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Intro; How many here have a written will? Why do you have a written will? It protects your future and the future of your loved ones. It controls the the fact that you determine what happens to your possessions, instead of the state. A will says, “I’m not going to be here forever, and I want to put certain…

It is the Father's good pleasure to provide teh Kingdom and His presence which tops all our possessions.

A couple of weeks ago, we started a new series of messages entitled “Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at Hand”. The kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, can sometimes in the New Testament refer to all of God’s sovereignty. It refers sometimes to the way he reigns over all. He never relinquishes his…

If you’re like me, you probably rush through the “begats” or the lineages of the Bible, but they become important and really demonstrate how the Bible weaves together. We began with Adam. Adam had Cain, and then Abel. We saw that Cain killed Abel, and the Adam and Eve had another son they named Seth.…

Heaven will surely be worth it all You know the song, but let me show the lyrics again, think about them. Lyrics by W. Oliver Cooper, Music Minzo C. Jones (song 680 in our song book) Heaven Will Surely Be Worth It All Lyrics: W. Oliver Cooper Music: Minzo C. Jones Often I'm hindered on my way, Burdened…

Biblical theme - Grasping hold of the inheritance Cain & Abel Jacob & Esau Joseph & his brothers Saul & David David & Absalom Disciples “who will be greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” Luke 9:46-48 Literal & Spiritual seem to be treated the same Grasping after what is given freely that’s the tragedy…

Intro: Everyone would like that call from a lawyers office about the long lost uncle or aunt that you never knew that has left you millions in cash or acres of land in their last will and testament. Its a dream made in the movies…but its far from reality. Brothers Zsolt and Geza Peladi were homeless…

We choose our level of Spiritual maturity bythe spiritual food we consume. Choosing faith in God means choosing to be a child of God instead of slave to sin.

Intro: Piltdown Man Have you ever heard the story of the Piltdown man. In 1912, workers were digging at a location in Piltdown England, near Sussex, when they discovered some bone fragments that were strangely human. They turned those bones over to a local scientist named Charles Dawson. Dawson soon…

Introduction We are week two of the series on God’s Grace in the Church. Last week we spent time learning why we need to study the book of Ephesians. So today open your bibles to Ephesians 1:3-14 The word blessing is a word that most Christians are familiar with today. If you were to go the bookstore…

Introduction and Review: We are going to look at part 2 of this series that I have entitled the person and work of the Spirit of God. Last week, we look at the Spirit of God and his work throughout history. We focused on his personhood as third person of the trinity and the equality He has in the godhead…

*** Letter: Letters then as now are easily identified Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers and sisters in Christ in Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. Argues against a kind of gnosticism denying the deity…

33 Jacob said, “Swear to me now.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. Many times today, we have a warring spirit within ourselves. As children, one of our favorite words is “no”. Why? Who knows! In many cases it is just the defiant spirit that exists in us as sinful mankind. Sin has…

Intro Ready to have you mind blown? I know for some of you what you will hear this morning will be new and weird and wonderful. It will open up you eyes to read the scripture in a way that you’ve never appreciated before. Some of you will think it’s crazy, and I can live with that. Some of our English…

SRB 1 How to live as people worthy of our calling; understand our glorious inheritance - Ephesians 1 Scene 1: Spiritually destitute people have failed to grasp the richness of their inheritance . She had gone down in history as “America’s Greatest Miser,” yet when she died in 1916, “Hetty” Green left…

Good morning and welcome to Dishman Baptist Church. Turn with me to Ephesians 1 , Ephesians 1 . I hope that you were able to rest and to take some solace in the assurances that we were given last week - the riches that we receive in Him. What a wonderful truth that we as Christians can rest in - the…

Introduction Two men were talking about a mutual friend. One was very critical. The other said, “I am surprised to hear you say that. It was my impression that he had done many nice things for you.” Replied the other, “Yes, but he has not done anything lately.” That is what many Christians have fallen…

In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul starts with a long, powerful sentence of praise for God. God, he says, has poured our spiritual blessings on us. But what is a spiritual blessing? And what spiritual blessings has God given to us? And how do these affect our daily lives? That's what we're looking at here.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself…

Spiritual Blessings in Christ We finished Galatians and learned a lot how Gossip can ruin a church, how the Christ became the law and we are not justified by faith and not by works. Also how it doesn’t matter who we are or what we did in the past God still sent His Son for us. Now we are going to continue…

Morning 31st July 2022

Three part series: 1) Understanding the Spiritual Realm 2) Our Position in the Spiritual Realm. 3) Engaging in the Spiritual Realm. “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve their existence. The other is to believe and feel an unhealthy…

Jesus said in 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. So, if Jesus said that he came that we may have life and have it to the full, is it any wonder at all that God wants us to be happy. There is no wonder. Looking back at our…

3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, 5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, 6 which…

Colossians Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith…