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.
Part 7: The Seven Churches… The Persecuted Church in Smyrna
Fighting is unavoidable if we are to complete our mission, but fighting is not our mission.
The greatest testimonies are not those of deliverance but those of faithfulness.
You testify when God delivers you, but God testifies when you are faithful.
Persecution has never succeeded in stopping the church’s growth. Harm is always caused by unfaithfulness by the bride of Christ to the person of Jesus, the Bridegroom.
Faith In The Good Shepherd
The goodness of the Shepherd is misinterpreted by the sheep as boredom.
Boredom is a sign that there is peace. When there is danger nobody complains of boredom.
Boredom is a sign that there’s provision. No hungry child ever says. “I’m bored.”
Part 6: The Seven Churches In the Book of Revelation... An Explanatory Case Study of Love Grown Cold
The motive behind true repentance is RECONCILIATION. The reward of true repentance is RESTORATION.
True repentance offers neither excuses nor promises.
True repentance is an act of faith.
Part 5: The Seven Churches in Revelation… A Case Study of Love Grown Cold
If the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God is maligned, His LOVE will be Questioned.
It is the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God that makes His LOVE attractive.
If we don't love God’s righteousness we don’t truly love Him.
Atheism is more a denial of God’s righteousness than of His existence.
Part 3: The Seven Churches in Revelation… A Case Study of Love Grown Cold
The one we seek to please is the one we love.
The greatest expression of true love was uttered by our Lord Jesus when He said, “Not my will but Yours be done.”
Recovery Of Sight In The Season of New Wine Part 2
God’s word does not merely have power. God’s word is the power of God.
Spiritual blindness is the greatest of all problems.
Jesus came to heal those who are humble enough to acknowledge their blindness.
Recovery Of Sight In The Season of New Wine Part 1
It is easier to see the problems; only the faithful can see the blessings.
The opposite of faith is emotions.
Emotional reaction makes for poor decisions which in turn create poor outcomes.
Living by faith is processing life through the lens and filter of God’s word.