"description":"As parents are we producing children of Cain or children of Abel? Ralph Sexton contrasts Cain and Abel to today, especially in light of Jesus' words that His coming would be at a time like the days of Noah.",
"scripture":"Daniel 9: 20-27, Nehemiah 2:1, Luke 19:37-40",
"topic":"Seventy Weeks",
"description":"After Daniels great intercession for the nation of Israel the angel Gabriel appears to him and tells him that he is about to be shown a great prophecy. This is amazingly characteristic of the abundance with which the Lord gives to His people, Daniel has been asking the Lord to show mercy to the nation of Israel yet the Lord does that and more, He answers Daniel's prayer but goes so much further. Gabriel reveals to Daniel that there will be a period of 490 years that will concern the Jews and particularly the city of Jerusalem. The prophecy began to be fulfilled in 445BC at the decree of Cyrus to rebuild the city of Jerusalem. 483 Jewish years (360 days) later was the exact that the Lord Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the donkey, but as predicted the Messiah was executed and the temple destoyed. So we await the fulfillment of Daniels 70th week, when the Antichrist will confirm a covenant with the jews, his people destroyed the temple and Jerusalem before he even came to the world, many believe he will probably be European.",
"scripture":"Luke 3:6, Luke 19:10, 1 Corinthians 15:45-47",
"topic":"Luke",
"description":"Continuing with his themes he has outlined in Luke, Ed Miller shows how Luke is a gospel that focuses on missions and evangelism, for Jesus truly came for all. It has also been referred to as the \"happiest gospel\", for there is much on joy and thanksgiving. Furthermore, Luke writes simply, with many stories of contrast and finally, he is the author that mentions the Holy Spirit the most and of how Jesus as man lived completely in the power of the Holy Spirit. Both parts of this introduction will certainly wet the appetite to study and drink in this unique gospel.",
"description":"What were the first words God spoke after His silence of 400 years? Zacharias the priest was the first to hear the Word of the Lord, yet despite his righteousness, he chose to be in unbelief. Ed Miller begins his study in Chapter 1 with contrasting Zacharias' unbelief with Mary's faith. With gentleness, he reminds all believers how easily we can fall into unbelief regardless of how close we walk with Him.",
"description":"Ed Miller continues his study of unbelief vs. faith by re-emphasizing some key points. . With certainty, we will all experience moments of unbelief. Yet, be assured that God's will is not hindered by our unbelief, but it can rob us of the blessing. But, in hope, we can always turn to Him that continues to form simple, childlike faith in us as we follow our Saviour, our Teacher and the Hope of all mankind.",
"description":"In contrast to Zacharias' unbelief, he now presents Mary's faith and shows her to be a perfect model of the Church. She responds to the angel's pronouncement with child-like faith, with complete and total surrender and is a picture of humility. She is trusting that God the Father will form Christ in her. In the same way, His Church is to surrender and believe that He, by the power of the Holy Spirit, will produce the same miracle of forming the Christian life in us.",
"description":"Ed closes out chapter one pointing out Luke's strong emphasis on the Holy Spirit. John the Baptizer pictures ministry, beginning with the Holy Spirit and being a forerunner for Jesus to follow after. Mary is a picture of the Church and missions--bringing Christ to the world. Elizabeth illustrates fellowship and Zacharias the restoration the Lord works after a time of unbelief.",
"description":"Our over familiarity with the Christmas story can make the powerful truth of it become \"la la la\". Brother Ed shows the picture of God's infinite condescension in becoming a baby--the Bread of Life (Jesus) being laid out in a dish (manger) in the House of Bread (Bethlehem) for anyone to partake! No less than 100 million angels worshiped the Son as He made His first appearance into the world as the Son of all mankind.",
"description":"Jesus came for all mankind, both Jew and Gentile, but in a special way to those who seek Him. The shepherds represent people who get the light of God from heaven and run to Jesus. Simeon illustrates the role of the Holy Spirit in any seeking, God's providential timing, and the assurance that no one who seeks Christ dies without Christ.",
"description":"What were the results of Jesus' first coming? It was great joy (the shepherds), contentment in life and tranquility in death (Simeon), rejection (Mary) and testimony and witness (Anna). Joseph and Mary losing Jesus at Passover, one of the most religious times of worship and fellowship, serves as a sober reminder that we too can get preoccupied with other things and lose fellowship with Him.",
"description":"Although John the Baptizer was a fulfillment of Elijah, the Lord Jesus spoke of the fulfillment of Elijah yet coming. In light of future prophecy, Ed Miller points out, \"Everything God says about the future is designed to teach you the Lord now.\" John the Baptizer as a forerunner provides a model of Christian ministry in that the best we can do is to prepare the way for the Lord to follow.",
"description":"John the Baptizer as the first forerunner was preacher of the law with a hot message of judgment to get everyone on level ground--to stand before Christ as guilty sinners. Why did the Holy Spirit come in the picture of a dove at Jesus' baptism? How does Jesus' genealogy underscore God's genius in the miracle of the virgin birth? Brother Ed labors to exalt Jesus as the Son of all mankind as he answers these questions and more!",
"scripture":"Luke 4:1-13, Matthew 4:1-12, Mark 1:12-13",
"topic":"Temptation",
"description":"The temptations in the wilderness served as the final preparation of our Lord Jesus. This section is filled with mystery, yet has clear principles for us to grasp. Brother Ed warns in closing that we're not to try to imitate Jesus in how He conquered temptation, but rather to appropriate Him, which is far higher.",
"description":"In the first temptation, Satan tried to get Jesus to do something independently from His Father. Likewise Satan tries to get us to \"turn rocks into bread\" by the sin of anxiety--trying to help God in what only God can do. The real issue was not about the bread but about the test to doubt the love of God.",
"description":"The nature of Satan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s temptations is to get us to doubt God's love, sufficiency and faithfulness. The devil tempts with the invented and imaginary glory of the world and also in the spiritual places--the temple (the Church). Many have caved into the spiritual temptations, demanding a miracle from God or trusting God insensibly. \"Satan tries to tempt us,\" says brother Ed, \"by causing us to act apart from a clear word from God.\"",
"description":"Jesus began His ministry with an announcement of Him being the prophetic fulfillment of the Jewish Year of Jubilee, a celebration of emancipation from slavery and debt. How does God heal the brokenhearted? Who are the people who have a claim on Jesus today? Ed answers these questions and more about Jesus, the friend of all mankind.",
"description":"Ed Miller gives an overview of the Lord's ministry, especially noting how He had authority over demons, disease and death. The miracles themselves are instructive to spiritual realities. In the healing of the fever of Peter's mother-in-law, the secret of Christian ministry is shown by the Lord touching you in your weakness and giving you supernatural strength to serve.",
"description":"The miraculous catch of fish is God's illustration of soul-winning: it is a mighty miracle of God. Your responsibility is not to win the lost; your responsibility is just to obey Jesus. Leprosy is a picture of sin and the cleansing which followed illustrates Jesus' willingness and ability to cleanse sin. The priestly examination of a cleansed leper signifies that it is not our verbal declaration that confirms our cleansing but others who watch our lives.",
"description":"All of the miracles are really parables, a physical illustration of the spiritual side in the Christian life. Brother Ed shows that when we feel paralyzed and helpless as Christian, it just means we haven't entered into our forgiveness. \"The more we enter into our forgiveness,\" he says, \"the freer we become.\" Many other truths are drawn from this account, such as an expose of the Pharisees, obstacles of coming to Jesus, and evangelism.",
"description":"The spiritual truth behind the healing of the withered hand is this: When God gives a command, He also gives the enablement to perform that command. \"It is as I attempt to obey God,\" says brother Ed, \"that I find the resources to obey God.\" Our two big needs are to see a bigger God and ourselves as helpless Christians.",
"description":"Some lessons we can learn here is that when we have doubts, send them to Jesus. We should also never judge the reality by outward appearances. Though Jesus never visited John in prison, He had a high regard for him, and we can expect in our trials at times not to hear, \"Well done, good and faithful servant,\" down here. There is a difference between doubting (struggling faith) and disbelieving, and the good news is that God accepts struggling faith as faith.",
"description":"How can we love the Lord Jesus and be freed from a cold heart? It's by entering into how much we've been forgiven. Brother Ed shows from the devotion and love of the sinful woman how it is impossible to embarrass the Lord and you don't have to defend yourself of the criticisms of others.",
"description":"Chapter 8 signifies a transition from the Galilean ministry and Jesus' teaching style of parables to both reveal and conceal. The ones who understand Christ's parables are not the unbelievers nor the believers but those who come to the Lord for an explanation. The parable of the sower is all about our receptivity to the Word of God, as well as an expectation in ministry that much will be unproductive.",
"description":"What is faith? What does it mean to really believe? The stormy sea is Jesus' \"lab\" that followed the lecture on the parable of the sower. Many times the Lord does great things in our lives not because we have great faith but to encourage us in the little faith that we have.",
"description":"The final three miracles of Luke chapter 8 are grouped together as an organic unit, showing all of mankind (man, woman & child), extreme cases (strongest enemy, smallest amount of faith, man's most unsolvable problem), and other observations. Most importantly, this grouping reveals our Lord Jesus as the Mighty Deliverer, the Sensitive Savior, and the Lord of Life.",
"description":"Jesus sends the twelve forth on a 'graduate course' in ministry that lasted six months to a year. To defuse the 'look what we did' mentality, Christ sets up the feeding of five thousand to drive the message home that they didn't do it, but it was Him doing it through them. The twelve baskets of crumbs gathered up teach us that Jesus is more than enough for what we will ever face!",
"description":"This Judean section covers one and a half years, emphasizing teaching, moving towards Jerusalem, the cross and training the disciples to go to the cross. The Sons of Thunder wanting to call fire down on the Samaritans illustrates our need for God to change our anti-missionary heart to a missionary one. Loyalty to Christ without His spirit is a dangerous one.",
"description":"One of the greatest chapters on missions, Luke 10 teaches us not to rejoice in what we do but in Who we know. The point of the parable of the Good Samaritan is not, \"Help your neighbor,\" but one of character: who are you? Mary becomes the example of the gospel by sitting at Jesus' feet as a receiver. To Martha, Jesus was the honored guest; to Mary, He was the host.",
"description":"The key point of the Lord's Prayer is relationship, and Ed draws out how the various relationships are underscored, such as Father-child, holy God-sinner, King-subject, and so on. As the model prayer progresses, God gets bigger and bigger and man gets smaller and smaller. In prayer we pour out our hearts before the Lord, expressing our longings to see Him and to depend upon Him for everything.",
"description":"The parable of the friend at midnight and the father on prayer are not comparisons but contrasts. God is not a sleepy, old grouch but an infinitely better Friend who never says, \"Don't bother Me.\" The message of these parables isn't persevering in prayer but rather having a boldness, confidence and assurance to pour out your heart to your Friend and Father any time day or night!",
"description":"Jesus is infinitely stronger than Satan, and He casts him out by the finger of God, which is the Spirit of God. The one who gets the Holy Spirit is the one who asks for Him. The blessedness of the Virgin Mary after the natural is not to be compared to the infinitely higher blessedness of being related to Jesus through the Word of God.",
"description":"Ed ties together the sign of Jonah to the resurrected Christ living in us in connection with this great prayer chapter. If we can have a single eye on the Lord--not on many things like missions and family and witnessing--then our whole body will be full of light and the world will see Jesus in us--the sign of Jonah. What the world needs is more Christians praying the Lord's Prayer in reality.",
"description":"What is real life? It is the Holy Spirit's union with the human spirit. These passages unveil what kind of life a believer in union with Jesus will have, such as freedom from greed and anxiety and fear. The more you enter into His kingship (not by trying not to be greedy or anxious), the more all of these characteristics of life will fall into place.",
"description":"\"The Lord can undo in a moment of time,\" Ed points out from the miracle of the bent over woman, \"years of bondage.\" The real message is not to try to be upright by works but to let the Lord touch you. The next two parables (the mustard seed & the leaven) illustrate how the kingdom of God works. Though leaven is often a picture of sin and corruption, in its context here is a symbol of the Holy Spirit that keeps on working through the whole \"lump of dough\" until it's completely transformed.",
