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21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Introduction: Thesis/ Central Idea: Treasure has at best only short-term benefit but can bring spiritual dangers. Spiritual treasure is of eternal value and comes from knowing and serving God. The limitations of accumulated treasure It is…

Well, as we saw last week, thanks to our mobile phone software we now have literally thousands of emojis to choose from to express our emotions. This week as we think about friendships, we have FB CEO Mark Zuckerberg to thank for resolving our friendship crisis! Now anyone in the world can join FB and…

The way believers journey through this world and into the life to come where Jesus Christ himself is the way to live.

14 Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter. Central Idea: Honesty is behavior, in action and words, aiming to convey truth. This quality is essential to God's nature and purposes and is His people's standard.…

Intro: What is Faith? Heb 1 talks about faith as being the substance of things unseen and an assurance of things hoped for. But what does that mean to you, what is faith? If we are saved by faith then whose faith? Faith sometimes in Christianity can be a very obscure concept. We can feel it, we taste…

This is an encouragement for those who have been standing in the gap. This is an encouragement for those of you who are still keeping watch and are seeking. This for those who are trusting God not their own strength yet they keep doing their part. 11 Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the…

11 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord ; Neither be weary of his correction: 12 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. God’s discipline has purpose. God shows His love through discipline. 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth…

19 but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. Thesis/Central Idea: The cares of this world are the pursuit of possessions and wealth, and a preoccupation with material things is futile and dissatisfying.…

Introduction Expositional Observations Teaching tailored to the crowd that followed Jesus and to His Disciples v.1 Jesus provides instruction vv. 2-3 Jesus issues rebuke vv. 4-7 Jesus erects guard rails vv. 8-10 Preaching Points Appreciate Oxymoronic Descriptions v.11 It is in this verse that we gain…

7 Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord , and turn away from evil. 8 It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. Even when you acquire wisdom, you must hold to humility and not allow confidence in your own intellect and learning to displace the demands of religious conscience…

Scripture outlines several ways in which believers should respond to evil.

44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 34 And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments. 303 occurences From Hebrew in ESV 32 occurences in Greek in ESV 30 of 32 occurences of enemy is “echthros”…

What are the remedies for foolishness?

How to be an ambassador of the kingdom of God in the voting booth.

25 And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.” Introduction: How do we apply forgiveness? What does it look like in our lives? How should it operate? Thesis: God’s forgiveness of believers’ sins…

9 Honour the Lord with thy substance, And with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, And thy presses shall burst out with new wine. God never ask us for anything He has not given us. King David understood that when he desired to build God a temple. 14 But…

We need God in order to deal with our knowledge of Good and Evil.

We are going to hear for the year. Last week’s challenge: Ask at least one person in your life this week “What are favorite things of 2021?” Ask Holy Spirit to tell you a word to shape your life around this next year? God told us we are His Key in 2021 You are My Key The word for ALife this year is KEY.…

God-given perception of the nature and meaning of things, resulting in sound judgment and decision-making; in particular the ability to discern spiritual truth and to apply it to human disposition and conduct.

Introduction As I read my devotions this morning, I was in the book of Proverbs and ran across a series of contrasting statements: (Read some of Pro. 10 ) And with that, I began to contemplate universal truths. Things that you are either doing one thing or the other. One is true, therefore the other…

A loving attempt to correct another’s attitude or behavior.

Solomon personifies wisdom as a woman, one who is virtuous at first and foolish later in Proverbs.

God disciplines His people through his word,through their experiences and through punishment,so that they may live in ways pleasing to Him.

Do not go back to normal! Play video: Christmas story wise men. 12 And having been warned by God in a dream not to return to Herod, the magi left for their own country by another way. If you go back to normal there is a trap set for you. God has anointed a new path for you and He has lifted His favor…

I) Christians, seek after wisdom (1-5). “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind” ( Jas 1:5–6…