EXPLAINING THE TRINITY

New sermon topic......

The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are each our Lord. God is One and there is no other, however, believing that Jesus is God and the Holy Spirit is God, is not like believing in three Gods. We need to understand about the Trinity, the three-in-one God-head – three Persons – one God. Jesus said, “I and the Father are One” (John 10:30). That is one in unity but two Persons, each with His own role. Many people are disturbed by the word ‘Trinity’, mainly because they cannot grasp the concept of our three-in-one God. The concept is very simple. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are each God, although there is only one God, not three. We pray to the Father in Jesus’ name, and it is the Holy Spirit Who helps us. ‘Whatever you ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to you’ (John 15:16). ‘I am telling you the truth when I say it is better for you that I go away, because if I do not go away the Holy Spirit will not come to you; but if I do go away, I will send Him to you’ (John 16:7).

Read this and other sermons on our website. Go to:

www.bibleabookoftruth.com

THE DEVIL IS REAL

New sermon topic......

‘In the synagogue there was a man who was possessed by the foul (evil) spirit of a demon; and he cried out with a loud, deep, terrible scream, “Ahh! Let us alone! What have You to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know Who You are – the Holy One of God!” But Jesus rebuked him saying, “Be quiet and come out of him!” When the demon had thrown the man down in their midst, it came out of the man without injuring him in any way. They were all amazed and said to one another, “What kind of talk is this? For with authority and power He commands the evil spirits and they come out?’” (Luke 4:33 to 36).

There are references to evil spirits scattered throughout the Bible. Some are alluded to and many are directly named. The scriptures we have selected from the Bible, describe the actions and outcomes of the named spirits. We know, of course that evil spirits cause havoc. They are all part of the heavenly hosts who stand before God (Job 1:6; 2:1; 2 Chronicles 18:18 to 22). We can see by what the scriptures tell us, that evil spirits can cause whatever mischief they choose. The Lord Himself, in His sovereignty, uses the devil and other evil beings for His own purposes and plans and when He has finished with the devil, he will be tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity with the evil beast and the evil false prophet (Revelation 20:10). The lake of fire was made for the devil and his angels, not for people (Matthew 25:41), but unfortunately there will be many people sent there because of their wickedness (Revelation 20:15).

Read this and other sermons on our website. Go to:

www.bibleabookoftruth.com

ANGELS, CHERUBIM AND SERAPHIM

New sermon topic......

The scriptures we have selected from the Bible describe the actions and outcomes of just three holy beings; seraphim, cherubim and angels. Angels do not have wings but they can fly. Cherubim have two wings and seraphim have six wings. They are all part of the heavenly hosts and all stand before God. We notice all of the heavenly beings are spoken of as ‘he’ not ‘it’ so the references are all in the masculine gender. We cannot usually see them unless God opens our eyes into the spirit realm (2 Kings 6:17). There are two whole, huge, spiritual kingdoms out there, full of heavenly beings, and of which humans play only a small part. There is the Kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 4:20) and there is the kingdom of darkness (Ephesians 6:12). People have the Spirit of God within them and that makes us spiritual beings too (Acts 13:52). Humans are not God’s only creation, and there are more than just angels in heaven. There are seraphim, cherubim, the wonderfully unusual four living creatures, and creatures like horses (2 Kings 6:17) so it is logical there are other creations up in heaven too.

Read this and other sermons on our website. Go to:

www.bibleabookoftruth.com

OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES HERALDING OUR JEWISH MESSIAH

New sermon topic......

‘Salvation comes from the Jews’ (John 4:22).

