Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
I was ordained to the Gospel Ministry thirty-five years ago last Thanksgiving Day. Victory Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, Texas was the ordaining church, and nine men sat on the council. I was as nervous as I had ever been in my life, partially because I didn’t...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
A couple of weeks ago, in our message entitled “None,” we said that there is “none righteous.” We made that statement because that is expressly what the Lord said through Paul in Romans 3:10. In the first point of that message I tried to...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Almost from the beginning of my ministry I have been involved in the printing industry in some fashion or other. Today our church “publishes” all our messages onto the internet. We have anywhere from 75 to a hundred people every day visit our website for...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Let’s say that a man was worried about robberies in his neighborhood, so he sets up a surveillance camera. It is rigged to a digital recorder, making a constant video of everything that takes place on his property. One copy of the recording is collected on the...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
The gospel is the wonderful, miraculous story of God’s remedy for our sin. Elsewhere Paul wrote: “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand. By which also ye are saved,...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
This is the fifth or sixth time that we have used these verses as our text. I hope that this doesn’t bother you, because it doesn’t bother me at all. It would be to our eternal benefit if we read these words so often that they were permanently burned...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Salvation can be likened to a book. It’s not fiction, but absolute truth, and yet in some ways more it is astounding and unbelievable than any human fiction. It has a Divine Author – Christ Jesus is the Author and Finisher of this book. It has a great...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
I probably watch as much sports as the average American male. There are plenty of men who don’t have televisions and who don’t watch much sports at all. This is probably a good thing, but it doesn’t make him a better man than anyone else. Some of...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
I was thinking that with last Sunday evening’s message we would be finished with chapter 3. But as I was reading it over to see if I had missed anything, it struck me that Paul had reached a peak in verse 28. If the Holy-Spirit-inspired man of God pronounced...
Jan 16, 2015 | Romans
Have you ever noticed that when people talk about Acts 9 they say, “that is the chapter of Paul’s conversion?” They might say that was when the Lord saved Saul of Tarsus, but they don’t often say that it is the chapter of Saul’s...
