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Luke: 9:51-55; Hebrews 3:5-6; Romans 8:32-39, especially v32 Central Example from Jesus Resolute travel to Jerusalem where He knew what awaited Him there: Sacrifice, Resurrection and Ascension. Even though He knew the barrier of pain and sacrifice He would have to suffer to break through for Our Salvation; And even though He even prayed for an alternative path to attain salvation (e.g., Gethsemane...

(Key Question: Who decides that something is good or less than good in our lives? God!) Psalm 84 especially verse 11, Romans 8:28. My short imperfect answer before expounding Psalm 84 is a complex combination of primarily God, His Word and us in conversation, but God ultimately decides. (e.g. Jesus’ dialogue with the Father on the Mount of Olives Luke 22:39–44 “…yet not my will, but yours be done....

A sermon preached by Pastor Tino from Free Gospel Church from Luke chapter 24. For more information come visit our website, Freegospelassembly.com. God bless!

Main Text: Matthew 21:1-17 Jesus approaches His final hour by parading towards Jerusalem with His followers in the midst of explosive reactions by the large crowd chanting “Hosanna to the Son of David” (Matthew 21:9-11). The chapter started with a prophetic act to acclimate His disciples (verses 1-3). He foreknows where the donkeys are and the fact that the owners would lend them. The disciples pa...

(These delays appear to us to make our situations more difficult and less understandable: One of the most radical delays can be illustrated in Lazarus death and miraculous resurrection.) Main Texts: John 11:1-43, especially verses 38-43 and John 12:1-11, especially verses 9-11, … the “him” in verse 11 = Lazarus and his testimony. The Bible is united in the idea that everything that happens in the...

Website: Freegospelassembly.com Youtube: Free Gospel Church Assembly of God Main Texts: 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 (especially verse 8, three times Paul pleaded means continually, over a period of time) Isaiah 38:4-6 (Hezekiah’s experience of pleading prayer while God answers differently.) The main point illustrated in both thorny incidences is that God permits varied situation and that He promises to...

(God’s Wrath or Righteous Judgment for Sin and Sinners must be distinguished from Persecution and disciplining that God permits to transform His people and restore them.) 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11, note especially verse 9 Paul says unequivocally in 1 Thessalonians 5:9 “That God did not appoint us to suffer [His] wrath or (righteous judgment) but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Th...

Main Texts: Mark 10:13-16 & 10:17-24 The Call to accept Christ as little children, from infancy to 12 years old, was a radical call for ancient Jewish culture: Countercultural. In Jesus’ day, children, while loved (especially sons) were considered for the most part immature, unreasonable and objects to be trained. They were to be schooled until the ages 13, to be considered a useful part o...

(Is He now too busy rejoicing for a deserved victory, along with the inhabitants in heaven.) Main texts: Acts 9:1-19, especially verses 3-6; Hebrews 4:15; Revelation 6:9-11 Does God with His massive victory over sin, through His Son Jesus Christ, now live and only part of in an eternal, infinite heavenly bubble, eagerly and happily awaiting us to join Him? Yes & No: There is great rejoicin...

Jeremiah 29:1-14; 2 Corinthians 9:11; Matthew 6:32-33 Mark 10:28-31 (earthly things gained with possible persecution);  Galatians 5:22-24 (The fruit or product of Spirit living in and through us);  Roman 12:2 (The developing of the mind/attitude that Jesus portrayed and Paul’s inner desire expressed in Philippians 3:10, his central driving force in his life and ministry). These passages highlight...

A Sermon expounded from John 17:1-26.

Matthew 6:9-14; Luke 11:2-4; Galatians 4:1-7 and Romans 8:14-17 Our relationship with God our Savior and Lord is illustrated in the N.T. with the deepest, most loving relationship possible in this life: Parent to child. When this relationship is good it provides, world wide, the greatest example of love, joy, but when the parents are bad or evil, it becomes repulsive and shocking to all good paren...

