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A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Fire in Ziklag, Blood in Gilboa. 1 Samuel (Selected Scriptures) Subtitle: Pretoria West Bible Church Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 3/23/2025 Length: 51 min.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Jesus' Resolute Journey. Luke 9:51 Subtitle: Pretoria West Bible Church Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Conference Date: 3/29/2024 Length: 54 min.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Motivation from the Trinity 5 of 5 Subtitle: Motivation from the Trinity Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 1/7/2024 Length: 69 min.

The mystery and majesty of the Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—unfold a profound narrative of salvation and glory, intricately woven from eternity to eternity. The Father's grand design, the Son's magnificent accomplishment, and the Spirit's enduring application converge in a cosmic tapestry of divine love and justice. As we delve into the depths of this divine plan, we find ourselves awestruck by the promised transformation of our frail, earthly existence into a state of eternal, spiritual glory. This hope, grounded in the resurrection and the ultimate revelation of God's kingdom, calls us to a life of worship, anticipation, and deep reflection on the profound truths of Scripture. Let us embrace this journey with faith and joy, anticipating the fulfillment of God's glorious promise, where pain, sin, and death are vanquished, and we, in perfect unity with the Triune God, experience the fullness of His presence and love forevermore.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Motivation from the Trinity 4 of 5 Subtitle: Motivation from the Trinity Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/31/2023 Length: 63 min.

Let's deeply appreciate the magnificent roles of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in our faith and lives. The Father's plan, the Son's sacrifice, and the Holy Spirit's guidance are not distant concepts but vibrant realities that shape our existence. Remember, as temples of the Holy Spirit, we carry God's presence in every moment. Let this truth comfort and guide us, especially in times of loneliness or temptation. Embrace practical methods to keep this awareness alive—a memorized verse, a daily reminder, a note—and let them be anchors in your spiritual journey. In our struggles with sin and doubts about our faith, let's recognize the Holy Spirit's transformative work within us, a sure sign of God's active presence. As we part today, let's live confidently, uplifted by the knowledge that the Triune God is intimately involved in every aspect of our lives. May this assurance inspire us to live fully and faithfully, in harmony with His divine plan.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Motivation from the Trinity 3 of 5 Subtitle: Motivation from the Trinity Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/24/2023 Length: 67 min.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Motivation from the Trinity 2 of 5 Subtitle: Motivation from the Trinity Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/17/2023 Length: 69 min.

This sermon journeys through the profound mystery and motivation of the Trinity, emphasizing the Son's role in fulfilling the Father's grand plan. We see the Son's involvement in creation, His embodiment in human life, and His ultimate victory over sin and death. This divine accomplishment invites us to worship with gratitude and live in the temporal and eternal freedom Christ has secured. As believers, we are called to embrace this freedom, share our hope, and look upward, finding glory in the ordinary. If you have not yet received Christ as your Saviour, the urgency of finding refuge in Him is clear. It is only through the Son that you can find true rest and escape the eternal condemnation of sin.

As we reflect on the awe-inspiring reality of God's existence as a Trinity and His meticulous planning in both creation and redemption, we are drawn into a deeper understanding of our purpose and calling. This knowledge is not merely theoretical; it profoundly impacts our daily lives, offering us both comfort and challenge. Firstly, the realization that our lives are part of God's grand design brings immense comfort. We are not adrift in a chaotic universe, but are held in the steady hands of a loving Creator who plans and preserves. This understanding should fill us with a profound sense of security and purpose, even amidst life's uncertainties and struggles. Secondly, this knowledge challenges us to live intentionally. Recognizing that we are part of God's intricate plan, we are called to actively participate in His work, using our unique talents and opportunities for His glory. This involves thoughtful planning and reflection on how our lives align with God's purposes. It means setting goals, seeking growth, and being willing to stand against cultural norms that conflict with God's design. Finally, this understanding of the Trinity and God's sovereign plan should drive us to a life of worship and gratitude. As we ponder the depths of God's wisdom and love, our hearts should overflow with praise. Let us therefore embrace our role in His story, trusting in His plan, living with purpose, and glorifying Him in all we do. Remember, in the grand tapestry of creation and redemption, each thread – including yours – is woven with divine intention and care.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Motivation from the Trinity 1 of 5 Subtitle: Motivation from the Trinity Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/10/2023 Length: 65 min.

