Bearing Precious Seed In Ps 126, Israel went into captivity weeping. Their children were their precious seed. And the promise was that they would return with rejoicing, bringing their offspring (sheaves) with them. See Jer 29:1-1o. Seed in the Bible represents the word of God, Lk 8:5, 11; children, Dan...
The Second Time Jonah refused to go to Nineveh the first time the Lord commanded him to go there. Then, after the whale vomited Jonah out, God told him the second time, “Arise, go unto Nineveh…”. This is precisely what God told Jonah to do the first time, Jon 1:2....
Profitability in Your Life To have profitability in your life, you must: Communicate your faith, v.6. You love and you have faith, v.5, but you must communicate your faith to others. Be teachable, v.9. Paul told Philemon to work this thing out with Onesimus. You can change. Don’t resist people...
The Presence of the Lord Jonah tried in vain to run from the presence of the Lord, which no man can do, Ps 139. What he discovered is that the presence of the Lord is revealed by: God’s Commands – God’s presence in his commands is as close as you’ll...
God Is Justified This is an overview of Paul’s Epistle to the Romans in which Pastor Haveman demonstrates, through the entire book, that God is justified and righteous while all men, regardless of religion or creed, are guilty before God. Thus, he proves that Jesus Christ is the only righteous...
Preparing For Missions Conference We should be preparing for missions conference starting this weekend. The Lord has directed me to Acts 13:1-3 as the text we should discuss tonight that will help us to know what we should be doing to prepare. Before Paul and Barnabas were sent out of...
Are you on the Winning Side? Revelation 19:11-21 In this passage we see a war that will take place in the future. It is called the battle of Armageddon. There are also references in Revelation 16:13-14 and 17:14 to this war. We are going to look at the details of...
Are You Growing? 2 Peter 3:18 In this sermon we are going to look at the subject of spiritual growth. Many people are saved yet never really grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ which is sad. There are tons of spiritual babies, as Paul said regarding the...
Praise Among the People When we meet together for worship, we typically begin our services with congregational singing. How you sing praise among the people tells where your heart is with God. To sing these hymns “with grace in your hearts to the Lord”, Col 3:16, requires several things that...
Devices of Satan Paul said in 2 Cor 2:11 that we are not ignorant of the devices of Satan. However, if I asked you to name some of his devices, you might confess that you are ignorant of his devices. Therefore, we’ll look at five things the devil might use...
