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776. Until He Comes

2 Timothy 4:7-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... referring to the faith "once for all delivered to the saints." He was referring to the whole counsel of God found in the sacred Scriptures. The word "kept" literally means, "to guard as if you were guarding a treasure." You see, first of all, we must be faithful in defending the faith. This book is a treasure of truth that should be guarded as if it were the crown jewels of England. This faith includes hell as well as heaven; the holiness of God as well as the love of God; the wrath of God as well as the ...

777. Me - A - Missionary?

Acts 1:8

Sermon

James Merritt

... went out to his apartment, sat down with him, found out that he is joining the army, about to go to Ft. Benning for training and then after six months will be going to Iraq. He has volunteered for the infantry. He wants to go to the front lines to defend his country. There was only one concern that he had. He had no certainty that he would go to heaven when he died. Being a young man, about to go off into war, you can understand his anxiety. I did what anybody in this room could have done. I simply ...

778. Close Up: Husbands - Be a Dream Lover

Colossians 3:19

Sermon

James Merritt

... thought about what the word "husband" really means? It comes from the words "house-band". The husband is a band that is to reach around his wife and to reach around his children and to reach around his family to protect it, to provide for it and to defend it from anything outside that could hurt or damage it. Even the verb that Paul used would have caught everyone's attention. The love that Paul talks about here is not just a matter of an affectionate feeling that can come and go. The verb that would have ...

779. Close Up Parents: Be Cheerleaders, Not Jeer leaders

Colossians 3:21

Sermon

James Merritt

... them you love them unconditionally and that you are proud of them simply for who they are. George H. W. Bush, the former President of the United States has a resume that anybody would admire. He was a hero in World War II shot down as a pilot defending his country. He was elected to the U.S. Congress. He was a United States Ambassador to the United Nations. He was Director of the CIA. He was the Vice-President of the United States. He was the President of the United States. He was interviewed by a reporter ...

780. Honor Graduate

Exodus 20:12

Sermon

James Merritt

... . Political and social planning in a wise social order begins with the axiom: what strengthens the family strengthens society. Even when poverty and disorientation strike, as over the generations they so often do, it is family strength that most defends individuals against alienation, lassitude or despair...one unforgettable law has been learned through all the disasters and injustices of the last thousand years: when the family falters life falls apart." [[1]] God has a family preservation plan that is ...

781. Choose Life

Exodus 20:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... not prohibit capital punishment. After God gave Moses this commandment, He gave another commandment in Exodus 21:12 that reads, "He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death." (Exodus 21:12, NASB) This commandment does not prohibit self-defense; defending yourself or your loved ones in case someone is trying to do you or them bodily-harm. Exodus 22:2 says, "If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guiltiness on his account." (Exodus ...

782. To Catch a Thief

Exodus 20:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... of shoplifters either deny they were shoplifting or make an excuse for it. It was two days before Christmas and the judge was in a very benevolent mood as he questioned the man standing before him. He said, "Mister, what are you charged with?" The defendant said, "Doing my Christmas shopping early Your Honor." The judge said, "Son that is not an offense. How early were you doing your shopping? The man said, "Just before the store opened." Employee thief has also become a huge problem. According to the 2001 ...

783. Liar, Liar

Exodus 20:16

Sermon

James Merritt

... was written, before you had anything such as forensic evidence, almost everything in a court depended on the witness. Usually it would come down to one person's word against another and since many crimes could cause a person's death, oftentimes the life of the defendant would be at stake and the words of a false witness could be fatal. That is why we have such strict laws concerning perjury - lying under oath. I read the other day about a prosecutor, who felt confident that the witness on the stand was the ...

784. The Clone Zone: The Bible and Cloning

Genesis 1:26-28

Sermon

James Merritt

... on record as saying they do not believe we should ever indulge in cloning to reproduce human beings. The debate is raging over research cloning. Although, quite frankly, it is a slippery slope, because if you advocate research cloning, you ultimately will have to defend reproductive cloning. Now this is how research cloning works. You take a donor egg from a woman, remove its nucleus, and inject the nucleus of a cell from another person. It has already been shown in animals that you can trick the egg in ...

785. The Revolution Against Evolution

Genesis 1:1

Sermon

James Merritt

... The Theory Of Evolution? I know what you are thinking. You may be asking a question and it is a good one. If evolution is such a deficient theory, if in fact it not only didn't happen, but really couldn't have happened, why do scientists so vigorously defend it? To put it simply, the faith of the evolutionist gets in the way of the facts of science. One of the most well known scientists in the world is Richard Dawkins. He made this statement, "Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian ...

786. Israel: The World’s Invincible Nation

Jeremiah 23:2, 7-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... . They were outnumbered 40 to 1 in troops; 100 to 1 in population; 1001 to 1 in military equipment. Just twenty-four hours before the United Nations recognized Israel, a Jewish person could be arrested for even carrying a gun. Now the nation had to defend herself against six Arab states. But miraculously, she won the war. She's won two more wars after that. Today with a population of only six million people, she is the third strongest military power in the world, and the only Middle Eastern nation that ...

787. The Climb

Joshua 14:6-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... has ever written on it before. This dissertation must then be presented in written form and passed by three professors with three different fields of expertise all of which you must study and include in your dissertation. Then that dissertation must be orally defended before those three professors and both the written and oral presentation must have a minimum "b" average from all three professors or else three to four years of your life have just been burned. That is the mountain I faced as a young married ...

