Be Thou Clean, Mk 1:40-44

Our text this morning is Mark 1:40-44 about the cleansing of a leper.   Do you like things clean?  Don’t you like a clean house, a clean car, a clean body, clean clothes, and clean speech?  Of course, you do.  God likes things clean, as well.  This leper wanted to...

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The Promise of His Coming, 2 Pet 3:1-8

2 Pet 3:1-8 is a passage that assures us that the coming of the Lord Jesus is soon.   However, according to verses 3 and 4, the closer we get to the Lord’s coming, the more skeptical people are that he will come.  “In the last days scoffers… (say) Where...

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Gideon a Good Soldier Jud 6:12

Gideon a Good Soldier Jud 6:12 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Gideon a good soldier.  Gideon is the perfect example of the soldier God wants us to be. God chose Gideon to fight the Midianites because Gideon: Fed himself while under enemy oppression.  Jud 6:11 threshed wheat by the winepress.  Jud 6:4...

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Bountiful Giving, 2 Cor 9:6-15

Last week we preached on the blessedness of giving.  According to Acts 20:35, it is more blessed to give than to receive.  Through giving we have the blessedness of financial security, eternal fruit, abundant joy, and heavenly treasure.  Today, we are going to discuss bountiful giving.  Through bountiful giving we...

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Again Entangled, 2 Pet 2:18-22

We have been studying the false teachers who bring in damnable heresies [2 Pet 2:1].  Today, we are going to study 2 Pet 2:18-22, in which we learn what affect these false teachers have on people who have already “escaped from them who live in error,” [2 Pet 2:18].  You’re...

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The Gospel of Peace, Eph 6:15

We have been studying the whole armor of God on Wednesday nights. To date, we have discussed the helmet of salvation, which protects us from carnality, fear and pride.  The breastplate of righteousness protects us from unrighteousness and sin.  The girdle of truth protects us against the lies of the...

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The Work of God’s Words, Ps 19:1-14

Ps 19:1-14 is a wonderful Psalm magnifying the work of God’s words.  The first six verses tell of the work of the words [Ps 19:4] of the creation of the Lord, in which the invisible things of him are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made [Rom...

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More Blessed to Give, Acts 20:33-35

According to Acts 20:35, Paul told the elders of Ephesus that Jesus said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”  Paul had personally experienced the truth of this verse.  Paul was a minister of the gospel.  As such, “the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should...

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God Will Not Spare False Teachers, 2 Pet 2:4-17

In 2 Pet 2:4-17, Peter continues dealing with the subject of false teachers.  In this section of the chapter, Peter tells us that God will judge the false teachers and will not spare them.  He cites God’s judgment of the fallen angels, the world that was flooded in Noah’s day,...

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