And Pray, Matt 17:21
Last Wednesday, Pastor Randy showed us that prayer puts God’s work in God’s hands. God is in heaven with open hands waiting for us to pray. He is ready to answer if we will just pray. In the Bible we find three things to do when you pray. We are to: Fast and Pray – […]
Effectual Working Requires Serving, Col 3:22-25
We’ve been preaching on effectual working. First, we discussed that effectual working requires learning. You must learn to hear God, to fear God, to obey God, and to know God. Then we discussed that effectual working requires training. Those of us who can train others must train them by example, by instruction, and by entrustment, […]
Dispelling Fear, Ps 56:11
In Ps 56:11, David said, “In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.” He didn’t say, “Though I am afraid what man can do unto me, I’m going to trust God.” Do you see? He’s not trusting God and fearing man at the same time. […]
The Marriage Pattern, Eph 5:22-33
Our text for this lesson is Eph 55:22-33. The subject is marriage. The pattern for marriage is the relationship between Jesus Christ and the church. In Eph 5:30, we are members of Christ’s body, of his flesh and his bones. This is the result of being baptized by the Holy Spirit into the body […]
Effectual Working Requires Training, Prov 22:6
Prov 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” This passage is not a promise, but it is a principle. If you want your child to do something when he is old, you must train him to do it when […]
Let the Holy Spirit Work, Lk 1:15
In the first four chapters of the Gospel of Luke, we see repeated references to the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of John the Baptist and his family and Jesus Christ and his family. When you read these chapters you understand that the Holy Spirit orchestrated everything. He filled John the Baptist […]
Seven Elements of Christian Character, Eph 5:15-21
There are seven key elements of Christian character found in Eph 5:15-21. These are not all the qualities of Christian character. But these are certainly seven of the most essential. If you are missing any of these in your life, you are going to struggle in some areas of your walk with God. The seven […]
We Cannot Tell, Mk 11:27-33
In Mk 11:27-28, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders questioned by what authority Jesus went into the temple and cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, Mk 11:15. Jesus answered them with a question about John the Baptist’s baptism, “was it from heaven, or of men?” At this […]
Effectual Working Requires Learning, Eph 4:15-16
Eph 4:15-16 says, “But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body […]
He Only, Ps 62:2, 6
In Ps 62:2 and Ps 62:6, notice the little two word phrase, “He only.” Those two words sound perfectly exclusive. No one else can compare to the Lord in these things that David said “only” the Lord is. He only is my rock – Ps 62:2 – He is the rock from which Israel […]