We examine how Christ’s healings during His earthly ministry served as proof that He alone could give the ultimate healing through the forgiveness of sins and everlasting life. We also learn from this passage that Jesus must be God since He knew the thoughts and hearts of the Scribes that were present (Matt. 9:4). We conclude from this that Jesus i…
We spend time in this sermon laying out the truth of God’s eternal existence and the deity of Christ. We look at the “all things” statements in verse 6 and conclude that they are to be taken as literal and comprehensive. God alone is sovereign over history and His purposes stand. We end with a call from the book of Isaiah for all people to turn to …
We demonstrate throughout the message that believers can completely trust Christ to use even demonic beings for our good (Rom. 8:28). We conclude with proving that every person needs conversion rather than mere exorcism if they want to enter the kingdom of God
Those who have been changed by God’s saving grace have a relationship with God which is characterized by love which comes from God. We love Him because He first loved us. In our applications we look at important texts in Jeremiah and elsewhere which reveal the need for humility and gratitude for God having made us a people.…
We show how it was prophesied that the Messiah had to be truly man and truly God in one person (Isaiah 9:6; 11:1, 10). You can absolutely trust the One who “the winds and the seas obey.”
We point out numerous times that what Paul says here is advice about becoming married or staying single in a time when there was great distress. Paul holds a high view of marriage as seen in various places in his writings. In the sermon, we emphasize that whatever else we may be anxious about, all Christians must be concerned about holiness and pur…
Paul shows a high regard for marriage. It seems unusual that Paul as a true apostle of Christ would give advice with the disclaimer that it would not be sin to go against his advice. We take on the difficult issues and explain various approaches and why, in the end, we cannot be certain about what prompted Paul’s advice. We do not have the previous…
We show biblically how Jesus sets the pattern for suffering followed by glory. Since the student is never greater than the master, we can conclude we must suffer prior to glory as well. Come and hear about the high cost of discipleship that all of Christ’s people must be willing to endure.
Christ has the authority to give His people the ultimate healing. We define this “ultimate” healing as the forgiveness of sins and the ensuing everlasting life.
Our status in the eyes of the world, whatever that might be, is nothing compared to the tremendous status upgrade we obtained by God’s grace when He saved us and made us slaves of Christ.
We are children of the King and that glorious truth does not depend on how important we were seen in the eyes of the world before our conversion. The corollary to this grand truth is that Christians must not bring worldly judgments of status into the church based on who they used to be. All the redeemed belong to Christ and partakers of God’s etern…
Jesus’ miracles are designed to show the people of Israel and the world that He is the fulfillment of the messianic expectations found in Isaiah 35:5-6. Come and hear for yourself how Christ can make anyone “clean” and forever acceptable before a holy and righteous God.
We present a strong call for people to turn to Christ and trust Him since all who do not believe in the Son remain in darkness and face judgment. One must fully trust the Son to find salvation and escape from judgment.
The verses we cover in this sermon are by nature very difficult. We take each verse and each important issue that arises from it and explain what is clear, what is disputed and how what we can learn applies to our lives now. In the end we point to the need have grace to live godly Christian lives in a pagan culture.…
In this message taken from Matthew 7:28-29 and three other passages, we learn that even though the crowd is “amazed” at Jesus’ teaching, there is no evidence that they have saving faith. Jesus’ authority, revealed through His teaching, proved that He was the long-awaited prophet foretold by Moses in Deuteronomy 18:15, and it also proved that Jesus …
In this message taken from Matthew 7:24-27 we learn from Jesus that we must build our house upon the “rock.” We show that Jesus’ building metaphor is chosen deliberately since building a house requires planning. Jesus’ followers must be intentional about planning their eternal destiny upon the rock which is Christ Himself.…
God’s love for His enemies is shown by Jesus being lifted up on the cross and bearing the full penalty for sin. With this is the promise that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. We either believe in Him or perish. Those who trust Christ alone will participate in future glory.…
Marriage is ordained by God and we show this by citing Genesis 2:18 and 2:24-25. Marriage is good and was not instituted as a concession to immorality.