Study to be Quiet

Study to be Quiet (Ecclesiastes 5:1-7)  The passage for this lesson deals with being rash with our mouth. Have you ever stopped and considered how many words that you say in one day or maybe even a week. I would imagine that most everyone would be surprised if they were all recorded and numbered and […]

Bitterness – Bro. Joshua

Bitterness   Ephesians 4:29-32 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malica: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. Corrupt communication- any conversation that does not edify the hearer, which in turn […]

Faith, Meekness, Temperance, Gal 5:22-23

We have been studying the fruit of the Spirit in Gal 5:22-23.  Today, we are going to discuss faith, meekness, and temperance.  Remember that these are not independent of each other.  We’re not talking about fruits, plural, but rather a singular fruit of the Spirit manifested in nine different qualities. Faith Initially, we are saved […]

Long-suffering, Gentleness, Goodness

The fruit of the Spirit manifests itself in 9 spiritual qualities.  Today we are going to study long-suffering, gentleness, and goodness. Long-suffering.  This is the ability to suffer through something for a long time.  It’s one of God’s characteristics, Ex 34:6.  It’s this quality that allows him to lead you to repentance, Rom 2:4, after […]

Spirit Fruit Love Joy Peace, Gal 5:22

The fruit of the Spirit is a singular fruit.  Its various qualities are love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith meekness, temperance.  All of these manifest themselves in you in the same proportion. All of these are qualities of God’s character. God is love, 1 Jn 4:8.  Jesus said, “These things have I spoken unto […]

Sanctification of the Soul

I Thessalonians 5:23 “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ”.   Introduction: In our Sunday School class we are going through a series regarding Sanctification. According to this verse, we are to live a […]

Eyewitness Accounts of the Resurrection

Can we be sure that Jesus rose from the dead?  Yes!! There are many infallible proofs of his resurrection!  We are going to study the eyewitness accounts of his resurrection. (Acts 1:3) To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the […]

Contradiction of Sinners Against Himself Heb. 12:1-4

In this lesson we are going to look at the contradiction of sinners that Jesus suffered. The purpose for this is to help us overcome sin and the weights that so easily beset us as the passage says. The trick to doing this will be considering the author and finisher of our faith, the Lord […]