Sermon Library
Sins of the Spirit: Part 10 (Hypocrisy)
In this sermon, the preacher explores the concept of sins of the spirit, focusing particularly on hypocrisy as a critical spiritual failing, drawing from Matthew 6:1 and other scriptures like James 1:27 and Matthew 23. The preacher emphasizes the importance of genuine faith over outward appearances, urging believers to seek a pure heart and true relationship with God rather than the praise of men. The message challenges Christians to examine their motives and live authentically for God’s glory.
A Faith That Can Be Tested
In this sermon, the preacher explores the concept of a faith that can be tested, drawing from John 12:35 and various biblical figures like David, Noah, Moses, and Joseph of Arimathea to illustrate genuine faith that withstands trials. The preacher emphasizes the importance of confessing faith boldly despite social or personal costs, contrasting the secret faith of some chief rulers with the eventual boldness of Joseph and Nicodemus. The message challenges listeners to live out a faith that costs something, rooted in obedience to God’s Word.
Sins of the Spirit: Part 9 (Fear)
In this sermon, the preacher addresses the sin of fear, emphasizing that perfect love casts out fear as taught in 1 John 4:18. The preacher explores various fears, such as fear of man and fear of the future, urging believers to trust in God’s promises and love to overcome these temptations. Through numerous scriptural references, the message reinforces that faith in Christ provides the victory over fear, leading to peace and eternal hope.
Commit Your Works and Your Way Unto the Lord
The preacher emphasizes the importance of committing one’s works and ways to the Lord, drawing from Psalm 37 and Proverbs 16:3 to illustrate how trusting God brings clarity, peace, and stability of mind. Through biblical examples like David, Joseph, and Abraham, the preacher encourages living in the present moment for God, making oneself available for His will rather than worrying about the future or past. The message underscores that God prioritizes availability over ability and promises to fulfill the desires of those who delight in Him.
Sins of the Spirit: Part 8 (Fretting)
In this sermon, the preacher addresses the sin of fretting, using Psalm 37 as the foundational text to urge believers to avoid worry and trust in the Lord. The preacher emphasizes that fretting is a spiritual battle that contrasts with faith, likening it to a corrosive force that eats away at peace, and encourages casting all cares upon God. Through various scriptural references, the message reinforces the importance of resting in God’s promises rather than being consumed by envy or fear of evildoers.
Victory in the Aging Years of Life
In this sermon on Psalm 92, the preacher emphasizes the importance of giving thanks and praising God daily, regardless of life’s circumstances. The preacher highlights the victorious nature of the Christian walk, especially for older saints, encouraging them to flourish spiritually like palm trees and cedars, even as the outward man perishes. Through various biblical examples and personal reflections, the message urges believers to meditate on God’s works and remain strong in faith, showing forth His uprightness to the world.
The Necessity of the Holy Spirit in our Fellowship
In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the transformative power of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer, drawing from Romans 8. The preacher highlights the importance of walking in the Spirit rather than the flesh, underscoring that true fellowship with Christ and victory over sin are only possible through the Spirit’s guidance. The message calls for a life of love, obedience, and mutual edification among believers, rooted in Christ’s atonement.
Sins of the Spirit Series: Part 7 (Malice)
In this sermon, the preacher delves into the sin of malice, emphasizing its destructive nature and the biblical call to put it away as seen in Ephesians 4:31-32 and other scriptures. The preacher contrasts the malicious intent of a sinful world with the kindness and forgiveness that should characterize a believer’s life, urging the congregation to receive God’s word with meekness to overcome such sinful tendencies. The message highlights the importance of loving one another and walking in the light of Christ to maintain right relationships within the church and beyond.
Ready for Christ’s Return?
The preacher delivers a message centered on Luke 12:15, urging the congregation to be ready for the Lord’s return by prioritizing God’s kingdom over worldly possessions. Emphasizing Jesus’ readiness to do the Father’s will, the preacher calls for self-denial, genuine righteousness, and a heart focused on eternal treasures rather than temporary comforts. The sermon challenges believers to live each day prepared to meet the Lord, keeping their spiritual light burning brightly in a dark world.
Sins of the Spirit Series: Part 6 (Bitterness)
In this sermon, the preacher addresses the sin of bitterness, drawing from Ephesians 4:31-32 to urge the congregation to put away all bitterness and embrace kindness and forgiveness. The preacher likens bitterness to a destructive acid or a deep root that grows over time, emphasizing the need to uproot it through faith and trust in God, even amidst life’s storms. The message encourages patience, endurance, and reliance on the Lord to transform bitter spirits into sweet, fruitful lives reflective of the fruit of the Spirit.
Sins of the Spirit Series: Part 5 (Pride)
In this Sunday evening sermon, the preacher focuses on James 4:5-6, addressing the sin of pride and the spirit of envy that dwells within us, urging believers to seek God’s grace to overcome these tendencies. The preacher emphasizes the importance of humility before God, highlighting that God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble, enabling victory over sinful desires. Through various scriptural references and personal reflections, the message encourages a life of submission to God to experience His abundant grace.
Be Fruitful in the Spirit
In this sermon, the preacher explores the contrast between the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit as outlined in Galatians 5, emphasizing the transformative power of the Holy Spirit in a believer’s life. The preacher urges the congregation to walk in the Spirit to overcome sinful desires and manifest virtues like love, joy, and peace, which are not condemned by any law. Through personal anecdotes and scriptural references, the message highlights the importance of living a life that glorifies God and prioritizes spiritual growth over worldly concerns.
