|
 |
- A Sermon Audio: FBCVH Episodes - | The Miracle Grow Plan part 2 - Episode #264 | Channel: - A Sermon Audio: FBCVH (Channel Website)
Episode Information: Come and listen to real life issues handled with the truth of God's Word. There's something for everyone here. You can look up sermons and Bible studies by topic or just subscribe to the latest entries via rss. We've covered a great deal in the last two and a half years and there's much more on the way! Need help with an issue and don't know where to turn? Drop us an email and share it with us so we can help you discover God's message of hope for your life!
Author: Rob Casey |  to send to friends | Download The Miracle Grow Plan part 2 - Episode #264 | Play in Popup.
| | | |
| Saying Yes When God Says No - Episode #263 | Channel: - A Sermon Audio: FBCVH (Channel Website)
Episode Information: Come and listen to real life issues handled with the truth of God's Word. There's something for everyone here. You can look up sermons and Bible studies by topic or just subscribe to the latest entries via rss. We've covered a great deal in the last two and a half years and there's much more on the way! Need help with an issue and don't know where to turn? Drop us an email and share it with us so we can help you discover God's message of hope for your life!
Author: Rob Casey | to send to friends | Download Saying Yes When God Says No - Episode #263 | Play in Popup.
| | | |
| Episode #261 | Channel: - A Sermon Audio: FBCVH (Channel Website)
Episode Information: Come and listen to real life issues handled with the truth of God's Word. There's something for everyone here. You can look up sermons and Bible studies by topic or just subscribe to the latest entries via rss. We've covered a great deal in the last two and a half years and there's much more on the way! Need help with an issue and don't know where to turn? Drop us an email and share it with us so we can help you discover God's message of hope for your life!
Author: Rob Casey | to send to friends | Download Episode #261 | Play in Popup.
| | | |
| Do You Have the Holy Spirit? - Episode #241 | Channel: - A Sermon Audio: FBCVH (Channel Website)
Episode Information: Come and listen to real life issues handled with the truth of God's Word. There's something for everyone here. You can look up sermons and Bible studies by topic or just subscribe to the latest entries via rss. We've covered a great deal in the last two and a half years and there's much more on the way! Need help with an issue and don't know where to turn? Drop us an email and share it with us so we can help you discover God's message of hope for your life!
Author: Rob Casey | to send to friends | Download Do You Have the Holy Spirit? - Episode #241 | Play in Popup.
| | | |
| Bringing Up Believers Part 5: The Conclusion - Episode #240 | Channel: - A Sermon Audio: FBCVH (Channel Website)
Episode Information: Bringing Up Believers: Part 5
Part Two of the Top Ten Reasons Families Don't Spend Time Together in the Word
6. I don't ______________well out loud. Exodus 4:10-12
7. I don't even know where to ________with all of that.
Genesis 1:1 / John 1:1-5
8. If I start trying to lead my family in a Bible study, I'll feel like a ______________. Matthew 7:1-5 / Mark 7:6-9
9. I don't have time to spend on a lot of _____________ for an hour with my family in the Bible. Eccl. 12:8-14 / John 7:14-18 / 2 Tim 2:15
10. I feel like they get ___________Bible stuff at church & don't need more of it at home from _____. Psalm 78:2-8 / Deuteronomy 4:7-9
Author: Rob Casey | to send to friends | Download Bringing Up Believers Part 5: The Conclusion - Episode #240 | Play in Popup.
| | | |
| Bringing Up Believers Part 4: Top Ten Reasons Families Don't Spend Time in the Word at Home - Episode #239 | Channel: - A Sermon Audio: FBCVH (Channel Website)
Episode Information: 1. I am not a qualified teacher of spiritual things.
Deu 5:31 But you, stand here by me, & I will tell you the whole commandment & the statutes & the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.'
2. I don't understand some of the things I read in the Bible
2Ti 2:7Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.
3. I can't find time to get everyone in one spot for a Bible study
Psa 84:10For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
4. I don't want to bore my kids with having to listen to a sermon at home
(Psa 96:1-13) Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth!Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples! For great is the LORD, & greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens. Splendor & majesty are before him; strength & beauty are in his sanctuary. Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory & strength! Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, &come into his courts! Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth! Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity." Let the heavens be glad, & let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, & all that fills it; let the field exult, &everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, & the peoples in his faithfulness.
