Paul wrote to Timothy that Jesus Christ is “the blessed and only Potentate”. A potentate is one who possesses great power as a sovereign, monarch, or ruler. A sovereign is one possessing supreme political power and authority. A monarch is a person who reigns over a kingdom. One that holds...
Where is your confidence? Is it in men, princes, gold and silver, your flesh, or the Lord? Is your confidence in men – Ps 118:8 – during perilous times not only can men fail you, they can turn on you. Study the Bible and history and you will see repeated...
Lessons in Comforting Job 2:11-13 How to comfort someone who is in great despair can be a very tricky thing. Most of the time we simply do not know what to say or do. Here we will look at the book of Job and how his three friends came to...
Things you can only see from God’s Point of View Psalm 73:1-28 In this passage we see that there are at least 3 perspectives, there is the write’s perspective, there is the perspective of the wicked, and God’s perspective. Keeping the right perspective in life can be a real challenge...
1 Samuel 18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. Vs 3 “because he loved him as his own soul”. Introduction: After David’s victory over Goliath in...
Don’t envy sinners. One of the greatest safeguards against straying from the Lord, when you are a young Christian, is to “let not thine heart envy sinners”. When I was a teenager, envying sinners caused me to turn away from the Lord so I could pursue what they were doing....
[THERE IS NO AUDIO FOR THIS MESSAGE DUE TO A POWER FAILURE DURING THE SERVICE] In Ps 46:1-3, the Psalmist describes conditions in the earth that are horrendous, unlike anything that we have ever seen. And he says that, despite these things, “Therefore will not we fear”. The reason they...
In Lk 11:33-36, Jesus used the illustration of a lighted candle to teach his disciples about seeing him and having their whole bodies full of light and having no part dark. In the context of this passage, Jesus had just rebuked this evil generation for seeking a sign, Lk 11:29-32. ...
The centurion in Matt 8 was a man under authority. Though, he had 100 soldiers under him, he spoke, not of his authority over them, but of himself under the authority of his superior officer. The Lord blessed this man’s faith and healed his servant. In our lives we have...
Is 55:8-9 says that God’s thoughts and man’s thoughts are not the same. The Lord said, “my thoughts are not your thoughts”. He said, “my thoughts (are higher) than your thoughts”. And he said, “neither ore your ways my way”. Today, we’re going to talk about your thoughts and ways....
