If God will take care of the flowers, won't God take care of you? III. Apply Steadfastness To Worry Now Jesus gets very personal and very practical because He understands our frailties. He understands the nature of us to worry, and He gives us two simple keys on how to overcome worry, and how to dethrone worry from being king of your life; how to get free from the shackles of its bondage. I promise you if you will ...

4255. The World’s Favorite Scripture

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... , while we look at other's faults with a microscope? That is why so often your faults look so much bigger than mine to me, and my faults look so much bigger than yours to you. But having said that if we stop here we won't ever understand what Jesus meant, because the key to this passage is verse 5 where Jesus tells us how to walk the tight rope between confronting the sin and condemning the sinner. He said, "Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye..." (v.5) Now notice carefully what Jesus ...

4256. Milli Vanilli Religion

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... church roll, and never darken the door of the church again; live any way they choose to and still go to heaven because "once saved, always saved." I want to say this as strongly as I can. That is not what Baptists believe, and that is not what I understand as being "once saved, always saved." You see, the thing that we must remember and that Jesus is teaching is this: You can never jump to the conclusion that just because someone says "Jesus is Lord" makes them a Christian. Let me tell you a true story that ...

4257. WeatherProofing Your Home

Matthew 7:24-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... What the spouse actually hears What your spouse thinks he or she hears What your spouse says about what you said What you think your spouse said about what you said. [[2]] It is kind of like one husband said to his wife, "I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." To say the least, communication between spouses is hard work. On the other hand, we have problems communicating with our kids, because children and teenagers don ...

4258. Here Comes the Bridegroom

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight a cry was heard: Behold, the bridegroom is coming' go out to meet him!" (vv 1–6) Now to understand the parable, which is about a wedding, you have to understand a Jewish wedding. A Jewish wedding consisted of three parts. The first was the engagement. Marriages most often were arranged by the fathers' of the bride and the groom. The groom's family provided a dowry to the bride's ...

4259. The Passion of the Christ – The Rest of the Story

Matthew 27:45-56

Sermon

James Merritt

... upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing." (Galatians 3:13, NLT) I Peter 2:24 says, "He personally carried away our sins in his own body on the cross so we can be dead to sin and live for what is right." (I Peter 2:24, NLT) You need to understand that more awful than the pain of physical suffering that Jesus endured was the spiritual pain of bearing the guilt for our sins. He not only died for sin, he died in place of the sinner. Romans 5:6 says, "When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the ...

4260. A Clear and Present Danger

Nehemiah 5:1-19

Sermon

James Merritt

... real keys to staying united in "what we do", is to keep remembering "why we do it'. I want to stop and thank so many of you for doing what you do. Some forgiving up a style of worship that you have been more accustomed to for one somewhat different. Understanding we are trying to reach your children and your grandchildren and the next generation. I want to thank many of you who have been willing to come early and stay late, to set up and to take down, to do the dirty work behind the scenes so that we can ...

4261. The Dark Side Revealed

Numbers 32:23

Sermon

James Merritt

... out your sin", because maybe other people won't. It simply says, "Be sure your sin will find you out." You need to understand why this statement was made to begin with. Israel was at the threshold of entering into the Promised Land and there were twelve ... into the dark side, but whether or not they can do it in such a way that nobody else knows about it. You need to understand that neither darkness, nor distance makes any difference to God. He always knows and sooner or later sin has a way of coming out. ...

4262. A Song for Tomorrow

Psalm 1:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... trees that bear ripe fruit and trees that bear rotten fruit. That is why we go on to read in verse 4, "The wicked are not so, but they are like chaff which the wind drives away" (Psalm 1:4, NASB) That verse is hard to understand unless you understand the agricultural life of Palestine back in Bible days. Threshing floors were located on hills that would catch the best breezes. Grain would be brought, crushed by animals or by the threshing instruments that they had and then it would be pitched where the wind ...

4263. Mourning Our Fallen Tormentors

2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... the failures, flaws, and sins of their fathers. But as they take in the total picture of their lives, neither one finds it necessary to damn their unsympathetic, abusive fathers. And when each man's father died, the son mourned him. If we can understand that, we can understand what is behind today's reading from 2 Samuel. Saul was Israel's first king. While he did some good for his people, it eventually became clear that he preferred doing things his way rather than listening to God. So God sent the prophet ...

4264. A Sense of Place

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-10

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... would be superfluous. Though God's kingdom has not fully come yet, the way we live as kingdom people today is by inviting God to live within us. That's why, for years the church has talked about opening our "hearts" to Jesus, because we understand that the inner place is the one that matters most in the life of faith. Our gathering here together for worship reinforces and feeds that relationship, but until we let Christ move inside us, we have no spiritual home. Earlier, when I was describing the difference ...

