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4301. To Tell The Truth

Exodus 20:16

Sermon

James Merritt

... to insinuate that something is false. For example, you can lie by saying something that is true, without saying something else that is equally true. I heard about a man that went fishing, and he stayed out all day and came back without one fish. On his way home he stopped off at the local fish market. When he walked in the door, the merchant asked him what he wanted? He said, "I want you to go to the other side of the store and throw me five of the biggest fish you have." The dealer said, "You want me to ...

4302. The Sin of Robin Hood

Exodus 20:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good." (Pr. 15:3) b. You Can Steal Privately Take, for example, the crime of shoplifting, what kids call today a "five finger discount." Stores are doing everything they can to stop this problem. They use sophisticated alarm systems, one-way mirrors, locking devices, moving cameras, and electronic tape signals. But the problem just keeps growing. One out of every 52 customers every day carries away at least one unpaid-for item from a store.[3 ...

4303. High and Lifted Up

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... calls "Here am I. Send me! Send me!" How do you know that you've seen the right God? How do you know that you know the right God? When you know God in all of His holiness, you will see yourself in all of your sinfulness. You will not stop until you receive His forgiveness, and then you will give the rest of your life to His usefulness. 1. David Wells, No Place for Truth, pp. 300-301. 2. R. C. Sproul, The Holiness of God, pp. 32-34. 3. David Wells, God in the Wasteland, p. 209.

4304. The Truth about Truth

John 8:31-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... right for me, and what's true for you may not be true for me, and we each get to play God in our own lives to determine what's right and what's wrong. I heard about a man who walked to work every day and he would always stop at a clockmaker's store. He would synchronize his watch with the clock that stood in the window of the clockmaker's shop. The clockmaker watched this man do this over a period of weeks, and one day struck up a conversation with him, and asked him what kind of ...

4305. Heaven: The Home of a Godly Family

John 14:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... heaven for us, I am reminded of the story of the little boy who was out walking one night with his grandfather. It was a clear night. The moon was glistening, the stars were twinkling, the sky was ablaze with the diamonds of light, and the little boy just stopped and began to stare at the sky. His grandfather asked him what he was doing. He said, "Grandpa, I was just thinking. If heaven is so beautiful on the outside, I wonder what it looks like on the inside!" A young mother died years ago, and Dr. R. G ...

4306. God Knows Exactly How You Feel

John 19:28

Sermon

James Merritt

... of thirst is experienced mainly in the mouth as a dry feeling. This is due to a reduction in the secretion of saliva. When there is severe water deprivation through sweating, diarrhea, excessive urination, or hemorrhage, the secretion of saliva may even stop. It is this arid acid dryness of the mouth that gives rise to the tremendous impulse to drink. The first symptom of dehydration is thirst. Water that is normally present in the blood, lymph, and interstitial fluid is then lost. This loss affects ...

4307. The Lord of the Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

James Merritt

The famous explorer, 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 ...

4308. The Church Is Alive and Well

Matthew 16:13-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... by the noted lawyer and orator, Robert Ingersoll. Robert Ingersoll was an agnostic, a philosopher, a brilliant intellect who was famous for his virulent attacks on Christianity. In this report, Ingersoll was quoted as saying that the church was dying. Well, at the next stop C. C. McKay got off the train, went to the telegraph office and cabled the following message to Robert Ingersoll: Dear Bob, In the Methodist church we are starting one new congregation a day. Now because of what you said, we propose to ...

4309. Out With the Old - In With the New

Philippians 3:12-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... not finished with you until you draw your last breath. Don't you ever finish for God until you draw your last breath. I heard about an old lady who was very nervous driving in traffic. She was waiting for a traffic jam to clear and she came to a stop on an expressway ramp. The traffic thinned out, but the lady was still too afraid to move. Finally, the man behind her yelled, "Lady, the sign says yield, not give up." Dear friend, you yield your life to Jesus Christ, but don't you ever give up your pursuit of ...

4310. Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments

Proverbs 24:11-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... National Right to Life, asked the right questions: ...Since when does anyone's right to live depend upon someone else wanting them? Killing the unwanted is a monstrous evil.... Should a woman have the right to choose?...a person's right to anything stops when it injures or kills another living human.... The pivotal question is: Should any civilized nation give to one citizen the absolute right to kill another to solve that first person's personal problem?9 d. The right to choose always ignores the victim ...

4311. What to Do When Life Is the Pits

1 Peter 5:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... name of Middle Town, though the town itself was real—and found that they could not establish a single case of overt anxiety syndrome among anyone who lived in the town. When Dale Carnegie set out to research his best selling book, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, he could not find a single book in the library on the subject of worry. When he went to the card catalogue, the subjects jumped straight from "worms" to "worship" without one entry at "worry." But things have greatly changed. Albert ...

4312. Is Your Conscience Clear?

1 Timothy 1:18-19

Sermon

James Merritt

... of Adolph Hitler. Over the entrance of Auschwitz, one of those concentration camps, you can still find these bone-chilling words of Hitler, who wrote: "I want to raise a generation devoid of conscience." What a strange irony that out of moral conviction the world stopped Hitler, and now here in America, without even lifting a gun, we are achieving exactly what Hitler failed to do.3 If you want to live with a clear conscience, and die with a cleansed conscience, surrender your heart to the Son of God, submit ...

4313. Did You Know?

1 Timothy 1:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... family can watch. Secondly, it is extremely educational, and will teach you a lot of things that you otherwise would never know. Thirdly, it is very inspirational. It has great story lines, real live heroes and heroines, and builds character. It is exciting, never boring, has non-stop action, and, at times, is even very funny. I watch it whether I am at home or on the road. Of course, I'm sure by now you have guessed what the program is. In my opinion, it is the greatest program in the history of television ...

