October 21, 2001   Morning Service

Until It Is Changed

Text:  Genesis 32:24-26

Preface:   There is a Theology of God's presence.  When His manifested presence appears in any area or vicinity, the forces of darkness lose their ability to sway Christians,  The world doesn't fear Him because the Church doesn't fear Him.  The presence of God brings people to a place where they fear the name of the Lord.  How could the world fear something they have never experienced?

A.  Christians Need A God Changing Experience.
  1. Who will take hold of God and not release until they are changed?
  2. People of passion will desperately pursue what educated tell them can't be caught.
  3. Jacob knew what a blessing was because he remembered what happened when his father laid his hand upon his head
    a.  Can we remember how it felt when God blessed us?
    b.  Is what we are seeking from God worth saying that we are not going to let go until we are blessed?
B.  We Don't Need A Discount Store Mentality.
  1. Whether we come for revival, physical healing or a financial blessing, we want to receive it at the cheapest price and shortest time possible.
  2. God's people don't need a "blue light special".
  3. We know what we want, but do we know what we need?
C.  Jacob's Name.
  1. Jacob's name means "supplanter" or trickster.
  2. He was a lifelong deceiver, a trickster who stole his older brother's blessing
D.  We Need To Wrestle Until We Get A Name Change.
  1. Jacob needed a new life, not a blessing on a messed-up life.
  2. The world needs to see us limp instead of running.
  3. We need to come to church to get changed.








October 21, 2001   Evening Service

Experiences Under The Juniper Tree

Text:  I Kings 19:4

Preface:  Elijah the Tishbite was one of the most heroic of the prophets.  Bold, God-fearing, self-denying, he stands out as one of the bravest of the Lord's servants.  Elijah and John the Baptist both represent the self-denying and the valiant of two dispensations.  However, now we find him exhibiting opposite traits of character to those we should expect.  He now shows trends toward cowardice and irreligion.

A.  The Strange Course He Adopted.
  1. After the bold attack on the priest of Baal.
    a.  His Divine challenge.
    b.  The slaughter of the prophets of Baal (I Kings 18:21-40).
  2. Then Jezebel sent a message of vengeance and destruction (I Kings 19:2-3).
B.  Let Us See How He Acts under Pressure
  1. As a coward he deserts his post of honor (I Kings 19:3).
  2. He retreats into solitude.
    a.  Solitude may be good, important, necessary, but not in times of conflict.
    b.  War waging, the captain should be in the midst of his army.
  3. He sits down in gloomy despondency.  Loss of heart, paralyzed, powerless.
  4. He utters an unauthorized Prayer.  Wishes to die.
C.  Lessons Derived From Elijah.
  1. The imperfection of the best of men.  There are spots on the disc of the sun.
  2. The failings of the best of men are generally in the best phases of their character.
  3. The necessity of vigilant Prayer.
  4. The proper actions of a Christian.
Comments:  When we have a run in with satan, we must not cower off or run and hide.  The protective care of God is accessible at all times of our life.  He is God in the valley as well as on the mountaintop.







October 28, 2001   Evening Service

God's Healing Power

Text:  Mark 10:46-47

Preface:   Jesus Christ came for many reasons; one was to heal.  Sickness and disease had ravaged the earth since the time of the curse on Adam and Eve.  Christ came to destroy the curse.  The story of blind Bartimaeus of Jericho is a story of that prophecy's fulfillment.  In this blind man we see character of such depth, he speaks to us from ages past and witnesses that Christ is the healer.