5. I don't want them to rebel for making them haveBible study instead of doing what they wanted to do.
Psa 119:9-12 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. Blessed are you, O LORD; teach me your statutes!
Author: Rob Casey | to send to friends | Download Bringing Up Believers Part 4: Top Ten Reasons Families Don't Spend Time in the Word at Home - Episode #239 | Play in Popup.
| | | |
| Lessons for Living and Leadership from Jehoshaphat - Episode #238 | Channel: - A Sermon Audio: FBCVH (Channel Website)
Episode Information: Lessons for Living and Leadership from Jehoshaphat
(2 Chronicles 19 & 20 with 1 Kings 22:49)
There is an order that tends to by cyclical in our lives, our families, and in our roles as spiritual leaders.
A. How we ought to be found living already...
1. (19:3) ______________ what Keeps us from the Lord
2. (19:3) ______________ the Lord
3. (19:4) ______________ Others Back to the Lord
B. How we ought to be found leading already...
1. (19:5) ______________________ Right Leadership Around Us
2. (19:5-11) ___________________ Right Leadership with God?s Word
3. (19:5-11) ___________________ Right Leadership by a Right Example
C. Confrontations, Disagreements, and Enemies are Inevitable...
1. (20:1) Enemies will ____________ Against You
2. (20:2) Enemies will ____________ toward You
3. (20:1-2, 12) Enemies will _______ to Overpower You
D. There is a Choice to Respond to what could Overtake You...
1. (20:3) Fear is the natural ______________ when I see whatever is before Me as Bigger than I AM.
2. (20:3) Turn ________ from what you?re afraid of & __________ the Lord who?s bigger than everything!
3. (20:3) Turn the Attention of Who I?m Leading to Seek the Lord with Me.
E. There is strength in numbers....and a reason for the church to gather...
1. (20:3-4) Gather together in _______________
2. (20:4) Seek the ___________ of God together
3. (20:5-12) Seek the Lord together in ________
F. This is a Time to Remember....
1. (20:6) Remember His ______________________
2. (20: 6-9) Remember His ____________________
3. (20: 10-12) Remember His __________________
G. Wait, I say, On the Lord...
1. (20:13) Wait without _______________!
2. (20:13) Wait without _______________!
3. (20:13) Wait for God to Move and Speak!
H. Listening is the Key to much of Walking with Christ
1. (20:14-17) Listen for His Comforter?s _____________________ and ____________________
2. (20:14-17) Listen for His Comforter?s _____________________ and ____________________
3. (20:14-17) Listen for His Comforter?s Coherence and Consistency with ___________________
I. There comes a point where we called to Respond to H.I.M.
1. (20:18) Respond in ______________________
2. (20:18, 20) Respond in ___________________
3. (20:19) Respond in ______________________
J. Back to Leadership...
1. (20:20) Remind them of His _______________!
2. (20:20) Stick to the Plan of ________________!
3. (20:20) __________ the Lord and His Word for the Outcome!
K. You can?t see the Victory if you?re Hiding in the Temple...Get Out and Get Going!
1. (20:21) Praise and Thank Him like the Battle is Won _______________....because it is!
2. (20:21) Is your __________ Holy and ready for the Spiritual Battle: Are you right?
3. (20:21) Go meet the enemy based on God?s _______________ of Faithfulness (ie. faith and not flesh)
L. Remember who the Battle Belongs to...
1. (20:17, 22) ____________ yourself in praise and thanks and Let God do what He wants to do
2. (20:22) His _________________ is holy, yours isn?t.
3. (20:23-24) God?s people are often found watching their enemies destroy one another in Scripture
M. The Outcome of Obedience...
1. (20:25, 27) You get to return from the battle with no regrets but _______ instead, a spoil beyond compare
2. (20:26) You will be in a position to further ____________ the Lord for what He has done
3. (20:29) You will watch as God works in ______________ as a result of His work in you and your enemies
N. You will be tested beyond the battle and you must wash, rinse, repeat....
1. (20:35-37) If we?re not careful, we will _______________ where the victory came from soon afterward
2. (20:35-37) God is just as able to destroy your __________ as He is to destroy the works of your enemy.
3. (1 Kings 22:49) The enemy will never stop ____________________ for your allegiance or servitude and the allegiance or servitude of those you are leading. With whom are you going to lead others to follow or go with?
