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4601. The Fellowship of Joy

Philippians 1:3-11

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James Merritt

... Executive Committee Meeting in Nashville a couple of weeks ago, a dear lady got up and read one verse, Philippians 1:3, and the Lord impressed me immediately to preach this message. First Baptist Snellville and the church at Philippi have so much in common, even concerning the time period when Paul wrote this letter. It had been ten years since Paul had founded this church in Philippi, just as it has been ten years since I came to pastor this church. In the beginning of his ministry there, Paul faced great ...

4602. Let Me Tell You about the Birds and the Bees

Proverbs 5:15-23

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James Merritt

... heart, sweaty palms, cotton mouth, dilation of the pupils, uncontrollable facial twitching, followed by the only response that the mouth can muster: "Go ask your mother." You guessed it the subject is sex. There is a two-fold problem in the home today concerning this sensitive, but all important, topic. On the one hand, fathers are not talking, or they are waiting too late to talk, while children are not asking because they are getting their information somewhere else. I heard about a dad who very nervously ...

4603. Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments

Proverbs 24:11-12

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James Merritt

... The mother's health accounts for 3% of abortions; the baby's health accounts for 3%; rape or incest accounts for 1%. In other words, 93% of all abortions are for purely social reasons. Here is the breakdown: 16% of abortions are because the woman is concerned about how a child would change their life. 21% of abortions are because the woman said she was not ready for the responsibility. 21% of abortions are because the woman said she could not afford the baby. 12% of abortions are because of a relationship ...

4604. Putting Mom in Heartbreak Hotel

1 Kings 2:5-6

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James Merritt

... with Him And led some soul to God. III. He Distressed the Heart of David "Now the king had commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, saying, ‘Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.' And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains orders concerning Absalom." (II Samuel 18:5) Now to the people Absalom was a traitor. David's own son trying to topple his father from the throne. But to the king, Absalom was just that—his son. He wanted Absalom to be dealt with in a very gentle fashion ...

4605. Food For Thought

1 Peter 1:13-21

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James Merritt

... v.18) Listen carefully. Do you know what salvation does? It not only gives you a place in heaven, it gives you a purpose on earth. Do you know what the major problem is in Atlanta, Georgia? It is not meanness, it is meaninglessness. There are so many people concerned about where they are going to spend eternity, they don't even know what to do with themselves on a rainy Monday morning. I heard about a country couple one time who decided to go into the big city and see all of the attractions that were there ...

4606. Confronting a Christless Culture

2 Timothy 3:1-17

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James Merritt

... magnificent book, Slouching Toward Gomorrah, made this salient observation: "There may be reason to think that a major portion of the American public has changed its values over the past thirty years, and that much of the public is no longer concerned with issues of personal morality and responsibility. The evidence frequently offered is the President of the United States. William Jefferson Clinton is the very model of the modern liberal."3 He then sites an article written by the London Spectator shortly ...

4607. I Believe in Easter

Acts 9:1-29

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James Merritt

... this naturalistic humanistic rejection of the supernatural, he then made this caustic response: "It is ‘irrational' to reject miracles a priori. One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned. What is irrational [is] to reject…the possibility of miracles and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is precisely what the worldly wise do.1 If you believe in Easter the world says you are a fool. The world has no problem with ...

4608. Better To Be a Loner than a Loser

Daniel 1:1-21

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James Merritt

... the king's table sure looks better than hanging from the king's gallows. But Daniel had the courage of his convictions. Would to God that we had that kind of courage today just in the area of politics. The average politician is more concerned with being popular than with being right, and is more interested in reputation than he is in character. Richard Capen, Jr., former publisher of the Miami Herald, was speaking about making decisions according to opinion polls. Listen to what he said: Hardly anyone says ...

4609. How To Get Better When You're Bitter

Exodus 15:22-27

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James Merritt

... they had done anything wrong. They were here because they had done everything right. Are you listening to this? It was God Himself who had led them to a place of bitterness. Does that surprise you? It shouldn't. Peter said, "Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you." (1 Pet. 4:12) The truth is, everybody sooner or later walks in the wilderness. Everybody comes to a place where they can drink the water of bitterness if they ...

4610. How to Keep Your Head When Others Are Losing Theirs (Fruit of the Spirit: Peace)

Galatians 5:22

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James Merritt

... for you." III. Peace Is a Matter of Fact When your heart is filled with praise, and your mind is filled with prayer, then your soul will be filled with peace. What happens when you rejoice in the Lord? What happens when you take all of your concerns to God in prayer? Paul says in v.7, "then the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." I read something the other day that fascinated me. Oceanographers tell us that the worst ocean storm never goes ...

4611. Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win (Fruit of the Spirit: Patience)

Galatians 5:22

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James Merritt

... because God is powerless, nor is it because God is passive; it is because God is patient. He is longsuffering. Jesus is coming back. Make no doubt about it—that is His promise. But Peter said in II Pet. 3:9, "The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance." This old wicked world has another day to repent and get saved because of the longsuffering of God. Therefore, knowing that ...

4612. Never Let Them See You Sweat (Fruit of the Spirit: Self-Control)

Galatians 5:23

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James Merritt

... sure it is dead, it turns up somewhere as robust as ever to trouble our peace and poison the fruit of our lives…. The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. What he is, or is not, no longer concerns him. He believes that he has been crucified with Christ, and he is not willing either to praise or deprecate such a man.6 You know the first thing that needs to take place after a wedding is two funerals, where both the husband and wife die ...

