Sermons and Biblical Studies

A Christian is not one who has been baptized, necessarily, though a Christian is likely to be baptized. A Christian is not one who receives Communion, though a Christian may receive Communion, and if he’s been properly taught, he will. But that is not a Christian necessarily. A Christian is not one who has been … Continue reading “CHRISTIANS:
RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST”

The result of Christ’s purifying work is the perfecting of God’s very own people, referred to in this passage from the King James version as “a peculiar people.” Many of us know all too well that this word peculiar has been often used to cloak religious conduct both strange and irrational. People have been known … Continue reading “CHRISTIANS:
PECULIAR PEOPLE”

Sometimes we Christians are opposed and persecuted for reasons other than our godliness. We like to think it is our spirituality that irritates people, when in reality, it may be our personality.… It might be a shock to some of us if we could know why we are disliked and why our testimony is rejected … Continue reading “CHRISTIANS:
IN THE WORLD; OPPOSITION; PERSECUTION; CHRISTLIKENESS”

The man whom Christ illuminates with His message has eyes, and that resolves the old difficulty of blindness; but he must use his new eyes in a blind world, and that creates another problem. The world in its blindness resents his claim to sight and will go to any lengths to discredit the claim. The … Continue reading “CHRISTIANS:
IN THE WORLD; OPPOSITION; PERSECUTION”

The man who refers to one or another act as being “unfair” to him is not a victorious man. He is inwardly defeated, and in self-defense he is appealing to the referee to note that he has been fouled. This gives him an alibi when they carry him out on a stretcher and saves his … Continue reading “CHRISTIANS:
IN THE WORLD; CHRISTLIKENESS”

God fully expects the church of Jesus Christ to prove itself a miraculous group in the very midst of a hostile world. Christians of necessity must be in contact with the world but in being and spirit ought to be separated from the world—and as such, we should be the most amazing people in the … Continue reading “CHRISTIANS:
IN THE WORLD”

… some are fearful that they will lose their reputation as sober and conservative and traditional Christians. In other words, they have never been willing to be a fool for Jesus’ sake! It is amazing that genuine Christians are not willing to stand up wherever they are and give a good word for the Lord. … Continue reading “CHRISTIANS:
FOOLS FOR CHRIST; RESPECTABILITY”

Note the contradictions:… The Christian soon learns that if he would be victorious as a son of heaven among men on earth he must not follow the common pattern of mankind, but rather the contrary. That he may be safe he puts himself in jeopardy; he loses his life to save it and is in … Continue reading “CHRISTIANS:
CONTRADICTIONS”

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and which in its effect upon the Christian religion may be more destructive than Communism, Romanism and Liberalism combined. It is the glaring disparity between theology and practice among professing Christians. So wide is the gulf that separates theory from practice in the church … Continue reading “CHRISTIAN
LIFE; OBEDIENCE: NEED FOR”

The important thing about a man is not where he goes when he is compelled to go, but where he goes when he is free to go where he will … A man is absent from church Sunday morning. Where is he? If he is in a hospital having his appendix removed his absence tells … Continue reading “CHOICES;
PRIORITIES; VALUES”