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2426. Follow the Directions

Psalm 119:9, 18, 89

Sermon

James Merritt

... encourage you to not only get started on this plan, but find at least one other person that can be an accountability partner to make sure that you read it together. I realize the easy part is to know where to start. The hard part is, “How do you understand it?” It really is not that difficult. Step 1: Personalize the Bible What I mean by that is, “How do you make the Bible personal? How do you get the truth in the Bible, out of the page of the Bible into your heart?” With every text of scripture ...

2427. Envision: The Great Commandment

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

James Merritt

... I was thinking about this question, believe it or not, I got the answer one day as I was spending time with God just reading my Bible. We don’t have to wonder what it means to love God, because God himself tells us what it means and then we understand that love really is not a feeling – it really is a commitment. I John 5:3 tells us, “Loving God means keeping His commandments.” (1 John 5:3, NLT) Jesus himself said in John 14:21, “Those who accept My commandments and obey them are the ones who love ...

2428. All In: The Winning Hand

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... might win the weak.” (1 Corinthians 9:22, ESV) Who are the weak? This referred to immature believers who really didn’t understand that in Jesus Christ they were free. There were still some brand-new Jewish believers who even though they had trusted Christ ... to bring them close to Him.” Do you know what that attitude is? Do you know what that heartbeat is? It is the winning hand. It is understanding that to be all-in you give all-up. When you give all-up and you go all-in that is when you win it all, not ...

2429. Why He Did It

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... this thing. So, not knowing what else to do, Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. Of course the Master rebuked him in return. He even called him Satan, perhaps remembering the temptations he dealt with when he began his ministry. But we can understand Peter’s frustration. Each year during Lent we are confronted with the question, why did Jesus have to die? One of the most obvious answers is that it was necessary to fulfill prophecy. We read in Isaiah 53 that it was predicted by the prophet some ...

2430. Everything Must Go: The Treasure Principle

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... went to have her “Last Will& Testament” done and she said to her lawyer, “I have two requests that I want in my will.” She said, “First of all, I want to be cremated. Secondly, I want my ashes spread all over Neiman Marcus.” The lawyer said, “I understand the first request, but why the second one?” She said, “Then I know that my daughters will visit me at least twice a week!” There is a reason why people do wills and there is a reason why we call it, “The Last Will.” On the one hand ...

2431. Peacemaker

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... Since we know that God has never made a promise that He hasn’t kept and God has never told a lie then we have to understand what is meant by this peace. We have a clue in two things that this little baby grew up to say about peace Himself. You ... , neither let them be afraid.” (John 14:27, ESV) This is a different kind of peace than what the world gives and what the world understands. It is not just a human peace; it is a heavenly peace. It is not just a diplomatic peace; it is a divine peace. It is ...

2432. The Messed Up

John 4:1-26

Sermon

James Merritt

... moved in next door to you has shown a spiritual interest in you, is because it is really Jesus letting you know He is waiting to meet you? It gets better that that. For those of us who are messed up or we have messed up, not only should we understand that Jesus is waiting to meet us, but II. We Should Believe That Jesus is willing to accept us. John gives us another clue as to what this story is all about. Jesus begins by making an unbelievable request, “A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said ...

2433. The Loser

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

James Merritt

... is he going to do? What happens in the end is why he is the biggest loser. III. Decide To Pay the Price For Eternal Life “Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.” (Mark 10:22, ESV) At first that verse is hard to understand. Why did he go away disheartened? This guy is rich. You don’t go away sad because you are rich. You go away sad, because you are driving a 17 year old, 3 cylinder Kia! Why would walking away with all these riches make him sad? Here is the ...

2434. Everything Counts

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... people in deep financial trouble, because they have spent too much. I have never met anyone in financial trouble, because they gave God too much. I have never met anybody that had to declare bankruptcy, because they gave too much money to God. Ask yourself these questions: Do I understand all that I have has been loaned and is not owned? Do I have more passion about what I can get or what I can give? Will there be people who will welcome me in heaven, because of how I used what God gave me on earth? Does ...

2435. Determining Your Destiny

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

James Merritt

... come to the real climax of this story “But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’” (Luke 16:29-30, ESV) Don’t miss this. This man understands why is he where he is. He is not on the wrong side of this gulf because he was rich, but because he did not repent. What cost this man his soul was not what he did, but what he did not do. He never repented. He never turned away ...

2436. It's All Good

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... of God are the same, ‘The heavens and the earth’ in Genesis and ‘A new heaven and a new earth’ in Revelation. The story of the Bible has creation at the beginning also has creation at the end.”[1] There are two words very important for us to understand. One is the word “new” and the other is the word “earth.” In the Greek language there are two words for “new.” One word means “new in time or origin.” That is not the word used here. The other word means, “new in nature or new in ...

2437. Planting Your Feet

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... to the first two verses. “Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.” (Psalm 32:1-2, ESV) It is one thing to understand the definition of sin. It is another thing to realize the depth of sin. David uses three different words to describe the different types of sin that we all commit and just how many faults we all have. First, he refers to transgression. “Blessed is the ...

2438. Surviving the Big One

Matthew 18:10-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... a part of the problem. We are to go. We don’t have the right not to confront someone that has sinned against us. Even though you are not the one who broke it, Jesus said you are the one that should take the initiative to try and fix it. Understand that when someone hurts you, offends you, or sins against you, you don’t think about it. You don’t pray about it and you don’t talk about it. You go to that person personally and tell them. II. Be Willing To Confront Privately Why should we be the ...