A.  Jericho Was The City Where Four Blind Men Were Healed.
  1. It was a city of palm trees, an oasis, called city of travelers.
  2. Blindness is prevalent in the hot, sandy wind-torn Middle East.
  3. One out of five are blind or have eye disease.
  4. This was Christ's last trip through Jericho; it was now or never for Bartimaeus.
  5. The Gospel records four headings of blindness here.
    a.  Luke 18:35-43 tells of a blind man healed as he was coming nigh to Jericho.
    b.  Matthew 20:29-344 recorded two other blind men healed as they departed Jericho.
    c.  Mark 10:46-52 speaks of Jesus leaving Jericho and a blind man being healed.
B.  Bartimaeus, A Remarkable Character.
  1. Though blind, his other senses were keen.
  2. Blind people must become good listeners to survive.
  3. Blind Bartimaeus heard Jesus of Nazareth was coming (Mark 10:47).
  4. He reacted immediately, and he began to call upon Christ.
  5. He was determined and persistent.
  6. He would not be silenced by those around him.
C.  Christ Reacted To Bartimaeus.
  1. Jesus stood still (10:49).
  2. Jesus ask him to come to him.
  3. He cast away his garments and went to Jesus (his past).
D.  Bartimaeus Faith.
  1. His faith was the reason for his healing (10:52).
  2. He began to follow Christ (10:52).








November 4, 2001   Morning Service

The Greatness of Love

Text:  Ephesians 3:17-19

Preface:   God is love.  His love is so great it cannot be fully comprehended.  We can only imagine the "Greatness of God".  Without the love of God we are totally lost like a ship without a sail, we will wonder along with no sure destination.

A.  Love Is Like The Mountains.
  1. Psalms 125:2 tells us "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people".
  2. God's love is broad enough to surround all His children throughout the earth.
  3. In today's busy and dangerous world there is a lack of personal care and safety. God surrounds His people with attention and protection.
  4. Millions today are seeking peace through self-effort, the pursuit of pleasure and possessions.  God surrounds us with confidence and peace (Psalms 72:3).
B.  Love Is Like The Rivers.
  1. "He that believeth on me... out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water". (John 7:38).
  2. Like the rivers on this earth, God's love extends to the far corners of the earth. His love is eternal, never ending.
  3. God's love brings Spiritual life and power to everyone who are partakers of the water of life.
C.  Love Is Like The Heavens.
  1. Isaiah 55:9, "For as the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways".
  2. Human love is often fragile; God's love is far above our conception of love.
  3. His Grace and Mercy touches mankind through Jesus Christ (Psalms 108:4).
  4. Revelations 21:4 tells the Christian that God will take us to Heaven and there shall be no more sin, sorrow, suffering or separation.
Comments:  No one power, principality or other god is able to love and protect us the way Jehovah God will do.  Seek Him and ye shall find Him.








November 4, 2001  Evening Service

Where Is The Joy?

Text:  Psalms 51:12  "Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation".

Preface:   Have the cares of life and the chaotic condition of our world caused us to lose the joy of our salvation?  We can Pray with the psalmist, '"Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation".  Let us look at exactly what our Lord gives His children in the way of joy.

A.  The Joy of Pardon For Sins.
  1. Luke 15:10 states that there is joy in the presence of angels over one sinner that repenteth.
  2. Forgiveness brings freedom from the bondage of sin.
  3. Resentments, guilt (real or false), can lead to a loss of joy.
B.  The Joy of Purity in Spirit.
  1. "And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 13:52).
  2. Christian joy depends upon a total commitment to God.
  3. Complete surrender to God releases us from worry.
  4. Loving God and others restores to us the joy of salvation (Acts 15:9).
C.  The Joy of Power For Service.
  1. Psalms 100:2 instructs us to serve the Lord with gladness:  come before His presence with singing.
  2. When Christians neglect, make excuses or flatly refuse to participate in performing God's work, where is the joy?
  3. Acts 1:8 tells us that we are endued by the Holy Spirit with power for service.  In doing God's work we receive the joy of the Lord.








November 11, 2001   Morning Service

The Veteran of Prayer For Inner Strength

Text:  Colossians 1:9-11

Preface:   The Christian veteran regardless of how long they have served Christ, will admit that Prayer is a necessity.  The heart of Prayer is for the perfecting of lives toward spiritual and moral excellence.

