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Good morning and welcome to Dishman Baptist Church. Please take your Bibles and open them with me to Psalms, specifically Psalm 85 . We started our Advent series last week with a look at the hope that this season brings - and specifically the hope of Christ. That we have the proofs of God’s Word, creation…

8 And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. 9 Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen. 10 But…

Easter is in 5 more Sundays. That’s hard to believe. So in preparation for Good Friday and Easter... we will start a series on Passion Week. Series - Passion Week Passion Week is the week leading up to the cross and the resurrection. It begins with the Triumphal Entry (Palm Sunday)... “Hosanna, blessed…

25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be…

God designed marriage to be the very best that life has to offer, the very best. In fact, Peter rightly called it “the grace of life.” But since the fall of man, it is anything but the best for most people. In fact, for most marriage starts in a euphoria of emotion and love, bliss and gradually descends…

Spiritual Walk Ephesians 5:18 (KJV 1900) 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit ; Control - The only way to commune with God is not by the control of the world or worldly things, but by being controlled with the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 3:19 (KJV 1900) 19 And to…

Now here we have a passage of Scripture, which for the sake of a sermon we have entitled Perfecting the Saints. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus made a rather shocking statement. He said, 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. “Be ye therefore perfect even as…

Intro: Ephesians 4:17 (KJV 1900) 17 This I say therefore , and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, In the first phrase of verse 17 , there is a word that beckons to focus our attention backward. It is the word “therefore.” Anytime you…

We looked at 5 Attitudes we must Exhibit. Lowliness, Meekness, Long Suffering, Forbearance, Love. Today we are going to Examine 7 Affirmations We Must Encircle Now, these are five basic actions or attitudes that we ought to have, and when we have these attitudes, then there are seven basic affirmations…

Allow me to run through a brief overview of the great truths we have already encountered in this book. • God has given us all spiritual blessings through Jesus— Eph. 1:3 . • God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world—Eph. 1:4. • God has determined that we will be like Jesus, and with Jesus,…

Do you want to have a great marriage? Do you want to have a great church? 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is . 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,…

Ephesians 5:22–24 (KJV 1900) 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own…

vs. 1 - Commanded to Live Like God. vs. 2 - Commanded to Love Like God. vs. 3-7 - Commanded to Leave the Worldly Ways. Today, we discover why we are to be different. 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all…

In other words, he says the fact that we are one building, built on one foundation, one household, one kingdom, one Spirit in us, one body, one new man. In other words, because of our unity, that’s what he’s saying. For the reason of our unity I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles. A…

Consider a few reminders of what we have discovered about God’s grace. • Grace has given us all spiritual blessings through Jesus— Eph. 1:3 • Grace chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world— Eph. 1:4 • Grace has determined that we will be like Jesus, and with Jesus, one day— Eph. 1:5 , 11–12…

Why, as Christians, do we spend so much time looking for things to make us complete? We stay confused on the fact of whether Jesus Christ is sufficient. Paul has expressed his thankfulness for their salvation, their belief in Jesus Christ is the son of God and died for our sins and was buried in our…

1 Paul , an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual…

Ephesians is a book of riches, wealth, inheritance, and fullness. The problem today and hence the need of this study, is that in our society today we find way to many Christians who are starving spiritually and living in spiritual poverty when God has provided limitless bank account. To get the idea…

14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us ; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16 And that he might reconcile…

1 Paul , an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 1:3–4 (KJV 1900) 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , who…

1 And you hath he quickened , who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times…

Paul feels we will understand “walking after the Spirit” better if he clarifies the contrast between those who live thus and those who live by the flesh, in enmity toward God, opposed to spiritual things. This he does by comparing the two “minds.” Sinner What is Paul meaning when he talks about the “carnal…

He wasted all of it ***Photo: David Lee Edwards & wife Shawna 46 year old from Ashland, KY who never finished high school, unemployed, living is his parents’ house with the water turned off. Borrowed money from a friend to go on a date, bought a lottery ticket, won $73.7m. Could receive that in payments.…

Paul feels we will understand “walking after the Spirit” better if he clarifies the contrast between those who live thus and those who live by the flesh, in enmity toward God, opposed to spiritual things. This he does by comparing the two “minds.” Sinner What is Paul meaning when he talks about the “carnal…

Paul feels we will understand “walking after the Spirit” better if he clarifies the contrast between those who live thus and those who live by the flesh, in enmity toward God, opposed to spiritual things. This he does by comparing the two “minds.” Sinner What is Paul meaning when he talks about the “carnal…