Nevertheless Rev. 2:4 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In the epistles and the Revelation you will see the word nevertheless 20 times. Often when you see that word God is going to show you something good in spite of something bad. Nevertheless interrupts the current train of thought in a verse or...
Praying for the Sick 2 Kings 13:14 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When praying for the sick, keep in mind that God doesn’t always heal sick folks. In 2 Ki 13:14, when Elisha was sick, he died. And unlike Hezekiah, he didn’t weep sore over this outcome, trying to persuade God to...
II Corinthians 1:3-4 Introduction: The God of all comfort vs3, comforts us, so that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble vs 4. God comforts the believer in time of need and when someone else goes through something, the believer is able to comfort others...
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #5 Those with no Comfort (Ecclesiastes 4:1-3) This is an interesting passage. Not that Solomon is considering the oppressed in this lesson. There are many different types of oppression we will give a dictionary definition for the word oppression below. Oppression –...
In Mic 2:7, the Lord asks, “do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?” Indeed, they do. For us who desire to walk uprightly, God’s words are very good. The key is that you must be walking uprightly. These words are not good to anyone who...
Lessons in Comforting Job 2:11-13 How to comfort someone who is in great despair can be a very tricky thing. Most of the time we simply do not know what to say or do. Here we will look at the book of Job and how his three friends came to...
Our text is Ps 77:1-6. I call this message, Sort Yourself Out. You must sort yourself out whenever things around you get you down. Asaph shows us, in this text, how to sort ourselves out. Commune with your own heart, Ps 77:6. Talk over and discuss with the...
After we are saved, it is very important that we hear the preaching and teaching of the word of God. There are five specific things we see Paul doing with the word of God among the people to whom he ministered. Like Paul, ministers of the word of God should...
In Ps 23:4, David wrote, “thy rod and thy staff they comfort me”. The rod and the staff are the only two instruments a shepherd carried with him when he was with his flock. The shepherd usually carved his rod out of a sapling tree. He carved the heavier,...
The Work of the Spirit Jn. 7:39 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO I heard a sermon preached at a conference distinguishing the work of the Spirit from our work. The gist of the message is that we need to recognize the Spirit’s responsibilities and our own responsibilities. The Spirit doesn’t do all...
