Peter had no no money but he had Christ for the lame man. He gave a gift  that has a legacy of millions of people being blessed by this account.

Reports that the church must change to survive, that if the church does not change they will lose the world. 

The World is already lost. Stay on topic, stay on point and give them God's message Death, hell, judgment and sin for if we do that they will respond. Nineveh did and they were exceeding wicked.

Will you hear well done Thou good and faithful servant or will you hear Thou wicked and slothful servant from the Lord.

Rejoice.

tis the season, but the season is not the reason to rejoice. Rejoice that your names are written in heaven. That is the reason, for the season of rejoicing.

God, in the Book of Isaiah is talking of His people. He is not happy with them, for they have paid lip service but they do not care about Him. Are we today the same " As this people"?

Rightly dividing the Word of Truth, we do this with the Scriptures, and the Spirit. God is not vague in His Word, He wants all to come to repentance. How can we do that if He or His Word is vague? or of a varied meaning?

Repentance is needed for this nation, this city this house. God's House.

Have you ever wondered why God chose the men He did? To give us hope that we too can be used.

Daniel had to face a government, who made a decree that said He could no longer worship his God. What did he do? Did he stand and denounce the government? Did he yell and holler and complain? No he did what he always did and he stayed faithful to his God and to his values. He didn't change his ways, or make a show of his piety, or do a woe is me speech. He did what he did aforetimes.

Daniel's testimony did not change in 70 years, how we should hope that we can even come close to that.

In our text tonight we see Jesus heal the leper, Teach the people, and heal the paralytic man. The Pharisees and Scribes glorified God when they saw this. BUT then Jesus sits with the sinners, and eats with them. The straw that broke the camel's back for the Pharisees? The disciples ate with unwashen hands. They went from Glorifying God over the miracles to sheer disdain for Him because the disciples did not follow customs and traditions.