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Judgment part 2

10/30/2018 17:22

It occurs to me that before I expound upon the need--the honor!--of executing the judgment that has been passed down... we ought to first look at what that judgment was. Because, unfortunately, we have built a religion based on the false idea that God's judgment was a death sentence. We've built a...

Judgment part 1

10/29/2018 19:53

All I want to do for the next few days is talk about John 7:24. I think this is a criminally under-preached Bible verse. Because what we seem to tend to think of when we think about judgment is Matthew 7:1. So let's look at that first. "Judge not, that ye be not judged." And, right of the bat,...

Right part 5

10/28/2018 19:48

Doing the right thing isn't always easy. And it doesn't make everybody happy. Its impossible to make EVERYBODY happy. Because people want different things. So what's "right" for one person might not be "right" for the next. What I'm trying to say is: you can't worry about making everybody happy. In...

Right part 4

10/27/2018 19:34

Doing the right thing isn't about being right all the time. If that makes any sense. Because I've found that it is more important to be KIND than to be "right." Its more important to maintain relationships than to win arguments. It's more important to have the right word than the last word. More...

Right part 3

10/26/2018 16:27

When its right, its right. And you know it, beyond a shadow of a doubt. You don't have to force right. In fact, you can't. The harder you try to make something that ISN'T right... right... the more frustrated you get. Because you can't earn a gift. No matter how hard you try. And the love, and...

Right part 2

10/25/2018 19:50

The right thing is rarely the easy thing. But it CAN be easy (easier) when you stop trying to do it all on your own. When you let Jesus take the wheel, if I can coin that phrase. And watch this: "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Romans 8:14). Now, real quick,...

Right part 1

10/24/2018 19:57

The message I have for this Rant series it pretty simple: The right thing isn't always the easy thing, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. In fact, what that means is... you SHOULD do it. If it was easy, everybody would do it. And for a memory verse I have Romans 4:5 in the Message Bible,...

Cleansed part 5

10/23/2018 19:49

Well, I had to get here eventually, right? I think its ok to end on this note. We'll see. 1 John 1:9, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Kind of a big part of where the whole idea of "confession" came from, from what...

Cleansed part 4

10/22/2018 19:45

I once knew a guy who claimed (jokingly) that he took a bath every Saturday... whether he needed it or not. And it seems like that's how we look at cleansing ourselves. We go up to an altar call... whether we need it or not. We go through these rituals... whethere we need to or not. Or, on the...

Cleansed part 3

10/21/2018 19:52

Man, there were a lot of cleansing rituals in the Old Testament. The Old Covenant. And it was all about US putting the work in. Unfortunately, we still think that's what needs to happen--we think WE need to put the work in. Here's the thing though: We've already been cleansed by the Word that was...

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