I'll Be Honest

We are commanded to love the brethren, love our neighbor, and love our enemies. Do love and like mean the same thing? Do hatred and dislike mean the same thing? Can you love someone without liking them?

Anyone who reads the four gospels in the Bible will soon realize that some things are said differently in one gospel from another. How should we understand and reconcile the apparent discrepancies contained in the four gospels?

We need to remember that Christ doesn't send us into the world to wear ourselves out serving Him in our own strength. If we're abiding in Christ, we can be sure He'll give us the strength we need to serve Him.

1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality.

This is an audio-only sermon that Bob Jennings preached to his church as his exposited through his 1 Thessalonians series.

The Bible mentions besetting sins, but we need to remember that when it mentions them, it tells us to lay them aside. Some people will wrongly ease their conscience and not put away their besetting sins. We need to do what the Bible says and lay them aside (along with every weight).

As Christians, we function in two realms: the physical and the spiritual. As we grow, God often has to wean us off of being addicted to the physical realm so that we might know how to live in the spiritual realm.

In all of the accounts of the Bible that concern prayer, one of the most encouraging sections is what Jesus teaches in Luke 11:9-13. Jesus encourages us to be persistent in our prayers and to not take "No," for an answer. And in addition to considering what Jesus is teaching, we would also do well to consider the things that He's not teaching from this account.

Do you believe that without Jesus Christ that you have nothing and can do nothing? Are you sin-sick without Him? Don’t despair; Jesus has promised that all who come to Him will never be cast out. He’s promised that all who call upon Him will be saved. This is the Gospel of Peace that we need to have constantly on our feet.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away. Be on guard, that your hearts may not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day come on you suddenly like a trap; for it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the earth. But keep on the alert at all times, praying in order that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man. - Luke 21:33-36

The following is the full sermon that Bob Jennings preached on Luke 21:33-36.