"description":"God's salvation is unconditional grace, set in contrast to the works-mentality of the religion of the Pharisees. The invitation to God's banquet is to the humble (not the proud) and reveals the generous heart of the Lord. The parable of counting the cost and the king going to battle contrasts once again the religion of the Pharisees of bills and fights with exclusive devotion to Jesus to supply all the resources we need to build and every victory in the fight.",
"description":"The joy of God is the great message of this three part parable. Ed shares the beautiful truths of the shepherd seeking and the woman lighting a lamp and seeking, but also points out the way the Father seeks. Two ways the Father seeks is He allows the son to go and waste his inheritance and sends a famine \"to lower the bottom.\" The great love of God is pictured here in the only place in the whole Bible where we see Him running.",
"scripture":"Luke 15:3-7, Matthew 18:12-15, Luke 16",
"topic":"Relationships",
"description":"Luke 16 is one of the most 'thorny' chapters of the Bible, but the summary of it is relationship. Ed points out four keys to help understand the parable of the unjust steward and how it underscores that relationships--with God and real friends--are more important than money.",
"description":"Verses 1-10 of Luke 17 serve as a warning of being a stumbling block of discouraging faith in the little ones (Christians) that trust in Jesus. The important thing about faith is the Object of your faith; faith lays hold of God who does impossible things! Ed shows from the healing of the ten lepers that the one who returned emphasizes the heart obedience that blesses Christ as contrasted with the nine who only followed the letter of the command.",
"description":"The parable of the Pharisee and the publican teaches that those who trust in themselves will not be justified. The infants brought to the Lord Jesus pictured the helpless dependence of those fall helplessly into the arms of Christ for salvation. The rich young ruler demonstrates the hopelessness of works to be saved, but is a mighty miracle of God, as miraculous as a camel (the largest animal of Palestine) going through the eye of a needle (the smallest opening).",
"description":"The disciples' confusion over such clear words about Jesus' suffering and death shows us that clear words are not clear words without illumination. The healing of Bartimaeus serves as a climactic miracle highlighting that point. Among many observations of this incident, Jesus gives eyesight to those who seek it.",
"description":"The story of Zacchaeus summarizes God's salvation is three wonderful ways. First, salvation is God seeking man, not man seeking God. Secondly, salvation means a radical transformation, like this chief tax collector's public confession to restore fourfold. Lastly, real salvation is intimate fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ.",
"description":"Ed analyzes the parable of the pound (or mina) as contrasted with Matthew's parable of the talent as the summary of Jesus' teaching ministry. The most important part of the second coming is not the second coming but on the One who is coming again.",
"description":"In the Lord's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, we see both the cross and the crown. In several ways it truly was a triumphal entry (though veiled), for in foretaste it pictured Jesus as the Lord of the universe, the one who tames creation, and His coming as the King. Yet it also was a \"non-triumphal\" entry, as evidenced by His appearing on a humble donkey and His anguished weeping over the city.",
"description":"Ed offers 4 observations to aid in understanding this second cleansing of the temple, such as seeing it in light of Jeremiah 7, contrasting the outer glory with the inner corruption, and studying the background of the convenience animals. Jesus weeps over externalism, looking to Him in a lighthearted way, worldliness, mixture, and prejudice. He comes to flip over everything in our lives that is not Christ, then He can begin to teach us.",
"description":"Ed examines the first 3 of 5 clashes between Jesus and the religious leaders (in chapter 20) from two viewpoints: from the level of earth and from the heart of God. Bigger than the question of authority is the principle of revelation. Christ will always be silent to those who do not seriously want to know the truth. In the parable of the wicked vinedressers, though it pictures the judgment upon unfaithful Israel, more than that it pictures the amazing longsuffering of God.",
"description":"In the first part of his introduction, Ed Miller presents Luke in the context of the Bible. As the only Gentile author, Luke offers a unique perspective and Ed begins by outlining six main themes. He begins with Jesus' own pronouncement of Himself as the Son of Man, continues with His compassion for the downtrodden and through His relationship with women and children, He is presented as an impartial God who is truly the Saviour of all mankind.",
"description":"Is there still hope for our Church? Only on one condition. We must be willing to take a fresh look at our 2000 year heritage and the beginnings of Christianity. A unusual and thought-provoking perspective",
"description":"The Gospel is like a Crystal, with many different colored lights shinning out of the same gem. Some look at the Crystal and say it is green, and others say \"no its red.\" But the mature one walks around the Crystal and says \"your both right\" It is the same with the gospel in the scriptures. There are many different ingredients that make up the recipe of the gospel. This series attempts to show all the ingredients of the gospel. This is important because if our recipe is different than Gods, then we will not get the same result found in the book of Acts.",
"description":"The Gospel is like a Crystal, with many different colored lights shinning out of the same gem. Some look at the Crystal and say it is green, and others say \"no its red.\" But the mature one walks around the Crystal and says \"your both right\" It is the same with the gospel in the scriptures. There are many different ingredients that make up the recipe of the gospel. This series attempts to show all the ingredients of the gospel. This is important because if our recipe is different than Gods, then we will not get the same result found in the book of Acts.",
"description":"Jesus came to rescue His beautiful Sabbath that became encrusted over with the barnacles of man's rules and traditions. Ed's introductory lesson touches upon the first Sabbath truth in the Lord's preaching on the Sabbath in Nazareth and develops the reality of walking with Jesus in the grain fields of life in which He satisfies our every hunger!",
"description":"Jesus' casting out the unclean spirit shows what a \"Sabbath surrender\" is all about. \"Anything that is not the fullness of the Holy Spirit,\" says brother Ed, \"can be included under unclean spirit, and we need to be delivered.\" The healing of fever has a message for us about rest and service. Christian service is designed by God in Sabbath truth to be spontaneous, from natural weakness to supernatural strength, and a byproduct of union with Him.",
"description":"The withered hand is hand shriveled, cut off, unusable and paralyzed; that is how we are trying to obey God's commandments in our power. We need a perpetual miracle as we look into Jesus' face and He works a mighty miracle by the power of God for every obedience. The man born blind shows that Sabbath vision is when you see Jesus bigger and bigger and fellowship with Him outside the camp.",
"description":"The body of the humped over woman pictures a life bound looking at the things of earth and unable to walk uprightly before God. This miracle depicts Sabbath victory by bringing your burden to the Lord. The clincher miracle, the healing of the man with dropsy, pictures the hug of Jesus to set us free from who we are--poison all through our system that bloats our flesh and discolors our appearance.",
"description":"Jesus came to set people on fire for God, a fire of the Holy Spirit that brings inner purity and holiness. \"Holiness is to your soul,\" Zac says, \"what health is to your body.\" The sermon is lined with encouragements and warnings, especially glorying in correct doctrine without fire--God's presence--and lukewarmness, which is detestable in God's sight. \"We are not just called to go to heaven; we're called to be a flaming witness for Jesus Christ on this earth.\"",
"description":"Jesus appearance on the Emmaus Road positioned Himself as both Revealer and Theme. After our hearts burn in the Scriptures, it is an invitation to fellowship with Christ (e.g., breaking of bread a symbol of communion with God). His disappearance leads us to seek fellowship with the believers, where He opens the Scriptures once again. The good news is that even though the \"shine wears off\", you're not the same!",
"description":"In this fourth detailed appearance of the Lord Jesus to Peter at the Sea of Galilee, He comes to do a work in us first before we can do a work in others (i.e., evangelism). At the charcoal fire (a reminder of Peter's betrayal), the Lord teaches us we can dine with Him no matter how messed up our past has been. In the fifth detailed appearance Luke pointed out Christ's hands outstretched as the high priest giving the benediction; right now His hands are in blessing toward you.",
"scripture":"Matthew 28:16-20, Romans 10:9-10, Luke 9:23",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"Many evangelicals in our day simply believe that to have someone confess Christ with their lips is fulfilling the great commission.257 There are great campaigns to simply have people say a quick prayer and make confession. Though salvation begins with this confession that Jesus Christ is Lord258 yet it is not enough for someone to only be converted, for each convert should be a disciple who follows the Lord daily. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Then He said to them all: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhoever wants to be My disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Me.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
"scripture":"Acts 1:8, 1 Corinthians 1:27-28, Luke 9:53-56",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"Christianity was birthed in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit309 and will only continue as we have this empowering from above. When we look at Church history the only truly significant stories of men that influenced and built the kingdom of God were men who were filled with the Holy Spirit. This anointing is something that not only signifies leadership in the Church but also usability before God for His work.\r\nChristianity in this way is quite simple, it is a work of the Spirit of God.",
"scripture":"John 12:24, Luke 15:7, Matthew 28:16-20",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"According to the Chinese rural underground Church witnessing, evangelizing and making new disciples is the number one task of the Church. Their cry to go and make new disciples is backed up with their very lives. In many cases if they speak to the wrong person about Jesus, they face prison, torture and even death. The task of sharing the Gospel is for every Christian, even if they give their life as a martyr. Chinese Christians teach us that when their seed (their life) has gone into the ground and died it will multiply and produce much more fruit.544 With their blood new growth is coming. The seed, their body that died now produces 100 fold, 1000 fold or even more.",
"scripture":"Philippians 1:29, Philippians 2:17-18, Luke 12:22",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"Witnessing in North Korea is generally very secretive. Christians in North Korea do not pursue the open sharing of the Gospel as it leads to immediate incarceration, beatings, torture and possible martyrdom. There are two added factors that cause Christians to act in secrecy. They do not mind to lose their own lives but if they are discovered in their faith they will give a death sentence to three generations of their families\u00e2\u20ac\u201dtheir fathers and mothers, their grandparents, their uncles and aunts and their children.",
"scripture":"Acts 5:42, Acts 20:20, Luke 22:7-12",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"As persecution intensifies in certain areas, believers will move to different cities and start home fellowships there also, so that the spreading of these gatherings is something that is continually happening. The Iranians believe that Jesus Christ is with them in their small gatherings and therefore there is a confidence that they are meeting as a Church even if there are just a few believers present. They count it a necessity to network with others and consider themselves all part of one Church. There is no choice to try to find a different church for doctrinal preference or worship style; all believers are content to meet simply with each other.",
"scripture":"John 15:20, 2 Timothy 3:12, Luke 24:49",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"The greatest failure of the Church in many nations is the lack of preparing Christians for persecution. Persecution is certain. It is told to us by the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Himself. In the Gospel of John it says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Remember what I told you: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcA servant is not greater than his Master.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d815 We can believe what Jesus says and we can rely on it. Also in the United States of America and Canada, persecution is certain. In the second Epistle to Timothy it says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
"scripture":"Matthew 24:9-10, 1 John 3:13, Luke 21:17",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of Me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d845\r\nOur Lord spoke these sobering words to us, as found in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 24. Something in us does not want to accept the idea that in the end times all nations will hate and persecute Christians. This seems like a non-reality to us and something that could never happen because we live in such religiously tolerant countries such as Canada, United Kingdom and United States. We would like to edit our Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Words and abbreviate them with a softer less harsh reality. Yet, this will not change the truth our Lord said would happen.",
