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651. What to Wear to the War

Ephesians 6:13-17

Sermon

James Merritt

... righteousness in order to ward off the dart of the devil. The Bible says in 2 Cor. 5:21 that we are "the righteousness of God in Christ." Now the next time Satan comes to you with the dagger of condemnation in his hand and tries to give you a spirit of disapproval and make you think you are not right with God, you make sure you have on the breastplate of righteousness. You simply say to him, "Satan, I am the righteousness of God in Christ, and nothing you can say or do will ever change that." You know what ...

652. Acts 16:16-34

Acts 16:16-34

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... from this slave girl suggests something of the nature of this "Most High God" on whose behalf he preaches. But the risky nature of discipleship is immediately demonstrated by the repercussions that follow. Though liberated from the Apollonian spirit that had possessed her, the young girl is still a slave, the money-making property of others. Paul's exorcism had profound economic ramifications for the girl's owners. They are incensed at Paul's denying them a tidy source of income from the girl's fortune ...

653. God Be With You All

2 Corinthians 13:11-13

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... of Life, Wind, Dove, Fire, Inspirer, Revealer. D. Mystery, Awe, and Humility The very name of God resists our control. It puts us in our rightful place. The result is humility. Not a haughty spirit, a prideful spirit, an arrogant spirit, a holier-than-thou spirit, an I’ve-got-it-you-don’t spirit. Jesus calls the “poor in spirit” blessed. Mystery leads to awe and awe leads to humility and humility predisposes us to what the God called Trinity wants to show us and give us, so we can soar on the wind ...

654. Pentecost

John 14:8-17 (25-27), Acts 2:1-21, Romans 8:1-17

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... languages of the world. We sing your praise in many accents, in many tempos, in many harmonies, knowing that you love variety. How wonderful is the diversity in nature that you have created, God of beauty, truth and love. Amen. PRAYER OF DEDICATION Eternal Spirit, on this special day we give our offerings freely and gladly in the knowledge that you are at hand. You are praised today around the world, in many different places, in different languages, with multiple gifts. Receive us with our gifts for we are ...

655. It’s All About Him

John 4:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... Worship is not what you do on Sunday morning for one hour in a church. Worship is what you do 24-7 from here to heaven. II. Be Focused On Who You Worship "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him." (v.23) Now this is that incredible statement where Jesus says, "the Father is seeking such to worship Him." We're told that God is actually looking for people who will worship Him the way He wants to be ...

656. When I Am Tempted

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... it on the back end. If you will remember three things, there is no question that you can know what to do when you are tempted. I. Don't Be Surprised By Temptation - Expect It Let's read the story in its entirety. "Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry. And the tempter came and said to Him, 'If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.' But He answered and said, 'It ...

657. Shaped By the Fire

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... God. You may not have discovered your calling yet. Mine is preaching. I don't think we are truly happy if we are not doing what God has called us to do. And I believe that the Master Artist and Creator has etched that calling on our hearts and spirits. Conclusion So, you see, what started out as a tour, became for me, a powerful spiritual experience. I'll never look at a piece of crystal the same way again. And because of this day, Pentecost Sunday and what has taken place in the history of the Church. And ...

658. Acts 2:1-21

Acts 2:1-13

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... s arrival uses language that evokes other First Testament theophany memories the loud noise of Exodus 19:16-19, and the strong wind of 1 Kings 19:11-12. The “divided tongues, as of fire” obviously recall the baptism of “the Spirit and fire” promised in Luke 3:16. Unlike the gift of ecstatic speech or “glossolalia” Paul discussed so extensively in 1 Corinthinas 12-14, the “heterais glossais” Luke describes here is manifested as other known, recognizable languages, not unintelligible soundings ...

