Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church Sermons

Really Bad News

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Sermon Series:            The Return of the King: The Gospel and the Future
Sermon Text:               2 Thessalonians 1:5-12
Sermon Title:              “Really Bad News”
Sermon Slides:


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  • SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide
  • SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea:     If You’re Unwilling to Hear the Bad News …

    • You’ll be Unwilling to Believe the Good News.

     

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    • SLIDE 3 – Point 1: The Bad News … Hell is Real. (vv. 8-10a)
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        • SLIDE 4 – Proverbs 16:4 – “The Lord has prepared everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.”
        • SLIDE 5 – Matthew 25:31-33, 41, 46 – “When the Son of Man comes in His glory … He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on His right and the goats on the left … Then He will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels!’ And they will go away into eternal punishment.”
        • SLIDE 6 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon
        • SLIDE 7 – Exodus 20:4-5 – “Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. You must not bow down to them or worship them.”
        • SLIDE 8 – John 4:24 – “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
        • SLIDE 9 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon
        • SLIDE 10 – 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 – “For they themselves report what kind of reception we had from you: how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and to wait for His Son from heaven … Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.”
        • SLIDE 11 – Insert Copy of Point #1 of Sermon

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          • SLIDE 12 – Point 2: The Good News … Grace is Real. (vv. 10b-12)
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              • SLIDE 13 – Ephesians 2:4-5 – “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved!”
              • SLIDE 14 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon
              • SLIDE 15 – Acts 16:14-15 – “One who heard us was a woman named Lydia … a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul. And after she was baptized, and her household as well.”
              • SLIDE 16 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon
              • SLIDE 17 – Ephesians 2:10 – “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
              • SLIDE 18 – Insert Copy of Point #2 of Sermon


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                • SLIDE 19 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Our Church and Lives.
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                    • SLIDE 20 – For the Unbeliever … Don’t Suffer in Hell, Run to Safety Now.
                    • SLIDE 21 – For the Hypocrite … Don’t Presume on Heaven if You’re Living like Hell.
                    • SLIDE 22 – For the Moralist … Don’t Depend on Religion, Depend on the Savior. 
                    • SLIDE 23 – For the Believer … Continue to Get Hell Out of You, By God’s Grace.
                    • SLIDE 24 – Taking the Bad News Seriously, Leads Sharing the Good News Urgently.


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