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926. Hill Climbing

Psalm 121:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... the one watching over him, loving him as no other could ever love him. That is the picture which the Psalmist paints for us. In the Creator’s eyes, our lives have inestimable value. Listen to Jesus’ words from Matthew 10. He is sending out his disciples into hostile territory to tell the people that the kingdom of heaven is near. He reassures them with these words, “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very ...

927. Is the Lord Among Us or Not?

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Tony Everett

... slavery! We’ll be in the promised land before you know it! God is with us and all is right in our world! However, in reality, the journey was anything but quick and easy. It was full of continued, aimless, and endless wandering within a hostile and barren wilderness. Their food was not the familiar meat and vegetables flavored with Egyptian spices. Their wilderness food was a flaky residue left over from nightly insect activity on the leaves of plants. This new food was called, “What is it?” or in ...

928. One For All

Romans 5:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... offering words of warning about. The spiritual sinkhole of continued depression and despair is as potentially deadly as any head-on collision. We can offer the One, the unswerving love and comfort of Christ, as a way out of that pit. When a person’s hostility, honed by the fear of change and the challenges of life, lashes out, inflicting pain and persecution on others, we have a mandate both to offer protection to the persecuted and to offer Christ as an alternative to the anger of the persecutor. That is ...

929. Up Close & Personal: Seeing Clearly

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... great word here for Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. What matters most is not who is in the White House, but who is on the throne. We may face terrorist attacks, culture dissipation, a sinking economy, a mountain of debt, increasing persecution, spiritual hostility, and in short, trials, troubles, and tribulation, but in the midst of it all there is a sovereign God on the throne. When planes fly into towers, when doctors say, “You have cancer”, when the boss says, “You’re fired”, there is ...

930. For the Hearing Impaired

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... and it doesn’t matter. It would be like water running off a duck’s back. It would be like the proverbial rubber ball bouncing off the concrete wall. These are the kind of people whose attitude towards God’s word ranges from complete disinterest to outward hostility. The second kind of heart is described in verses 20 and 21. “As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, 21yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and ...

931. The Knot: Frayed (Part 1)

1 Peter 3:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... to church and the wife refuses to come. It is usually the other way around. Paul is dealing with this extreme situation where the wife loves Jesus, trusts God, wants to be a part of the church and the husband is spiritually clueless, if not down right hostile. When you’ve got one partner in love with Jesus and another partner that couldn’t care less you are going to have serious major-league conflict. You may be thinking, “We are both believers. How does this relate to us?” If a believing wife can ...

932. Prison Theology: Bait and Bail

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... not given blessings and basilicas. They were given life sentences and death penalties. In medieval Scotland there was a hated prison known as the "Midlothian Prison." It was on "High Street." Today it is commemorated by a heart shaped cobbled inlay on the "Hostile High Street" in Edinburgh at the very doorway of the site where public executions used to take place. Visitors to Edinburgh will often notice people spitting on the Heart. It used to be people spit on those being executed. Then people spit on ...

933. Turning Pity-Parties into Praise-Parties

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... with Jesus. Despite all the attacks and opposition, the beatings and imprisonments that Paul endured because of his continued public preaching of Jesus as the Messiah, Paul continued to preach this “gospel,” this good news, no matter how “bad” the situation was or how hostile the environment. Because he was crazy in love with Jesus. The Jesus Rack is what made Paul’s life a Praise Magazine. The second rack in the Praise Magazine is to focus on the good, not the bad. Bad news is all around Paul ...

934. Why He Did It

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... the world, there are very real challenges to identifying yourself as a follower of Christ. In 1989 George Atley, a missionary with the Central African Mission was killed. There were no witnesses. But the evidence indicates that Atley was confronted by a band of hostile tribesmen. He was carrying a fully loaded, 10-chamber, Winchester rifle and he had to choose either to shoot his attackers and run the risk of negating his work as a Christian missionary or to not defend himself and be killed. When his body ...

935. A Guide to a Rich and a Joyous Life

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a Courthouse is that you cannot post “Thou Shalt Not Steal,” “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery” and “Thou Shall Not Lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians! It creates a hostile work environment. (3) Maybe so. As far as public places are concerned, I would prefer that we post the Great Commandments there: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first ...

936. Jesus Casts Out Impure Spirits

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... too late that he was still in his bare feet. The woodpecker was still pounding but now Ralph had a broken car window and a sore foot. Anger does so much damage, to ourselves and to others. Angry cynical people die young. Men who score high for hostility on standard tests are four times more likely to die prematurely than men whose scores are low. (6) Anxiety and anger are certainly impure spirits. But the number of impure spirits in the world is manifold. The most deadly of all of these spirits is the ...

937. Peacemaker

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... is what makes us enemies with God. Paul even said in Romans 5, “While we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His son.” (Romans 5:10, ESV) Do you know what the good news of Christmas is? The war is over. The hostilities have ceased. Jesus has conquered our sins. Once we surrender our lives to Him then we have peace with God which is exactly what Paul said in this verse. “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Romans ...

938. Jesus Prays for Us

John 17:6-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... land complain about being persecuted for their faith. If we lived in the Mideast, perhaps, or parts of Africa. In fact, in this land, Christians are more apt to persecute than be persecuted. However, Jesus knew that, when he was no longer with them, the hostility which fell on him was going to fall on his disciples. And it did. Almost without exception they were imprisoned, tortured and slain in terrible ways. But note this. When Jesus prays for their protection, he doesn’t pray for their safety. The last ...

