Sermon from RN Evans on 1 John 4:18 6/11/16 am – Fear and Torment

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18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

Main Points

1.  What fear is

2.  What fear involved

3.  How fear is cast out

Sermon from RN Evans on 1 John 4:17 6/11/16 pm – God’s perfect love – part 3

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17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.

Main Points

1.  A reminder of the context

2.  A definition of perfect love

3.  The result of perfect love

Sermon from RN Evans on Hebrews 6:19-20 30/10/16 am – The patience of Faith: The anchor for the soul

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19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, 20 where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

Main Points

1.  The Old Testament background to the book of Hebrews

2.  Fleeing for refuge

3.  An anchor for the soul

Sermon from RN Evans on Hebrews 6:10 23/10/16 am – Patience of faith

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10 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.

Main Points

1.  What is a labour of love

2.  The challenge of a labour of love

3.  Incentives to a labour of love

Sermon from RN Evans on 1 John 4:18 23/10/16 pm – God’s perfect love

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18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

Main Points

1.  What is perfect love?

2.  What perfect love does

3.  Love perfecting among us

Sermon from RN Evans on Hebrews 6:9-12 16/10/16 am – Patience of faith

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9 Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case—the things that have to do with salvation. 10 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. 11 We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized. 12 We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

Main Points

1.  Patience – to inherit the promise

2.  Patience – to labour in love

Sermon from RN Evans on Genesis 1:26 16/10/16 pm – The doctrine of man

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26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,a]" data-fn="#fen-NIV-26a">[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Main Points

1.  The original dignity of man

2.  The brevity of the life of man

3.  The purpose of the life of man

Sermon from David George on Genesis 8  9/10/16 am – The God of the covenant

Sermon from RN Evans on 2 Corinthians 9:7 2/10/16 pm – God loves a cheerful giver

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7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

Main Points

1.  Loving a cheerful giver

2.  Making grace to abound

3.  Sowing and reaping

Sermon from RN Evans on 2 Corinthians 8:15 2/10/16 am – The Grace of Giving

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15 As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

Main Points

1.  The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ

2.   The principle of Equality

3.  But first a willing mind