"description":"In our day, the importance of experiencing the true Spirit Baptism is paramount. Because of satanic counterfeits, the true body of Christ has been alarmed and made hesitant to call out to the Lord for a fresh infusion of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Spirit in a public meeting or private prayer time. We believe that as believers gather it is essential to pray for endowments of the Holy Spirit. If the presence of God is not with the Church, She will never further the purpose of God in the earth.",
"description":"Ryle notes that 'a habit of prayer is one of the surest marks of a true Christian.' Here we have a challenging spiritual stimulant for all Christians not to lay down this major weapon of our warfare.",
"description":"Ryle notes that 'a habit of prayer is one of the surest marks of a true Christian.' Here we have a challenging spiritual stimulant for all Christians not to lay down this major weapon of our warfare.",
"description":"The hopeless state of a lost soul in Hell. This sermon is powerful and true and the preacher bring out the plain truth that there is a hell to shun and a heaven to Gain.. he show also that there is torments in hell and no escape for those who got to hell.",
"description":"A simple, passionate gospel message on this sobering text of the Rich man and Lazarus. It speaks of our eternal destination and abode either in heaven or hell. What a sobering reality that there is prayer in hell.",
"description":"Scott Ardavanis delivers this message the Masters College chapel service. This message is a very sobering sermon on the doctrine of hell as he shows us the reality of hell in the Scriptures. Oh that this doctrine would change us and make us different Christians in our daily walk with the Lord.",
"description":"The Easter story tells us of a new beginning after disaster - that after death there is life. If you spiritualize the resurrection of Jesus, you will have comfort but not the truth. The message of Easter is that right now, Jesus has flesh and bones. This changes the way you think, the way you live, and the way you feel.",
"description":"God lives and works today! Are you unhappy because you sense that your life doesn\u2019t have the right goal? In His great love for you, God wants to show you a goal today that will give your life a deep and wonderful meaning. Listen to the following message!",
"description":"Are you unhappy because your life doesn\u2019t have the right goal? In His great love for you, God wants to show you a goal that will give your life a deep and wonderful meaning.",
"description":"God lives and works today! What a comfort, power and security this knowledge brings us. And yet, don't most of us know times when this knowledge seems to disintegrate because we are gripped by an inexplicable fear? Where can we get help to overcome fear? Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"The Scripture focus of this message is Luke 17:32, with references to Genesis 6:5, and others referring to Abraham and Lot (Gen: 13:12, 18:17 and multiple references out of chapter 19). There is a warning in this message related to the modern church, in that we have access to all that we need today to live in God's will, just as did Lot, his wife, and daughters, who willfully turned away, though they were closely related to Abraham. Brother Len quotes Romans 1 from Phillip's translation. Classic Ravenhill: \"I'm angry with Lot. Wait 'til I see him. I'll tell him off, I'll tell you that.\"",
"description":"A SERMON DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER THE 8TH, 1861, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There were present at that season some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem! I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Luke 13:1-5. THE year 1861 will have a notoriety among its fellows as the year of calamities. Just at that season when man goeth forth to reap the fruit of his labors, when the harvest of the earth is ripe, and the barns are beginning to burst with the new wheat, Death too, the mighty reaper, has come forth to cut down his harvest; full sheaves have been gathered into his garner \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the tomb, and terrible have been the wailings which compose the harvest hymn of death. In reading the newspapers during the last two weeks, even the most stolid must have been the subject of very painful feelings. Not only have there been catastrophes so alarming that the blood chills at their remembrance, but column after column of the paper has been devoted to calamities of a minor degree of horror...",
"description":"When God forgives of our sins, he assertively initiates the process of reconciliation even before we ask his forgiveness. The essence of God's forgiveness is that he absorbs the debt of our sinfulness upon Himself in Jesus Christ, rather than requiring us to repay the debt through our moral efforts. Because God sees us for who we are in Jesus and not who we are as sinners, we are empowered to become a community that doesn't bear grudges, belittle those who have hurt us, or force people to carry the sins of their past with them forever.",
"description":"This is a powerful sermon on \"drinking the cup\" and baptism of the holy spirit in a way far different from the meaning that is often heard. It's a long sermon but it's worth the hour. Luke 12:49-50 \"I have a baptism...\" \"I am come to send fire on earth.\" Ravenhill speak in this video of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the Baptism of Christ sufferings. This lecture was spoken at last days ministries to a crowd of students. This is a very convicting and passionate video of Ravenhill it is highly recommended.",
"description":"The Lord is concerned over his Bride. He's urging by his Holy Spirit his Bride to be preparing, getting ready to leave, wean yourself from the things of this world now. It's going to be an ordinary day, when people are just going about their buisness as usual when he comes, just as it was in Noah's and Lot's day. You have been made ruler over your house; are you watching for their souls as one who must give account?",
"description":"And when they were come to\u2026Calvary they crucified Him. Luke 23:33\r\n\r\nYears I spent in vanity and pride\r\nCaring not my Lord was crucified\r\nKnowing not it was for me He died\r\nOn Calvary\r\n\r\nChorus\r\nMercy there was great and grace was free\r\nPardon there was multiplied to me\r\nThere my burdened soul found liberty\r\nAt Calvary\r\n\r\nBy God\u2019s Word at last my sin I learned\r\nThen I trembled at the law I\u2019d spurned\r\n\u2018Til my guilty soul imploring turned\r\nTo Calvary\r\n\r\nChorus\r\n\r\nNow I\u2019ve given to Jesus everything\r\nNow I gladly own Him as my King\r\nNow my raptured soul can only sing\r\nOf Calvary\r\n\r\nChorus\r\n\r\nOh, the love that drew salvation\u2019s plan!\r\nOh, the grace that brought it down to man!\r\nOh, the mighty gulf that God did span\r\nAt Calvary\r\n\r\nChorus",
"scripture":"Luke 22:39-46, Mark 14:40, John 16:5-6",
"topic":"Sorrow",
"description":"November 1, 2009 - Many of us who are on a journey with the Lord come into the Kingdom with our own ideas about how He should manifest His life through us. In the coming days many will experience intense sorrow as our image of God and our own image of how we think Christ should be glorified through us will suddenly be taken away from us. Things that we thought we were going to be in Christ and things that we thought God was obligated to do through us will suddenly be shaken. God in His mercy will shake everything that can be shaken so we can gain a right perspective of who He is and who we are in Christ! God will shake it all until all worldly security is gone and there is nothing left in His church but Christ Himself!",
"description":"Parkyns explains how the baptism of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fire\u00e2\u20ac\u009d really means the baptism of suffering. Christ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s followers are not only baptized with the Spirit, but also with the fire of suffering. It is a privilege to suffer for his name\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sake, and we can even rejoice in trials.",
"description":"Everything that pertains to God's glory must be birthed from above. The birth of Jesus is the ultimate pattern of the advent of the authentic thing and it behooves us, therefore to understand the phenomenon of birth in all of its organic and painful suffering.",
"description":"June 19,2005 - When we are moving in the divine will of God for our lives there is a provision that comes from the hand of God that is all encompassing. It is the absolute heart of God to give His children the total supply of His kingdom. When we consider the truth of God\u2019s word we are taking it beyond an understanding of knowledge and allowing God to make His promises a reality in our lives",
"description":"Hans Waldvogel speaks of how God cares for believers and even in the small things such as our very hairs on our head. Our Heavenly Father gives such care and attention to our life as we submit to his Lordship. We can give all parts of our being and life to him and we dishonour him when we do not submit to Him. God is to be the absolute ruler and king of our body, spirit and soul. Through the tests and trials in life allows us to continually choice to keep and trust our Lord with all our cares.",
"description":"In this message, K.P Yohannan continues to talk about our mission to serve; to reach out to the lost children and tell them about Jesus. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Luke 19:10) This is what we are called to do.",
"description":"Christ\u2019s death\u2014incredible; Christ\u2019s resurrection\u2014impossible! We are reminded here that God looks at the heart. An overall view of the lives and times of Mary and Joseph and prophecy being fulfilled. Summing all up with God wants 100%, ALL of us.",
"description":"Three assertions of salvation by Jesus in the gospel call for sinners from Luke 5:32.\r\n1. Only those who know and feel their true condition as sinners will ever be saved by Jesus Christ.\r\n2. Only Jesus Christ himself and Jesus Christ alone can save sinners from their sins.\r\n3. Jesus Christ saves sinners by calling them to repentance.",
"description":"I wonder what they had to tell when they got to heaven. I wonder what they had to tell, because there were other angels up there waiting and wondering what in the world happened when Jesus Christ the Son of God came among men. What happened? Oh, I think there must have been real sadness in heaven. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why, they were all asleep\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe whole city of the King. They were all asleep. We couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even wake them up with our trumpets. We had to go out into the field where the shepherds were watching. They were awake. They were awake\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthey heard us.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I heard an Alliance preacher say that angels don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sing. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. All our songs talk about angels singing. But the Bible doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say that. They talked; they had a message\u00e2\u20ac\u201da very wonderful message, but nobody there to listen to it, nobody there to be interested. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He came unto His own\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhat a fact; how very wonderful: this entire Old Testament was a preparation for the coming of the King to this earth, and was intended to prepare hearts to be ready to receive Him. But when He came, there was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no form nor comliness that we should desire Him.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d My goodness, who in the world would have looked for Him in a manger\u00e2\u20ac\u201din a manager in a stable?",
"description":"March 13, 2005. God is speaking through all these natural disasters and judgment is coming. But we as Christians must not be smug and judge those who don\u2019t know the Lord, rather we are to look at our selves and keep our heart in a constant state of repentance.",
"scripture":"1 Thessalonians 3, Luke 21:12-24, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-7",
"topic":"Church History",
"description":"Parkyns keys upon God's agents of purifying the Church: the lordship of the Holy Spirit and persecution. Ten major persecutions in the 1st and 2nd centuries, along with some key martyrs, are outlined. Parkyns highlights major heresies that arose during that timeframe and how the 'official church' began branding Bible believing Christians as heretics.",
"description":"Christianity is more a religion based on factual eventsrather than philosophical supposition. The death and ressurection of the Lord Jesus, the centre point of christianity, were factual events and these are the basis for our faith. An ancient secular roman historian called Talus confirms the darkness that covered the earth following the death of the Lord Jesus, because he was alive at the time. F.F. Bruce said that 'Anyone who propagates the idea that Jesus was a myth is neither a historian nor unbiased.' The distice features of the apostolic church were 1: the prescence of the foundational apostles 2:The unprecidented problems and victories of the church 3:The speed with which the Gospel spread 4:The transition of christianity from a branch of judaism to a seperate religion.",
