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Monday Sep 09, 2019
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Bro. Billy has been such a blessing to us! We hope that you have received as much joy from hearing his messages! He continues tonight with John, chapter 4, verses 1-42...
Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John - although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria cal Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?"
Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."
He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."
"I have no husband," she replied.
Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true."
"Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."
"Woman," Jesus replied, "believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth."
The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."
The Jesus declared, "I, the one speaking to you - I am he."
Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?" They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something."
But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."
Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?"
"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Don't you have a saying, 'It's still four months until harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."
Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words many more became believers.
They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."
Sunday Sep 08, 2019
Sunday Sep 08, 2019
We hope you enjoyed Bro. Billy's morning message as much as we did! Tonight he continues out of the book of Jeremiah, chapter 18, verses 2-6...
"Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message." So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. Then the world of the Lord came to me. He said, "Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?" declares the Lord. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel."
Saturday Sep 07, 2019
Saturday Sep 07, 2019
This year's speaker for our revival service is Bro. Billy Graham, Pastor of Prayer & Evangelism at Redemption Church in Saraland, AL.
There were no notes, but below you will find his scripture. He recited from the King James Version. We have provided the New International Version.
*Please forgive the squeal and feedback. We were experiencing some difficulties getting Bro. Billy's mic adjusted. After his opening prayer, it should get better!
Now I want you to know, brother and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually served to advance the gospel. As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ. And because of my chains, most of the brothers and sisters have become confident in the Lord and dare all the more to proclaim the gospel without fear. (Philippians 1:12-14)
Sunday Aug 18, 2019
Sunday Aug 18, 2019
Series: Moses - An Unlikely Choice
Sermon: What God Does in a Predicament
Scripture: Exodus 13:21-22
Date: August 11, 2019
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of could to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night. He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people. (Exodus 13:21-22)
"Can we fix it? Yes, we can!" -Bob, the Builder
You might follow God to a dead-end.
God is teaching them that He will fight their battles as they obey.
"One step forward in obedience is wort years of study about it." -Oswald Chambers
Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives. (Galatians 5:25, NLT)
Then they said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt?" (Exodus 14:11)
Don't fix the blame, fix the problem.
And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever." (Exodus 14:13)
Then he said to me: "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, and not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts." (Zechariah 4:6)
And he said, "Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the Lord to you: 'Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not your, but God's.'" (2 Chronicles 20:15)
In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. (Ephesians 3:12)
What are you infecting (influencing) people with: faith or unbelief?
Here are three really cool things God wants to do for us when we are in a predicament:
- God directs us
- Exodus 14:15
- The most important thing we can do in a predicament is what God wants us to do.
- God defends us
- Exodus 14:19-20, NIV
- God delivers us
- Exodus 14:21, NIV
- God opened a way where there was no way. He made a path for His people by His power.
- Exodus 14:23-26, NIV
- God does not want us to be strong. God wants to be our strength.
- Exodus 1:12-13
- What we need to see is that the Red Sea is a picture of our salvation:
- God directs us
- God defends us
- God delivers us
Wednesday Aug 14, 2019
Wednesday Aug 14, 2019
Series: Christ Through Me
Sermon: The Church in the Wilderness
Scripture: Deuteronomy 8:2-3
Date: August 11, 2019
LAST WEEK'S WEEKLY GROWTH SUGGESTION: Read chapter 5 twice in "The Saving Life of Christ." Present yourself for what you are - nothing - to be filled with what He is - everything - and to step into every new day, conscious that the eternal I AM is all you need, for all His will.
And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. (Deuteronomy 8:2-3)
Link to John Crist Uber video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqYmer6X2PM
A church can lose its way and just wander rather than live as the body of Christ - in love with Jesus and on mission with Jesus.
Deuteronomy 8:7-10
Here are three considerations to see fi I/we are the church in the wilderness. The church in the wilderness is more immersed in:
- Apathy than Action
- They were just accepting that this is how life is going to be.
- "God will never satisfy you in the wilderness. You are not good to anybody in the wilderness! Basically, you will never change in the wilderness." -Ian Thomas
- How much more of Him do we want? He is able and willing to pour out His Spirit without measure. May we never lose our appetite for more righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
- Love without expression or action is meaningless.
