Sermon Sunday – George Whitefield – Parting with Christ for the Pleasures of Life
July 31, 2011 at 6:30 am | Posted in Sermon Sunday | Leave a commentTags: Abba, abortion, Alpha, America, appetite, Arian, Arise, arrow, asleep, ateasetees, awake, babbler, baptize, beast, Bible, bless, Born Again, brethren, burden, Christian, church, city, company, compromise, corrupt, counsel, danger, daughter, death, deity, demon, demonstration, depend, devil, disciple, Divinity, doctrine, dogs, drink, drown, eat, enmity, esteem, eternity, evangelism, faith, favor, fear, fierce, fire, flatter, flesh, flock, folly, forbid, forgive, Gergesenes, God, good, gospel, governor, grace, heart, heathen, hell, helpless, holy, Holy Ghost, hope, inconvenience, infinite, Israel, jeer, Jesus, joy, judgment, king, laden, law, life, Lord, lost, love, lust, madman, malice, mercy, minister, mistake, money, murder, nature, Omega, pardon, pastor, peace, perish, persecution, Pharisee, play, pleasure, poor, possess, power, prayer, pride, prison, profit, prophet, prove, punish, raging, rebuke, repent, resist, sacrafice, sacrament, salvation, Satan, scoff, scribe, scripture, sea, sensual, serpent, ship, sin, sleep, Socinian, son, sorrow, soul, spiritual, strength, stubborn, swine, tempest, temptation, ten commandments, terror, thinking, tomb, trouble, truth, unworthy, verse, vile, violent, water, waves, wealth, wicked, wind, woman, Word, wrath, wretch
The Folly and Danger of parting with Christ for the Pleasures and Profits of Life
by
George Whitefield
(1714-1770)
Matthew 8:23-34 – “And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. And his disciples came to [him], and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. But the men marveled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him! And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding. So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters. And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils. And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought [him] that he would depart out of their coasts.” Continue Reading Sermon Sunday – George Whitefield – Parting with Christ for the Pleasures of Life…
Genesis 6:9-22
February 7, 2011 at 11:40 am | Posted in Bible Study | Leave a commentTags: abortion, all, America, animal, ark, ate, ateasetees, Bible, blameless, breed, build, bull-headed, carnivore, cat, chaos, Christian, church, clean, compromise, corrupt, cubit, damage, death, deck, destroy, dimension, dinosaur, dog, drank, drink, eat, evangelism, everything, evil, expertise, faith, fill, flesh, flood, generation, Genesis, God, gospel, grace, Ham, heaven, hell, holy, hope, horse, instruction, Israel, Japheth, Jesus, Jew, Judge, judgment, kind, land, last days, law, Leviticus, life, love, ludicrous, marriage, marry, meat, mercy, mock, money, murder, Noah, obedient, pastor, peace, perfect, perish, prayer, preacher, prepare, repent, ridiculous, righteousness, salvation, saved, scripture, sea, sheep, Shem, ship, sin, son, space, standard, stubborn, study, ten commandments, truth, type, unclean, ungodly, vegetarian, violence, wife, window, wrath
These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. “Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. “This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. “You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. “Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish. “But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark–you and your sons and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. “And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. “Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. “As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.” Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did. Continue Reading Genesis 6:9-22…
Genesis 1:20-23
September 20, 2010 at 4:14 pm | Posted in Bible Study | Leave a commentTags: America, animal, aquatic, ateasetees, Bible, bird, Christian, church, compromise, creation, day 5, evangelism, evening, expanse, faith, fill, fish, fly, fruitful, Genesis, God, good, gospel, grace, heaven, hell, holy, hope, Jesus, judgment, kind, law, life, love, marriage, mercy, monster, moon, morning, multiply, peace, planets, prayer, repent, salvation, scripture, sea, sin, space, stars, sun, ten commandments, truth, whales
This week’s Bible study is going to take us through a closer look at the fifth day of Creation. Let’s read the passage of scripture first:
Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.” God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
Again we see the Lord focusing on a specific part of the creation and filling it with life. Before we get into the text, there are a couple of terms that we’ve already looked at that we see used here. The first is the word expanse, which we saw in our study of Day 2. If you’ll remember from our study, the expanse includes everything from the land of our planet to the space where the planets, stars, and suns exist. The birds fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens. Later in the passage, we again see the phrase “after their kind”. Remember that this is an indication that each type of animal was originally made with all of the necessary genetic information for the variety of animals that we see today. As the animals continued to reproduce, the variety increased. Different events split up these animals into smaller groups and helped them continue to diversify, but they are still the same kind of animal. Continue Reading Genesis 1:20-23…