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1826. Workaholics Anonymous

Genesis 2:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... Sabbath existed from Creation. There is still a day that is to be sanctified, set apart for God and God alone and that day is Sunday. You see the Sabbath is about honoring God first, at the very outset of our week. I don't know if you have ever thought about this or not, but technically Sunday is not a part of the weekend. The culture in which we live sees the weekend as Saturday and Sunday. Actually, the weekend is on Saturday. A new week begins on Sunday. Sunday was never meant to be the end of an old ...

1827. Fishing Buddies

John 1:35-42, John 1:43-51

Sermon

James Merritt

... I can assure you the last thing on my mind was jumping with him. As he was signing every waiver form known to the human race and giving up every legal right under the constitution, he looked at me and said, "Dad, would you jump with me?" At first I thought he was kidding, but he asked me again. His girlfriend asked her father if he would jump. Her father looked at me and said, "Pastor, if you will jump I'll jump." Well, my manhood was on the line at that point and pride does go before destruction and before ...

1828. Here I Am To Worship

John 4:24

Sermon

James Merritt

... for all eternity. If you ever wondered what we are going to be doing in heaven, let me tell you what we are going to be doing. We are going to be directing our attention to God, demonstrating our affection for God, and deploying our abilities for God. One last thought – the best worship in the world is no worship at all if it is the worship of the wrong god. There is only one God worthy of our worship and that is the God spoken of in this verse, "You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and ...

1829. Which Door Should I Take?

John 10:7-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... that people walk through every day thinking this is the right door for me, this is the door that will give me significance and meaning and joy and happiness in life, only to find it is the wrong door. Here is a man that walked through a door that he thought was the right one, but it was a door that lead to nowhere [Door #1]. This man tried the door called money, power, influence, but it was the wrong door. There are many out there that certainly can relate to this door [Door #2]. As wonderful as family is ...

1830. Why Believe the Bible?

John 17:17

Sermon

James Merritt

... . "It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in." (Isaiah 40:22, NASB) Thousands of years ago scientists thought that winds blew always in a straight direction. Of course, meteorologists now know that wind travels within circuits. They are called "jet streams". That is exactly what the Word of God says. "Blowing toward the south, then turning toward the north, the wind ...

1831. Joseph – The Promise Believed

Matthew 1:18-25; 2:13-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... Eve, "You can have anything else you want in this garden, but don't eat the fruit of that tree." Just as soon as they thought God wasn't looking (let me give you a tip: God is always looking) Eve listened to a snake in the grass, who was Satan ... (which she did) and that one act has put us in the mess we are in today. For a moment, Satan was deliriously happy. He thought he had messed up everything. He had ruined a perfect world. He had damaged a perfect marriage. He had broken the fellowship that Adam and ...

1832. Standard Building Codes

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... other words, Jesus said long before adultery takes place in the bed, it has already been visualized in the head. That is one of the ways you can assure a lasting, loving marriage and assure that you stay out of sexual immorality is to guard your heart. Maintain pure thoughts. Don't give Satan a foot-hold in fantasy. The word for "look" in verse 28 is in the present tense. It is talking about a continuous look, not a glance, but a gaze. Jesus said the problem with lust is not the sight of a beautiful woman ...

1833. The World’s Favorite Scripture

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... eat a cookie a piece. When they finally got down to one cookie the man reached into the bottom of the bag, broke the cookie in half, ate it, shook his head at the woman and got up and left. This lady could not believe this man's nerve. She thought to herself, "That is the most arrogant man I have ever met in my life." Soon the announcement came to board the plane. This lady got on the plane, still hot and bitterly angry at the audacity of this man, until she sat down, buckled her seatbelt, reached into her ...

1834. Minority Report

Matthew 13:1-9; 18-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... bullet flies, and the first bomb hits, they are the first one to desert. My ministry is littered with people who walked down the aisle of a church, crying big crocodile tears, got baptized, and for a brief while came to every service of the church. You would have thought they were on fire for God, but they just flamed out and you never heard from them again. Now these people are never really saved. You say, "How do you know they are not saved?" I know it for two reasons: First of all, Jesus said in verse 21 ...

1835. The King and His Castle

Matthew 16:13-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... left just to the people of God to build the church, the church would have crumbled a long time ago. When God builds a house for His people, it will last forever. But when we try to build something for God it doesn't last quite that long. King David thought the best thing he could do to honor God was to build a magnificent temple that would stand forever. But he didn't even get to build it Solomon built it. It only lasted until 589 B.C. when it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar. The second temple, Zerubbabel's ...

1836. Here Comes the Bridegroom

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... believe in the second coming of Jesus. I am not asking if you have ever been baptized. I am asking you this question. Are you ready to meet Jesus? In early 1874 an inventor named Elisha gray transmitted a few musical notes over a telegraph wire. He thought to himself, "If I can send music, perhaps I could send the human voice." The New York Times reported predictions of a "talking telegraph" and the public began to grow eager for it. Just one-year later gray believed he had the answer. Tin-can like voice ...

1837. Daily Homework

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... and down the state. As a matter of fact, we are national. We have at least one office in every state of the union including Alaska and Hawaii." The man at this time got a puzzled look on his face. He was trying to identify this huge company and he thought to himself, "Surely, I have read about this in the Wall Street Journal." The pastor now was just getting warmed up. He said, "As a matter of fact, we've gone international and management has a plan to put at least one office in every country of the world ...

1838. With The End In Mind

Philippians 3:7-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... . In effect, he looked back at the past and added up all of his assets, before he knew Christ, and then when he compared it to knowing Christ, he moved them from the asset column to the liability column giving him a big, fat zero for all the things he thought were important. Paul said in effect, "If you don't know Jesus Christ in your private life. If you don't have a true, real personal relationship with Him, then your life is running a deficit. It is in effect, a complete loss." That word is used only one ...

