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Intro; Often as christians and even non-christians we like to rank sin from worst to least. Even though the scriptures do not mention a ranking of sin. But if we were to rank sin just for the sake of argument, what would your list look like? Unbelief/rejecting the Holy Spirit Cursing the name of God…

Intro ; It is a known fact that if you want to have someone or something come to your home we have to make them feel welcome. For instance, if you wanted to have Purple Martin’s you have to put up a martin box and they will come. If you want hummingbirds, you have to hang up a feeder with sugar water…

Intro; Last Sunday we looked at “Temptation, A Solicitation to Sin”. In that we saw that Temptation is a different type of weapon of Satan. It is not forced upon a person like deception or accusations are, it is a solicitation from satan to draw out that which is inside of all men, SIN! We sin because…

Intro; After Jesus left Samaria he headed north through Cana into Capernaum on the northwest side of the Sea of Galilee. Jesus set up his headquarters here and most of the rest of His earthly ministry was spent in this area until he went back to Jerusalem to face crucifixion. As Jesus starts his ministry…

Intro; As we look at Temptation tonight, I want us to focus on the fact that temptation in and of itself is not sin. If it was, then Jesus would be a sinner because He was tempted. But Jesus never sinned because of temptation, he overcame temptation because His desire was to do the will of the Father.…

Intro; Last week we saw Jesus go through Samaria as He went to Galilee. He made the journey where others would not go to offer salvation to a despised people in the eyes of the Jews, not pure Samaritan’s, half-breeds. We also discussed this being outside the norm of Jewish culture, but Jesus remember…

Intro; So the message this morning was about Satan being the chief “Thief” who’s main goal is to keep the blind, blind, and to weaken the testimony of the christian through discouragement by robbing them of the joy we have in following our Shepherd. Let’s start off tonight by backing up into chapter…

Intro; So this morning as we looked at the vision in heaven from the Book of Zechariah, it looks as if we are on trial everyday under the accusations of Satan. 10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come,…

Intro; We have looked at how Satan attacks the believer by deceiving the mind and destroying the body. This morning we are going to look at one of the most effective strategies of satan against the believer, “Accusation” . Satan has great enjoyment in pointing out our flaws to others and especially to…

How would you feel if a friend received more recognition than you for something you both did? Angry, upset, discouraged, jealous Unfortunately, this too often happens in the christian community, the church. Inside the church we set up these artificial parameters in our service to the Lord and we don’t…