Text: Ephesians 4:31-32 So we saw last week what forgiveness is.  Which led to the question, what happens when there is no forgiveness?  Either someone isn’t willing to forgive.  Or someone isn’t willing to ask for forgiveness.  Let’s recap a couple things then deal with relationships in which there is no forgiveness between people. Forgiveness […]

Text: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 Christian’s separation (vss 1-4) Separated by what you know ...ye have no need that I write unto you… Paul said the Thessalonians knew the times and seasons.  Now, it’s not that this information is only available to some people, it’s simply that most folks are not interested in knowing anything about […]

Text: Hebrews 8 This chapter is a summary (this is the sum) of chapters 3-7.  After the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, He becomes the great High Priest of Heaven. Heavenly Priest High priest, not low on the earth. He administrates in heavenly things, so if your going into heaven you’re going through the […]

Text: Psalm 1 People want to be blessed.  Blessed is the opposite of cursed. Blessed by not accepting ungodly counsel You’re not always on blessing ground. Blessing ground is going to be described negatively first. Blessed if you disagree with the ungodly Walk not in the counsel of the ungodly Can two walk together except […]

Text: 2 Samuel 11-12 Wrong place David is at his best when he’s under pressure, and he’s at his worst when he relaxes.  David has come off an incredible victory.  He gathered Israel and completely obliterated the Syrian army and many kings that served Syria. Sin works when you quit fighting. Staying out of the […]

Text: Ephesians 4:31-32 Forgiveness is cancelling debt based on acceptable conditions The world would say you’re a Christian and you need to forgive and move on.  You can move on without forgiveness. Blood is required by God for forgiveness Leviticus 4:15, 18, 20 Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: […]

Text: Hebrews 7:23-28 No more death in this priesthood (vss 23-24) Wages of sin no longer apply in Christ’s priesthood.  The wages of sin is death.  Death would be the constant companion under the law.  No matter how good the priest was, the shadow of death lingered over his calling.  Eventually death would put an […]

Text: Esther 10 This is the happy ending the world never gives.  It is the happy ending that the Lord always provides. King Ahasuerus is a type of God the Father in relation to the Lord Jesus Christ when the Lord Jesus begins to reign in his Kingdom for 1000 years.  This is the happy […]

Text: Ephesians 4:30 Receiving the holy Spirit is an event Notice “holy” is lower case, so “holy” is a description, not a name here.  It is a description set in opposition to an unclean spirit. Ephesians 1:12-13 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.  In whom ye […]

Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Comfort of knowing But I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep… (vs 13) God wants you to know what happens after the death of this body. If you have a saved, mom, dad, friend, brother, sister, son, daughter who has died, you haven’t lost them.  You […]