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601. If I Only Had One Wish

2 Chronicles 1:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... into the hand of your friend: go and humble yourself; plead with your friend. (Pr. 6:3) My son, keep your father's command, and do not forsake the law of your mother. (Pr. 6:20) My son, keep my words, and treasure my commands within you. (Pr. 7:1) Cease listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge. (Pr. 19:27) My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will rejoice indeed, I myself. (Pr. 23:15) Hear, my son, and be wise; and guide your heart in the way. (Pr. 23:19 ...

602. America in the Mirror

2 Kings 17:5-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. In fact, if God had not turned his back on Jesus, he could never have turned his face toward me. You see, if God had not turned his back on that sinful nation of Israel, he would have ceased to be the thrice holy God of this universe. That is why I am so fearful of the judgment of God on America. You can mark this down: If God judged Israel, He will certainly judge America. I hear preachers say so often that God is our only hope. I ...

603. The Life Is in the Seed

Matthew 13:1-23

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Leonard Sweet

... once more. "Wait a minute, Possum," he said. "You can't make the seeds grow. You can only make sure they get sun and water, then watch them do their work. The life is in the seed, not in you." As the truth sank in, the opossum ceased his yelling and began to care for the seeds as the raccoon instructed, watering them regularly and getting rid of any weeds that invaded his garden. (On some days, though, when no one was watching, he still shouted a bit.) Then one glorious morning the opossum wandered outside ...

604. Is Sunday Just a Fun Day?

Exodus 20:7-11

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James Merritt

... it. I'm not working toward a Sabbath, I am resting in a Savior. This gives meaning and understanding to two of the greatest verses in all of the Bible. "There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His." (Heb. 4:9-10) The moment you come to Christ, you quit trying and you start trusting. You understand you are not saved by working, you're saved by resting resting in the finished work of Christ. One of the finest ...

605. Honor To Whom Honor Is Due

Exodus 20:12

Sermon

James Merritt

... Now affection and direction require correction. Children must be disciplined. Proverbs 13:24 says, "He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly." "Spare the rod, spoil the child" is not a biblical quote, but it is a true statement. I never cease to be amazed how a parent will give a child almost anything he wants, and yet fail to give him the one thing that he needs. One of the things that we all need to learn is that it is not always good to give a child something ...

606. The Truth about Truth

John 8:31-32

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James Merritt

... about Satan. Satan can no longer have dominion over you. "Greater is He who is in you, than he who is in the world." (I Jn. 4:4) A poet long ago once wrote this couplet: Oh that a man may arise in me That the man I am may cease to be. There is such a man, and his name is Jesus. He summed it all up when he said, "I am the truth." Atheism denies truth, agnosticism doubts truth, rationalism debates truth, humanism degrades truth, relativism dilutes truth, but Jesus declared, "I am the truth." If you reject ...

607. The Agony of Defeat

2 Samuel 11-12, 1 Kings 15:5

Sermon

James Merritt

... his post. When he should have been fighting he was sleeping. I just want to say to you that if you are a Christian, battle is your calling all the days of your life. The devil never calls a truce and you shouldn't either. The devil never calls a cease-fire and you shouldn't either. The problem was that not only had David taken his armor off, he had let his guard down. If David had been where he should have been the battlefield he would not have been where he should not have been looking down on a ...

608. Is Your Conscience Clear?

1 Timothy 1:18-19

Sermon

James Merritt

... is like a window, and it is effective only to the extent that it is clean, and that the light that is coming into it is pure. If you cover it, or put it in total darkness, or let impure light shine into it, then it will cease to function properly. You see, this explains why a Michael Eisner with Disney, or a Hugh Hefner with Playboy, can have a clear conscience by the way they are destroying traditional family values, promoting homosexual and heterosexual sin, and yet go to sleep at night. They have ...

609. I Love My Church

1 Chronicles 29:3

Sermon

James Merritt

... they die and come to church to have their funeral. In other words, they come to church three times–when they're hatched, matched, and dispatch-ed. The first time you throw water on them, the second time you throw rice, and the third time you throw dirt. I never cease to be amazed at the excuses that people give for not coming to church. Sometimes I think I'm going to catalogue them and write a book on them. But let me say this. I don't mind people giving excuses for not coming to church as long as they ...

610. The Fountain of Truth

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... world, who has deprived himself of a knowledge of the Bible." Calvin Coolidge said, "The foundations of our society and of our government rests so much on the teachings of the Bible, that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings should cease to be practically universal in our country."1 General Robert E. Lee said, "The Bible is a book in comparison with which all others in my eyes are of minor importance, and which in all my perplexities and distresses has never failed to give me ...

611. Once Save - Always Saved

John 10:27-29

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James Merritt

... this issue of eternal security. Simply put, the question is this: Once a person has been born again into the family of God—received new life, a new nature, been justified and sealed by the Holy Spirit—can that individual ever become unsaved by sinning, or by ceasing to believe, or by any other cause?1 Now there are a lot of Christians, and not just Baptists, who sweat that question out who should be living in the knowledge and with the peace that once a person is truly saved, they are always saved. In ...

612. Who's In Charge Here

Judges 21:24-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... been paying for it ever since. What you see from Genesis chapter 3 on, is the result of authority that is rejected. You see the same results in our society today. a. Politically, There Will Be Anarchy When authority breaks down, and the consequences of breaking authority cease to exist, mark it down, you are on your way to chaos. We used to say, "crime doesn't pay." But the truth of the matter is, in the culture in which we live today those who abuse and despise authority, are paid very well indeed. Senator ...

