Bible messages delivered at a small church in Minot, North Dakota
Sin in the church. The appropriate response is to mourn because sin has been embedded in the church. Plus, what to do when someone's sin comes out.
The gospel transition from the Jews to the Gentiles.
Paul is writing to people who thought they were spiritual but were carnal. They were self interested. Their building of the church was bound to meet failure. You cannot build with better materials than the gold and jewels of God's word. Either you teach your idea, or you teach God's idea. His thoughts are all gold and gems. A person who pushes their personal agenda is deceived, no matter how brilliant their idea is. Let go of your idea, and realize that you don't understand God's thought process. Search out His thoughts.
Looking at the characteristics of the harlot from Revelation 17 as derived in the letters to the 7 churches. 1) She left her first love. 2) She is of the synagogue of Satan
Nehemiah prayed and waited 4 months for God's answer. We pray when we don't have what we want, we wait on the Lord, and trust that He will give what is good.
The gospel going to pagan cultures. An analysis of the pagan culture and its contrast to Christianity.
The devil had one weapon - is God fair?How did Job conquer Satan? By trusting God. What silences every doubt? He didn't spare His Son.MelchizedekCan you have love without faithfulness?Can you have peace without righteousness?The Israelites lost their identity of Temple, priests, sacrifices. They now have Kosher, Sabbath, and remembrance.
The people of God under attack by the enemy.
A time when I failed a test the Lord sent my way.
What Peter wrote about trials, as a man who had experienced the trial of having the enemies of the Lord challenge him about his association with the Lord.
The trumpets as God released the judgments. God's righteousness in judging the world.
Paul and Silas opened the scriptures in Thessalonica to show that the Christ must suffer and that Jesus was that Christ. Many responded to the truth.But there was heavy paid opposition from the Jews of the synagogue.
A look at predestination in Ephesians 1, following the train of thought.
The Lamb opens the seals on the scroll, revealing indictments on the kingdom of the 4th beast.
Overview of Revelation 1 for the people who weren't there the first time.
John's vision of the Lord Jesus. Mighty, awe-inspiring, full of goodness to His church
An example of the Spirit directing the apostles in an interesting context, where the apostles had gone out without specific guidance from the Spirit. He was with them even then and directed them to meet with Lydia, who would be the first convert of the West.
the Son of Man coming with the clouds and the connection to Daniel 7
What great things Christ has done for us
Grace and peace... from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.
Paul's continued Evangelism and the persecution he endured.
The mindset of legalism comes from distorting the purpose of God's commands to be for His benefit instead of for our benefit. This is a look at God's good intent in the commands He has issued. If we can have His mindset, then we will avoid being legalistic.
Continuing with the apostle Paul in his gospel outreach
How we can please the Lord. Paul's desire for the believers is that they would walk worthy of the Lord Jesus and be fully pleasing to Him. He wrote to them to explain how they could live in such a way that they would please Him.
The Lord gave the apostles signs as they preached the gospel. Signs are pointers to the reality. The reality isn't speaking in tongues, it is changed speech. Healing the lame man was a sign. The reality is a changed life that follows the Lord. These realities are the great testimony that persuades people to listen to Jesus.
In the beginning of Joshua is a comment on the importance of keeping of God's command to be prosperous. The same thought appears in his farewell address in the context of remembering what God had done for them. Joshua called on the people to make the choice to follow the Lord.
Paul wrote that the believers were complete in Christ. They did not need to add traditions and principles to be approved of by God. Everything they needed to be complete as a Christian is in Christ.
The Father has made Christ everything to us. We are complete in Him.
The response of the Gentiles to Paul's gospel message in the synagogue.
John's instructions and care towards beloved believers
What the believer's relationship with the Lord is like in these days and how Jesus manifests Himself to us and not to the world. What Jesus wants us to do a believers while He is gone.
Concluding thoughts of the epistle. A key characteristic of people in the family of God is that they don't practice sin. They are of God, not the world. The Son of God has given them truth. They must keep from idols.
The resurrection where Jesus fulfilled His statement that He had overcome the world
The fondational truth of Christianity: We begin in sin, guilty before God; He has saved us. 1 Corinthians 13 - a better way. Receive love from God in order to love. We learn the love of God through the pursuit of knowing God, learning who He is. We may learn through nature, working, and His commands. These things are not the and goal of the Christian life, they are the means to learn of God. This is the Christian life.
The first recorded message of the apostle Paul. He spoke of the salvation of God throughout the history of Israel, illustrating the salvation in Christ.
How Jesus overcame the world through His obedience to the Father when He died on the cross.
Reviewing chapter 4, we see it is important to test the spirits and also to love one another. This is a difficult balance to maintain but necessary.
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