Words of Life|Pastor Balan Swaminathan|HIPM

Mark 8:22–26 - Jesus healed a blind man at Bethsaida. Here is the summary of this miracle "You had a vision, that vision was lost, Jesus touched you, the vision was partially restored, now you need a second touch from the Master". 1. Are we not able to value our own life and the lives of others? ----more---- 2. Are we not able to prioritize our lives and our family is in trouble? 3. Are we not abl...

One of the miracles Jesus performed was raising the Son of a Widow in the city of Nain, Luke 7:11-17. Entire sermon was divided into three segments. 1. Loss of the son, 2. Compassion of Jesus, 3. Return of the dead. Some of the truths learned include ----more---- - Physical death is a physical separation of human beings from the rest. There is a death called spiritual death, that separates us for...

This sermon was delivered so that Tithing will be understood correctly. None of us should miss the blessings of giving. Our giving gives an opportunity for God to bless us. Here is the outline of the sermon. Listen to the sermon to clarify your questions on tithing and start giving. God bless you. 1. Partnering with God on what He is doing in this world 2. More than a law, tithing is a principle -...

Gospel is seed. God wants us to scatter the Gospel seed over the lives around us. As the main objective of the sower is to get the seed to the ground, the main purpose of the church is to reach the multitude with the Gospel. Let us learn some of the principles of evangelism from the parable of the Growing Seed as we read in Mark 4:26-29. Here is the sermon outline. ----more---- - Sowing (Sower, Se...

Luke 5:1-11 Learning from the life of Jesus as He was performing an evangelical ministry where 4 fishermen made a decision to follow Christ. We learned the following truths about Evangelical Ministry: 1. Make use of the available resource 2. Stop speaking & Start doing 3. Just fishermen, but skillful in fishing 4. Launch out into the deep - Need to go where fish are 5. We tried, it didn't work 6....

Luke 3:1-22 John the Baptist was not just a Prophet, not just a Baptist, but an Evangelist too. We answered the following questions from the life and from the ministry of John. 1. Who was John the Baptist? 2. What was the message John preached? 3. How can we escape the coming wrath of God?----more---- What is a false Gospel? • Message of love telling that God is love, he never punishes people is n...

Philip was one of the first century evangelists of the early church. God miraculously used Philip to bring revival in Samaria. After ministering to the Ethiopian Eunuch, Philip was supernaturally teleported to a place called Azotus. Careful observation of Philip's ministry teaches us the following: 1. Be filled with the Holy Spirit 2. Play whatever role God is asking you to do, so that the work of...

John 4:1-42 - This was the exact Gospel Message shared by the Samaritan woman: "Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" 3Es - Encounter - Excitement - Evangelism - The woman had an Encounter with Lord Jesus  - Then she was so Excited about that encounter - Finally she involved herself in Evangelism  Listen to the sermon to learn more about how our encount...

The urgency of sharing the Gospel - lessons learned from 2 Kings 7, the leprous missionaries. - Starvation: (Starving for food) - Selfishness: (Found food, ate and became selfish) - Realization: (Realized their mistakes) - Sharing: (Rushed to share with others) Listen to the sermon and get activated in the area of Evangelism in your life.

Mark 5:1-20 Here is an amazing conversation between the one who got just delivered and the deliverer. The one who is delivered expresses his desire to be with Jesus, and the deliverer outwardly denied his request. My questions are, Question 1: Was there anything wrong in asking to be with Jesus? Question 2:Why did Jesus reject his appeal? ----more---- Question 3:Why did Jesus ask him to minister t...

It is a power one has to have to deal with difficult situation. If there is a way to scan through our body and reach to the spot where we can find our inner strength, what can be the form or shape of the inner strength? • It can be the compassion while dealing with the disobedient child • It can be the inner calmness while listening to the insulting words ----more---- • It can be the gentle spirit...

John 7:38-39 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. I am visualizing three different water bodies. 1. Dried River Bed: (a river that is dried) 2. Stagnant water 3. River that...

