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Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Jude 1:8 The Book of Jude warns us of the dangers of apostasy, which is when someone falls away from the faith. An apostate is someone who has been given the opportunity to receive the truth but has rejected it. Apostates cause great harm to the Church. In verse 8, Jude describes apostates as “filthy dreamers,” people with imaginations that are not rooted in tru...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Jude 1:1-7 The Book of Jude warns us of something very sinister that will happen to the Church in the Last Days. Children of God cannot afford to be ignorant or neutral; Jude 1-19 sounds the alarm, calling us to the fight for the faith and do battle for the Bible. These verses first reveal the danger of apostasy. “For certain men have crept in unnoticed… ungodly...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Jude 1-4 The Book of Jude warns us of the apostasy that will take place in the Last Days, in which many will turn away from the faith. But we do not have to live in fear of losing our salvation. This book can be seen as a believer’s security blanket in dark days. Jude 4 says, “For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemn...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Luke 22:31-34 Adrian Rogers says, “Failure doesn’t need to be a hitching post to tie us to the past. Failure can be a guidepost to lead us into the future.” God is not finished with us in the dark nights of failure; His mercies are new every morning. Simon Peter’s denial of Jesus Christ in Luke 22 reminds us that failure is not final. In times of failure, we must...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Malachi 3:7-11 By definition, stewardship is our relationship with money: how we obtain, save, invest, spend, and give our wealth. God is interested in this relationship—in how we care for the things He places in our hands. Satan, who is also very interested, would love to keep us in financial bondage. Malachi 3 shows us how to open the windows of Heaven and rece...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Ephesians 6:10-20 Whether we realize it or not, we are part of a war between light and darkness, good and evil, Heaven and Hell, Jesus Christ and Satan. We cannot afford to be ignorant and we cannot possibly be neutral. Adrian Rogers says, “When you were born again, you were born from above. And you, being Heaven-born are Heaven-bound. You were born for the battl...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: John 6:16-21 John 6:16-21 tells the story of Jesus walking on the water to His disciples’ boat in the midst of a treacherous storm. Sooner or later, you are going to find yourself in a storm—not like the storm depicted in this passage; rather, one far more terrifying. Things could be going fine, then suddenly you could get a life-changing phone call, or face a sh...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Job 13:15 We have all faced devastation at some point in our lives; it is in those difficult seasons we often ask ourselves if God is enough. Can God be trusted in our troubles? This is what Job learned in his suffering. God allowed the devil to bring hardship on Job because the devil didn’t think Job could love God just for who He is. Yet, in Job 13:15, Job says...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Galatians 6:1-5 Whether we are saved or lost, we will all carry burdens at some point in our lives; but we do not have to bear them alone. Galatians 6 shows us what to do with our burdens. First, this passage addresses the burdens we willingly take up. “Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentle...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Ephesians 5:21-33 Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in a complete commitment for life. As we see in Ephesians 5:21-33, marriage is from Heaven; it is not simply a contract… it is a covenant. Husbands and wives are of equal worth before God; both bear His image, but in differing ways, because marriage is symbolic of the way God relates to His people...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Genesis 6:5-14 In Genesis 6, God was brokenhearted over the gross and numerous sins of Noah’s generation. The same sins committed then are being committed today. As God warned Noah’s generation, He has warned ours, as well. As Noah, an unsinkable saint, found grace before God and provision from the flood, so can we find His grace and be saved from the wrath to co...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 In 2 Corinthians 4, the Apostle Paul was facing, by all appearances, deep affliction. Yet, he was a man who lived above see level; his perspective shows us how to live in faith in times of trouble. “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Acts 27:20 The Book of Acts tells the story of the Early Church and the missionary voyages of Paul the Apostle. In Acts 27, Paul writes about his experience sailing through a treacherous storm. Paul’s gripping narrative offers us insight into riding out the storms of life. First, we must note the reason for these storms; we will all find ourselves in ferocious wa...