hebrews-3:15-19,-hebrews-4:1-13-niv

TEXT.--Heb. 3:19: So we see they could not enter in because of unbelief. --Mark 16:16: He that believeth not, shall be damned. I am to show, III. The unreasonableness of unbelief. 1. It is unreasonable, because confidence in testimony is natural to man. This is a law of his being. And until selfishn... Read More

All of the gifts of God are given to us according to His grace. That is, you cannot earn the gift, you cannot merit the gift, or else it would not be a gift. It is something that God has given to us and as a gift it must be received. And so, you have to set aside, in your own mind, your worthiness o... Read More

Summary of sermon by Erlo Stegen, 21 Sep 2014 Matt 6:33 "But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you" Matt 24:13 "But he who stands firm to the end will be saved" Rev 2:10b "Be faithful even to the point of death and I will give you the crown of... Read More

Selected Verses: Proverbs 1:24-33. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27When your fear cometh as d... Read More

We see in this passage, the power of unbelief in a good man. Righteous and holy as Zachariah was, the announcement of the angel appears to him incredible. He cannot think it possible that an old man like himself should have a son. "How shall I know this?" he says, "for I am an old man, and my wife w... Read More

We read in this passage another of our Lord’s great miracles. He heals a young man lunatic and possessed with a devil. The first thing we see in these verses is a lively emblem of the awful influence sometimes exercised by Satan over the young. We are told of a certain man’s son, who was “lunatic an... Read More

Hebrews 3:15 says, “Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.” This verse tells us that when God works in our lives and speaks to us, we have a choice. Will we choose to soften our hearts to His work in us, or will we harden our hearts to Him and the circumstances He is allowing?... Read More

When I was a boy, growing up in India, I often went to a potter’s house near my high school. I was fascinated watching him make clay vessels. During those visits, I never saw the potter take a hardened lump of clay and put it on his wheel to make something out of it. He, like every other potter in t... Read More

The Faithful Christ By Paris Reidhead* To Hebrews, the 3rd Chapter, we will turn. Our Theme this morning, The Faithful Christ. Great is Thy Faithfulness, Oh God, Our Father. We sang it. And I am sure we sang it from our hearts. Thanksgiving Day has meaning to us just in proportion to our understandi... Read More

Reading: Acts 3:1-21. This is the first recorded miracle in the history of the church, and parabolically it embodies a good deal of what we have been considering, and I am going to take it in that parabolic form as an illustration of some of these matters. We begin at the end, that is, so far as thi... Read More