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Last week we saw that Jesus commands us to stop worrying. Worry is not something we can excuse by saying, “That is just the way I am.” That may be the way you are but God expects you to change to become more and more like Jesus. God is saying, “STOP IT, STOP IT, STOP IT… Stop worrying… stop letting your heart be troubled… stop letting it be afraid.”
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Our text today is a very familiar one, and when we come to texts that we are very familiar with, it is all too easy to “check out” and say to ourselves, “I know that.” James, however, rightfully admonishes us to be doers of the word and not hearers only. Therefore my challenge to you this morning is for you to say with David, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; 24 And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139.
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Many Christians are surprised to learn that approximately two-thirds of the parables that Christ told deal specifically with finances, and the reason for this is very simple… He chose a topic with which everyone is familiar. After all, a parable is a form of teaching in which a well-known topic in the physical world is used to explain a relatively unknown topic (spiritual truth) in the unseen world.
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Several years ago, the Saturday Evening Post published an article entitled “The Seven Ages of the Married Cold.” It went like this (with a few changes here and there):
The first year: “Sugar dumpling, I’m really worried about my baby girl. You’ve got a bad sniffle, and there’s no telling about these things with all this strep throat going around. I’m putting you in the hospital Read the rest of this entry »
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Last week we saw that God has magnified His Word above all His name… that is no small statement. God jealously guards His name… He does not allow anyone to take His name in vain w/o a day of reckoning. Yet in spite of all this, God has magnified His Word above all His name. The only way I can make sense of this is by realizing that Jesus is the Word of God.
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Last week Jesus taught us about the lamp on the lampstand… it is no secret that light drives out the darkness. The Bible is the written Word of God. Jesus is the living Word of God… He is the Light of the world. The written Word and the living Word bring light and life and structure and order into our lives.
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Let’s remember the big picture. You and I and all of mankind have been made in the image and likeness of God, and we have been created to live our lives for the glory of God. Satan, on the other hand, hates God and all of His creation, and his purpose is to undermine God’s glory… Satan wants us to follow in his steps, which means he wants us to live our lives for our own glory.
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Our text today is going to show us the battle is heating up… the tension between Jesus and the religious leaders is mounting. We will also see that it is impossible (not just difficult, but impossible) for anyone to remain neutral in the spiritual battle that continues to unfold before our very eyes. I want to introduce our text today by a verse from Acts:
Acts 10:38 – How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Jesus went about doing good. Now if someone’s life can been characterized by going about and doing good, wouldn’t you like to think that he might get nominated for the “Citizen of the Year” award? Surely that’s not too unreasonable, is it? Read the rest of this entry »
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If you listen to the world today, you will hear lip service given to the importance of Mother’s Day, but I think I can prove the world is a big hypocrite… the world is speaking out of both sides of its mouth. On the one hand the world wants us to honor and esteem mothers, but what they won’t tell you is this… only a certain kind of mother is to be honored and esteemed. A mother who is a stay-at-home Mom (a home-maker) is an embarrassment, a repressed woman, a woman who needs to come out of the dark ages. The world is saying that this kind of mother (a homemaker) gives women a bad name. God, however, says a homemaker is an exalted position. Read the rest of this entry »
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Last week there was an article in the news that caught my eye. In case you didn’t see it, let me read part of it to you:
An incredible 95 percent complete fossil of a 47-million-year-old human ancestor dubbed Ida has been discovered and, after two years of secret study, an international team of scientists has revealed it to the world. The fossil’s remarkable state of preservation allows an unprecedented glimpse into early human evolution. Discovered in Messel Pit, Germany, it represents the moment before anthropoid primates–the group that would later evolve into humans, apes and monkeys–began to split from lemurs and other prosimian primates.
Do you know what this is? This is faith masquerading as science. What is the definition of science? My Funk and Wagnalls dictionary defines science this way, “knowledge of facts, phenomena, laws, and proximate causes, gained and verified by repeatable exact observation.” Read the rest of this entry »