1839. You Can Know What to Do With Your Life

Proverbs 3:5-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... His rightful place, God will put you in the right place. When you trust Him and not yourself, when you lean on Him, not on your thoughts or your feelings, when you acknowledge Him in all your ways, then He will direct you and guide you and show you what He wants ... God wants you to do with your life. If you will do what I did with my life, look to God in trust, identify His thoughts, follow His counsel and expect His guidance, you won't waste your life doing what you want to do you'll invest your life doing ...

1840. Jealousy: Cancer of the Heart

Proverbs 27:4

Sermon

James Merritt

... much. Do you want to be rich? You can be rich, but he'll be twice as wealthy. Do you want to live a long and healthy life? You can, but his life will be twice as long and twice as healthy. So what is your desire?" The man frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "Here is my request: Strike me blind in one eye!" Well, as we have already seen with Mrs. Holloway, jealousy will cause you to burn down your house to kill a rat. I tell you again, jealousy is a poison that will absolutely destroy your ...

1841. Good for the Soul

Proverbs 28:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... to verse 13 one more time, "But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy." (Proverbs 28:13, NKJV) The word forsake literally means "to leave behind". Now the New Testament word for that is "repent." Isaiah 55:7 says, "Give up your crooked ways and your evil thoughts. Return to the Lord our God. He will be merciful and forgive your sins." (Isaiah 55:7, CEV) God does not give His mercy to our remorse. God gives His mercy to our repentance. All of that leads me to say this - if you want to confess ...

1842. April Love

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... that could be at least part of the explanation. And it certainly gives credence to the statement we sometimes make when a romantic relationship doesn't work out: We say, "The chemistry just wasn't there," but maybe that's a much more literal statement than we thought.3 Of course, I like the explanation offered by a nine-year-old girl on one of those "Kids Say The Darnedest Things" type surveys. She was asked why love happens between two people, and she said, "No one is sure why it happens, but I heard ...

1843. Public Notions of Jesus' Identity

Mt 16:13-20; Mk 8:27-30

Illustration

Brett Blair

... spreads as we see all the peanuts kids as they go wildly screaming about. Finally in the last square we see all of the children huddled on top of Snoopy's doghouse waiting for the end of the world. And Charlie Brown finally speaks up with a puzzled voice: I thought that Elijah was supposed to come back first." Well, Charlie Brown knew his Bible. Elijah was suppose to come back before the end time. When the disciples told Jesus that some people ...

1844. Mary’s Magnificat

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... true righteousness. On the outset, Mary's song seems like it is out of place. God may have found favor in Mary, but what does God ask her to do? He asked her to risk her body, her marriage, her reputation, and even her life. Mary must have thought to herself: "What a strange kind of God this Yahweh is! What on earth is important enough to him to warrant this kind of sacrifice? What objective is there sufficient enough to justify such an endeavor?" I am afraid that we have heard the song of deliverance and ...

1845. Mary Magdalene’s Day

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... her need to make the situation into more than it was caused angels to be seen. But don't those folks who are invariably doubting lose this one? The conversation with the angels must have been brief; at least, that's what the record indicates. As we extend our thoughts, we discover a woman, perhaps in the grips of hysteria, who wants with all her heart to know where they have laid him. She wants to see him and probably touch him. He was her Lord. The price had been paid for our salvation and she was not ...

1846. A New Continuing

John 14:8-17, 25-27

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... I once slept through a tornado when I was in college. When I woke up the next morning, my roommate was furious at me for not getting up and seeing it through with him. When I asked him why he just didn't wake me up, he replied, "Well, I thought at least one of us should get some sleep." Needless to say, I long for those days when I could sleep that soundly, but there's a down side to being able to sleep like that. You miss all the excitement. The experience of Pentecost is no different. Psalm 104 ...

1847. Reactions to Rejection

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... you a much better way, a way more like Jesus. There once was a man who ran for a local government position. He was well thought of and many felt he was a shoe-in. However, when the votes were counted, the race was very close, but he lost. Many were ... farewell to his family before he leaves to take up his new occupation. On the contrary, Jesus will not allow this man so much as a thought about all this. Jesus draws the line in the sand and tells the man that he has to make a decision then and there whether or ...

1848. You Fool!

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... greed and ignored the voice of God. The day was coming when he would die and have to face God. That day was coming sooner than he thought, but like a lot of folks, he lived as if he'd never die. Like him, we are caught between the voices of good and evil. ... . That's why the focus of the farmer in Jesus' parable was so tragically dislocated. He was caught in the illusion of success. He thought he'd made it, only to discover that he had been seeking the wrong things in life. At best, God was on the periphery ...

1849. Counting the Cost of Discipleship

Luke 14:25-33

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... To understand this difficult verse (Luke 14:20) about hating family, it is helpful to look at the historical setting of the text. First, Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem where he would face a cross. Large crowds were gathering. Many people in the crowd thought Jesus was going to establish a worldly empire of power and glory. They were wrong. Many were not interested in being disciples of the way of the cross. In his book, Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis puts it this way: "Jesus has many lovers of his ...

1850. All Is New in Christ

John 11:4-6, Philippians 3:4-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... for sufficient food and water for the day. One day, when drawing water from a stream, Androclus felt something sharp against his neck. "Don't move," said a voice. "There is a big reward for the return of a runaway slave." Forced back to the city, Androclus often thought of his friend the lion, sad that they would never again see each other. He was taken to see the Emperor who pronounced upon him the sentence of death. Soldiers took him to a stone cell beneath the palace where he was to await the day of his ...

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