659. Acts 2:1-13

Acts 2:1-13

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... that this is the beginning of a new time, a new age. Those who have heard the ecstatic utterances of the disciples not only heard proclamations of “God’s deeds of power,” but they had heard the door opening into a new reality. The Age of the Spirit, that “age to come,” is now here. Peter’s presentation of Joel 2:28-32 is almost an exact quote of the LXX text (he does add “above” to the “portents of heaven”). This was a familiar prophetic text for this pious Jewish audience. This citation ...

660. On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

Mark 1:9-15

Sermon

John Smylie

... Lord who gives us new life, with water being a symbol of destruction of the old life and God as creator of the new. What makes the moment of Jesus' baptism in the River Jordan and the moment of our baptisms effective is the life giving Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit in this passage might best be described as the knowledge that we are loved and that we are beautiful to God. This gift is not something that we are to simply hold on to and feel good about; rather this gift is to empower us in ministry ...

661. Divine Dynamite

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... do with the religious fringes. We turn on the television and see people with faces turned to heaven, eyes tightly closed, hands in the air, and shouting gibberish. We see others coming down to a stage to meet a faith healer who claims the power of the Spirit as his own but who is also well known as a charlatan. We are sometimes confronted by folks who are convinced that this is the only kind of Christian experience that is legitimate, and we are even accused of not really being Christian if we do not agree ...

662. Pet Peeves and Pet Pleasures

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... descends with a physical force, and the voice of God proclaims Jesus to be “son,” to be “beloved,” to be the one who makes God “well pleased.” Jesus in the water brings God joy. God passes that joy along in the person of the Holy Spirit and the proclamation of divine pleaser. The “wise men” gave Jesus gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh at his birth. Gifts that gave them joy to give. God gave Jesus the gift of his blessing and his pleasure, his joy, at the moment of Jesus’ baptism. God ...

663. Face to Face

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... bodies cannot withstand. During a total eclipse astronomers recommend that we observe the remarkable images through a reflection — a mirror image of the actual event. In that way the fragility of the human body can be protected, while the yearning of the human spirit can be fulfilled. That is what every believer does for every other member of the Body of Christ. We “reflect,” we “mirror image,” Christ’s presence, the very face of God, to each other and to the world. Like mirrors, the Christbody ...

664. Let It Go

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... “Let it Go” theme of Frozen is the story of Nicodemus. Jesus is encouraging Nicodemus and the Nicodemus in all of us to “Let It Go.” We must let go of our control, let go of our fear, let go of our cold certainty and yield to God’s Spirit. First, let go of our fear. Why does Nicodemus come in the dead of night? He’s afraid. Nicodemus was a ruler of the Jews, a member of the great Sanhedrin, a senator, a privy-counsellor, a man of authority in Jerusalem. Yet he calls Jesus rabbi. He is curiously ...

665. An Announcement from the Wilderness

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... us for this wondrous story by giving us a list of Jesus’ ancestors back through the reign of King David, all the way back to Adam. Then he tells us about Mary and Joseph and the announcement by an angel that Mary will conceive a child by the Holy Spirit. This, says the angel, is to fulfill a prophecy of Isaiah (7:14), “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”). Then Matthew moves to Jesus’ birth and the story of the star in the ...

666. Waiting Is So Hard to Do

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... . It was just before Christ’s ascension into heaven. Listen to these important words: “In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. On one occasion, while he was ...

667. Uncovering Cover-Ups

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... the teasing from classmates stops cold. Suddenly, the shortest, ugliest, and weakest kid becomes a player" (Time, August 2, 1993, p. 23). Consequently, kids, like nations, come to believe with Chairman Mao that morality begins at the muzzle of a gun. Yet, this Holy Spirit of God is uncovering this cover-up of his eternal truth. A group of parents has organized to counteract the violence. They meet each night to pray and then to patrol the streets to ward off violence and keep kids from shooting one another ...

668. The Choosing of the Seven

Acts 6:1-7

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... this might explain Philip’s subsequent work in that area. But this is sheer speculation. What we do know of the two will be discussed in the following sections. Here, we need only notice that Stephen is said to have been a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit (v. 5). His was a faith not different in kind from the faith that all Christians have, but exceptional in the extent to which he was willing to trust Christ, to take him at his word and to risk all for Christ’s sake. Of the rest, Nicolas from ...