- WEEKLY GROWTH SUGGESTION: Read chapter 6 in "The Saving Life of Christ" twice this week. Ask God what action step He wants you to take this week to get closer to Him. Then do it.
- "If you love relationship with God gets off, stop everything and fix that." -Henry Blackaby
- Boredom than Boldness
- God is always at work around us.
- "The witness of the Spirit to the redeemed sinner living in disobedience is an extremely unpleasant experience, and for the Christian who gets out but who refuses to get in, the things of the Spirit will become increasingly monotonous." -Ian Thomas
- "In fact, it seemed, as one of my Christian friends said to me one day when we were comparing our experiences, 'as if we had just enough religion to make us miserable.'" -Hannah Whithall Smith
- Psalm 138:3
- WEEKLY GROWTH SUGGESTION #2: Ask someone if anybody has told them Jesus loves them today, and, if they say no, say "I want to be the first. Jesus loves you." Tell someone at school something cool that happened to you this summer as a Christian.
- Complaining than Contentment
- Psalm 104:14-15
- What kept them in the wilderness was fear and unbelief rather than faith.
Sunday Aug 11, 2019
Sunday Aug 11, 2019
Series: Christ Through Me
Sermon: Any Old Bush Will Do
Scripture: Philippians 2:12-14
Date: August 4, 2019
LAST WEEK'S WEEKLY GROWTH SUGGESTION: Read chapter 4 in "The Saving Life of Christ" twice this week. Talk to God about bringing you into the fullness of the Spirit. Ask yourself if you really want God's fullness enough to surrender to His control.
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Do all things without complaining and disputing. (Philippians 2:12-14)
"Are you man-conscious or God-conscious?" -Ian Thomas
Exodus 2:12
Let's see three truths that will enable us to be used by God:
- Hindrance
- Today I want us to see a couple of specific hindrances to being used with God:
- self-confidence
- "We're so sub-normal, if we ever became normal, they (the world and probably a lot of Christians) will think we're abnormal." -Leonard Ravenhill
- It's not your ability to but your availability that matters most to God.
- "They were simply people who had qualified in the school of failure and despair." -Ian Thomas
- "When I am in control of my life I leave damage in my wake. When God is in control of my life, I leave blessing in my wake." -Kay Warren
- fear
- "Any old bush will do." -Ian Thomas
- Phil. 2:13
- self-confidence
- Today I want us to see a couple of specific hindrances to being used with God:
- Help
- Phil. 2:13
- Acts 4:30
- "Did you ever come to the place where you presented yourself for what you are - nothing - to be filled with what He is - everything - and to step into every new day, conscious that the eternal I AM is all you need, for all His will?" -Ian Thomas
- Hope
- "If you are born again, all you need is what you have, and what you have is what He is! He does not give you strength, He is your strength! He does not give you victory - He is your victory." -Ian Thomas
WEEKLY GROWTH SUGGESTION: Read chapter 5 twice in "The Saving Life of Christ." Present yourself for what you are - nothing - to be filled with what He is - everything - and to step into every new day, conscious that the eternal I AM is all you need, for all His will.
Sunday Jul 28, 2019
Sunday Jul 28, 2019
Series: Christ Through Me
Sermon: Brought Out to be Brought In
Scripture: Exodus 13:4-5
Date: July 28, 2019
LAST WEEK'S WEEKLY GROWTH SUGGESTION: Read chapter 3 in "The Saving Life of Christ" twice this week. Think about what it means for you to be the glove and the Holy Spirit to be the hand empowering and controlling you.
On this day you are going out, in the month Abib. And it shall be, when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month. (Exodus 13:4-5)
A huge key is our awareness of who Jesus is and how we respond to Him. What do we believe His intentions are for us?
Part of it is the realization of who you hav in Jesus. Part of it is stopping way short of diving into a deep and loving relationship with Jesus.
God brought them out to bring them in.
Here are three big problems of coming out without going in:
- We celebrate the wrong stuff
- Exodus 16:35, NIV
- Exodus 16:2, NIV
- For them it was a land. For us it is a life.
