Carolina Baptist Church

When all those thousands of people who had assembled to fall before Nebuchadnezzar’s idol & worship it bowed, it left 3 Hebrews standing all alone. Why did they remain standing & refuse to bow? Because the Lord GOD was their GOD & they bowed only to Him. They were not going to bow to an idol because their GOD, the Lord GOD whom they served, He alone is the one they worshipped & He has specifically...

Tonight, I want to speak on the subject of worship. You ask, “Pastor, I thought we are in a series on prayer, why are you speaking on worship?” Because the Bible clearly shows us that worship & prayer go hand in hand. They are 2 sides of the same coin. To worship GOD is to come into agreement in your recognition of Who He is & of His Ways. To pray is to come into agreement in your requests with Wh...

When someone dies, the common, the natural thought of people is only of loss. We say things to the grieving like, “I’m sorry for your loss.” The world’s way of thinking is this—“to live is earthly gain, & to die is loss.” However, when you place your faith in Christ, that all changes. If your life is about money, to die is loss; it’s gone. If your life is about earthly pleasures, to die is loss; i...

When someone dies, the common, the natural thought of people is only of loss. We say things to the grieving like, “I’m sorry for your loss.” The world’s way of thinking is this—“to live is earthly gain, & to die is loss.” However, when you place your faith in Christ, that all changes. If your life is about money, to die is loss; it’s gone. If your life is about earthly pleasures, to die is loss; i...

This morning, we are reviewing the life of one of the most well-known people in the OT—Samson. He was a man of extraordinary physical strength, & yet, he was surprisingly weak spiritually. Though this mighty warrior could slay entire armies, he found himself stripped of his power by a single woman. Adding to the perplexity of this Jewish national hero’s life is the way it tragically ends. While Sa...

In chapter 3, Elisha was sought by 3 kings to help them win a battle against Moab. In the next chapter, Elisha goes from helping 3 kings & their armies to helping an obscure, poverty-stricken widow who had nothing but a pot (jar) of oil left in her house. The fact that GOD arranged this miracle through Elisah is a reminder that GOD is not just concerned about the affairs of the high & mighty which...

Every true believer should have a desire to grow. I’m speaking of growing in the sense of becoming like our Lord Jesus Christ in His attitudes, affections, & actions. No Christian should be satisfied with remaining a spiritual baby. Babies cry when they do not get their way. Babies need to be constantly cared for & they don’t serve others. Babies have outbursts & temper tantrums. Babies think only...

Habakkuk is a prophet who is perplexed; he is confused. Like many of us as we look around at our world, at our nation, at the churches declining & now embracing sinful lifestyles, at some of our family members, perhaps at our own children or grandchildren or spouse or parent, Habakkuk has got some questions. The reason is that he’s been watching the sinful decline of his nation & he’s been praying...

We’re in a series dealing with the believer’s spiritual growth. In our first message of this series, we discussed the believer’s responsibility to commune daily with the Lord openly & honestly (not veiled) as we behold (look & meditate upon) the glory of the Lord revealed in Jesus Christ. To do that, as we saw last week, we must spend time in GOD’s Word. Thus, our second message dealt with the req...

Everything that is important to the Christian’s salvation, assurance, walk, growth, witness, security, & so much more is dependent upon some aspect of the Holy Spirit’s ministry. And yet, so many believers are either ignorant or confused about the Holy Spirit & His ministry to us. A lot of jokes have been made which sort of inadvertently personify our ignorance of the Holy Ghost.

     If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, if you have been born again, if you have tasted that the Lord is gracious through salvation, then you are to be a growing Christian. Last week, we learned how that growth (being conformed to the likeness of Christ) is both a sign of spiritual life & also a process that believers are exhorted to contribute to. Just as the natural growth process in our hum...

I would dare to say that the majority of us in this sanctuary understand the importance of GOD’s Word to our own country. The Bible has been the greatest & most powerful factor in shaping our nation’s constitution & legal system. It has historically been the most influential factor in this nation’s moral progress. If you remove from our legislation every law founded upon The 10 Commandments & from...

Are you a follower of Jesus Christ? I am not simply asking if you believe the facts about Jesus because the devils believe. I am asking if you have truly been born-again which produces an unending desire to worship the Lord Jesus & an unquenchable love for Him that shows up through obedience to His Word. If so, you need to ask yourself 2 questions: 1) Am I going? 2) Am I growing?   GOD’s purpose f...

Let me tell you why believers like the prophet Jeremiah are sustained & able to soar above their circumstances when adversity comes while others sink under the waves of adversity & their faith is shipwrecked. Mature believers really believe their GOD is great & thus turn instinctually to the Lord in the moment of need, they fix their eyes upon His greatness, & begin to worship Him rather than focu...

Father’s Day is special because it is our opportunity to recognize & encourage all of you dads & also remind you of your vitally important role in the home. Sadly, we live in an age that has intentionally minimized the importance of the father in a family & instead has redefined the family. Though we’ve been told that having a present & involved father in a child’s life is not essential, the decad...

Christian, whether you’re a teacher, technician, waitress, construction worker, truck driver, nurse, doctor, lawyer, therapist, housewife, or student—no matter what you do in life—that’s incidental to your mission on earth. If the extent of your involvement & participation with Christ after getting saved is simply going to church, then you have missed the point of your life on earth. You see, the...

I want to stay in this text again tonight because evangelism (fulfilling The Great Commission) is so important to the life of the church & to your life personally as a believer. If I am to set you up for success when your life is reviewed at the Judgment Seat of Christ, I must continually emphasize & exhort you to evangelize the lost. And there are some things in this text that I want to go back &...

After being saved, a genuine believer should have a desire to serve the Lord. And if this is his true desire, then this desire should show up in his praying like Isaiah, “Here am I; Send me! Here am I; Use me! Here am I; Let me serve You!” What a different world we would live in if every believer prayed this way from a sincere heart! What a different country we would have today if every believer h...

One of the blessings of doing ministry in a different country & culture is that it forces you to reflect upon what is actually essential & important to living for Christ & serving Him. What you discover is that we, by human nature, tend to complicate things from age to age & culture to culture. We add a lot of nonessentials to the Christian life & ministry that are not Biblical which only produce...

The morning of Jesus’ resurrection was a time of indescribable joy – Jesus, the Lamb of GOD slain for the sins of the world, had risen from the dead. Of course, the previous Friday & Saturday had been dark days for the disciples, days filled with sorrow, tears, fear, & doubt (doubts arose in all of Jesus’ disciples after His arrest & execution). But, on the 3rd day, on the Sunday following the cru...

Jacob’s prayer in Genesis chapter 32 is one of the great prayers that has been recorded in GOD’s Word. However, this prayer was made by Jacob not when his faith was great but rather when his faith was extremely weak & he was overcome with fear. Yet, he prayed to the Lord in humble honesty like the father who came to Jesus because his child was demon-possessed & sincerely cried out, “Lord, I believ...

Today, I want us to consider the kind of mother & grandmother that GOD honors & uses to raise up some “Timothies”. To begin let me read a passage that introduces Timothy & his mother while Paul is on his 2nd missionary journey. Act 16:1 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his...

     Tonight, I want us to consider this man named Jabez & his prayer which the Bible says GOD answered. Because his prayer was for GOD to intervene & get involved with different aspects of his life & the conclusion of it, the fact that GOD answered his prayer reveals that this prayer changed his life completely. What’s fascinating is that all of the information we have concerning Jabez & his life...