I'll Be Honest

If your forgiveness is going to look like and be modeled after Jesus Christ, then you have to be a pursuer of people. We are to be pursuers of peace. Why? Because Jesus Christ pursued you.

This is an excerpt from the full sermon, "Forgiving One Another As Christ".

True sloth is not simply when I am idle, but when I am idle with regards to Christ. Idleness towards Christ is the sum of wickedness.

Excerpt from the full sermon: The Joy of the Lord (Part 7)

Christ is the absolute owner of everything. Go out to your car this afternoon and you just stop in your tracks and look at it and you recognize that’s His. Look at yourself in the mirror those eyeballs in your head those are His. Your hand, it’s His. He can take it away from you.

If you're a genuine Christian and your going through a dark, dark place in your life, understand that you will yet praise Him. There is light at the end of this dark, dark place. You know what I found in my life? Most of the time, when I can't find the Lord, He is right where I left Him.

I've found out that the Lord will give you a test, and if you don't pass it, He takes you through a course again and you've got to go back to the same test. You might as well get it right the first time. And then after awhile, after a few years, He gives you a refresher course. – Mike Morrow

The last portion of Matthew 25 is not a parable, but an actual description of Judgement Day. Few passages in our Bibles show so plainly the nature of those good works which characterize the saved, which are utterly absent in the lost.

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. – Ephesians 4:29

For the very first time in my life I realized I was a sinner before God and that Christ was who the Bible said He was. He really was the Son of God who had died on the cross for my sins. In faith, I cried out to Him to save me. What happened next has never left me. It seemed to me that a great white hand reached down into me and took out all the sin and filth I was guilty of. I knew that God had forgiven me and cleansed me and saved me for Jesus' sake. - Mike Morrow

Paul said, "The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet." What a statement! God has so purposed to take weak instruments like us and crush Satan's head under our feet. One of the ways this happens is by us trusting the LORD in prayer and praying in a way that is dangerous to the devil.

When revival and true conversion happens, it is not because of some person taking clever initiative and having a new idea, but it is because God came in power. We need to be people who pray in faith and humble ourselves before God and lay a hold of Him.