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May 17, 2023, Wednesday evening Rick Griffith brings the message.

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“And Mary said, ‘His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.”  (Luke 1:50)

Look what the greatest mother of all time said under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, which makes this the Word of God. Part b of her statement means to pass this on to our children. We all need mercy, which means we all need to fear God, for His mercy is on those who fear Him. This is what the most blessed by God woman who ever lived said. She was expressing her own life and heart as our example. Be like Mary.

The word for fear used in the Bible is phobia, but the actual definition is quite different from the phobias we talk about today. The fear of God is the utmost respect for God, not something that makes people run from God but makes them run to God. After they sinned, Adam and Eve ran from God because of their guilt feelings; they knew they had disobeyed God. But overwhelmingly to fear God means to honor Him as someone who deserves an abounding respect for who He is and what He does. To fear God means to be in awe of Him and the glory of His presence, power, and compassion. As one would honor a governor or president who comes into the room, or some highly accomplished athlete or celebrity, one should honor God even more.

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May 10, 2023

The Peace of God

“And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.” (Colossians 3:15)

I. The Emphasis of Peace in the world is everywhere. Most people long for peace in the world. At least that’s what all the Miss Americas say: “World Peace.” Give peace a chance. Buddhism’s main teaching is how to have peace within you. Hinduism teaches Nirvana as finally being at peace with the universe: no more reincarnation. Every home longs for peace between the parents and among the children. Peace is very important, is it not?

First, we need to recognize there is a difference between peace with God and the peace of God. Peace with God comes when anyone gets saved. You were once an enemy of God, but now peace has been made by the blood of His cross (Col.1:20).  And “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Rm.5:1) We are declared right with God when we believe on Jesus and because of that righteousness we have peace with God. The war is over. We are at peace. We have made an unconditional surrender of our lives to God and there is no more war between us. We are friends.

The peace of God is that sense of utter well-being in our hearts, the shalom the Hebrews speak of. “It is well with my soul.” Our hearts are at rest. No matter what it’s like around us, there is peace inside of us. Paul was in jail awaiting the trial of his life by a tyrant who hated Christians, and he spoke peace over these Christians in Colossae (1:20). Those who have peace can minister peace. Jesus said, just before His arrest, trial, beating and crucifixion, “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (Jn.14:27) Peace means the absence of a troubled or fearful heart. This is Jesus’ last legacy.

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May 7, 2023

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May 3, 2023 Wednesday Evening 

Robert Williams, Fear: 1 John 4:18

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April 26, 2023

There is something infinitely more important than the outward clothes we wear to church and that is what Paul discusses in this passage. “Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things, put on love, which is the bond of perfection.”

V.12-13, Paul appeals to us as the elect of God. This is not something we can be proud of because God has chosen the weak, poor, and foolish ones of the world (1Cor.1:26-29). This is something to be humbled about. And God calls us holy! We are holy, not sinners! Believe what God says about you. You are holy and beloved. And so, put on tender mercies…” Longsuffering means to suffer long. We are to suffer long with others whom we have complaints against. Suffer long! And bear with one another. Bear means to endure whatever wrong others heap on you. Forgiveness is something we are all familiar with because we have been forgiven many times. There can be no relationship with anyone without forgiveness because we have all sinned.

We need to be careful here because it’s easy to say you do these things and with those words soothe your conscience, but then walk away from your church. Not saying there’s never a reason to leave a church, but after all this, why would you? One lady called me to say she was leaving the church and joining another church because she had been offended by some ladies. I told her I would not send her church letter to the other church until she first made things right with those ladies. She did, then she never left.

V.14, Love is what binds us together, it never separates us because love never fails. It’s so easy for people to say, “I love you… Goodbye!” That’s not love. I know about people who don’t do these things in v.12-13 and yet say, “I love you.” Verses 12-13 describe love. If you want to know what love is, read v.12-13.

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April 23, 2023

Zombies in Church

“Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth.”  (Colossians 3:5-11)

The Christian has three enemies to his spiritual life. Enemies to our faith are the most important and dangerous enemies we have. To destroy or even damage our faith is to interrupt our relationship with God and nothing is more important than that (Heb.11:6). First is the world; second is Satan; third is our flesh. The world, the flesh, and the devil. These are real and have caused many a shipwreck for the Christian pilgrim.

