A Wonderful Day in the Lord

Several days ago, in our broadcast we began talking about a biblical worldview and what that looks like. There are various surveys and so forth that have asked people a few questions to see if they have a biblical worldview. That is usually a very truncated idea of what a biblical worldview is. We are looking at it in more detail. I believe that to have a worldview that is in line with Scripture t...

Something that comes up all the time in Scripture is the very fact that God is the sovereign God. Fifty-six times in the Scriptures, God is called the Almighty God. That is just one phrase. The evidence of His Almightiness, all-powerfulness, and His sovereignty permeates the Word of God. It is never absent. I think of the angels in heaven who are praising the Lord in Revelation 19:6, and they simp...

What is a biblical worldview of God? You cannot have a good biblical worldview if you do not have a good understanding of what Scripture says about who God is. We are looking at Romans 1:18 that says, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.” Then he goes on to say this, “because that which is known...

We are looking at different details at what a true biblical worldview would look like. We are not looking at the minimalist biblical worldview, but full detail of what it looks like to see life through the lens of Scripture. We looked at Scripture last time and moving straight from that is a biblical worldview of God. Obviously, at the heart and center of a biblical worldview is our understanding...

As we have been talking about a biblical worldview, we realize we must see life through the lens of Scripture to have a biblical worldview. As we are thinking about what the components of a biblical worldview are, it is only logical that the first component is to believe that the Scriptures are the Word of God. We also must talk about God Himself, and we will do that soon. We are going to talk tod...

We are continuing our discussion today about biblical worldview. If you have your Bibles, you might turn to one of the great Scriptures on the Scriptures themselves, 2 Timothy 3:16-17. If we are going to have a worldview that we call biblical then we have already seen that we have to draw that from Scriptures itself. Biblical worldview is seeing life through the lens and teaching of Scripture. If...

We continue discussing a biblical worldview today. Recall that a worldview is simply how we look at life and process life. Biblical worldview is to process life through the lens of Scripture. We saw yesterday that God reveals His truth through two different ways:  1. General or natural revelation in which He reveals certain aspects of truth through nature, creation, our conscience, and our mo...

We began a series yesterday about biblical worldview. Worldview being simply the lens by which we look at life and process life and think through life. Everybody has one. A biblical worldview would be a worldview based upon what Scripture tells us is true and how we are to process life through the lens of Scripture. We looked at the surveys taken by Barna Association that says that only 19% of tho...

We are going to start a new series discussing worldview. That might sound intimidating at first until you realize that everybody has a worldview. From the most sophisticated to the most unsophisticated of people. From the most educated to the most uneducated people. We all have a worldview. Worldview is simply the process by which we examine life. It is the lens by which we process everything, by...

Thanks for listening to Southern View Chapel's A Wonderful Day in the Lord podcast, featuring senior pastor Gary Gilley. Check out our website @ www.svchapel.org Check out Pastor Gilley's ministry Think on These Things @ www.tottministries.org Sign up for our annual women's conference Beautifully Rooted @ www.beautifullyrooted.org Sign up for our annual men's conference Truth for Every Man @ www.t...

Thanks for listening to Southern View Chapel's A Wonderful Day in the Lord podcast, featuring senior pastor Gary Gilley. Check out our website @ www.svchapel.org Check out Pastor Gilley's ministry Think on These Things @ www.tottministries.org Sign up for our annual women's conference Beautifully Rooted @ www.beautifullyrooted.org Sign up for our annual men's conference Truth for Every Man @ www.t...

Thanks for listening to Southern View Chapel's A Wonderful Day in the Lord podcast, featuring senior pastor Gary Gilley. Check out our website @ www.svchapel.org Check out Pastor Gilley's ministry Think on These Things @ www.tottministries.org Sign up for our annual women's conference Beautifully Rooted @ www.beautifullyrooted.org Sign up for our annual men's conference Truth for Every Man @ www.t...