"description":"It is said that of those that make a decision for Christ, over 90% backslide. It is shocking. Billy Graham once said that in the beginning people came with tears because of their sins, but lately they come with smiles. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no true repentance. An evil spirit doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find rest in the wilderness and then he decides to go back to the one he has left and see how it goes. Then he finds the house put in order and neat and he goes and finds seven others which he met in the wilderness, worse than himself, and they go and inhabit that person. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a dangerous thing to say you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made a decision for Christ but you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go all the way but only do it half-heartedly. The devil doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like it in the wilderness. He wants to stay in a nice place, even in those made in God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s image.",
"description":"Brother Jim Cymbala shares a powerful message on the great need of the Holy Spirit for power in the Christian life. The Holy Spirit gives us the power we need. Power to endure. Power to penetrate hearts. Power to love. Let's turn to God today and trust that he will give us power from on high through the Holy Spirit.",
"scripture":"Luke 4:1, Luke 4:40-42, Luke 5:15-16",
"topic":"Wilderness",
"description":"August 30, 2009 - In just a little while God in His mercy will lead His church into the wilderness. The wilderness is not a place to be avoided, but rather a place to be understood. There is something of God in this place. God Himself will allure us there to speak comfort and strengthen us. He will take away all things that we believe He has given us, when in reality He never did. In this place God will deal with all that has captivated our heart and would hinder His life from being lived through us. In the wilderness the natural becomes supernatural and we are brought back to a right perspective. When we get through this deep dealing of God we are enabled to make the choice to be poured out for Jesus so that others can be grafted into His power and lineage. The lesson learned from this experience is that the power of God is found in those who will be given for others!",
"description":"DELIVERED ON DECEMBER 5TH, 1858, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE MUSIC HALL, ROYAL SURREY GARDENS. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Compel them to come in.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Luke 14:23. I FEEL in such a haste to go out and obey this commandment this morning, by compelling those to come in who are now tarrying in the highways and hedges, that I cannot wait for an introduction, but must at once set about my business. Hear then, O ye that are strangers to the truth as it is in Jesus \u00e2\u20ac\u201d hear then the message that I have to bring you. Ye have fallen, fallen in your father Adam; ye have fallen also in yourselves, by your daily sin and your constant iniquity; you have provoked the anger of the Most High; and as assuredly as you have sinned, so certainly must God punish you if you persevere in your iniquity, for the Lord is a God of justice, and will by no means spare the guilty. But have you not heard, hath it not long been spoken in your ears, that God, in his infinite mercy, has devised a way whereby, without any infringement upon his honor, he can have mercy upon you, the guilty and the undeserving? To you I speak; and my voice is unto you, O sons of men; Jesus Christ, very God of very God, hath descended from heaven, and was made in the likeness of sinful flesh. Begotten of the Holy Ghost, he was born of the Virgin Mary; he lived in this world a life of exemplary holiness, and of the deepest suffering, till at last he gave himself up to die for our sins, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.'...",
"description":"EVERY sensible man endeavors to adapt his purposes to his strength. He does not begin to build a house which he will not be able to finish, nor commence a war which he cannot hope to fight through. The religion of Christ is the most reasonable one in the world, and Jesus Christ never desires to have any disciples who shall blindly follow him without counting the cost. We always esteem it to be a happy thing when we can get men to sit down and consider. The most of you are so full of other thoughts, so occupied with the world, ever running hither and thither about your ordinary business, that we cannot get you to think, or calmly sit down, and soberly look at things as in the light of eternity, and weigh them deliberately as you ought. And yet it is only reasonable that the Master should ask of you to do for him with regard to your own spiritual matters, what you will admit that every sensible man does in his business continually. You are poor traders if you never have any stock-takings: you are likely to be ere long in the bankruptcy court if there is no periodical examination...",
"description":"Illuminating Christ\u2019s all encompassing, uncompromising call to discipleship and consecration, Michael Brown contrasts the current Christian consumer mentality with the standards Jesus teaches. He calls for the utter rejection of anything outside of Christ and emphasizes the priesthood of the body in contrast with the clergy vs. leity view that is so commonly held today.",
"description":"Clips of messages by 1) The Demands of Discipleship by Dr. Stephen Olford 2) A Grain of Wheat by Major Ian Thomas 3) Deeper Spiritual Life by A. W. Tozer.",
"description":"Paul renounced the pursuit of money as the goal of ministry and so received fewer physical pleasures. And he renounced the pursuit of morality as the way to be justified and so he received more physical persecution. He preached Christ and let the chips fall where they would, whether he received money or beatings. We, too, should not be in the ministry in order to make money or avoid trouble. Regardless of the consequence, let us preach Jesus as the only satisfying treasure and the only sufficient obedience.",
"scripture":"1 Kings 17:8-16, Luke 12:35-37, Luke 17:7-10",
"topic":"",
"description":"In this age of self-seeking and comfortable living, Keith shows that dying to self is not an option in the Christian life - it is the Christian life! A must for every Christian seeking to draw closer to God. Self-Denial is one of the most neglected themes of scriptural teaching in our day but it is crucial for salvation to experience this truth.",
"description":"All through scripture, throughout the lives of various saints, the call to come up to the mountain to let him reveal his heart to you. Spiritual laziness and prayerlessness will lead to the loss of passion for Christ and the inability to feed the sheep from the treasure of the Word. We can't know the heart of God until we let God lead us to the place of crucifixion of self. Let him preserve you from selfishness, and settling for less than he has for you. We are called to overcome, to rise above the beggardly elements of this world and stand victorious.",
"description":"What a wonderful mind God has given us! We have the ability to recall things, but things also tend to drain out of our mind. The question is, \"What is essential to remember?\" It is very important to God that we give diligence to remember some things, especially God Himself. A list of practical ways to do this is given.",
"scripture":"Luke 13:3-5, John 6:54, Hebrews 2:3",
"topic":"Repentance",
"description":"Brother Reidhead addresses many of the sayings of Christ and Paul that cut the most, and the modern errors of thinking that do not show fruit of these verses and concepts; namely: repentance, submission, fellowship with God, and stedfast faith. \"Are you prepared to pray in accord with this sovereign and gracious operation of God? If you are then you're going to change your praying. Instead of saying, initially, 'Lord, save Him,' you're going to say, 'Lord, slay him. Bring him to the awareness of his desperate plight. Awaken him to his danger. Convict him of his crimes.'\"",
"description":"God is the best psychologist there is! For He doesn't only diagnose our illnesses of character and soul! No, He can completely heal them! Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"scripture":"Luke 24:28-29, Romans 8:22, Daniel 12:3",
"topic":"Preachers",
"description":"Erlo Stegen speaks a powerful word on failure in preachers and calling ministers to be lights in the evil dark world. Why is it so dark in the world? Because many stars have fallen, the preachers of the Gospel have fallen. Ministers and preachers are being caught in evil things. It is getting dark in the world. It seems as if the sun is indeed going down. It seems as if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re coming to the end of the world and the end of time. We read that in the last days it will indeed go difficult, and that the powers of heaven will be shaken (Matt 24:29).",
"description":"Shows how Jesus when performing a fish-catching miracle before 3 fishermen caught them as well as the fish, and goes on to expound how it was here that these 3 fisherman were willing to launch out into the deep (phisically and spiritually) with Jesus in their boat. On the other side of the ressurection there are no broken nets.",
"description":"Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s look more closely at this. This applies mostly to children, but the parents can listen carefully too. Often the children go off the track and if you look closely, you see the parents haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t taught them properly especially those with children a bit older. This applies to young people and to parents who must bring up their children properly. The Bible says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Teach your children in His way and then they will not deviate from it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d You parents and mothers, do you hear? Parents complain and say the children don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to listen but the problem is with the parents. You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t blame poverty for it. It's usually those that are better off that go wrong. In the world you hear it is poverty that causes the problems. That is not true. If the parents follow the Lord faithfully, the children will follow in their footsteps.",
"description":"\"What does it mean to follow the Lord?\" asks Ed Miller. Miller carefully analyzes the lives of ones who came to Jesus, sifting out the speculation of commentators, and bringing out truths to search our own hearts. The key to being a follower of the Lamb is identifying His purpose and will so we can move with Him in them.",
"description":"Jack Hyles shares his personal testimony of His filling of the Spirit of God for service in preaching the gospel. He recounts many powerful testimonies of moody, finney, fox, savanrola, and many others who were used by the Spirit of God. He came to a place of utter resignation to God to preach the gospel with power. A very strong testimony of God's dealing with a man.",
"description":"Jack Hyles shares his personal testimony of His filling of the Spirit of God for service in preaching the gospel. He recounts many powerful testimonies of moody, finney, fox, savanrola, and many others who were used by the Spirit of God. He came to a place of utter resignation to God to preach the gospel with power. A very strong testimony of God's dealing with a man.",
"description":"The Parable of the Prodigal Son is a story about how idolatry erodes community. We often become guilty of idolatry when we place our ultimate desire in getting things from God rather than in God himself. Only when we are captivated by the beauty of the gospel can we be changed by it in such a way that we love God and other people more than ourselves.",
"scripture":"1 Corinthians 1:26-27, Luke 4:18, Matthew 5:3",
"topic":"Foolish Things",
"description":"Throughout this beautiful and anointed message, Jackie shares many wonderful testimonies of the work of the Holy Spirit saving, healing and delivering drug addicts, prostitutes and criminals in the Wall City in Hong Kong. She speaks about the revival in China, and how teenage girls leave their homes and walk from village to village sharing Jesus. They come back two years later and multitudes have accepted Christ. These girls have never been to a seminar or a worship service. They simply give everything they have away. Jackie also witnesses about brothers and sisters coming out of decades in prison with broken bodies many times, but rejoicing and shining in their Saviour. She emphasizes that the revival in China is not facilitated by visual aids, life changing tapes, videos of the month or Christian magazines. It comes through the Holy Spirit using \"just a few people who aren't very educated, without microphones, who loved their lives not unto death - that's it.\" In this way, God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise (1 Corinthians 1:26-27). Jesus came to preach the good news to the poor (Luke 4:18). Jackie explains how the poor are often able to hear the gospel much quicker than an educated person, because they can hear spiritually. This is why the poor in spirit are blessed (Matthew 5:3). Jackie Pullinger emphasizes that men and women are saved through the Spirit of God, not through man's reasoning. She concludes with a call to die and a profound challenge: \"His glory will fall if you go out with nothing except a broken heart and some precious seed, and I suppose we have all got that.\"",
"description":"Rolfe Barnard speaks with power and authority against many misconceptions and falsities found in the Church of Jesus Christ. He takes us on a journey to hell with Abraham too see that hell is eternal and everlasting. This sermon will move and impact you for eternity.",
"description":"Rolfe Barnard speaks with power and authority against many misconceptions and falsities found in the Church of Jesus Christ. He takes us on a journey to hell with Abraham too see that hell is eternal and everlasting. This sermon will move and impact you for eternity.",
"description":"In this message, Pastor Cymbala gives insights about how Jesus picked his disciples. You will be encouraged by what you hear. Luke 6:12-16 (NIV)",
"description":"Far worse than a nation despising the Word of God is a professing believer who lightly esteems the Word of God and refuses to submit to it, not bothering to read it much. They leave themselves open to deception. Brokenness and trembling at the Word of God will lead to healing. This he will honor and draw near to in any heart.",
