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76. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Hebrews 11:1-40, Philippians 2:12-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... still have to express their rebellion on their auto bulletin board? Or, maybe my convictions just aren’t deep enough to express them to the whole world via the bumper on my car. Or, it may be that for the most of my life I have driven used cars. I detest trying to get all those bumper stickers and parking permits off the car that is now mine. Well, I am being tempted, and I am sure it isn’t the devil doing it. I am thinking about printing a bumper sticker. While I wrestle with that, and until, or if ...

77. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Philippians 3:12-4:1

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Maxie Dunnam

78. Grace for a Complaining People

Exodus 16:2-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... to go to the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom, they became impatient. They spoke against Moses and against God. "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water and we detest this miserable food" (Numbers 21:5). Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents and the snakes bit the murmuring, ungrateful people and many died. But God does not send serpents or punishment in this situation. God graciously provides food -- food from heaven. God gives manna, and in ...

79. If I Only Had One Wish

2 Chronicles 1:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... . (Pr. 1:10) My son, do not walk in the way with them, keep your foot from their path. (Pr. 1:15) My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart keep my commands. (Pr. 3:1) My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor detest His correction. (Pr. 3:11) My son, let them not depart from your eyes keep sound wisdom and discretion. (Pr. 3:21) Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of your life will be many. (Pr. 4:10) My son, pay attention to my wisdom; lend your ...

80. To Tell The Truth

Exodus 20:16

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James Merritt

... additional lies, which are layered and paper clipped to further lies.[x] No wonder Abraham Lincoln said, "If a man is going to be a liar, he had better have a good memory." That is true, but God has the best memory and he knows when you lie. b. God Detests Lying "Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord." (Pr. 12:22a) One of the reasons I believe God hates lying is because to lie treats God like a fool, as if he doesn't know when you're not telling the truth. We'll call certain untruths "little white ...

81. The Right Connection

John 15:1-8

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James Merritt

... get the word of God into you, as you get into the word of God, and you abide in the Lord Jesus, and the Lord Jesus abides in you, and the branch abides in the vine, and the vine then bears fruit through the branch. III. The Fruitlessness That God Detests "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned." (v.6) Now this has been a highly debated verse of Scripture, and some have tried to use this ...

82. My God Is Real

Psalm 14:1-7

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James Merritt

... her generation, once said: "I am an atheist not because I have searched behind every star, and looked under every rock, to prove there is no God. I am an atheist because I live my life as if there were no God."3 II. The Reality Of God Is Detested By The Filthy First, the fool speaks about God, and then God speaks about the fool. "They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, no, not one." (v.3) The word corrupt in the Hebrew language literally means "soured milk ...

83. An Unidentified King

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... were asked by the Gallup pollsters what historical figure they would most like to spend a day with, nearly two out of three chose Jesus, including 37 percent of those who claimed no church affiliation. Jesus still intrigues folks. Whether people like him or detest him, they can't help calling his name. Almost every movie made in America, except the G-rated ones, profanes the holy name of Jesus. Think of it...no pagan, secular script writer can produce a manuscript without including the name of Jesus. People ...

84. From Me to We

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... ’t just want to talk about it; I want to be in on it! (I Corinthians 9:19-23, The Message) I. Let me introduce myself You must be thinking: “What or Who can make someone care enough about people to associate with those with whom one disagrees and even detests? What has this Christ done for me and in me that compels me to go to such extremes to introduce people to him?” Some of you may not know me. My Hebrew name is Saul. My Roman name is Paul. And the only way I can help you begin to ...

85. A Samaritan Took Care of Him

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... But a Samaritan!" And with those words Jesus turns the tables upside down. Jesus knew that this was the least acceptable individual from the young Jewish lawyer's point of view. Samaritans were outcast, despised, and considered subhuman. Everything about them was detestable even the way they worshiped, especially. They even went to the wrong church! But "a Samaritan" is just the one Jesus centers his story around to show us what we ought to do in these half dead, ambiguous situations that life continually ...

86. Counting the Cost of Discipleship

Luke 14:25-33

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... from the root word, miseo. Miseo literally means to regard with less affection, to love less, or to esteem less. It doesn't mean animosity, ill will, or revenge, which our English word, "hate," suggests. Miseo doesn't mean that the object is detestable or repugnant. Having miseo toward someone doesn't mean that he or she is an abomination. It just means that by comparison, someone or something is less important than someone or something else. For example, consider two other scripture passages where the word ...

87. What Would Jesus Say About War?

Matthew 5:1-12

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J. Howard Olds

... His will. Deuteronomy 20 contains the children of Israel’s instructions for war: In the cities that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them. Otherwise they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God if you fail to do so. Harsh words, hard words. On November 27, 1095 A.D. Pope Urban II called on the people of Western Europe to liberate the holy ...

