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John 12:20-36, Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... of his people. God would communicate to his people heart to heart (personal relationship). God would forgive his people's sins. Epistle: Hebrews 5:5-10 1. Sermon Title: The Source Of Salvation. Sermon Angle: Jesus, the One who gave his life to God in perfect submission, becomes the source of salvation to all who have faith. The world offers other sources of salvation success, sex, power, even good works. We need to ask our people to name the source of their hope for salvation. Jesus is the only true source ...

127. Why Aspire to Sainthood?

Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

... . Yet each of us, no doubt, has someone in mind who is being thought of as a saintly person. Is it a parent, a grandparent, an uncle, an aunt, a teacher, a pastor, a doctor, a neighbor, a friend? Of course, we do not see these persons as perfect. We have no set of tedious criteria with which to measure them. No church bureaucracy has considered them for canonization. Yet we have witnessed a quality of faith and goodness in them that has inspired and blessed us. We thank God for them; we canonize them in our ...

128. Epiphany 7

Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 5:38-42, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, Leviticus 19:1-37

Sermon Aid

... In this combination of teachings, Jesus was preparing his disciples so that they could understand his death in the light of the ethics of the kingdom of God. Matthew passes this teaching along to us, too. 4. The bottom line for us is to try to be perfect as Jesus was perfect, no matter what it may cost us. Who is willing to pay that price by forgiving one's enemies instead of calling for their destruction? Jesus was, are we? A sermon on the First Lesson - "Love My Neighbor? Who Says So?" Most of this lesson ...

129. When You're Dreaming One Thing And Living Another

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... as children of God. We do not lose the purpose God has for our lives. We belong to God. God loves us just as we are. We don't have to achieve worldly greatness or even sainthood. Because of what Christ has done for us, God sees us perfect just as we are. God has set us apart to be a special people--a people of love, acceptance, forgiveness. 1. Contributed by: David to JOKE OF THE DAY! 2. Zig Ziglar, OVER THE TOP (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1994), p. 45. 3. "Ormsby Explains Suicide Attempt," LOS ...

130. Hungry For Bread

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." (8) That's the message of Matthew 25 also. If we want to have hell on earth and hell for eternity, then we will look the other way. The goats were those people in Jesus' parable who saw the need, but did nothing to help. The goats' response is captured perfectly in this paraphrase of today's passage: "I was hungry and you said apply for food stamps. I was homeless and you said there is a shelter in town. I was lonely and you said get a Sony Walkman. I was beaten and you said avoid dark alleys. I was ...

131. Encountering Incomparable Riches

Ephesians 2:4-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... to think as Christ thought, to love as Christ loved. So Wesley liked to ask the question—Are you going on to perfection? Are you earnestly striving for it? Do you hope to be made perfect in this life? Christian Perfection is not pride—it is ultimate humility. Christian Perfection is not accomplishment—it is all grace. Christian Perfection is not arrival—it is constant growth. What is perfect for a 4-year-old is hardly perfect for a 40-year-old and is not even admissible for a 60-year-old. Christian ...

132. Cheering from the Stands

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... People are flawed. Anyone is horribly misguided if their faith is in people and not in God. Scripture tells us that “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” It’s true in the Bible, just as it is in modern life. These early heroes were not perfect, but God did not give up on them. That’s the good news. God didn’t give up on them and God does not give up on us. Just because we have tripped and fallen does not mean God writes us off. Noted preacher Carlyle Marney once said that because ...

133. God’s Great High Priest

Hebrews 5:5-10

Sermon

Nancy Kraft

... like drops of blood falling on the ground. Jesus was afraid. He really didn't want to die on a cross, but we know that he did. The passage from Hebrews says: "Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him" (Hebrews 5:8-9). So, here's the main point of this rather confusing little passage from Hebrews. As our great high priest, Jesus was a human being who knew weakness just like all human ...

134. When the Going Gets Tough

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore,” Paul continues, “I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I ...

135. By Faith

Hebrews 11:1-40

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... with the superior new covenant (see note on 1:4). For heavenly (epouranios), see note on 3:1. What is in view is that transcendent and perfect reality that awaits the saints of God (cf. 1 Cor. 2:9; Rom. 8:18). When Jesus quotes Exod. 3:6, “I am the God of ... here is that displayed in Moses’ struggle with Pharaoh for the deliverance of his people. Kept is NIV’s rendering of the perfect tense of poieō (“make” or “do”), by which our author probably has in mind not only the original event, but the ...

136. The Sin and Doom of Godless Men

Jude 1:1-16

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... (Matt. 27:64; Rom. 1:27; Eph. 4:14; 1 Thess. 2:3; James 5:20; 2 Pet. 2:18; 3:17). Cain and Korah are not mentioned in the parallel passage (2 Pet. 2:15). Destroyed is a Greek aorist (apōlonto) and equivalent to a prophetic perfect: their frightful fate is settled. Korah’s rebellion: In a similar context regarding false teachers endangering the faith of others, 2 Tim. 2:19 (“The Lord knows those who are his”) is also probably alluding to the Korah tradition; cf. Num. 16:5: “The Lord will show who ...

137. Jesus Like Melchizedek

Hebrews 7:11-28

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... perspective of the Letter to the Hebrews and fail to account for the letter’s commonplaces: the nature and condition of salvation are not different now than formerly; the church in the new age is no less threatened by the specter of apostasy; salvation (perfection) is no more the present possession of believers now than it was of the faithful in the former epoch; and nothing is more necessary than that these readers imitate the saints of old. The contrast drawn is not between some supposed primitive and ...

