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1. Bitterness: How to Overcome What You Undergo

Hebrews 12:14-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... thing to the prophets, they did the same thing to Jesus, and they're going to do the same thing to you. Then we can be bitter because of the wrong that is done to us. But again Jesus said in Mt. 5:38-39, "You have heard that it was said, ‘An ... used to smile, he used to be happy, and he used to be a good friend. But the man I looked at that day was so bitter that when he talked his lips quivered, and his face reddened, and his hands shook with anger. After twenty minutes of listening to him, rather than ...

2. How To Get Better When You're Bitter

Exodus 15:22-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... they are griping about the rain. You see, when trials and troubles come, and they are going to come, one of two things is always going to happen. As a matter of fact, only one of two things can happen. You will either get better or you will get bitter. Now bitterness may become a stage you go through, but it must never become a state you live in. God was testing them and they had failed the test, and failed miserably. They were like the young man I heard about one time who came in to see his professor after ...

3. Bitter-Sweet Recollections

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... Eighty pounds? Ten pounds?" The preacher answered, "Tell me, if you laid a four-hundred-pound weight on a corpse, would it feel the load?" "No, because it’s dead," replied the youth. The preacher replied, "That spirit, too, is dead which feels no load of sin." It is bitter, bitter gall as we stand around his cross, by faith re-living his time on earth with us. Maybe we say, as we do when other loved ones die, "He was so young." "He was struck down in the prime of life." "Such a shame!" "Too bad!" "I wish ...

4. "The Bitterness Of Betrayal"

Mark 14:43-52, Psalm 55:1-23

Sermon

R. Sheldon MacKenzie

... of numbers, they had lacked the courage to arrest Jesus by daylight in the temple. Their bravery after dark with a paid guide was an empty cowardly charade. He was arrested by his own people. Just as he had been betrayed by his closest friends. The bitterness of betrayal was a significant part of his passion. In fact, some teachers have suggested that what took place in the orchard at night was more painful than all that took place before noon the next day! There was a tremendous lot behind the text which ...

5. Doing Right When You Have Been Done Wrong

Ephesians 4:31-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... misusing you, you had better get into another line of work. I remember something Dr. Jerry Vines once said to me. He said, "James, whatever you do in the ministry you had better do for Jesus, because if you don't you're going to wind up being a bitter old man." Bitterness can follow you all the way to the grave. There is a true story I read recently about a ninety-four year old lady by the name of Hazel Von Jeschki. She was what used to be referred to as an "Old Maid" who never married. After her funeral ...

6. Shockproof

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

James Merritt

... , “What would you charge for just half a tumor?” No, you wouldn’t, because it doesn’t matter what it cost you want it all out. God expects the same thing of us. When we forgive, He wants all of that sin forgiven and He wants all of that bitterness removed. When we forgive we forgive fully. God forgives us finally. God keeps no records of past wrongs. When God cancels the debt he burns the note and that is exactly what God expects of us. We can’t be like the little brothers I heard about. Timmy and ...

7. Lost Baggage: Losing Your Baggage

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

James Merritt

... at him and said, “John, I am sorry for the life that you have lived and I am sorry for the tragedies you’ve endured and for the junk you have had to go through, but I want you to hear me. If you go through life without getting this bitterness and this anger and this rage resolved in your heart you are either going to wind up doing something you regret or you are going to live a miserable life.” He said, “Yes, Pastor I know.” Then the pastor said this: “The only solution to your rage and to your ...

8. Breaking The Cycle - God’s Answer In Forgiveness

Genesis 45:3-11, 15

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... , or sometimes ignorant act. Inner torment will ride alongside us every day of our lives until we forgive. When we decide to disclose the problem to Christ, that is the beginning of forgiveness and healing. Paul had it right when he wrote: Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. — Ephesians 4:31-32 (NASB) II. God Helps Us ...

9. Dealing with Cantankerous People

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all” (Veritas Reconsidered, p. 36). “Freud died friendless,” says Dr. Nicholi. “It is well known that he had broken with each of his followers. The end was bitter.” (2) How sad--to find little that was good in his fellow human beings--to consider most people trash. Freud, of course had a very dim view of religion. No wonder he didn’t find much good in people. I don’t want to sound like I ...

10. Hope for People Who Are Angry

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... in his life is that he’s going through the Freedom Ink Tattoo removal program. They are helping him take the word HATE off of his hands as God has taken it out of his heart. (9) You and I are not white supremacists, but sometimes we let bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander enter our lives. We know such emotions are dangerous to our well-being and to the well-being of those around us. We need to pray for the ability to follow God’s example. Show kindness rather than anger, love rather than ...

11. God Gives the Pharisees the Finger!

John 7:25-44, John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... me wanting. But do not allow me to go down into the pit. Instead, lift me up into your gracious arms. Purge my soul from sin and bitterness. Take away the stone that binds me. And etch your Name into the pure flesh of my heart, so that no matter where I go, or ... the accusers in her trial. The penalty for a guilty verdict would be stoning.*** Was the woman brought in to be tested by bitter waters? Or was she “caught in the act” as it says. There is no mention of the presence of the husband or his witnesses ...

12. Bittersweet

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ingredients from her mother’s jars into a bowl and stirred up the mixture. Then she baked it. When the brownies came out, she gave one proudly to her father. As he bit into it, he realized immediately, she had left out the sugar. The chocolate was thick and bitter. He looked out at her excited face, as she watched him take a bite. And he didn’t have the heart to tell her. He took another bite, stored it in his cheek, and said sweetly, “Thank you Sonja! These are delicious!” When she ran out of sight ...

