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Contributed by Dr. David Hallum on Sep 11, 2019 (message contributor)
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1. What A Fellowship!
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
The eternal Word, the Son of God, desires fellowship with believers!
Introduction: Words That Matter Tim Gustafson is the Editor of Our Daily Bread and shares his story: Early in my days of working as an editor for Our Daily Bread, I selected the cover verse for each month’s devotional. After a while, I began to wonder if it made a difference. Not long after ...read more
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2. Be Not Deceived! We Are All Sinners!
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
Be Not Deceived! We Are ALL Sinners!
Introduction: In the first epistle which bears his name, John is writing to believers. Thirty times in these five short chapters he uses the word, “know” in order to drive home the reality that we can have assurance of the salvation freely offered to us by the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the same ...read more
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3. An Advocate With The Father
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
An Advocate with the Father
Introduction: The Advocate From a Florida prison cell in June 1962, Clarence Earl Gideon wrote a note asking the United States Supreme Court to review his conviction for a crime he said he didn’t commit. He added that he didn’t have the means to hire a lawyer. One year later, in the historic ...read more
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4. A New Old Commandment
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
A New Old Commandment
Introduction: Living In The Light It was a dark morning. Low, steel-colored clouds filled the sky, and the atmosphere was so dim that I needed to turn on the lights in order to read a book. I had just settled in when the room suddenly filled with light. I looked up and saw that the wind was pushing ...read more
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5. It Is The Last Hour - The Wicked One Comes!
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
It is the last hour!
Introduction: In Disguise It is often difficult to understand why people give in to certain temptations. From our vantage point, their problem should be easy to handle. We may even wonder how Adam and Eve could have been so foolish as to have thrown aside all that God had given them in the ...read more
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6. Jesus Is The Christ
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
Jesus is the Christ
Introduction: That You May Know One day, while Wim was in the marketplace in the Netherlands, he struck up a conversation with a woman who remarked that you can get to heaven by doing good works. His attempt to explain that it is by God’s grace that we are “saved through faith” (Eph. 2:8) ...read more
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7. The Children Of God
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
The Children of God
Introduction: NFL Quarterback’s Pre-Game Generosity Impacts Families There was a time when he worked a night shift in a low paying job and relied on food stamps to feed their large family. His dreams of playing pro football were all but gone. But that all changed after the Saint Louis Rams ...read more
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8. Sin-Sin-Sin-Devil!!!
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
The Christian vs sin and the devil!
Introduction: Dual Citizenship In The Kingdom Of God And The Kingdom Of Darkness? Try to imagine this. It is the year 1944 and Germany is at war with England. Now suppose you have dual citizenship in both Germany and England and you are living in Germany. How will you be treated? Conversely, ...read more
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9. Do Not Marvel If The World Hates You
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
Do Not Marvel if the World Hates You
I. John And The Beginning A. John And The Beginning Of In His Gospel 1. The word in the beginning 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. —John 1.1-2 2. The beginning of the Word’s Ministry This beginning of signs Jesus ...read more
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10. Do We Love The Brethren?
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
Do We Love the Brethren? 1John 3.14-20
Introduction: Love In Action October 24, 1996 A sophmore sent a love letter to his girlfriend. It read: “I’d climb the highest mountain, sail the widest ocean, cross the hottest desert just to see you. P.S.—I’ll be over Saturday night if it doesn’t rain.” We chuckle at his fickleness, but ...read more
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11. Ask For Anything
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
Ask for Anything
Introduction: 2 A.M. Friends Pastor By David C. McCasland related this anecdote, A friend told me about a group of people who share a strong bond of faith in Christ. One of them, a 93-year-old woman, said, “I feel like I can call any of you at 2 a.m., and I don’t even have to apologize if I feel ...read more
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12. Remember The Greatest Commandment?
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
Remember the Greatest Commandment?
Introduction: The Professor’s Confession Horrified by his students’ poor writing habits, renowned author and college professor David Foster Wallace considered how he might improve their skills. That’s when a startling question confronted him. The professor had to ask himself why a student would ...read more
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13. Test The Spirits
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
Test the Spirits
Introduction: Dr Charles Swindoll…The world system is committed to at least four major objectives, which I can summarize in four words: fortune, fame, power, and pleasure. 1. First and foremost: Fortune, money. The world system is driven by money; it feeds on materialism. 2. Fame. That is ...read more
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14. You-They-We
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
You-They-We
Introduction: Shrike System The ancient sport of falconry used trained hawks or falcons in the pursuit of wild game. When the “educated predator” was allowed to fly, however, it often rose too high for human eyes to see it. So a hunter often carried a small caged bird called a shrike. By ...read more
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15. God Is Love
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
God is Love
Introduction: Larry Johnson was an oil field hand. Big, loud, cursing, drinking, woman chasing and completely anti-God. He worked on one of the dirtiest jobs in the old field – he ran a workover crew. Those guys NEVER came home clean. They were covered in grime, sludge and oil from head to toe ...read more
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16. Savior Of The World
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
Savior of the World
Introduction: God Is Love A farmer placed a weather vane inscribed with the words “God is love” on top of his barn. One day a traveler stopped by the farm and watched the weather vane moving with the breeze. Then, with a smirk on his face, he asked, “Do you mean to say that your God is as ...read more
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17. Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
Introduction: Two Kinds Of Fear I felt fear when I thought of going home. Because of my carelessness, our TV had fallen out of the trunk of my car and was badly marred. No, I wasn’t afraid that my wife would yell at me or hit me. What I feared was the look of disappointment I would see in her ...read more
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18. Three In One
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
Three in One
I. Three Witnesses In The Son 6 6 This is He who came by water and blood — Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. A. Jesus Is The Son Of God 1. The object of the apostle in this verse, in connection ...read more
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19. That You May Know
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
Christians are encourage to KNOW they are eternally secure and from that knowledge continue to the work the works of God for the rest of their lives!
A number of years ago, there was a very mean man who sold wood to his neighbors. He took advantage of them by cutting his logs a few inches short. Everyone grumbled, but he was the only lumberjack and wood splitter in town. One day the report was circulated that the wood-splitter had been ...read more
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20. Confidence At His Coming
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
Confidence at His Coming
Introduction: Worldliness October 10, 1996 What is the “world” that John warned us about? (1 Jn. 2:15). Some have identified it as a list of questionable activities that religious people ought to shun. But it’s not as easy as that. John wasn’t talking about mere outward behavior; he was ...read more
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21. Have You Heard God’s Message?
Contributed on Sep 11, 2019
Have You Heard God’s Message?
Introduction: I. The Message 5 5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. A. The Message We Have Heard 1. We spoke last week of all the wonderful things John and the rest of the Apostles heard and saw ...read more
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22. Keep Away From Idols
Contributed on Sep 18, 2019
The power of Christ within you Is greater than the power of evil around You.
18 We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him. 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one. 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an ...read more
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23. Confidence In Prayer
Contributed on Oct 1, 2019
Because of who Jesus is, we can be confident in our prayer!
I. Confidence In His Hearing 14 14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. A. Confidence In Jesus Built On His Promises. 1. I don’t think it coincidental that John would write this in his letter because he also wrote it ...read more