English-Tagalog Expositional Sermons

“You are going to hear a rumor one day that Voddie Baucham is no more. Don't you believe it. Don’t you believe it. Don’t you believe it. Because though I die, I will rise with Christ. It will not be the end of me, because Christ is raised and I too will be raised with Christ. Don’t you pity me. . . . You pity the one who has no absolutely hope because they have no resurrected Christ.” —Voddie...

"Pastors, I beg you to consider what I have written here. I believe the Church—your church—is under attack. As shepherds, we must defend the sheep. We must repel the wolves. And yes, the wolves are many." —Voddie Baucham

“Like Balaam, false teachers use religion as a cloak for covetous practices. They know the right words to say, but their hearts are set on personal gain.” —Warren Wiersbe

“False teachers [are] not made outside Christianity. They are always bred in the church, half in and half out; but eventually they reject the truth and try to seduce others in their attempt to fulfill their self-gratification.” —John MacArthur

"Tignan mo, sa dulo ng lahat, yung ebidensya na nasa harap natin— yung confident na pagpupumilit ng unang mga Kristyano na talagang bakante ang libingan at tunay na nakita nila si Jesus, at dahil sa experience na iyon sila'y naniniwala, nabago ang mga pananaw nila sa buhay, at determinadong pinanghawakan nila ang mga paniniwala nila kahit sa harap ng kamatayan— ang ebidensyang ito ay maip...

“Peter observed that those who are not practicing these virtues have forgotten their baptism and their forgiveness of sins. In other words, they are not living as forgiven sinners. They are behaving like unconverted people. … If members of the church are living immoral lives, they bear witness that forgiveness of sins means little to them” —Tom Schreiner

“ Simon, Simon, behold Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers ” — Luke 22:31-32

“We have now reached the last summit of the mountain chain of Psalms. It rises high into the clear azure, and its brow is bathed in the sunlight of the eternal world of worship. . . . The poet-prophet is full of inspiration and enthusiasm. He stays not to argue, to teach, to explain: but cries with burning words, “Praise him, Praise him, Praise ye the Lord.” —Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“This is the God who makes his people sing in thanksgiving, contrition, petition, lament, and reflection. Taken together, these psalms indicate the kind of relationship that God wants his people to have with him. It is deeply authentic, not the kind of religion characterized by mumbo jumbo, merely formal religious duties, self-importance, and religious arrogance, all of it carefully masking a stin...

“When Christians unite around something other than the gospel, they create community that would likely exist even if God didn’t. As a modern-day tower of Babel, that community glorifies their strength instead of God’s.” —Jamie Dunlop

“Whatsoever number of millions of millions of years we can imagine before the creation of the world, yet God was infinitely before those; he is therefore called the ‘Ancient of Days’ (Dan 7:9), as being before all days and time and eminently containing in himself all times and ages. . . . All created things are new and fresh, but no creature can find out any beginning of God: it is impossible ther...

"Hast Thou not bid me seek Thy faceAnd shall I seek in vain? And can the ear of sovereign graceBe deaf when I complain? No still the ear of sovereign graceAttends the mourner's prayerOh may I ever find accessTo breathe my sorrows there."—Anne Steele (1717-1778)

“God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him. God’s design to pursue his own glory turns out to be love. And our duty to pursue God’s glory turns out to be a quest for joy.” —John Piper

"‘How rich a treasure we possess in Jesus Christ, our Lord. His blood, our ransom and defense; His glory, our reward. The sum of all created things are worthless in compare, For our inheritance is Him whose praise angels declare." — Matt Boswell and Matt Papa

"I want you to indulge yourselves in this most rare… delight of sorrow at the feet of Jesus,-not sorrow for unpardoned sin, but sorrow for pardoned sin, sorrow for that which is done with, sorrow for that which is forgiven, sorrow for that which will never condemn you, for it was laid on Christ long ago, and is put away for ever. It is this sweet sorrow that I want you to indulge. Up with the slui...

"If every evil be let loose from Pandora's box, yet is there hope at the bottom. This is the grace that swims, though the waves roar and be troubled. God is unchangeable, and therefore his grace is the ground for unshaken hope. If everything be dark, yet the day will come, and meanwhile hope carries stars in her eyes; her lamps are not dependent on oil from without, her light is fed by secret visi...

"Come what may, if famine should devastate the land, or calamity destroy the city, 'I shall not want.' Old age with its feebleness shall not bring me any lack, and even death with its gloom shall not find me destitute. I have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because 'The Lord is my shepherd...

“The degree of our peace of mind is tied to our prayer life (Phil. 4:6-7). This not because prayer is psychologically soothing, but because we address a prayer-answering God, a personal God, a responding God, a sovereign God whom we can trust with the outcomes of life's confusions. And we learn, with time, that if God in this or that instance does not choose to take away the suffering, or utterly...

“‘Is he—quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.’ ‘That you will, dearie, and no mistake,’ said Mrs Beaver. ‘If there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most or else just silly.’ ‘Then he isn’t safe?’ said Lucy. ‘Safe?’ said Mr Beaver; ‘don’t you hear what Mrs Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he...

“As Christians, our first response to Ps 1 is to bless the Lord Jesus, to see how he did what we fail to do, and through that to begin to imitate him in his delight in the Scriptures, meditating upon them, and thereby enjoying God’s presence.” —Jim Hamilton

“This is noble encouragement to all the saints; die they must, but rise they shall, and though in their case they shall see corruption, yet they shall rise to everlasting life. Christ's resurrection is the cause, the earnest, the guarantee, and the emblem of the rising of all his people. Let them, therefore, go to their graves as to their beds, resting their flesh among the clods as they now do up...

“When I read the Psalms of David, those faithful songs, the language of devotion which banishes the spirit of pride…. How I addressed Thee in those Psalms! How my love for Thee was kindled by them!” —Augustine

“I am saved solely and wholly because of Christ’s work, not mine. He has reserved a place in heaven for me, given freely to me by Him. I ‘never boast’—I take no credit for my standing with God—‘except in the cross’; what Christ has done is now something I ‘boast’ in. To boast is to joyously exult , and to have high confidence, in something. To know you are saved by Christ’s work alone bring a joyo...

“ By characterizing the responsibilities and problems of life as ‘burdens,’ Paul very vividly and practically teaches how Christian relates to others. You cannot help with a burden unless you come very close to the burdened person, standing virtually in their shoes, and putting your own strength under the burden so its weight is distributed on both of you, lightening the load of the other. So in t...

“When the Holy Spirit is at work in you, He’s at work in all of you, crafting you into the godly person He wants you to be. No weakness goes unaddressed. No sin pattern is off the table.” “These nine words [fruit of the Spirit] are a highway leading you in the direction of greater degrees of fruitfulness, not a cul-de-sac leading you to park the car of your sanctification. Godliness is the goal. B...