John 1:16 A. The Apostle John had just spoken of John the Baptist who bare witness of Christ. JOH 1:15. 1. John, as prophesied, cried (Proclaimed by crying or loud calling, announced) of Christ. c/w ISA 40:3. 2. O.T. prophets cried aloud to shew

Abraham and His Seed A. God made a covenant with Abraham and one of his seed: the Lord Jesus Christ. Gen. 12:1-3; Acts 3:25; Gal. 3:16. 1. The LORD told Abraham “in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed”. Gen. 12:3b. 2

The NEED for a PERFECT Translation: Do You Have a Jots and Tittles Bible? I. Purpose A. You're probably thinking, "This is the same ol' - same ol' stuff I've heard since I was a kid", or "Yeah, yeah we already know this stuff!" There are many out there

Dealing With Drawbacks “But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition...” (Hebrews 10:39) I. Ties with a disorderly member who has merited exclusion are to be severed. A. He is to be purged out of the church. 1CO 5:7, 13. 1. The church is

D. vs. 10-20. 1. Samson went down to marry the Philistine woman and “...made there a feast; for so used the young men to do” (v. 10). a. “Though he was a Nazarite, he did not affect, in a thing of this nature, to be singular, but did as

XIV. Judges 14. A. In this chapter, God begins to curiously use Samson to judge the Philistines who “...had dominion over Israel” (v. 4). 1. Samson was a chosen instrument to be occasionally animated by the Spirit of the LORD to begin the Philistines’ demise. JDG 13:25; 14:6

Two Mountains, Two Messages I. There are various ways in which men come unto God but all such comings are by Jesus Christ. JOH 14:6. A. God will not hold audience with the unrighteous. PSA 5:5. 1. Christ supplies our righteousness to overcome this barrier. 2CO 5

XIII. Judges 13. A. This begins the account of the judgeship of Samson, an eminent type of Christ in many ways but with his fame was also considerable infamy. B. He was a flawed champion of faith with whom we are made perfect. HEB 11:32, 40. C. He was

Debate (ROM 1:29). “Strife, contention, dissension, quarrelling, wrangling; a quarrel.” NOTE: There is a positive aspect to debate (PRO 25:9; ACT 15:2, 7; 19:9) and contention (JUDE 1:3). Differentiate between debating to discover truth and debating against the truth (2TI 3:8 c/w PRO

While the Reformation was not necessarily a revival of New Testament Baptistic Christianity, it was a revival of interest in what saith the real Book. Protestant heroes like Luther and Tyndale who read the Antiochan scriptures came to find out that the doctrine of UNCONDITIONAL election is an undeniable

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

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

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

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

Pastor Boffey preached an extemporaneous message on the good shepherd of the sheep, Jesus Christ.

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

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

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

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

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