Christ the Lamb Slain
A MUST HEAR SERMON
by Bill Parker
Eternal Questions
by Bill Parker
God's Preparation of Grace
A good message for mature faith
Christ Crucified
by Jim Byrd
How Could God Love Jacob
By Clay Curtis
Romans 9:13
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Henry Mahan Weekly TV Broadcast:
For over 30 years Pastor Henry Mahan delivered a weekly television message. Each message ran for 27 minutes and was widely broadcast. The original broadcast master tape of this message has been converted to a digital format for internet distribution.
Watch He Called Us By Our Gospel - 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Some Good Sermons
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
My Featured Sermon
"I Never Knew You" – Message by Henry Mahan
Matthew 7:21-23 (King James Version)
21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
" Great Message! "A very convicting sermon. What a horror to hear from our Lord at the end those words...."I Never Knew You" Listen and call upon the Lord now.
Matthew 7:21-23 (King James Version)
21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
" Great Message! "A very convicting sermon. What a horror to hear from our Lord at the end those words...."I Never Knew You" Listen and call upon the Lord now.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
I Really Believe
I Really Believe-
I really believe that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to all who believe. I really believe that Christ is All; all the believer's righteousness, all the believer's sanctification and that Christ is the One who keeps his people separated from the evil of self-righteousness, self-sanctification, self-justification, and all other lusts of the flesh. Paul asked the Galatians, "Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?"
I really believe that when God writes his law on the heart that we behold the everlasting covenant ordered in all things and sure in our Savior in whom we are made holy, unblameable, and unreproveable in God's sight. I really believe that God is able to give the believer a true understanding that the letter of the law killeth - convinces me that all I am and all I will ever be in my flesh is a sinner. I am convinced that the law of God written on our hearts declares that in Christ the believer has fully established God's law and Christ in the believer means newness of spiritual life, of spiritual worship, of spiritual communion. I look no longer at this flesh: at touch not, taste not, handle not but we follow Christ. I really believe that in Christ every obstacle is removed which once blocked our entrance into God's presence and now we can fellowship with our God.
I really believe that the government of God's church is on his Son's shoulder. I really believe that my living Redeemer is the Counselor who directs his people in the heart. I really believe that King Jesus is working in the midst of his church, in the hearts of his saints, and is able both to will and to do his good pleasure because all power is his in heaven and in earth.Therefore, when I speak the law I do so to declare that all flesh is grass. I do not use the law to unlawfully bolster the pride of sinners which already need no help looking away from Christ to the strength of their own hand. I do not use the law to keep believers in the church, or to motivate them to serve him as their rule of life. I speak every word of God with one purpose: endeavoring to set sinners squarely at the feet of Christ, who through his gospel causes us to look out of ourselves, away from this world, to him. I really believe that the gospel of Christ's faithfulness, of his love for God and his people, of his righteousness in declaring God just and the Justifier of the believer is the word I want to declare. I really believe that through the gospel God makes Christ Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption unto his people. I really believe that the gospel of Christ is the message through which Christ makes himself altogether lovely in the heart. In doing so, I really believe he is able to constrain us by his love. I once thought otherwise. But thanks to God he saved me out of those things that I now renounce as dung.
If you rejoice in the message of our Redeemer, find a place where Christ is declared. You will find a place where you are no longer taught to look to your obedience, where you no longer feel the need to compare yourself with brethren, where you no longer have to worry about what the preacher and others think of you, but you can delight yourself in Christ our Rest. There is great peace in knowing the love of Christ and the love of his brethren. True love does not uncover the brethren's sin, but covers you in love--that is what true Love dose.
May the Lord bless you.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Then said I
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, Ps 40:7
To preach the gospel, is to set the auditor, the listener on the sidelines, to observe the person and work of Jesus the Christ. Gospel preaching is not calling the sinner to doing, but compels him to consider Him, who has done it all.
