Lessons in Comforting
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 comfort him in order to […]
Sort Yourself Out, Ps 77:1-6
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 Lord, v.1-3, what’s in your […]
Thy Rod And Thy Staff, Ps 23:4
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, club-like end of the rod […]
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 […]
Good Signs of His Coming, 1 Thes 1:9-10
Shortly after news of the coronavirus first broke in the United States, Christians started asking, “Do you think this is a sign of the end times?” And so I preached the message that compared the coronavirus with Biblical pestilences because I didn’t believe that this was a Biblical pestilence. From then until now, people […]
Comforting the Grieving, Job 2:11-13
What can you do to comfort the grieving? Just sit with them – Job 2:11-13 – Job’s friends did more by just sitting down with him quietly than they did by trying to talk him through his situation. It’s hard to know what you should or should not say; you can’t explain why what their […]
Believe the Truth, 2 Thes 2:13-17
Today, we are studying 2 Thes 2:13-17. This passage is in the context of the rest of the chapter, which we studied previously. From that lesson, we saw that there is a falling away first before the revelation of the man of sin [2 Thes 2:3]. The church age ends in apostasy. Therefore, Paul reassures […]
How Does God Reveal His Will? (part 2)
How Does God Reveal His Will? Eph.5:17 Part Two The Testimony of the Holy Spirit [Ephesians 1:13] “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,” At the moment that […]
He Refused to be Comforted, Gen 37:35
There are three places in your Bible where you read that somebody refused to be comforted. We are going to study these people and their circumstances in which they refused to be comforted. We won’t go too deeply into the doctrinal material in these passages, so we can glean the spiritual truth they contain. Jacob […]
Consolation Aboundeth, 2 Cor 1:1-11
In 2 Cor 1:1-11, Paul wrote to the Corinthians about consolation. Consolation is comfort; it is the act of consoling; it is also the state of being consoled. Consolation aboundeth: Because it comes from God – 2 Cor 1:3 – Paul said that God is “the God of all comfort.” When consolation comes from God, […]