Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
We are introduced in this chapter to one of the most delightful people of the Word of God. Unlike Elijah and Daniel, who appear larger than life, Timothy was a someone more like ourselves. He had his flaws, but they weren’t so large that we don’t want to associate...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
As I said this morning, every Christian sermon can be brought back to the cross. As we see in verse 5, the churches of Galatia were increasing daily. That means that people were being saved by the grace of God and being led of the Holy Spirit to join with other saints...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
The other day Judy and I were running some errands, and she was telling me a story about boots. Boots is not the name of a cat; Boots are a kind of foot-wear designed to protect people’s feet from rain and snow, And they are often made with a tread which keep them...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
I’d like you to return to the scripture that we read earlier in Zechariah 4:1-10: “And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, and said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
As usual, I have lots of question for which the Bible doesn’t supply the answers. Most of those questions are unimportant and some are even foolish, But it’s the nature of foolish people to ask foolish questions. And there isn’t necessarily any sin involved in asking....
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
One of my fears in this study is that I am boring you with details. Unfortunately for you, I like details and the background behind the details that we find in the scriptures. Sometimes the scripture itself, invites us to examine those details, Such as Luke’s comments...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
The majority of Christendom today believes that the salvation of sinners – depends on the WORK OF MAN. Most people believe that it is up to the sinner to DO certain things in order to be saved from his sins. He must join a church, or be baptized, or be obedient to the...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
There are a great many times when the preacher should feel inadequate for his task. He is expected to preach the whole counsel of God, and to expound the scriptures that are given to him, But many times those scriptures only begin to reveal the subject. Sometimes...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
We are told that this young woman was making a great deal of money for her consortium of owners. As we have seen, she was demon possessed. It appears that not all demons are commissioned by Satan to do the same sorts of things. Luke tells us specifically that this...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I despise and detest those men who were using this slave girl. There is no doubt that she was demon-possessed and filled with evil. Despite her age, she was, by definition, a witch, And based upon an abundance of Old Testament...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
Do you think that Paul and Silas were in the will of God when they went to Philippi? Were they doing the will of the Lord when they ordered the demon to depart from the soothsayer? Was there any sin involved in invoking Jesus’ name to free that woman from her demon?...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
When Jacob was fleeing from his brother, he spent his first night away from home at a place called Luz. He thought that he was all alone, but he wasn’t. There was an innumberable company of angels there. He renamed the spot Bethel, Because he falsely assumed that this...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
We come, this morning, to one of the more preeminent passages in the Book of Acts. It’s always with fear, trepidation and joy that I come to scriptures like these. I have a bit of fear, because I know that many of you already know this passage very well. And so,...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
I began my preparation for this message by trying to imagine what sort of man this jailer had been. I would think that he began his wardens career by soldiering first. Since I have no scriptural references for these ideas, you are free to reject them – all, or in...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
When two powerful armies, of equal strength, face each other, generally speaking, victory is achieved through the skill of the soldiers or the genius of the generals. The satellite images may reveal something in the geography of the enemy position, or the placement of...
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield Studies in the Lord’s Prayer John 17:1-26 By K. David Oldfield Introduction The nearer that a person approaches the throne of God, the more cautious he ought to become. The more...
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield John 17:1 Would you say that the Lord Jesus was, or was not, a man of prayer? The answer is obvious. To picture Christ Jesus as anything less than the epitome of the true Intercessor...
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield John 17:2 If I was a downed pilot, caught behind Taliban lines in Afghanistan, I would want nothing and no one but the best to come and rescue me. I would want someone with capability,...
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield John 17:3 Are you familiar with the “Make a Wish Foundation?” It started in 1980 with a little 7-year-old boy named Chris, who always wanted to be a policeman. Chris had...
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield John 17:4-5 There was someone a few years ago someone who won one of the big city marathons. It seems to me that it was the New York or the Boston Marathon, but I can’t be sure....
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield John 17:6 When the Lord said, “I, the LORD thy God, am a JEALOUS God” He raised some interesting questions. The way that we ordinarily define it, jealousy is something...
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield John 17:7-8 The Lord Jesus teaches us, while speaking to His Father, that eternal life is to know the Father and the Son. This means that what Jesus teaches us is more important than...
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield John 17:9-10 This is the point at which Jesus’ prayer for us actually begins. All the preceding material has been a very wonderful and blessed introduction. You might say that the...
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield John 17:11 I was thinking yesterday about the changes that the world has gone through during the last 80 years. When our grandfathers were born, just after World War I, this was...
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield John 17:12 The 3-year-old was making his first visit to the beach with his family. Dad held him in his arms as he walked into the water and soon the waves touched the boy’s feet....
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield John 17:13 My wife, Judy, and I had been married a long time before either of us left the other’s side for any length of time. Sure, we had gone to work, to the store, and to...
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield John 17:14-16 The next three verses contain some repetition, which emboldens me to look at a larger chunk of scripture than usual. But first let me tell you about Clay Shiver. In 1995...
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield John 17:17 While on a recent walk you heard the joyful sound of a goose, so you looked up into the air, but there was no v-shaped wedge of geese to be seen. And then you realized that...
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield John 17:18-19 Let’s say that when you wake up tomorrow, you’re disoriented and don’t recognize where you are. You find yourself laying on an unfamiliar bed in a...
Jan 20, 2015 | Books, Lord's Prayer
From “Studies in the Lord’s Prayer,” by Pastor K. David Oldfield John 17:20-21 Everyone who owns a car or truck agrees that it’s important to check the oil every once in a while. What are the reasons for checking that oil? We check oil because...
