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"How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?" –Psalm 13:1–2 (NKJV)

Guest Pastor-Larry Dotson 10-04-26 Sunday morning Follow us on social media-- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@matoakabaptistchurch-bartl6249 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064614887031 Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatoakaB Sermon Audio: http://tinysa.com/live/matoakachannel If you were blessed by this sermon, please consider donating here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/MatoakaBaptist We pray God's Holy Spirit quenches yours to eternal life through His everlasting powerful Word. May you be born-again of the incorruptible seed that always yields the fruits of His Holy Spirit and moreover leads to eternal life with Him, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST – The King of King's and the Lord of Lord's – The Alpha and the Omega – The Great "I AM"- The Author and Finisher of our faith – just to name a few. Hallelujah JESUS CHRIST IS RISEN – HE IS RISEN INDEED!!

"Borrowed Bread — We Know a Man Who Can." The message centers on the truth that we know a Man who can—Jesus—and everything we have becomes useful, fruitful, and sufficient when surrendered into His hands. The feeding of the multitude shows that what appears small and ordinary in our hands can become extraordinary when given to Him. The storm reveals His authority over the natural world, and the deliverance of the demoniacs demonstrates His authority over the spiritual realm. In every case, the answer is not found in human ability but in the sufficiency of Jesus. From there, the message develops the idea that we are all living on "borrowed bread." None of us truly directs our own steps or produces spiritual light, wisdom, righteousness, or strength from ourselves. Jeremiah 10 reminds us that "it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps," so the proper prayer is not merely, "Lord, fix what I'm going through," but, "Lord, correct me and prepare me for what I'm going through." We need God's light to reveal what is wrong, His grace to remove it, and His goodness to replace it. The message also emphasizes the necessity of a renewed mind and daily surrender. Romans 12 warns against being conformed to the world's blueprint—a way of living that attempts to navigate suffering, decisions, relationships, and hardship without factoring God into the equation. Instead, believers are called to present themselves as living sacrifices and allow the Lord to transform their thinking. This produces a holy "fear of missing out"—not fear of the world, but a reverent desire not to miss what God wants to teach, reveal, or accomplish in us today. A major practical truth is that the fles

Meet Bereans in Action Faith Debate: Sunday, October 4th, 2026 (10/11/26 on 930 WFMD in Frederick, Maryland) Should "Artificial Intelligence" be called Algorithm Processing? Do we know GPT means Generative Pre-trained Transformer; or are we "old man yelling at cloud" with "smart phones" making us dumb? Is AI controlled by populism (majority rules), tyrants (authoritarian rule), conventional wisdom (lowest common denominator), or someone else? Does technocratic central command make feedback loops based on majority input instead of the best input? Was AI made only for a moral/religious people, wholly inadequate to the use of any other? How's the gospel stay central thru authentic Spirit-led study & known sources, not a souped-up Wikipedia? Are sermons/counseling affected by what the Ethernet presents as prevailing wisdom, with posers pretending to know what they don't? In the battle of Christ & culture, people are being trained by simulacra designed by post-moderns believing we can't know anything for sure. So, be suspicious. Trust, but verify. Don't trade God-given intelligence for low-information slop- or jobs will be lost, lives sacrificed, & truth surrendered. Thus ends a final plug for the recent series on this topic. Now, here's part 3 of a 4-part discussion on the topic of spiritual apparitions. Find The Faith Debate at wfmd.com, ChristianPodcastCommunity.org, & podcast platforms like SermonAudio & Odysee. Find videos in places such as Rumble. Links for all this are at householdoffaithinchrist.com. Panel: Troy Skinner. Faith Debate Daniel Razvi. Conquered By Love Elijah Dirksen. Whitfield Theological Seminary Kevin Schwartz. Man with dramatic visitation stories

This sermon addresses the danger of creating a false image of God that accommodates personal sin, contrasting this with the true nature of the divine as revealed in Scripture. The central message warns against the modern tendency to 'Photoshop' God's character to justify lifestyle choices, citing the Israelites' creation of the golden calf and Paul's exposition in Romans as historical and theological examples. To counter this, the speaker outlines four key attributes of the true God: holiness, sovereignty, unchanging nature, and forgiveness, emphasizing that God is both perfectly pure and mercifully redemptive. The tone is convicting yet pastoral, urging listeners to examine their internal perceptions of God and align them with biblical truth. The sermon concludes with a call to choose between serving a self-made deity or submitting to the Lord, who demands worship in spirit and truth.

Sunday, October 4, 2026 Morning Worship Service Pastor Chris

The Spirit's Sealing

What makes the Bible the Bible? In this lesson, Pastor Ed Decker takes us back to the foundation of what we believe about the Word of God. The Bible contains 66 books, written by approximately 40 different authors over a period of roughly 1,500–1,600 years, yet these books form ONE BOOK—the Word of God. Pastor Decker looks at the unity of Scripture, the two major divisions of the Bible—the Old Testament and the New Testament—and the relationship between them. The Old Testament points forward in promise, preparation, foundation, and type, while the New Testament reveals fulfillment, presentation, the building, and the truth. The lesson then moves into the doctrine of inspiration. What does it mean that the Holy Spirit moved human writers so that they recorded the very words and sense of God while writing in their own literary styles? Pastor Decker examines both the human and divine aspects of Scripture and introduces the important truths of confluent and verbal inspiration. If we are going to know what we believe—and why—we must first know what we believe about the Book upon which our faith rests.

Grab your Bible and walk with us through Acts 1:1-11. Today we will see Peter and John, through the power of the Holy Spirit perform a miracle of healing a man who had been lame from birth. Come join us as we are astonished by the power of the Name of God and learn to expect great things from the One who died to save us and conform us to His image.