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Jesus' Last Days on the Cross
Scripture: Psalm 22, Matthew 27:45 Earl was gone, and Helen was gone, and Gary was gone. So we had all the people there, with the exception of Mark Bitter and myself, were from Hoisington. We had two whole families there. Probably between those were more than 10 people. And so we had a good group...
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The Persistent Love of God
Scripture: Matthew 23:37-39, Matthew 23:33 We will be taking the 23rd, our Lottie Moon Mission Offering, but of course if you are going to be gone that day or you just get anxious about it, you can turn it in any time. Make sure you indicate that it's for the Lottie Moon Offering, which is a...
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Facing Trouble
Scripture: Matthew 24:15 Thank you, Carl. I want to thank you also. I don't know who did the scrape the snow everywhere. Does anybody here know who did that? Anybody own up to scraping all the snow off the sidewalks for us? Ozzie did? Okay. Ozzie and Alicia. Alicia will take credit for anything....
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False Security
Scripture: Matthew 25:31, John 1 I looked up on the internet to see what kind of thoughts people in our world have about heaven and hell. That's a gist of the text that I want to use today. I saw surveys, a lot of different ones, but maybe the one that seemed the most extensive said that people…
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Fear the Lord
Scripture: Deuteronomy 10:12-13 Chapter 10, verses 12 and 13 are the introduction to a sermon that Moses gives in the rest of this chapter 10 and all of chapter 11. And like a lot of times whenever someone gives a speech or a sermon or writes a book, they start out with a brief summary of what...
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Foolish or Faithful
Scripture: Matthew 25 I'm reading this morning a passage from Matthew chapter 25, if you'd like to find that in your Bibles. Jesus had been talking to the twelve that he called, preparing them for the day that he was going to leave. He knew that he would be with them for a while, and then…
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Free From Condemnation
Scripture: Romans 7:21, Romans 8:1, Romans 5:18, Romans 7:7 I don't know if you have, if you've ever, ever occurred to you about these, like the letters that Paul wrote, that they were written not to be read, but to be heard. Because people didn't have the literacy we have, you know, so whenever...
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Freedom from Habits and Addictions
Scripture: Romans 6:1, Romans 6:3-4, Romans 6:5-6, Romans 6:8 ...to Romans chapter 6. I almost stole a Bible to come up here and do this. I'm not sure if a missionary Bible would work. What language it's actually in, I don't know. Paul's scheme in the book of Romans is to identify the primary…
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Freedom from the Power of Sin
Scripture: Romans 5, Romans 6, Romans 3:7-8 Laine's girlfriend's mother, yeah, she's checking him out. I don't know what that had to do with it. In the first five chapters of the book of Romans, Paul is dealing with sin and death and the law and faith. And in those four issues, he's been…
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Freedom from the Sinful Nature
Scripture: Romans 6:19 become free from the grip of sin on our lives. He uses two illustrations here that go together. I talked about one of them last week, but I'd like to go back and talk about that one and connect it with what takes place in the beginning of chapter 7. You know by now, I...
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God is in Charge
Scripture: Matthew 22:1-14 did that he was right and they were wrong they were sure he was wrong but they knew that there was something guiding his life that was different than theirs and so they ask him what authority do you have to do this and who gave you this authority they hope to trick him...
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God or Religion
Scripture: Romans 4, Romans 5:1 so that we can have an idea of what is taking place. Paul started out in this letter trying to address the issue of sin in human race. He begins by talking about the fact that people in the world, no matter where they are, have some evidence of God's presence. They...
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God's Plan to Care for His People
Scripture: Deuteronomy 15:1 It's got quite a collection of people all over the room, different places. Chapter 15 of Deuteronomy has a long introduction to it. When Moses was talking about the people coming into the land of promise, the land of Canaan, he had a long, long, almost the first 14...
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Godly Leaders
Scripture: Deuteronomy 17:14, 1 Samuel 8 Chapter 17, beginning with verse 14. Moses is discussing with the people of Israel about what their life is to be like after they've come into the land of promise. He's giving them the order of their structure. He begins by talking about the judges. He…
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He Comes in Judgment
Scripture: Matthew 21:33, Matthew 22, Matthew 23 I'm going to use two passages of scripture, one in chapter 22 of Matthew and one in chapter 23 of the book of Matthew, if you'd like to find those in your Bibles. Ever since I put this on, I've had a compelling desire to cough, and I hope that's…
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He Is Coming Again
Scripture: Matthew 24:3-8 Of course, Christmas is about the birth of a baby, Jesus, but the story of Christmas is about what this baby became, the kind of person he was and what he did. We wouldn't be celebrating this day if Jesus had died shortly after his birth. We wouldn't be celebrating this...
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Trusting God and Justification Through Faith
Scripture: Romans 5 The conclusion is, we were delivered over to death for our sins and raised to life for our justification. He means Christ died to give us freedom from sin. He's raised to life to be able to bring us through the process of sanctification or justification. Those two words are...
