The Struggles of a Christian

In death and in life we need hope. People need Hope in this world today. That hope is in the Christ, Jesus The Savior. How will they know if they have never heard of that Hope?

There is power in the Blood. You must be born again. Repent. All these we have gotten away from. For we are too sophisticated for it. We must return to these terms, this preaching if we are to have an impact.

4 People: 2 who were looking for Him, were rewarded for their faithfulness. 1 who was not looking for Him but new the Messiah was to come. 1 who was actively persecuting the Church. These met Jesus and their lives were changed, and they changed lives by telling others of Him.

The Holy Spirit, the indwelling of God and living as His Holy Temple? Let God be true and every man a liar

If we have historical fact in the Bible that we have proven, then the Bible is real. If the Bible is real - then Hell is Hot, Jesus is The Way, satan is real, and there is a day of judgment coming. Side note I fully believe every word in The Word, God's Holy Bible.

Claudius sent all the Jews from Rome, the Bible speaks of it, Josephus and Suetonius speak of it. Christ - Suetonius, Josephus and Tacitus all speak of Him. We will run down the historical fact of Gallio, Claudius, Paul, Aquila and Priscilla in Corinth.

Paul, on the verge of giving up is given a major victory. Then God gives Him a much needed season of rest.

We often pile on the Pharisees and Sadducees for seeing all they did and not believing. Yet we ignore those that did believe. My point this morning is this, Jesus preached to men who hated Him so much they ultimately plotted to have Him killed. However, some believed. When you are down thinking no one is hearing, keep on. They are, we may not know till we get to the other side but keep on witnessi...

The Pharisees and Sadducees saw the demons cast out, the deaf to hear, the blind to see, the lame to walk but they did not believe. They did not want to believe for it would mess up their power, their authority and their money.

We will cover days 5,6 and 7 of Creation.

In Matthew 6 we get a Model prayer, A template if you will. The Apostles ask Jesus to teach them how to pray and He gives them a model that we can benefit from.

That is how the Bible starts. God set all in motion, God made all you see, feel, hear, smell and touch. If you can not agree with that then throw your Bible out and go fishing. For the Holy Bible the Word of God says God created all. You can not be a Christian and disagree with that. All of our Bible is predicated on "In the beginning God".

Elijah prayed and the rain stopped for 3.5 years. Elijah prayed and it rained again. Where is our powerful prayer? James tells us of Elijah and his prayer, then tells us why we do not have powerful prayer. Why? Because of us.

which had a spirit of an unclean devil. In the Synagogue according to Luke 4:33 there was a man with an unclean devil. In the church was a man with an unclean devil, Comfortably sitting there in the church until Jesus shows up.

Ananias and his wife Sapphira, Simon the Sorcer they wanted a form of Godliness. They wanted to accolades, the back patting, the cheers of the people but had no idea the God they were trying perform for. They were professing but not possessing.

The saints need to hear of the grace and mercy of God. The World needs to hear of the wrath and judgment to come. WE need to hear of the judgment and wrath to come to remind us that their very souls are at stake! The fear of God, Hell is a place of eternal torment, The Love of God that made an escape, they will go there if they chose to. A good God will not send them there, but A Good God allows a...

So often we keep God contained in the church, we do not take Him home. Church, while very important, is not the focal point. We have not taught personal relationships with Jesus, with the Father, to our kids. We have failed and because it is not real to us, it is not real to them

We all kniow the aaccount of the woman at the well. Yet, in reading it Jesus Himself teaches us how to witness and testify. The woman then takes that lesson into her village and an awakening happens. Experiential, relatable witnessing of the Goodness of God. That is what witnessing, personal evangelism, is.

Worship is when the Spirit of man meets with the Spirit of God and extols His Holiness, His beauty, His Grace, His Love, His Mercy, His Purity and His Sacrifice. Too often we try to contrive it, or we sleep walk through what we call praise and worship time. God wants a relationship with us and that, the fact He wants to talk to us, with us, is a praise in and of itself!

We do not sing of the spiritual warfare anymore, we do not speak of the battles the Christian will face. To our detriment we have become a pacifistic church. Paul says put on the whole armor of God that you may better preach the Gospel. It is not armor to preserve us, nor is it armor for the easy chair. It is Armor that we might better be able to proclaim the Mystery of the Gospel.

The Israelites travelled for 1 year, now next to the Promised land they lack the faith or belief to walk forward and claim the Promise of God. We in today's world also lack the faith and belief to claim the Promise of God. The Promise that His Word will not return void, His Word can change the world. Instead we see the wickedness of this world, we hear the unbelief and atheism and we resign ou...

A fascinating theological discusiion in the opening of Galatians. Paul lays out the Gospel Christ died for the sins of the World according to the Will of God and our Father. God the Creator of Life also died on the cross that we might have Spiritual life, hence the "ye must be born again" by Jesus. He has given us life twice, we are bought with a price, therefore our lives do not belong...

What is my legacy? Today we will talk of a woman who had a shady past but 1 right decision and she has a Legacy for the ages. She did the right thing at the right time and it rings through history until today!

The man sick with palsy was let down, and Jesus said be of good cheer you are going to be healed. NO> What He said was be of Good Cheer they sins be forgiven thee. Jesus cared about sin, about the souls of the people. He did not come that they might be fed and healed, He came that they might have life! Until we get away from the thought that we can live our best life and He will be happy we are...

Sometimes we get tto caught up in alliteration, catchy titles, or preaching on our favorite subject we forget the Gospel is what can turn this world around. We were in a church for 8 services and never heard the Gospel one time. The world, the alcoholic, the drug addict they all need to know of Jesus.