This sermon has been compiled for believers who are trying to share their faith with their Jewish family and friends. There are many prophecies about the Jewish Messiah, Yeshua Ha Mashiach, also known as Jesus. Many Jewish people do not know there were any prophecies about Yeshua’s first coming to earth, so they don’t believe He really is the Saviour of all mankind. The Jews are most definitely God’s chosen people, chosen to bring forth our Messiah (Romans 1:16) but they too must be born again to enter the Kingdom of God (Romans 3:9; 11:23). The problem is, the Jews know the history of terrible persecutions, even murders of them in large numbers by wicked pseudo Christians, so trusting Christians is difficult for them. Jesus was Jewish. All His disciples and the apostles were Jewish. Jesus’ friends on earth were Jewish. The first believing church was mostly made up of Jewish people; Gentiles joined later. Salvation comes from the Jews. God never intended for this work of salvation, begun by a Jewish Man (Yeshua), in the land of the Jews (Israel), amidst Jewish people, in the Jewish language (Hebrew), to be lost to the Jews. How could this fundamentally Jewish religion become so non-Jewish? Because of anti-Semitism in the church. It was men who pushed the Jews out, not God.

Our job as genuine believers is to put right, what has been dreadful wrongs done to the Jews. They are our brothers and sisters (Romans 10:12) and we must help them find salvation with love and care. We hope this list of fulfilled prophecies regarding our Messiah, will help you lead the way to salvation, those who are open and willing, both Jews and Gentiles alike. We have not listed every Messianic prophecy there is in the Bible, but we have given you enough to prove Yeshua truly was the Messiah Who was to come.

Read this and other sermons on our website. Go to:

www.bibleabookoftruth.com

EXPLAINING THE SPIRIT OF MAN

New sermon topic......

‘May the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through; and may your spirit, soul and body be preserved sound and complete, and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus our Messiah’ (1 Thessalonians 5:23).

We will study what the scriptures say about the spirit of man then explain what the soul is. We know we are body, soul and spirit, but there is no need to explain about the body – it is our flesh, blood and bones. By studying the dozens of verses referenced in this sermon, we will see how the Holy Spirit of God works with the spirit of life that He gave to us the moment we were conceived, when we were yet an unformed substance in our mother’s womb and had not even seen one day (Psalm 139:13 to 16).

Read this and other sermons on our website. Go to:

www.bibleabookoftruth.com

HOW WE CAN KNOW GOD IN A DEEPER DIMENSION

New sermon topic......

‘Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be tried and refined, but the wicked will continue to do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand, but the teachers (of the Word) and those who are wise shall understand’ (Daniel 12:10).

‘Those whom I love, I tell their faults, convict, reprove and chasten them’ (Revelation 3:19).

‘My son (child) do not despise the chastening and discipline of the Lord; neither become weary or impatient with His reproof, for whom the Lord loves, He corrects, even as a father corrects the child in whom he delights’ (Proverbs 3:11 & 12).

‘Whoever loves instruction and correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid’ (Proverbs 12:1).

‘These are they who have come out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb’ (Revelation 7:14).

‘You should be exceedingly glad, though for a little while you may be distressed by trials so that the genuineness of your faith may be tested, which is more precious than gold which is purified by fire’ (1 Peter 1:6 & 7).

‘Behold; I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried and chosen you in the furnace of affliction’ (Isaiah 48:10).

‘Many evils (trials, afflictions, tribulations) confront the righteous, but the Lord delivers the righteous out of them all’ (Psalm 34:19).

Read this and other sermons on our website. Go to:

www.bibleabookoftruth.com

SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS

New sermon topic......

‘Brethren, with all my hearts desire for Israel, I long and pray to God that they may be saved. I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not according to knowledge, for being ignorant of the righteousness that God ascribes, and seeking to establish a righteousness of their own, they did not submit themselves to God’s righteousness; for Jesus is the end of the Law as a means of righteousness for everyone who trusts in Him’ (Romans 10:1 to 4).

These verses tell us, Jesus is the end of the Law for righteousness to everyone who believes. Paul did not say Jesus was the end of the Law as part of the Word of God, or as part of Israel’s history, or as part of Israel’s culture – Jesus was the end of the Law as a means of righteousness to those who believe in Jesus as their Messiah. We can no longer use the Laws of Moses as a way of attaining righteousness with God. There is no exception – for both Jew and Gentile, Jesus brought about the end of the Law of Moses as a means to achieving righteousness with God. Amen.

Read this and other sermons on our website. Go to:

www.bibleabookoftruth.com