"description":"The birth of Isaac came at the end of Abraham and Sarah laying hold of God by faith despite their ups and downs. Isaac and Isaac contrast believers under the old covenant (done in the strength of the flesh) and those of the new covenant, that which is done supernaturally. God's tests come to see whether He is first in our life. Abraham went against human reason, counted the cost, and obeyed God in offering Isaac, the first mention of worship and also a picture of the resurrection.",
"preacher_description":"Zac Poonen ( - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Zac Poonen in mp3 format. God called brother Zac Poonen to a new work early on in his Christian experience. The movement is now called Christian Fellowship Churches where the New Covenant of New Testament Christianity is clearly preached. \r\n\r\nBrother Zac Poonen has written 25 books most of them being on the deeper Christian life. Many of these have been translated into a number of languages and have been circulated widely around the world. He clearly and passionately shares the narrow way of Christian discipleship that is neglected by so many modern preachers.",
"preacher_description":"Chuck Smith (1927 - 2013)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Chuck Smith in mp3 format. Pastor Chuck was used in the Jesus People revival where he was used along with others to minister to the hippy young people. They saw a work of the Spirit where many were added to the church and discipled. He has raised up many pastors who are a part of the Calvary Chapel movement now and where he pastors the large Costa Mesa church in California.\r\n\r\nThe Calvary Chapel movement is based of simple principles that Chuck Smith taught over the years such as: The priority of agape love, Simple fellowship amongst the saints, the breaking of bread, the teaching of God's word chapter by chapter and verse by verse. And lastly and most importantly the principle not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord.",
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"book":"Galatians",
"chapter":"4"
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"title":"22. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?",
"description":"No matter how holy you may be, you will still have bad days. We can take comfort in knowing that no matter whether our day is good or bad, the Lord never leaves or forsakes us. We have this treasure in earthen vessels-the knowledge and presence of Jesus. Whether it's the enemy coming against us, or problems that distress your mind, the Lord can help you.",
"preacher_description":"David Wilkerson (1931 \u2013 2011)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker David Wilkerson in mp3 format. Founder of Times Square Church in New York City with over 100 different languages spoken in the congregation. Wilkerson wrote many powerful books such as: The Vision and Cross and the Switchblade. His ministry was prophetic as God called him to be a watchman to the Church in North America. He gave clear messages on repentance to the Church. \r\n\r\nWilkerson also founded Teen Challenge where there are hundreds of centres for Christ-centered drug recovery and addiction recovery. He also organized and spoke at pastors gatherings in many countries where he gave prophetic strong messages to encourage pastors and leaders.",
"description":"Bro. Wilkerson explains how you become a part of the family of God when you are born again and all the rights and inheritance you obtain as a child of God. He contrasts the vast difference in the inheritance the devil's family has waiting and the Lord's family. \u00a0God's people desperately need to know of a surety their position in Christ. This will defeat much of the work of the enemy in trying to hinder your walk with God. A must hear for every Christian.",
"preacher_description":"David Wilkerson (1931 \u2013 2011)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker David Wilkerson in mp3 format. Founder of Times Square Church in New York City with over 100 different languages spoken in the congregation. Wilkerson wrote many powerful books such as: The Vision and Cross and the Switchblade. His ministry was prophetic as God called him to be a watchman to the Church in North America. He gave clear messages on repentance to the Church. \r\n\r\nWilkerson also founded Teen Challenge where there are hundreds of centres for Christ-centered drug recovery and addiction recovery. He also organized and spoke at pastors gatherings in many countries where he gave prophetic strong messages to encourage pastors and leaders.",
"preacher_description":"Warren Wiersbe (1929 - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Warren Wiersbe in mp3 format. Warren W. Wiersbe is best known as a Bible teacher, author, and conference speaker. He has ministered in churches and conferences in Canada, Central and South America, Europe, and the United States. He has published more than 150 books and was awarded the Gold Medallion Lifetime Achievement Award by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.\r\n\r\n He is known as a \"pastors' pastor,\" and his speaking,writing and radio ministries have brought new understanding of the truths of God's Word to people around the world. Wiersbe is perhaps best known for his series of 50 books in the \"BE\" series: Be Real, Be Rich, Be Obedient, Be Mature, Be Joyful, etc. and other theological works.",
"preacher_description":"Warren Wiersbe (1929 - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Warren Wiersbe in mp3 format. Warren W. Wiersbe is best known as a Bible teacher, author, and conference speaker. He has ministered in churches and conferences in Canada, Central and South America, Europe, and the United States. He has published more than 150 books and was awarded the Gold Medallion Lifetime Achievement Award by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.\r\n\r\n He is known as a \"pastors' pastor,\" and his speaking,writing and radio ministries have brought new understanding of the truths of God's Word to people around the world. Wiersbe is perhaps best known for his series of 50 books in the \"BE\" series: Be Real, Be Rich, Be Obedient, Be Mature, Be Joyful, etc. and other theological works.",