13. The Gospel of Marah

Exodus 15:22-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... our life. And Marah may be a condition of emptiness or loneliness or lack of meaning. No one has described the feeling better than the Psalmist, “Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” (Psalm. 42:5) It’s true, isn’t it? If you haven’t had sorrow or bitterness just hang around for awhile, your time will come. In life we come often to Marah, and we get to the point where we want to cry with Martin Luther, “I’m sick of life, if that is what you call it.” II Now note a second truth: God comes ...

14. A Few Remaining Tremors

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... you stay focused on what other people have done to you, you will forget what you have done to God. If you sleep in a bed of bitterness, if you’ve got a stranglehold on a grudge you won’t let go of, you’ve made up your mind no matter what I or ... God has done for you. Here is what this ending illustrates. If you refuse to forgive, if you decide to sleep in the bed of bitterness the rest of your life, do you know who you are going to wind up hurting the most? You! Forgiveness primarily benefits the one who ...

15. The Third Kind of Love

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

James W. Moore

... , my wife has left me, I can’t get along with my children, I’m cut off from my parents and my in-laws, I’m having conflicts with my co-workers, I have been drinking heavily… Everybody’s left me and I don’t blame them. I have been bitter and hostile. I have done so many mean and cruel things… and now I have so many problems.” He paused for a moment, took a deep breath and then he leaned forward and said: “To tell you the truth, I think all those problems are really symptoms. My real problem ...

16. Joseph's Pit

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... to get anyone down on me. "It was easy to tell," Joseph said quietly. "When people sleep, their eyes and mouths move. In your case, I also noticed that your fingers moved." I don't know which was the greater surprise, his knowing I could write or his not being bitter about becoming a slave. Let me say a word about how he came to be in our caravan. He told me how he grew up in a large, wealthy family. He has ten older brothers, but his father favored him. "I guess I was spoiled," he told me. "My older ...

17. Walk In Love

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... Oswald. (5) An extreme example, to be sure. What I hope we will see, though, is that the same sense of inferiority that drove this tortured man to act out his rage on a president can cripple many of us. The list that Paul gives us bitterness, wrath, clamour, evil speakingare all the product of our feelings of inferiority. Paul, however, gives us the prescription. "Be ye therefore followers of God..." One translator (ASV) has rendered this as be "imitators of God." That's a big order. Who among us is up to ...

18. Screaming at the Television

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... are filled with anger. We see it on the road road rage it’s call. We see it in our offices people who tend to fly off the handle at the slightest provocation. Some of us live with someone like that at home. Perhaps we have a spirit of bitterness and anger ourselves. It causes us much grief. Each New Year’s we make resolutions that this year we will learn to control our temper. And after every tirade we apologize to our loved ones. We truly do regret that we have allowed ourselves to get out of control ...

19. The Tale Of Three Women

Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... make Naomi's God her God. This did not come about by Naomi putting on a "happy face," but by being her true self. Here is hope for us, as weak and faulty as we may be. God can use us, as God used Naomi in the midst of her bitterness and grief, to accomplish no small part in the work of God in the world. Orpah Naomi pleaded with her daughters-in-law to go back to their mothers' houses in Moab. She pleaded with the Lord to deal as kindly with them as they had dealt with her and ...

20. A Time for Tears

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... cheer up this young woman, who thinks that she may be pregnant with another child. How? What do I tell her? WHAT DO I TELL HER? Tell her that she shouldn’t cry, that "everything happens for the best?" Tell her to dry her tears and stifle her bitterness, because "there’s always a silver lining in every cloud?" Tell her that everything that happens is God’s will, and so she must just "grin and bear it?" I remember very well a young, fledgling pastor that might have said those very things. He knew all of ...

21. In All Things Be Thankful

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... with the issue of “why me?” For a season it might offer some comfort but it does no good in the end. Do we ever ask that question when some joy comes into our life? Not really. We must learn to become thankful or we shall surly become bitter. II Secondly, we must learn to be thankful or we will become discouraged. It is an inescapable tenant of Christianity that hardship will come. No one is immune, from the greatest to the least of us. But there is another inescapable tenant of our faith; we are not ...

22. Grieve Not The Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... we feel like we've been run over by a wagon. It is about the other times, the times when we're tempted to run over others. St. Paul wrote: "And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." (KJV) I hope St. Paul isn't describing somebody you know ...

23. Feasting and Fasting for Lent (Part II)

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... our Scripture lesson finds Jesus answering the questions whether or not those who will be saved will be few. He warns about those who knock at the door and the Lord will not know them. Indeed our Lord will not know us if we have feasted on bitterness rather than the forgiveness of God. One of the greatest proofs of a person who has been saved by the Lord is that they feast on forgiveness. The world has a larger door known as revenge, and unfortunately, many travel this road. Many will gossip rather than ...

24. Getting Rid of Anger

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... man said, “I’m ready for a new hymn book.” He does have a problem. In our lesson for the day from Ephesians, St. Paul says, “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.” What does it mean “to grieve the Holy Spirit of God”? The Holy Spirit is that part of the Godhead that dwells within us. It is the voice of God speaking to us about our ongoing ...

25. Cured Cripples and Crabby Critics

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... daughter. Two weeks later, her pastor friend said, "I'm going to the hospital to visit a patient. I'd like you to come along." Together they visited Steve, an eighteen-year-old young man who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Steve told Joanne that he had been bitter about his cancer until he was confronted by a Christian who asked him directly if he was ready to die and face God. When he thought about it, Steve said, he realized that although he was a pastor's son and had been in church all his life ...

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