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Weekly sermons from our Pastor, Barry Wilkinson.
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Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
Series: Moses - An Unlikely Choice
Sermon: Important Reminders for Meeting with God
Scripture: Exodus 19:16-17
Date: September 8, 2019
On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. (Exodus 19:16-17)
If you are too busy to meet with the Lord, then you are too busy.
This is what the Lord says: "Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the Lord. (Jeremiah 9:23-24, NIV)
Here are 4 ways to help us prepare to meet God and know Him better:
- Willing to obey
- Exodus 19:3-6, 7-8
- I commit to obey before I know what You are going to say.
- "He tells me what to do, and I have no safe option but to do it." -Charles Swindoll
- Luke 17:10
- Be alert to listen
- Exodus 19:9
- We need to be alert to hear.
- Spiritual cleansing
- Exodus 19:10
- We all need to take a few minutes and see if there is something blocking us from hearing and experiencing God.
- "While passing through this world of sin/And others your life shall view/Be clean and pure without within/Let others see Jesus in you." -"Let Others See Jesus in You"
- Deep reverence for God
- Exodus 19:16
- "If we are lost and living in sin, we have a good reason to be afraid of God because we are not right with Him and are destined for judgment and condemnation. But if we are His redeemed people, there is no reason to be terrified of Him. However, we have every reason to show Him reverence and honor Him." -Charles Stanley
- Hebrews 12:28
- Revelation 1:17
It's so unusual it's frightening
You see right through the mess inside me
And you call me out to pull me in
You tell me I can start again
And I don't need to keep on hiding
I'm fully known and loved by You
You won't let go no matter what I do
And it's not one or the other
It's hard truth and ridiculous grace
To be known, fully known and loved by You
I'm fully known and loved by You
-Fully Known and Loved by You
Sunday Sep 15, 2019
Sunday Sep 15, 2019
Series: Christ Through Me
Sermon: The Sin That Keeps You Out
Scripture: Hebrews 3:19
Date: September 8, 2019
LAST WEEK'S WEEKLY GROWTH SUGGESTION: Read chapter 9 in "The Saving Life of Christ" twice this week. Pray a lot this week, "Lord Jesus, live Your life through me right now. Thank You that You will."
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. (Hebrews 3:19)
"Unbelief grieves the heart of God more than any other sin." -David Wilkerson
Why is the sin of unbelief the one that keeps us out of God's promised life?
- It is a root sin
- Hebrews 3:18-19
- Numbers 13:1-2
- Numbers 13:27-28
- Numbers 14:6-9
- Unbelief brings about a host of other sins.
- It is a robbing sin
- How much faith would it have taken to get the land?
- You have to have enough faith to act on.
- Revelation 21:8
- It is a sin that needs repentance
- "It was out of a deep sense of need, as I despaired of my Christian life, that I made the startling discovery that for seven years I had missed the whole point of my salvation, that christ had not died just to save me from hell and one day get me to heaven, but that I might become available to Him, for Him to live His life through me." -Ian Thomas
WEEKLY GROWTH SUGGESTION: When you have an opportunity to do/say something you believe God wants you to, pray something like this: "Lord, I trust You to live Your life through me right here." Read chapter 10 in "The Saving Life of Christ" this week.
Friday Sep 13, 2019
Friday Sep 13, 2019
Series: Moses - An Unlikely Choice
Sermon: The Exhausted Christian
Scripture: Exodus 18:17-18
Date: September 1, 2019
So Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good. Both you and these people who are with you will surely wear yourselves out. For this thing is too much for you; you are not able to perform it by yourself." (Exodus 18:17-18)
Moses was really good at not taking out his frustration on the people
Moses was really good at not taking things personally.
How does God help us recover from being emotionally and spiritually tired? Here are a few things God uses to help us:
- God restores us with His people
- Exodus 18:8
- We all need someone to talk with.
- We need someone we can talk with about the highs and lows of our relationship with the Lord (and life).
- We need someone to talk to about life.
- We all need someone we can worship with.
- Exodus 18:9-10; 11-12
- We all need someone to talk with.
- Exodus 18:8
- God restores us with His rest
- Praise God Moses was wise enough to listen.
- Exodus 18:19-20
- We all need to exercise, and we all need to eat.
- "No one is attracted to an unsmiling, always-grim-looking individual especially if he never takes a break to enjoy life. It is no sign of spirituality that you groan your way through life, looking humble and wanting everybody to be impressed with your rundown, overworked, underpaid, haggard appearance. Get a life!" -Charles Swindoll
- God restores us with Himself
- He restores us by us spending time with Him and paying attention to Him.
- Exodus 18:24, NIV
- Learn to separate the most important from the important.
Thursday Sep 12, 2019
Thursday Sep 12, 2019
Series: Christ Through Me
Sermon: Your Internal Battle
Scripture: Romans 7:18
Date: September 1, 2019
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. (Romans 7:18)
The flesh is trying to satisfy your desires outside of God's will.
The flesh is the capacity to be self-controlled, to be uncontrolled by the Holy Spirit, and it encompasses all that has been made old by the presence of the new nature.
1. It refers to one's own effort independent of God (Rom. 4:1; Phil. 3:3; Gal. 3:3)
2. It refers to one's infirmity, weakness, and helplessness (Rom. 8:3)
3. It refers to our state of sin or being controlled by sin (Rom. 7:5)
The devil loves to keep you preoccupied with yourself instead of being preoccupied with Christ.
To allow Christ to live through me, I have to deal with the flesh. Here are three important words to consider as we deal with the flesh:
- Struggle
- Romans 7:18-19, NLT
- "Praise God for the war within! Serenity in sin is death. The Spirit has landed to do battle wit the flesh. So take heart if your soul feels like a battlefield at times. The sign of whether you are indwell by the Spirit is not that you have no bad desires, but that you are at war with them." -John Piper
- Seriousness
- "The flesh is a built-in law of failure, making it impossible for the natural man to please or serve God. The flesh can never be reformed or improved. The only hope for escape from the law of the flesh is its total execution and replacement by a new life in the Lord Jesus Christ." -Mark Bubeck
- Isaiah 14;13-14
- Spirit
- Galatians 2:20
- Galatians 5:16, NIV
- "You have been trying not to fulfill the lust of the flesh, in order to walk in the Spirit - fighting a battle already lost. What God has said to you is this, 'Walk in the Spirit,' in an attitude of total dependence upon Him, exposing everything to Him, 'and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh' - for you will then be enjoying through Him the victory that Christ has already won." -Ian Thomas
WEEKLY GROWTH SUGGESTION: Read chapter 9 in "The Saving Life of Christ" twice this week. Pray a lot this week, "Lord Jesus, live Your life through me right now. Thank You that You will."
Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
Our last with Bro. Billy was such a bittersweet joy. We hope that you have been blessed by his messages as we were! He closes out our revival services by preaching from 1 John 5:13...
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Bro. Billy Graham, Pastor of Prayer & Evangelism at Redemption Church in Saraland, AL, continues tonight out of Ephesians, chapter 2, verses 1-10...
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the sprit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions - it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
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