Our focus on the Trinity today highlights the profound and mystical nature of God's existence as three distinct Persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – who are each fully God, yet collectively form one God. This doctrine is central to the Christian faith, influencing our understanding of sin, salvation, grace, and other key concepts. The unique roles and functions of each Person of the Trinity in creation and redemption exemplify a harmonious relationship marked by deep love, mutual glorification, and interdependence. This theological truth calls for worship and awe, as it reveals a God of compassion and glory, offering a solution to the world's ills. It also serves as a model for believers, encouraging them to emulate the Trinity's selfless love, reliance on one another, and contentment within their God-given roles, fostering unity and harmony in their relationships and communities.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Communion--Jesus' Meals with Sinners Subtitle: Why do I Love the Church? Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 6/18/2023 Bible: Matthew 26:26-29 Length: 49 min.

Jesus goes against the expectations of self-righteous religious people and eats with sinners. He is not defiled by them, rather he calls them to himself. As Jesus prepares to die for the sinners he loves, he has a meal with them and tells them to have a meal like this again and again until he returns in glory to take every one of them, and all who would be saved, away to eternal glory. So in communion, we remember and proclaim that Jesus died, that he died for us—his people, that just as our Lord loves each one of us, so we also love each other, that we are totally dependent on Christ, that Christ still loves us, that all of the blessings Christ purchased for us are still reserved for us. Because communion—Jesus' meals with sinners—means so much, we respond in faith and abandon ourselves again to his wonderful intentions for us, his people.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Baptism, Wet and Dry Subtitle: Why do I Love the Church? Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 6/11/2023 Bible: Romans 6:1-7 Length: 44 min.

God is actively engaged in one glorious activity. He is removing individuals from the family of Adam that is terrified by death and the continual misery of the consequences of sin. Where pain and destruction last forever. And he is adopting those individuals into the family of Christ, where overwhelming grace flows continually. A household of endless life, light and joy. Because this reality is so significant, God has given us the symbol of water baptism by which an individual can declare to the world that this is true of them! Everyone who knows them can see they have new life in them and are convinced by their joyful profession of faith. We baptise them by full immersion because God has already baptised them into Christ fully. Today we celebrate the wonderful work of God in the lives of those to be baptised!

It takes guts to be a Christian. If we don't stand for something we will fall for anything. God has told each of us to be strong and to not only have courage but for us to be of good courage. It requires faith to do so but it is possible.

The walking dead don't own God as their Lord. God has warned them about their ways but they choose to ignore Him. There is a remedy to this condition, it is being saved by Jesus.

We all struggle in this life, we are going to have to fight against our flesh and fight against Satan. God has commanded us to fight, the least we can do is our best for Him.

So often when revival comes it is because the minority were willing to do what they could. The outcasts did what the others were unwilling to do. It was the short timers who made the most of their opportunity. Those few did something to change the status quo. We all need to do something between now and when we die.

Why would we sit still and wait around to die when we could be doing something for God? We need to have faith in God to revitalize our faith. When was the last time we asked God for a miracle?

Jesus let the Father order His steps. As a result He was where He was needed, when He was needed. He let God use His unscheduled minutes to serve Him. He wasn't worried about His convenience but lost souls.

A new MP3 sermon from Benoni Bible Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Deliberate Victim Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: Benoni Bible Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 4/23/2023 Bible: John 18:1-11 Length: 42 min.

Sermon | John 18:1-11 | Sunday Morning Service, April 23, 2023 Preacher: Alan Lester Visit Benoni Bible Church: www.benonibiblechurch.co.za Address: 149 President Brand Rd, Rynfield, Benoni - view on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/ppj71UAxx312CRmm7 Copyright © 2023, Benoni Bible Church. All rights reserved.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Deliberate Victim Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 4/7/2023 Bible: John 18:1-11 Length: 34 min.

There is something unspeakably heroic about the man who deliberately steps forward into great calamity because he knows it is the only way to secure the safety of others.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Peace with God Subtitle: Pretoria West Bible Church Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 3/5/2023 Bible: Romans 5:1-2 Length: 41 min.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: A Divine Son Subtitle: Favour with God Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 1/1/2023 Bible: Luke 1:26-33 Length: 44 min.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: A Divine Son Subtitle: Favour with God Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 1/1/2023 Bible: Luke 1:26-33 Length: 44 min.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: A Human Son Subtitle: Favour with God Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/25/2022 Bible: Luke 1:26-33 Length: 35 min.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: A Human Son Subtitle: Favour with God Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/25/2022 Bible: Luke 1:26-33 Length: 35 min.

Today we enter a new year. Over Christmas we have remembered the angel Gabriel announcing Mary's coming pregnancy and birth. The fact that God had chosen to pour out his favour on her was too wonderful for her. She gave birth to a fully human son whom she treasured all the way through his life until his shocking death by crucifixion. Yet darkness is turned to light for her and for you, believer in Jesus, when the crucified Christ rises from the dead in a display of power this world has never seen. His resurrection is a demonstration of the fact that he is fully God. As the God-man he now reigns in glory and will return to bring his people into his glory forever. This is your story today Christian. Embrace it. Find your identity in it. Find pleasure in it. Convince other people of it.

