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This Old House -- 2 Corinthians 4:18-5:8   ADDED 02/16/12

This ole house is a-gettin' shaky
This ole house is a-gettin' old
This ole house lets in the rain
This ole house lets in the cold
On his knees I'm gettin' chilly
But he feel no fear nor pain
'Cause he see an angel peekin'
Through a broken windowpane.

This ole house is afraid of thunder
This ole house is afraid of storms
This ole house just groans and trembles
When the night wind flings its arms
This ole house is gettin' feeble
This old house is needin' paint
Just like him it's tuckered out
But he's a-gettin' ready to meet the saints."

"Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
Ain't a-gonna need this house no more
Ain't got time to fix the shingles
Ain't got time to fix the floor
Ain't got time to oil the hinges
Nor to mend the windowpane
Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
He's a-gettin' ready to meet the saints."
-- Stuart Hamblem

The words and music for "This Ole House" were written by Carl Stuart Hamblem.
Hamblem also wrote the words and music to "It is No Secret" in 1950.
"This Ole House" was named "Song of the Year" in 1954.

The truth expressed in 2 Corinthians 5 gives us assurance concerning our death,
and enables to understand what happens when a Christian dies.

Everyone should want the answer to the question:
"What happens after we die?"  ... More

When Your Faith Is Tested  --   Genesis 22:2       ADDED 02/10/12

Text: "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love ..." (Genesis 22:2)

This sermon is about God testing the faith of Abraham.
But before we look at our Scripture text in Genesis 22, we need to be reminded
of what happened in Genesis 21.
In Genesis 21, the child of promise is born.
Sarah gives birth to Isaac.
She says in verse 6: "God has brought laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me."

The promise the Lord made to Abraham is fulfilled.
And the promise is fulfilled in the face of impossible odds.
Here is a barren wife, and an aged man who had hoped for many years to have this child
that God had promised.

After many years of waiting and with many days of doubts, God does what
only God can do which is the impossible.
So no one else can possibly take credit for this birth.
It is clear that this is God's doing.
It is is not Abraham's or Sarah's.
Not yours. And not mine.

God is fulfilling a promise made to Abraham many years before.
God will make Abraham's name great and through this joyful, promised offspring, Isaac.
Through Isaac, a great nation will come, and one which will bless the whole earth.

The confidence Abraham has placed in God is now clearly justified.
Clearly the Lord has kept His promises.
God can always be trusted to keep His promises.

Abraham must have a welcome sigh of relief when Sarah finally gave birth
to a healthy baby boy.
Then God says, "Take your son . . . and offer him . . ."

Here we come to our text in Genesis 22, and read our Scripture passage that says,
"After these things God tested Abraham."

Now God is going to test Abraham's faith. ... More

No More Excuses!   --  Exodus 3.1-11;4.1-2; 10-12    ADDED02/10/12

Most of us at some times in our lives have been guilty of making an excuse.
It is interesting how our word "excuse" has developed in the English language.

Originally it meant, "to give a defense or reason for something."
However, it has come to mean, "an unjustified or false reason for something,
a false reason given to cover up the real reason."

People often give excuses for not doing the will of God
Christians are sometimes guilty of devising ingenious excuses for not doing
their duty toward God.

Here are some examples of making excuses,.
A man gets out of bed at 3:00 AM on Saturday to go fishing,
but couldn't get up for Sunday morning church services.

A man drives a hundred miles on Friday night to a ballgame,
but thinks two miles was too far to come to church twice on Sunday
and once on Wednesday.

A man takes his family to a theme park, and spent a few hundred dollars,
but doesn't even give ten dollars to the work of the Lord.

A man takes an aspirin, and still goes to work despite having an annoying headache,
but a similar headache is an excuse for missing worship service.
Christians often give flimsy excuses for not serving the Lord.
Lord I will serve you -- if I feel well; if I'm not to busy with other things
-- if the rest of my family does -- if I didn't have have little ones -- if I wasn't too old
-- if nothing else comes up that I would rather do -- if I don't have company
-- if I don't need to be away -- if company doesn't come -- if the the weather is good.

Does anyone think that God would accept any of these excuses?

By our excuses, we are telling the Lord we don't care to serve Him,
and that He is unworthy of our reverence and respect. (Malachi 1:6a; Luke 6:46)
It's all about our priorities?
It's about loving God more than other people or other things. .
God will not accept our excuses! ... More

The "I Will's" of Jesus   --   Several Passages of Scripture    ADDED 01/28/12 

When a person says, "I will," it may not mean much.
We very often say, "I will," when we don't mean to do what we say.
But when we come to the "I will" of Christ, He will do what He says He will do.
Everything He promises to do, He is able and willing to accomplish.

There is the "I will" of salvation
This "I will" is found in John 6:37:
"Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out."

I imagine someone will say, "If I were what I ought to be, I would come.
But when I remember my sinful past, it is too bad. I am not fit to come."

Remember that Jesus Christ came just to save all who will come unto Him.
That means good people who need a Saviour, and sinners like you and me
who have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

This "I will" goes right into the heart:
"Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out."
That includes everyone.
It doesn't matter who the person is, and it doesn't matter his sins or trials, troubles are,
if that person will come to the Lord Jesus, He will not cast him out.

Come then, poor sinner; come just as you are and take Him at His word.

Jesus came to save sinners, and He will save all who will come to Him.
He will save those who are so full of sin that they are despised by all who know them.
He will even save who have been rejected by their fathers and mothers.
He will save those who have sunk so low that no one has any pity for them.
Jesus came to save all who will come to Him.

That is why He left Heaven and came into the world.
That is why He left the throne of God -- to save sinners.
"The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." (Luke 19:10)
He did not come to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. ... More

Are You Counting On Tomorrow?     -- James 4:13-14         ADDED 01/24/12

James 4:13-14: "Boast not thyself of tomorrow;
for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."