"description":"According to Stott, Luke's commission makes clear that the primary task of the Church is to be gospel heralds, not social reformers nor faith healers. There are five aspects: 1. forgiveness of sin (crucified Savior, the gift of grace alone). 2. upon the name of Christ. 3. on condition of repentance (risen Lord, the obedience of faith alone). 4. to all the nations. 5. in the power of the Holy Spirit (ever fresh, convicting, converting).",
"description":"Why do so few people experience God\u2019s reality? His grace can only flow into our lives under one condition. However, it\u2019s within everyone's reach. Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"God lives and works today! This knowledge must become a reality in our lives - today as never before. Otherwise we will be hopelessly lost amidst the distress, doubts, anxiety and despair of the world. Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"The Christian understanding of hell gives us insight into the danger of our own hearts. It also gives us resources to live in peace in the world, and to know the love of God who suffered hell for us.",
"description":"Mary Peckham vividly recounts her wayward teenage years and how God's visitation in her native Island of Lewis radically changed her. She recounts the buzz and excitement of the revival among the people and how \"there was such an atmosphere of God\". \"The sense of time was gone,\" she recollected and testified how cottage prayer meetings became holy ground--\"every step of the stairs became a pew.\" She shares some eyewitness accounts of Duncan Campbell and stirs the heart to long for more of God.",
"description":"In today's modern Christian Church, most view their faith as mental and mechanical. In this teaching Pastor Cymbala's prayer is for the Lord to replace our active minds with a burning heart for the living Lord Jesus Christ.",
"description":"In true Vance Havner fashion, he cuts to the chase quickly and does not mince words. It is refreshing to hear this kind of preaching where the listener does not have to second guess what the preacher means. His passion for souls and his love for Jesus is evident in the choice of words used in delivering this sermon.",
"description":"God is calling us to be one in heart and one in mind with what he purposed for His church to be here on earth. It doesn't matter how outwardly devoted we may appear to be God will move away from every pre occupied self consumed Christian. God forbid that you and I would begin to EXCUSE ourselves from the call that God has placed on our lives! Those of us whose value system is rooted in Christ and His purposes will be able to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit amidst all the darkness and calamities that are about to come. The cry of our heart has to be Jesus speak plainly to me!!",
"description":"How was Jonah a sign? Ed Miller sifts through the thoughts of commentators to arrive at what amazing sign it was that caused one of the greatest moral miracles in the history of mankind--the genuine repentance of a city of over a half million people! Miller uses the sign of Jonah to show how we too must become a sign in order for missions to be effectual.",
"description":"We read here that Jesus was in a certain place and the Pharisees criticized Him because He \"receives sinners and eats with them\". Jesus spent time with the tax collectors and sinners, and was criticized severely by the scribes and pharisees. What type of people were the tax collector? The tax collectors in Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 day collected the tax for the government of the day, the Roman government. Nobody liked them. When they taxed people, they would add to the cost for their own pocket. They were thieves, charging more than the government required. And even today there are such people in the world who require bribes for their work. These tax collectors were therefore despised. And Jesus was sitting with them and ate with them! We must be careful interpreting this lest we think that Jesus loves a person that is corrupt and steals from others. And the sinners with whom Jesus ate would include those who divorce, adulterers, drunkards, blasphemers of God, very evil people.",
"description":"Art Katz gives a very prophetic and important message for current evangelicalism to embrace. This message is a profound statement of the true humility that God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s people are called to as illustrated in our Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s triumphal entry into Jerusalem. God is calling His Church to embrace the humility, simplicity and nothingness that our Lord displayed here on earth.",
"description":"\u201cLord, teach us to pray\u201d is the cry of Jesus\u2019 disciples then, and of so many of us today. In his usual manner, Alan Redpath sheds the light of spiritual insight upon this teaching and parable of Jesus from an angle that we might not have ever considered before. So listen and \u201cLend Him your life.\u201d",
"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.",
"description":"This message is about walking with the Lord in faith. We need to realize we do not have in ourselves the resources to do what we are commanded to do and have faith in God. He is our Resource. He says doubt not in your heart, don't trust in yourself for the kingdom of God is in you but not of you or about you. This will encourage those who like the disciples need their faith increased.",
"description":"The lost dimension is worship. Normally we stand to sing, we kneel to pray, but we prostrate ourselves to worship. Praise is a prelude to true worship. Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with God Himself. Many Christians substitute service for worship, remembering the first commandment is to worship the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your mine and all your strength, and to worship Him in spirit and truth and the beauty of holiness; for the Father seeks those who will truly worship Him.",
"description":"C. J. Mahaney shows how a loss of our awareness of our own sinfulness creates a lack of love and affection towards Jesus. The example of the prostitute weeping at the Lord's feet is held out as an example for us of how to love Him much. Don't you want to feel like she felt about the Savior?",
"description":"Zac mines the riches from Luke's Gospel, homing in the particular emphases such as being filled with the Holy Spirit and building the body of Christ. The wise men, shepherds, Simeon and Anna pictured the remnant of those who were ready when Christ came. From Jesus' early life and ministry we learn such useful examples as getting to know God's word, having a passion for the Father's business, and getting alone with Him.",
"description":"Zac continues bringing out precious truths from Luke's Gospel, such as correct attitudes towards others who do things differently in the Body of Christ, the compasionate heart of ministry, and seeking God for \"bread\" for those who come to you in need.",
"description":"The real riches of the kingdom are extolled, such as not glorying in anything man values highly and failure serves a purpose (that was Peter's preparation for Pentecost). Listening to the Holy Spirit is how you can be led to souls in the most efficient way, as Jesus was to Zacchaeus.",
"description":"IT is not an easy thing to maintain the balance of our spiritual life. No man can be spiritually healthy who does not meditate and commune; no man, on the other hand, is as he should be unless he is active and diligent in holy service. David sweetly sang, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He maketh me to lie down in green pastures;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d there was the contemplative, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153he leadeth me beside the still waters;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d there was the active and progressive: the difficulty is to maintain the two, and to keep each in its relative proportion to the other. We must not be so active as to neglect communion, nor so contemplative as to become unpractical. In the chapter from which our text is taken, we have several lessons on this subject...",
"description":"Mary was very young when Gabriel appeared to her and told her that she would give birth to the Messiah. This was a great experience for Mary and she wanted to share it with her friend, Elizabeth. Elizabeth was upright and served the Lord faithfully. Although Elizabeth was much older than Mary they could share deep spiritual things with one another. In spiritual matters, age does not matter; only one's spiritual state is important. It is a blessing when one's friend walks with God. Then people are united because of the things of God and can bear one another's burdens. However, be careful not to unite with others in evil, like Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5). Although Mary was only a teenager, she delighted herself in the things of God. She was full of joy because God has finally sent the promised Messiah Who would bruise the serpent's head and bring forgiveness and true liberty. She hid God's words in her heart. The world and the things of the world lost its value, because heaven filled her heart.",
"description":"In this message, Paul confronts the listener with many of the false doctrines found in American Christianity today. By taking us through the tests in 1 John, he helps us examine our choices and lifestyle. Do we look and act like the world around us or are we striving against the current to follow our King?",
"description":"Brother Edward Miller shares about the breaking of God in the life of the Christian. He speaks of how God needs to break saints in all areas of their live so that the Spirit of God can have full sway and power in our life. Tears are the response to God that we have been broken, sensitive to His work and will. A challenging message for personal revival and Holy Spirit surrender.",
"description":"God lives and works today. We can see this especially when He lays His hand upon someone and says in a very personal way, \"You are mine!\u201d Whoever is prepared to answer this call, will experience a wealth and happiness in his life greater than he's ever dreamed. Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"Leonard Ravenhill discusses about when Jesus weeps over Jerusalem and applies it to the modern day need of the Church. 'The biggest tragedy in the world tonight is a sick church in a dying world, there is no hope for the world unless the Church is revived.' He specifically pleads for the Church of America to get before God in sackcloth and ashes in its present situation.",
"description":"Leonard Ravenhill discusses about when Jesus weeps over Jerusalem and applies it to the modern day need of the Church. 'The biggest tragedy in the world tonight is a sick church in a dying world, there is no hope for the world unless the Church is revived.' He specifically pleads for the Church of America to get before God in sackcloth and ashes in its present situation.",
"description":"This is a faith-building message for all. We often tell folks that there is nothing impossible with God. But do we really believe that in our own lives? If we say this to others then we had best understand and believe that very same thing when it comes to our own lives and walk with God.",
"description":"So many of us go through the motions of our Christian walk and yet we see people that seem to be in a different place. We think that we are okay and doing things that we ought but there are times when it comes to joyfulness, we are on the outside looking in. In this sermon, Pastor Wilkerson preaches on the joy of the Lord from several different aspects.",
"description":"In the 38-minute message entitled, \u201cPharisees of Our Day,\u201d Pastor A. W. Tozer poses a solemn question: \u201cCan it be so that a man can be orthodox, sound in his creed\u2026 loyal to the church of his fathers, and still be blind, cruel, and bigoted\u2014and wicked?\u201d Is a common sinner the real enemy, or is it the self-righteous religionist, who cares not at all for the lost? In Luke 14:1-6, Jesus saved a man who the religious leaders would not and could not heal. \u201cBrothers and sisters, shall it be religion or shall it be Christ?\u201d",
"description":"Tozer shares many reasons why prayer should be utmost in the Church. He speaks with prophetic insight into much of the lack in his day and how prayer is the divine balm to heal this problem. If we are not we are straying. Never has the most important work been left to so few.",
"description":"This joyful reality need not only be experienced by those who are successful in life, whose good character traits seem to open every door. No, God wants to demonstrate his power in the lives of the weak, the helpless and the sinners. And He will do so if we only turn to Him! Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"Jesus said there are some standing here that will not die till all these things be fulfilled. At that time they showed Him the beautiful temple but He said that not one stone will be left on another. And when it happened forty years later, some of them were still alive. They were in dire straits and the famine in Jerusalem was so severe that some even ate their children. The Romans slaughtered the Jews so that it's a miracle that any Jew survived that generation. About the sun and moon turning dark. When Jesus hang on the cross there was total darkness from noon till 3pm, for three hours. Daniel said in the end times knowledge will increase, and we know how knowledge increased in our time.",
"description":"The book \"ACTS\" is the continued teaching of Jesus Christ through his disciples. Its the record of Divine activity clothed with redeemed humanity.",
"scripture":"2 Kings 2, Luke 24:28-29, Galatians 3:13-14",
"topic":"Religiosity",
"description":"Zac Poonen found that so many Christians are living a substandard life, but it doesn't have to be this way. Brother Zac stirs you to go beyond being satisfied with so little, when God has promised rivers of living water to flow out of you to be a blessing to everyone you meet. \"If you're satisfied with something less than God's highest, then that's all you'll have.\"",
