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Thus far we’ve seen that Christmas is a time to acknowledge the life giving divine intrusion of God’s Grace (His Unmerited favor to His people) Also, Christmas is a time to reflect upon and declare the hope of reconciliation betwen man and God through a child who would be born both truly man and truly…

1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch…

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Introduction In seminary, we had a free evening and went to a Rangers game. Sitting next to a group of guys who were cutting up as guys often do. The three of us were sitting there talking and a conversation started between our two groups. They asked what we did. “Pastors.” Immediately their language…

Hebrews 12:18-29 18 For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind, 19 and to the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words which sound was such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them. 20 For they could…

Hebrews 9 Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary. For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place. Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is…

Legalism is just a foolish, state of make believe. God provides the ture means of maturity.

Romans 12.1-5 Last week we began a short four week series entitled the Truth about Change. We saw last week that Change is inevitable. For everything there is a season, the Bible tells us, and change must happen in order for those seasons to come. Many are resistant to change, but we just need to accept…

Announcements Ambassador Baptist College, Sunday night, December 11 Christmas Day, Sunday, December 25 - Only one service @ 11 AM What we believe @ SALVATION Previously: We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ “ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried; and that He was raised…

You and I enter into a relationship with God, through the sacrificial gift of Jesus Christ, sealed with the Holy Spirit. We come to this relationship hearing and rightly believing verses like Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of…

Definition of the Word Sanctification - Grk. HAGIASMOS, the state or condition of being set apart; being or becoming holy or sanctified from Grk. HAGIOS (adj.) - holy, one that is set apart for the purpose of God same as sanctified, sacred, consecrated, dedicated to God Grk. HAGIAZO (adj.) - to make…

Hebrews 11:23-29 Hebrews 11:23–29 (HCSB) 23 By faith, after Moses was born, he was hidden by his parents for three months, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they didn’t fear the king’s edict. 24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter…

Alan Bloom - “The Closing of the American Mind” - contemporary intellectual climate as one in which there is no ability to distinguish good from bad, truth from error, even the important from the unimportant. All such distinctions are seen as being contrary to the chief virtue in today’s world, that…

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Meaning of Sanctification 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. 2 “Consecrate to me…

Hebrews 11:17-22 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He received the promises and he was offering his unique son, the one it had been said about, Your seed will be traced through Isaac. He considered God to be able even to raise someone from the dead, and as an illustration, he received…

Announcements Sweetheart Retreat - Carpool/Church Van leaving from church parking lot at 2:00 PM on Friday Sanctification We believe that believers have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body…

Hebrews 11:8-16 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land , dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow…

Announcements Christmas Day Service at 11 AM Sanctification We believe that believers have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all . In more than one place, Paul…

1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 / Sanctification 1 Thess 4:1-8 / “We are going to close the letter, before we do...” 1 Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. Ask and…

“Therefore” Whats the Therefore, therefore? Eph. 4:1-16 is all about Christian unity which we will be addressing over the next few weeks, but from chapter 4 through the end of the book, Paul will be addressing the believers on how they are to behave as Christians. Here in chapter 4, Paul will proceed…

If you were with us last week, we saw Paul address the Wives among us... And the call that went out to them... Wives, Paul said - Submit to your husbands, as to the Lord. And we looked at what that Submission looked like... We DID that by going back to God’s design FOR women... Before God created WOMAN…

Today’s message describes how believers should finish faithfully unto the end.

1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” 3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless…

To Reform improve by the removal of faults or abuses, improved in conduct and character Phrases first seen in a devotional writing by Dutch minister Jodocus van Lodenstein 1674, used in parts often before and after. van Lodenstein inherited a church in the Netherlands that was already reformed in the…

Wholly Sanctified According to Bradford A. Mullen in his "Evangelical dictionary of biblical theology, 1996, 708", 'The generic meaning of sanctification is “the state of proper functioning.” To sanctify someone or something is to set that person or thing apart for the use intended by its designer ...…