In this world there are many things that you can count on.
You can count on fire to burn.
You can count on rain to be wet.
You can count on flowers to have colors.
You can count on one drop of iodine to change the color of 5000 times its weight in water.
You can count on the sun to shine by day.
You can count on the stars to shine by night.
You can count on fishes to swim.
You can count on birds to fly.
You can count on 7x7 to be 49.
You can count on two times two to be four.

But you cannot count on tomorrow.
The future is in God's hand.

But for you only have "now."

Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is not here, and all you have is "now."
When the plagues were devastating Egypt, Pharaoh said, "tomorrow."
When Felix was troubled by the preaching of Paul, he said, "Go thy way for this time;
when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee." (Acts 24:25)

God's Word says:
"Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts."
"Now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation."
"Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."

Tomorrow is a lamp without oil, and tomorrow has left many in darkness.
Tomorrow is a key that has locked many in the dungeons of despair.
Tomorrow is the road that often leads to the house of never.

So, wisely use your today, and your tomorrow will be all right. ... More

The Old Rugged Cross   --   1 Corinthians 1:18-24       ADDED 01/22/12
Paul said in Galatians 6:14 that he was going to glory in the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Can you imagine someone finding glory in the electric chair, or glory in the gallows.
Yet Paul said he was going to glory in the Cross.
We understand why Paul gloried in the Cross when we remember
just what the old rugged Cross really means to you and to me.

It is in the Cross that the power of salvation comes.
Paul speaks of the message of the Cross being the power of God in 1 Corinthians 1:18.
The word message literally should be translated "word."
The word of the Cross is the power of God.
This word is not what we say about the Cross, it is rather what the Cross says to us.

The word of the Cross is God's first and last word of salvation.
It is God's first word because Jesus was slain before the foundation of this world.
But it is also God's last word of salvation, for this is where God has finally and forever
provided a way for us to be saved and to go to heaven.
It is God's plan of salvation.
Anyone that is going to be saved must come to the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.

There is no other plan of salvation.
The only highway that goes to heaven goes right through Calvary.
No one can bypass the Cross if they want to go to heaven.
You cannot go around the Cross if you want eternal life.
Hebrews 9: 22 says, "Without shedding of blood there is no remission."

That is why many people hate the Cross so much.
It leaves no room for human merit, human achievement, or human works.
It is all of grace.
There is no other way of salvation.

No one just living a good life and doing good can earn their way into heaven.
Proverbs 14:12 says, "There is a way which seems right to a man,
but its end is the way of death."
The Cross is not the best way to heaven, it is the only way to heaven.
It is God's way of going to heaven.

Not only is a Jew lost without Jesus, a Gentile is lost without Jesus.
One of my own children, my own mother, my own life is lost without Jesus.
If you are going to go to heaven, you will have to go by the way of the cross.
It is God's plan of salvation.

"I must needs go home
By the way of the Cross.
There's no other way but this.
I shall ne'er get sight
Of the Gates of Light,
If the way of the cross I miss." ... More

Come On Up!    --    Revelation 11:12      ADDED 01/12/12

Oh! How welcome shall it be when that voice cries out from heaven," Come on up!"
That invitation from heaven will be a sound of extreme joy to the ears of that one
who is weary of their pain and suffering.

The world will know when some of us have died that we have not been idle,
and that we have served God with all our strength.
And there are those great Christians around us who have served God with all their might.

The time will come when old age shall take away our youthful energy,
and that vitality and strength will be replaced with daily weariness.
So, happy will be that day, just when we think we can do no more, our doing will be ended,
and our reward shall come, and we shall hear our Saviour say, "Come on up?"
And then, we will see the glory that we have prayed for and old things will be passed away
and all things will become new.

And with intense delight, death will be welcomed by those Christians who have lived in poverty.
Those who have shivered in the cold of the winter will wake up in the brightness
and warmth of heaven.
They will leave their loneliness and their friendless desolation to the communion
and sweet fellowship of Christians made perfect.
They will leave from an empty table to a table filled with with all the delectable food of heaven.
They will escape their poor emancipated bones.
They will no longer have crying children crying for bread, and crying to be fed.
Oh, what a joy that will be!

Oh, just to be at home forever in heaven. ... More

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When People Forget God! --  Judges 3:7        Added 01/12/12

Anyone seeking an explanation of the great disasters that befell Israel during the period
of the Judges need not look beyond this -- men forgot God.
Our Scripture passage for this message said: "the sons of Israel... forgot the Lord their God."
(Judges 3:7)

God confronted the people of Israel with their spiritual failure in the second chapter
of the Book of Judges.
God Lord reminded the people that He had redeemed them out of Egypt,
and had established a covenant with them requiring that they make no treaty
with the Canaanites; and that they avoid the idolatry of the land.

The Israelites failed on both counts.
They made a covenant with the inhabitants of Canaan. (Joshua 9:1-27; Judges 1:28-33)
And they failed to destroy the pagan altars.
God would not accept any excuse or rationalization, but charged Israel with blatant disobedience
and asked the searching question:
"Why have you done this?" (Judges 2:2, NIV)

It was a question spoken in grace, and was designed to bring the sinning Israelites
to repentance.
A parent addresses the same question to an erring child with purpose of producing
a change of heart in that child.
But the people of Israel were silent.
They had no answer or perhaps they dared to admit the real truth.

One expositor explains it like this:
"No, the awful truth of the reason why they had not driven out the inhabitants
and destroyed their altars and their worship was simply this:
they did not want to drive them out.
They chose to allow these people with their evil, lustful ways to remain there.
It seems like God's people wanted what they saw in the world."

Because of such plain obvious failure, God affirmed two things. ... More

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