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Losing The Inheritance Of Christ’s Kingdom I. The church of Jesus Christ is God’s kingdom in this world. MAT 16:18-19. A. It is a spiritual kingdom ruled by the Holy Spirit’s operation in the heart and by His revelation to the apostles of Jesus Christ. LUK 17:20-21; JOH 14:15-17 c/w 1JO 4:6. B. It has an inheritance of spiritual wisdom and understanding, spiritual comfort, love, peace, joy and fellowship with God, conformity ...

I. Here is some additional information about LEV 27:29, mentioned above. 1. This chapter deals with things that were ostensibly for God, some of which could be redeemed (the sanctified things) and some which could not (the devoted things). 2. A sanctified thing, person or beast had an appraised value and could be redeemed by paying that value plus twenty percent (the fifth part). vs. 13, 15, 19. 3. There are two classes of devoted things: a...

God’s Three Calls I. There are three calls of God that pertain to the salvation of sinners from sin and its penalty as God calls men unto Himself. II. There is a vital call from spiritual death in sins (GEN 2:17) to new life in and by Christ Jesus Who is a quickening spirit. EPH 2:1-5 c/w 1CO 15:45. A. It is by the VOICE of the Son of God Himself according to His will by the Spirit. The sinner is passive in its ...

Timbits 8 I. God appointed six cities of refuge for Israel where someone who without malice or intent slew another could flee for refuge from immediate vengeance. EXO 21:13; NUM 35:6-33; DEUT 4:41-42; DEUT 19:1-13; JOS 20:1-9. A. Three cities were on the early side of Jordan, three were in the land of Canaan. B. They were all Levitical cities, the tribe appointed to expertise and teaching of the law. DEU 33:1...

XI. Judges 11. A. This chapter sets forth the judgeship of Jephthah whom God raised up in response to the call for help against Ammon by the reforming Gileadites. JDG 10:17-18. B. Because of the unusual calling of Jephthah, a bastard, and his fateful vow detailed in this chapter, it will be helpful to remember: 1. Israel was prone during this era to embracing Canaanite religions and the gods of the Canaanites were noted for ...

Romans 4:4-5 I. ROM 4:4-5 is commonly explained as teaching that the sinner's faith is not a work on his part since work is there contrasted with belief. This study corrects that and proves that there is a kind of faith that is counted for righteousness. Not all faith is valid. JAM 2:19; ACT 15:5. A. The reward of heavenly inheritance (COL 3:24; 1PE 1:4) is of grace, not works or debt. B. Many affirm that the spi...

X. Judges 10. A. This chapter again sets forth the pendulum swing of true worship to idolatry, of peace to oppression, and of repentance which works salvation. This chapter is basically the set-up for the details of an unusual deliverer in Chapter 11. B. vs. 1-5. 1. In the wake of the depraved, murderous Abimelech (JDG 10), there were about 45 years of stability while they stayed away from idolatry. This was a notably long ...

What Saints Are Elected To (1 Peter 1:1-5) I. This epistle was meant to be a testimony of the true grace of God. 1PE 5:12. A. There are popular testimonies in the world of false grace which scorns election, perverts it or mingles it with works, an impossible mixture. ROM 11:6. B. The apostle’s testimony of God’s true grace begins with election! C. The epistle is addressed...

IX. This series of messages has been particularly focused on the risks to Christian well-being and peace in the church through unwarranted, unwise and even sinful exercises in information- gathering (which technology is accommodating at exponential rates). A. Meddling and snooping into another person’s private affairs are forms of being a busybody, and are condemned. 1PE 4:15. B. The internet and AI have only exacerbated the problem, and AI videography...

IX. Judges 9. A. The pendulum of peace and oppression in this chapter rests at its nadir for a season of civil strife and war. 1. When Satan is not trying to destroy the church from without, he is much willing to destroy from within (and sometimes through petty strife or power seizures). ACT 20:29-30; JAM 4:1; 1CO 6:6-8; 3JO 1:9-10. 2. As regenerate believers, we need to be ever on guard against internal fact...

4. Consider the mechanism of idolatry and the implications. This is a simplified summary: a. One senses the need for a higher power above the mundane limitations of nature. He may not even sense such a need but knows that the concept of a higher power is valuable in controlling others and so concocts a god. b. The tendency of sinful man is to concoct “gods” that accord with and accommodate his superstitions, carnal nature and expectations....

V. This year, I have been made keenly aware of the potentials for individual and corporate chaos that AI can represent to believers. I can tell you with certainty that Christians are not immune to being sucked into the rabbit-hole of manipulative information-overload. A. A faithful watchman should warn people of impending or current danger. EZE 33:1-7. B. Of particular concern is danger to the souls and minds of men. HEB 13:17. C. I would rather be guilty of a...