939. Don't Forget the Bread

John 6:25-59

Sermon

... and was amazed at how fair she was to look upon. Outside, waiting to see her, was he who had loved her from the start. He walked in and called her by name. “Who are you?” She inquired. He told her who he was and to his shock realized how hostile she was. “I am sorry, but I cannot be with any eyeless man. I need a handsome man by my side. Do you see how beautiful I am?” Hurt and feeling dejected, he walked away. When her family came to visit her, she told them of the audacity of this ...

940. No Longer Strangers

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... with verse 13: “But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility . . . Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household . . .” What great news. We no longer need to be estranged from ourselves, from one another or from God. Christ has broken down the ...

941. The Word According to Superman

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... comes to him and speaks to him: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.” That’s interesting, don’t you think? God is saying, “Don’t be afraid” to a man who just had an incredible military victory over four hostile kings. Abram should be on top of the world. But you see, despite that victory, there is a lingering concern in Abram’s heart. Despite the many victories that God has given him, he still has some reluctance in his relationship with God. God had promised ...

942. Are You Giving Up Chocolate for Valentine's Day?

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... that are destructive to us and undermine our witness to the world. By his grace, we can grow stronger as we face the tests that come to us in our daily lives. 1. Contributed. Source unknown. 2. Zondervan, p. 137. 3. James Hewett, How to Live Confidently in a Hostile World (Wheaton, IL: Word Publishing, 1989), p. 177. Cited by Mark Friesen, http://klcchurch.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/It-Was-There-All-the-Time-Sermon-7.20.14.pdf. Sermon Series: Growing Strong in the Season of Lent, #1

943. Angels & Swords

Illustration

Billy Graham

The Rev. John G. Paton, a missionary in the New Hebrides Islands, told a story involving the protective care of angels. Hostile natives surrounded his mission headquarters one night, intent on burning out the Patons and killing them. John Paton and his wife prayed all during that terror-filled night that God would deliver them. When daylight came they were amazed to see the attackers unaccountably leave. A year later, the chief ...

944. Jehoram King of Judah

2 Chronicles 21:4-20

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... ’s reign. 21:16–17 The themes of the letter are taken up in the continuation of the Chronicler’s own material in 21:16–17 and 21:18–19. As a punishment against Judah and Jehoram in particular, Yahweh aroused against Jehoram the hostility of the Philistines and of the Arabs. The Hebrew word for “arouse” (Hifil of ?wr) is also used in 36:22 (as in the present section, the Chronicler’s own material), which states that the Lord “aroused” Cyrus to write his proclamation that would liberate ...

945. The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... may have intended his readers to see the allusion. At this Pentecost, the “new law”—the proclamation of the messianic age and of the Messiah—was promulgated to the nations as the old law had been, thus breaking down “the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility” (Eph. 2:14). 2:9–11 Parthians, Medes and Elamites … Cretans and Arabs: For many Jews, distance was no bar to their paying the half-shekel temple tax every year or even to their going themselves to the temple for one or more of the ...

946. Peter Speaks to the Onlookers

Acts 3:11-26

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... community” (p. 709) and indeed must be traced back to Jesus himself (pp. 712ff.). See further the notes on 8:32f. Before Pilate: The Greek (lit. “at Pilate’s face”) can mean simply “before,” “in the presence of,” someone. But sometimes it has a more hostile sense, denoting a face-to-face confrontation (cf. 25:16; Gal. 2:11). So perhaps here. The Jews met Pilate’s proposal to set Jesus free with a point-blank refusal. 3:14 A murderer: i.e., Barabbas, a bandit (John 18:40) who had committed ...

947. In Pisidian Antioch

Acts 13:13-52

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... word of God would henceforth be preached to the Gentiles. This point is repeated with great emphasis at the end of the book in 28:25–28 (cf. Eph. 2:11–22). Barnabas agreed with Paul and both spoke of the matter, boldly (v. 46), in view of the evident hostility of their audience (see disc. on 4:13). This was a decisive step in the new direction in which God was taking his church, and for Paul it was perhaps his “coming of age” as an apostle to the Gentiles. He had been told at the beginning that he ...

948. In Corinth

Acts 18:1-17

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... with the Jewish community (p. 540). Among others were Gaius, whom Paul mentions with Crispus in 1 Corinthians 1:14, and “the household of Stephanas,” who were “the first converts in Achaia” (i.e., Corinth? 1 Cor. 16:15). But Paul’s success aroused the hostility of the greater number of the Jews who opposed Paul and became abusive (v. 6). No objects are expressed in the Greek. We may agree with NIV, however, that Paul was the object of the first verb, and though the same object would naturally be ...

949. Ashore on Malta

Acts 28:1-10

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... the Sicilian Greeks to the Carthaginians and from them to the Romans. It was now ruled by a procurator, who may have been the Publius whom Luke mentions in verse 7. 28:2 Strangers landing among rustic folk such as these often met with a hostile reception. On this occasion, however, the survivors found themselves treated with unusual kindness. Rain and cold had added to their miseries, and the fire that the locals had lit for them was a most welcome sight. It is difficult to imagine all two hundred seventy ...

950. Accusations

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

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... the latter possibility. This interpretation is further confirmed by the fact that, throughout 2 Corinthians, Paul reckons with a majority that has favorably received the “tearful letter” and is now more or less reconciled to him (cf. 2:6), and with a minority that is still unrepentant and hostile toward him (cf. 10:2; 12:21; 13:2). Paul can already boast in the Corinthians (cf. 7:4; 8:24; 9:2), and he expects to continue to be able to do so until the day of the Lord (cf. Phil. 2:16; 1 Thess. 2:19 ...

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