Author: Rob Casey | to send to friends | Download Lessons for Living and Leadership from Jehoshaphat - Episode #238 | Play in Popup.
| | | |
| The Nurture and Admonition of the Lord - Episode #237 | Channel: - A Sermon Audio: FBCVH (Channel Website)
Episode Information: Bringing Up Believers part 3
You have the opportunity, still, while it is still called today, with your young ones, to bring them up to that fixed position with Christ, to that place whereby as they grow older they won't depart from a life lived for Christ. Like we asked last week, who do you want your children to be more in love with, you? or Jesus Christ? What are you doing in your personal life to reflect that Jesus Christ is WORTH being that much in love with? Are you seeking Him? Are you seeking His Word? Are you seeking Him in the lives of your children or you just trying bring about perfected behavior?
Here is a list of questions to probe your heart with this morning that are not so much questions to convict you with but to encourage families to begin evaluating the true nature and condition of their mindsets and viewpoints toward Christianity in the home, the nurture and admonition of the Lord as parents and bringing up believers.
1. When you were brought up by your parents, was Christianity such a strict set of behaviors and codes of conducts and rules and regulations that you find yourself now trying to make your home so different than that experience that perhaps you are not emphasizing Christ in the home as much as you should?
2. Have you had negative experiences with people in a church, even this one perhaps, that you have in turn taught your family the identity of Jesus Christ more based on how some people behaved at a given time than what Scripture and the Holy Spirit tell us about a relationship with our Lord?
3. Do you find yourself more secure in your salvation and comfortable in your beliefs if you are surrounded by religious rules and a code of right and wrong that, if followed, must then mean to everyone around you and around your children that you are a Christian, but in fact are impossible for anyone, especially your children to fully live up to?
4. Could you define for your children what Biblical fellowship, Biblical discipleship, Biblical edification and Biblical encouragement really means? Do they know what those things really mean or have the definitions of such things that are, according to the Bible, mandates for the church, become confused in your home and in your church with the world's definitions or with a religion's definitions instead?
5. Do your children ever see you sharing your faith or do you find yourself telling them that your faith is a private matter and that you shouldn't bring it up with people unless they specifically ask you about it first? Both concepts are not of God and not found in the Scriptures, but being a bold witnesses for Christ is.
6. Have you taught your children how to share the message of salvation in Jesus Christ with others? If I were to pull one of them aside right now and ask them how I could know for sure I was going to heaven, could they tell me, could they explain it to me? What about baptism? What about spiritual gifts? What about the Trinity? Have you taught them about the Holy Spirit?
7. Do you find that your family tries to fit in, be popular, make more money, get ahead in life, and is always buying the latest thing, the coolest gadget, the neatest toys and the brand names that will make them the most friends? Is this the pattern of your home? Why do you think that is? What is the center of your child's world if that is the way in which you train them to respond to it?
8. Are you teaching your children that God and church are activities and events or a relationship that is real and personal and consistent? Is church something your family comes to in order to fulfill an obligation or to seek the face of God with other believers? Don't answer the church answer, what's your real motive?
9. Do your children pray? Have you taught them to do this based on the Bible's teaching of prayer or from some other source? Do they expect big things from our big God? Do they know how to pray specifically and in detail? Are they praying out of routine or out of relationship? Do you pray with them? Do you pray over them? If you didn't pray at meals, what other prayer time would exist in your family?
10. If your son or daughter that is old enough to understand the Scriptures died today, would they go to heaven? Do you take seriously your responsibility as a parent to Bring up Believers in your home? Are you praying for the salvation of your lost children? Are you preparing their lives to walk with Christ or just to succeed monetarily on earth?
11. Are you skipping out on your responsibility to train and equip your children at home by sending them to Sunday School? Do you realize there is no Biblical mandate to send your children to Sunday School, which only began in 1780, but there are many, many commands to parents to take the job of rearing true Believers seriously?
12. Are you telling your family you don't have time to spend in God's Word with them or in prayer with them but you have time to watch sports, watch movies, go golfing, go hunting or fishing, or some other activity? Are you teaching your children how to lie about spirituality in their lives?
13. Are you trying to find a place for the Lord in all you do or do you find the Lord inescapable in all He's doing around you? Are you making the reality of God's presence in your life too difficult a thing and too tough an act to follow by you description but not according to your reality, if you'll admit it?
