Open your Bibles to Mark chapter 9. The title of my sermon this morning is Our Lord’s Most Aggressive Demand For Holiness. Mark chapter 9 verse 43. Before we read let’s pray once more.
Let me tell you something. Basically, I believe most of you folks in here, if asked, if somebody came along and said, “Well, what do…
Romans chapter 1 verse 16: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.” Let’s go to the Lord in prayer.
Once again, it is a great privilege for me to be here with you. And just to spend time and fellowship today with so many of you and hearing your stories about how God has saved you and changed you, it is remarkable. What a Savior. What a Savior.
Well, what a blessing to be here this morning. I was thinking of an account from the life of Amy Carmichael when she was younger.…
Ephesians 2:1-3. We are still here. We were here last week. We’ll be here today. Likely, we’ll be here next week as well. Ephesians 2:1-3. I’ll just tell you right upfront, the title of my message is: “How Dead is Dead? The Five-Fold Fallenness of Man.”
We do have a great God, don’t we? I did not come this year to preach. I came to soak up. And I appreciate everything I’ve heard. I was a little bit confused about Brother Charles’ message last night. I was wondering why we all weren’t on our faces, including me, when he preached on the majesty of our God.
Ephesians 4:17, “Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you, Christians, must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned…
Be turning with me this afternoon to the book of Hebrews 11. While you’re turning there, I want to read to you from Colossians 2:6, where the Bible says, “As you therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him.”
Luke chapter 17 verse 20. We are in the midst of an ongoing study concerning eschatology — the study of end times. The end of what? End times; the end in relationship to what? Eternity is going to go on forever. Eternity has no end. Why do we talk about the end when there really is no end? Well, there is an end of something. Even though we are all going to exist forever; there are those things that are…
Well, open up your Bibles to 1 Thessalonians 4. It seems like every time I preach, either you’re getting farther away from me or I’m getting farther away from you. I don’t know which it is. Let’s look at chapter 4 verse 3, “For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality.”
Hebrews chapter 12, I want to read verses 5 through 13. “And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? ‘My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by Him. For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and chastises (KJV, NKJV, NASB, all put scourge. It sounds a little more severe than chastise, right? Scourge sounds severe. And that’s what this word means.) God chastises every son whom He receives.’