A.  Knowledge, Wisdom and Understanding (Colossians 1:9)
  1. Spiritual truth imparted through the Holy Spirit
  2. God's will imparted through the Holy Spirit
  3. Practical knowledge gained through wisdom and understanding
B.  Fruitfulness (Colossians 1:10)
  1. Living a worthy life
  2. Pleasing the Lord
  3. Bearing fruit as an expression of salvation
  4. Growing in knowledge of God
C.  God-given Strength (Colossians 1:11)
  1. Produces power
  2. Produces endurance and patience








November 11, 2001   Evening Service

Abused But Not Confused

Text:  Job 1:8

Preface:   Job was both Godly and upright.  Lucifer was convinced that Job would sell, give up and sell out The attack launched against Job and all that pertained to him, only restored confidence in the Almighty.  Some have asked, "Why do the righteous suffer".  God will never place more upon his child than we are able to bear.

A.  Job's Earthly and Spiritual Prosperity.
  1. Job 1:3 tells us Job was wealthy.
    a.  7,000 sheep
    b.  3,000 camels
    c.  500 yoke of oxen
    d.  500 donkeys
B.  Job Had A Fine Family.
  1. Job had 7 sons and 3 daughters.
  2. Job offered Prayer for them continually (Job 1:5).
  3. Job was perfect and upright, hating evil (Job 1:1).
C.  God's Approval and Satan's Accusations.
  1. A meeting in Heaven (Job 1:6).
  2. God calls Job His servant (Job 1:8).
  3. Satan accuses Job of serving for Favor and blessings (Job 1:9-10).
  4. God releases satan to attack Job's possessions (Job 1:12).
D.  The Attack On Job.
  1. Satan asks permission to attack Job's body (Job 2:1-6).
  2. Job is attacked physically (Job 2:7,16:16).
  3. Human race attacks Job, people let him down.
    a.  His wife (Job 2:9).
    b.  His best friends (Job 4:1-11).
E.  Job's Testimony Justifies Faith.
  1. He tells of God's sovereignty (Job 13:15).
  2. He testifies of eternal life (Job 19:23-27).
  3. He testifies through his Prayer for his accusers (Job 42:10).
  4. He prophecies of Christ (Job 19:25).








November 18, 2001   Morning Service

The Sin of Thanklessness

Text:  Romans 1:21,22,28

Preface:   Have you committed the sin of thanklessness?  Are you grateful to God and to others?  How often do you say thanks?  Do you take life and its blessings for granted?  Do you presume that you will ultimately be what you need to be and be eternally saved?  Look at the sin of ingratitude.

A.  It Is The Result of A Self-Centered Ego.
  1. Romans 1:25 says "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped the creature more than the Creator.
  2. An ego-centric attitude is a degraded order.
  3. This is an inward focus on self-centered pride that counts self as primary and the center of all things.
  4. This is the sin of Lucifer, the angel who fell (Isaiah 14:12-14,  Ezekiel 28:17).
B.  A Christ-Centered Attitude Is In Divine Order.
  1. Christ is the revelation of the fullness of Godhead (Colossians 2:9,  Hebrews 1:3).
  2. When the universe, self, and others are viewed through Christ and in Him, all things are in a proper proportionate perspective.
  3. True thankfulness controls the ego.
    a.  Genuine gratitude keeps God as priority and self under control.
  4. Thanklessness has increased in the "last days" (II Timothy 3:1,2,4).
C.  It Results In Alienation From God.
  1. Romans 1:26-32 tells that God can turn a thankless person over to a depraved mind.
  2. God will let us have our way if we persist (Romans 1:24-26).
Comments:  The sin of thanklessness results from a self-centered ego, rather than a Christ-centered attitude.  It leads to taking God for granted.  The final result is complete alienation from God and the person being bound in depravity.








November 18, 2001   Evening Service

The Coming of the Son of Man

Text:  Matthew 24:37, Luke 17:28-30

Preface:   The return of Christ, the Great Tribulation period, and God's final judgment are futuristic events that constitute the culmination of a period known as the last days.  Christ was emphatic in His statement that no man would know "The day or the hour", that the Son of Man would return.  However, He did give many indicators as what the time would be like when He returned.  The most precise indicators are the two periods of ancient Biblical history that occurred during the lifetimes of Noah and Lot.

