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Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the most pleasing sleep that can be imagined." (To Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 28 July 28 1768, as quoted in H. W. Brands, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin [New York: Doubleday, 2000], 411.) With our own fastidious cover-ups we not only cover up our bodies, we cover up our souls. We hide our sins under the cloak of acceptability, we hide our shortcomings under the guise of busyness and business. We may be able to hide a soured spirit and a rotting heart from everyone we meet. But we ...

2. Uncovering Cover-Ups

John 15:18--16:4

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... absolutely fair and impartial, the divine judgment which cannot be seduced or bribed, the divine judgment which finally and forever makes full disclosure of the truth. The scripture says, "Let God be found true and every man a liar." When the truth is known, we all realize the cover-ups in our lives. Many of us fear the truth. We do not want to be exposed to the light because our deeds are evil. Most all of us have something about our lives we do not want exposed to anyone. If the truth be known, could we ...

3. Uncovering Cover-Ups

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... absolutely fair and impartial, the divine judgment that cannot be seduced or bribed, the divine judgment that finally and forever makes full disclosure of the truth. The scripture says, let God be found true and every man a liar. When the truth is known, we all realize the cover-ups in our lives. Many of us fear the truth. We do not want to be exposed to the light because our deeds are evil. Most of us have something about our lives we do not want exposed to anyone. If the truth be known, could we bear to ...

4. Good for the Soul

Proverbs 28:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... canceled. Do you remember how I told you that how you deal with sin is directly related to how God deals with you? Let me show you how this works. When you cover your sin, God uncovers it. When you uncover your sin, God covers it. If you try to cover up sin either in time or eternity, God will uncover it. Numbers 32:23 says, "You can be sure that your sin will track you down." (Numbers 32:23, MSG) Because there is a God in heaven, nobody gets away with anything. On the other hand, when you uncover your sin ...

5. If the Confession Doesn't Fit You Cannot Acquit

Proverbs 28:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... human." Now the Bible has much to say about covering one's sin. a. The Procedure We Follow There is a procedure that everyone uses to cover up sin. As a matter of fact, it is a three-step process that is as old as time itself. It is described in John's ... know that it was not Watergate that brought down Richard Nixon. It was not the break-in that destroyed his presidency, it was the cover-up. First of all, there is the procedure that we follow. b. The Penalty We Face The text says, ‘He who covers his sins ...

6. For the Love Of God is Forgiving

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... and make it look acceptable. We douse it in expensive perfume to try and make it smell good. But the stink still gets through. Did you know that the reason perfume was invented was not as a deodorant, not even as a beauty aid, but as a cover up. In an age when they didn't bathe more than once or twice a year, it had to be strong enough to cover up body odor. And those little bouquets of flowers that you see in the movies that take place in merry old England. Those are known as nose gays and were created to ...

7. Planting Your Feet

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... and whose fault has been forgiven. David is a happy guy, because even though he has done wrong, God has made him right. The reason why God had made him right is because he admitted he had been wrong. If you know David’s story, at first he tried to cover up what he did, but that didn’t work out too well for him. “For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away?through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.” (Psalm ...

8. The Spin Zone

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... have in common? They all at one time entered "THE SPIN ZONE." What is "The Spin Zone"? The "Spin Zone" is when you enter into God's "No Sin Zone" out of a lust for power, sex, influence or money which causes you to sin which you then try to cover up. In the Garden of Eden God warned Adam and Eve about His "No Sin Zone" and they refused to listen, they entered into "The Spin Zone" and you know the rest of the story. Nixon had his Watergate, Clinton had his Monica-gate and David had his Bathsheba-gate all ...

9. Guilt: How to Keep Your Conscience Clear

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... human—but to hide it is also.” When we sin, there is a natural tendency we are all born with to cover it up. There is a natural tendency to “sweep it under the rug.” Richard Nixon could have told you that. Watergate was not his problem; the cover-up was what got him. You see, when we sin we’ll analyze it, then try to rationalize it. We’ll say something like, “Well, everybody is doing it.” Or, “This is not going to hurt anybody.” Or, if push comes to shove, we’ll just blame our problem ...

10. The Miss, The Kiss, The Mess, The Rest

2 Samuel 11:1-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... thinking that will cover everything up. But Uriah is one of those leaders who cares more about his troops than himself. His men didn't get to spend the night with their wives, so neither did he. David tries twice but to no avail. David's cover-up failed, just like most cover-ups. Somebody always finds out. The next thing David does is send Uriah back to the war. And not just to any part of the war but right to the front lines, leading the charge in the worst skirmishes. And sure enough, Uriah falls to enemy ...

11. Grace Is What Christ Has Done

Acts 15:1-21

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... -the-spots world. We believe in making good first impressions, so we are very adept at cover-ups and shining up the outside. We have cover-ups in politics, in the world of high finance, in big business, and in education. Even if you buy peaches or strawberries from a road-side fruit stand you have to watch lest they have put the smaller, maybe rotten, fruit on the bottom, and then entice you to purchace them ...

12. Preaching The Miracles

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... of a man before Jesus! But why did he put on his clothes? Probably out of respect for Jesus, he wanted to be properly dressed. Also, it may have been that he felt guilty for denying Jesus. His clothes, like Adam and Eve's, were a cover-up. Jim Bakker tried to cover up his sin with Jessica Hawn with greenbacks! Fish and Bread (v. 9) - When the men came off the boat, they noticed that Jesus had a fire and was preparing a meal with fish and bread. Where did he get these supplies? We do not know. It indicates ...