"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.\"",
"description":"Walid Bitar gives a very powerful message towards us as Christians living as Christians without worldliness. He states that much of the professing Church are living like the heathens in the world. There is a need for us to put away this corruption and live like the new man in these last days!",
"description":"Walid Bitar gives a very powerful message towards us as Christians living as Christians without worldliness. He states that much of the professing Church are living like the heathens in the world. There is a need for us to put away this corruption and live like the new man in these last days!",
"scripture":"Isaiah 6:5, Mark 1:14-22, Luke 19:2-6",
"topic":"Repentance",
"description":"\"The call to holiness, the call to repentance,\" cries David Smithers, \"is a call to be betrothed to the Lamb of God, to be married to Jesus.\" Repentance is far more than outwardly changing some external bad habits but a radical revolution of one's entire being to be a fool for Christ in the eyes of the world. NOTE: \"Repentance (High Quality) is the complete sermon comprising of \"Repentance\" Parts 1, 2 and 3",
"description":"Brother Alan speaks of how God always works with small things first before large things. And though we agree that larger works of God in revival can happen. We must first be willing to see faithfulness in the small things in our own lives. Personal revival and a sense of the Lord working through our own lives in a manifest way. An timely encouragement for us who pray for revival to seek to be faithful in our own lives daily.",
"description":"A sign of our times is that people are so captivated by the countless voices of our world that they can't hear the voice of God anymore? Unless we listen to and obey His voice, we can't experience that He lives and works today! If you long to have this blocked line of communication opened again in your life, listen to this meditation. Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"The last words of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross are like windows into eternity of the heart and mind of God. Warren shares four wonders of the first words: \"Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.\" There's the wonder of the address (Father), the wonder of the appeal (forgiveness), the wonder of the argument, and the wonder of the answer.",
"scripture":"Luke 6:36, Mark 9:23, 1 Corinthians 11:31",
"topic":"Vision",
"description":"What is the vision of the people that constitute the church? Brother Zac shares six carefully selected verses of Scripture that God birthed in their hearts in the early days of their fellowship, such as being merciful, not fearing anything but God, believing, receiving grace, giving and judging one's self.",
"description":"The hours come in every life when we are tempted to doubt God's reality, when the difficulties or suffering become too great and we don't know how to go on. Here is a helpful word for just these times! Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"God is a God of love, and in His love has prepared something wonderful for us! It's not just a dream or a fairy tale. This meditation shares about a wonderful reality that is ours for the asking!",
"description":"God is a Father, who loves His children with an inexpressible love. Do we know something of the joy and happiness that comes from being His child? Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"God lives and works today! Can you testify to His reality in your life - even on difficult days that are filled with suffering? Our cross and suffering need not oppress us any longer! This meditation can help us to find the hidden glory in the cross, and to discover a wonderful wealth and comfort for our entire lives. Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"Is God real for each one of us, in every situation? Is He real for those among us who must bear a heavy cross or burden, for those whose lives are marked by grief or suffering? Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"God is a living, loving Father who wants to be able to rejoice in His children. An earthly father is happy when his children follow in his footsteps and become like him. This is also the great joy of our Heavenly Father! And because He is Love, He wants to imprint upon us the image of His love. Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"Have we ever thanked God from the bottom of our hearts? Someone once said, \u201cThe way to receive, is to give thanks.\u201d And these words are especially true when it comes to experiencing the reality of God. This meditation can help our hearts to become thankful again. And thankful people are happy and rich. Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"God lives and works today! But maybe you don\u2019t feel that way. Are you dissatisfied with yourself? With your life? I was until I discovered a secret in the life of Jesus. This meditation by Basilea Schlink can help you to find this secret too! Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"What does it mean to take up your cross daily? There is an element of denial and sacrifice to take up your cross. But here Jesus speaks of denying oneself and taking up the cross, as if it were two different things. In fact, taking up your cross involves all tree of the points above. What does God say to you personally when He commands you to take up your cross daily? You cannot say that Christ has done everything and you needn't do anything anymore. Here is something for you to do. In Roman times it was a very difficult task to carry a heavy, rugged, wooden cross. Jesus doesn't say that He will take and carry your cross for you, but commands you to take up your cross daily and follow Him. Many people have their idea of what the Christian life is like, but it's as far away as the east is from the west from what Jesus commanded.",
"description":"How easy is it to find Christ? This passage says 'struggle'. Others say it is all free and undeserved. So what aspects are hard, and what are easy? This explains the 'narrow gate' to conversion and new life.",
"description":"An ungrateful heart can lead us to away from God. So many times we look to Jesus for help and He comes through. But we should give the Lord thanks for what He has done in our lives. Luke 17:11-19; Romans 1:18- 21; Psalm 100:4",
"description":"There is almost universal agreement that Luke, the \"beloved physician\" (Col. 4:14) who accompanied Paul on his missionary travels, was the author of the third Gospel. Luke wrote to present Jesus as the Universal Savior, the compassionate healer and teacher. His careful historical approach is revealed in the preface, which states that the author has traced \"all things from the very first\". Unlike Mark, this author includes an account of the Virgin Birth, and unlike Matthew he extensively describes the Perean Ministry (Chapters 9-18).",
"description":"When we have a wrong perception of Christ, we will predetermine the level of service we will give to God. We may sit under the preaching with a pretense of wanting to be taught, but in reality we will not be moved from our view. We are living in a generation where some of the body of believers are using the name of Jesus for their own objectives. When we have a proper perspective of Christ we will reverence His presence, and stand in awe of the fact that He comes into our homes and into our heart. We will take out a basin and wash the feet of Jesus with worship, prayer and gratitude. We will embrace His word trusting it to be a higher reality than every situation we are facing.",
"scripture":"1 Chronicles 29:1, John 16:13-14, Luke 24:46",
"topic":"",
"description":"David Smithers focuses on the primary purpose why we have been created--for God's glory and pleasure, expressed by three primary values: the character of Christ, the power of the Spirit of Christ and the ambition of Christ to evangelize the lost. Smithers surveys the potential pitfalls that happen to Christians in each area and how to keep one's spiritual life on track in those essential things.",
"description":"This message was delivered on 05\/01\/1955. The enemies attack on the Christian will be in four main areas: Our relationship with the Father. Relationship with the world. Relationship with the Church. Attack on the body. The enemies strategy is to rob the Christian of a \"warring spirit\". God wants us to maintain a warring spirit toward our enemy.",
"description":"Although we celebrate the birth of Christ every year, there's another there's another date that those in heaven rejoice over. Luke 2:8-12; 2 Thessalonians 1:3-10",
"description":"A prudent person takes an honest inventory of their heart. When we realize that our own efforts can only get us so far, we must forsake the limitations of our own strength and strategies, and come under the covering and power that Jesus has to supply for us.",
"description":"It has been said that, \u201cAbsolute power corrupts absolutely.\u201d In this sermon, Art Katz adapts this catchphrase to fit the context of the night Christ displayed who he was through his sufferings, \u201cCrisis reveals and absolute crisis reveals absolutely.\u201d In the face of their Lord hanging upon a tree, the disciples were confronted with an absolute crisis which divulged who they really were. From the garden on through the resurrection circumstances revealed. No more were they boasting of their capacity to be the greatest. During the dark night of the crisis of the Christ, all was revealed. It is in this that the Apostle Paul gloried, nothing other than the cross of Christ, for nothing else has the capacity to reveal what we are. The sufferings of Christ, viewed with sincerity, will always beget personal revelation. We must be apprehended by the cross. If this is not the case, then we will be absolutely unable to serve God in any form of spiritual community. Just like it was a suffering for Christ to display the truth of who he was, so also, our apprehension of the truth of what we are will be suffering.",
"description":"There is a Cry that eminates from the very pit of Hell that can be summed up in 2 words, 'Send!.. lest'. Those that are eternally damned cry that God would Send believers out into the harvest, Lest their own loved ones should join them in the pit. Pastor Legge shows how we need to have a deep compassion for the world around us.a dn also how we need to travail in prayer with almighty God until we prevail. the question remians do we have the 'Ear of faith' to hear the Cry from Hell?\r\n\r\n[i]All material by Pastor Legge is copyrighted. However, these materials may be freely copied and distributed unaltered for the purpose of study and teaching, so long as they are made available to others free of charge, and the copyright is included. This does not include hosting or broadcasting the materials on another website, however linking to the resources on our site is permitted. These materials may not, in any manner, be sold or used to solicit 'donations' from others, nor may they be included in anything you intend to copyright, sell, or offer for a fee. This copyright is exercised to keep these materials freely available to all. Any exceptions to these conditions must be explicitly approved by preachtheword.com[\/i]",
"description":"There is a Cry that eminates from the very pit of Hell that can be summed up in 2 words, 'Send!.. lest'. Those that are eternally damned cry that God would Send believers out into the harvest, Lest their own loved ones should join them in the pit. Pastor Legge shows how we need to have a deep compassion for the world around us.a dn also how we need to travail in prayer with almighty God until we prevail. the question remians do we have the 'Ear of faith' to hear the Cry from Hell?",
"description":"The getting of gain has known no bounds in the desires and actions of men. The mighty dollar is idolized as a god. Hopes and dreams are pinned on things and stuff that will burn up on the eternal day. This sermon takes the words of Christ regarding riches.",
"description":"Brother Zac looks at the very dangerous imbalance of holiness preaching taken to a extreme. This message serves as a gentle warning in love to many who have strong convictions that go past what God calls and leads. We need zealous strong individuals that display the compassion of God but a unyielding desire for truth. The true body of Christ should fulfill the same function as Jesus did while on earth--exposing unreality and religious hypocrisy. As Zac has studied many groups in Christendom that majored on holiness, all of their mistakes could be summed up in one thing: pharisaism. Many precious principles are put forth that we may ask the question: \"Am I really presenting Christ correctly?\"",
"description":"Brother Zac looks at the very dangerous imbalance of holiness preaching taken to a extreme. This message serves as a gentle warning in love to many who have strong convictions that go past what God calls and leads. We need zealous strong individuals that display the compassion of God but a unyielding desire for truth. The true body of Christ should fulfill the same function as Jesus did while on earth--exposing unreality and religious hypocrisy. As Zac has studied many groups in Christendom that majored on holiness, all of their mistakes could be summed up in one thing: pharisaism. Many precious principles are put forth that we may ask the question: \"Am I really presenting Christ correctly?\"",
"description":"The centurion proves to be a type of a Christian who cares about people. It astonishes our Lord to see this man's faith-a man who was in authority, yet cared this much for a servant.\u00a0 He had power yet he recognized the power of the Master. He also saw his own unworthiness in comparison to our Lord.",
"description":"Stephen Olford shares passionately about the absolute demands of discipleship and a life of salvation in following the living Christ. This message is preached in the concluding session at a conference. This forceful message over and over again poses the question: \"will you follow me?\" and then asks have we given Him our all? This sermon demands that you count the cost of true discipleship with Jesus Christ. Are we willing to agree to the demands of discipleship: \"No refusual, no rival, no retreat, I am ready Lord, cost what it will!\"",
