Tag: My Sermons
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The Misery of the Rich
My first sermon in 2020! Given during the Ikthus East-Bacolod City Midweek Service, January 1, 2020. James 5:1-6 ESV [1] Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. [2] Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. [3] Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion […]
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Suffering and the Sovereignty of God
“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.” (Genesis 50:20) “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” […]
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The Christian’s Struggle Against Sin
Romans 7:14-25 NIV [14] We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. [15] I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. [16] And if I do what I do not want […]
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What does God seek?
“Another thing you do: You flood the Lord’s altar with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer looks with favor on your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands. You ask, “Why?” It is because the Lord is the witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been […]
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Dynamics of Change
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV [17] Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV [18] And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory […]
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How are we justified before God?
Galatians 3:6-14ESV [6] just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”? [7] Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. [8] And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all […]
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The New Jerusalem
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice […]
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Looking Forward (part 1) – an Ikthus East Sermon, December 2018
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice […]
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The Seriousness of Worship
(Photo by James Coleman on Unsplash) TEXT: Isaiah 1:10-20 INTRODUCTION: Is the Lord pleased with our worship? In verse 10 of Isaiah ch. 1 it is quite shocking to see God referring to his people and their leaders as of Sodom and Gomorrah – cities notorious for their wickedness, so much so that God had […]
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Dealing With Spiritual Failure
You have no right to give up on yourself when God has no intention of giving up on you.
PHILIPPINE THEO LAW GEE 