The inspired apostle addressed two of our enemies so far in Colossians: Satan and the world. Both have been dealt with and defeated at the cross of Christ. We were crucified to the world and the world to us when Jesus died on that cross, because we were in Him when He died. Satan was utterly defeated and had his authority stripped away at the cross. Bout the only thing he has left is lies, but that’s not to say he is someone we must not deal with. All he had with Eve was a lie and he knew how to use that effectively. He still does. Using the world as his bait, he maneuvers us to fall to temptations and loss.

Paul was a great theologian, and his writings are deep. Even the Apostle Peter thought so (2Pet.3:16). We’re not talking snorkeling here; we’re talking scuba diving. Paul does not throw his doctrinal pearls along the shore; neither does he cast nuggets in creek beds. If you want the pearls you have to dive deep and to find the motherlode of gold you must dig deep into the rock of the earth. Paul goes down deep and stays down long in Colossians. He feeds the hungry soul with meat and the believer must chew to get any nourishment out of what he writes.

Without background we’re not going to understand much of this important passage in Colossians. All this putting off and putting to death the flesh makes little sense without what is taught in the context of these verses and in Romans chapter six.

Either the sinful nature of the lost person animates his flesh (members of his body) or the regenerated new nature of the Christian that God creates in him (and every Christian) at the new birth does. Unless he is acting like a zombie! “Do not present your members (of your body) as instruments of unrighteousness to (serve) sin, but present (give) yourselves completely to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. The NLT says, “Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.” (Rm.6:13)

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April 12, 2023 
The Cross Has Finished It

Finished what? According to this passage, three important things: Sin, Satan, Shadows. Read the passage and notice those three things. The cross has freed us from sin, Satan, and the shadows of rules and rituals. We have been set free. “If the Son sets you free, you are free indeed. And you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free. This freedom is the greatest thing in the world. The shackles of sin have been broken and we are free from its power. Satan has been so defeated that Christ paraded him before His Father and the heavenly hosts and his defeat celebrated as a Roman general entered Rome is a victory parade with a captured king walking and/or running behind his chariot and the multitudes who lined the street cheering our great Savior’s victory. We are free! Hallelujah! Paul told the governor of his day that he wished everyone in the court that day was as free as he was, “except for these chains.” Physical shackles did not take away from his liberty in Jesus.

Christ has finally and forever, by means of His death on the cross, put our sins out of His sight and mind (I will remember their sins no more.), destroyed the work of the devil in the lives of believers, and delivered us from the rituals and rules of the law: God’s and man’s laws. Indeed, “It is finished!” They are finished. We need to know this, but Satan and his worldly system doesn’t want us to know it.

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Acts 1:1-3 tells us that Luke had written a previous book in the Bible: “The former account I made of all that Jesus began both to do and teach.” Luke actually wrote more of the New Testament than any other man. Paul wrote more books but Luke wrote more than Paul or John. His former account was the Gospel According to Luke. Put these two very long books together and you have a Gentile believer writing the full record of all that Jesus began both to do and teach and continued to do through the Holy Spirit in the early church. What a historian he was and without a doubt inspired by God. 

         
Jesus spent 40 days between His resurrection and ascension giving the disciples many infallible proofs of His resurrection.  He presented Himself alive after His suffering (passion, death). He proved to them that after He died He rose from the dead, by being seen by them and speaking to them about the kingdom of God. 

           
In order for us to join Christ and the Holy Spirit in doing His will we need to have it proven to us and we need to be fully convinced that the Christ we actually live for is the One who died and rose from the dead. Only the Holy Spirit can do this and do this He must for everyone who hopes to serve Christ. The first order of business in the early church was to ordain a witness (1:21-22) of the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. The importance of the resurrection of Christ cannot be overstated. It is seen by the proofs of it provided by Christ for 40 days and the preaching of the disciples that followed.

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March 26, 2023. Sunday Evening, Elder Dewey Williams brings a message on what it means to be devoted. 

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