- Are you more excited about:
- your children's sports accomplishments or grades than their salvation?
- your prosperity or your relationship with Jesus?
- God's love or your vacation?
- worship or the latest popular song?
- your Netflix show more than your Bible?
- your social media more than your prayer life?
- your popularity more than your witnessing?
- We're content with wilderness surviving
- Surthriving
- Deuteronomy 12:7-9
- Let's realize that while God has given us the ability (our free will) to say no to the Spirit's control, we do not have the ability to say no to His control or to experiencing His best for our lives.
- Ian Thomas will challenge us: "What have you been doing since your redemption? Still what is right in your own eyes? Are you sold out for Jesus Christ? Do you still claim the right to choose your own career? You do not have that right! Do you still claim the right to choose the wife or husband you will marry? You do not have that right!"
- Romans 8:14
- Numbers 16:3
- They wanted to go back to what God had delivered them from.
- I would rather look silly for truth than be smug about being lukewarm.
- We're consumed with wrong self-determination
- Let's see how they set the wrong course that kept them from going in:
- What they thought in the wilderness
- Numbers 11:5-6
- "If you do not walk in the power of God the Holy Spirit, if your life is not abandoned to the indwelling sovereignty fo Jesus Christ, then all the promises of victory in the Bible, all the promises of power by the Holy Spirit and of divine vocation will simply be texts, printed on so much paper - impersonal and irrelevant."
- What they said in the wilderness
- Numbers 16:31
- Revival is where people fall more madly and deeply in love with Jesus Christ, not losing their first love but intensifying it more and more. Heaven will come to earth, and lives will be changed.
- What they thought in the wilderness
- Let's see how they set the wrong course that kept them from going in:
WEEKLY CHALLENGE: Read chapter 4 in "The Saving Life of Christ" twice this week. Talk to God about bringing you into the fullness of the Spirit. Ask yourself if you really want God's fullness enough to surrender to His control.
Friday Jul 12, 2019
Friday Jul 12, 2019
Series: Moses - An Unlikely Choice
Sermon: Excuses
Scripture: Exodus 3:10-12
Date: July 7, 2019
Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?" So He said, "I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain." (Exodus 3:10-12)
God invites us to join Him in His work.
"Why do we resist such a magnificent God who loves us?" -Charles Swindoll
His plan was Moses. His plan now is you and me, filled with Him.
Let's look at 5 excuses and how God answers them. If your excuse is not here, the answer for it still is...
- I'm not enough
- Exodus 3:11
- The appropriate answer is "Yes, sir! Let's go! Whatever you say, I will do."
- God's answer: Exodus 3:12A
- We need to work with God and not for God.
- I didn't know enough
- Exodus 3:13
- "Someone might ask me a question I don't know the answer to." That is not a valid excuse.
- I think sometimes what's behind this excuse is pride.
- God's answer: Exodus 3:14
- The letters for "I AM WHO I AM" spell out the name Yahweh.
- God is saying that the only self-existent being in the universe has sent you.
- Don't worry that you don't have all the answers. Whenever we say, "I'm not smart enough" or "I'm not capable," He says, "But I AM."
- People won't listen to me
- Exodus 4:1; 3:18a
- God: "Moses when you go, they will listen." Moses: "But what if they don't listen?" And Pharaoh was not going to listen.
- What if?
- Proverbs 26:13
- The "what if's" are not our business. Obeying is our business.
- I am not good with words
- Exodus 4:10, NLT
- Acts 7:22, NIV
- The real issue may not be how well you speak but how much you love Jesus.
- God's answer: Exodus 4:11-12, NIV
- 1 Corinthians 2:1-4, NIV
- Acts 1:8
- I don't want to go
- Exodus 4:13, NIV
- God does not accept excuses; He accepts obedience.