Heb 12:1-3
Gospel preaching, exalts Jesus Christ, as the message of all the Holy scripture, and it sets the listener strait as to his non-contribution to the great work of eternal redemption.
Heb 1:1-3
When the gospel has been preached effectively, what has occurred can be best described by Luke 4: 17-22. The minister, gives the book to Jesus, by the Spirit of God, and He preaches Himself, to the people. And when the worship is done, everyone is looking at Jesus, not the minister, nor themselves. Glory be to God, What a great preacher!
This is the Work of the Holy Ghost in the sacred ministry of gospel preaching!
John 16:13-15
The Person of Christ, and the Work of Christ, is loved by all who have been called and given eyes of faith to see in Him, the glory of God. They marvel, wonder, and revel in this one mighty to save, all by Himself! Isa 63:1-4
And this is the very point at which false apostles and ministers of Satan seek to steal God’s glory and cause eternity bound sinners to lose their way, by calling them to exhortations of obedience and duty, self righteousness and good works, which they can never perform aright, until Christ is preached in power, and the grace of God has entered into the soul, liberating them, by Christ, in regeneration, to respond by faith, in love and service, which is the fruit and consequence of the power of the GOSPEL, Alone!
To preach the gospel, is to set the auditor, the listener on the sidelines, to observe the person and work of Jesus the Christ. Gospel preaching is not calling the sinner to doing, but compels him to consider Him, who has done it all.
Heb 12:1-3
Gospel preaching, exalts Jesus Christ, as the message of all the Holy scripture, and it sets the listener strait as to his non-contribution to the great work of eternal redemption.
Heb 1:1-3
When the gospel has been preached effectively, what has occurred can be best described by Luke 4: 17-22. The minister, gives the book to Jesus, by the Spirit of God, and He preaches Himself, to the people. And when the worship is done, everyone is looking at Jesus, not the minister, nor themselves. Glory be to God, What a great preacher!
This is the Work of the Holy Ghost in the sacred ministry of gospel preaching!
John 16:13-15
The Person of Christ, and the Work of Christ, is loved by all who have been called and given eyes of faith to see in Him, the glory of God. They marvel, wonder, and revel in this one mighty to save, all by Himself! Isa 63:1-4
And this is the very point at which false apostles and ministers of Satan seek to steal God’s glory and cause eternity bound sinners to lose their way, by calling them to exhortations of obedience and duty, self righteousness and good works, which they can never perform aright, until Christ is preached in power, and the grace of God has entered into the soul, liberating them, by Christ, in regeneration, to respond by faith, in love and service, which is the fruit and consequence of the power of the GOSPEL, Alone!
Brought to God by Christ and Hope in Christ Alone
That He Might Bring Us to God (I Pet 3:18)
“For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit.”
Christ brought us to God by His work. This is not a wish but an accomplishment: He paid the penalty, so we are free, if we believe.
Christ is the Savior. He doesn’t attempt or merely desire salvation, but He saves us. You see, our relationship with God is BASED ENTIRELY upon Christ the Lord. If He BROUGHT us to God, then we have come, and we will come. Faith is the EVIDENCE that Christ’s work is for you, though it was not accomplished for all – (Heb 11:1) “Now faith is the [confidence] of things hoped for, the evidence [conviction] of things not seen”.
Christ is a Savior that cannot be helped, or He is not the Savior. He is not someone that waits for man to APPROVE of Him, before His work becomes valid. You may not have voted in the election, and you may have chosen McCain over Obama. Yet, the results are unaltered: your approval, or mine, has NOTHING to do with the accomplishment and the results. We may agree and rejoice, or we may reject the results and be angry. But, the results haven’t changed.
Likewise, you may not like the fact that Christ died for the sheep and brought us to God, yet there is nothing that can be done to lessen or INCREASE the souls in heaven - (Rev 13:8) “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship [the beast], whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Everyone in the Lamb’s book of life has been and shall be brought to God without possibility of failure: God Himself, by the blood His Son shed, is securing the salvation of the sheep by the Holy Spirit. He gave the Helper to accomplish His will. Now, the Spirit brings to God the very people that Christ reconciled at the cross (John 16:9-11; II Cor 7:15).
