Losing To Gain: A Journey With Christ
Every loss surrendered to Christ becomes a place where His grace blossoms and His purpose unfolds.
Every loss for Christ becomes a pathway for better gain.
What we lose is temporary. What we gain is eternal!
When you let go of idols, you gain the one true God who reigns over all.
Why Do Christians Need To Mature?
Gifts have to do with service, but maturity has to do with Christ’s character/fruit of the Spirit.
God will use even the immature, because there is so much work to be done that if He has to wait for us to grow up, the work will suffer.
Love is the fruit of the Spirit.
Part 4 Christian Maturity Is Not Optional
Wisdom is inseparable from the fear of God.
Love for God must be balanced with a fear of Him.
David’s love for God did not keep him from sinning with Bathsheba, but his fear of the Lord restored him.
Christian Maturity Is Not Optional
Christian maturity is not determined by how much of God's Word one knows, but by a godly character.
God's Word is intended to transform us, nor to merely inform us.
If forced to choose, an uneducated, but holy man of God, is better than to be a highly educated son of hell.
The Coming Of Our King
Unbelievers will tremble at His coming.
Believers will rejoice at His coming- it is our blessed hope.
Part 2 Christian Maturity Is Not Optional
Maturing is the process of coming out of the dark into the light.
The opposite of not growing in Christian maturity is not a standstill. It is backsliding.
Part 1 Christian Maturity Is Not Optional
The ultimate goal of Christian maturity is full Christlikeness.
There’s no stagnation in the spirit… you are either growing or you are regressing.
When did you last give up a behavior that is not necessarily sinful, but simply immature?
The Nature Of Wisdom
Some things in life are meant to be temporary. It is not wise to make them permanent.
Wisdom is directed by the heart. Foolishness is not a matter of the intellect but of the heart.
Personal Evangelism Part 2
Never forget the power of a strong prayer life.
Practice to tailor your approach and how you might witness to different individuals and in different situations.
Learn to overcome obstacles to frequent questions and objections that arise when sharing your faith.
Part 1 Personal Evangelism
Personal Evangelism – is effectively sharing your personal spiritual faith in Jesus Christ to win over souls for the kingdom of God.
Always Under An Influence
Because of how gentle He is, the Holy Spirit is easily ignored.
The world is constantly in your face so you must endeavor to get before God's face.
Encouraging The Saints, God’s Way
We Must All Learn How To Encourage, God’s Way
Without encouragement, nothing good will ever get done.
To encourage, we must start with telling the truth
Sometimes the most godly thing we can do is to discourage people
Part 10b: The Seven Churches In the Book of Revelation... An Explanatory Case Study of Love Grown Cold
God Always Has a Remnant
Remnants are simply those who remain… those who remain faithful to God, when everybody else has gone their own way
The Holy Spirit never works in isolation. He always waits for the word.
Part 9: The Seven Churches… The Corrupt Church in Thyatira
God’s mercy endures forever, not His patience.
Part 8: The Seven Churches… The Compromising Church in Pergamum
Heresy is sometimes as simple as allowing bad doctrine to coexist with sound doctrine.
Satan always rules in the place of spiritual compromise.
Persecution against the church is bad, but compromise is much worse.
When we face persecution we are standing with the Lord against the enemy. When we compromise, we stand with the enemy against the Lord.