Thursday Jul 11, 2019
Thursday Jul 11, 2019
Series: Christ Through Me
Sermon: Who's Living My Life
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
Date: July 7, 2019
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it. (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24)
Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again. God will make this happen, for he who calls you is faithful. (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24, NLT)
"He himself is the very dynamic (power, energy, supply) of all his demands." -Major Ian Thomas
Philippians 1:6; 2:13-14
Let's dive in and see how to let God do in us what He promises to do:
- Predicament
- Your response to Jesus Christ will determine our condition in the sight of God: redeemed or condemned
- Romans 10:9-10:13
- "The One who calls you to minister to the needs of humanity is the One who by your consent ministers to the needs of humanity through you." -Major Ian Thomas
- "If you will but trust Christ, not only for the death He died in order to redeem you, but also for the life that He lives and wants to live through you, the very next step you take will be a step take in the very energy and power of God Himself." -Major Ian Thomas
- You will be the human vehicle of divine life.
- Pattern
- Now if it is true that the Lord Jesus will live His life through you on earth today, as He lived His life once in His own body on earth more than 1900 years ago, it is both interesting and necessary to discover how He lived then so that you may know how He will live through you now.
- John 5:19, NLT
- "Jesus Christ, as man, lived in total, unquestioning dependence upon the Father." -Major Ian Thomas
- He humbled Himself - set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man - a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be - the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself.
- "He lived in unbroken dependence upon the Father, taking no step except in recognition of the fact that apart from the Father, He could do nothing, so He calls upon you to live in the same total dependence upon Him." -Major Ian Thomas
- John 15:5
- Colossians 2:9-10, NLT
- Romans 1:17c
- "Relate everything, moment by moment as it arises, to the adequacy of what He is in you, and assume that His adequacy will be operative (working)." -Major Ian Thomas
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, 24
- Power
- We can trust His power is working when we choose to live in total, unquestioning dependence upon the Spirit as Jesus did upon the Father.
- When we fail, we need to confess our sin - especially the part of it that has something to do with not living in total, unquestioning dependence upon the Spirit - and ask Jesus to take back the throne of our lives.
- "The One who calls you to a life of righteousness is the One, who by your consent, will manifest that life of righteousness through you!" -Major Ian Thomas
- To be in Christ - that makes you fit for heaven; but for Christ to be in you - that makes you fit for earth.
- "You see, for seven years, with utmost sincerity, you have been trying to live for Me, on My behalf, the life that I have been waiting for seven years to live through you." -Major Ian Thomas
WEEKLY CHALLENGE: Read chapter 1 in "The Saving Life of Christ" twice. Relate everything, moment by moment as it arises, to the adequacy of what He is in you, and assume that His adequacy will be enough.
I thank You that You are risen from the dead, that at this very moment You indwell me in the person and power of Your divine Spirit; that You have never expected of me anything but failure, yet You have given to me Your strength for my weakness; Your victory for my defeat, Yourself for all my bankruptcy! I step out now, by faith, into a future that is limited only by what You are.
Sunday Jun 23, 2019
Sunday Jun 23, 2019
Series: Quit Quitting
Sermon: The Confidence to Keep Going
Scripture: Hebrews 10:32-39
Date: June 23, 2019
LAST WEEK'S WEEKLY GROWTH SUGGESTION: What is the biggest "next step" for you? Ask God to show you the biggest thing you need to start, or keep, doing.
But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: early while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated; for you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven. Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: "For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, my soul has no pleasure in him." But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul. (Hebrews 10:32-39)
Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ. Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering. Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things. You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail, and when all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew there were better things waiting for you that will last forever. (Hebrews 10:32-34, NLT)
So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. (Hebrews 10:35, NIV)
Here are three words to help us keep our confidence in Jesus and not quit:
- REMEMBER
- "In other words, 'You can haul away our widescreen TVs and expensive golf clubs. What you can't take from us are our riches in Christ. You can beat us, even kill us, but you can't take away our eternal life. Christ is superior.'" -Kyle Idleman
- What do we remember?
- We remember what Jesus did for us
- We remember what it is like to be right with God.
- RESOLVE
- Rev. Anthony Thompson lost his wife in the Charleston shooting. He responded to criticism about his forgiving the shooter: "I didn't let Dylan off the hook. Dylan is in prison. But I am free."
- "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed." -Booker T. Washington
- REWARD
WEEKLY GROWTH SUGGESTION: Get alone with Jesus and thank Him for not quitting on You, and the Him that, by His grace, you will never quit on Him.