Read Genesis 17:1-26, especially verse 17; Genesis 18:1-15, especially verses 10-13 When Paul rehearses the theological significance of God’s dealing with Abraham and Sarah’s, he presents a picture of faith, and rightly so, but seemingly without much struggle and no mention of their laughter (See Romans 4:1-25, especially verses 18-25). Not only did Abraham and Sarah laugh at God’s seemingly ridic...

Ezekiel 1:25-2:1; Revelation 1:9-17 While these types of experiences seem rare, they can occur today, not only to great prophets but those that consider themselves ordinary believers. They are especially crafted by God to produce “Awe”, or what we call the “Fear of the Lord” which is a foundational experience (Proverb 1:7, 9:10) which aids the believer to develop “Compassionate wisdom.” This type...

Read 1 Samuel 24 (See also a second similar experience in 1 Samuel 26); Romans 12:9-21 (See also Hebrews 10:30-31) David, pursued by a spiritually declining King Saul, who lost his throne because of disobedience to God (1 Samuel 15) hid with his small band of misfits in the cave of Adullam: In Chapter 26 a similar experience of pursuit is detailed where as in Chapter 24 by divine design Saul was g...

Luke 10:38-42 (Verse 42) Matthew 6:32-33; Matthew 6:19-21, 24 (Treasures in Heaven) This brief text underlines two main points: first, that Jesus looks to both men and women to be dedicated disciples; Second, that in our physical, societal lives our goals and priorities are more easily earthly, the heavenly goals are more difficult and ethereal. This is part of our fallen human nature and it’s foc...

Luke 18:1-8 (See also Luke 11:5-8) Ephesians 6:10-13 When we are born from above we begin our training to become a child of heaven, but most of the time He keeps us in this fallen world. He permits us to be opposed in many areas of our lives, even our prayer. We are not only temples of the Holy Spirit, but also retain our fallen nature or flesh. So there exists opposition from within and without i...

Acts. 10:23-48, note especially verses 44-46. [Read in the context of Luke 24:49 & Acts 2:1-4, The Jewish Pentecost]. The Jewish believers in Jerusalem, after the resurrection of Jesus, were admonished to be in quasi hiding which refer to as an “”upper room” (1:4, 2:1).. They were told to not go anywhere until they received “power from on high”” (Luke 24:49) or baptized, immersed, bathed in th...

1 Corinthians 11

Are Now Saved by Grace Not by Works of The Law! (Isn’t All Forgiven) Main Scriptures: 1 Peter 4:12-19; 2 Corinthians 5:10 Peter in this passage is following the O.T. pattern that God, while judging and punishing the nations, also disciplines His children, Israel(for example, the Babylonian captivity for 70 years for their gross idolatries, see also the book of Habakkuk etc.) The purpose of these p...

Luke 13:1-8; James 5:15-16

Genesis 28:10-22 Jacob and Esau, twin sons of Isaac, struggled for dominance even from the womb, but it was Jacob, who by deceptive means, steals the firstborn birthright from Esau, with their mother’s help: What a soap opera story(See Genesis 27). Jacob, whose name means “Deceiver or supplanter” is then forced to escape to Haran the birthplace of his grandfather Abraham. It was during this fleein...

James 5:16-18; 1 Kings 19:6-28 James paraphrased: “Elijah the great prophet was a human being, even as we are, full of weakness needed to pray more earnestly because the power behind his prayer did not lie in his supernatural giftedness but rather in his humane need for God’s intervention... The prayer of a righteous person is only powerful when energized by the Holy Spirit: James 5:18-19; God per...

Galatians 5:22-6:10 (especially 6:10 compared to James 1:27 and even 1 Corinthians13 → Where it all lands!) Paul writes these conciliatory, comforting words in the context of a rebuking diatribe to the churches of Galatia. They were receiving and listening to Judaizing beliefs from Jerusalem. They were teaching his gentile converts that they needed to follow the law and be circumcised along with f...