Episodes
Monday Oct 17, 2016
GOD'S PROVISIONS, GOD'S PROMISES (2 Peter 1:3-4)
Monday Oct 17, 2016
Monday Oct 17, 2016
What was the most solemn vow that you have ever made?
Swearing in as soldier? Taking the oath to become a law enforcement officer, or some public office?
For me, it was the day I spoke my wedding vows. Those words meant something very important to me, and they mean just as much today as they did 38 years ago. I promised to love my wife, to comfort her, to keep her, meaning I would provide for all of her needs, and that I would remain faithful to her no matter what comes in our lives till death do us part. Those are pretty powerful words. I have promised to love my wife, protect her, and provide for her. When she needs a home, or food, or shelter, or someone to provide courage, strength, a helping hand, or just someone to stand by her as she deals with a problem, I have promised to provide that for her. It is my promise that I will do these things, and I have lived my life trying to keep that vow. It is the most solemn vow that I have ever made, and most likely ever will make. Now, lots of people get married making this vow to each other, but the problem with vows made by man is that it is a weak person making the vow. Try as we might, we sometimes fail to meet our promises.
Our lesson today is about the promises that God has made to provide for His children, the born again believers who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Master and, therefore, have become adopted into the family of God. The wonderful thing about these promises is that it is the unchanging, supreme, Creator of all things, almighty God who is making them, and He will not fail. Not ever. Not once.
Listen to this podcast to learn that we already have all the wisdom, strength, courage, power, patience, and anything else that we might need to live a victorious life for Christ. Everything that you need is in God and God is in you. Amen.
Monday Oct 10, 2016
THE BENEFITS OF A CHRISTIAN (2 Peter 1:1-2)
Monday Oct 10, 2016
Monday Oct 10, 2016
We live in a world full of apostasy. False teachings abound. Satan is seeking to destroy the church from within. The Christian life is more than just a birth. It is a growth, and it is a development. The key to a victorious Christian life in the midst of apostasy is found in the last verse of the book of 2 Peter.
2 Peter 3:18
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
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You will not be able to live for God unless you have a knowledge of the Word of God. Yet, we need to have more than simple knowledge about Christ, the kind of knowledge we find in a library book. Rather, we are to have a super knowledge of Jesus. To have this kind of knowledge of Christ is to know Him better than your closest loved one. To know Him, is to know life eternal. First comes salvation by the grace of God, then as we begin to know Jesus, we gain peace in Jesus.
In our lesson today, we find that in just the first two verses of this book we are told of some truly marvelous benefits of being a Christian. We have a like precious faith, made precious by the object of our faith, the Lord Jesus Christ. It is through our faith in Christ that we have obtained all the righteousness of God. Our sins have been wiped clean, and we have a standing before God as completely righteous. Then, by the grace of God we obtained our salvation, and being justified by God’s grace we can have the peace of God because we have a super-natural knowledge of God. We have a personal relationship with the Creator of all things, the almighty God. But not just any personal relationship, we know Christ better than we know our own spouse because the Holy Spirit resides in our hearts. He constantly speaks to us of the things that Christ tells Him to share with us, and He speaks to us when we are all alone.
Amazing, huh? Listen to this new series of podcasts to see the rest of what God has in store for us in this little book.
Monday Oct 03, 2016
GOD'S GLORY AND GOD'S GRACE (1 Peter 5:10-14)
Monday Oct 03, 2016
Monday Oct 03, 2016
God’s glory. God’s true glory is beyond our ability to even conceive of. Yet, we were given a glimpse of this glory in the person of Jesus Christ, who stepped out of heaven, and for a brief time made Himself a little lower than the angels, just so that we might have our sins forgiven. Is this the quality of God that you cherish the most?
John 1:14
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
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Heb 2:9
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
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God’s grace.
Eph 2:4-8
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
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For me it is God’s grace that I cherish the most, for it is by God’s grace that I am saved. It is by God’s grace that I can live the victorious Christian life against all evil. It is by God’s grace that I have anything that I have, for I deserve nothing but judgment, but it is God’s grace that allows me to call the almighty God, Abba, Father.
It is by God’s grace that believers can live a victorious Christian life no matter what the circumstances, terror, or adversary, that we face. Peter describes our Lord as the God of all grace. In other words, God has absolutely total control and ownership of this amazing resource. He has a limitless supply available at all times. Now this is a concept about God’s grace you may not have thought of before, God has total control and ownership of this quality. There is none other with this quality.
God's grace provides strength enough for every situation. Grace for living and grace for dying, grace to deal with the penalty of sin and grace to overcome the power of sin, grace to face persecution and grace to forgive the persecutor, grace to see us through and grace to get us home.
God's grace guarantees us a share in God's eternal glory. God's grace is sufficient to translate that into a living reality in our lives. Satan cannot win. God's grace cannot fail, and it is ours because of Christ Jesus our Lord. Let Satan roar and prowl all he wants. Neither Satan, nor ten thousand Nero’s, nor the prospect of a horrible death, nor anything else can stop God's grace in Christ from getting us home.
Rom 8:35-39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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This is the power of God’s grace. It is supremely sufficient for all of our needs, and it is the quality about God that I cherish the most.
Listen to this podcast as we learn about God’s grace and God’s glory.
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