2439. Signed, Sealed, and Delivered

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

James Merritt

... had no chapter or verse divisions. These slowly evolved over a period of about 700 years and the first complete Bible to have chapter and verse divisions was the Geneva Bible published in 1560. At least, when we refer to “The Bible” you have a basic understanding of the book we are talking about. Now we come to the greater question. II. Where Did The Bible Come From? Because there are two testaments we have to deal with how we got both of them. Obviously, we must begin with the first testament. How ...

2440. Poem: In Memoriam

Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... the glory of a hand, That seem’d to touch it into leaf: The voice was not the voice of grief, The words were hard to understand. LXX I cannot see the features right, When on the gloom I strive to paint The face I know; the hues are faint And mix ... things. Her faith is fixt and cannot move, She darkly feels him great and wise, She dwells on him with faithful eyes, ‘I cannot understand: I love.’ XCVIII You leave us: you will see the Rhine, And those fair hills I sail’d below, When I was there with ...

2441. Our Father Who Art in Heaven

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... in God's grand scheme of things. Think of the fascination with the Left Behind series by LaHaye and Jenkins. Consequently, Christians are urged to redeem the time because what we do in temporal, linear time affects our destiny in eternal time. So we can understand the challenging words of Jesus where he urges us to love God over mother and father, who tend to be identified with the cycles of time — birth, growth, and death; birth, growth, and death! He who loves father and mother, that is security, more ...

2442. Mighty Morphin Power People

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... in his mother’s arms and eased the blanket back so that she could gaze upon her child for the first time. She took one look at her baby’s face and looked at her husband and gasped, “Oh, Honey! Look! He has your ears!” (1) We understand that father’s reaction. The first thing we notice about any person is their appearance. Of course over time our appearance changes. You may have heard about the elderly woman who, when sitting in the waiting room for her first appointment with a new dentist, noticed ...

2443. Ahaziah King of Judah

2 Chronicles 22:1-9

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... hiding in Samaria. Third, in Kings he was buried in Jerusalem, while Chronicles suggests that he was buried at the place of his death. I agree with McKenzie’s assessment: “None of these differences is insurmountable, and it may be best to understand the Chronicles version as a theological elaboration of the story in Kings, with which the Chronicler assumed his audience was familiar” (1–2 Chronicles, p. 307). The Chronicler’s abbreviated account starts with a summary of Ahaziah’s reign (22:1–2 ...

2444. The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... “disciples” that the Holy Spirit had indeed come (see disc. on 19:2; cf. 1 Cor. 14:22 where they are thought of as a sign to unbelievers). 2:6 Each one heard them: Cf. vv. 8, 11. Some light may be thrown on Luke’s understanding of Pentecost by the custom, dating from at least the second century A.D., of regarding this festival as a commemoration of the giving of the law. Exodus 20:18 has it that “all the people perceived the voices” (though “voices” means “thunderings” in this context ...

2445. The Fellowship of the Believers

Acts 2:42-47

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... 2 Cor. 8:4; 9:13; Heb. 13:16). In the light of the verses that follow (44, 45), we should almost certainly include this sense in the meaning of this verse. Third, they shared in the breaking of bread. This phrase does not compel us to understand anything more than an ordinary meal. But in view of the definite article, “the bread,” a particular meal may be indicated, and what more likely than the Lord’s Supper? Fourth, they prayed. The one verb governs each of the activities mentioned in this verse, so ...

2446. In Lystra and Derbe

Acts 14:8-20

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... their names is dictated by the reference to Zeus and Hermes; see disc. on 13:9) realized what was happening they rushed out [of the house] into the crowd. But the expression could mean equally as well that they ran out of the city, and we prefer this sense, understanding the gate to have been that of the temple. So then, it was to the temple they ran, tearing their clothes in token of their distress (cf. Gen. 37:29, 34; Josh. 7:6; Judith 14:16f.; Matt. 26:65) and shouting to the people as they forced their ...

2447. The Council at Jerusalem

Acts 15:1-21

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... the Galatians passage is only the second visit mentioned by Paul in the letter, whereas Acts 15:1–29 is Paul’s third. This is a problem only if we accept the premise that Paul was enumerating his visits. But nothing compels us to do so. We should understand here why he wrote the letter. It was to show, first, that he was independent of the other apostles and, second, that they were in agreement with him regarding the gospel. And because the famine visit of Acts 11:30 had no bearing on either of these ...

2448. Paul’s Vision of the Man of Macedonia

Acts 16:6-10

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... cities of Iconium and Antioch. “The Galatian region” is then seen to be a separate area, that part of the Roman province that lay to the north of the Phrygian lands and had been the old kingdom of Galatia (see note on 13:14). On this understanding, it is possible that they visited Ancyra, the capital of the province and the meeting place of all great roads to the north. The alternative rendering, in which Phrygia is treated as an adjective, does not rule out the possibility that they visited Ancyra or ...

2449. Paul Before Agrippa

Acts 25:23--26:32

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... the Old Testament in which life was restored (e.g., 1 Kings 17:17–23; 2 Kings 4:18–37), seeing this as the first step in the argument that “there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked” (24:15). It seems best, however, to understand the question as an appeal to the great truth to which Paul was leading, namely, that Jesus, though crucified, had become “the first to rise from the dead” (v. 23) and so had been shown to be the Messiah and the one who had fulfilled all of Israel ...

2450. The God of All Comfort

2 Corinthians 1:1-11

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... both the crucified Christ and the message about the crucified Christ (cf. 4:11). Paul gives abundant examples of the sufferings that he endures in 2 Corinthians 4:7–18; 6:4–10; 11:23–33; and 12:10 (cf. 1 Cor. 4:9–13). He understands the suffering that he must endure in his apostolic ministry and role as revelatory mediator as participation in the suffering of Christ (cf. Gal. 3:1; 6:17). He experiences both “the sharing of his sufferings” and “the power of his resurrection” (Phil. 3:10). By ...

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