14. If you had to choose between your child marrying and having a beautiful family and eventually dying after a long and financially secure life or your child going on the mission field and seeing many lost souls come to know and love Jesus Christ, but eventually dying from persecution at a young age, which would you choose for them? Can you link your desire for them in this question to your mindset as you train them to be the adults you want them to?
15. Are you tackling the tough issues in your home with just "do this" and "don't do that" or are you combining your teaching with the authority of God's Word? On the flipside, are you teaching them to hate God's Word because you manipulate it to bring about what you want to to teach what you want taught out of the proper context of the passage you got your verses from?
16. Are your children or teenagers more excited about spiritual things than you are? The answer is probably not.
17. Who's more popular in your home, Disney or Jesus Christ?
18. What's of greater value in your home, a lost soul or a new vehicle?
19. If the Lord tapped you on the heart and told you to apologize to your children for the role model you've been and for the kind of relationship with Christ you have pursued and that from this point forward you were going to pursue making HIM the center of your home and family, even if that meant some changes would have to be made from what everyone was used to, would you even be willing to obey the Lord with that? Does that make you nervous to hear it? Does that make you angry to be told that you may need to do that? Why do you think that is?
20. If Jesus Christ was sitting at your kitchen table when you got home from church this afternoon, and He wanted to talk to you personally about how you were bringing up your children, what do you think He would say to you?
Author: Rob Casey | to send to friends | Download The Nurture and Admonition of the Lord - Episode #237 | Play in Popup.
| | | |
| Bringng Up Believers - Episode #236 | Channel: - A Sermon Audio: FBCVH (Channel Website)
Episode Information: Ephesians 6:1-4 and Colossians 3:20-21
The Top Ten Ways that Parents Provoke their Children to Wrath
Ephesians 6:1-4 and Colossians 3:20-21
10. An expectation for them to already know and act upon what you've never trained them for.
Does your child really even know how to do what you are expecting them to do well? Do they know how to do this because you told them or showed them? Do they fully understand your expectations? Are you and your spouse on the same page in y our expectations or does your child have one set of expectations from you and another from the other parent that are causing difficulty for your child to consistently follow through with? (how to clean, act, behave, manners)
9. Demanding the unreasonable or un-accomplishable, and punishing for failure to complete it.
Is the time limit something you could do because you?re bigger or stronger or more knowledgeable? Is it based on the accurate maturity level of your child? Are you stretching them in order to grow them or are you stretching them because you think they failed you in some way?
When you were their age, could you do what you?re asking for? Why could you if you could? Is it possible that your skill set and your child?s simply differ? (Construction versus Greek versus Ball)
8. Placing the weight of the your reputation upon the perfection of your child.
Are you somehow worried that others will think less of you if your child misbehaves, breaks something, throws a temper tantrum etc? Are you expecting pedestal performances from your children for your reputation?s sake, in order to better yourself, or because you are genuinely concerned about your child learning right and wrong? A litmus test for this is to ask yourself how you reward your children for doing well or doing right, and when do you reward them?
7. Attempting to repair or relive your imperfect life's past through the present and future life of your child.
Are you afraid your children are going to re-live your mistakes or sins? Are you parenting out of fear of that possibility? If your motivation for teaching them and training them about life is merely to keep them from a certain kind of mistake or lifestyle you once lived, you have an incredible likelihood of merely driving them right to it. Instead, focus on you and your child drawing closer and closer in intimacy with Jesus Christ, and watch Him bring about a different life than you lived before you were walking rightly with Him. Again, it was the Law you broke that led you to the Grace you took.
6. Creating an atmosphere in the home that completely lacks attention to discipline, respect, or responsibility.
Do you think that letting your child figure out for themselves what is right and what is wrong bears any resemblance to God?s pattern of parenting? Where there is no vision, the people perish and a child left to himself brings shame to his mother. Children will find someone to follow. If you do not lead them, someone else eventually will. Your training in the home is training for not merely making a living some day, but training on how to parent their own families one day.
5. Creating an atmosphere in the home that is focused only on attention to discipline, respect, and/or responsibility as a means approval or affection.
Is there laughter in your home? Scripture calls laughter a good medicine. Do you have such a focus on your child?s future that you are destroying their present? Are you willing for your child to have different gifts and talents than those you have chosen for them to be skilled or trained in currently? Are you picking the routine for your child and plotting such a rigid course that you have left no room for love? Are you teaching a discipline that leaves no room for devotion? Does your parenting style in this matter reflect your view of God?
