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The Shallow Heart 4/16/2010
The Shallow Heart
As Jesus taught He was usually surrounded by crowds of shallow
souls. They followed, listened, enjoyed His messages
- but never could get around to doing anything with what
they heard. They were fascinated, entertained, even deeply
impressed with His message and ability. They were responsive
in some ways, unlike the hardened hearts. Moved by His message
at times, able ...
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The Crowded Heart 4/16/2010
The Crowded Heart One day Jesus compared life to a field, people to soil, the
Gospel to seed, and eternal life to a crop of harvested righteousness.
Jesus also classified everyone on Earth as either - "Wayside"
or The Hard Heart, "Rocky" or The Shallow Heart,
"Thorny" or The Crowded Heart, or "Good"
which is the Fruitful Heart. That day Jesus also said that God's Word either is --
stolen away by ...
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Christ abides in my actions 4/15/2010
Christ Abides in My Actions As Paul sat to write the words we will read today, he may have
glanced out the window of his room along the busy streets
of Corinth, watching the flow of athletes relentlessly
pursuing Greek athletic glory. Each day they devotedly
streamed into the Greek gymnasiums to train their minds
and bodies to be completely given over to mastery of their
sport at the local ...
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Psalm 28:9 4/15/2010
Psalm 28:9 Lift them up for ever. God's people need lifting up. They are very heavy by
nature. They have no wings, or, if they have, they are like
the dove of old which lay among the pots; and they need divine
grace to make them mount on wings covered with silver, and
with feathers of yellow gold. By nature sparks fly upward,
but the sinful souls of men fall downward. O Lord, "lift
them up for ...
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Jesus is not only Lord and Master 4/15/2010
Jesus is not only Lord and Master but the greatest of all
friends, who willingly proved his friendship by his death
on the cross. By this costly gesture he has won the friendship
of millions of men and women from every tongue and tribe
and nation. When you pray to Jesus your Friend, you are praying
to the One who loved you before you were loveable and who
links you together with his many friends ...
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For the word of God 4/15/2010
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than
any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division
of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to
judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there
is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are
open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
(Hebrews 4: 12-13) Use God's word to win ...
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King of Kings Comes 4/14/2010
The King of Kings Comes to Consummate History Revelation 19:1-21:8; Psalm 149:1-4; Proverbs 31:10-12
After these things I heard a loud voice of a great multitude
in heaven, saying, "Alleluia! Salvation and glory
and honor and power belong to the Lord our God! For true and
righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the
great who corrupted the earth with her fornication;
and He has avenged ...
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Isaiah 40:28-31 4/14/2010
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God,
the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become
weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. He gives
strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases
power. Though youths grow weary and tired, and vigorous young
men stumble badly, yet those who wait for the LORD will gain
new strength; they will mount up ...
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God is Faithful 4/14/2010
God is Faithful One of the greatest blessings of life is to know God. Knowing God means that He also knows us. God knowing us means He knows life hurts at times. When ever
I go through hard times, sad times, dark times, and discouraging
times - I can testify with many of you that the greatest cure
comes from looking at Jesus. Remember how Isaiah 53:3 calls Jesus "A Man of sorrows
and acquainted ...
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Devote yourselves to prayer 4/14/2010
Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an
attitude of thanksgiving; praying at the same time for
us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word,
so that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ, for which
I have also been imprisoned; that I may make it clear in the
way I ought to speak. (Colossians 4:2-4) Pray for and look for opportunities to share God's
word with the ...
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In the same way God 4/13/2010
In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs
of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed
with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things in which
it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge
would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope
set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul,
a hope both sure and steadfast and one ...
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Psalm 25: 18 4/12/2010
Psalm 25:18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my
sins. It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked
with pleas concerning our sins-when, being under God's
hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember
our offences against God. It is well, also, to take both
sorrow and sin to the same place. It was to God that David
carried his sorrow: it was to ...
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Run the Race 4/11/2010
Run the Race, Look to Jesus Take some time with me looking at Hebrews 12.1-2. Notice
what God wants me to choose to point my life towards; this
is His focus for me. Remember the three areas He gives us
to work on. DROP-RUN-LOOK I must DROP whatever hinders my focus on Jesus; I must RUN
the race God has marked for me; I must LOOK at Jesus as my example
to follow. • DROP whatever hinders my focus ...
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Luke 23: 33 4/11/2010
Luke 23:33 The place which is called Calvary. The hill of comfort is the hill of Calvary; the house of consolation
is built with the wood of the cross; the temple of heavenly
blessing is founded upon the riven rock-riven by the spear
which pierced His side. No scene in sacred history ever
gladdens the soul like Calvary's tragedy. "Is it not strange, the darkest hour That ever dawned on sinful ...
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Isaiah 53:10 4/11/2010
Isaiah 53:10 He shall see His seed; He shall prolong His days, and the
pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. Plead for the speedy fulfillment of this promise, all ye
who love the Lord. It is easy work to pray when we are grounded
and bottomed, as to our desires, upon God's own promise.
How can He that gave the word refuse to keep it? Immutable
veracity cannot demean itself by a lie, and ...
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Blessed are the poor in spirit 4/10/2010
Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
WE come now to a consideration of the first of the Beatitudes,
‘Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven? As I have already indicated in our last study,
it is not surprising that this is the first, because it is
obviously, as I think we shall see, the key to all that follows.
