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626. He Was Afflicted

Isaiah 63:7-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... of Christmas is the celebration of the entire Christ event--his birth, his life, his teachings, his death on the cross and his resurrection from the dead. "[He] was their Saviour. In all their affliction he was afflicted . . ." Someone once wrote a letter to Evangelist Billy Graham. They asked this question: Why wasn't Jesus born into a wealthy or powerful family, instead of a very poor and insignificant one?" The writer goes on to say, "I started thinking about this a few months ago when we celebrated ...

627. The Not-So-Secret Service

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... and the responsibility to announce to everyone, by our words and by our lifestyle, "The kingdom of God has come near to you!" Many lives have been touched by the story of Nicky Cruz, a violent gang member from Brooklyn who became an international evangelist after he gave his life to Christ. A few years ago, Cruz and Pastor Jim Cymbala from the Brooklyn Tabernacle traveled to Lima, Peru, for a series of evangelism services. They were met with a very hostile reception. At a press conference, a number ...

628. Who Did He Praise?

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and as providence would have it, there WAS a parking place--his sixth time around the block. Friends, the little platitude, "God helps those who help themselves" isn't in the Bible, but it very easily could be. Dwight L. Moody was one of the world's great evangelists. He was on a ship that was crossing the Atlantic. The ship caught fire. The crew and the passengers formed a bucket brigade to transport water to the fire. One man in the line turned and said, "Mr. Moody, don't you think we should retire from ...

629. Casting Aside His Garment

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... them from inclement weather. But he didn't want anything to hinder him from coming into the master's presence, so he got rid of it. I wish you and I were that eager to come to Jesus. In 1773, a great revival was sweeping across America. Evangelists on horseback proclaimed the good news of Jesus Christ, and they were getting a startling response. Hearts were being touched, lives were being changed, and men and women of both races were being converted. A few months after one of these revivals a white man and ...

630. The Grief Of God

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... PEOPLE IS THE PROBLEM OF SUFFERING IN THE WORLD. In ancient times people believed that suffering was sent by the gods to express their displeasure at the way we mortals behaved. Job's "friends" in the Old Testament story as well as many modern television evangelists fit into that school of thought. We still hear this view trotted out, even though Jesus specifically rejected it in John, Chapter 9. When a small child is killed or maimed, or loved ones die of cancer, or young people are killed in war, they ...

631. Gathered Around The Throne

Revelation 7:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... God will ask us: "˜Where are your wounds?' "And we will say, "˜We have no wounds.' "And God will ask, "˜Was nothing worth fighting for? . . .'" Let me give you but one example of the kind of commitment Allen Boesak is talking about. In 1995, Vietnamese evangelist To Dihn Trung was arrested and beaten by the local police. After his beating, the officers threw him in jail. His crime? Sharing the Gospel with the local K'Ho tribe. While in jail, Trung began preaching to the other inmates. Finally, after six ...

632. A Church Fueled By Prayer

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... some people here today who fear that their prayers have the same problem as Dr. Nichols' speech--that they are directed at Someone who is stone-deaf. We speak, but we fear that God is not listening. What a shame. For PRAYER IS THE KEY TO A RENEWED LIFE. Evangelist Gypsy Smith was once asked how to start a revival. He replied, "Go home, lock yourself in your room, and kneel down in the middle of your floor. Draw a chalk mark all around yourself and ask God to start the revival inside that chalk mark. When He ...

633. A Rainbow And A Cross

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... celebration. Sin brings insensitivity and dissipation. Thus God is confronted with a dilemma. What shall God do with God's beloved creation that has been indelibly stained by sin? Shall God destroy it and start over? Some people believe that is the ultimate solution. Evangelist Billy Graham's wife Ruth is quoted as saying, concerning the sin of our nation, "If God does not punish America in judgment, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah." Is that God's ultimate solution? Of course the writer of ...

634. The Dynamic Law Of Love

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... take out more insurance on yourself." "I don't think I need any more," the young man said. "I don't think she's that dangerous." We, husbands and wives, particularly, may make jokes about the institution of marriage, but we cherish our relationship with our spouse. Evangelist Tex Evans used to tell a joke about the time that one of his youngsters asked his wife, "Mamma, if Daddy should die, do you reckon there's another man in the world just like him?" And his mother answered, "Maybe there is, son. And it ...

635. What Kind Of God Is That?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... ," quoted the preacher, trying to offer some comfort. The farmer looked at him and said drily, "Well, I believe he overdid it this time." The farmer was right. What kind of God do some people have? Many people were startled to hear TV evangelists Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell blame the bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on God's unhappiness with gays, feminists and People for the American Way. Did these two influential clergymen really mean that God killed thousands of innocent people ...

636. Receiving Christ

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... would radically be changed, that we would become followers of Jesus, too? I. There Is An Emptiness Within Us. First of all, we would need to realize that there is an emptiness within us. Here is the most difficult task of the Christian evangelist in our affluent society. Many people think they have it all. Because we confuse attainment with contentment, we may feel no need for Christ. Not unless we look deep within our hearts. Dr. Peter Hirsch suggests that there is one “powerful and profound” question ...

637. Great Reasons for Great Giving

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... pure joy. It truly is more blessed to give than to receive. That is one of the great spiritual truths. Giving brings dignity to our lives. It is an expression of authentic love. Several years ago a pastor from this country went to India to speak at an evangelistic crusade. The peasants were so poor they had to spend all their rupees on food. The American pastor commented to a church leader that they must be frustrated by their inability to give. He said, "Oh no, they do give. Twice a day they boil rice for ...

