Today, I want to talk about eternity. Having an eternal perspective.
Having an eternal perspective does a few things for the believer: 1) keeps the believer humble, 2) motivates the believer to live wisely, and 3) allows the believer to understand the goal of suffering.…
5) Furthermore, the gospel illumines minds.
6 For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the KNOWLEDGE…
If the god of this age blinds unbelievers in their minds (v4) so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, then it makes sense that when the light of the gospel shines, it illumines minds.…
Sin makes us crave darkness. It produces ignorance because we think we know something because our minds are puffed up with pieces of knowledge. Yet, all we have are vague approximations. Opinions. Our knowledge is piecemeal. It’s full of holes. We see dim outlines on the walls of a cave.…
Main text: 2 Cor 11:1-15
About a year ago, we finished 1 Corinthians and took a break from our trek through the Bible to study the gospel of Matthew. Now, we are picking up where we left off and starting today, I will preach the next 8 weeks from 2 Corinthians.…
Underlying Judas’ betrayal, the motivation behind why Judas said, why wasn’t this money given to the poor was his love of money. Let’s call it what it is. Money was his idol. Judas didn’t love the poor. He didn’t love Jesus.…
Here are some Tier 1 applications. Two are public applications (how we treat others) and two are personal (how we prepare ourselves to meet the coming Christ).
1) The Importance of Evangelism and Missions
14 This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations.
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Love for neighbor is when you love others practically the same way you love yourself. Put yourself in the shoes of this half dead man. What if that was you? You were traveling and out of nowhere you got mugged, beaten up and that was you bleeding on the side of the road.…
Acts 2
42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common.…
When the Gospel is preached and there is true conversion, your life changes (fruit of the Spirit).
Gal 5:22
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control.
Paul – why does he use fruit?…
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