There is, beyond any question, a very definite order ...
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Psalm 18:35 4/10/2010
Psalm 18:35 Thy gentleness hath made me great. The words are capable of being translated, "Thy goodness
hath made me great." David gratefully ascribed all
his greatness not to his own goodness, but the goodness
of God. "Thy providence, " is another reading;
and providence is nothing more than goodness in action.
Goodness is the bud of which providence is the flower, or
goodness is the seed of ...
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Luke 23:27 4/10/2010
Luke 23:27 And there followed Him a great company of people, and of
women, which also bewailed and lamented Him. Amid the rabble rout which hounded the Redeemer to His doom,
there were some gracious souls whose bitter anguish sought
vent in wailing and lamentations-fit music to accompany
that march of woe. When my soul can, in imagination, see
the Saviour bearing His cross to Calvary, she joins ...
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Giving Freely to Jesus 4/10/2010
Giving Freely To Jesus
Do You expect less of me than You demanded of the poorest
Israelite?
What a great question for each of us to ponder. As we honestly
look at God's Word and how the Lord has revealed His
desires about our stewardship of our money - what should
be our response to Him? Specifically, as we look at the Old Testament record, "God
do You really expect less of me - ...
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Psalm 51:14 4/9/2010
Psalm 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, Thou God of my salvation;
and my tongue shall sing aloud of Thy righteousness. In this SOLEMN CONFESSION, it is pleasing to observe that
David plainly names his sin. He does not call it manslaughter,
nor speak of it as an imprudence by which an unfortunate
accident occurred to a worthy man, but he calls it by its
true name, bloodguiltiness. He ...
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Luke 23:31 4/9/2010
Luke 23:31 If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done
in the dry? Among other interpretations of this suggestive question,
the following is full of teaching: "If the innocent
substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what will be done
when the sinner himself-the dry tree-shall fall into the
hands of an angry God?" When God saw Jesus in the sinner's
place, He did not spare Him; and ...
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Living Totally for Jesus 4/9/2010
God's Word teaches us 8 habits that can keep us spiritually
healthy until death. These are the marks of a healthy spiritual life that takes
the sting out of death. These are the marks of a healthy spiritual life that takes
the sting out of death found in Psalm 116. 1. v. 1 Believe in Him that He is listening and watching
and respond in love. 2. v. 2 Cry out to Him. Get used to talking to the ...
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Hebrews 13: 13 4/9/2010
Hebrews 13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp. Jesus, bearing His cross, went forth to suffer without
the gate. The Christian's reason for leaving the camp
of the world's sin and religion is not because he loves
to be singular, but because Jesus did so; and the disciple
must follow his Master. Christ was "not of the world:"
His life and His testimony were a constant protest ...
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Spiritual Gifts 4/7/2010
First, let’s just remind ourselves of some truths about
spiritual gifts from 1 Corinthians 12. Then we will notice
a simple implication for unanswered prayer. 1. God wants us to know about spiritual gifts. “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want
you to be uninformed” (1 Corinthians 12:1). 2. Objective truths about Jesus govern subjective spiritual
experiences. “No one ...
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Revive me according to Your word 4/7/2010
Revive me according to Your word... Revive me according to Your ordinances... Revive me, O LORD, according to Your lovingkindness. (Psalm
119: 154, 156, 159) How are you going spiritually? Has some apathy crept into
your relationship with the Lord? Do you sense hardness
where your heart used to be really soft towards God? Has
God moved from being the center of your life to being just
one of the ...
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Psalm 118:12 4/6/2010
Psalm 118:12 In the name of the Lord I will destroy them. Our Lord Jesus, by His death, did not purchase a right to
a part of us only, but to the entire man. He contemplated
in His passion the sanctification of us wholly, spirit,
soul, and body; that in this triple kingdom He Himself might
reign supreme without a rival. It is the business of the
newborn nature which God has given to the ...
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Ephesians 1:15 - 23 4/6/2010
Ephesians 1:15-23 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the
Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, 16 I do not
cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge
of him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that
you may ...
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Justified: No Record of My Sin 4/6/2010
Justified: No Record of My Sin
Salvation is of the Lord: initiated and designed by the
Lordand thus it is almost beyond human comprehension.
But what we do know, revealed by God through His Word is incredible.
500 years ago an agonized Augustinian monk was starving
himself to death, sleeping on a cold stone floor, hoping
to please God. He had already had the grace the church offered
at ...
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A new heaven and a new earth 4/6/2010
A new heaven and a new earth. . . . all things new (21:1-5).
End of pain, sorrow, and death (21:4; 22:3). Do you know
The Lamb? We will see His face (22:4). He and God are the Temple
and the Light (21:22-23, 25). Who can enter (21:27; 22:14)?
The River of Life, the Tree of Life (22:1-2, 14). Jesus
is coming soon (22:20)! A "little white lie never hurt anybody" is a
thought sometimes expressed in ...
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Psalm 119: 144 4/6/2010
Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding
that I may live. (Psalm 119: 144) It is so important to truly understand what God is communicating
with you through His word! But you need to know that the understanding you need is not
simply a theological understanding of what the Bible teaches.
The kind of understanding you need is spiritual understanding.
The words and concepts of ...
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