Pleasing God 1 Thes. 4:1 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO 1 Thes 4:1 says, “Ye ought to walk and to please God.”  This lesson is about pleasing God.  And not just about pleasing God once but abounding more and more in pleasing God. You cannot please God and be a: Self-pleaser –...

In the history of the Church, God has used certain men in a big way to get his work done.  He used Peter to preach to thousands.  He was the apostle to the Circumcision.  God used Paul to preach to thousands. He was the apostle to the Uncircumcision.   In...

Pray for America 1 Tim.2:1-3 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO We need to pray for America.  But how do we pray?  And what do we pray for? Pray for those in authority – 1 Tim 2:1-3 – a quiet [Acts 9:31], and peaceable life [Jer 29:7], in all godliness [1 Tim 6:5;...

Public Ministry Prov. 1:20-23 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When you read in Prov 1 that wisdom crieth without, you may wonder how she does it.  Wisdom crieth without through public ministry. Public ministry is public, Prov 1:20-21 – it is accomplished by publishing the word of God “without” the four walls...

When you search for the word “resist” in the Bible, you find some references that give us great instruction.  To resist is to withstand the force or the effect of; to be able to repel; to exert oneself to counteract or strive against.  Notice what we are to resist and...

In Lk 5:1-11, Jesus preached to a crowd of people on the shores of the lake of Gennesaret.  The people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, Lk 5:1.  And since there were two unoccupied ships nearby, the Lord entered into the one owned by Simon, and “prayed...

The Voice of God Ex. 19:5-8 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In Ex 19:5-8, Moses told Israel to obey the voice of God.  And the people said, “All that the Lord hath spoken we will do.”  The truth of the matter is that people don’t want to hear the voice of God. ...

In Thessalonica, in Acts 17:2, Paul “reasoned with them out of the scriptures.”  As Paul preached Jesus Christ, there are certain things he did that we should consider doing as we deal with people in personal work.  While we tell them about Jesus, we should also: Reason with them –...

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...

When you consider preaching Jesus Christ to others it helps to understand what preaching Jesus entails.  There’s a lot to it.  Today we are going to look at what Paul and some of his fellow preachers did when they went about preaching Jesus.  Preaching Jesus entails: Publishing – Acts 13:49...