Fork of The Broad/Sermons from Carlton Baptist Church

Fork of The Broad/Sermons from Carlton Baptist Church

By Lee AdamsReligion & Spirituality
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Fork of The Broad/Sermons from Carlton Baptist Church episodes

  • Luke 6:17-20, 24 - "Poor in Spirit"

    Being poor in spirit means being able to admit that you have nothing and you are nothing without Jesus.   If you realize you are utterly helpless without God, though, and put your whole trust in His goodness, His mercy, and His love, that’s when you’re really blessed.

     

    37 min
  • Luke 3:7-14 - "Torn Hearts"

    Repentance isn’t about sinning less so that you can impress God with your goodness – It’s about

    treasuring God more than you treasure your sin, and the evidence of that – the fruit of repentance – will be your obedience to God’s Word.  In the words of the Old Testament scholar, Dr. Chad Bird, it’s time to “Trash your homemade halos.”  Stop pretending you love Jesus and you have it all together when all the evidence tells us that you have lost your mind and you love your sin more.  Let your heart be broken for your sin; receive the mercy and grace and love of forgiveness of God, and learn what life and love really is. 

    38 min
  • Luke 3:15-38 - "The Winnowing Fork"

    John the Baptist was a polarizing figure, and stirred things up, but Jesus who was on the way, would divide people in a way that not even John the Baptist could – Luke 3:17 says His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.  The winnowing fork was like a large wooden shovel, and the farmer would toss the grain into the air with it – the

    heavy grain that useful would fall to the ground, and the chaff, the trash, was blown away or swept up in a pile and burned. 

    So John is painting a picture here of Jesus and fire – If you have faith in Christ, He uses the fire of the Spirit to make you clean and purify you from your sins so that you can enter into a relationship with the Holy God;  but if you lack faith in Christ, He uses the fires of judgment to give you’re the punishment you actually deserve for your sins. 

    41 min
  • Luke 4:1-13 - "Two Trees"

    Adam in the Garden lived in a one-rule world – don’t eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, or you will die – and Adam was disobedient to God’s Word, he didn’t trust God’s will – you know why? Scripture says the fruit looked like it would taste good – Because Satan said God was holding out on him, and there was something better than what God had given him.  Adam fell for the temptation of the devil.  God was true to His character and true to His promise – Adam did die one day – But not that day.  God continued to let him live, because God is merciful, and he showed Adam grace, and He made clothes for Adam, to cover his nakedness and his shame.

     

    Jesus in the wilderness was tempted with all the physical pleasure, all the power and possessions and popularity, and all the health and wealth and prosperity and protection that a man could ever desire – But He trusted God the Father.  He trusted God’s plan for His life, and He

    resisted the temptation of the devil - and at another tree, He bore the punishment of death that we all deserve for our sins.  And because Jesus trusted God the Father’s
    plan for His life, sinners like you and sinners like, even though we fall for temptation and choose other things besides God’s will and God’s way over and over again – sinners like us, if we repent of our sins, and trust that Jesus’
    dying on the cross was enough to cleanse us from our sins, God will cover our shame with the blood of Jesus, and give us eternal life.

    39 min
  • Luke 4:14-30, Part 1

    Jesus' Mission - He came to free those held in the bondage of their sins – people who can’t shake their

    addictions – people who wrestle with their guilt and their shame and can’t get loose from it on their own – people who want to do the right thing but make bad decisions and carry a grocery list of moral failures in their hearts – Jesus
    came to give more than physical healing to people who couldn’t see – He came to a light in a dark world, exposing our sinfulness, but offering us healing through the power of His death and resurrection.  Jesus is preaching and proclaiming the good news of the Gospel.

    30 min
  • Luke 4:13-40, Part II

    In

    Scripture, Jesus addresses a lot of felt needs – He heals the sick, He gives sight to the blind, He makes the lame walk – But we have to remember that Jesus’ ultimate purpose was not to address my physical illness;  Jesus’ ultimate purpose was not to help me have more money in my pocket;  Jesus’ deepest concern was not the condition of my checking account – When Jesus is ministering
    to me and to you, His biggest focus is not on my personal condition, but on the condition of my soul. 

    33 min
  • Luke 4:14-30, Part III

    There’s a great dividing line happening here – The Gospel, this good news about Jesus makes blind people see; it makes people who are slaves to their sin free; it

    gives people who are chained and crushed by their sin liberty; it brings dead men to life; it makes men who are filthy in their sins clean, white as snow.  How you respond to Jesus determines whether you are a child of God, or child who will receive the wrath of God.  Jesus reading from the prophet Isaiah and saying everything Isaiah said is being made complete in Him was a provocative act – It challenged people to define who He truly is, and
    challenges them and us to a point of decision.

    39 min
  • Luke 4:31-32, 42-44 - "Preaching with Power & Authority"

    Here's what Luke is doing in this text today – He is establishing that Jesus Christ is the sovereign God – He is in control.  He holds all authority. He is Lord over all, and thus the proper response to Him is to hear His message, submit to Him, and do what He says – repent and believe the Gospel.  Repent and believe in Jesus.

    34 min
  • Luke 4:31-44 - "Power & Authority, Part II"

    Jesus’ teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum is so powerful, so authoritative, so pregnant  with the sovereignty of God, not only are the visible, human listeners astonished by His words, but also the invisible world, and the world we can’t see, is hit with an irresistible impact. Jesus not only

    astonishes the visible audience – He drives a demon out of the darkness and forces him to acknowledge the truth of who Jesus is.    

    34 min
  • Luke 5:1-11 - "More than a Man"

    Our message for today – The Word has become flesh and dwelt among us.  Jesus has come into the world.  And He is more than a man.  He is God. And we know that He is God because He is full of truth, He is omniscient, He is omnipresent, and He extends mercy to sinners, even sinners like me, even sinners like you.   And when you come to an understanding of who Jesus is, you become caught in the grip of an irresistible grace, a calling to your heart that radically alters the course of your life.  Christ embraces us in mercy; we respond by embracing Him Him in obedience, and following Him where He leads us.  He saves our souls, then uses us to save souls.  He erases

    the power of our sins, so that we can magnify the power of His Name.

    40 min

About Fork of The Broad/Sermons from Carlton Baptist Church

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Sermons from Lee Adams, pastor of Carlton Baptist Church, founded in the year 1800 as Fork of Broad Baptist. Located just outside of Athens, GA, near the South Fork of the Broad River and Watson Mill…