"description":"This message gives great insight into the story of Judas. There are many who have a false impression of Who Jesus is and what His purpose is. Be prepared to be challenged, especially if you have been using Christ for your own personal agenda.",
"description":"Brian speaks frankly and openly about our tendencies to make sinful judgments based upon faulty assumptions that wreak havoc in interpersonal relationships. Jesus was not prohibiting all judging, but judgment that does not begin with ourselves and thinking of the abundant mercy we've received from God. This biblically balanced sermon is pointedly practical and interspersed with humor that drives the message close to home. (Used by permission of Grace Community Church in Ashburn, VA) http:\/\/www.gccashburn.us\/extras\/messagelist",
"description":"DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24TH, 1869, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. \u201cThen said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.\u201d \u2014 Luke 23:34. OUR Lord was at that moment enduring the first pains of crucifixion; the executioners had just then driven the nails through his hands and feet. He must have been, moreover, greatly depressed, and brought into a condition of extreme weakness by the agony of the night in Gethsemane, and by the scourgings and cruel mockings which he had endured all through the morning, from Caiaphas, Pilate, Herod, and the Praetorian guards. Yet neither the weakness of the past, nor the pain of the present, could prevent him from continuing in prayer. The lamb of God was silent to men, but he was not silent to God. Dumb as a sheep before her shearers, he had not a word to say in his own defense to man, but he continues in his heart crying unto his Father, and no pain and no weakness can silence his holy supplications. Beloved, what an example our Lord herein presents to us! Let us continue in prayer so long as our heart beats; let no excess of suffering drive us away from the throne of grace, but rather let it drive us closer to it. \u201cLong as they live should Christians pray, For only while they pray they live.\u201d To cease from prayer is to renounce the consolations which our case requires...",
"scripture":"Matthew 4:17, Mark 1:15, Luke 15:10",
"topic":"Gospel",
"description":"Dr. Orr discusses the modern corruption of the word 'repent,' what the Scriptural meaning is, and discusses the Greek word that was translated into 'repent.' The main push of the message is that the gospel always begins and continues with repentance, and that the gospel preached without it is not the true gospel at all. \"Now, would it not be a master stroke of the enemy of the Christian faith to take the very first word of the gospel and change its meaning...well that's exactly what's been done.\"",
"scripture":"2 Samuel 6:14-23, Luke 1:27, Luke 1:32",
"topic":"Servanthood",
"description":"May 14, 2006 \u2013 Jesus Christ filled with compassion moved to bring the worship od God into the central core of humanity. There has to be an inner cry of every christian that desires to honor the Lord with their life. Jesus Christ will come and unveil Himself to the heart of a servant. Those who will serve with the lowest of the low.",
"scripture":"Psalm 55:4-8, 2 Timothy 2:12, Luke 9:23-24",
"topic":"Glory Of God",
"description":"Have you ever found yourself in such a dark place that you don't see anything of God and it seems like there is no purpose for it? These awful places is where we meet God . Its where he works something very deep in us; something we cant learn from a text book. All of God's future deliverers are prepared in these awful places. These are a people who will emerge our of these valley of suffering with a testimony of the glory of God. The word of God declares that those who suffer with Christ will also reign with Him. Do you trust God to work all thing for the good and bring about a glorious victory?",
"scripture":"Luke 23:33-46, John 19:25-30, Matthew 27:45-50",
"topic":"",
"description":"Jesus makes seven statements on the cross and if you follow through you will see the continual sequence which makes for the greatest sermon ever preached. It is a sermon of victory, love and power of all darkness.",
"description":"Jesus tells us to \"pray and faint not.\" This message brings to light the reasons why we often \"faint\" in prayer. We must come to the Lord with a WHOLE heart - and not TRY Him, but SERVE Him, because He is GOD. Many do not get through to God because they are seeking their own agenda, or their own personal well being rather than the purpose of Christ. The reason so many walk in confusion is because of this refusal to submit to God. Why do Christians not pray as they should? Are they not totally surrendered to following Jesus? Do they not understand the heart of God and his love for them? This unjust judge had authority in Luke 18 over this widow woman's adversary, and she knew her rights, and she did not give up. The devil accuses us, pointing out our faults, and God avenges us by giving us the very thing we lack, when we seek him for it. God delights in his children and will rise up to deliver them when they are under attack. Another wonderful encouragement to prayer.",
"description":"This is a wonderful sermon on having a relationship with God the Father. One that understands that God is love and also understands loving God with all of your heart, soul, and mind. Through his love, God showed us his human face. Many have an inaccurate concept of God and who he is. God wants us to know he loves\u00a0us, and that he revealed himself to us through Jesus Christ. To know Christ\u00a0is to know God. Everything Jesus\u00a0did was to reconcile us to God. When we sin, we do not need to run and hide from God in fear and shame, suffering under condemnation and guilt. We need to run to him for\u00a0forgiveness. We must believe him, and come to him so he can lift our burden and reveal himself to us. He knows what is\u00a0best for us and wants a relationship with us as individuals.",
"description":"November 16, 2008 - The work of God is for the redemption of the lost. There is a vision of God that comes into the heart of a man or woman when they stand before the throne of Jesus and pray, \"use my life for the souls of this generation\". There is an incredible joy and provision when our heart is one with the plan of God. God will be faithful and avenge us speedily of the self focus in us that hides the image of Christ. In these last days whose image do you reflect? It's time to shine for Jesus!",
"description":"January 21, 2007 - There is a season coming when everything that is not Christ's will be washed away. Society will not be aware of these times. These are days when the gospel that speaks of the Cross and living righteously for God will be ignored. There will be many who have walked with Jesus and they will fall away from truth. In this generation there has to be a cry in our hearts that says, \"Jesus give me the courage not to go back to what I left behind.\" There is an anointing that will be released in those that have this cry and God will be glorified in and through their lives.",
"description":"June 22, 2008 - What is it that causes so many young people to leave the house of God today? It is the older brother syndrome, when service in the house of God becomes hard labor from an angry joyless heart. It is the Father that meets His children with love and mercy. God almighty will bring His sons and daughter back home and we need to be prepared to celebrate their home coming.",
"description":"Bill Mcleod covers the subject of the occult showing what things are hidden and beyond the bounds of normal human knowledge. Such occult is demonic and opposed to the counsel and spirit of God. We are to have no fellowship with the hidden things of darkness but rather reprove and uncover these things.",
"description":"Bill Mcleod covers the subject of the occult showing what things are hidden and beyond the bounds of normal human knowledge. Such occult is demonic and opposed to the counsel and spirit of God. We are to have no fellowship with the hidden things of darkness but rather reprove and uncover these things.",
"scripture":"Luke 8:27-40, James 2:19, Hebrews 10:32-39",
"topic":"Surrender",
"description":"Prepare to be convicted if you are holding back on God. Luke 8:27-40. Jesus is met by a possessed man in the Gadarene tombs, who has many devils, and they with fear and trembling (James 2:19) beg Jesus to let them go into a nearby herd of pigs, rather than banish them to the pit, and he allows them to go. When the man is found by the neighboring citizens, clothed and sitting at the feet of Jesus in his right mind, instead of rejoicing at his deliverance, they reject Jesus, and ask him to leave for they are unwilling to follow him if it means losing their pigs. Many are unwilling to trust their life to Jesus, and are holding back part of themselves, unwilling to surrender, having counted the cost and the price too high. If you are happy with average, this message isn't for you. If you are determined to follow Jesus, wholly, listen with an open heart.",
"description":"February 18, 2007 - As Christians we are left upon this earth to Glorify Jesus. We best glorify Him by allowing that which is the deepest embodiment of His character to be manifested in and through our lives. There is a longing in every lost person we come in contact with to come back to their Creator. Are our lives a manifestation of the heart of God? When we encounter people that God sends our way do they see and hear Christ in us? The purest measure of success comes when there is a true manifestation of God's love the individual people that God allows to come across our paths.",
"scripture":"Hebrews 13:12-15, 2 Samuel 9:6, Luke 4:18",
"topic":"Reproach",
"description":"March 11, 2007 - This message is for Christians that have positioned themselves in the center of two different kingdoms. The Kingdom of God and the kingdom of the world, Coming to the house of the Lord with a seemingly holy devotion for God and leaving the House of the Lord and having the same devotion for the things of the world. This is the reason why there is such a powerless testimony and the church is becoming a non issue in this society. We cannot be devoted to the Lord and be devoted to the things that offend His holy name. God is calling His church to come outside the camp and come out of mixture and compromise to serve the Lord wholeheartedly. In every generation there has to be somebody that is willing to stand in the middle of the marketplace and bear the reproach of Jesus Christ.",
"description":"Ed Miller is teaching at his finest from the vantage point of Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration and what that means practically of seeing Christ in Scripture. \u201cEverything you need,\u201d he assures, \u201cis by seeing Christ. You don\u2019t need more surrender; you need a larger revelation of Christ. If you surrender to one horsepower, you\u2019re going to do a lot of pushing.\u201d",
"description":"There is contrast in this life between the splendor of the rich man and the poverty of Lazarus; there is also the contrast of complete reversal of condition for each man when he dies; God's tender care in the ministry of angels at death; Lazarus was brought into intimate relationship to the saints in heaven; the rich man's torments in hell were so extreme that he desired even a momentary alleviation; the condition of each man after death cannot be changed; the rich man's request that a messenger from the dead be sent to warn his brothers insinuates that God had been unjust in not giving more opportunity for repentance; but messengers from the dead would not bring us to repentance if we will not hearken to the warnings of Scripture.",
"description":"Art examines the contrast of these two individuals in their ability to recognize Jesus. The blind see and the rich go empty away. Art brings the significance of this episode into an endtimes scenario. Definitely an all-time epochal message.",
"description":"When Christians find themselves gravitating to the world, it is because they have not yet found a satisfying life in Christ. Have you experienced the \"expulsive power of a new affection\"? Brother Zac shares ways to kindle a true hunger for Christ by meditating on how much He suffered for you on the cross, getting into fellowship with those who have a fervent love for Jesus, giving up whatever takes away your hunger for God, and others.",
"description":"August 9, 2009 - The concept of being a servant that is not highly esteemed today as we live in an age where our theology in the church at large seems to have focused on personal gain, social gain, power, influence, authority and individual greatness. The Bible says that Jesus took upon Himself the form of a servant and in doing this He teaches us that heavens order is completely reversed from the world's order. The Word of God is performed in those whom have a servant's heart. Serving Christ and then serving others unlocks power and revelation. You may feel trampled, pounded, unappreciated and passed by but as a servant you have found the secret of spiritual strength! Take heed; the last will be first and the first will be last!",
"description":"September 28, 2008 - There is a great revelation of God coming to this generation. This revelation will not be given to the self indulgent and the self seeking. It will be given to the humble person who desires to live their life for the betterment of others. God will come in the midst of darkness and reveal Himself to the shepherds who are simply looking after their flock. Suddenly the heavens will be opened and by the grace of God we will begin to reach out to those who are hungry and hurting. Suddenly our ears will be opened to the worship of Heaven and we will sing a song of trust and confidence in God. A song that says, \"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace and good will towards men.\" Our song is a living expression of trust in God.",
"description":"Out of Luke 22: 28-32, Wilkerson preaches about the time when we will go through a sifting process. A time where God will allow satan to work against us but there is always a reason and in the end the result can be dynamic for those who endure.",