788. God Where Are You? - The Problem of Evil

Genesis 3:1-6, Judges 6:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... but it is true: because God is God, He doesn't need to explain His actions to anyone and He doesn't owe anyone an explanation. For thirty-seven chapters of the Book of Job, except for talking to Satan himself, God is totally silent. He never tries to defend any of his actions. Then Job demands an explanation as to why he has suffered He asks Job one question that ends every other question. "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding." (Job 38:4, NKJV) What He ...

789. Don’t Be a Hypocrite

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... meaningful, He went on to say, "They do all their deeds to be noticed by men." (Matthew 23:5, NASB) In other words, these Pharisaical hypocrites would publicly talk the talk, but privately they didn't walk the walk. A Jewish rabbi wrote a book once that defended the role of Judeo-Christianity in American culture and society. He described a situation that we see so often in this country that I want to tell you is one of the things that always makes me very angry. He is what he said, "The very moment ...

790. The Weakest Link

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... standing before the judge, the judge said, "Sir, you can let me try your case, or you can choose to have a jury of your peers." The man thought for a moment and said, "Your honor, what are peers?" The judge said, "Well, they are people just like you." The defendant said, "Forget it, I don't want to be tried by a bunch of thieves." This Pharisee had a good eye on himself, a bad eye on others, and no eye on God. He was performing before an audience of one and he was applauding himself. We all need to ...

791. Men in Black

Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43

Sermon

James Merritt

... and Jews in the name of Jesus. During the inquisition, if you remember your church history, countless thousands of Christians who would not submit to the dogma and authority of the Catholic church, were imprisoned, tortured, and executed. That's why Christians should be the greatest defenders of religious freedom in the world. We are to be people of compassion, not people of coercion. I thank God I live in a country where you can build a mosque, a synagogue, or a church, and that is the way it ought to be ...

792. Houston We Have a Problem

Nehemiah 1:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... our cities and our homes. We use fences, gates, alarm systems and radar. Our entire country has an invisible wall around it in the form of an organization known as NORAD - The North American Aerospace Defense Command. Their motto is "Deter-Detect-Defend." Using ground based radar, airborne radar, satellites and computers; every square inch of both earth and space is monitored for incoming attack. Now, you can imagine what could happen to this country if those communications were destroyed and the computers ...

793. The Dream Work of Teamwork

Nehemiah 3:1-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... . We are then told three different times in this chapter that people were working, "In front of their houses." In other words, Nehemiah did not have people, "Commuting" from one end of Jerusalem to the other. In case of an attack, a man would be able to defend his family because he would be right there at his home. Furthermore, Nehemiah had engaged by name over seventy people to do work on the wall. Amazingly you won't find Nehemiah's name in this chapter at all. He had totally stepped out of the picture ...

794. Handling Objections

Psalm 1:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... that you are saying even though they may not agree with it. c. Stay on the offense Questions and objections, whether intentional or not, can sidetrack the conversation and the main focus which should be on the Gospel and Jesus Christ. It is one thing to defend a position; it is another thing to get defensive. Never get defensive. Do not stay in defense very long. d. Avoid the proverbial "rabbit trail" Ninety-nine percent of the time, you can tell whether an objection is truly real or simply an attempt to ...

795. The Dark Side Arrives

Sermon

James Merritt

... sin. The Apostle Paul put it this way in I Corinthians 6:18, "No other sin so clearly affects the body as sexual sin. For sexual immorality, is a sin against your own body." (I Corinthians 6:18, NLT) When the dark side of sexual temptation arrives, how do you defend yourself? I am going to raise three questions and answer them. It will give you all of the defense you need against this dark side of the dark side. I. What Should I Know About The Dark Side Of Sexual Sin? The first thing you need to know is ...

796. Only the Lost and the Least

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... that one of these little ones should be lost (parenthetical statement mine). It is dangerous for a child to wander off because a child can't protect itself from dangers. Someone or something can take advantage of a wandering child. A child can't adequately defend itself against dangers. In like manner, it's dangerous for a sheep to wander off because it is vulnerable to being attacked by wolves, or being turned over on its back. A sheep turned over on its back is totally helpless, unable to right itself ...

797. Something to Whistle About

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

John Jamison

... of the letter Paul wrote to the church at Colossia. Did you hear the words? They almost sound like the story of Charlie. Paul is writing to a group of people who have been there for him. He has spent time running from mobs, defending himself from other church members who were threatening to destroy everything he had created, and had already spent more than enough time in prison. Throughout it all, the Colossians had supported him, cared for him, listened to him, and truly followed him. That created ...

798. God's Call for All

Acts 9:35-43

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... might be marginalized, are touched and accepted by Jesus, and brought into the community. They can then choose to become followers, able to help in the caring for each other. Others marvel that these people can be accepted and protected, but Jesus defends their inclusion. So it is not surprising that the early Christians assumed that they were responsible for the care of all who touched their community. Moreover, this included not just spiritual, but financial assistance on the part of the believers. We see ...

799. Star-spangled Justice

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... those words are straight from the Hebrew Scriptures. Before Congress ever passed a Labor Act or Thomas Jefferson ever penned the Bill of Rights, there was the prophet Isaiah. "Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow." Isaiah knew the intricacies of politics. He knew monarchies first hand: Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah — he knew them all. He paid close attention as they struggled as a pawn amidst the larger military campaigns of ...

800. Listening for the "Ching-ching"

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... and take innocent lives. Even those of us who have committed ourselves to faithful living by God's commands may wonder at times if such faith makes any difference. We pray for years for the soul of a friend or loved one; we implore God to defend us amidst "office politics"; we tithe faithfully but still struggle to find a job that can pay the bills and provide for the family. We live the wholesome lifestyle prescribed by the scriptures but still experience chronic pain or sickness. We do our best to "trust ...

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