Sermons About Purity
Christian's Witness to the World, Pt. 1 (Matthew 5:13)
We as Christians are in the world “but not of the world.” We are redeemed from sin, new creations in Christ, justified, adopted children of God, citizens of a different kingdom, but, have you ever thought of this: “Why am I still here?” Almost everything that defines you as a Christian you can do better in heaven (worship, love, wont’ sin!). Christians are in the world for one primary purpose: to be witnesses to the gospel of Jesus Christ. The church is God’s witness to a decaying and dark world. Jesus will picture this relationship with the world is illustrated with two metaphors: salt and light. These metaphors speak of her dual roles as preserver and proclaimer. We are going to take the first of these this morning and look at the Church’s role of preservation in a decaying world.
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God's Spiritual Gifts teaching us to see Him
1. Learn to think not of self - Think God The people who have changed the world are people who taught people to live in it united to Christ. You must not look at your potentials, goals, and problems in relation to self but in relation to what God can do - everything! God is all capable. He doesn't judge!! God loves you as much as Billy Graham or John the Apostle. But Graham and the Apostles know Him and that requires communion. The heroic journey is denying self in training in the Bible
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Who Gets the "Leftovers"?
Jesus reaches out, beyond the nation of Jews, beyond the religious, beyond the law-abiding, beyond the proper, and preaches love your neighbor as yourself. He extends “loving neighbor” to include love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you (Matt. 5:44)—to include tax collectors and even the despised Samaritans—to include us, no matter our sins or our failings. No one is a leftover in God’s eyes. Everyone is loved. Everyone is special. We’re all chosen people. Jesus carries forward the promise God made again and again: to take care of the needy, no matter who they are or what their need is, for all are children of God, and Jesus does love all of us. Jesus' humanity gives us hope that our own humanity can rise to the level of his—that we can learn God’s will and grow in understanding and in the ability to surrender to God’s will—that what we are today is only a beginning for what we can become. In these ways, God’s realm will keep expanding, through us, just as God’s mercy keeps extending out and out and out, so that none are left out or left-over, except those who choose not to come in. “There’s a wideness in God’s mercy” for us all. Thanks be to God!
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Communion with Jesus Christ
With prayer we have the power to leverage the universe. We learn to Commune with Jesus Christ the Son. That perfect love so revealed to us in the Words in Red. God does not deal with us as in the Old Testament. We will have that A-Ha moment in heaven when we realize that divine love that we can only understand when we continually keep in mind God's love as demonstrated by the cross.
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Words in Red - Faith is God's Power Through Us - Part VII
Faith is the linen that binds the plaster of Christ's reconciliation to the sore of our sin...repentance heals - Spurgeon
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Sacred Life: Titus 1.5-9, 15-16
Purity is not regarded today as a highly sought quality. So it was in the church in Crete. The churches throughout Crete were lacking in the area of purity from its members to even those given the platform to teach. The culture was polluting and contaminating the church. The church was lacking purity of doctrine and purity in living. Such purity is needed from the leaders of the church and throughout the church.
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What To Do With Our Guilt
Guilt often produces shame because as we come to see that we’ve done wrong, we begin to feel that we’re not being who we believe we should be. When you lie to someone, you not only feel guilt for lying, but you feel shame because you see how much of a coward you are, or how much of a conman you are. Shame brings you face-to-face with the inconsistency of your identity. With guilt, the solution is to have your sins atoned for, the penalty to be paid. With shame, the response is a desire for glory, to be covered.
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"Purity on Long Island"
Rev. Bobby Lloyd from LICCV shared his heart concerning the sexual revolution and how it's affecting our children and adults.
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