4613. A Trip to God's Woodshed

Hebrews 12: 5-11

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James Merritt

... good for me that I have been afflicted that I may learn your statutes." c. Purity God disciplines us we are told in v.10, "for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness." God is not primarily interested in your health. He is not overly concerned with your happiness. He is totally preoccupied with your holiness. You see, if you can be healthy and happy, without being holy, you're not saved. But if you are saved, being holy is the only thing that will truly make you healthy and happy. Jesus did not ...

4614. God's Prescription for a Healthy Christian

Jude 1:17-21

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James Merritt

... you believe, and you believe what he believes, and everybody believes the same thing whether they are saved or not. With their sweet talk they will do everything they can to make it difficult for you to stand up for the truth. The greatest counsel concerning these apostates I have ever come across is something that Charles Haddon Spurgeon said. It is one thing to overleap all boundaries of denominational restriction for the truth's sake; this we hope all godly men will do more and more. It is quite another ...

4615. Courage Under Fire

Jude 1:22-23

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James Merritt

... a compound word coming from the prefix, com, meaning "with" and the word passion, meaning "to suffer or feel" and it literally means "to feel with." Compassion is inward sympathy that results in outward service. We have three great problems in our church today concerning lost people. The first problem is the vast majority of Christians today are not winning the lost. But that is not our greatest problem. An even greater number are not witnessing to the lost. That is, they are not even trying to win people ...

4616. The One Habit of Highly Effective Christians

John 4:19-24

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James Merritt

... I heard about a paramedic who was asked on a local TV talk show program, what was your most unusual and challenging 911 call?" He said, "Well, recently we got a call from that big white church down on Main Street. A frantic usher was very concerned that during the sermon an elderly man had passed out in a pew, and appeared to be dead. The usher could find no pulse and there was no noticeable breathing." The interviewer said, "Well, what was so unusual and demanding about that particular call?" The paramedic ...

4617. Have You Seen the Light?

John 9:1-41

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James Merritt

... this is the man who healed him. Then the Pharisees check in with their question, and notice his response: "They said to the blind man again, ‘What do you say about Him because He opened your eyes?' He said, ‘He is a prophet.' But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight." (vv.17-18) Now Jesus is not only a good man, he is a great man. You couldn't pay a person a higher compliment in that ...

4618. Once Save - Always Saved

John 10:27-29

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James Merritt

... you lost your salvation, then you did not have eternal life, you had five-year life. But Jesus didn't promise us five-year, ten-year, one hundred-year, or even one thousand-year life, He promised us eternal life. One of the great verses in the Bible concerning this subject is Heb. 10:14, "For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified." When you are saved, sanctified, and set apart by God to be in His family, it is for "all time." If you have ever bought anything expensive, such ...

4619. Going For the Gold

Joshua 1:1-9

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James Merritt

... described the benefits of meditating on the Word of God. Listen to what he said: I saw more clearly than ever that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man might be nourished...I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself ...

4620. The Thrill of Victory Beats the Agony of Defeat

Judges 7:1-17

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James Merritt

... victorious in our spiritual warfare against the enemies we face, and could even help us turn this nation back to God. As we study these lessons, I want to warn you that some of them might surprise you. For you are going to learn that as far as God is concerned it is not the biggest army, it is the best army that matters. I. Excuse the Cowards Gideon had an army of 32,000 men. They were going out to face an army of Midianites and Amalekites that had a combined force of 135,000 men. In other words, they ...

4621. Joy to the World

Luke 2:8-12

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James Merritt

... , reveal to us why Christmas truly is a time of joy to the world. I. Christmas Is the Joy of the Birth of a Son Now by and large births do not get a lot of attention from the world. Births are a common everyday thing. Most people are more concerned about the Dow Jones, taxes, sickness, war, the economy, than they are about babies being born. But perhaps every year we should give more thought to just who is being born. For example: In the year 1809 the world was focused on a man by the name of Napoleon. For ...

4622. Are You Going to Fish or Cut Bait?

Mark 1:16-18

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James Merritt

... III. Freeing the Spirit Notice again Jesus says, "If you follow Me I will make you become fishers of men." Now how does Jesus make us become fishers of men? Very simply by the power of the Holy Spirit. Two of the greatest verses in all of the Bible concerning witnessing and bringing people to Jesus, are John 15:26-27: "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. And you also will bear witness, because you have ...

4623. Thou Shalt Not Judge - True or False?

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... ; just totally incompetent conduct of the office and the disregard of the necessities that the office demands." That law professor was Bill Clinton.4 Another example is how one recent presidential candidate considered the trustworthiness of the sitting President a matter of public concern. He said: Every time the President talks about trust, it makes chills run up and down my spin. The very idea that the word "trust" could ever come out of [his] mouth after what he has done to this country, and the way ...

4624. O Little Town of Bethlehem

Micah 5:2

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James Merritt

... see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.' And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger. Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this Child. And all those who heard it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds." If you think about it, Bethlehem really does tell us what Christmas is all about. It's first of all about proclamation, because we ought to be sharing the ...

4625. How to Deal with Friends, Foes, and Fools

Proverbs 27:6

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James Merritt

... territory. The issue is not, will they make enemies; the issue is, how will they respond to them? Friends can bring out the best in us, but, oh, how our foes can bring out the worst in us. Solomon passes two words of counsel along to his children concerning their friends. Face them with forgiveness. "Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles; Lest the Lord see it, and it displease Him, and He turn away His wrath from him. Do not fret because of evildoers, nor ...

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