A.  Noah Lived First.
  1. We are first told of Noah in Genesis 5.
  2. Was the son of Lamech, grandson of Methuselah.
  3. Noah lived in a day of great strife.
  4. It was in this day that God stopped the long life span of man as a tool of judgment and gave them 120 years.
  5. God also announced that "My Spirit will not always strive with man" (Genesis 6:3).
  6. God also decided to destroy all mankind that He had created on the earth.
  7. This decree of judgment was a complete annihilation of life from the planet Earth and was like no other judgment that God had wrought.
  8. Genesis 6:8 is one of the most important verses in all of the Holy Writ "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord".
B.  Let Us Look At Things That Existed In Noah's Day.
  1. Great wickedness filled the earth.
  2. Was corrupt before God.
  3. Filled with violence.
C.  Lot The Other Lesson Teacher.
  1. Nephew of Abraham
  2. Lived in Sodom and Gomorrah.
  3. God told Abraham that if 10 righteous could be found.
  4. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19).
D.  What Existed In Lot's Day?
  1. City was involved in homosexuality.
  2. Had given them over to fornication, going after strange flesh (Jude 7).
  3. Were wicked and sinners.
Comments:  Jesus said that judgment came the same day of their ease and at a time of their feeling of security.  He also said, "As it was so shall it be".








November 25, 2001   Morning Service

God Still Works In Uneventful Times

Text:  Esther 2:7

Preface:   God's presence is not as intriguing as His absence.  His voice is not as eloquent as His silence.  Who of us has not longed for a word from God, searched for a glimpse of His power, or yearned for the reassurance of His presence.  There are times in all our lives when we feel that God could not possibly work because of uneventful times.

A.  God's Plans Are Not Hindered When The Events of This World Are Carnal Or Secular.
  1. His presence penetrates, regardless, even the godless banquet hall of ancient Persia (Esther 1: 16-18).
  2. He is not limited to working in a Christian family or working just in America (Esther 2:5-6)
  3. To doubt is to draw boundaries around His sovereign control.
  4. Those involved may not be glorifying Him, but never doubt it, He's present, He's at work.
B.  God's Purposes Are Not Frustrated By Moral Or Marital Failures.
  1. Even though King Ahasuerus wanted to display his wife for carnal pleasure for the public to see, God still used the situation for His plan.
  2. Even though King Ahasuerus divorced Vashti because she wouldn't cooperate, God's plan still went on.
  3. No amount of wrong frustrates His sovereign plan.
C.  God's People Are Not Excluded From High Places Because of Handicap Or Hardship.
  1. Did you stop to think that Esther was a Jew in a foreign land (Esther 2:7)?
  2. None of this kept God from exalting her to the position that He had chosen for her.
  3. Where are you at on your journey?
  4. Are you discounting the significance of your days?
  5. God specializes in turning the mundane into the meaningful.








November 25, 2001   Evening Service

Four Super Powers

Text:  Various - see below

Preface:   There are many great powers on the face of the earth, some physical and many are Spiritual.  Let us take a look today at four great powers that should be a certainty for all Christians.  We sometimes forget the actual power that God allows us to have once we become His children.

A.  Power Number One Is The Word of God.
  1. The Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12).
  2. Is not My Word like as a fire... like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces (Jeremiah 23:29).
  3. The Gospel of Jesus Christ... it is the power of God unto Salvation (Romans 1:16).
  4. For our Gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power (I Thessalonians 1:5).
B.  Power Number Two Is In The Name of Jesus.
  1. ... In My name shall they cast out Devils... and they shall recover (Mark 16:15-18).
  2. For there is none other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12)
  3. A name above every name, at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow (Philippians 2:9-10).
C.  Power Number Three Is Power In the Blood of Jesus.
  1. Without the shedding of Blood there is no remission (Hebrews 9:22).
  2. For ye are not redeemed by corruptible things... but by the precious blood of Christ (I Peter 1:18-19).
  3. Washed us from our sins in His own blood (Revelations 1:5).
D.  Power Number Four Is of The Holy Ghost.
  1. Tarry until ye be endued with power (Luke 24:49).
  2. But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you (Acts 1:8).
  3. Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God (Romans 15:19).
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