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Matthew 7:1 The new religion of the day is tolerance. What used to be a beautiful concept of recognizing and respecting others’ beliefs without sharing them, is now a toxic practice. Tolerance was once a good virtue, an entitlement to your own opinion. Now, tolerance is an unreasonable thought that all opinions are correct. In Matthew 7:1, Jesus says, “Judge not...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Matthew 20:1-15 Fairness is a wonderful human attribute we learn about when we’re young and demand of each other as we grow. In Matthew 20:1-15, Jesus shares the parable of the vineyard workers. The owner of the vineyard rises early to hire laborers, then adds hired laborers at various times throughout the day. At the end of the day, he pays his laborers all the...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Proverbs 29:1 Proverbs 29:1 says, “He who is often rebuked, and hardens his neck, will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.” Can a man spiritually pass the point of no return? Can he be so willfully rebellious that God will give up on him? The answer is yes, and that’s a frightening thing. God is a God of infinite love, yes, but He’s also a God of wra...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Romans 5:3 When we give our hearts to Jesus Christ, the work within us has begun, and God will see that it is finished. (See Philippians 1:6.) But we are not automatically mature in our faith and Christian manner. We simply receive the basis for a Christian character that God cultivates within us over time. Romans 5 offers insight as to how God develops Christian...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Proverbs 27:1 There are a few reasons people reject the Gospel upon hearing it. Some are rebellious, others are too self-righteous to recognize their need for a Savior. But perhaps the most common reason is procrastination. People will put it off, thinking that they will have plenty of time to receive Christ later on. But Proverbs 27:1 warns us of the perils of p...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Proverbs 21:22-28 The great hunger of every human heart is to know Jesus in a real way. The world is tired of hypocrisy and games; the only way we will reach people with the Gospel is if we are real, not cardboard, Christians. Proverbs 21:28 says, “A false witness shall perish, but the man who hears him will speak endlessly.” This passage reveals the fatality of...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Proverbs 14:14 King David, though a man after God’s own heart, was a great sinner and backslider. In 2 Samuel 11, he committed adultery and, in covering it up, he committed murder. But in 2 Samuel 12, we find that David was also a great repenter. He exemplifies the way back to God after we slide into sin. We must first recognize the causes of David’s sin. In a ti...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Proverbs 13:7 Adrian Rogers says, “The measure of a man is what that man thinks about money.” The Bible does not condemn having money, nor does it put a premium on poverty. But there are many Believers who do not understand the meaning of true riches. Proverbs 13:7 says, “There is one who makes himself rich, yet has nothing…” This passage first reveals the povert...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Proverbs 29:1 In front of every unsaved person, there is a deadline. If we cross God’s deadline, it is too late. Proverbs 29:1 reveals: “He who is often rebuked, and hardens his neck, will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.” There are three thoughts to draw from this passage, so that we may never know the pain of crossing God’s deadline. God deals wi...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Proverbs 1:20 Adrian Rogers says, “The voice of wisdom is the voice of God; when wisdom speaks, God speaks.” Wisdom is perhaps the most important virtue, and there is a deadline to obtain it. One of these days, God will issue His final call for wisdom, as seen in Proverbs 1:20-33. This passage reveals the invitation of wisdom. “Wisdom calls aloud outside; she rai...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: Revelation 13:1-8 Scripture offers prophecies to warn us of the future and edify us as we live through these Last Days. Revelation 13 describes a man, the antichrist, who will rise to power during the Great Tribulation; we must beware of this beast. This passage first describes the social unrest that proceeds the beast: “And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea...

Sermon Overview Scripture Passage: 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 Though it has been anticipated for over two thousand years, Jesus Christ could come again at any moment, as prophesied in the Book of Revelation. But as children of God, we have a settled faith. 2 Thessalonians 1-2 reveals how to have a steadfast hope in a shaky world: “and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is re...