"preacher_description":"Paris Reidhead (1919 - 1992)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Paris Reidhead in mp3 format. Was a Christian missionary, teacher, writer, and advocate of economic development in impoverished nations. A spiritual crisis during this period\u2014as he described two decades later in what is probably his best-known recorded teaching, \"Ten Shekels and a Shirt\"--left Reidhead with the conviction that much of evangelicalism had adopted utilitarian and humanistic philosophies contradictory to Biblical teaching. The end of all being, he came to believe, was not the happiness of man, but the glorification of God. This theme would recur throughout his later teaching.\r\n\r\nSince Mr. Reidhead's death in 1992, Bible Teaching Ministries, Inc. continues under the leadership of his wife, Marjorie, and daughter, Virginia Teitt, a dedicated Board, and the many people who have donated time and talent after being changed by God\u2019s Word through this message. The message of the Gospel is reaching an ever-widening audience all over the world.",
"preacher_description":"Leonard Ravenhill (1907 \u00c2\u2013 1994)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Leonard Ravenhill in mp3 format. A revivalist and man of God who sought God's will above all else. He was a man of prayer who practiced what he preached. He wrote the book: 'Why Revival Tarries' which has become a classic on revival. His prophetic edge and burden made him to be respected by some and disliked by others. Yet he stayed true to God's call on his life prayed and pleading for true heaven sent revival. \r\n\r\n\"Those who know of Leonard Ravenhill recognize in him the religious specialist, the man sent from God to battle the priests of Baal on their own mountain top, to shame the careless priest at the altar, to face the false prophet, and to warn the people who are being led astray by him. \" - Tozer | \"Leonard Ravenhill was one of the few men I have ever known who was a true prophet.\" - David Wilkerson",
"preacher_description":"Chip Brogden ( - )\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Chip Brogden in mp3 format. Author, teacher, and former pastor, Chip and his wife Karla came out of the church in 1999 to serve those who are following Jesus outside of Organized Religion. Today, The School of Christ reaches many with a simple, consistent, and Christ-centered message\r\nSince 1997, the School of Christ has reached more than 145 nations with a simple, consistent, and Christ-centered message. Our mission is to bring healing to those hurt by religion, to provide for the spiritual growth and maturity of all believers, and to ensure the continuity of a Christ-Centered Faith.",
"description":"In the \u201cfullness of time\u201d God acts. God knows everything about each one of us. In this lesson we learn how we should deal with this and how to know we are \u201cletting\u201d God be in us.",
"preacher_description":"Major Ian Thomas (1914 \u2013 2007)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Major Ian Thomas in mp3 format. Evangelical writer, theological teacher and founder of the Torchbearers bible schools. These schools are now world-wide in many countries and provide a teaching base on the person of Christ in the believer and basic Biblical exposition of Bible books.\r\n\r\nAmong the many books that he wrote, the most influential have been: \"The Saving Life Of Christ\" , \"The mystery of godliness\" and \"If I perish, I Perish.\" His burden in ministry was to express and show the indwelling life of Christ in believers and the rest and power that life will have in us as we trust and have faith.",
"_scripture":[
{
"book":"Galatians",
"chapter":"4"
},
{
"book":"Luke",
"chapter":"1"
}
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},
{
"title":"Religiosity or Spirituality - Listening to the Spirit",
"description":"\"The Christian life,\" says Zac Poonen, \"is not following a code of conduct; it's following a Person.\" Brother Zac explains many failures in the Christian life that come by \"doing something for the Lord\" without waiting upon Him and obeying the little promptings of the Holy Spirit. \"When you listen to God and do what He says, you can do more in six months than in sixty years of trying to do something on your own.\"",
"preacher_description":"Zac Poonen ( - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Zac Poonen in mp3 format. God called brother Zac Poonen to a new work early on in his Christian experience. The movement is now called Christian Fellowship Churches where the New Covenant of New Testament Christianity is clearly preached. \r\n\r\nBrother Zac Poonen has written 25 books most of them being on the deeper Christian life. Many of these have been translated into a number of languages and have been circulated widely around the world. He clearly and passionately shares the narrow way of Christian discipleship that is neglected by so many modern preachers.",
"preacher_description":"Alan Redpath (1907 - 1989)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Alan Redpath in mp3 format. Redpath was a well-known preacher from England who pastored the famous Moody church in chicago for 7 years. He ministered at Keswick conventions and also deeper life meetings on the subject of revival, prayer, full-surrender. He spent the later years of his life ministering Capernwray bible school movement founded by Major Ian Thomas.\r\n\r\nDr. Redpath authored six books; the first one, Victorious Christian Living, was published in 1955. Others were Victorious Prayer (1956), Victorious Christian Service (1958), The Royal Route to Heaven (1960), Blessings Out of Buffettings (1965), The Making of a Man of God (1962), and Law and Liberty and Captivity to Conquest (1978).",
"description":"Preaching from Romans 5, Wilkerson preaches on God\u2019s wonderful gift of righteousness. This passage of Scripture consumed David for months and he studied it from every angle. This is absolutely the best sermon on this topic of righteousness that I have heard, separating real righteousness from much of the emotional righteousness that many seem to subscribe to this day. Jesus said you would know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Sanctification is the Spirit of Christ in us making us to become what God in reality sees you to be already, by faith. Making us what we could never be on our own, holy. The gift of righteousness is the Spirit of Christ in you. When you yield to him and let him have control, he makes you what he is. The Lord doesn't want you to come to him in condemnation and guilt. He wants the truth of his righteousness and his love to set you free.",
