Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
About three months before we started this exposition of the Book of Romans, I preached from these verses. It was a gospel message entitled, “How to Receive an Inheritance.” “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Have you ever read the missionary biography, “Through Gates of Splendor?” I’m not thinking about “To the Golden Shore” about Adoniram Judson. “Through Gates of Splendor” is the account of five relatively modern-day...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
There was once a small, typically American family of four. Dad and Mom had two children, Jim, aged 18, and Hope, aged 20. Mom and Dad loved their children and longed for their very best. So when Hope started bring boys home of whom Mom and Dad disapproved, they...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Nearly 30 years ago, there was a widely-advertised, highly acclaimed movie entitled “Apocalypse Now.” I can honestly say that I have never seen the movie, except enough to know that I didn’t want to see it. So I don’t know anything about it...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Preachers are prone to create and follow little habits while they preach their sermons. When I am not wearing a suit coat, I will invariably put my left hand in my pocket, and if there is anything in that pocket, we’re all in for trouble. Last weekend for...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
During my years with you, I have preached about 75 messages on the subject of prayer. And several of those sermons and lessons have been a part of various series on the subject. For example, on Wednesdays for several months we looked a the prayers of the Apostle...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
There are hundreds of millions of people who don’t think that being a Christian is very important. I wish that some of them were here today, so that I could reason with them. They either think that there is no difference between the Christian and the Hindu or...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
This verse strikes at the heart of a lot of false doctrine. For example it calls ATHEISM a lie – there is a God. It then thwarts the arguments of the PANTHEISTS. A Pantheist believes that the universe and God are one and the same. And that means that, to them,...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
“Romeo and Juliet,” of course, is a well-known play by William Shakespeare. The two young people bearing these names meet and grow in their love for one another. Unfortunately, their fathers and families hate each other, and the friendship between these...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Verse 28 is one of the most beloved statements in all of God’s Word. “We KNOW that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to His purpose.” Why is this so well-loved; why is this verse so...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
There are basically two main doctrinal opinions about man’s deliverance from sin. And then come a multitude of thoughts between those two key positions. There are those who lay most, if not all, of the responsibility for salvation on the sinner’s...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
This chapter has two designs: to lift up our hearts and to cast us to our knees. Paul wanted to lift up the hearts of the people of church in Rome in the midst of their trials. And this book still accomplishes that same goal over twenty centuries later. The second...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Have you ever seen the 40-year-old movie “Camelot?” It came out in 1967 back when some of you were still going to movies and before you gave up television. It began as a Broadway play starring Richard Burton and Canadian Robert Goulet as Sir Lancelot....
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Unless you’ve been cast away on a desert island for the last two weeks, you should have heard about the government’s $700 billion bail-out of America’s economy. Do you realize how much money that is? That’s the number 7 with 11 zero’s...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
There are several reasons why most Baptist pastors never preach about sovereign election and predestination. Some of them firmly believe that man’s deliverance from sin is the responsibility of that sinner – period. They believe that Jesus died for sins...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
As we said last Sunday morning, love is one of the attributes of God. That means that love is a part of Him. By definition an attribute is something that is inherent or essential. It is something which cannot be taken away from the Lord without changing Him...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
As far as I can see at this moment, we will finish our study of this chapter today. In reviewing it earlier this week, there were just a couple of things which I thought needed amplification. So we return to the heart of the chapter, which is the heart of the book,...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
I won’t keep you long this afternoon. First, it wouldn’t do me much good to try, after that meal we just ate. Then second, I’m just doing a little house-keeping, thinking about a verse that we’ve basically skipped over. “As it is...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
The discipline of a child is a tremendous responsibility, not to be taken either lightly or angrily. Certainly that child needs to know that there are limits to what he should do. He needs to understand that doing some things are harmful to himself and to others....
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
It has been often said that the Bible doesn’t try to prove the existence of God – it is something just assumed. And that is quite natural, because, despite the depravity of the human heart, all men instinctively know that there is God. It is only through...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
Picture an American family living close to the apex of society. The mother of the family grew up in the lap of luxury – her father was one of the 3,028,000 millionaires in this country. This family, however, doesn’t need grandfather’s money, because...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
With verse 7, Paul comes directly to the doctrine of election – he deals with it point blank for quite some time. And as I said earlier, to soften the blow, he has given us this introduction about his love for Israel, and he has described some of the blessings...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
This is one of those scriptures which needs to be taught and re-taught; re-taught and re-taught. But it’s not because it is difficult to understand or interpret. All that it really needs is to be read with an open mind, because the words are not difficult....
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
As I have often said, one of the purposes and blessings of an expository study such as this one, is to give ourselves the opportunity to look at a variety of subjects. Perhaps we’d not be looking at this theme, if we weren’t confronted with it right here....
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
This morning, I’d like you to think about the mercy of God. I’m giving this message the title “Essential Mercy.” Now, I am a semi-organized person – or at least I think so. One of the things that I have tried to do since the beginning of...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
No Christian should ever be afraid of the Bible. There is never any reason to fear what God says – about anything. Even if the Lord is talking about things that are frightening or unpleasant, if it is the Lord who is talking, then it is for our good to listen,...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
Let’s say that you are almost eight-years-old, and your birthday is coming up in just a few days. You have been expressing for weeks that there is a particular toy that you really, really, really want to have. It is expensive; it is something that none of your...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
I believe that there are rules which must be applied to the exposition, interpretation and application of the Bible. Some of those rules are quite simple, and yet some Bible teachers deliberately break them. For example, if the Bible says that something is red, then...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
One of the saddest things in all the world is sight of someone trying to be a Christian. Generally speaking, when someone is trying to be a Christian, you can be sure that he is not a Christian. But we are talking about someone who is openly religious. He may make...
Jan 15, 2015 | Romans
We know from the Book of Acts that Peter and Paul had met on several occasions – They met at fellowship meetings in Jerusalem and at other church gatherings, such as at Antioch. Peter was the venerable servant of the Lord, while Paul, perhaps the same age, was...
