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4726. The Real Thing

Luke 3:1-20

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . He said that his baptism was only a baptism of water, but when the Christ brought his baptism, it would be a baptism of the Spirit of God. In other words, John’s baptism was a substitute baptism until the real baptism of Jesus could take place. It takes a lot ... start over and follow the teachings of God should be baptized. That was all that he could do. When Jesus baptized with the Spirit it meant not only did the people want to start over, but that God was forgiving them and starting over with them. Now ...

4727. Virtue Won’t Hurt You

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... possibility of value transformation is very real in our world. A young person or an adult can open up new horizons and go beyond the small securities of the past. God expects us to live as men and women of virtue. God gave each of us a body, mind, and spirit. He expects us to take these aspects of life as a trust and do something with them. They are his for he made them: God expects us to live with dignity, to face situations in which others are inclined to run away and to take handicaps and turn them from ...

4728. What Gives You Away?

Judges 12:1-7

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... to the church. If a fellow Christian is at fault, we are not supposed to gossip and sit in judgment, we are to pray for him. Paul wrote: "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted." Then, there are a few persons who realize that the things they talk about do influence others, so they decide to talk about the church, and about God but they do it in such awkward ways. They are embarrassed ...

4729. Being Set Free

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?" Paul said to Timothy, "God has not given us the spirit of fear." With Martin Luther, we can exclaim, "A mighty fortress is our God." We are free from fear! We are also free from ourselves. ... Free!" That is the New Testament note. These people are always exulting in their newfound, incredible liberty - incredible, yet true. "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom" (2 Corinthians 3:17). A few years ago when I was in Atlanta, Georgia, ...

4730. Fingertip Embalming

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... means simply that the teachings of Jesus will go on and not die. They will be like the plays of Shakespeare or the music of Beethoven, that their wisdom, truth, and beauty will never die. They will live forever. And so Christ lives. Or, we can say that the spirit of Jesus is undying and that he lives among us as, for instance, Socrates, in the good that he left behind him and the great lives that follow his example. Or, we can say that the Resurrection is a folk tale made by confused people and is more ...

4731. Numbered Hairs

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... the eye had shifted and the sparrow had fallen! Christ never thought of promising that God would always deal with one according to one’s own wishes. He himself was not spared the cross. But on the cross he said, "Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!" (Luke 23:46). He was suffering and dying, but he still trusted in God. That may be beyond us, but it should certainly be a goal for us. And thinking often upon the numerous evidences of the individualized and personalized care of God will help us toward ...

4732. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... my dear friend, the goodness of your own heart misleads you - you judge of others by yourself." Surgave replies, "Certainly, Sir Peter, the heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another’s treachery."12 One of the best antidotes for a censorious spirit is real integrity. If we were better ourselves, we might see more that is good in others, for often what we see in those around us is a reflection of what is in our own lives. But we need also a deepening of our love for others ...

4733. Hindering Riches

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... does going through the eye of a needle, asked, "Who then can be saved?" Jesus replied: "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." With God’s help one can disarm riches and use them in ways that are indicated by the spirit of Christ and so experience the rule of God. 1. Cheryl A. Forbes. "Box-Office Religion," in "Christianity Today," August 27, 1971, pp. 36-37. 2. W. Somerset Maugham. The Summing Up, p. xxii. New York: The New American Library (A Signet Classic), 1938, 1964. 3 ...

4734. Mighty Faith

Matthew 17:14-23

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... has a "doubting heart." He is all too ready to listen to the "busy tongue of fear," and soon his mind is filled with reasons why it is "vain for him to try."1 Mountains need have no fear of dislodgement in the face of that kind of spirit. Mary Teresa Ostopak tells about attending a school for crippled children in Dayton, Ohio, as a child, but she says there were not any crippled children around when she was there. The principal, Miss C. Jeannette Wallace, wouldn’t allow it. Though they were maimed in body ...

4735. The Narrowness Of The Christian Way - 1950 (date estimated)

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... Again I asked to be excused. Again I played baseball. And that was the last piano lesson I’ve ever had. Musically speaking, I went down the broad way. If I didn’t want to practice, I just didn’t practice, that’s all. I was a free spirit, doing as I pleased - in that particular case anyhow. And what was the result? Going down the broad way musically, I inevitably came into a narrow life of pathetic musical inadequacy. And now when there are times when I would fain express myself through the medium of ...

4736. The Art of Living Until

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... the prostitution of the holy are everywhere apparent. We send our prayer up to God out of a world where some people despise other people because of the color of their skin or the accent with which they pronounce their names, out of a world where the human spirit is so much ravished by hate and cynicism and greed. And we say, "Thy will be done." But it isn’t yet. The question is: How are we to live in the meanwhile? What is our insight for living until? Question: Until the final vindication of right and ...

4737. I know You by Name

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... as a personality, but as a fit subject for various tests which presumably have more to do with ascertaining his worth than the human responses which may figure largely in the work that he is called on to do." Morris Bishop has caught the spirit of our day in the lines he calls The Perforated Spirit: "The fellows up in personnel Have a set of cards on me. The sprinkled perforations tell My individuality. And what am I? I am a chart On the cards of I.B.M. The secret places of the heart Have little secrecy for ...

4738. Seek God's Will

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... Jewish people in Jesus’ day including the disciples were looking for a warrior Messiah, not a suffering Servant. The voice of God must have been very convincing to them. So we need the willingness to do God’s will in our lives, and Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit would lead unto his truth. (John 16:13) In the last verse of the lesson, Jesus warns the disciples to tell the vision to no man until the Son of Man was risen from the dead. The reason for this request was that the people were so desirous ...

