In the Bible there are five things that you should taste. These are not things that you taste with your taste buds. These are things that you taste in the sense of becoming acquainted with them by experience. You should taste: The heavenly gift – Heb 6:4 – the heavenly...
What is Left Hanging in the Tree (2 Samuel 18: 9-18) In the Bible Absalom is a type of the anti-christ. This can be clearly seen from the passage regarding his death. In this sermon we will compare Absalom as a type of the anti-christ to Jesus and make a...
Jer 17:7-8 says that a man who trusts the Lord will be fruitful as a tree planted by the waters. When we think of trees planted the waters around here, we think of river bottoms. The San Antonio river bottom was home to many families of freed slaves after emancipation...
So Shall My Word Be Is 55: 8-13 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In Is 55:8-13, the Lord describes what happens when his word is sent out. And notice, he is not just talking about what people say that God said, he’s talking about “my word… that goeth forth out of...
Humble Yourselves You’re Nothing 1 Pet 5: 6 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In 1 Pet 5:6 Peter said, “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.” The way to be exalted, then, is not to lift yourself up and promote your good...
God Desires Fruit From You Rom. 7: 4 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO “We should bring forth fruit unto God,” [Rom 7:4]. We should be “fruitful in every good work,” [Col 1:10]. When you study passages in the New Testament that deal with fruit, you realize that God desires fruit. For us...
Paul wrote Titus that we are to be careful to maintain good works. The obvious question should be what good works are we to maintain? Titus 3:8 “This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be...
When God created the earth and everything in it, he made everything fruitful. In Gen 1:11, 22, 28, he made the trees and grass fruitful, the fish and fowl fruitful, and us to be fruitful. In Gen 9:1, after the flood, he told Noah and his sons to be fruitful...
In Jesus’ instructions to his disciples before his crucifixion, in Jn 15-16, and in his prayer in Jn 17, he mentioned three things about abiding in him that we are going to discuss tonight. He was not referring to being “in the body” like he revealed to Paul . These...
VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS SERMON AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS SERMON Is 37:31 says, “take root downward, and bear fruit upward.” This is in the context of a prophecy against Sennacherib. The goal of Israel’s enemies is to destroy Israel from being a nation, Ps 83:4. However, following this attempted siege,...