VIII. Judges 8. A. vs. 1-9. 1. In the thick of Gideon’s victorious “evangelism” campaign of converting the Midianites to reduction and death, Gideon must deal with trouble in the church. c/w ACT 14:27-28; 15:1-2. 2. The first grief was from Ephraim who had just had the glory of slaying two princes of Midian. v. 1 c/w JDG 7:24-25. a. This was a peevish reaction born of envy and v...

Building In Spite Of Troubles (Nehemiah 4) I. The Book of Nehemiah is an account of the building/rebuilding program in the post-captivity return of some of the Jews from Babylon. Nehemiah’s account focuses on the wall. A. Daniel had prophesied that the wall would be built in troublous times. DAN 9:25. B. The builders faced troubles from without and from within, very typical for those who ...

VII. Judges 7. A. This chapter sets forth one of the most incredible military victories of all time wherein a Judges 6-26-25 Page 11  small troop of 300 with improbable outfitting were used of God to defeat a multitudinous army of Midianites. This engagement far outranks the later famous 300 Spartans of the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) who were wiped out by the Persians. Oliver Cromwell’s ...

Mind Your Own Business I. Scripture teaches us that it is God’s province to have full insight into everything we think or do. HEB 4:12-13. A. Do you know of a sinner who should be trusted to assume such power? Do you tinker with such power using technology? B. Man’s fall was brought on by a desire to know more than was appropriate. GEN 2:17; 3:5. C. Jesus Christ warned of a season when nothing would be covered: as...

Getting Closer To God The Right Way I. This sermon is a follow-up to a previous message about making good choices based on knowledge, prudence and prayer for wisdom and understanding, not on subliminal prompts. II. It has become popular for professing Christians to emphasize relationship over religion in connecting with God, and there is some truth in this. But half-truth can also be half-lie. A. Sometimes the concept of relationship (kin...

VI. Judges 6. A. This chapter begins the account of Gideon being raised up to judge Israel. Next to Samson, Gideon’s record as a champion of faith (HEB 11:32) is the longest in this book. B. Israel’s sin in going after the gods of the Amorites (v. 10) brought them again under oppression, this time to the Midianites. They had chosen Joshua’s “Door #2” and were Judges 6-26-25 Page 9...

Prompts v. Prudence and Prayer I. Wisdom calls us to be prudent. PRO 8:12; 13:16; 14:15; 22:3. A. prudent: Of persons (rarely of inferior animals): Sagacious in adapting means to ends; careful to follow the most politic and profitable course; having or exercising sound judgement in practical affairs; circumspect, discreet, worldly-wise. B. In making choices of action, we know we are on solid ground when Scripture clearly gives ...

V. Judges 4-5. A. These chapters set forth the next degeneration and oppression of Israel, against which a remarkable female judge (Deborah) and a remarkable female domestic champion (Jael) were called and honoured. 1. Deborah the prophetess (JDG 4:4) is one of a number of prophetesses in the record. c/w EXO 15:20; 2KI 22:14; NEH 6:14; ISA 8:3; LUK 2:36; ACT 21:9. 2. The Holy Ghost called these women prophetesses, in contr...

Some Thoughts On The Nazarite A. The O.T. law of the Nazarite is found in NUM 6:1-21. 1. Being a Nazarite was not binding upon all in Israel but only to those so appointed by God, as Samson (JDG 13:5) or a vow, as Samuel. 1SAM 1:11. 2. This law pertained specifically to a seasonal voluntary vow of a Jew, and is not binding upon Gentile believers. c/w ACT 21:23-25. 3. This was a vow that a woman of Israel could ma...

E. NOTE: The sinless Jesus submitted to this ordinance administered by a sinner. Behold this great condescension of Almighty God which shows us that obedience in godly things is not absolutely conditioned upon the flawlessness of the one in authority. 1. As a child, he subjected Himself to sinful parents. LUK 2:51. 2. To qualify as a brother of the new spiritual kingdom, He subjected Himself to sinner John’s baptism. 3. As a civilian, He subjected Hi...

IX. The apex of John’s ministry was his baptism of Jesus Christ. MAT 3:13-17; MAR 1:9-11; LUK 3:21-23. A. The sinless Jesus submitted Himself to this ordinance of a temporary figurative death, burial and resurrection which spoke of His own work to save us. 1. Whereas John’s baptism was of repentance for the remission of sins, Jesus had no sin and therefore nothing to repent of and have remitted. 2. Jesus was/is flawlessly ...