613. The Family That Prays Together Stays Together

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... , it would be easier to just have another one, than it would be to clean you up." When the going gets tough, the tough keep on praying. It is God's desire that we "always pray and not lose heart." 1 Thess. 5:17 says "we ought to pray without ceasing." Now that does not mean that we are to do nothing but pray. But it does mean we are to do nothing without praying. You see, prayer is not to be continuous, but it is to be continual. In other words, we are not to always be involved in the ...

614. Building Your Home on the Rock

Matthew 7:24-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... the Bible, you may say you love the Lord, you may say you're committed to the church, you may say you are a person of real faith, but I just want to remind you of something else James said: "Faith without works is dead." (James 2:26) I never cease to get both amazed and a little bit aggravated at these people who claim to receive Christ, they claim to be saved, they claim to have placed their faith in Him. But then you mention getting into a pool of water for ten seconds and getting their hair wet, they ...

615. How to Lower Your Temper (-ature)

Proverbs 16:32

Sermon

James Merritt

... departs." Thomas a Kempis(1) Respiration deepens; the heart beats more rapidly; the arterial pressure rises; the blood is shifted from the stomach and intestines to the heart, central nervous system and the muscles; the processes of the alimentary canal cease; sugar is freed from the reserves in the liver; the spleen contracts and discharges its contents of concentrated corpuscles, and adrenaline is secreted. What does this describe? It is the physiological manifestation of anger as given by Dr. Walter ...

616. Tastes Great, Less Filling - Sounds Good, Not True

Proverbs 23:29-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... the adulterous woman, he says: "In the greatness of his folly he shall go astray." (5:23b) The second, with which this entire book is designed to help our children avoid, is the refusal to listen to the wise instruction of a godly father. "Cease listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge." (Prov. 19:27) The third, is drinking alcoholic beverages as described here in Prov. 20:1. In the longest and most articulate warning in the Bible concerning alcohol consumption, Prov ...

617. Fiscal Fitness

Proverbs 3:9-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... your children will ever learn a greater lesson than this (if you have not learned it already) money is not guaranteed to make you happier, it may make you sadder! Principle Number Six: Money has wings. Do not overwork to be rich; because of your own understanding, cease! Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make them-selves wings; they fly away like an eagle toward heaven. (Prov. 23:4-5) To put this verse another way: Money talks, I'll not deny I heard it once, it said, "Good ...

618. Castaway

2 Corinthians 5:18-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... provinces to keep the peace and to represent the Roman government. The good news for the human race is this: God has not declared war on the human race, He has declared peace. He's not looking for a truce, nor is He looking for a cease fire. He is looking for a permanent peace and an eternal relationship with us. You see, God is not interested in the rehabilitation of criminals; He is interested in reconciliation with enemies. We are to be his ambassadors of peace seeking castaways, telling them because of ...

619. Let's Get Ready to Rumble

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... Advantage We Field Paul says in v.11, "Put on the whole armor of God." Literally what the verse says is this: "Put on the whole armor of God and keep it on." There are no furloughs; there are no truces; there are no leaves of absence; there are no cease fires in this war. You've got to keep your armor on and you've got to keep your guard up. You can never relax; you can never let your guard down because just as surely as you do, Satan will sucker-punch you. He will hit you at your ...

620. The Perfect Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

James Merritt

... the tornado of trouble, or the hurricane of hurt, just remember Jesus is right beside you, and there is no storm He cannot handle. III. Rely On the Power of Jesus "Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace, be still!' And the wind ceased and there was a great calm." (v.39) First of all, Jesus rebuked the wind. The word rebuked is the same word that's used for rebuking demons. Then he spoke to the sea. The words "Peace be still" literally means "to be muzzled." Do you know what Jesus ...

621. God's Way or the Highway

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... walk through it. You've got to decide to enter it. Those of us who have already opened that gate and entered that gate, are to go to others and tell them about that gate so that they too can have the opportunity to enter it for themselves. Computers never cease to fascinate me. One of the aspects of a computer that to me is both a curse and a blessing is e-mail. I can receive an e-mail from someone and I can highlight every address I have in my address book and I can hit one little button ...

622. O Holy Night

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... Father are one." He said again in John 14:9, "He who has seen Me has seen the Father." What Paul is telling us is, that even though the Lord Jesus laid aside His glory and took on the form of a bondservant and came as a man, He never ceased to be God. When Jesus became a man there was no subtraction. He remained God in all of His fullness. There was a time when Jesus was God, but not man; but there was never a time when Jesus was man, but not God. Nor was there division. Jesus did ...

623. Final Destination

Psalm 23:6

Sermon

James Merritt

... , to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple.” David had one goal in his life—one major goal; he wanted to make it to heaven. David was pumped because after the “and” he doesn’t just say “I will die” or “I will cease to exist” or “I will dissolve into nothingness”, he says, “I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Now that really spoke to shepherds because shepherds were always on the move. They lived in tents. As soon as sheep cleaned off one spot, and ...

624. The Marks Of A Spiritual Counterfeit

Jude 1:12-13

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James Merritt

... , and whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit.” (Jere. 17:7-8) IV. They Are Precarious Like Wild Waves They are called “raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame.” (v.13) My absolute favorite place in the world to be is at the ocean. It is not because I am a sun ...

625. The True Feng Shui Life

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... in his ears; the waves still climb up to meet the winds; all is still turmoil. Panicked, Peter starts to sink. He is in motion all right. He is going down! Jesus hauls Peter back up and they both get back into the boat. Only then does the wind finally cease. You want to be a disciple of Jesus? Then don’t expect to live a safety-first, risk-free life. If we would be disciples of this wave-riding, water-striding Christ, we must be prepared to like a windblown life, waterborn life. Our God is not a status ...

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