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This sermon emphasizes that a genuine walk with God requires daily surrender and honest self-examination rather than mere religious knowledge or attendance. The central message is that pride and fear are the primary obstacles to trusting God, and that believers must invite God to search their hearts to identify hidden weaknesses. By submitting their wills to God's lordship, Christians can break cycles of anxiety and emotional chaos, allowing the Holy Spirit to produce the fruit of the Spirit in their lives. The tone is pastoral and convicting, urging listeners to stop hiding from their struggles and instead find peace in God's constant presence and guidance. Ultimately, surrender is presented not as a loss of control, but as the path to transformation and abundant life.

The sermon emphasizes the imperative to love the Lord above all else, contrasting the divine power that drives believers toward God with the spiritual forces that entice them to conform to the world. It identifies the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life as primary strategies used by the enemy to divert Christians from their purpose, citing the temptation of Jesus and the departure of Demas as examples. The message defines true love not as a fleeting emotion but as a command to be obeyed, a steadfast commitment that endures hardship, and a dedication of time, particularly in morning prayer and study of the Word. By urging believers to prioritize their relationship with God over worldly pursuits, the sermon calls for a life of obedience and perseverance that remains anchored in divine promises and spiritual strength.

The sermon explores the theological tension in Joshua 13 between the remaining conquest of the land and God's promise to drive out the enemies, establishing that the work of finishing the job is ultimately God's responsibility. This realization is presented as a source of confidence for believers, decreasing pride while increasing the desire to serve as honored vessels of God's will. The message warns against complacency, using the example of Israel's failure to fully drive out certain nations and the Ephesian church's loss of first love as cautionary tales. It concludes by emphasizing that all labor should be directed toward God's glory rather than personal gain, citing the Levites' inheritance of the Lord Himself as the ultimate model of selfless devotion and praise.

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Chapel | September 25th, 2026 | James Wooten | Pride's Billboard | Proverbs 12:10

This sermon examines the life of King Amaziah to illustrate the destructive power of pride when it resists divine correction. While Amaziah initially demonstrates faithfulness by obeying God and trusting Him over human alliances, his character is ultimately defined by his refusal to abandon the idols of Edom. The central theological argument posits that Amaziah's downfall stems not merely from his idolatry, but from his arrogant rejection of God's prophetic counsel, which leads to his military defeat and eventual assassination by his own subjects. The message serves as a pastoral warning that while God is gracious in offering forgiveness, persistent pride invites judgment and humiliation. Listeners are encouraged to embrace humility through the understanding of the Gospel, recognizing that self-submission to God is far preferable to being broken by His discipline.

Righteousness or Wrath The message traces the condition of humanity from Genesis into Romans 1, showing that when people stop seeing God rightly, they eventually begin altering His truth, redefining righteousness, and calling unclean things clean. Romans 1 reveals both the righteousness of God in the gospel and the wrath of God against ungodliness, unrighteousness, and uncleanness. The warning is not merely about recognizing what is wrong in the world around us, but about examining our own hearts for pride, anger, whispering, unforgiveness, envy, and every other evidence that we too desperately need grace. Cain becomes an early picture of this rebellion. Rather than allowing God to correct him, Cain wanted God to value what he valued. When God would not adjust to Cain, Cain turned his anger against Abel. Jude later connects that same pattern with the way of Cain, the error of Balaam, and the rebellion of Korah. Balaam could not curse what God had blessed, so he taught Israel how to compromise themselves through temptation. The enemy still works the same way—questioning who God is, what God has said, what God expects, and what God delights in. At the same time, the message calls believers to live differently in a tense and troubled world. We are to pray for those in authority, discern right from wrong without becoming malicious, guard our speech, refuse to be ruled by anger or anxiety, and entrust the things we cannot control to God. We can speak truth without trying to destroy people, remembering how much mercy God has shown us. The fall explains why pain, thorns, suffering, temptation, and death remain all around us, but every reminder of the curse should point us ba

We have seen the effects of political correctness run amok in our nation. Even though there is a strong pulling back on the reins at this time, all it takes is for a new administration to open the floodgates wide open. Despite the pulling back on the reins we still see school systems that are indoctrinating children in the doctrines of LGBT. Young children are being influenced through graphic books under the guise of education. In North Carolina a school district has hired a so-called "transgender" male to teach a mandatory class at an elementary school. In Massachusetts a couple is fighting for custody of their daughter from the state, a system that groomed their daughter into believing she is a boy. They are in the heat of the battle as we speak. Many institutions are forcing politically correct pronouns even though they defy biological truth. On this edition of Crosstalk you'll be introduced to a man who was found guilty of "hate" against homosexual men by a Canadian court over flyers he distributed during a Toronto Canada Pride event a decade ago. That man is William Whatcott, a pro-family activist who is now a Canadian refugee in the United States. He's a client of the Pacific Justice Institute who is motivated by his Christian faith to evangelize those who face eternal peril if they refuse to repent. More Information: billwhatcott.wordpress.com