13. Start at the Epicenter

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

James Merritt

... ESV) The worst thing you can do with it is to try and cover it up. Have you ever wondered why there is a natural tendency for us to try and cover up our sins? To try to hide them? Pretend that we didn’t do them? It is because we fear the consequences of confession more than we fear consequences of concealment. The problem with trying to cover up sin is it will eventually catch up with you and when it does the penalty is always greater than it would have been if you had confessed it to begin with. Nicolas ...

14. The Real Real Estate

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... a return on investment. We can only establish and maintain graced relationships if we have experienced grace ourselves in our relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Real relationships don’t pretend to be perfect. Real relationships don’t cover up and conceal flaws and foibles. Real relationships offer forgiveness, compassion, joy, grace. love. The new iPhone 4 has a problem. Actually it has two problems. The first problem is the one everyone has been hearing about, blogging about, tweeting ...

15. Decoding the Da Vinci Code (Part One - Exploring the Fiction)

1 Timothy 1:4

Sermon

James Merritt

... I preach from Sunday to Sunday up here is a lie. If Brown is right, then the disciples were all party to this plot and this cover up and were willing to die for what they knew to be a lie. If Brown is right, then we have no basis at all to believe ... presents. If you believe the conspiracy that lies behind the code, you must believe that the Christian church has been involved in a cover-up plot for two-thousand years in trying to perpetuate the myth that Jesus was indeed the Son of God, but the even greater ...

16. Preparing for the King

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... or remove a racist tattoo, he spends a lot of time with the client. He wants to make sure the client has had a sincere change of heart and mind. Once he is sure that the client truly has given up their racist beliefs, then he covers up or removes their tattoo for free. But Billy White is not the only person who ministers to people seeking a symbol of their changed life. Atlanta Redemption Ink is a nonprofit organization that provides free tattoo removal for victims of sex trafficking. In 2020, they reported ...

17. Lifting the Burden of Guilt

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... pushed again. It popped out on top of his head. He put on his hat and went to work. But guilt is not so easily covered up. It is really inside us. Or we can illustrate it this way. I am driving to a nearby city to attend a meeting. The little ... our lives. The guilt experience is a warning light that tells us we are breaking with truth, with reality, with God. Often we cover up our feeling of guilt and continue our destructive practices. How stupid can we get? Someone in the fourth century knew the meaning of ...

18. The Elephant in The Living Room

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

John Smylie

... with any member of his family, except an abusive one. His primary love was the alcohol. After my challenge to him, after he had left the room and retreated to his bed, his wife rolled up her sleeves and showed me the bruises on her arms, bruises that she had covered up to protect an image of normalcy in the home. The bruises to her heart and soul may have been far deeper and more painful. Andy was angry with me, as well, and it was obvious that it would be better for me to leave than to stay. I had stirred ...

19. The Pure In Heart

Sermon

John A. Terry

... products by filling the cracks and holes with wax. Honest merchants who did not do this displayed their wares as being "sina cera" -- without wax. Some people put on a show to cover their personalities before they appear in public. The pure in heart do not cover up their flaws. Moralists may think this beatitude is best described with the phrase, "Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil." There is a poem by Peter Olney which came from a time when the church had ruled dancing to be a sin. The poem goes ...

20. The Pure In Heart

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

John A. Terry

21. When Being Good Is Bad For You Or Breaking The Chains Of Co-dependency

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of recovery, of health, is truth. "I am an alcoholic." One cannot begin the Twelve Steps of recovery until that has been said, out loud, in public. "I am an alcoholic." "The co-dependent is the person who helps the addict maintain his or her lie, by covering up, cleaning up, and supporting the "conspiracy of silence" which is the mark of most alcoholic homes. "Daddy had a bad weekend, but we mustn't let on to Grandma or Grandpa." "Here are a few of the things that have been written about co-dependency in ...

22. The Lost and Found Celebration

Luke 15:15-24

Sermon

James W. Moore

... tries to “excuse” himself. He tries to cover his guilt with words… “Lord, I do this, I do that! Then he tries scapegoats. I thank you that I’m not like other men, especially this publican.” On and on he goes… words, excuses, cover-ups… scapegoats… But there is the publican with his prayer of penitence. He bows his head humbly, beats upon his chest and cries “God, be merciful to me a sinner!” Then the parable closes with this: “This man (the penitent tax-collector) was justified ...

23. Get Rid of the Junk

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... when it comes to the surface, it causes us and those we love much pain. “He knows every weakness, knows just when to strike, you know he was an angel once and he knows what you like, for you it might be money, for me it might be fame, better cover up your ears now, when he whispers your name.” “10,000 lures.” It reminds me of something John Piper writes in his book, A Hunger for God, “The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls ...

24. Paradise Lost

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... leaves to cover things up. Why do people lie on their resume? Why do people tell us they have degrees they don’t have and had experiences they have never known? Because, they are trying to cover up their inadequacies. Why do people go into debt and build things and buy things they can’t afford? Because they are trying to cover up they are not as well off as people think they are. This whole fig leaf mentality goes back to the Garden of Eden. Now they also know. “And they heard the sound of the Lord ...

25. The Client

Zechariah 3:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... problem. So they took the skin off the little dead lamb and they put it around that little orphan lamb. We tied it on and that is why you see four front feet, four back feet, and what looks like two heads." He said, "Did you know when it was covered up with the skin of that dead lamb, we put it in the pin with the mother and she began immediately to love it, and care for it. She accepted it because it was clothed in the garments of her own." I want to tell you before you get saved, you ...

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