So in this surprise moment where Gabriel appears to Mary, we discover that we struggle to grasp and surrender ourselves to the vast kindness of God in the gospel. God proved his intentions to Mary, a virgin, were good in granting her that miraculous pregnancy. The son born was a thrilling blessing and advantage to Mary and you you and I by extension. The son born was fully human as well as fully divine. It is important that the son is fully human because he is the true Christian's representative obedience, substitute sacrifice, mediator between God and men, ruler over creation, example in life, pattern of glorification, sympathetic high priest, and all of these forever! So you are called upon to worship and trust this Son with joy today because he is everything you need to live a well-adjusted life before God and men, forever.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The King of Glory Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/18/2022 Bible: Psalm 24 Length: 41 min.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The King of Glory Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/18/2022 Bible: Psalm 24 Length: 41 min.

Crowds enter Jerusalem with rejoicing as the ark of God comes through the gates. While the gates open by the authority of the glorious Creator King, what gives those crowds the right to enter with the King of Glory? The right of access must depend on God himself in his great salvation.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Longing for the Morning Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/11/2022 Bible: Psalm 130 Length: 48 min.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Longing for the Morning Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/11/2022 Bible: Psalm 130 Length: 48 min.

Regardless of how dark your life has grown, you can hope in the Lord. Your love has already failed, not only your love for the Lord, but your love for other people as well. And God Himself, oh what a glorious fact, will come to you personally, in your distress, and He will buy you out of your sins and distress, right down to the very last sinful thought. Forever.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Big Idea Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/4/2022 Bible: Romans 8:28-30 Length: 72 min.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Big Idea Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 12/4/2022 Bible: Romans 8:28-30 Length: 72 min.

If you are a true believer in Christ, you can know for certain that God is working every single aspect of your life and this universe for your good and his glory. How can I know this is true? Because God has already completed many of the actions required to make that happen. He has known you affectionately forever. He has chosen you to be his own. He has chosen to make you like his glorious Son. He has chosen to include you in a glorious new, eternal family, being like his Son, with the Son being the heroic first. If you exist, believer, that is evidence that God has already taken vast action to ensure your glorification. All that remains for God to do now is to actually glorify you. Let this be your motivation in the moments of your days.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Church Discipline Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 11/6/2022 Bible: Matthew 18:15-20 Length: 65 min.

The Bible teaches that church discipline has three purposes. The first is to restore and reconcile believers who are falling into sin. The second is to keep sin from spreading to others in the church. The third is protect the purity of the church and the honour of Christ. All worthy motivations. The Bible also gives us examples of sins that were disciplined in the New Testament. These sins have three commonalities: they are publicly known, they continue over a period of time, and they are destructive to the believer and other believers. The Bible also gives us a clear process for church discipline. Christians should restrict information about the sin to the smallest group, apply measures in increasing strength either if someone has sinned against you or if you have sinned against someone else. Christians should confront lovingly, gently, humbly, tentatively, ready to forgive and exhaustively. The two possible outcomes of this process are either generous restoration or being removed from fellowship as an unbeliever. Church discipline is a very serious process because if a church faithfully follows this process, God agrees with the outcome.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Your Dread in Jesus' Cup Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 9/25/2022 Bible: Mark 14:32-42 Length: 50 min.

If you had walked with Jesus on earth throughout his earthly ministry, if you had gone with him into Gethsemane, if you had been selected to come closer to him while he prays in agony, if you had heard the unspeakable tones with which he pleaded with his father in bloody agony, would you have been able to stay awake as he asked you to? Would it have changed your life? If even Jesus' disciples fell asleep, how much more do you and I need the empowering grace of God to honour him with our lives.

A new MP3 sermon from GraceUnlimited is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Sinful Self-Exalting Heart Speaker: Alan Lester Broadcaster: GraceUnlimited Event: Sunday Service Date: 8/21/2022 Bible: Isaiah 44:9-20; Jeremiah 44:16-18 Length: 49 min.

What is stopping you and I from progressing? It is a sinful, self-exalting heart. The OT prophets showed how shocking, idiotic, irrational and sad it is to pursue what you want with disregard for God. The NT shows that to love God and love your neighbour sum up the law. But instead we love ourselves and want what we want above what God wants or our neighbour needs. When the sinful self-exalting heart doesn't get what it wants it becomes depressed or angry or anxious and responds in destructive ways. This way of life is painful and drives you away from true progress. The way out is to identify the source of your strong emotional struggles in the sinful self-exalting heart and come to honour God in true submission, humility and resulting joy.