But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you. Psalm 5:7, KJV: But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
Psalms 5:7
MORNING SERMON
SERMON FOCUS: “THE CHRISTIAN PILGRIMAGE”
Text: Romans 13:11-12
“Besides this, you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the light armor.”
- THE ANALOGY OF THE CHRISTIAN PILGRIMAGE
- THE TWO-FOLD FOCUS OF OUR PILGRIMAGE IN THIS WORLD
– Our pilgrimage in this world is described as “the night” for this world is in darkness. Believers are called the “light” in comparison to carnal men
– Illustration: We are walking the desert in the darkness (of this world). It is described as a short journey. “The night is far gone”
– It entails that the days are becoming evil – Time is running short.
– Christ did not come to save you in your sins but from your sins.
– Cast off not just the deeds of darkness, but also the deeds of ignorance.
– There must be a growing awareness of what must be forsaken. A willingness to say “no” to what God forbids.
– We are called to kill sin all the time, but not thru our strength but through Christ. We are in spiritual warfare.
If I could preach a sermon in every church of the world next Sunday, it would be: Wake Up! Wake Up! Wake Up! precious people are being lost while we are fiddling ourselves in our churches amusing ourselves with worthless programs and meaningless trivia.
Robert Morey
AFTERNOON MESSAGE
Text: John 7:1-7
“After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand. So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” For not even his brothers believed in him. Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.”
- THE WORLD’s HATRED OF CHRIST
- THE WORLD’s HATRED OF CHRIST’s PEOPLE
– The holiness of Christ condemns the darkness.
– The world hated Christ because of the holiness of living that the Lord demands.
– The gospel call is a call to holiness. It is because the author of the gospel is a holy God.
– When we preach holiness, we also preach that God is the one enabling us to walk in holiness.
– God restores His people to a place of righteousness.
– We are saved unto Holiness. A Christian is a follower of Christ constantly looking and fixing his eyes on Jesus.
– It is not just Christ who the world hates, the people of Christ share the same hatred from the world.
– Because we reflect the character of Christ, we will also experience the displeasure of this world.
– The world hates the Word of God. Thus, the world also hates those preaching and living the Word of God.
“These words reveal one of those secret principles which influence men in their treatment of religion. They help to explain that deadly enmity with which many during our Lord’s earthly ministry regarded Him and His Gospel. It was not so much the high doctrines which He preached, as the high standard of practice which He proclaimed, which gave offense.”
J.C. Ryle
Blessed LORD’s day, dear brethren!
To God alone be the glory!
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