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In the Beginning: What Did God Create? |
| Can God be trusted? That is the bottom line of the doctrine of Inspiration. The Bible makes the claim that every word of this Book is from God. The Bible makes one huge scientific claim — God made the Universe, and we know and believe that: GOD ONLY WROTE ONE RECORD OF CREATION! There is only one perfect science book in the world, and that is the Bible. All other science books are flawed in that they have not been able to personally record a first hand observation of say the birth of a star, or the origin of a volcano in the earth's center. |
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David—God’s Servant |
| Doesn’t everything seems so temporal these days?
We live more and more in a world that is temporary. From the delete button on the email screen to the trash can on our digital cameras—everything seems to be short lived. When we get to the end of everything--what is left? In other words, what will last forever? Servants of God Live Forever!
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Prophecy: The Signature of God |
| There are seven reasons you should trust God's Word. These are the reasons we willingly seek to keep our minds filled with God's Word, the absolutely trustworthy record of God’s voice. The first reason I am convinced of God's Word is Prophecy: God tells us exactly what He is going to do in the future, long before He does it. That act of God, declaring in minute, clear, and amazing detail the events of the future is called Biblical Prophecy.
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David’s Epitaph— He was God’s Servant |
| We all have an appointment to stand before Jesus Christ and watch Him sift through all the days of our lives. He will be looking for what we did in our lives as His servants. When our lives are finished, God has said He will sift each moment of our life into two piles: moments lived to please Him or not lived to please Him (I Corinthians 3:10-13).
One thing will matter more than anything else at the judgment seat of Christ, and that is—who you attempted to please with your life. |
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Walking Each Day with THE GOD You Can Know and Trust |
| The chief way that God has revealed Himself is through His Word. God has shared His plan with us. God's Word is the single most valuable commodity that you can hold. It contains and endless supply of perfect answers and directions that God's Word holds for each of us who will seek Him and find His directions for our lives. The first reason I am convinced of God's Word, is that God tells us exactly what He is going to do in the future, long before He does it. That act of God, declaring in minute, clear, and amazing detail the events of the future is called Biblical Prophecy. |
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Grace-energized Homemakers |
| For the past 20 centuries God has offered to every married woman the privilege of turning each moment she spends in her hut, tent, cave, flat, apartment, or palace--into eternal crowns to cast at Christ's feet. One word, homemaker, designed by God as the role-specific ministry that pleases Him, is what He wants for godly women who offer their lives to Him through their ministry to their home. |
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Grace-energized Women Of Purity |
| For two thousand years God has been looking in each generation of Christ's Church for a few good women--who will give themselves to His plan for their lives. That plan has been laid out for them in Titus 2. When these women offer themselves as willing servants to follow God’s plan, His grace energizes them to live a life that magnifies Christ at every level, and glorifies the Lord with eternal rewards. |
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When God’s Son is Magnified, and God’s Children are Consecrated, God’s Word Prevailed |
| What does a grace-energized church look like? A grace-energized church is where believers are empowered by God to magnify Christ, when God's Word is prevailing in and through their lives, and they are willing to consecrate their lives and rid themselves of anything that hinders or displeases God. We will examine one of the most amazing chapters in the Bible, Acts 19. In this chapter we find a powerful grace-energized church that God used, and where Christ's glory is supreme.
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Grace-Energized Mothers Deal with Bitterness |
| For a believer both sacrificial giving love is commanded as well as emotional, caring, friendship love. These life-truths have always deeply impacted any society. When the Gospel that brings this impossible life into the heart of a newly saved individual starts to work through Christ's church, the world takes notice. So what would hinder these grace-energized mothers from loving their children? As we saw last time, the most formidable hindrance may be bitterness, but the most common hindrance may be selfishness. One hindrance that is always with us, is our flesh that wants to go its way instead of God’s. That is the hindrance of selfishness. |
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Focus on God |
| Jesus said that if our eye is single, all of our lives will be filled with His light. Jesus went on to say that we can’t have two masters, we must focus upon one. James warns us of the dangers of being double minded, because it destabilizes every part of our lives. Paul tells us through Titus (2:7), that God desires every man to keep a singular focus upon God and His way. A focused life is what each of us should desire to give to God today. Focus your life on Jesus Christ and you get an eternal reward, and endless delights. |
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Grace Energized Men Maintain a Pure Life |
| Grace does not change God, it changes us. Grace has opened a way to God, a safe passage through the fire. Christ's work on the Cross opens the way for us to approach and know, serve and love our Holy God. How constantly we need His life-changing grace, to energize us in our struggle against the flesh within, and the sins that so easily beset us. Sin constantly surrounds us, like flood waters; and swirling around, seeks to seep into any crack or unprotected area of our life. So we walk through life clothed in an imputed purity, also known as our positional purity which is also the purity we were given at the instant we trusted Christ as Savior. But this also means we now have an awesome new responsibility. That responsibility is what is called our personal, chosen or practical purity. |
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Learning to Follow Jesus |
| Following Jesus is the call of every believer. As the Apostle John was inspired to say, it is also the test of true salvation. Listen to him in his first letter: “Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.” (1 John 2:6) Although the word discipleship is a common term used constantly in many churches, we don’t seem to see Christ-like people developing as readily as it is talked about. We live in a land where millions of born again Christians are suffering from acute biblical illiteracy; and many of them are enslaved to culture-accommodating lifestyles. It is a critical time to reassess how God's Word says to train people to be true followers of our Lord Jesus. |
