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This sermon examines the life of King Jehoshaphat to illustrate the spiritual principles of commitment, correction, and communion. It highlights how Jehoshaphat initially strengthened Judah through military preparation, removal of idols, and the dissemination of God's Word, resulting in national peace and prosperity. However, the message warns against the subtle danger of compromise, exemplified b...

Are you searching for something deeper than religion, success, approval, or the temporary things this world offers? Peter calls Christians to prepare their minds, remain sober-minded, set their hope fully on Christ, turn away from the passions of their former lives, and pursue holiness in every area of life. But our obedience does not begin with our own strength. It begins with remembering what Ch...

Pastor Brian's sermon examines the Parable of the Tenants in Matthew 21, contrasting the historical failure of Israel with the current responsibility of the church to bear spiritual fruit. It emphasizes that God has provided the church with superior advantages, including the fullness of Scripture and the indwelling Holy Spirit, leaving no excuse for unfaithfulness. The message warns that judgment...

As a Christian, everything that happens to you is designed: 1. To prepare you for future service. 2. To prepare you to live by faith in God's promises.

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May one who doubts of his being in Christ, or of his due preparation, come to the Lord's supper? May any who profess the faith, and desire to come to the Lord's supper, be kept from it?

In Psalm 2, we see that though the world resists Yahweh and His Anointed, it cannot overturn His rule because He has established Christ as King; therefore, the only wise response is to bow before Him and take refuge in Him. I. The world rejects the Lord: A. The nations rebel and plot in vain. (v. 1) B. Their rulers stand against the Lord and His Anointed. (v. 2–3) II. The Lord responds to their ra...

This sermon expounds on Isaiah 53 as the foundational gospel text for the Lord's Supper, presenting the Suffering Servant as the divine deliverer who came in humility to secure eternal salvation. The message is structured around three key actions of Christ: He came to deliver believers from their spiritual condition, He paid the penalty for their sins through substitutionary atonement, and He secu...

Jesus is coming again - "Be ye therefore ready" Be WATCHING.

This sermon explores the communal identity of believers as exiles in the world, drawing from 1 Peter 4 to outline three essential marks of Christian community. The central message emphasizes a mindset prepared for rejection, rooted in the union with Christ's suffering and victory over sin. It further highlights the necessity of a forgiving love that covers a multitude of sins, illustrated through...

There are five things a church body learns, in preparation to fulfill the great commission, each time we gather together: preaching, witnessing, local outreach, individual outreach, public outreach. THE BIBLE Baptist Church of DeLand, Florida Pastor James W. Knox Pastor David A. Brown https://biblebaptistdeland.com For more sermons and Bible study materials, please visit our web store at https://s...

In Mark 6, Jesus looks upon the multitude and has compassion on them, for they are like sheep without a shepherd. In Ezekiel 34, God promised to personally shepherd His scattered and neglected people. Christ came to fulfill this role. He is the Good Shepherd. His compassion for the people is expressed first and foremost through teaching, for God's word is the most essential provision for human lif...

Sunday Morning – October 4, 2026 Join us this Sunday morning as Pastor John Wheeler brings a message titled "The Heresy of Replacement Theology" from Romans 11. We'll examine what the Scripture teaches concerning Israel, the church, and God's faithfulness to His promises, looking carefully at the truth presented in Romans 11. The article referenced can be viewed at: https://libertybc.net/lbc/sound...

Ephesians 2:8-10 is expounded as Paul's definitive statement on the nature of saving grace: that salvation is entirely the gift of God, received through faith, excluding all human boasting, and issuing in a life of good works prepared by God beforehand. The sermon works through the whole of Ephesians 2 as context before focusing on the doctrines of grace, the instrument of faith, and the purpose o...

Christian love includes correction. 1. Presume upon it. 2. Prepare for it. 3. Protect by it.

Proverbs 7 exposes the counterfeit love offered by sexual temptation and contrasts it with God's design for covenant love—a faithful, knowing, passionate relationship that reflects Christ's love for His church. In The Strange Woman: Counterfeit Love, Solomon's warning shows how sexual sin promises pleasure without consequences, yet ultimately brings brokenness, shame, and destruction. The message...

"Borrowed Bread — We Know a Man Who Can." The message centers on the truth that we know a Man who can—Jesus—and everything we have becomes useful, fruitful, and sufficient when surrendered into His hands. The feeding of the multitude shows that what appears small and ordinary in our hands can become extraordinary when given to Him. The storm reveals His authority over the natural world, and the de...

GOD SPEAKS THROUGH HIS CHURCH.Ephesians 4:11–16, 25–29 KJV God never intended the Christian life to be lived in isolation. He places believers together in the body of Christ, where we worship, grow, serve, encourage one another, and hear His truth proclaimed. In Ephesians 4:11–16, Paul explains that Christ gave leaders to His church "for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry,...

Exodus 12:1-14 The Passover Meal

What makes the Bible the Bible? In this lesson, Pastor Ed Decker takes us back to the foundation of what we believe about the Word of God. The Bible contains 66 books, written by approximately 40 different authors over a period of roughly 1,500–1,600 years, yet these books form ONE BOOK—the Word of God. Pastor Decker looks at the unity of Scripture, the two major divisions of the Bible—the Old Tes...

God uses various trials, afflictions, and persecutions to cause the Christian to bear spiritual fruit and prepare the believer for glory.