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The Cross and Consecration 8/10/2010
The Cross and Consecration
“GOD . . . HATH SHEWED US LIGHT: bind the sacrifice”
(Psalm 118:27). The author has a dear friend in the ministry who, as a young
man, tried again and again to give himself fully to the Lord,
but without success. He was perfectly sincere, but he continued
perfectly miserable. He was one of those many young people
who are continually consecrating themselves ...
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TITUS 2:4 8/9/2010
Investing My Life in Others in a Detached World
As we open to Titus 2:4 look at the first three words: "that
they admonish". This is the final quality God desires
to see in every older woman of grace, which describes their
lifestyle of admonishing, encouraging, or calling others
to realize what God has clearly stated they are supposed
to do.
This quality is God's call for women ...
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THE CROSS AND THE WORLD 8/8/2010
The Cross and the World
THE ROMAN ORATOR CICERO summarized the attitude of the
ancient world to the Cross when he said: “Not only let
the cross be absent from the person of Roman citizens, but
its very name from their thoughts, eyes and ears.” Two
thousand years ago we find no halo of glory, no beautiful
associations of history, no nobility, and no thought of
heroic sacrifice ...
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Luke 9:57-62 8/5/2010
And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain
man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever
thou goest. And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and
birds of the air have nests; but the of man hath not where
to lay his head. And he said unto another, Follow me. But
he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. Jesus
said unto him, Let the dead bury their ...
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Getting Serious About God 8/2/2010
Getting Serious About God in an Amused World
God has explained the pathway to being highly useful to
Him in the 24 words of Titus 2. God through His Word says that
the second key ingredient is: a chosen way of life He defines
as REVERENT. Are you reverent today? Reverence is a mind and will that
has learned to feel the "weight" of God in every
part of our life and activities. The word ...
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Entering God's Presence 8/2/2010
Entering God's Presence
This is a journey into the presence of God. We enter God's
presence by way of His Tabernacle, God's tent of Meeting.
Old Testament Worship centered on the Tabernacle and then
the Temple. Divinely designed liturgy was carried on for
1, 500 nearly unbroken years in the way Moses was told by
God to do it on Mt. Sinai.
When that day came for the High ...
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Yahweh Yireh 8/2/2010
The Hebrew word raah (RA-ah, from which yireh is derived)
means "to see." In this case, it is translated
as "provide." Since God sees the future as well
as the past and the present, he is able to anticipate and
provide for what is needed. Interestingly the English
word "provision" is made up of two Latin words
that mean "to see beforehand." When you pray
to Yahweh Yireh, you are praying to the ...
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Maintaining a Balanced Life 8/2/2010
Maintaining a Balanced Life in an Obsessive-Compulsive
World God has placed a "Help Wanted" ad online in His
Word. He wants to enlist a special group of older and younger
men to be highly useful to Him. These godly men, along with
their counterparts among the older and younger women,
will be highly compensated with eternal, unfading, personalized
reward accounts in Heaven. That summarizes our ...
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Living Wisely in a Foolish World 8/2/2010
Living Wisely in a Foolish World
As we open to Titus 2, listen as God speaks through Paul to
each of us today, expressing exactly what He wants us to
be. Paul wrote out this curriculum for Titus, it was to be
taught to every person in the church as a personal map to
a life of pleasing God. This letter explains the specific
ways that men, women, boys, and girls can choose to obey
Christ ...
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God's Desire for every 21st century woman of grace 8/2/2010
God's Desire for Every 21st Century Woman of Grace
One of the most amazing dimensions of the Christian life
is the liberating knowledge that we can know exactly what
God expects from us as we live our lives on earth. God has designed each of us who know and love Him, with gender-specific
roles, and responsibilities. And each day we live we can
either be obediently pleasing Him, or ...
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Don't Waste Your Life 8/2/2010
Don't Waste your Life
In Titus 2, God says to start a training program that would
involve comprehensive, church-wide nurturing. The curriculum
God offers has 24 specific lessons. We are beginning on
those lessons in this study of Titus 2:1-2. Look again at
God's Word: Titus 2:1-2 "But as for you, speak the things which
are proper for sound doctrine: 2 that the older men be sober, ...
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A Lifestyle Representing God 8/2/2010
A Lifestyle Representing God=
As we each open to Colossians 2 today, I am reminded of the
full and rich lives almost all of us lead. Our culture presses
upon us with expectations, deadlines, stress, and a never-ending
list of assignments and duties. So much so that, sometimes
we rejoice just to get one item checked off, don't we?
When vital things in our lives are completed they give ...
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1 Samuel 2:30 7/13/2010
Therefore the LORD God of Israel declares, 'I did indeed
say that your house and the house of your father should walk
before Me forever'; but now the LORD declares, 'Far
be it from Me—for those who honor Me I will honor, and those
who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.' (1 Samuel
2:30) God will honor those who honor Him! This is the gracious heart of God. No matter who you are or
how far from ...
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1 Samuel 2:30 7/13/2010
Therefore the LORD God of Israel declares, 'I did indeed
say that your house and the house of your father should walk
before Me forever'; but now the LORD declares, 'Far
be it from Me—for those who honor Me I will honor, and those
who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.' (1 Samuel
2:30) God will honor those who honor Him! This is the gracious heart of God. No matter who you are or
how far from ...
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Hebrews 7:25 7/13/2010
Therefore He [Jesus] is able also to save forever those
who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to
make intercession for them.(Hebrews 7:25) God intends for you to get close to Him! Look at how the writer of the book of Hebrews describes those
who are saved. He calls them "those who draw near to
God through [Jesus]". This is the miracle of life
in Christ! Before Jesus became a ...
