PASTOR TIM JUPP

The congregation rejoiced over the glorious things Jesus did and His adversaries were put to shame. Today the same craziness goes on. The church becomes entrenched in practices that restrict the movement of the Holy Spirit, God gets placed in a box and told how to operate and traditions become dogma. Then, some poor soul steps out of line and straight away, Christ's adversaries get all bent o...

May we be such parents, such brothers, such sisters, such children, that it shall be the first anxiety of our spirits that our children, our parents, our husband, our wife, our friends, our brothers and sisters, should be brought to partake with us in the things of God!  C.H Spurgeon TEXT: LUKE 12:49-59 SONGS: BLESSED ASSURANCE, JEREMY RIDDLE THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE BLOOD, WORSHIP INITIATIVE I SPE...

“Where your chief treasure is laid up, there will your heart be also fixed, and the whole tenor of your thoughts and affections will naturally flow in that direction." "Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find him intent on the business entrusted to him." TEXT : LUKE 12:35-48 SONGS :  SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAVE IT ALL I SURRENDER ALL LIVING FOR JE...

“Rest assured that the lord, who provides for the millions of fish in the sea and the myriads of birds in the air will not suffer His own children to perish for the lack of things of this life.” C.H. SPURGEON TEXT : LUKE 12:22-34 SONGS : NO ONE EVER CARED FOR ME LIKE JESUS HOW GREAT THOU ART, CALVARY CHURCH GRATITUDE, BRANDON LAKE GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS, CHRIST FOR THE NATIONS TRUST IN GOD, ELE...

“Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.” Charles Stanley "The Christian must keep his feet upon the earth, but his head in the heavens." Ripley Commentary TEXT: LUKE 12:13-21 SONGS : GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS, NEW VISION WORSHIP HAVE IT ALL, BETHEL WORSHIP TAKE MY LIFE AND...

"Of all the spiritual dangers to which Christ alerted His disciples, few of them outweigh His warnings concerning hypocrisy . If we would not become Pharisees, let us cultivate a heart religion. Let us realize daily that God looks far below the outward surface of our profession, and that He measures us by the state of our hearts. Let us be real and true in our Christianity. Lets  abhor all pa...

"It is a triumphant view which bursts upon the soul as it contemplates the fact that the work of the second Adam has repaired the ruins of the first, and that man is redeemed; HALLELUJAH, his body will be raised; not another human being should die, and the work of death should be ended.. Death is not only at an end; it shall not only cease, but its evils shall be repaired; and the glory and h...

 “I look at the cross of Christ. There I see that sin is so black and damnable, that nothing but the blood of God's own Son can wash it away. There I see that sin has so separated me from my holy Maker, that all the angels in heaven could never have made peace between us. Nothing could reconcile us, short of the death of Christ. Ah, if I listened to the wretched talk of proud men, I might som...

"Those eyes which had looked upon him with wonder at first, now began to glare with the eyes of wild beasts. Those tongues which were ready to give him applause, now began to howl with indignation. They rose up to slay the preacher; curiosity was turned into indignation; a few hours ago they would have welcomed the prophet to his own country, now they would rather chant, “Crucify him! Crucify...

 “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” There is a deadly, implacable, infinite, eternal hatred between Christ and that sin of which Satan is the representative. No compromise can ever be thought of, no quarter will ever be allowed.  What a ridiculous suggestion, that the Lord of glory was in league with the the Prince of devils. ---- he nev...

It is utterly in conceivable that any soul could have deserved to be redeemed with the precious blood of Christ. The mere thought is abhorrent to every holy mind---- not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.” Over and over again the apostle insists upon this grand and fundamental truth. We are not justified be...

"How many times we ask of God, and have not because we do not wait long enough at the door! We knock a time or two at the gate of mercy, and as no friendly messenger opens the door, we go our way. Too many prayers are like boys’ runaway knocks, given, and then the giver is away before the door can be opened. O for grace to stand foot to foot with the angel of God, and never, never, never rela...

