Text: 1 Corinthians 12:10 Tongues are known languages.  Everywhere the word tongues shows up in the Bible it describes a language like Spanish, French, German, Japanese, etc.  It’s never a word to describe unintelligent sounds, noises, or gibberish.  We use the word today as mother tongue, native tongue; they all mean the same thing.  The ... [Read more...]

Text: Galatians 5:1 Christian liberty, what does that mean?  Does it mean you can do anything you want to?  Does it mean you have to abide by certain rules and as long as you do you’re free? Liberty is a legal term.  It means a Christian’s relationship to the law of God is that it ... [Read more...]

Text: Revelation 14 Revelation 14 is all about a harvest in a vineyard - grapes of wrath.  The promised land is the Lord’s vineyard.  Song of Solomon talks about this.  Isaiah 5 talks about this.  Jeremiah 12:10 talks about the Lord’s vineyard.  Jesus Christ used parables about a vineyard in Matthew 20, 21 to describe ... [Read more...]

Text: 1 Peter 3:18 This is a great evangelistic outline so that you could take one verse and preach the entire gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ explaining all the facets of the gospel. Sufficiency of his sacrifice once suffered for sins Every other belief tells you to stay in good standing or else your ... [Read more...]

TextL 1 Corinthians 12:10 Discernment is the ability to identify.  Discerning of spirits is like hearing clearly or seeing clearly except it’s the ability to identify spirits.  “A distinguishing, a clear discrimination, discerning, judging...”  To see and identify by noting differences such as distinguishing good from evil, right from wrong, truth from error. Hebrews 4:12 ... [Read more...]

Text: Galatians 4:22-31 Isaac and Ishmael are historical people who Paul uses to illustrate the law versus the promise.  Genesis 21:1-21 is where the law tells the part of the story of Isaac and Ishmael that Paul relates to the Galatians. Bondmaid versus Freewoman (vs 22) Flesh versus Promise (vs 23) Sinai versus Jerusalem (vss ... [Read more...]

Text: Revelation 13:11-18 Mohamed is a false prophet.  He supposedly prophesied the end of the world to be around 800 AD.  Beside that he’s never really prophesied anything, but still called a Prophet by his followers.  The Pope is a false prophet who is a religious/political shill.  Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, was a false ... [Read more...]

Text: Luke 14:25-33 Jesus Christ defines successful Christianity much differently than most.  Give them everything they want and call that success.  Jesus Christ is doing the exact opposite of the mega church movement.  This is Jesus Christ weeding people out.  Not with joy, but because they had not considered the price of following the Lord. ... [Read more...]

Text: Galatians 4:12-18 The false doctrine that slithered its way into the Galatians had chilling effects.  People don’t understand the benefit of right belief because they have a hard time accepting the consequences of wrong belief.  False doctrine is like a disease. Divided the brethren (vs 12) Destroyed their charitable spirit (vss 13-15) Despised the ... [Read more...]

The Next Generation by Bro. Gerald Sutek