4. The setting of your child in harm's way, danger, or in risk of personal embarrassment for your own benefit, protection, or pleasure.
Do you find it funny to make fun of your child?s flaws or weaknesses in front of your friends or other family members? Are you treating your child as you would want to be treated or are you just treating your child the way in which you were treated at their age?
Are you somehow making up for your inadequacies by pointing out the struggles and blunders or mistakes or flaws of who you are responsible to rear?
Are you getting ahead in your finances, your politics or your social ladder at the cost of your child?s needs, which are not more of those things, but more of you?
3. When you set standards for your child to follow in your home that you are not willing to live by or teach by example.
Are you spiritually consistent? Does everyone you know, know you by the same set of standards?
Are you telling your children to go to Sunday School or to participate in Spiritual things when you aren?t willing to yourself? Do you tell your children that they need to leave the room so you can watch something on television thus excluding them from your life for the sake of your entertainment? Do you tell them not to do the very things you hope they don?t see you doing or vice versa? Do you tell them to be respectful while you speak badly of your bosses or other leaders? Do you want them to get closer and closer to Christ while you set no pattern in your personal life for them to follow? Do you expect them to spend time with you on your projects but never help them with theirs?
2. When your child is consistently witness to immorality and/or destructive behaviors
Do you yell in your home? This is destructive. Do you threaten violence or raise your hand as if you?re going to hit? This is provoking your children to wrath.
The number one addiction in America right now is pornography. Are you watching, reading or downloading it? You are provoking your children to wrath. Are you destroying your body through an addiction of some other kind? You are provoking your children to wrath. Children cannot explain in the vocabulary you and I have the complex emotions of their world that are intensified by the senseless things that some parents do to slowly destroy their marriages and themselves. Do you find yourself thinking that someday they?ll just get over it? Do you think that your children will just forget what they are hearing and seeing? You are leaving a footprint upon the very soul of your child or teenager in all that you do and say.
1. When the trust relationship between you and your child is broken in order to satisfy a want or desire in your life, good or bad.
Are you making promises to your family that you don?t keep? Are you a liar to your child? How far can your child trust you with what is most precious to them in their lives right now?
Have you broken the trust relationship with your son or daughter in physical ways? Fathers, do you enter your daughter?s room without asking? Are you establishing trust in the home that leaves no room for doubt that you would never say or do anything to bring you personal satisfaction at the expense of your child?s trust in you? Are you creating a trust issue in your child that will extend into their understanding of faith in God? The worst possible breach of trust is the molestation of a child.
There?s one more number left in our countdown, and that?s the number zero. I want to zero in on one more area where parents, in our society today, have produced rebellion in the lives of their children, and that is the area of Spiritual Apathy. I believe, having worked with young people off and on since teaching junior high students in a private school in 1993, that the greatest area of downfall in the homes of America, is apathy towards Christ in the home. I believe it is the greatest hypocrisy, the greatest rebellion and the greatest cause of provocation in the lives of children that there is today.
Scripture says in Pro 29:18 ?Where there is no vision, the people perish? and in
Psalm 127:1 ?Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it.?
The King James states Col 3:21 like this: ?Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.?
Combine these ideas with what Romans Chapter one says is true about all of us... That God not only made Himself evident to us but put the knowledge of Himself within us...and then the passages in Scripture we read last week out of the Gospels on Christ?s view of children being led to come Himself and how Jesus spoke indignantly with his disciples when they forbade the children from His arms, and I see a huge picture unfolding....the angriest and most defensive and most unloving and most rebellious of students I have ever dealt with have been those whose homes have been pervaded by the influence of ?no God but self?, and the homes of those students whose parents feigned an allegiance to Christ but had no fruit in themselves, who spoke of right and wrong but suppressed the knowledge of God in unrighteousness within their home.
The parent who, by their own example, keeps their child away from the heart of Christ, is the parent with whom Christ is most indignant!!
In an article called ?A Challenge for Fathers? By: J. Hampton Keathley, III, who is now with the Lord, but was once a Dallas Theological Seminary professor, Keathley writes on Psalm 78:1-8, and I love what he says about this topic we?re on today. He writes: ?Scripture and history show us that as goes the home, so goes the society. And generally speaking--as go the fathers, so goes the home. The moral and spiritual condition of the society is always the offspring of the family.