4265. The Measure of Greatness - Sermon Starter

Mark 9:33-37

Illustration

Brett Blair

... or money or prestige. They treat janitors and governors with equal dignity. They regard everybody as a VIP. Children seem to do this intuitively; adult Christians have to relearn it. It is a telling little peace of scripture in verse 32: "But they did not understand." That's a picture that can be hung in the halls of the museum of mankind. When confronted by true greatness, we simply do not see it. That's what happens to the disciples. One day Jesus is passing through Galilee with his disciples. We are ...

4266. Cut It Out

Mark 9:38-41

Illustration

Donald B. Strobe

... to amputate in order to save everything else. When a tumor is malignant and threatens to take our entire life away, we are not hesitant to say to the surgeon, "Cut it out!" It is far better to leave behind the tumor than to threaten one's whole existence. We understand the principle involved. And what is true in the physical realm, translates over into the spiritual realm. If there is something in our lives: some habit, some action, some attitude, that gets between us and God, we must "cut it out."

4267. Our Task: Acceptance and Challenge

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... very earnestly, "Why did you even have to wonder where I was? Did you not realize that I must be about my Father's business?" Here was the first inkling that Jesus felt a calling in himself that even his mother was not going to be able to understand. Already stirring within him was that sense of mission that would one day sweep him out of the carpenter's shop and into places and experiences that were utterly beyond Mary's peasant expectations. The working out of his own special destiny under God is what one ...

4268. What Gift Do You Bring?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... the peaks that one must supposedly use oxygen to be able to climb to the top. There is only one individual living that has climbed all fourteen peaks. His name is Reinhold Messner. He is a resident of northern Italy. He has been the object of scientific inquiry to understand why he and he alone has been able to do what he has done. It is truly amazing. They looked at his technology. He had no more technology than anyone else. In fact, they say that he didn't use as many ropes or ladders or technology that ...

4269. The Baptism of the Lord

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... for everyone, especially: all of those who have wandered away from the path known to them as children; those who have stumbled into trouble over and over again; those who, not by accident, but intent, have turned their backs on God; and those full of greed who finally understand there is no place else to go. Luke phrases it so simply, "When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized,too." Why was one so pure cleansed in the water? Was it that at the age of thirty, as Luke tells us, he began his ...

4270. No Intimidation

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... does not of necessity point to odious self-righteousness. Whether they actually took Jesus' message or not, remains an open question. What we most significantly know is his answer to those who appear to be protective. He was not going to be intimidated. He gave them understanding in a language which could not be misunderstood there was no way "that fox" was going to get in the way of his mission. If he did and in a way he did, then he best know the "Jesus express" would, nevertheless, be on schedule and ...

4271. The Two Prodigals

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... solutions. The other wonders why his younger brother can do what he did and get by with it. The difference, of course, is the grace of God. One accepts it and the other doesn't. There is so much of you and me in these fellows. Perhaps we understand ourselves to be above them. Well, look again! Truly, dear friends, the message is quite clear. Both are in need of the salvation of our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now, let's include ourselves and the rest of humankind. To be prodigal sons and daughters is no ...

4272. Fish and Sheep

John 21:15-25, John 21:1-14

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... our blessed Lord addressing us as a reminder. For the shepherd of the lambs and sheep to fail his/her boss is to set in motion more hurt than any of us can adequately imagine. It is sometimes scary, but necessarily so. Perhaps the hardest thing to understand is that just because the world labels us failures does not mean it is so. We may have to betray the world in order to serve our Master! The ordained ministry at its intended best is never a secular calling to a profession like other professions. Peter ...

4273. Recognizing His Disciples

John 13:31-35

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... yet known to humankind. We do not ignore it really. We do place it on a shelf no one can reasonably reach. It is just beyond our fingertips as we stand on our tiptoes. Do we like it that way? Well, yes, we do, except for those who understand that Christ does not command us to do something without giving us the strength to do so. Lest we forget, our blessed Lord is conveying his marvelous message to those already within the fold. Not to practice it "within" is not likely to carry much weight "without." The ...

4274. A Good-bye Topping All Others

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... everything he has done and said should be obvious. If one were to look carefully and with an open mind, there would not be much in the way of surprise. He called upon and commented about the law, prophets, and psalms. It is so hard for some to understand and accept the fact that his teaching is frequently reiteration. If we could just come to terms in a positive way with our Lord's place in salvation history, how much more content some really good people would be! While Jesus Christ is the focus for us ...

4275. Abba, Your Kingdom Come

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... to forgive us when we hurt him. Therefore, we should be willing to forgive those who hurt us. If we are not willing to forgive those who offend us, even when from our point of view, they don't deserve it, that's a signal that we don't understand that we have been forgiven, when we didn't deserve it. In other words, our promise to be willing to forgive is attached to the prayer petition about forgiveness. "We will try to do for others what you, our Abba, have done for us." This revolutionary idea about God ...

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