Christians must continue to repent of their sins–it is a life-long challenge. The function and purpose of repentance sometimes gets neglected in our lives, and that is dangerous ground to stand in! The warning for us is that we never take for granted the calling of God or the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. We must not allow sins to sear our conscience.
Sermons
Why Not Heaven? Part 2
Did Paul believe that he would go to heaven? Is this what he meant when he said that he wanted to depart and be with Christ? Did Christ promise Peter heaven when He told him that he would follow Him later, even though He said that he could not come where He would go? What did Christ mean when He said: “Where I am you cannot come?” Did Christ promise His disciples a place in heaven when He told them that there were many mansions in His Father’s house, and that He would go to prepare a place for them? If you believe that heaven is the reward of the saints, then the answers in this sermon will shock and surprise you.
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No Other Gods
Do we live our lives in accordance with God’s Will? Do we live according to the faith God has allowed in us? Or do we live our lives based upon our own will, in accordance with the standards of this world?
When we vary our approach according to the world’s standards, we effectively condemn ourselves in what we have approved (Romans 14:22). When we do this, we have placed this world’s ways above the ways of our God, an action the Scripture refers to as idolatry.
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The Time of Harvest
Jesus Christ taught about the Kingdom of Heaven, and he spoke of the time of harvest of the righteous. Eventually, the good must be separated from the bad–that is the final step taken in the process of harvesting. Will we be among the wheat or the tares?
In the Beginning – Part 3
When God created a physical garden for man–the Garden of
Eden or Paradise–, He made special trees and placed them in the midst of the
garden. These trees had special symbolic meaning. They were called the Tree of
Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. While God allowed man to
eat freely from the Tree of Life, He commanded man not to eat from the Tree of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Man disobeyed God, and disaster was the
consequence. What is the symbolic meaning of these two trees, and how do they
affect us today?
Satan's Continual Attack on Man
Satan, the deceiver of mankind, continues in his practice of using deception to trick mankind into following his ways. Ways which are contrary to God and all that God stands for. Through his deceptive ways, Satan has caused mankind to turn from the laws, the statutes, and the judgments of God to live in total rebellion to God’s Way; and to organize his life such that he appears to be doing good, while he continues to move further from the perfect Way of God.
Children of Promise
The life of Isaac has important parallels for Christians, because our life, our calling and our future fall along similar lines. Importantly, God’s promise to Abraham that Sarah would bear Isaac centers on the role of faith. The Bible reveals that Christians are, by faith, the true children of promise–just as Isaac is.
In the Beginning – Part 2
God IS a Family–presently consisting of the Father and
the Son. God the Father, through His Son Jesus Christ, created physical,
mortal man, “in His image and according to His likeness,” with the ultimate goal
of enlarging the God Family through man. Adam and Eve chose to disobey God and
to reject the gift of His Holy Spirit, which would have made possible the
transformation from mortal to immortal and from human to divine. As a
consequence, God cut man off from Him and His knowledge, except for those
preordained select few whom He would call and draw to His way of life in this
day and age. Those who have received His Holy Spirit are His begotten
children–the sons and daughters of God. They will be born again in the first
resurrection–when they inherit the Kingdom of God as spirit beings and
immortal members of the God Family. But in order to become God, they must
qualify in this life –by keeping God’s commandments, including the Sabbath day,
which God created for man, when He created man. Those who refuse to obey God
will NOT enter His kingdom!
Satan Wants You
God established the standards whereby He desires
for all men to live their lives. Satan, the enemy of God and man, has for his
main purpose to persuade mankind not to live their lives by God’s standards.
Thus, he has fostered off onto mankind his own ways, whereby he has beguiled man
to live by them. Most of the world has been tricked by these devices of
Satan.
A Perfect Example
Knowing what has happened to the Church of God in recent
years–as well as historically, we must be all the more careful to follow the
pattern established for us in God’s Word: we are to finish the work God has
given to us; to overcome the problems that we face; to endure everything through
the love of God. We are to be a perfect example of the faith we hold–as was
Jesus Christ!
