Sermons and Biblical Studies

Our Lord died an apparent failure, discredited by the leaders of established religion, rejected by society and forsaken by His friends. The man who ordered Him to the cross was the successful statesman whose hand the ambitious hack politician kissed. It took the resurrection to demonstrate how gloriously Christ had triumphed and how tragically the … Continue reading “SUCCESS/FAILURE;
PASTORAL MINISTRY: PRIDE”

God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it. God will allow … Continue reading “SUCCESS/FAILURE”

We might well pray for God to invade and conquer us, for until He does, we remain in peril from a thousand foes. We bear within us the seeds of our own disintegration.… Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been … Continue reading “SUBMISSION;
OLD NATURE”

Our fathers had much to say about stillness, and by stillness they meant the absence of motion or the absence of noise or both. They felt that they must be still for at least a part of the day, or that day would be wasted. God can be known in the tumult of the world … Continue reading “STILLNESS;
MEDITATION”

Vance Havner used to remark that too many are running for something when they ought to be standing for something. God’s people should be willing to stand! We have become so brainwashed in so many ways that Christians are afraid to speak out against uncleanness in any form. The enemy of our souls has persuaded … Continue reading “STANDING
FIRM; ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE”

Shall we surrender to the world? No! Shall we surrender to liberalism? No! Shall we surrender to apostate Protestantism? The answer is no! Shall we surrender to the brainwashed churches whose preachers are afraid to stand up and talk as I am? The answer again is no! Our church is going to go the way … Continue reading “STANDING
FIRM”

I must confess as a pastor and minister that I have had to say “Goodbye” to people in some instances when they have said, “We cannot worship here. You are too strict. Your standards are too strict for this day and age. Your message is too strict!” My only apology is that I am still … Continue reading “STANDARDS;
CHURCH: SEPARATION”

Periods of staleness in the life are not inevitable but they are common. He is a rare Christian who has not experienced times of spiritual dullness when the relish has gone out of his heart and the enjoyment of living has diminished greatly or departed altogether.… One often-unsuspected cause of staleness is fatigue. Shakespeare said … Continue reading “STALENESS;
FATIGUE”

Now I do not think that Satan much cares to destroy us Christians physically. The soldier dead in battle who died performing some deed of heroism is not a great loss to the army but may rather be an object of pride to his country. On the other hand the soldier who cannot or will … Continue reading “SPIRITUAL
WARFARE; TIMIDITY; BOLDNESS”

There are two spirits in the earth, the Spirit of God and the spirit of Satan, and these are at eternal enmity. The ostensible cause of religious hatred may be almost anything; the true cause is nearly always the same: the ancient animosity which Satan, since the time of his inglorious fall, has ever felt … Continue reading “SPIRITUAL
WARFARE; SATAN; CHRISTIANS: IN THE WORLD”