4314. You Can Take It to the Bank

2 Peter 3:1-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... read: "Analysis on page 11." The Wall Street Journal's front page headline read: "World Ends Tomorrow; Market Plunges" The headline in USA Today read: "We're Gone!" The Headline in the LA Times read: "World Ends Tomorrow; Bill Clinton says, ‘Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow." Finally, the headline in the Washington Post read: "World Ends Tomorrow; Congress Approves Term Limits, and School Prayer." Well, the paper will never print it, but this world is going to end. Jesus is going to come back. There is ...

4315. The Truth about Trouble

2 Timothy 4:16-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... said, "I'm concerned about your drinking. Every evening you come home and immediately look for the liquor. That's not like you, and it's a very bad example for "Boy." Tarzan dropped his head, got silent for a moment, and finally he said, "Jane right, Tarzan must stop. Only one problem." Jane asked, "What's that, Tarzan?" "It's a jungle out there." You know, Tarzan was right. It is a jungle out there. You know there is one thing that's true about the jungle—you don't have to look long nor hard for trouble ...

4316. It's Not How You Start But How You Finish That Counts

Ephesians 4:1, 11-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... the body to do. We have been saved that we might serve. The Hanging Tree was a classic Gary Cooper western film. In that film a young man had been shot and he was dying. Cooper takes out a knife, digs into this young man and pulls out the bullet, stops the bleeding, and bandages him up and nurses this young man back to life. Later on, after he had recovered from his wound, he looked at Gary Cooper and said, "Sir, for what you have done to me, what should I do for you?" Gary Cooper, in the movie, says ...

4317. Body Building at Its Best

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

Sermon

James Merritt

... Jesus. Back during World War II the Nazis incessantly bombed London, and in the process destroyed a beautiful cathedral. In front of that cathedral was a statue of the Lord Jesus Christ that was badly damaged. Some students got together after the bombing stopped to rebuild this cathedral. After they finished rebuilding the cathedral they decided to rebuild the statue of Christ. They put the entire statue back together except his arms and his hands, which were so badly damaged and destroyed they could not be ...

4318. Doing Right When You Have Been Done Wrong

Ephesians 4:31-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... word of God, he and his young wife are facing threatening phone calls, anonymous letters, one man tried to hit him with a cane. His wife, of one year, is afraid now to answer the phone, open the mail, or even go to church. I want to just stop right here and make something very plain. If you think you can get through the ministry without people mistreating you, misjudging you, or misusing you, you had better get into another line of work. I remember something Dr. Jerry Vines once said to me. He said, "James ...

4319. How To Get Better When You're Bitter

Exodus 15:22-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... , "Would you believe that—peanut butter again." But he ate them anyway. The third day he unwrapped his lunch, looked in the box and said, "I can't believe this—peanut butter sandwiches again." His little buddy said, "Why don't you tell your mother to stop making those old peanut butter sandwiches anyway?" He said, "Don't you talk about my mother that way, I make these sandwiches myself." It is often true that we are sometimes in a problem of our own making. Sometimes the water we drink are from wells ...

4320. The Danger of American Express

Exodus 20:17

Sermon

James Merritt

... "to pant after." Now it needs to be said that, in and of itself, there is nothing wrong with desire if you desire the right thing for the right reasons. The Apostle Paul even said in I Cor. 12:31, "earnestly desire the best gifts." This commandment does not stop with the first four words, "you shall not covet" because that, in and of itself, is not wrong. There is nothing wrong with coveting a good wife, or a beautiful car, or a nice house. The problem is when you begin to covet your neighbor's wife, your ...

4321. The Greatest Ability Is Dependability (Fruit of the Spirit: Faithfulness)

Galatians 5:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... areas of your life? If your car starts once every three times, is it reliable? If your newspaper is not delivered every Monday and Thursday, is your deliverer trustworthy? If you don't go to work once or twice a month, are you a loyal employee? If your refrigerator stops working for a day or two every now and then, do you say, "On well, it works most of the time"? If your water heater provides an icy-cold shower every now and then, is it dependable? If you miss a couple of loan payments every year, does the ...

4322. A Trip to God's Woodshed

Hebrews 12: 5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... . 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 ought to be doing. The psalmist said in Ps. 119:67, "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word." He went on to say in v.71 ...

4323. Courage Under Fire

Jude 1:22-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... ever been given a bland brown infant baby formula that keeps him alive. You see, the only thing Raymond Dunn can eat is a certain type of baby food. In 1985, two months after Raymond's doctor said he would die without this type of food, Gerber Products Company stopped making this meat-based formula. Gerber employees volunteered to make a batch on their own time, and on June 26 of that year the Dunn's received a two-year's supply free of charge. But by July of 1988, Gerber ran out of MBF (which is the food ...

4324. Don't Believe the Lie about the Truth

John 8:32

Sermon

James Merritt

... , then you can become your own god that determines your own truth, and you can determine what is right and wrong for you. Then every man can do what is right in his own eyes. I heard about a man who walked to work every day, and he would always stop at a clockmaker's store. He would synchronize his watch with the clock that stood in the window of the clockmaker's shop. The clockmaker watched this man do this over a period of weeks, and one day struck up a conversation with him, and asked him what kind of ...

4325. What Are Your Chances of Going to Heaven

John 14:6

Sermon

James Merritt

... , and the ushers were not letting anyone else in the building. Dwight L. Moody was coming with his entourage getting ready to go to the pulpit to preach. He noticed a little boy standing outside that tabernacle crying. Well, that great big man, with a very tender heart, stopped and said, "Son, why are you crying?" He said, "Well, I wanted to go hear Mr. Moody preach and they won't let me in." Now he didn't know he was talking to Dwight L. Moody. This gentle giant said, "Do you really want to hear Moody ...

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