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Christ's past deeds guarantee the believer's future and merits current obedience and fellowship.

Eternal life cannot be earned or merited but must be recieved as a gift from God.

By looking back at the cross, we see Jesus reveal who God is; by seeing and knowing who God is, we see Jesus reveal something about who we are

And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” And many rebuked…

I. Introduction All true believers receive their authority and power from God is a common one in the Bible. This closely with the fact that believers should not fear what man can do to them, but rather fear God, who holds eternity in his hands. II. Believers do not operate on their own authority! Paul…

Having established that God works all things together according to His will & Purpose And Foreknows & predestines those who receive His mercy & justice according to His will & purpose Because of the total depravity of the will power of humanity to choose to be saved We will see how God saves according…

Having established that God works all things together according to His will & Purpose And Foreknows & predestines those who receive His mercy & justice according to His will & purpose Because of the total depravity of the will power of humanity to choose to be saved We will see how God saves according…

Having established that God works all things together according to His will & Purpose And Foreknows & predestines those who receive His mercy & justice according to His will & purpose Because of the total depravity of the will power of humanity to choose to be saved We will see how God saves according…

Time on earth for Jesus is running short. As He finishes this very personal time with the disciples, they experience the last few moments of tranquility. This would soon give way to anguish in Gethsemane, injustice during prosecution, cruel ridicule, and brutal scourging, followed by suffering and death…

GOSPEL Matthew 20:1-16 Sermon Notes/Introduction The goal of the sermon is that we will be happy that God is so generous to all. The problem is that we sometimes live more under Law than under grace and do our share of pharisaic grumbling about others receiving more than we. The means to the goal is…

A Work of Grace For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. What a ride we have had…

Gentleness is a model of walking in the Spirit, a walk worth of our calling. Because of God’s grace, we show grace to others…we think before we speak; we consider others before we lash out; We follow Paul’s directive: When we are angry, do not sin! How does that play out in practical terms? Here are…

Why is Salvation by Faith, and Faith alone? Let's take a look.

God predetined those He forenew.

The Overview: Very Prevalent form of “cheap grace” theology. Masked in determinism and logical contradictions. God is Holy, Perfect and Just He is filled with both Love and Wrath We are Morally guilty before God due to sin Gods demand for righteousness must be kept We cannot possibly do it. Jesus did…

Each Generatoni Faces the same predicament: self or God?

Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Whenever faith clings to the promises of God, doubt is always lingering in the back of our mind, constantly asking the serpent’s question in the garden, “Did God really say?” How striking to think that we must…

Not Russia We are jumping ahead quite a bit to correct a false narrative that is common in Christianity, and very common today we will be in Ezekiel 38 & Ezekiel 9 today Summary these chapters are among the most familiar in the entire book of Ezekiel. This first of two episodes on these chapters focuses…

Philippians 4:1-13 We are starting a new series today entitled Better over the next few weeks we will look at various parts of our lives that we can do better Another pastor allowed me to borrow his graphics and a video that he made to introduce his series. And although I am preaching a different series…

Good morning, welcome to Dishman Baptist Church. Please take your Bibles and turn to Ephesians 2 , Ephesians 2 . We will close out our study of this beautiful passage that Paul has written this morning. In verses 1-3 he painted the entire human race into a position of condemnation. We were dead in our…

Is baptism for physical cleansing? Is baptism a work that earns our way into Heaven? Is baptism in order to get salvation or is it because of salvation? Why was Jesus baptized?

Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Whenever faith clings to the promises of God, doubt is always lingering in the back of our mind, constantly asking the serpent’s question in the garden, “Did God really say?” How striking to think that we must…

St. Paul was once called Saul of Tarsus, the young man at whose feet were laid the clothes of those who stoned Stephen. Saul gave approval to his being stoned to death for the crime of preaching Christ ( Acts 7:58 ). Once the Pharisee of Pharisees, the blasphemer and the persecutor of the Church ( Phil…

When we say that God loves us it raises the question of what does that mean in practice? After all how can you know love without experiencing its outworking? Without the experience of being loved you have only this concept of love. And a concept is nothing more than an idea. And an idea isn’t the real…

Rejected? Since the majority of Israel has rejected the righteousness of God by disbelief in the Son of God... Has God rejected Israel all together, as a whole? Paul’s answer is no, because of the remnant. If God rejected Israel as a whole, then no Israelites would be saved. No Israelite would believe.…