William Wordsworth wrote, ?The child is father of the man,? meaning the experiences which occur in the early and formative years of a child?s life, the experiences of home, shape the character and behavior of tomorrow?s adult. And as that is true of the individual, so it becomes true of an entire society including, of course, its leadership. Note the emphasis of this Psalm:
Psalm 127:1-2 Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain. 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, To retire late, To eat the bread of painful labors; For He gives to His beloved even in his sleep.
You?ve probably heard people say: ?My wife and I have agreed that we don?t want to force our religion on the children. We want them to be free to make up their own minds about matters as important as that.? This may sound wise or sophisticated, but it is sheer nonsense! There can be no religious neutrality in a home because neutrality about God is itself a form of religion--an anti-God religion. If neutrality is the attitude of parents it will become the religion of their children. Most thoughtful people see the stupidity of bringing up children with an ?open mind? about things like school, but fail to apply the same saneness of thought to knowing God.
Most thoughtful parents, by contrast, want their children to know about God and moral living. But somehow in the hustle and bustle of life, they never get a chance to take stock of where such training will come from. They think if they send them to Sunday School that will do it, but that involves only one hour out of 168 hours in a week. But there is a place that has a great deal more impact than any other in society due to the dynamics involve--if those dynamics are utilized. Where is that place? It?s the home--the place where life makes up its mind.
Author: Rob Casey | to send to friends | Download Bringng Up Believers - Episode #236 | Play in Popup.
| | | |
| The REALity of the Love of GOD - Episode #229 | Channel: - A Sermon Audio: FBCVH (Channel Website)
Episode Information: If a man were to set his heart on preaching the fullness of the love of God, I promise you, he would tend to it his whole life, and upon his last breath, he would not have uncovered every passage, every plot, nor every place in which God has taught us the immensity of what kind of steadfast and merciful love He has lavished upon us. It is an impossible task to set within limits a set of messages devoted to the understanding of the vastness of God?s lovingkindness.
The Bible is filled with the love of God. It is not a book of dead law, dead works, nor dead religion. It is a book of love. When one has accomplished the reading of all the Scriptures, say in a year, but does not comprehend more deeply what is the personal application of the love of God toward them, then they were reading but not listening. They were seeing, but they were not believing.
Yet oddly enough, when mankind finds itself in peril, it is the love of God which comes into question. Whether it be a fiery trial, a seemingly overwhelming temptation, disastrous occurrences, heartbreak or physical affliction, God?s love is the first to come to mind within so many. If He does, than why must I suffer?
If God?s love is all that the preacher claims, than how is it that the world is where it is today? Why does He not make it all stop? Why is my loved one suffering? Why is there so much violence? Why is disease claiming so many or poverty for that matter? Where is the love of God when homes are torn apart? I did everything I thought God told me to do; so why are my children living ungodly lives? Where is the love of God when children are abused and tortured? Where was the love of God when He took the life of my child? Why did that loved one of mine have to die? How is that the loving thing for an almighty God to do to me?
What is God doing with all of His time? What is it that is taking place in the heavens that God won?t step out of HIS comfort zone and intervene and take care of all these problems instead of constantly asking me to step out of MY comfort zone when the world is already so uncomfortable as it is?
Hesed, Steadfast Love, and Agape / Agapao are discussed at length.
This is the most encouraging message Pastor Rob has preached to date.
Author: Rob Casey | to send to friends | Download The REALity of the Love of GOD - Episode #229 | Play in Popup.
| | | |
| 1 Kings 21: Ahab's Coveteousness and Satan's Schemes - Episode #228 | Channel: - A Sermon Audio: FBCVH (Channel Website)
Episode Information: We most often covet what is very close to us.
The bottomline about coveteousness is that it is wanting what I cannot have unless I am willing to sin in order to get it. There's a reason God left that as the last of the great ten commandments. He knew we needed it.
Disobedience is a protection remover and a temptation bringer!
Did you know that the devil loves to try to do things in your name?
The enemy has limited authority and limited power.
The enemy is always seeking to work through authority.
The enemy is always trying to persuade authority to listen to bad counsel from men who's ambition is the destruction of all that is Godly and goodly.
Author: Rob Casey | | to send to friends | Download 1 Kings 21: Ahab's Coveteousness and Satan's Schemes - Episode #228 | |
|
| |