638. Why Cheerful Givers are Cheerful

2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... generosity, we will reap kindness and love and generosity. Paul takes it even further to say, "He who sows sparingly will reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will reap bountifully." Now, I realize that we have to be careful at this point. Some TV evangelists have filled their coffers by promising folks instant prosperity if they will send in their seed-faith gift. No such promise can be sustained by Scripture. Some who contributed to Paul''s ministry doubtless had to suffer for their faith. He was not ...

639. The Eureka Experience

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... and he had character poured into his life through the Holy Spirit. He became a man who thirsted after God and acted on his faith by helping those who were in prison as he had been before. He organized and today administers the largest and most effective evangelistic Christian ministry organization to prisoners that we have in the United States and in the world, as far I know. This man had a new beginning in Christ and his life took on a new direction. Christ does that in people's lives. It happened to a ...

640. Tomorrow Doesn't Always Come

James 4:1-12

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... remember that God has your life, every breath, every beat of your heart in his hands. We should never presume to map out life without submitting our plans and our hopes to this great God, our Creator, for his guidance and direction. Someone asked the great evangelist George Whitfield what he would do if he were sure that Christ would come again within three days. He reached into his pocket, took out his date book, his schedule book, and opened it up. He said, "I would do that which I have scheduled to ...

641. What the Heck Is Sin?

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... has even mentioned our sin and need of repentance. Thus, as a nation, says Menninger, we ceased sinning over thirty years ago. I doubt it! For a number of years now it has not been popular to talk much about sin...except for the TV evangelists who seem to think that the greatest sin is not sending them more money! During the infancy of the new science of psychology people found it more fashionable to talk about neuroses, psychoses, complexes, and maladjustments. People are not sinners, we were told: they ...

642. Through the Eyes of an Eagle (Introduction)

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... John’s presentation of Jesus as the Cosmic Christ, the risen Lord, the pre-existent Holy One, sent by God to redeem the world. Today, many scholars look at the Gospel as the product of a group of people, a community of people gathered around John the Evangelist. In other words, it may have been written by a committee! In recent years the theory that the Fourth Gospel came very late in the Christian game was knocked into a cocked hat by a couple of amazing archaeological finds. One was a fragment of a ...

643. What’s the Good Word?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Ground of all things, the Intelligence and Power that sustains the universe. (I recall a sentence of G.K. Chesterton who once said that he was naive enough to believe that the sun rises in the morning because God says, “Get up!”) Wandering Stoic evangelists traveled from town to town extolling the divine Logos and preached the virtue of a life lived in harmony with it. To the Greeks, John seems to be saying: “For centuries you have been thinking and writing and dreaming about the Logos, the power ...

644. Christmas and the Condensed Bible

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... be in favor of those allegedly “communist” things, I was immediately attracted to the Methodist Church. I figured that any church which could stir up so much controversy, must have something going for it! I remember the words of that great Methodist evangelist and missionary E. Stanley Jones who once said, “Breathes there a preacher with soul so dead, he hasn’t yet been called a Red!” Over the years Reader’s Digest has regularly attacked Christian ecumenical movements such as the World Council ...

645. Doors Are for Entering

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... about it too much. We are tired of people poking their noses into our souls and asking, “Are you saved?” I remember the story of a woman who was waiting for a bus at a bus stop in a large city, when she saw a prominent television evangelist coming her way. She braced herself for what she thought would be the inevitable question, and when he asked, “Is this the place to catch the bus for downtown?” she replied curtly, “That’s a matter between me and my Maker!” But “salvation” is still a ...

646. The Autobiography of God

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to that first Person, Jesus the Christ. And that is what the Church is for. To keep alive the rumor that “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself.” “The one who has seen me, has seen the Father,” said Jesus. As Methodist evangelist E. Stanley Jones once put it, “If God is like Jesus, then that’s good enough for me. I want no other.” Philosophical theologian Paul Tillich called God “the Ground of our Being.” Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said that God is “present in the ...

647. The Shy Member of the Trinity

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the pulpit, I have the disconcerting feeling that large numbers of listeners think that the minister said “parakeet”! And I wonder what sort of images that conjures up in people’s minds! Honorable Bird is back again! I once heard of an old-time evangelist who thought he would dramatize Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the early band of Christians. He hired a small boy to secret himself in the balcony, and when the preacher said, “Down came the Spirit,” he was to let loose a small ...

648. The Jesus Connection

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... world to save sinners.” (I Timothy 1:15) The great Reformer of the Church Martin Luther could never quite get over the wonder of this. In a Christmas sermon he once remarked, “Our Lord was born of a line of ancestors whom the Evangelist Matthew arranges with artistry into three groups of fourteen patriarchs, fourteen kings, and fourteen princes. Among the latter were a number of disreputable characters, as we learn from the Book of Kings, and there are no savory women. God holds before us this mirror ...

649. Is Conscience the Best Guide?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to their consciences than Nero or Domitian in obedience to their lusts!" Terrible things have been done in the name of conscience. Not too many years ago some Christians claimed that they could hold slaves in good conscience - just think of the evangelistic opportunity! They could save the black man's soul while they enslaved his body. This brings us back again to Huckleberry Finn and his struggles with conscience. We need to complete the quotation above by remembering that Huck wrestled with his conscience ...

650. Who Counted the Fish?

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

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... 7 is the number of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. 10 + 7 = 17. Now, if you add up all of the numbers from 1 through 17 what number do you get? 153!! All of this sounds pretty far-fetched to me. It sounds much like the way some television evangelists tinker with the number of verses in either the book of Daniel, or Ezekiel, or Revelation, and end up predicting the Lord’s imminent return. A much simpler explanation about the number of fish in John 21 was given to us by St. Jerome, who lived and worked in ...

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