This sermon is based on 1 Samuel 5. From the incidents that are taking place in 1 Samuel 5, we are going to understand the dual nature of God and His presence that can cause either blessing or curse. - The same cloud that brought light to the children of Israel, brought darkness among the Egyptians. - The same face of the Lord which is in favor of the righteous is against those who do evil. ----mo...

David is asking a question in Psalm 15. Who can abide in your tabernacle? Who may dwell in your holy hill? In other words who can go to heaven? He got an answer to his question in the same psalm. 1. One who is sincere and honest in practicing religion 2. One who does no evil to his neighbor and sensitive of his reputation ----more---- 3. One who values men by their virtue, not by their personality...

David was a great king. • Before he was a king, he was a soldier. He was a faithful soldier, He did what Saul had asked him to do • Before he was a soldier, he was an armor bearer for Saul. He just carried the sword. • Before he was an armor bearer, he was a song writer and musician. When Saul was depressed, David sang and played his instrument. • Before he was a song writer, he was a shepherd, do...

Listen to this sermon, God will bring you out of your negative emotions, weaknesses and limitations. Here is the summary of we talked about. - All of us have some weaknesses or other - Focusing on your weaknesses is quite discouraging - Instead, think about your strength ----more---- - know your identity, know that you are precious, gifted in many ways, cared and loved by God - See the good within...

Question: Can you help me to understand persecution and sufferings? Listen to the sermon to find out what Peter says. 1 Peter 1:3-9 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, re...

One of the very valid questions asked by a man called Job was "If a man dies, shall he live again?", Job 14:14 This question was unanswered until Jesus rose from the dead. The death of Jesus is important for the following reasons. 1. Resurrection is the central theme of Christianity 2. Resurrection validates the Old Testament prophecies 3. Resurrection validates who Jesus claimed to be ----more---...

History of the world is written in the blood of the millions who died in the war. Many wars were fought and millions and millions died in the battle. The costliest war in terms of human life was World War II (1939–45), in which the total number of fatalities, including battle deaths and civilians of all countries, is estimated to have been 56.4 million. But there is a war that is the war of the wa...

Battleground of Mareshah is an attack of the Ethiopian army on the nation of Judah when King Asa was ruling the southern kingdom of Judah. Here we see Zerah, the cushite coming against Asa, the king of Judah. The particular battle is taking place in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.----more---- Many battles are mentioned in the Bible. But the largest army assembled was that of Zerah the Ethiopi...

Battle of Berachah was an attack of the enemy that brought a great fear among the people of Judah during the reign of King Jehoshaphat. We read this story in 2 Chronicles 20. We found out who were the enemies - the Moabites, and the Ammonites, and their auxiliaries. We talked about the significance of the location of the battle. We understood who was Jehoshaphat. As Jehoshaphat was leading the arm...

A mind boggling destruction of the city of Ziklag and the captivity of the wives and children of David and his men. David was taken into the extremes of life where he ran to escape death from the hands of Saul, lost his wives as captives, his city is burnt with fire, now the men with him are about to stone him to death. What else one needs to be brought to the lowest of his / her life. In this sit...

The battle that took place at the battleground of Elah was a challenging well known story of David defeating Goliath, the Philistine. This sermon will help you to understand the strategies God wants and God doesn't want us to adopt when we fight with the enemy of our soul. Here is the list of strategies we talked about. Strategy 1: Discouragements are powerful enough to stop you, but push them asi...

As you are about to listen or already listened to this sermon, no doubt that you are standing in the right battleground of Midianites' Camp. Following are the different strategies we discussed in detail during the sermon. Strategy 1: Those who are fearful and afraid, can't fight the battle Strategy 2: Those who relax, delay and lose focus on the work of God are not fit for the battle Strategy 3: B...

We read about the battleground of Ai in the book of Joshua Ch. 7 & 8 Battle of Ai is one of the battles where children of Israel lost their battle. We read that in Joshua 7. When they realized their mistake and corrected themselves, God turned their defect into victory. We read that in Ch, 8.----more---- Here is the sermon outline. The enemy within is greater and mightier than the enemy out there....