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Each week a new verse-by-verse Bible study podcast given in expository style. Join us and see the Bible come alive as we study the truths that God‘s Word has for us.
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Sunday Jul 20, 2025
Sunday Jul 20, 2025
CONVICTION AND REPENTANCE (Acts 2:37-47)
Conviction is the Holy Spirit’s first work in a human heart. For the person who does not know Jesus as their Lord and Master, the Holy Spirit’s message is a single message, a very simple message, yet it is such a difficult message to accept. The Holy Spirit convicts of sin, of righteousness, and of the judgment to come. Then, the Holy Spirit convicts of the nature of sin, of the need for righteousness, and of the nearness of judgment.
Next, the Holy Spirit makes people see their personal accountability before God for what they have done, and in particular their rejection of Jesus Christ. This is important to understand because it is not the amount, or kind, of sin in our life that condemns us; it is the fact of sin in our life that condemns us. But even more importantly, we will not be judged and sent to an eternity in hell because of our sin. We will be judged and sent to an eternity in hell because of our rejection of Jesus Christ and the light of salvation that He has provided to us through the Holy Spirit.
Man does not work toward salvation. Salvation is the work of God. The choice of God was our salvation. When we are born, we are hopelessly lost. It was the choice of God to provide His Son as our only hope for salvation. Our only decision, our only action, is to accept Jesus and the salvation that He has provided for us. When a sinner repents of his sins and believes in Christ, it is because God has brought him to do so through the convicting power of the Holy Spirit. Men do not turn from sin to God of their own initiative. God must move them if they are ever to do so. This includes the work of all of the good “agencies”, the church, the Christian witness, evangelism, and the social environment God has chosen to put us in, like being born of a Christian family, and in a Christian nation, but most of all it includes the inner prompting of the Holy Spirit.
It is the Holy Spirit that convicts the lost person of the sin of rejecting Jesus Christ. It is not true that a sinner in and of himself repents and believes, and then God enters into the process in forgiveness. God seeks the sinner. God was in the process from the beginning, He established the plan of salvation, and then He works to bring about repentance and faith. Our decision is to yield to a God who draws us to Himself, or reject Him. We seek Him because He first sought us.
Click on the play button to hear a message on the work of the Holy Spirit of God in bringing salvation and eternal life to whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord.
This is a live recording of The Master’s Class Bible Study at LifeChange Church Wichita, KS.
Amen.
Sunday Jun 15, 2025
Sunday Jun 15, 2025
THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD (Acts 1:9-11)
Today’s message does not have the great theological Bible truths of the last several weeks, but it does have some good Bible history. Our message today is somewhat workman like in that it talks about what the disciples did while they waited on the comforter that Jesus had promised them. Today, we talk about the characteristics of the disciples, and then we discover that Peter is still just as impulsive as he has always been as he tries to lead the group in choosing a replacement for Judas. And then lastly, we will set the stage for our discussion next week on the events of Pentecost.
The Bible tells us that the Old Testament Feast of Pentecost represents something—that is, it is the fulfillment of something. The Feast of the Pentecost has been fulfilled in the birth of the church. Pentecost was to depict the beginning and origin of the church. It spoke of the coming of the Holy Spirit in the very particular ministry of calling a people out of this world to form the body of Christ, which is the church. Five minutes before the Holy Spirit came on the Day of Pentecost there was no church. Five minutes after the Holy Spirit came on the Day of Pentecost there was a church. In other words, what Bethlehem was to the birth of Christ, Jerusalem, on the Day of Pentecost, was to the coming of the Holy Spirit.
Click on the play button to hear a message on how it was at Pentecost that The Holy Spirit became incarnate. He began to baptize believers, which means that the Holy Spirit identified them with Christ as His body here on this earth. As believers, we are a part of that fulfillment today. Our purpose on this earth today is to allow the Holy Spirit to work through us to gather all of the members of that great body of the church. Jesus is coming again to gather that church up as His bride. Our mission is to spread the gospel of Christ to the uttermost parts of the world.
This is a live recording of The Master’s Class Bible Study at LifeChange Church Wichita, KS.
Amen.