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Following Christ is Living in Him |
| In Galatians 2:20 Paul explained that as believers, following Christ means we do not live our own lives. We live the life of another--or, more accurately, another lives His life through us. The heartbeat of Galatians 2:20 is the essence of following Christ; and that is all that is essential to live our lives as believers. But, until we grasp that as the key to the mystery of Christian living, we have not graduated from the pre-school level of the Christian life. |
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Husbands Loved by Grace-Energized-Wives |
| I’d like to go back with you to the beginning—and together see God’s original intent and plan for men who would become husbands and fathers as seen in Adam. In creation God designed men to be incomplete without the woman that He made for them. Our study in Titus is just a reminder that when Christ's church has husbands loved by grace-energized wives, those wives are just following God’s plan He laid out from the beginning. God made the first woman Eve, to become Adam’s close and cherished companion, friend, and completer. |
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Followers of Christ in a Christ-less World |
| Are you personally following Jesus? Does your day revolve around Him: as you start the day with seeking Him, as you go through the day serving Him, and end the day with thanking Him? Believers are Christ's personal followers in a Christ-less world. Jesus said that eternal life is all about following Him; and He summarized His entire plan for the disciples in just two words: “Follow Me” (Matthew 4:19). |
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A Tour of the Grave |
| I want to look at the most frequently fulfilled prophecy of all. The one event that God promised would happen, warned everyone to prepare for—and yet it takes almost everyone off guard and by surprise. That is of course death—and the judgment of God upon all who die in their sins. Every second two people die somewhere on this planet. Have you ever thought what happens just one moment after death? So that we would know and be ready Jesus instructs us in His Word. Open with me to John 8:24. |
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The Promise Kept |
| God kept His promise, He sent us Jesus to be born as God with us.
God kept His promise, He sent us Jesus to die for our sins.
God kept His promise, He sent us Jesus to rise from the dead.
God kept His promise, He sent us Jesus to give us everlasting life.
God the Promise Keeper, sent Jesus the Promise Kept!
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Grace Energized Men: Healthy Faith vs. Demon Faith |
| On Palm Sunday, what did Christ do right after He rode into town? What was the first event noted right after the triumphal entry? What follows that event in all three accounts (Matthew 21:12-17; Mark 11:12-19; and Luke 19:45-48)? Jesus cleaned out the Temple. Palm Sunday was the day that Jesus cleaned out the Temple for the second time. Religious people who felt that they had all it all together and needing nothing were shocked and angered by Christ's actions. They did not understand that God wanted right living displayed in good works from the heart not just right answers. |
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Vital Signs of Living Faith |
| God commands each of us to ask ourselves a series of questions. These questions are all targeting the one very most important issue of all—the reality of our eternal destination. Because the Satanic campaign to infiltrate Christ's Church by “Christian look-a-likes” is ongoing, God commands every person who testifies that they belong to Christ, to do a spiritual self-examination; and look for the evidence of genuine, healthy faith. |
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Peter—Do You Love Me? Lessons in Loving Jesus… |
| Jesus focused on just one point in His meeting with Peter — Peter do you love Me? That was the point about which Jesus wanted a response from his special servant that morning. Jesus says if you have and keep my words (commands) then you love Me and you will get the full access to all that God wants to be in your life. Jesus is asking, why have you stepped back, let up, and drifted away from loving me supremely? Why am I second-rate? That is why Jesus asks, “Peter do you love Me?” |
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The Lesson Peter Never Forgot |
| Peter reached the bottom and came to his darkest hour. Alone and unprepared for temptation he forgot Christ's warnings and plunges into waters too deep for him. Drowning in fear, Peter succeeds in denying Jesus firmly and openly three times. But Jesus, who warned him, also prayed for him, and now comes to Peter and restores him, giving Peter a new beginning on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. |
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Peter's Gospel of Changed Lives |
| Christ's complete forgiveness and restoration takes the bitterness and sting out of our past sins—and makes them a memory of God’s grace. That complete restoration to ministry is why I say that Peter is one of the greatest examples of God’s grace, loving us even when we sin and fail Him. Peter is perhaps the greatest witness to the new beginnings that Christ offers, because Peter denied Jesus. |
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Meditation: Finding Hope in Fearful Times |
| Jesus says that we are headed toward days when people “expire”. The word is aposucho ‘breath pops out’ or ‘expires’ because of complete fear. We see that in earthquakes, fires, and hurricanes, usually among the elderly with heart attacks. But the ultimate panic attack is coming and many healthy humans will just expire for fear. God has an offer to those who live in fearful times. More than any other prohibition God repeatedly calls out to us to not fear. As Paul told Timothy in 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. I want to challenge you from the Word of the Living God – to Live the Word Filled Life – even in fearful times!
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Discipline Three—Meditation: Finding Quietness in Ultra Busy Times |
| For a believer the guard against a distracted life is the Word Filled Life. A life that is filled with God's Word is focused and nurtured by the Lord. That is the only protection we have to prevent our lives becoming distracted, dissatisfied, and useless. God wants me to have focus in life. God wants our lives to be aimed at his Glory, fulfilling our calling, filled with His hope, and living after the power of an endless life.
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Discipline Two—Spirit-Filled Living: An Overflowing Life |
| Jesus explained the Holy Spirit in our lives by using the image of a strong river of water flowing out of us. Rivers of water is the way Jesus describes the normal life of believers, His children. And that is life as God made it to be with that mighty river of water flowing out of our lives. We are refreshed, we are victorious, we are rejoicing, and we are serving joyfully. That is the life of a believer as God intended it to be.
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