Sins of the Spirit: Part 4 (Anger)
This sermon focuses on the sin of anger, exploring its different forms as described in the New Testament, and emphasizes the importance of being slow to wrath, quick to listen, and allowing God to shape and purify believers through life’s trials. The preacher urges Christians to manage anger by submitting to God’s will, trusting in His justice, and responding with meekness and patience rather than retaliation.
God Will Deal With Corruption and Violence
This sermon focuses on the pervasive corruption and violence in the world as depicted in Genesis 6, drawing parallels to modern societal issues like mass shootings and abortions, while emphasizing the need for obedience to God, as exemplified by Noah, and the ultimate hope and redemption through Jesus Christ. It underscores the importance of living righteously, resisting sin, and trusting in God’s plan amidst a corrupt world.
Fret Not
This sermon draws on Psalm 37, emphasizing the importance of trusting in the Lord, avoiding envy and anger towards evildoers, and resting in God’s promises instead of fretting over worldly injustices. Key teachings include the need for patience, committing one’s ways to God, and finding true joy and satisfaction in Him rather than taking matters into one’s own hands.
The Need of Compassion Upon Those Lost in the Deception of Roman Catholicism
This sermon focuses on the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ, as exemplified in Luke 23 and Acts 2, emphasizing His prayer for forgiveness on the cross and Peter’s bold preaching that led to the conversion of 3,000 souls on the day of Pentecost. It also addresses the responsibility of religious leaders and the call for Christians to love their enemies, pray for those who persecute them, and live as strangers and pilgrims in the world, reflecting Christ’s teachings through their actions and witness.
A Scriptural Response to the Passing of Pope Francis
This sermon focuses on a critical examination of the Roman Catholic Church and the recent passing of Pope Francis, emphasizing the importance of adhering to biblical doctrine over human tradition. The speaker warns against the growing acceptance of Catholic teachings among evangelical leaders, urging discernment and fidelity to the true gospel of Jesus Christ as the sole mediator between God and man.
Faith Over Feeling
This sermon focuses on the importance of trusting in the Lord with all one’s heart, as emphasized in Proverbs 3, and living by faith rather than by sight or personal feelings. The speaker contrasts a life driven by worldly desires and pride with a life guided by faith in God’s Word, urging believers to acknowledge God in all their ways for divine direction and spiritual health.
Jesus Christ Stayed With the Plan
This sermon, centered on Hebrews 12:1-3, focuses on the importance of looking to Jesus as the ultimate example of faith and endurance, especially during Passion Week, as it reflects on His journey to the cross and His willingness to suffer for humanity’s salvation. The speaker emphasizes the need to consider Jesus deeply, trust in God’s plan, and follow His example of obedience and perseverance amidst opposition and temptation.
Our Great Need of Patience
This sermon, based on James 1, focuses on the importance of patience and endurance in the face of trials and temptations, emphasizing that God tests faith to produce patience, which believers must allow to complete its work in their lives. The speaker urges the congregation to rely on God’s strength, avoid blaming Him for temptations, and exhibit patience in relationships and circumstances, trusting in His purpose and timing.
1 John Summary – Concluding Lesson
This sermon, based on 1 John, emphasizes the core themes of God’s love, the manifestation of Jesus as the Word of Life, and the importance of living in light and truth as believers. It highlights the necessity of loving the brethren, rejecting the world, and maintaining fellowship with God through obedience and confession of sin, ensuring joy and assurance in the Christian faith.
The Way the Lord Prunes His Disciples
This sermon, based on John 15, focuses on the metaphor of Christ as the true vine, with believers as the branches, emphasizing the importance of spiritual fruitfulness through connection to Christ and the pruning work of the Father. The message explores how pruning, though sometimes painful, is necessary for growth, corrects sinful attitudes, and fosters humility and obedience in the Christian life.
God Commends and Commands Diligence
This sermon, based on 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13, emphasizes the importance of diligence and hard work as Christian virtues, contrasting them with laziness, which Paul describes as disorderly behavior. The preacher highlights that idleness leads to sin, such as gossip or fornication, and can foster a sense of entitlement, which is contrary to the Christian ethic of stewardship and service. Using examples like the Protestant work ethic, the preacher underscores that diligence, not laziness, brings blessings and benefits others. The sermon concludes with a call to identify and correct areas of laziness through God’s grace, prioritizing responsibilities and serving faithfully.
Let Us Walk in the Spirit
Based on Galatians 5:14-18, this sermon focuses on the call to walk in the Spirit, to live a life pleasing to God, and avoid fulfilling the lusts of the flesh. It emphasizes that the Christian life is a journey requiring spiritual progress, not stagnation. Walking in the Spirit means living under the Holy Spirit’s guidance, trusting God’s Word rather than human understanding, and relying on His enabling power. The preacher warns that neglecting the Spirit’s leading results in unfruitful lives that negatively affect others, while yielding to the Spirit brings blessings and enables believers to love their neighbors, fulfilling the law (Galatians 5:14).
A Hardened Heart and the House of Bread
This sermon, draws the hearer’s attention to on Ruth chapter 1, explores the story of Naomi, her family, and Ruth, emphasizing themes of faith, hardship, and God’s providence. The message encourages believers to trust God’s sovereignty in hardships, avoid bitterness, and seek His guidance through His Word and prayer. It emphasizes that trials are meant to draw people to God, not push them away. It concludes with a call to maintain tender hearts, turn to the “house of bread” (Bethlehem/God’s Word), and trust in God’s restorative grace, as exemplified by Ruth’s commitment and Naomi’s eventual renewal.