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How To Face Injustice
Scripture: Matthew 26:37, Matthew 26:47 Scripture from Matthew chapter 26, if you find that in your Bibles. Jesus was not only a great teacher, he was a person who lived what he taught. It's really helpful whenever you hear instructions, if you have them written out, or if someone will actually…
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How to worship
Scripture: Deuteronomy 12:1, Deuteronomy 11:1, Deuteronomy 11:8, Deuteronomy 11:13, Deuteronomy 11:18-20, Deuteronomy 11:27, Deuteronomy 11:28, Deuteronomy 11:32 Bibles to Deuteronomy, chapter 12. Chapter 12, verse 1. I'm going to go back a little bit to 11 to set the context for this. Stories…
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How Will You Be Judged
Scripture: Matthew 25:14 Matthew collected from all the stories in Jesus' life different accounts of Him talking about when He was going to return and the end of the world would come. So we sort of have in one place all these stories. All these stories were given to us so that we would be…
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How You Know You Belong To God.
Scripture: Romans chapter 8, Romans 8:9, Romans 5:21, book of Galatians Let's get the CD started, so Debbie will have something to put on the website. And we'll all work together. Romans chapter 8, if you'd turn your Bibles there. Paul has talked about how difficult it is because our human…
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In Control & Submissive
Scripture: Matthew 26:1-5 I'm going to read a passage of scripture this morning from chapter 26 of the book of Matthew. If you'd like to find that, I'm going to read the first five verses of that book this morning. Amen. Already? Boy, you're getting started just telling the numbers gets you...
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Jesus Came to give us Security
Scripture: Matthew 23:38 We celebrate Christmas as a birthday of Jesus, but it wasn't the child Jesus that was so significant as what he became and what he did that's so life-changing and world-changing for us and for all around us. I've taken a passage from Matthew chapter 23 to talk about what...
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Jesus' Humanity and Divine Mission
Scripture: Matthew 25:31 Jesus was faced with a great difficulty as he set about to do the job the Father had sent him here to do. His handicap was he was human, like you're human. You find it difficult sometimes to think of doing the work of God because you're human. Jesus faced the very same...
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Keeping Watch
Scripture: Matthew 24:42 The scriptures are written in ways by which they're to be read out loud, because most people, when the Bible was originally written, didn't read, so they read them out loud. And the book of Matthew is a continuous story, and when you pick a piece of it up, it has a…
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Life Following Christ
Scripture: Matthew 23, 1 Corinthians 12:12-21 I want to use a passage of scripture this morning from Matthew chapter 23, if you'd like to find that in your Bibles. This passage follows a series of events in which Jesus has been attacked. The scribes and the Pharisees and the Sadducees have all…
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Love That Does Not Quit
Scripture: Matthew 23:37-39, Matthew 23:33 We will be taking the 23rd, our Lottie Moon Mission Offering, but of course if you are going to be gone that day or you just get anxious about it, you can turn it in any time. Make sure you indicate that it's for the Lottie Moon Offering, which is a...
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Loving God and keeping His Requirements
Scripture: Deuteronomy 11:8, Leviticus 19:11 Moses is just finished in chapter 10, sort of laying the foundation for what will be the guidelines for the people of Israel when they settle in the land of promise that God was guiding them to. He describes the commitment that they are to make to love...
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Loving Others
Scripture: Matthew 22, Leviticus I want to read a passage this morning from Matthew chapter 22, if you'd like to find that and hold it for a few moments. I'll be using it a little while. In this story, Jesus was confronted by people who were questioning. This is the third of a series of these...
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Understanding Failure and Faith in Christ
Scripture: Matthew 26:50, Matthew 26:69 I have two passages I want to read this morning. Matthew chapter 26, I want to begin reading with verse 50 of chapter 26. Amen. Boy, you're right on that today, getting started good. And then I want to read another passage from chapter 26, beginning with...
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The Tale of Two Disciples: Peter and Judas
Scripture: Matthew 26:69, Matthew 27:1-10, John 6:64-71, John 12 I want to read this morning a passage from Matthew, if you'd find that in your Bibles. Matthew chapter 26, and I want to read through chapter 27 verse 10. Chapter 26, starting with verse 69, reading through chapter 27 verse 10....
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Necessity of Obedience
Scripture: Deuteronomy 11:13, John chapter 1 Open your Bibles to Deuteronomy chapter 11. Which one do you want to turn to? You just turn to whichever page you want. One time I had a course, a night course in seminary and they asked me to teach it. It was lay people. It came to a course on church...
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One God
Scripture: Psalms 68:4 I don't know if you have found, as you read the Old Testament, it puzzling how a hard it seemed to be for God to get to the Israelite people away from idolatry. Has that ever puzzled you why they kept falling back into idolatry? I think it would help us maybe in this…
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One Thing That is Certian
Scripture: Matthew 24:32-35 Jesus often times said things to people that were shocking, that they didn't expect, and what he said to his disciples on this occasion was very shattering. I want to read from chapter 24 of the book of Matthew, and I want to talk about verses 32 through 35, this is…
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Our God is Greater
Scripture: Matthew 23:13-22 I want to use several verses in this passage. I want to concentrate on verse 16 through 22, but I want to use verses 13 through 22. The passage in chapter 23 is a sharp condemnation that Jesus uses of church leaders, preachers, Sunday school teachers, we would say,...