88. Whose Wife Will She Be?

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... to accompany their parents to the funeral home for the receiving of friends whenever someone in the community died. As the boys grew into their teen years, they began to develop biases about funerals. For example, there was one floral display that all three of them detested. Anyone who has ever gone to a funeral home in the rural south may have seen this arrangement. It is a wreath with a telephone in the middle of it and a ribbon fastened across it on which is printed the words, “Jesus Called.” These ...

89. Looking Ahead to the Transition

Luke 20:27-38

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King Duncan

90. Send Her Away!

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... tells us that “leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.” Tyre and Sidon lay outside the land of Palestine to the north of Galilee. It was a land occupied by people of various religions. None of these religions was more detestable to the Jews than the Canaanite religion. So it is significant that Matthew, writing primarily for a Jewish audience, reports that a Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to Jesus and was crying out to him, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My ...

91. Look Up and Live

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the long journey is near. And they have encamped in this desert region that is infamous for the snakes. The griping and moaning resume: "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food" (v. 5). For God, this was about the last straw. Their venomous tongues would be repaid in kind ... with more venom. And people began to die. They come to Moses. They finally admit that they have done wrong: "We sinned when we spoke against ...

92. The Serpent

John 3:14-21

Sermon

John Smylie

... selective. They didn't seem to remember the misery of their enslavement, yet they remembered the food that they had back in the fleshpots of Egypt. They complained to Moses and to God that there was no food and no water and they detested the miraculous food given to them from heaven. The scriptures tell us the Lord sent poisonous snakes — poisonous serpents — among the people and the serpents bit the people. There were so many poisonous bites that many of the escapees from Egypt were dying. Eventually ...

93. “Love Your Enemies” Doesn’t Mean Don’t Make Any

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... They had professions that they knew would make them outcasts among their own people and despised by the people they served. In Jesus’ day both tax collectors and prostitutes were viewed as “collaborators.” They profited from the despised existence and detested ruling authority of the Roman Empire. Tax collectors brought the reality of Roman rule into the pocket of every Jewish citizen. Every action taken, every aspect of life, was scrutinized and taxed by the Roman authorities. Every sheckel paid was ...

94. Love Your Enemies Doesn’t Mean Don’t Make Any

Matthew 21:23-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

95. Do an About-Face

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... ? Once a month, only twelve times in a year! Wouldn't she be glad to have him converted in this new way! Only get drunk after a few years on the anniversary of your wedding, and at Christmas, and then it will be effective because it is gradual! Oh! I detest all that kind of teaching. Let us go to the Bible and see what that old Book teaches. Let us believe it, and go and act as if we believed it, too. Salvation is instantaneous. I admit that a man may be converted so that he cannot tell when he ...

96. God Can Turn Your Trash Cans into Treasure Chests

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Him we are consecrated and set free. And so, in the words of scripture, if you must boast, boast of the Lord." The gospel is about the way in which what is most weak, what is most despised, what is most contemptible in your life and mine, what is most detested in this world, can become, through the power of the Holy Spirit, what is most beautiful, what is most radiant, and what can be most a blessing. You see, we have a topsy-turvey upside down, inside out gospel. Like you do to a sock, you turn it inside ...

97. Divided We Fall

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... to the country to get their children away from the drugs that were spreading into their suburban neighborhoods. The new families had bought up foreclosed farms and built beautiful homes in the hills. They were accustomed to fine furnishings, and they detested what they had dubbed, “the Victorian Leviathan” that dominated what otherwise was a plain church building. However, the Clyde family viewed the couch in a different light. Their farms had fallen on hard times. They looked at the couch each Sunday ...

98. Prescription on a Pole

John 3:1-21

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... . The problem did not begin with the poisonous serpents, but with the people’s complaining. Their complaint was about food. “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?” they whined. “There is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.” If, in fact, there had been no food, then perhaps their protest would have had some credibility, and their fear of dying would have been justified. But they had food. Daily and miraculously, God was providing food for them in the ...

99. It's All Good

Revelation 21:1-27

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James Merritt

... There will be no need for gun control. There will be no more death. The reason why there will be no more sorrow and no more death is because there will be no more sin. “But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.” (Revelation 21:27, ESV) Imagine living in a world where everybody is not just good, but everybody is perfect. A world where there are no arguments, no lawsuits, no confrontation, no fighting ...

100. Ahaz King of Judah

2 Chronicles 28:1-27

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... of the righteous king. You have to go a long way back to find a king who was able to avoid this pitfall! In elaborating on the apostasy of King Ahaz, the Deuteronomist mentions that the king “even sacrificed his son in the fire, following the detestable ways of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites” (2 Kgs. 16:3). Child sacrifice, which is often related to the influence of the Canaanite Molech cult, is explicitly forbidden in various texts in the Old Testament (e.g., Deut. 18:10 ...

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