669. Accusations

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4, 2 Corinthians 2:5-11

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... with them would be an occasion for joy rather than sorrow. Remarkably, Paul expresses his confidence in all of the Corinthians, even the ones who are currently defecting from him and siding with the opponents. Such is his confidence in the transforming work of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of this congregation (cf. 3:1–18). Paul’s hope for the Corinthians is firm (1:7) and his confidence in them is complete (7:4, 16). Of course, this is also grounded in the fact that Paul has already received evidence ...

670. A Prayer for the Ephesians

Ephesians 3:14-21

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... could be considered a further application of the ideas developed earlier: prayer is offered to the Father (1:17 = 3:14f.); prayer is for the Spirit (1:17 = 3:16); the sphere of God’s action is in the mind (1:18) or the inner self (3:16); there is an ... initially wanted to offer this prayer but was momentarily diverted. To kneel is an expression of deep emotion and humility—prostration in the spirit of submission (Rom. 11:4; 14:11; Phil. 2:10). Another posture of prayer was to stand with one’s face and ...

671. The Blood of Christ

Hebrews 9:11-28

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... is the agency par excellence of the accomplishment of God’s saving will. It is only to be expected then that our “eternal redemption” (v. 12) be accomplished by Christ’s offering through the eternal Spirit. The new kind of cleansing made possible by this offering of Christ is described as the purifying of our consciences. That is, this cleansing penetrates to the inner recesses of our personhood and so involves far more than the cleansing of the flesh from ceremonial defilement. From acts that ...

672. The Last Day of the Feast

John 7:45--8:11, John 8:12-30

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... ’s Gospel, but is not the point of either 4:14 or 7:37–38 in particular. The accent is on the rich abundance of the Spirit’s life and power in the heart of the believer, like a self-replenishing and overflowing stream. The source of the stream is Jesus, no less ... , that the world “hates me because I testify that what it does is evil” (7:7). Only when the Spirit comes will the outcome be different. The world’s representatives immediately challenge Jesus’ authority. The ensuing debate is a virtual ...

673. Crucified, Dead, and Buried

John 19:17-27, John 19:28-37, John 19:38-42

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... third day” (Luke 24:46; cf. John 2:17, 22; 20:9). Ironically, Jesus’ physical thirst was momentarily quenched by a sponge soaked in wine vinegar proffered to him by the Roman soldiers (v. 29), but no sooner was it quenched than he bowed his head and gave up his spirit (v. 30). In the end, every attempt of the religious authorities to kill him had failed. No one took his life, but of his own free will he gave it back to the Father who had sent him (10:18; cf. also Luke 23:46). The clear reference to ...

674. Being Wronged versus Claiming One’s Right

1 Corinthians 6:1-11

Teach the Text

Preben Vang

... as the ship sank. They may have imagined themselves separate from the other classes on the ship, but all were equally in need of rescue. The only way for a believer to truly be set apart for Christ is to fully jump ship and allow the Spirit to transform his or her mind to be like Christ’s. He or she must completely forsake any claim to prominence, rights, or advantage the culture may afford and cling to the gospel. Otherwise, even the best behavior is just “rearranging deck furniture on the Titanic ...

675. Nebuchadnezzar’s Testimony and Tree Dream

Daniel 4:1-18

Teach the Text

Ronald W. Pierce

... be summoned last because he is overseer of the sages (2:48), which highlights the importance of his arrival. The king refers to him by both his Hebrew and Babylonian names, noting that the latter references Nebuchadnezzar’s god Bel.7His recognition of the “spirit of the holy gods” in Daniel recalls his supernatural gifting (1:17). Nebuchadnezzar understands Daniel’s skills as the influence of pagan gods, ignoring the “God of gods and the Lord of kings” (2:47) and “the Most High God” (3 ...

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