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IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD THE STORY OF THE FIG TREE JESUS SPOKE TO, I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT IT. AFTER HE HAD DRIVEN THE MONEY CHANGERS OUT OF THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM, HE WENT TO BETHANY TO SPEND THE NIGHT. ON HIS WAY BACK TO JERUSALEM HE SAW A FIG TREE AND IT WAS FULL OF LEAVES AND WHEN A FIG TREE HAS LEAVES, IT IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE FIGS. HE WAS HUNGRY BUT THE TREE HAD NO FIGS ON IT. SINCE IT WAS MISREPRESENTING NATURE, HE CURSED IT AND IT WITHERED AWAY.
JESUS USED A METAPHOR TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FIG TREE COULD HAPPEN TO A MOUNTAIN IF YOU HAVE FAITH TO BELIEVE. READ WHAT JESUS SAID, (MATTHEW 21:21-22 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye...
Hard Knocks Or God's Word
July 24th
Luke 15:17 'And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!'
LUKE 15:11-17
God's Word makes it clear that the wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23). Romans 1:18-20 reveals that even those who don't know God's Word have an intuitive knowledge of right and wrong and God's judgment against sin.
Therefore, for anyone to live in sin, as depicted by this prodigal son, they have to be deceived. This is exactly what the Bible says is the case in 2 Corinthians 4:4. When Jesus said, 'he came to himself,' He was referring to the deception being removed and the son's spiritual eyes being...
DO YOU KNOW WHAT TYPE OF MUSIC YOUR CHILDREN ARE LISTENING TO? WHAT TYPE ARE YOU LISTENING TO? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE MUSIC YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN ARE LISTENING TO? WHAT ARE THE CONTENT OF THE LYRICS? DO THEY GLORIFY JESUS?
The Cost Of Discipleship
July 23rd
Luke 14:28 'For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?'
LUKE 14:25-35
The parable of the man building a tower is a continuation of the teaching regarding what it takes to be a disciple of Jesus. This parable stresses commitment. 'Jailhouse religion,' where a
R.s.v.p.
July 22nd
Luke 14:16, 23 'Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: ...And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my
LUKE 14:16-24
The man who made the supper symbolizes God who has invited 'whosoever will' to come to Him. The parable teaches that it is not God who fails to offer salvation to everyone, but rather it is the invited guests who reject God's offer.
These people had feeble excuses just like the excuses of those today...
ARE YOUR PARENTS BORN AGAIN? I CAN REMEMBER GROWING UP GOING TO SUNDAY SCHOOL ALMOST EVERY SUNDAY. I CAN ONLY REMEMBER A COUPLE OF TIMES WHEN I WOULD STAY FOR CHURCH AND THAT WAS WHEN MY MOM WOULD BE THERE. I CAN NOT REMEMBER ONE TIME THAT MY DAD WENT TO CHURCH BUT I CAN REMEMBER HEARING HIM PRAYING AT NIGHT BEFORE HE AND MOM WENT TO
I SAID IN ONE OF MY MESSAGES THIS MONTH THAT I WAS GOING TO PUT MORE EFFORT IN TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE BORN AGAIN. SOME OF YOU HAVE HEARD MOST OF THIS BUT TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOT, THIS IS FOR YOU.
Who Is Saved?
July 21st
Luke 13:23-24 'Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.'
LUKE 13: 22-27
Jesus said that many will seek to enter salvation and will not be able to. There are many reasons for this, but it is not because God refused salvation to anyone. 'The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men . . .' (Ti. 2:11) and God 'is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance' (2 Pet. 3:9).
There is effort involved in obtaining salvation. The effort is not for the purpose of earning salvation. That...
I AM SURE YOU HAVE HEARD THE PHRASE "STICKS AND STONES CAN BREAK MY BONES BUT WORDS CAN NEVER HURT ME". THAT IS SO WRONG IN SO MANY WAYS. HAS YOUR CHILD, OR EVEN A "SO CALLED" FRIEND, EVER TOLD YOU THAT THEY HATED YOU? DIDN'T THAT HURT? I KNOW I HAVE SAID THINGS TO PEOPLE THAT I WISHED THAT I COULD HAVE TAKEN BACK BECAUSE I KNEW I HAD HURT THEM. FOR THIS REASON I STARTED CAREFULLY WATCHING WHAT I SAID TO PEOPLE. I JUST WISHED I HAD LEARNED TO DO THIS A LITTLE SOONER IN MY LIFE.
No Denial Of Deity
July 20th
John 10:34 'Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?'
JOHN 10:30-39
Some people have tried to interpret this scripture to say that Jesus was disclaiming deity by associating Himself with the gods spoken of in Psalm 82:6. However, Jesus is not saying that He is a god only in the sense that the scriptures,