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Ruth 4:1-12

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Sims Robert

All of us love to be chosen. It is a wonderful thing to be chosen. A teen-age boy tried out for the basketball team. When the coach posted the list of those who had made the team, he was thrilled to discover that the coach had chosen him. A young woman was one of 75 applicants for a high-paying job. She exclaimed with great excitement in her voice, “Of all the applicants, they chose me.” A young f...

2. Life Isn’t Fair

Amos 5:18-27

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Sims Robert

The story is told of the old Irishman who was critically ill. The family called the priest. The priest, in preparation for the last rites, asked the obvious and expected question, “O’Riley,” he said, “do you desire to renounce the devil and all his works?” O’Riley, who was fully conscious, thought for a moment and said, “Frankly, Father, considering the condition I’m in, I’d rather not antagonize ...

3. Love Without Demand

Ruth 1:1-22

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Sims Robert

“But Ruth said… where you go I will go, where you stay I will stay; your people will be my people and your God, my God; where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me severely if anything but death separates you and me (Ruth 1:16-17).” These beautiful words, with the possible exception of 1 Corinthians 13, have been quoted at more weddings than any other text. Even...

4. The Call To Excellence

Numbers 27:12-23

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Sims Robert

The time had come for Moses to be “gathered to his people as his brother Aaron was gathered (Numbers 27:13).” Moses, knowing that the people could not go on without the one who would lead, prayed to God: “Appoint a man over the congregation… who shall lead them out and bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord shall not be as sheep who have no shepherd (Numbers 27:16-17).” God heard the pra...

5. The Call To Victory

Revelation 7:9-17

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Sims Robert

The book of Revelation is a powerful and beautiful book designed to answer one question. The people of the early church were suffering under persecution and many were being martyred. They looked for the second coming of Christ as the grand and glorious answer to their pain. They asked the question, “How long will it be before Christ returns? How long will it be before the victory is final and comp...

6. The Shepherd King

Ezekiel 34:1-31

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Sims Robert

There is a wonderful story out of the 16th century about Bishop Hugh Latimer, a great leader of the church. One Sunday morning he entered his pulpit and looked out to see King Henry VIII in the congregation. He knew that what he had to say that day would not go well with King Henry. He thought for a moment and then said to himself, but out loud for all to hear, “Latimer, be careful what you say to...

7. Under The Wings Of The Almighty

Ruth 2:1-23

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Sims Robert

The people of God are strong people. We are not weaklings who tremble and quake every time a new threat comes into our lives. We stand with boldness to face whatever life has to offer. Ruth, the daughter-in-law of Naomi, the woman from the land of Moab, was not a weakling. The death of her husband broke her heart but not her spirit. She was determined to make a new life in a new land. Somehow, the...

8. When God Has Enough

Zephaniah 1:4-13, Zephaniah 1:14--2:3

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Sims Robert

There was no doubt in Zephaniah’s mind that God had had enough. His people bowed down to other gods and no longer turned to the Lord in prayer nor did they seek his help. They blindly walked their own selfish and greedy path and in their arrogance thought God would sit quietly by and do nothing. They were wrong! “Listen, the cry on the day of the Lord will be bitter… that day will be a day of wrat...

9. Whether We Live Or Die

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

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Sims Robert

“So Moses, a servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab (Deuteronomy 34:5).” In life and in death, Moses was a servant of God. The issue for Moses was not to live or to die but in all things to belong to God. The apostle Paul reflects the same spirit, “None of us lives to himself and none of us dies to himself. If we live we live to the Lord and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether ...

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