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Weekly sermons from our Pastor, Barry Wilkinson.
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Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Hopewell Baptist Church is located 7 miles outside of Andalusia, Al at 6592 Brooklyn Rd, Andalusia, AL 36421. If you would like to contact the church, feel free to call 334-222-2757.
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Hopewell Baptist Church is located 7 miles outside of Andalusia, Al at 6592 Brooklyn Rd, Andalusia, AL 36421. If you would like to contact the church, feel free to call 334-222-2757.
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Saturday Feb 08, 2020
Saturday Feb 08, 2020
Hopewell Baptist Church is located 7 miles outside of Andalusia, Al at 6592 Brooklyn Rd, Andalusia, AL 36421. If you would like to contact the church, feel free to call 334-222-2757.
Saturday Feb 08, 2020
Saturday Feb 08, 2020
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
SERIES TITLE
EXTRA STRENGTH
EXTRA STRENGTH COMES THROUGH LOVING
1 JOHN 4: 10-11
January 19, 2020 PM
1 John 4: 10-11 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever
Mark 12:29-31 Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. 31 And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
1 John 4: 10-11 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
We get extra strength from love because God
1.MADE US
When we realize how loved we are and are receiving and giving His love we have extra strength.
When you put happiness ahead of love you actually work against your own happiness.
2.MOTIVATES US
2 Corinthians 5: 14-15 Either way, Christ’s love controls us. ince we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. 15 He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them
Let's play this video of Mr. Rogers- the whole clip please
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGgzhJesKeI
3.MEASURES US
Deuteronomy 13: 1-3 “If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,’ 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
If an influential or special person comes into your life who impresses you but tends to draw you away from the Lord, it may be a test to see if you really love the Lord with all your strength.
How can we love Him who is invisible?
A. By putting Him above everyone and everything else in life
B. By telling Him and others we love Him
C. By obeying Him
John 14:21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
D. By helping others Lord, I love you and I want to help you. But You are invisible to I am going to help this person as a way of loving You.
1 John 5:1(NLT) Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too.
Let’s close by singing I love You Lord.
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
SERIES TITLE
HOW TO
HOW TO BE SURE YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN
1 JOHN 5: 11-13
January 19, 2020 AM
1 John 5: 11-13 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
How can I be sure that I’m a Christian? How can I be sure that I am saved?
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You’ll just feel it
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You join the church
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You are a good person
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You are better than the next person
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You won’t have any doubt
I John 5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
Christianity is a personal relationship with the living, all powerful Creator God through faith in His only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Becoming a Christian involves receiving the Lord Jesus Christ -- the gift of God's love and forgiveness -- by faith. It results in a threefold commitment to a person, the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's examine, one by one, each of elements of Christian commitment.
1.AN INTELLECTUAL COMMITMENT
1 John 5: 11-13 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Napoleon Bonaparte, the famous French general, said during his exile, "I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world, there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him."
2.EMOTIONAL COMMITMENT
3.A VOLITIONAL COMMITMENT
Some people are reluctant to obey Christ because they fear He will change their plans and take all the fun out of their lives.
Mark 8: 34-36 When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 35 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. 36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
You don’t change to be saved. You come to Jesus just as you are and He changes you. There needs to be a willingness to let Him do that.
Receiving Christ begins by turning away from yourself, repenting of your sins, and turning to God. It involves trusting Christ to come into your life, to forgive your sin, and to make you the person He wants you to be.
I believe there is a threefold confirmation that Jesus Christ is in our lives.
A. External Witness of God's Word
1 John 5:11-12 confirm that Christ is in your life if you received Him: And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
B. Internal Witness of the Holy Spirit
Romans 8:16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
C. Changed Life
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal and abundant life. Take control of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be.
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
SERIES TITLE
EXTRA STRENGTH
THE PATH TO PRAISE IS SOMETIMES THROUGH OUR PROBLEMS
HABAKKUK 3: 17-19
January 12, 2020 PM
Habakkuk 3: 17-19 Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls—18Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 19 The Lord God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer’s feet, And He will make me walk on my high hills.
To the Chief Musician. With my stringed instruments. This means it is a song and Luke will play it on the guitar
Sometimes we arrive at praise through our problems.
You don’t have a story until something goes wrong.
We don’t really understand faith until something goes wrong.
He did not understand but he did know where to turn.
Let’s see how to process our problems and arrive at praise.
1. PROCESSING THE PROBLEM
Habakkuk 1:2-4 O Lord, how long shall I cry, And You will not hear?
Even cry out to You, “Violence!” And You will not save.3Why do You show me iniquity, And cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; There is strife, and contention arises. 4 Therefore the law is powerless, And justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; Therefore perverse judgment proceeds.
He was overwhelmed with the breakdown of morality in his day.
Barna reported in 2016 that a majority of American adults across age group, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status and political ideology expresses concern about the nation’s moral condition—eight in 10 overall (80%).
“The highest good, according to our society, is ‘finding yourself’ and then living by ‘what’s right for you,” says David Kinnaman, president of Barna Group
Habakkuk 1:6-7 Look among the nations and watch—Be utterly astounded!
For I will work a work in your days Which you would not believe, though it were told you. I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.7 They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor.
Habakkuk 1:13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil,
And cannot look on wickedness.
Why do You look on those who deal treacherously,
And hold Your tongue when the wicked devours
A person more righteous than he?
Habakkuk 2:2 Then the Lord answered me and said:
“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
Habakkuk 2:4 “Behold the proud,
His soul is not upright in him;
But the just shall live by his faith.
Micah 6:8 He has shown you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justly,
To love mercy,
And to walk humbly with your God?
Galatians 5:6, 14 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
I’d rather be in the hands of Him who has all the answers than to have all the answers. Robert J. Morgan
Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth will be filled
With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
As the waters cover the sea.
Habakkuk 2:20 “But the Lord is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”
2.PROCEEDING TO PRAISE
Habakkuk 3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, on Shigionoth.
Habakkuk 3: 17-19 Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,
18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.
19 The Sovereign Lord is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to tread on the heights.
For the director of music. On my stringed instruments. (means Luke will play it on the guitar)
Habakkuk 3: 17 Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,
Habakkuk 3: 18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.
We rejoice that we still have
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God’s presence
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God’s promises
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God’s protection
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God’s provision
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God’s providence
Habakkuk 3:19 The Sovereign Lord is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to tread on the heights.
'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just to take Him at His Word
Just to rest upon His promise,
Just to know, "Thus saith the Lord!"
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
How I've proved Him o'er and o'er
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
Oh, for grace to trust Him more!
I'm so glad I learned to trust Him,
Precious Jesus, Savior, Friend
And I know that He is with me,
Will be with me to the end.