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What is it about sacrifice that scares us? I am not talking about the Sacrifice on the cross but in our daily lives. It wasn’t in front of the crowds that Christ was making a sacrifice it was in His private relationship with God. Christ left his baptism and went into the wilderness to fast and pray.…

If you had to pick one day on the calendar as the most important day of the year, what would it be? Would it be your birthday? Would it be an anniversary? Maybe Easter, Christmas, or the fourth of July or some other holiday? According to the UN, the most important day of the year is September 21, the…

Mark 14:1-9 Intro : We have come to a sad chapter in the book of Mark. These verses display the hatred of men is all its ugliness. According to verses 1-2 , the religious Jews are fed up with Jesus and His preaching. They want Him dead and they do not care what they have to do to see that come to pass.…

Jesus foretells short-term pain, but promises ultimate gain.

Intro This is the first week of a 6 week sereis through Romans 12 and 13. Examines the comand, that we are looking at this week, to be a living sacrifice and to live our lives in light of what God has done for us through Christ. Each message will help us to “flashback” to the life of Jesus so that we…

1 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites,…

How was Jesus the perfect sacrifice? Did Jesus become a sinner? What did the sacrifice of Jesus cost?

What is love? Unselfish, loyal, and benevolent intention and commitment toward another. 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. We are commanded to love, because…

A reflection on the cross, taken from the sermon sent to the Hebrews, and the Apostle Paul's letter to the Roman Christians, both found in the New Testament.

While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a…

We Are Glad You Are Here. We Give Thanks to God for all Things. QUOTES ON GRATITUDE “So much has been given to me that I have no time to ponder that which I don't have.”—Helen Keller “Giving thanks is not a matter of feeling thankful, it is a matter of obedience.”—Joni Erickson Tada (she is quadriplegic)…

4 By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because…

You Cannot Share Supper with Christ, and Dine with Demons We are sharing in the Blood and Body of Christ Does all my actions/attitude honor God? Does my actions/attitudes tear Down or build up the body of Christ? Does my actions/attitudes hinder or help bring people to Jesus?

1. Totuus: Jumala rakastaa meitä. 1 John 4:10 (R19331938) 10 Siinä on rakkaus—ei siinä, että me rakastimme Jumalaa, vaan siinä, että hän rakasti meitä ja lähetti Poikansa meidän syntiemme sovitukseksi. Syyllisyyden tähden ja riittämättömyyden tähden On olemassa käsitys, ettei Jumala ole tyytyväinen minuun.…

1 For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. 2 He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness. 3 Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own…

How does Saul prove that actions speak louder than words?

2 Kings 10:10 (ESV) 10 Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the Lord.. .” The phrase ‘the word of the LORD’ occurs 51 x’s in Kings and the phrase ‘thus says the LORD’ 33 x’s. In contrast the same phrases in Chronicles, which is 14% longer and yet covers the same history,…

Trust and Obedience in Jonathan and David. 6 Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the Lord will work for us, for nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.” Jonathan trusts God. 23 So the Lord…

What length? Paul is willing to go to any length to win people to Christ, but also to protect the truth of the gospel. And he also is willing to appeal to keep the gospel going forth too. (How far are you willing to go picture) What length are you willing to go for your grandchildren? How about your…

1 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having…

Introduction 17 Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?” 18 He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with…

23 Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear…

17 Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord . Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.” 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 5 not…

Over the past several weeks we’ve been hearing terms like “unprecedented”, “once in a life-time”, “corona virus”, and “pandemic”, and these words have become tiresome and lost much of their initial impact. A similar thing can happen when we read Scripture. Especially when we’re dealing with a familiar…

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