138. The Pearl of Great Price

Matthew 13:45-46

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... the pearl that had been kept secret for so many years. The businessman could not resist and he went to see it. This was really a perfect pearl. His first pearl was good but not this good. He had to have it. What would the heirs take for the pearl? (Hold up ... but go and see it and try to buy it if he could. He went to India and stood in line for days to see the most perfect pearl in the world. When he finally looked down upon the pearl he knew that it had to be the best pearl that had ever been created. ...

139. Who Is God?

Matthew 16:13-20

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... PLAYER 1: I've tried that. PLAYER 2: How long did it last? PLAYER 1: About ten minutes. Then I realized I was proud because I was so perfect and pride is a sin so I wasn't perfect after all. I can't relate to a perfect God. Perfect? Not me. I can't even get the part in my hair straight. PLAYER 2: Tell me something, do you think of Christianity as an escape? PLAYER 1: I know what you're thinking. You think that people who become Christians are running away from the real world. PLAYER 2: ...

140. The Good, The Bad, And The Justified

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... hell but to get us ready for heaven. So he's in the business of making us holy, or to put it as the writer of Ephesians 4:15 does, helping us "to grow up in every way into Christ who is our head." Maturity in Christ, spiritual adulthood, perfection in love -- these are all ways to describe God's work in our lives subsequent to the moment when he justifies us, or declares us righteous. This sanctifying work of God's spirit within us, does not turn us into stained-glass saints, people who walk around piously ...

141. Wedding: Love and Fear

1 John 4:1-6

Sermon Aid

Charles E. Wolfe

... only other occurrence in the New Testament, means punishment in hell. The more we love God, however, the more we understand that God’s purpose is discipline rather than rejection. Because of this, love conquers fear, but fear shows that the love is not yet perfect. In the same way, ____ and ____ will find it necessary to discipline each other as they live together. If they see it as punishment, they will fear each other and pull apart. But if, instead, by their love, they will see it as discipline, they ...

142. When the Church Is the Church

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... a part of it. And if you ever become a part of it, it will be even more imperfect!" The bishop’s summation of the state of the church certainly was accurate, but probably many of us can identify with the complainant’s dream of being part of a perfect church. Wouldn’t it be great to be a member of a congregation where there was never a difference of opinion among its members? Wouldn’t it be marvelous to belong to a church whose pastor was at once a great preacher, a capable administrator, a competent ...

143. I'm O.k.; You're A Little Suspect

Luke 6:37-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... , lack of charity, and gluttony should be benign sins in our estimation, and should be covered by a quick prayer and perfect church attendance for one full month. Adultery, drug dealing, homosexuality, and murder are major sins, and God should be just as repulsed ... of hate. In order to live a life that is pleasing to God, it is essential to get our heart and our actions in perfect alignment. When our car's wheels get out of alignment, we start to notice a little shimmy in the car. A little extra vibration. ...

144. On Forgetting To Do A Business Plan

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... than the distance between the trestle and the ground. (2) Surely, we think to ourselves, he would have figured this out before he jumped. Poor planning will do you in every time. A gang of robbers back the 1930s planned to rob a Midwestern bank. They laid out a nearly perfect plan--but the operative word is “nearly.” They decided to break into the bank late at night and to make their escape via a complex route through back alleys and darkened lots. The day of the robbery came and the initial phases went ...

145. Simeon's Song

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... has been a change in plan. Instead of the Messiah coming suddenly, ushering in a whole new age where all of a sudden everything is perfect, things are going to be pretty much the same as they have always been. At least it will look that way. You probably already noticed ... in and solve all your problems for you. No one on a white horse. No one is coming on a cloud to bring to you a perfect world. It's not going to happen. And old Simeon, he's gone now, too. He's "departed in peace." But the text says Anna is ...

146. No Fear

John 15:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... you claim, then it will show. He says, No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us. Carlyle Marney told about an old man who was asked once, "Have you ever seen God?" He said, "No, but I have known a ... you can see is God's love. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us. And according to John, there are two places especially where you can see that. You can see it when you approach death, and you ...

147. Now What?

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Mark Trotter

148. Lent 1

Genesis 2:4-25, Genesis 3:1-24, Romans 5:12-21, Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... lies he cannot tolerate truth and lies. In "A Mighty Fortress," Luther says, "One little word shall fell him." And that "one little word" is Jesus. Lesson 1: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 1. The nature of humans. Before temptation, the human person was good, in fact - perfect. Adam said, felt, and did no wrong. This is God's intention for the human family. In God's sight this is what it means to be human. Since the fall of humanity, he constantly yields to temptation and sins to the point of total depravity - sin ...

149. Out With the Old - In With the New

Philippians 3:12-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... you, from the Word of God, how you can get a fix on ‘96. In fact, this recipe will not only help you face every new year, it will help you face every new day. I. Be Dissatisfied With Your Position "Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me." (v.12) Now Paul was saved and Paul was sanctified, but Paul was not satisfied. Even though this man walked with God, had a dynamic prayer life, was winning ...

150. The Greatest Place in the World

Romans 12:1-2

Sermon

James Merritt

... listening to the drumbeat of this world, but marching to the music of our Heavenly Father. III. A Purposeful Revelation It is only at this point, after a presentation and a transformation, that there will be revelation. Then, "you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." Listen carefully to this statement: "IT IS THE WILL OF GOD TO REVEAL HIS WILL TO ANYONE WHO IS WILLING TO DO HIS WILL." Now you are going to see why the greatest place in the world is the center of the will of ...

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