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Bearing Fruit 15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.…

Bearing Fruit 15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.…

We have one week left in the Sermon on the Mount Series, Greatest Sermon Ever, after today. Next week is the end of our series and we will transition into a new series through the book of Micah. I 'm excited for where we are going and to be able to dip our toes back into the Old Testament and see Jesus…

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23…

As we continue our study of the book of Amos, we recall that Amos was a man from the southern kingdom of Judah sent to the northern kingdom of Israel to prophesy against them. He wasn’t trained as a prophet. He was a country boy, a sheepherder and grower of sycamore figs. But God called him anyway to…

9 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it. 10 For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. 11 They must be silenced,…

Introduction Today in preparation, I decided to share with you this message. The manner in which this message was selected two fold: First, as I lay in bed this morning, I asked the LORD to give me strength & wisdom for this day. Secondly, I (opened & point in the Bible). This is the first place I turned…

Popcorn session: doesn’t mean you grab your popcorn; it means we have several questions that we are going to go though one after another. Question: Did Jesus ever get hurt besides when people persecuted him? In other words, did Jesus suffer the normal consequences of living in a sin-cursed world? Jesus…

Intro: You might not think it, but our world is very heavenly minded. That is a strange statement considering just how wicked our world is. • A CNN poll [ 2015 ], it was discovered that 81% of the people asked believed in a literal heaven where people lived with God after death. • 61% of those polled…

Who Is Jesus? That’s the question we’re going to be discussing today and next week. We began this series in the search of truth, what it is, where it must come from, who it must come from, can that one be known, and now we are going to talk about Jesus. When a Christian talks about Jesus we sometimes…

We want our mind to be changed to become the mind of Christ. So many of us need a changed mind. So many of us need our minds to turn from one way of thinking to Christ’s way of thinking? What is it called to change your mind from a destructive way of thinking to a live giving way of thinking? -Repentance.…

9 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it. 10 For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. 11 They must be silenced,…

Introduction: I once went to the store because I’d seen an advertisement in the paper that said it was selling exactly what I wanted. When I got to the store, however, I couldn’t find what I was looking for, so I asked one of the clerks. To my surprise, he told me, “We don’t have any. We never had any.”…

One of the great needs of our day is to simply get people lost. Everyone is a Christian, everyone is righteous, everyone is good. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: According…

Profession Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Profession) noun1 a paid occupation, especially one involving training and a formal qualification.▶ [treated as singular or plural] a body of people engaged in a profession.2 an open but typically false claim: a profession of allegiance.3 a declaration of…

Commercials fascinate me in so many ways. They have somewhere between 15 and 60 seconds to tell you, a. There’s a problem. b. There’s a solution to your problem. c. This is the answer. It doesn’t take a prophet to recognize there is a lot of division in our country and our world. And it’s not just varying…

Leaven is a biblical illustration of permeation, influence. John F. MacArthur The whole idea of our spiritual conversion and our walk with God is to separate ourselves from sin.....To be holy as God is holy To be as unleavened rather than leavened…or to live in purity without hypocrisy or doublemindedness.…

Text: Titus 1:10-16 maintaining doctrinal purity in the face of false teaching requires understanding what you are dealing with and how to respond to it v 10-16 intermingle the characteristics of false teachers, the destruction they cause, and the response required Elders must maintain doctrinal purity…

INTRODUCTION . A prohibition of false accusation against another person is the first law of the Code of Hammurabi, and the penalty there is death. ( EXODUS: EVANGELICAL EXEGETICAL COMMENTARY (V2, p50) . 1 Then God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land…

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7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. Introduction Review 1st - Worshiping the wrong God and 2nd - Worshiping God in the wrong way The 3rd Commandment addresses - Speaking wrongly about God It addresses our words…

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Exegetical summary Paul exposes to Timothy the cover-up of the false leaders in Ephesus Hermeneutic summary Apostasy happens among professors of godliness Homiletic Summary Godliness is more than a profession Exegetical Outline V..v 1-4 The False leaders last-day characteristics v.v. 5-6a The false leader’s…

Open to Heb 6:4-8 ... Explain context - middle of the third warning ( Heb 5.11-6:12 ) 5.11-6.3 - shames the audience 6.4-8 - illustrates the danger 6.9-12 - encourages and exhorts Now, why is this passage difficult or controversial? Because of the questions it can pose... Does it teach that believers…

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