Preacher ‘70

Do you really Know God?  How committed are you? Have you committed your family, your possessions, your soul to God? This sermon is based on the Prophet Jonah.  It was preached in September 23, 1979.

The Scripture for this sermon begins with Matthew 19:16, the story of the Rich Young Ruler.  This sermon was preached May 1, 1977, one month and 4 days before Preacher's motorcycle accident that shattered his right leg and changed his life forever.  I can tell you that in the 39 years he had left to live, he lived exactly the way this sermon says we should live.  His faith NEVER wavered.

It's the beginning of a new Decade. What do you have in your hand? God has provided you with everything you need for “this” day, not tomorrow until tomorrow comes. You have what you need today. Use it. Be confident and never never stop worshiping. You stop worshiping God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and you stop growing. This sermon was preached January 6, 1980.

If the church could talk, what would be its New Year's Resolution?  Would it want us to love the Lord more, pray more, attend church more, accept one another and love one another more?  This sermon was preached December 30, 1979 and is relevant today.

This is a wonderful sermon about how to live in the coming new year, where life can be found regardless of our circumstances. It was preached in 1980 but sounds like it could have been preached today! There is a couple minutes of poor sound that wasn’t correctable.

The sermon was preached in December 1977.

The Scripture reading  begins with the Paul's defense before Agippa in Acts 26:12-18 

“On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. About noon, King Agrippa, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions. We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic,[a] ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ “Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’

“ ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied. ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me. I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them 18 to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

This is a wonderful sermon about freedom in Christ and how to attain it. “You will know the Truth and the Truth will make you free.” “If the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.” This sermon was preached in 1977.