4739. Moving Fences

2 Corinthians 5:16-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... with respectable views until proven otherwise. There was a great Methodist preacher down in Georgia named Sam Jones. He exuded the spirit of reconciliation. He was asked one day, "Brother Sam, why don't you preach against the Catholics?” He replied, "When I ... says softly, "I think I know a way you can get out of that hell." As the Hindu hangs on his every word, Gandhi speaks with the spirit of Jesus. He says, "Go and find a Muslim boy who has no home. Take him into your home as your son, and raise him as a ...

4740. A Reason For All To Be Thankful

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... in the action he asked the little third baseman, "What's the score?" The youngster replied, "We're behind 18 to 0." "That's strange," the man said, "You don't look discouraged." "Why should we be," the boy said, "We haven't come to bat yet." That's the spirit of the Christian who understands Romans 8:28. No matter what the odds are against us, no matter how sad our past has been, no matter how many battles we may have lost, God and we will win in the end. And even the heartbreaks that are spread somewhat ...

4741. Breaking News: Thomas Doubts Jesus Alive

John 20:24-31

Sermon

CSS

... , filled with both fear and joy, they met Jesus. He urged them not to be afraid, but to tell his disciples that he would meet them in Galilee. The women fell to the ground, grabbed his feet, and worshipped him. This was no apparition or bodiless spirit that the women saw. Spirits don't have feet that you can grab. This was Jesus Christ, physically resurrected and vitally alive. That’s how Matthew and John tell the story. You know how the story would be told if a news agency got a hold of it. The Jerusalem ...

4742. The Hiding Angel

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... of God. Every Christian is an adopted child of God. Listen to scriptural verses declaring this truth: "But to all who received him (that is, Christ), who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God." (John 1:12) "For all who are led by the spirit of God are sons and daughters of God." (Romans 8:14) "For in Christ Jesus you are all sons and daughters of God through faith." (Galatians 3:26) "God sent forth his Son to redeem those under the law so that we might receive adoption as sons and ...

4743. A Favored One

Sermon

James Bjorge

... arranged animals and shepherds, everything seems too cozy and comfortable. Mary had certainly received a favored niche in history. But wait a minute! Let’s take a good hard look at the life of Mary who was called a favored one. Mary was pregnant by the Holy Spirit. Now that would be a tough one to explain to anybody. Imagine the gossip that the gals of Nazareth might have passed around when they went to the well to draw water. Being engaged to Joseph certainly would help the matter a bit ... but we all ...

4744. God Stood Up

Sermon

James Bjorge

... the beggar, "Do not be angry with me, my brother. I have nothing with me." The beggar’s face lighted up. "But you called me ‘brother,’ that is a great gift." Although gracious words will not put bread on a table, yet they just might put a new spirit within the soul of a man which will enable him to face his problems with a stout heart. Now God never reaches into his pocket and finds it empty. But sometimes the greatest gift is to have Jesus call me "brother." He has identified completely with me. Only ...

4745. No Withdrawal

Sermon

James Bjorge

... with him on the holy mountain" (2 Peter 1:16-18). Christmas can be a mountain top as the Good News is proclaimed, carols sung, love spread all around. And as we head back down into the valley the terrain is a bit different, but the vision and the spirit of those days never leave us. There is no withdrawal from the impact of it all. In that great adventure story, "The Call of the Wild," by Jack London, Buck the wolf dog was a creature of the wild. The urge of his wild heritage frequently pulled against his ...

4746. How Do You Like Yourself?

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... I don’t think that we have to distort the meaning of that text very much to discover that it has a kind of double-barreled implication. Of course, it does mean that all who are in the Church should try to live in a unity of mind and spirit. But let’s take it out of that framework and place it in the field of our understanding of the human mind and personality, and it could easily be applicable to a single person. Being of one mind is what the psychiatrist means by an "integrated personality." A mature ...

4747. Like a Mother’s Trust

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... , because it is assumed that Christians who live in the New Age in the fullness of Jesus the Christ will begin at the tithe of 10% and move up! Someone remarked the other day that it doesn’t matter how much we give, but how we give, in what spirit we give. To back him up, he then quoted the passage, "For God loves a cheerful giver." Certainly God is concerned with our motives, but this statement is a large half-truth which has spawned a lot of casual stewardship in the Church. Because what I give of what ...

4748. Marriage is Forever

Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 19:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . Then I am going to receive God's forgiveness and make a new start. Here as in all of the Sermon on the Mount, we have absolute ideals and absolute grace, without one compromising the other. As we are healed by God's grace and equipped by the Holy Spirit, we are able to reach farther toward God's absolute ideals. Because our Lord is full of forgiveness and grace, I believe that He will hear such a prayer and assist with a fresh start. Let me close with just a few reflections of marriage the way God planned ...

4749. No Retaliation

Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the boss requires that you bring her a cup of coffee, and you resent that, knock on her door thirty minutes later and with a smile ask if she wants a re-fill. Being a Christian disciple means living in a secular world but with a radically different spirit. It means to return good for evil, to respond to hate with love. The secular world says, "You're crazy to live that way." But a soft answer does turn away wrath. Forgiveness is better than vengeance. Love is the most powerful force on earth. The message of ...

4750. Advertised Goodness

Matthew 6:1-2, Matthew 6:5-6

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... , dear ones, if I start directing prayers at you rather than God. Because if I do, my motivation is out of line. Jesus calls us to search our motives, to spot unworthiness that sneaks into our motivation, to ask for the help of the Holy Spirit in cleansing and purifying our motives. Remember those words of Thomas A. Becket in the classic, "Murder in the Cathedral:" "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right thing for the wrong reason." Chuck Swindoll tells a story about a German machine ...

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