God will have His children pray to Him, and links all His promised supplies to their petitions for them; He encourages us to draw near and keep near to Him, to talk and walk with Him, to open our every case to Him!  That is the kind of shocking accessibility conveyed in Jesus' word Abba. God may be the Sovereign Lord of the Universe, but through his Son, God has made himself as approachable a...

“Tender, heartfelt worship is hard for a person who thinks of himself as having arrived. (for the one who has better things to do, for the one who is caught up in trivial pursuits)   No one celebrates the presence and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ more than the person who has embraced his desperate and daily need of it.”  Paul Tripp “Seek the Lord with un-containable desperation. If you must get...

Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.   Dietrich Bonhoeffer Happy are those whose self-centered lives have been crushed and reshaped by the Master's hand to be full of mercy.   John Haggee Christ's people have been saved; we do not do good deeds to be saved. The Great Samaritan has already saved you; Jesus has reconciled yo...

"Nothing rejoices the heart of the Lord Jesus so much as the progress of the gospel, and its getting ground of Satan, by the conversion of souls to Christ!" Our Lord inwardly rejoiced, with a holy and spiritual joy, in the prospect of the extensive success of the gospel, the salvation of souls, and the glory which would redound to God.  "He has not entrusted this task to the prudent...

We preach Christ crucified, and every sermon shakes the gates of hell. We bring sinners to Jesus by the Spirit’s power, and every convert is a stone torn down from the wall of Satan’s mighty castle. Satan intended to make the human race the captives of his power, but they are redeemed from his iron yoke!!!! God has delivered many of them, and the day shall come when he will cleanse the whole earth...

"The world is to the Church like a scaffold to a building. When the Church is built, the scaffold will be taken down; the world must remain until the last (elect) one is saved: "Then shall the end come." Before Jerusalem was destroyed, "this gospel of the kingdom." was probably "preached in all the world" so far as it was then known; but there is to be a fuller p...

"What  makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness, Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuf...

Want of faith is the great cause of failure among disciples, both as to themselves and their work for others. There may be other specific maladies in certain cases, but this is the great and main cause of all failure: "Because of your unbelief." C.H SPURGEON TEXT: LUKE 9:37-45 SONGS:  THE GOODNESS OF GOD, BETHEL WORSHIP TIS SO SWEET TO TRUST IN JESUS, SHANE AND SHANE TURN YOUR EYES UPON...

“Before He came to the earth, Jesus was the Commander of the angel hosts. The brightest and most exalted of the sons of the morning heralded His glory at the creation. They veiled their faces before Him as He sat upon His throne. They cast their crowns at His feet, and sang His triumphs as they beheld His greatness. Yet this glorious Being loved the poor sinner, and took upon Him the form of a ser...

The event described in these verses, commonly called "the transfiguration", is one of the most remarkable events in the history of our Lord's earthly ministry.  It is one of those passages which we should always read with particular thankfulness. It lifts a corner of the veil which hangs over the world to come  and throws light on some of the deepest truths of our religion. J.C. RYL...

God loved the world...   Herein is love (unusual, unprecedented love), not that we loved God, but that he loved us. He loved us, when we had no love for him, when we lay in our guilt, misery, and blood, when we were undeserving, ill-deserving, polluted, and unclean,.   … to be the propitiation for our sins; consequently to die for us, to die under the law and curse of God, to bear our sins in his...

"Today, some say, “He is a good man,” others say, “Nay; but he deceives the people.” Some say that he is divine, though not actually God; others that he has become God, though he was not always so;. Some agree that his teachings were admirable for the occasions on which he delivered them,; while others ridicule his teachings as altogether impracticable. The doctrines of flesh and blood concer...

"There is none like Christ for pity to souls; His compassions fails not . 3. He did not only pity them, but he helped them; many of them were sick, and he, in compassion to them, healed them ; for he came into the world to be the great Healer. After awhile, they were all hungry, and he, in compassion to them, fed them . Note, In all the favours Christ shows to us, he is moved with compassion....