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Our Helpless Condition
Scripture: Romans chapter 7 The next time you go to use your credit card, remember to bring your credit card with you. The next time you go to use your credit card, remember to bring your credit card with you. The next time you go to use your credit card, remember to bring your credit card with...
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Relationship of a person to God
Scripture: Deuteronomy 10:12, Deuteronomy 10:14, Deuteronomy 10:17, Deuteronomy 10:20, Deuteronomy 11:1 Deuteronomy chapter 10. This is a time for a commercial. This niacin is good for whatever ails you. Niacin. Be careful, but don't take too much. Shayla Irvin says niacin is what made her…
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Signs of His Coming
Scripture: Matthew 24:23 Well, that Mayan calendar was just wrong. You realize the world didn't end? Everybody's kind of interested in it. Whenever that story came out, you saw it on the news and heard people talk about it. People always reminding us that the next day or two or three days, the...
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Spiritual Blindness
Scripture: Matthew 23:13-22 I want to use several verses in this passage. I want to concentrate on verse 16 through 22, but I want to use verses 13 through 22. The passage in chapter 23 is a sharp condemnation that Jesus uses of church leaders, preachers, Sunday school teachers, we would say,...
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Standing in People's Way
Scripture: Matthew 23:13-14 I want to read a passage of scripture from Matthew chapter 23, if you'd find that in your Bibles. I want to read verses 13 and 14 from that passage. This is a time in Jesus' ministry when there was a lot of tension in His life. The religious leaders had been following...
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The Lamb of God and the Sin of Rebellion
Scripture: John 1:29 It's not often that bad things happen, but somebody stole my clock down here. I don't know who did that, but it's gone. And you should pray for them, because that means that I don't have a clock to watch, so I know when the time is. So, I'm going to take this off and try to...
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Living in Unity Amidst Differences
Scripture: Romans 14:9-23, Romans 14:19, Romans 12 I want to read Romans chapter 14 verses 9 through 23. And in this Paul is talking about what it means to live a life of faith in the church. Now he's talking about this in the middle of a discussion about people who are in dispute over issues…
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The Consequences of Rebellion and God's Grace
Scripture: Genesis 3:1-24 We started a study in a small group this morning about atonement. It means how is it that God brings together people who have been alienated or separated from him. And in the cover of it, it talks about the thread of atonement. And in the lesson, it talks about the...
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The Role of Fasting and the Holy Spirit in Our Lives
Scripture: Isaiah 58, Romans 8:1 I'm going to read several pieces of Scripture today. If you want to find them, I'll have to just announce them as I get to them. In the beginning of the world, God made Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were made like all the other animals in the world with all the same...
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Entering the Narrow Gate of God's Kingdom
Scripture: Matthew 7:13, Matthew 7:21, Matthew 16:21, Luke 18:18 I read this week that they'd done a survey and 75% of the people in this country say that they pray. I'm sure that some of those people, I'm getting a ringing here, if you guys can alert to that. I'm sure that some of those people…
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Living Sacrifices: A Life of Faith and Mercy
Scripture: Romans 12:1-2, Romans 11:28 This is September the 22nd, Sunday night, and I'm going to talk about what it means to be saved, Romans chapter 12, verses 1 and 2, if you can find that in your Bibles. If you were to ask someone, how does a person become saved and what does it mean to be...
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Living in Harmony: Rejoicing and Mourning Together
Scripture: Romans 12:15 If you would open your Bibles, Romans chapter 12, verse 15. And this is January the 5th in Romans chapter 12, verse 15. Join me in prayer. Father, we ask that you would open our minds and hearts as to how we are to live in relationship with each other. We ask that you…
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Transformed by Renewing Your Mind
Scripture: Romans 12:1, Romans 12:9, Romans 12:14, Luke 6:27-30 Okay, this is December the 29th, Romans chapter 12, and I want to begin, I want to focus on verse 14 of chapter 12. Whenever you read the book of Romans, so much of the arguments in that book seem profound and they are, and they seem...
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Living in Obedience to God's Commandments
Scripture: Deuteronomy 23 Deuteronomy, chapter 23. What the book of Deuteronomy is set up to do is to explain to the people who are followers of God how they ought to live. And whenever you use the word love in any kind of context, it has different meanings to different people. What the Bible is...
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Righteousness by Faith: Jews and Gentiles in Romans
Scripture: Romans 9:6, Romans 9:30, Romans 1:17, Romans 10:2 Wrap up of everything that Paul has been saying for the last several chapters, sort of concluding it and getting ready for the next section. Paul is really talking about, in verse 6 of chapter 9, where he talks about, it is not as…
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