Reflecting the God who Holds and Carries Us: Isaiah 46:1-6 Isaiah 46:1-6 1st God Holds You, Carries You with Love and Affection All Your Life! Psalm 135:15-19 How He Carries You and Handles Your Heart: With Love and Affection: He Shepherds You All Your Life: Genesis 48:15 He blessed Joseph and said, “The God before […]
From Death to Life: Ephesians 2:1-10 How We Come to the Lord. 1st Your Identity: You Were Dead! You Walked According to the World. 2 1 John 2:15-17 You Walked According to Satan 2 Sons of Disobedience 3 1 John 3:4-9 Children of Wrath 3 Romans 1:18-32 2nd Your Abundant Life With Christ: 4-10 God’s […]
From the Pig Pen Back to Father’s House: Luke 15:11-32 How We Return to the Lord 3 1st The Pig Pen: How We Get There: 11-12 We Waller in Unbelief We Live Ungrateful In the Shadow of Our Greatest Blessings. We Become Entitled We Desire Things that Are Evil: We Live Selfish, Self-Directed Lives. We […]
A Confession that Brings Life: Psalm 51 How We Return to the Lord 2 1st A Confession that Brings Death: The Way of Saul! 1 Samuel 15:12-24 You Practice Partial Obedience, while Pretending Full Obedience. You Give Yourself Full Credit for Your Seemingly Spiritual Victory. When God Confronts You Say: “It isn’t So!” You Blame […]
From the Pit to the Rock: Psalm 40:1-10 How We Return to the Lord Luke 22:31-34 When You Return, Strengthen Your Brethren! Like David: Sin with Bathsheba, Killing Uriah and then walking in deceit 1st From The Pit Psalm: 1-3 The Pit of Destruction: Literally, a cistern, dungeon, prison, deep hole, grave or place of […]
The Call, Fall and Restoration of God’s Redeemed: Part 4 Peter’s Restoration: John 21:1-22 1st We Live a Confessional Life: “Depart from me O Lord, for I am a Sinful Man.” Luke 5:8 The Confession of One’s Own Sinfulness: The Confession of His Lordship. Matthew 18:15 He said to them, “But who do you say […]
The Call, Fall and Restoration of God’s Redeemed: Part 3 Peter’s Call: The Confession of the Redeemed: Luke 5:1-11 1st The Confession of One’s Own Sinfulness: “Depart from me O Lord, for I am a Sinful Man.” Luke 5:8 2nd The Confession of His Lordship. John 6:68 Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall […]
The Call, Fall and Restoration of God’s Redeemed: Part 2 Peter’s Call: The Confession of the Redeemed: Luke 5:1-11 1st The Confession of One’s Own Sinfulness: “Depart from me O Lord, for I am a Sinful Man.” Luke 5:8 1 Peter 1:18-19 Redeemed: To be released, liberated, set free, delivered, by receipt of a payment, […]