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161.) " A Call for Discernment" Part 2
      As we come now to the joy of examining the truth of God's Word, I ask you to open your Bible to Paul's letter to the Thessalonians, the first letter, chapter 5 and look with me at verses 21 and 22. We began two weeks ago to consider the truth of 1 Thessalonians 5:21 and 22. We'll continue this morning and then again next Lord's day. Let me r ...read more

162.) " A Call for Discernment" Part 3
      It is our great privilege this morning to return in the study of God's Word to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5. We are fast coming to the end of this great epistle. We find ourselves in verses 21 and 22 in a special three-part series entitled "A Call to Discernment." Let me read the text of 1 Thessalonians 5:21 and 22. "But examine everything careful ...read more

163.) "A Call for Discernment" Part 1
      We return in our study of God's Word this morning to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5. As we are fast coming to the conclusion of this wonderful epistle, we find ourselves this morning looking at the text of verses 21 and 22...1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verses 21 and 22. The Apostle Paul writes, "But examine everything carefully, hold fast to that which ...read more

164.) "A Look at the Pentecostal / Charismatic Movement--Is it Biblical?"
      The following "Question" was asked by a member of the congregation at Grace Community Church in Panorama City, California, and "Answered" by their pastor, John MacArthur Jr. It was transcribed from the tape, GC 70-22, titled "Questions and Answers--Part 50." A copy of the tape can be obtained by writing, Word of Grace, P.O. Box 4000, Panoram ...read more

165.) "Back to the Future" Part 1
      Let's turn in our Bibles to the book of Revelation. We are beginning with our study tonight an examination of the great truths of this marvelous book. As I began my study some time back, I was contemplating how I might be able to introduce the book. I thought of perhaps going back and beginning with some notes taken from the book of Ezekiel, or pe ...read more

166.) "Back to the Future" Part 2
      And now we have that great privilege of going back to the future in our study of Revelation. Open your Bible again to chapter 1 and let me make a brief comment. Someone last week said, "There are 404 verses in the book of Revelation, you covered half of the first one, we calculate that's 808 messages at 50 messages a year, that is a long, long ti ...read more

167.) "Five Reasons to Preach the Word"
      There is a text of Scripture that attracts me today irresistibly. Whenever I talk to Dr. Dick Mayhue, the dean of our seminary, or anybody else about what I ought to preach on on this day, they directed me toward this particular text. It is a text that is familiar to us and, beloved, to me and one upon which I have preached numerous times through t ...read more

168.) "Fundamental Christian Attitudes: Faith"
      Now we've been talking about the anatomy of the church and I told you I was just going to give it to you in chunks however it came. And as we've already seen in this series, and we've done four messages and gone through the first phase of it, we've now come to the second, but as we've seen the church is designed by God in the Scripture to work ...read more

169.) "Fundamental Christian Attitudes: Obedience"
      We are studying the anatomy of the church. And we're going to continue that study this morning. We've taken a little break from our look through 2 Corinthians and are having a wonderful time in this particular study. In spite of the identity crisis in the church the Bible is very clear about what a church should be. The Scripture lays out a defin ...read more

170.) "Non-Negtotiables of the Church: Honoring God's Word"
      We continue this morning to look at the anatomy of the church in a little series we began last Sunday by way of bringing everybody up to date on the character and nature and definition of the church. The church is unique in the world. The only organism, the only institution that our Lord is building. It is His own unique possession purchased with t ...read more

171.) "Reasons People Lack Assurance" - Part 1
      Well tonight we have the great privilege of embarking upon a wonderful study of a very special text of Scripture, 2 Peter chapter 1 verses 5 and following. So open your Bible, if you will. Tonight we're not going to really have a sermon but rather this is going to be a lesson. I want to teach you some things that I hope will be helpful to you. ...read more

172.) "Reasons People Lack Assurance" - Part 2
      Let me draw you back to 2 Peter, in the time we have, briefer than usual tonight, 2 Peter chapter 1. We have begun a study of this great epistle, and in particular, the first eleven verses. In these first eleven verses, Peter is speaking of the matter of our salvation. As we come in to verses 5 through 11, he is concerned about making certain about ...read more

173.) "Reasons People Lack Assurance" - Part 3
      Tonight I want to spend our time in the lesson from the Word of God, completing what I had hoped to complete last Sunday evening. And so I invite you, if you will, to turn back to the text, that is the basic text for our study, 2 Peter chapter 1. And in this wonderful chapter we are embarking upon the section in verses 5 through 11. The theme of th ...read more

174.) "Tests of Assurance from 1 John" - Part 1
      We're going to be looking at this matter of assurance...the assurance of salvation. We are sort of launching our study from 2 Peter, you might want to turn to 2 Peter chapter 1, and we're going to have just a little Bible study tonight together, really not in 2 Peter but we'll use that as a starting point anyway. In 2 Peter chapter 1 verses 10 a ...read more

175.) "Tests of Assurance from 1 John" - Part 2
      As you know, we are in a study of 2 Peter and I want to invite you to open your Bible, if you will, to 2 Peter chapter 1. And as we are going through this first chapter, we are studying under the general topic "Our Precious Faith...Our Precious Faith." We have come to the section from verse 5 to 11, 2 Peter 1:5 through 11. This section deals with ...read more

176.) "Tests of Assurance from 1 John" - Part 3
      Now tonight we're going on in our study of this matter of assurance of salvation. We have approached the text of 2 Peter chapter 1 with an almost marathon style. We have been running for a long time and haven't yet landed at verse 5. But we are trying to introduce the theme of 2 Peter 1:5 through 11. The theme here is the matter of the certainty ...read more

177.) "The Character of a Healthy Church" Part 2
      This morning we return in our study of God's Word to Paul's letter to Titus and to chapter 2. The chapter deals, as I noted for you last time, with the character of a healthy church...the character of a healthy church. And we're going to be looking at this over the next few weeks and seeing how the Spirit of God will unfold its content for us. ...read more

178.) "The Character of a Healthy Church" Part 3
      Well, let's open our Bibles to Titus chapter 2. In our study of the second chapter of Titus we are considering it under the title "The character of a healthy church." In this chapter the Apostle Paul gives instruction to the church as to how it is to conduct itself. He directs his instruction to older men, older women, younger women, younger men ...read more

179.) "The Character of a Healthy Church" Part 4
      For this morning we go again in our study of the book of Titus to chapter 2 and we're looking at verses 4 and 5 specifically this morning. This is Paul's instruction to Titus for the young women of the church. Now remember, this whole chapter gives to us teaching on the character of a healthy church, that is a church that is going to have an effe ...read more