Thanks for listening to Southern View Chapel's A Wonderful Day in the Lord podcast, featuring senior pastor Gary Gilley. Check out our website @ www.svchapel.org Check out Pastor Gilley's ministry Think on These Things @ www.tottministries.org Sign up for our annual women's conference Beautifully Rooted @ www.beautifullyrooted.org Sign up for our annual men's conference Truth for Every Man @ www.t...

Thanks for listening to Southern View Chapel's A Wonderful Day in the Lord podcast, featuring senior pastor Gary Gilley. Check out our website @ www.svchapel.org Check out Pastor Gilley's ministry Think on These Things @ www.tottministries.org Sign up for our annual women's conference Beautifully Rooted @ www.beautifullyrooted.org Sign up for our annual men's conference Truth for Every Man @ www.t...

Thanks for listening to Southern View Chapel's A Wonderful Day in the Lord podcast, featuring senior pastor Gary Gilley. Check out our website @ www.svchapel.org Check out Pastor Gilley's ministry Think on These Things @ www.tottministries.org Sign up for our annual women's conference Beautifully Rooted @ www.beautifullyrooted.org Sign up for our annual men's conference Truth for Every Man @ www.t...

Thanks for listening to Southern View Chapel's A Wonderful Day in the Lord podcast, featuring senior pastor Gary Gilley. Check out our website @ www.svchapel.org Check out Pastor Gilley's ministry Think on These Things @ www.tottministries.org Sign up for our annual women's conference Beautifully Rooted @ www.beautifullyrooted.org Sign up for our annual men's conference Truth for Every Man @ www.t...

Several weeks ago we began a short series of looking at the words of scripture and looking at different ones and how they impact our Christian life and the meaning behind them. That morphed into looking at some statements in the New Testament. Principally, the seven I am statements found in the gospel of John spoken by our Lord. He says, “I am,” seven different times. We looked at that already tog...

This is the seventh I am statement found in John 15. Jesus says in John 15:1, “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit, You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear frui...

We are coming to the end of the I am statements in the book of John. We are in John 14 where Jesus is going to make a wonderful statement. A little context here: Jesus is in the upper room with His disciples on the night that He was betrayed just before the crucifixion. He is now revealing to them that He is going away. They are troubled by that. So much so, that in John 14:1 He says, “Do not let...

We have been looking at the great seven I am statements made by Jesus concerning Himself. We are in John 11 today where Jesus makes a startling statement to Martha of the Mary and Martha sister duo. In John 11:25 it says, “Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies.” Jesus claims here to be the resurrection and the life. Death is one of...

We continue looking at the I am statements in the book of John. The I am as you will recall is a reference at least partially back to the idea that Jesus Himself is God. He is deity, that is drawn from the Old Testament. The I am. The Jehovah God. Then He makes seven definitive statements concerning Himself as the I am. The last one we looked at in John 10 is that He was the door of the sheep. The...

We have been looking at the seven I am statements found the book of John by Jesus. We have looked so far that Jesus says I am: the Light of the world and bread of life. Today we are looking at Jesus saying I am the door. Looking at John 10:7 it says, “So Jesus said to them again, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep...

We looked last time at the fact the Jesus is the Light of the world. Today we are looking at His statement in John 6:35 that He is the bread of life. John 6:35 says, “Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.’” Let’s get some context here. So far, Jesus has been well received, by the masses at least, and He has bee...

Last time we looked at Jesus’ proclamation that He is the great I AM. He is God. He is Jehovah. Then we find, in the gospel of John, seven different times that Jesus came out very clearly and said, I am… These are pictures or metaphors that describe the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. They are very enriching and valuable for us to think about and meditate on. As I go through them briefly these...

Today we are going to look at two words that go together, I AM. In John 8:58, Jesus made a startling announcement about Himself in these verses. It was an announcement that really rocked some of the Jewish leadership. John 8:58 says, “Jesus said to them, “‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.’” It is very instructive to note here that He didn’t say that before Abraham was bor...