Sermons About Deception
Rotten Freedom & Its Fruit
Evil is the rotting real thing; and the freedom to rot isn't free.
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Doctrinally Desperate Housewives
Satan's chief strategy in history is to undermine authority and truth.
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Jesus Sets People Free
Our problems present no problem to God. He uses them to make us more free.
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Expectation of Repentance, pt. 1 (Matthew 3:8)
Many in the church today are presented with a gospel that simply calls people to “Receive Jesus as your Savior,†sign a card, look back on that date, and never doubt again. No call to be willing to forsake all and follow Him. No call to self-examination. No call to repentance as the testimony to the reality of faith. We have a whole culture of people who identify themselves as “Christians†and yet have lives and beliefs that are not submitted to the Word of God and are little different than those of confessed unbelieving people - and yet feel absolutely confident they are going to heaven. Thus, because of a failure to proclaim the full gospel the professing church of Jesus Christ is providing the many will stand before the living and exalted Christ to hear the most frightening words every uttered from His lips, “Depart from Me into the eternal lake of fire, I never knew you.†The Church, as Christ’s slaves and ambassadors have been entrusted with a message in which God’s glory and a sinner’s salvation hangs. John the Baptist was a faithful servant. It is this very deception of false faith that he will deal with this morning. He will do it by confronting a false view of religious confidence that fails to understand the nature of true repentance toward God.
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GUARDING OUR FAITH IN CHRIST: thru Tribulations and Against Deception (Mark 13:14-23) 02-08-09
A SUMMARY OF MARK 13: (see expanded introduction below). TAKING A FULFILLED-PROPHECY TO HEART: ---> The Destruction of the Temple (and the Fall of Jerusalem) vs14-23. ---> Living with a Kingdom Perspective (see Mk 4:1ff; 8:31ff; Acts 1:1-11). GUARDING OUR FAITH IN CHRIST: ---> Thru Tribulations vs14-20; ---> and Against Deception vs21-23. [EXPANDED INTRODUCTION: 1st, Understanding Mark 13: ---> Jesus is "Answering" Two Questions: - when will the Temple be Destroyed; - and when will He Return (when is the End of the Age); ---> Jesus gives a Description & Time-Line: of the Current Age vs5-23, 28-31 (which includes the Temple's Destruction & the End Times); and of His 2nd Coming (at the End of the Age) vs24-37. 2nd, Highlights of Mark 13: ---> Some Main Points: This Entire Age is full of Suffering (including persecutions); God's Judgment on the Temple (including Jerusalem/Israel); The Global Spread of the Gospel (before His return); Seek Faithfulness to Christ over "Signs" (about the End Times); Understand the Delayed yet Imminent Return of Christ. ---> The Priority for Believers in Christ: Persevere in the Faith: thru the Trials/Persecutions of Life; Be on Guard in the Faith: thru Tribulations/against Deception; Keep Vigilant in the Faith: by Serving Christ until He Returns].
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1 Timothy - Part 2
Paul exhorts Timothy to teach sound doctrine and pray for ALL in authority (this penned during the time of the great persecutor, Nero) and to fight the good fight for Christ's Kingdom.
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1 Timothy - Part 1
Teach no other doctrine than the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Beware of false teachers, not only from outside, but from inside, especially.
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House Rules Part 4
As we prep to jump into our passage this week at Sovereign King, we need to keep in mind several themes that are running through the book of 1 John. Let's keep in mind that John is trying to describe what it looks like to be part of the family of God. A few weeks ago, we saw a list of attributes that define the family. o A believer will be characterized as being humble understanding that they are a sinner. o Recognizing that sin means that the child of God will live a consistent life of confessing that sin to God. o That confession and repentance will cause them to walk in the light or live a consistently growing life of obedience. o Walking in humility, confession, and obedience, will cause them to be honest about that sin never pretending to be perfect. o Each individual believer then will be part of the fellowship of other believers in a community designed by God before the foundations of the world. Building on those characteristics, John also has been developing a few themes. For example: o A child of God will be in Jesus and Jesus will be in them. o A child of God will be in the word of God and the word of God will be in them. o However, the child of God will be in the world, but the world will not and should be in the child of God. That was the theme last week where John talked about not loving the world and all that is in it, but instead, we are to have our hearts and lives centered on the cross of Christ and all that Jesus has done for us. This week, however, John takes a turn in his teaching. Instead of explaining what the child of God looks like, he is going to describe a person who is NOT a child of God. What characterizes their lives, and what attributes describe them? Though we could probably assume the opposite of everything said about the child of God, John wants to be very specific. Now before we get started, we are going to run across some controversial language in this passage. We are going to see John use the word "antichrist" this week. As we move forward, I will make the same comment that I made when we saw the word come up in the book of Luke. o Every single generation since the day Jesus ascended heaven has declared that this is the generation that Jesus is coming back. o Every single generation has picked one or more really bad people and labeled them the one and only anti-Christ o And guess what? Every single generation has been wrong. That does not mean that being mindful of the times and the people of those times is not important. It just means that we should tread lightly and carefully before we start throwing labels and titles around. To be honest, we have made a joke out of Christianity in most every generation. o We have been so quick to declare that Jesus is coming around the bend that we have neglected our responsibilities in the here and now. We have been content to let this world go to h-e-double hockey sticks in a handbasket. o And any one that we didn't vote for or any terrorist on the landscape has been declared the anti-Christ. And you know what? We look like idiots, folks. Let's not let give the impression to the world that we are ready to start stockpiling weapons and freeze dried meals in order to stock our militia camp in the woods with a bunch of hillbillies that look like the guy from the front porch of the movie Deliverance. Instead, let's be wise students of scripture and our time, all the while holding to the mandate to proclaim Jesus while demonstrating love, mercy, and justice to a hurting world. Having said all that, this week at Sovereign King, we will examine this section of 1 John looking to see what the life without Christ looks like.
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Self-Centeredness: Late Service John 8:42
It is easy to deceive ourselves through religion and so-called rights... but what is the mark of a true believer?
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