"description":"February 18, 2007 - As Christians we are left upon this earth to Glorify Jesus. We best glorify Him by allowing that which is the deepest embodiment of His character to be manifested in and through our lives. There is a longing in every lost person we come in contact with to come back to their Creator. Are our lives a manifestation of the heart of God? When we encounter people that God sends our way do they see and hear Christ in us? The purest measure of success comes when there is a true manifestation of God's love the individual people that God allows to come across our paths.",
"description":"Here we see how in the midst of the storm (trial) our Lord is at perfect peace and instant to act when we cry out to Him even when our faith wavers. We see how these highly experienced fishermen feared for their lives in a storm that was perhaps the worst they had ever seen, and how their fear for themselves turned to awe for their Lord, as instantly as the storm abated.",
"description":"The Rich Man had the voice of a lost soul finally realizing his irreversible predicament. Even in hell, he tried to reach out to others so they wouldn\u2019t share his unspeakable fate. Dr. Tozer uses the story of Lazarus and the Rich Man to illustrate the Truth that a person\u2019s final destination does not depend on whether he is rich or poor. He says they\u2019re in Heaven or hell simply because that is where they belong.",
"description":"The Parable of the Rich Fool illustrates the inestimable worth of the soul as compared to everything else. Dr. Tozer uses Our Lord\u2019s story to warn of covetness. It is the voice of the soul which cries out, \u201cDon\u2019t be so concerned with the things of the world that you forget me.\u201d \u201cI am not a body containing a soul,\u201d Dr. Tozer says, \u201cI am a soul contained in a body.\u201d",
"description":"Forgiveness of sins is the central blessing held forth in the gospel of Jesus Christ. This forgiveness is found only in connection with the Christ of Old Testament prophecy and New Testament history, is received in Christ by faith alone, and is freely proclaimed and sincerely offered to all without distinction.",
"scripture":"Matthew 6:24, Luke 16:13, Matthew 6:33",
"topic":"Recession",
"description":"Zac Poonen shares during a time of recession that God is allowing this to test and see if we are serving mammon as a God. Why should it disturb us if Mammon is shaking? We should be content that the kingdom of God principles are the same in our day. Brother Zac talks about a Babylonian church system that does not serve Christ. A very important message in our times.",
"description":"The Christmas event shook everyone on earth, in heaven and even in hell. When Adam and Eve sinned they were expelled from the garden and cherubims with flaming swords were placed to prevent them from entering again. Now in our text, it says the angels came to the shepherds. So though the angels stopped anybody from entering into paradise, now it was the angels who brought the glad tidings that anyone can enter into glory through the birth of the Saviour. Do you see the awesome wonder of Christmas! God opening this gate that was closed. Though we give each other gifts at Christmas they fade into insignificance in comparison to that which we received from God at Christmas.",
"scripture":"Jeremiah 17:5, Isaiah 40:10-11, Luke 1",
"topic":"One True God",
"description":"A sober address appropriate to all earnest inquirers after God and particularly to Jewish people and intellectuals who have had difficulty finding the one true God.",
"description":"This six part series on discipleship is a counterpart of the book written by William MacDonald called: \"True Discipleship.\" This sermon series gets to the heart of the biblical definition of discipleship. This is a life-changing series that will challenge you to the core of your being. We need to re-examine our commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ in our day, may God have full-hearted disciples that have counted the cost fully and give all to the great calling of discipleship.",
"description":"This six part series on discipleship is a counterpart of the book written by William MacDonald called: \"True Discipleship.\" This sermon series gets to the heart of the biblical definition of discipleship. This is a life-changing series that will challenge you to the core of your being. We need to re-examine our commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ in our day, may God have full-hearted disciples that have counted the cost fully and give all to the great calling of discipleship.",
"description":"Perhaps you have experienced God\u2019s reality at certain times in your life. Most of us, however, if we were to be honest, would have to admit that these times are out-weighed by the times when we give in to the temptations of Satan - and when our lives seem to testify to anything but God who lives and intervenes. This program will show us how, instead of Satan, the living God can have the victory in our lives. Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"Wilkerson takes you on a thorough teaching of the New Covenant. This is not milk and one should not even attempt this sermon without their Bible at ready. Download this and listen to it several times and there is much to learn.",
"description":"Here the Lord Jesus is carrying the Cross on the way to Golgotha. A great crowd surrounded Him, some with love and pity, but others with hate and mocking Him. And then there were those who were just inquisitive, wanting to see what was going on.Along the way there was a man called \"Simon of Cyrene\". When Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 strength was failing under the Cross, they looked for a person to carry the cross and they got Simon to carry the Cross. He was, according to some Bible commentators, the father of Alexander and Rufus who became members of the New Testament church. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to but he was forced to. He was born in North Africa. Through his carrying the Cross there was blessing upon his children. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pity when Africans say that Jesus is for the white people. We find so other instances where Jesus identifies with those of Africa, like in this instance, and also when Joseph had to flee to Egypt because Herod wanted to kill the baby Jesus, Africa gave Jesus refuge.",
"description":"J. Glyn Owen speaks on the wonderful words of Zacharias that the Lord has come to redeem the people. The beginning of light is shining in the advent season, John the Baptist is showing the way to our Saviour. The Benedictus was the song of thanksgiving uttered by Zechariah on the occasion of the circumcision of his son, John the Baptist. The canticle received its name from its first words in Latin (Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blessed be the Lord God of Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u009d).",
"description":"From an International Pastor Conference, Wilkerson preaches on the forgotten message of repentance. We have millions a year that come to Christ but their life has no repentance. You hardly even hear the word used in Evangelical, Baptist and Pentecostal churches today. Just believe and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re saved. All of those messages are for naught without repentance.",
"description":"This matter of the birth of John the Baptist is amazing. Jesus said of him that there were none born of women greater than he. He was filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s womb. Even his birth was miraculous. His father Zacharias and mother Elizabeth were well advanced in age, well past child bearing age. But then God revealed Himself to Zacharias that they would bear a son and call him John, meaning the \"grace of God\". The birth of John was prophesied many years before. Isaiah who lived about 740 BC prophesied of his birth and so too Malachi, about 540 BC. One could have a whole sermon on Isaiah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prophesy and another of Malachi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. They prophesied how that John would be the forerunner of the Messiah.",
"description":"This is an enlightening comparison of sisters, Mary and Martha, and how their hearts were toward Jesus, one worried over serving, one, hungry to sit at his feet. His presence is a light that exposes and reveals.\u00c2\u00a0 His word thrilled Mary. A stirring message that asks the question: who is Jesus to you?",
"description":"There is a real spiritual battle when a Christian tries to pray. Even the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. As they listened to the Lord pray to his Father, something stirred them about how Jesus prayed, the intimacy Jesus had with the Father was apparent to them as they listened to his prayer, prompting them to ask him to teach them to pray. Praying the scriptures adds power to prayer. This is a wonderful instruction on how to pray, for anyone who's become discouraged with their prayer life, this is a must hear.",
"description":"December 17, 2006 - The devil was corrupted by his distorted image of himself and in this corruption he desired to be worshipped. The very heart of satan finds refuge in religion and causes false teachers and false prophets to be moved outside of the true works of God. These types of preachers make their way into pulpits and bow down to the worship and agenda of man. When worship is true worship the voice of God is immediately heard. Wisdom is found of God as we lay down our treasures at His feet with no agenda of personal gain. True worship is content in seeking the likeness of Christ and is surrendered totally to His purposes.",
"description":"January 14, 2007 - When Jesus comes to a religious man's home the religious man will not touch the feet of Jesus because the dirt of this world is on them. He doesn't want this dirt on his hands because it offends his religion. The fruit of this religion that does not have the heart of God in it is a cold formality and a skepticism. When was the last time you raised up your hands to God and thanked Him for what He has done in your life and His faithfulness? Tears of gratitude refresh Jesus. These tears come from a genuine work of God and a worship that remembers where He brought us from and that He is the source of my work.",
"description":"Nobody would believe a boat would go down with Jesus on it, would they? He stilled the water and calmed the storm for the disciples. But when Paul, and the prisoners were on the boat, bound for Rome, the storm tore the boat to pieces, and it went down. Paul had a word of hope from the Lord. All hell watched as God exposed every tool of the enemy, by sending them against Paul in this circumstance and his servant overcome. He kept him, and strengthened him. A wonderful message of encouragement for anyone in a hard trial. God prepares his people before the storm hits. And he takes them through it.",
"description":"The most tragic of all things is to be unaware that the Glory Of God is passing us by. When the pursuit of the people of God does not differ from the pursuits of a perishing society around us God will withdraw His presence from us. When we are motivated by the desire to be glorified of men, and our focus is on titles, positions and prominence, we will create a man-made glory. Jesus speaks to these ministries and calls them an abomination and says that they will fall under a curse. There is a day coming when the true church of Jesus Christ will stand up against these false prophets. God will rise up and deliver His people. God will reveal Himself to those who are grieved at what is being done to the name of Jesus and grieved at the way society is living without God. These Christians are not spiritual giants, they simply love Jesus and have a passionate desire for Him to be glorified in these last days.",
"description":"December 20, 2009 - This message is for those who know the right thing to do but find that you are powerless to do so. It\u2019s for: dishonest people who want to trust God but don\u2019t know how, selfish people that want to be generous, wounded hearts that want to let go and forgive, and the verbally abusive who have a desire to speak with kind words. How do we get free from this? How do we experience peace on earth and goodwill towards man? The answer is the gift of Jesus. God in the flesh burst forth into the visible because humanity had no way out! This is the message of Christmas. He came with a display of compassion for our weaknesses and nailed them to a Tree. The good news is that Jesus forgives our sin and enables us to live a life that is pleasing to Him and those around us.",
"description":"The message is important in that it provides a stark reminder of the true meaning of the coming of Christ: a baby born to die for the ransom of man's separated soul. There is such love and grace in brother Don's delivery.",
"description":"God doesn't automatically free His children from the difficulties, suffering and crosses of life. On the contrary! We can experience His help in the midst of our difficulties, for in our suffering there is a wonderful treasure to be found, a joy that will never end. Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"On the heels of writing and sharing, 'When Evil Comes in Like a Flood' which addressed the rise of evil in our nation, and the response needed by the church, this word comes forth. It will be revealed in eternity of how many times God warned us, gave us wake up calls, for what was coming, but we missed the warning signals. I believe our nation, and particularly the church is at this cross road now. God has sent alarming signs to us to show us the path we are on and what is coming. And unless a proper response is done by the church, we will go down in the history books as, 'having eyes to see, but could not see; having ears to hear, but could not hear'. Brethren I beseech you take notice of these words and let us respond now, while there is still time, before the 'night cometh when no man can work'.",
"description":"November 13, 2005 - The wilderness is a place where we begin to realize without the strength and power of God we will not be able to go on. There has to be a determination in our heart to make ell tremble. Those who have learned in their wilderness experience to lean on the Lord will come out infused with His power and authority.",