Lastly, By The Resurrection, We Have A Good Conscience Toward God – (I Pet 3:21-22) “The like figure whereunto even baptism does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.”
The believer’s assurance is the resurrection of Christ: this is how I know that I am saved. I’m good before God because Christ took my sins, gave me righteousness by faith, and now deals with me through the Son’s work for me. I have assurance in His success, and not in my life. I live for His glory, because I’ve seen the glory of His grace in my salvation.
The way of faith is TRUSTING in God through Christ; it is NOT Christ and me, or me, but Christ ALONE. The gospel IMPACTS and changes me, but I have no confidence in the flesh for the change (Phil 3:3). I know that I shall be saved because He is on the throne, and God is dealing with me as a son through faith. I don’t have to worry about me at all, how weak or wicked I am… not if I believe. If I believe God, I have a good conscience towards God for whatever I need. Sin is gone, and my hope before God is a perfect relationship accomplished for us by the death of Christ.
Good consciences don’t come by looking at the past, ourselves, or others; they come by FAITH in Christ: what He did is why I am saved, and I trust God through Him alone.
“For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit.”
Christ brought us to God by His work. This is not a wish but an accomplishment: He paid the penalty, so we are free, if we believe.
Christ is the Savior. He doesn’t attempt or merely desire salvation, but He saves us. You see, our relationship with God is BASED ENTIRELY upon Christ the Lord. If He BROUGHT us to God, then we have come, and we will come. Faith is the EVIDENCE that Christ’s work is for you, though it was not accomplished for all – (Heb 11:1) “Now faith is the [confidence] of things hoped for, the evidence [conviction] of things not seen”.
Christ is a Savior that cannot be helped, or He is not the Savior. He is not someone that waits for man to APPROVE of Him, before His work becomes valid. You may not have voted in the election, and you may have chosen McCain over Obama. Yet, the results are unaltered: your approval, or mine, has NOTHING to do with the accomplishment and the results. We may agree and rejoice, or we may reject the results and be angry. But, the results haven’t changed.
Likewise, you may not like the fact that Christ died for the sheep and brought us to God, yet there is nothing that can be done to lessen or INCREASE the souls in heaven - (Rev 13:8) “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship [the beast], whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Everyone in the Lamb’s book of life has been and shall be brought to God without possibility of failure: God Himself, by the blood His Son shed, is securing the salvation of the sheep by the Holy Spirit. He gave the Helper to accomplish His will. Now, the Spirit brings to God the very people that Christ reconciled at the cross (John 16:9-11; II Cor 7:15).
Lastly, By The Resurrection, We Have A Good Conscience Toward God – (I Pet 3:21-22) “The like figure whereunto even baptism does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.”
The believer’s assurance is the resurrection of Christ: this is how I know that I am saved. I’m good before God because Christ took my sins, gave me righteousness by faith, and now deals with me through the Son’s work for me. I have assurance in His success, and not in my life. I live for His glory, because I’ve seen the glory of His grace in my salvation.
The way of faith is TRUSTING in God through Christ; it is NOT Christ and me, or me, but Christ ALONE. The gospel IMPACTS and changes me, but I have no confidence in the flesh for the change (Phil 3:3). I know that I shall be saved because He is on the throne, and God is dealing with me as a son through faith. I don’t have to worry about me at all, how weak or wicked I am… not if I believe. If I believe God, I have a good conscience towards God for whatever I need. Sin is gone, and my hope before God is a perfect relationship accomplished for us by the death of Christ.
Good consciences don’t come by looking at the past, ourselves, or others; they come by FAITH in Christ: what He did is why I am saved, and I trust God through Him alone.
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