"preacher_description":"David Wilkerson (1931 \u2013 2011)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker David Wilkerson in mp3 format. Founder of Times Square Church in New York City with over 100 different languages spoken in the congregation. Wilkerson wrote many powerful books such as: The Vision and Cross and the Switchblade. His ministry was prophetic as God called him to be a watchman to the Church in North America. He gave clear messages on repentance to the Church. \r\n\r\nWilkerson also founded Teen Challenge where there are hundreds of centres for Christ-centered drug recovery and addiction recovery. He also organized and spoke at pastors gatherings in many countries where he gave prophetic strong messages to encourage pastors and leaders.",
"preacher_description":"J. Glyn Owen ( - Present)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker J. Glyn Owen in mp3 format. A welshman, Dr. Glyn Owen pastored many congregations with solid biblical exposition of the Holy Scriptures. He took over the pastorate from Martyn Lloyd-Jones after his retirement for 3 years. His preached in some Keswick convention meetings in England and has a heart for Biblical revival.\r\n\r\nDuring his pastorate at Knox Presbyterian Church in downtown Toronto, his preaching ministry attracted many young people who had come to Christ in the counter-culture Jesus Movement, and who were longing for solid biblical teaching.",
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"book":"Galatians",
"chapter":"4"
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"title":"When God Asks Too Much by William Carrol",
"description":"Don\u2019t be too quick to comes to God 's defense and say God never asks too much. This message suggests that God ALWAYS asks too much and it is never God's design or desire that we should ever be in a place where we think that what God is requiring is something that we can bring about in our own strength or by our own power. When God first speaks His promises to us there is strong expectancy for the fulfillment of that promise. But as time passes on and we are still waiting the possible begins to seem impossible. It is in these times of delay that our flesh will begin to think that we can make things happen in our own time and our own way. God in His mercy will bring us through the refiner's fire so we can let go of all that we think we are and what we think we are supposed to do. He will refine our gifts and our calling until He has complete ownership and lordship over them.",
"preacher_description":"SermonIndex.net Classics Podcast ( - )\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by SermonIndex.net Classics Podcast in mp3 format. The work and ministry of SermonIndex can be encapsulated in this one word: Revival. Concepts such as Holiness, Purity, Christ-Likeness, Self-Denial and Discipleship are hardly the goal of much modern preaching. Thus the main thrust of the speakers and articles on the website encourage us towards a reviving of these missing elements of Christianity\r\nYou can subscribe to this free Christian podcast via iTunes Subscribe or RSS Feed. Download over 100 of the best classical sermons by many speakers from the past and present. This is a great starting place to benefit from the archive of SermonIndex.",
"description":"Don\u2019t be too quick to comes to God 's defense and say God never asks too much. This message suggests that God ALWAYS asks too much and it is never God's design or desire that we should ever be in a place where we think that what God is requiring is something that we can bring about in our own strength or by our own power. When God first speaks His promises to us there is strong expectancy for the fulfillment of that promise. But as time passes on and we are still waiting the possible begins to seem impossible. It is in these times of delay that our flesh will begin to think that we can make things happen in our own time and our own way. God in His mercy will bring us through the refiner's fire so we can let go of all that we think we are and what we think we are supposed to do. He will refine our gifts and our calling until He has complete ownership and lordship over them.",
"preacher_description":"William Carrol ( - )\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker William Carrol in mp3 format. Pastor William Carrol is an associate pastor and longtime \u201cspiritual son\u201d of the Times Square Church family. Shortly after his salvation, Pastor David Wilkerson, recognized the strong call of God on his life and sent him to Bible college and seminary for ministerial training.\r\nWhile completing his studies, Pastor William served as a co-pastor and later as senior pastor of Denver Fellowship in Colorado. He holds a masters degree in philosophy of religion. In 2005, Pastor William was invited to \u201ccome home\u201d and serve on the pastoral staff of Times Square Church.",
"preacher_description":"Paris Reidhead (1919 - 1992)\r\nListen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker Paris Reidhead in mp3 format. Was a Christian missionary, teacher, writer, and advocate of economic development in impoverished nations. A spiritual crisis during this period\u2014as he described two decades later in what is probably his best-known recorded teaching, \"Ten Shekels and a Shirt\"--left Reidhead with the conviction that much of evangelicalism had adopted utilitarian and humanistic philosophies contradictory to Biblical teaching. The end of all being, he came to believe, was not the happiness of man, but the glorification of God. This theme would recur throughout his later teaching.\r\n\r\nSince Mr. Reidhead's death in 1992, Bible Teaching Ministries, Inc. continues under the leadership of his wife, Marjorie, and daughter, Virginia Teitt, a dedicated Board, and the many people who have donated time and talent after being changed by God\u2019s Word through this message. The message of the Gospel is reaching an ever-widening audience all over the world.",
