There are three ways that we can learn. We can learn by explanation, and that's the way we learn so many things, algebra and cooking, mechanical things. We learn by explanation. It's also possible to learn by experience. Now, some things are best learned by experience. If you're going to learn how …
We have two passages of scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New, both of them focusing upon God and creation. Reading from Genesis 3, beginning at Genesis 3:8, and then Romans 8:18. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam …
Reading the word of God from 1 Peter 1:1-9. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ to the sojourners scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the …
We open the Word of God to Judges 6, and we're going to spend some time talking about Gideon. This is a part of our study of the will of God, and of course Gideon introduces us to a practice that many Christians use, the practice of putting out a flea. Now don't be too critical of Gideon. He had …
We read from Isaiah 43, and then from 2 Corinthians 1, and you will see the connection in these two passages in the presence of God with his people when they go through trouble. Isaiah 43, But now, thus saith the Lord, who created thee, O Jacob, and he who formed thee, O Israel, fear not, for I …
What would you do if three rattlesnakes were loose somewhere in your house? You would probably do what that family in California did when they found three rattlesnakes in their house. They moved to a motel, and they got a team of men to search through the house and find the snakes. An acquaintance …
1 John 3:1-10, gives us another insight into the promise of Christmas. Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God. Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the children of God. And it doth not …
I am reading the word of God from 1 John 4:7-21. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God. And everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, that God sent his only begotten Son …
I read the word of God from 1 John 3:7. Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that practices sin is of the devil, for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy …
Romans 5:1-11, and then Romans 8:28-30. Romans 5:1, Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in …