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Hebrews 7:25 7/13/2010
Therefore He [Jesus] is able also to save forever those
who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to
make intercession for them.(Hebrews 7:25) God intends for you to get close to Him! Look at how the writer of the book of Hebrews describes those
who are saved. He calls them "those who draw near to
God through [Jesus]". This is the miracle of life
in Christ! Before Jesus became a ...
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Psalm 56:9 7/13/2010
Psalm 56:9 When I cry unto Thee, then shall mine enemies turn back:
this I know; for God is for me. It is impossible for any human speech to express the full
meaning of this delightful phrase, "God is for me."
He was "for us" before the worlds were made;
He was "for us, " or He would not have given His
well-beloved ; He was "for us" when He smote
the Only-begotten, and laid the full weight of His ...
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Psalm 56:9 7/13/2010
Psalm 56:9 When I cry unto Thee, then shall mine enemies turn back:
this I know; for God is for me. It is impossible for any human speech to express the full
meaning of this delightful phrase, "God is for me."
He was "for us" before the worlds were made;
He was "for us, " or He would not have given His
well-beloved ; He was "for us" when He smote
the Only-begotten, and laid the full weight of His ...
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Jude 1 7/13/2010
Jude 1 Sanctified by God the Father. Mark the union of the Three Divine Persons in all their gracious
acts. How unwisely do those believers talk who make preferences
in the Persons of the Trinity; who think of Jesus as if He
were the embodiment of everything lovely and gracious,
while the Father they regard as severely just, but destitute
of kindness. Equally wrong are those who magnify the ...
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Is There Another Way to God through Mary? 7/13/2010
Is There Another Way to God--through Mary?
There are really two ultimate questions in life. 1st - "Do you have a personal relationship with God?"
And once you answer that, 2nd - "Is there another way to God?" Jesus stops and looks around at those seated at His feet
one day as He taught. And in that moment, and in the words captured by the Holy
Spirit in God's Word - is the setting for ...
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El Shaddai 7/13/2010
God revealed himself as El Shadday, God Almighty, to Abram
and told him of the everlasting covenant he was establishing
with him and with his descendants. Until the time of Moses,
when another divine name was revealed, the patriarchs
considered El Shadday the covenant name of God. When we
pray to El Shadday, we invoke the name of the one for whom
nothing is impossible. Key Scripture When Abram ...
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Experiencing God's Presence 7/13/2010
Experiencing God's Presence
The tabernacle which God instructed Moses to construct
is a powerful lesson for us today. We can learn an enormous
amount about how God wants us to enter His presence. Today we are going on a journey into the presence of God.
We enter God's presence by way of His Tabernacle, God's
tent of Meeting. As we examine this incredible structure,
we will see how every ...
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Do You Have a Personal Relationship with Jesus? 7/13/2010
Do You Have a Personal Relationship with Jesus?
The most important question you will ever be asked to answer
is the question - "Do You Have a Personal Relationship with Jesus Christ?"
This week as I stood in line buying food to feed 60 hungry
servants working at the church, the man behind the counter
looked at the tax-exempt paper and said, "What do
you think of that movie [The ...
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Believers are Worshippers 7/13/2010
Believers are Worshippers
The heartbeat of God's Word is worship. Today Jesus
defines believers as WORSHIPPERS! So the driving message
of salvation is worship. Jesus tells us the only thing God
seeks is worship. So, the purpose of salvation is worshiping
the God of Heaven. • The Scriptures open in Genesis with God walking and
talking with His Worshippers. • The next book Exodus ...
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Believers are Worshippers 7/13/2010
Believers are Worshippers
The heartbeat of God's Word is worship. Today Jesus
defines believers as WORSHIPPERS! So the driving message
of salvation is worship. Jesus tells us the only thing God
seeks is worship. So, the purpose of salvation is worshiping
the God of Heaven. • The Scriptures open in Genesis with God walking and
talking with His Worshippers. • The next book Exodus ...
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All sins are forgiveable 7/13/2010
All Sins are Forgivable The New Testament records 37 miracles that Jesus performed
during His earthly ministry. These include sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, life
to the dead, health to the sick - and many other tremendous
miracles supernaturally performed by Christ. Which one was the greatest? If you analyze them they were
wonderful but ALL were only temporary. • The paralyzed, lame, ...
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2 Timothy 4 :18 7/13/2010
2 Timothy 4:18 His heavenly kingdom. Yonder city of the great King is a place of active service.
Ransomed spirits serve Him day and night in His temple.
They never cease to fulfil the good pleasure of their King.
They always "rest, " so far as ease and freedom
from care is concerned; and never "rest, "
in the sense of indolence or inactivity. Jerusalem the
golden is the place of communion with ...
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"WHERE ART THOU?" 7/13/2010
“WHERE ART THOU?”
And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where
art thou? G E N E S I S 3: 9
Before we can possibly understand the meaning of that statement
in verse 9, we must look again at the great context. Genesis
3, let me remind you, is one of the most important chapters
in the whole Bible because here we have a history of the world
and at the same ...
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FIG LEAVES 7/13/2010
FIG LEAVES
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that
they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and
made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the
LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and
Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the
LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God
called unto Adam, and said unto ...
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THE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE 7/7/2010
THE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field
which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea,
hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
G E N E S I S 3 : 1
I call your attention to Genesis 3 in order that we may consider
together the essential message of what we call the Bible.
In various ways we have ...
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