Thy Father’s Commandment, Prov 6:20-22

Prov 6:20-22 is derived from the commandment to honour thy father and thy mother.  Solomon instructed his son to keep his father’s commandment and forsake not the law of his mother.  He instructed him to “Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about they neck.”  He wanted the...

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Attend To My Words, Prov 4:20-22

Our text is Prov 4:20-22.  In this passage, Solomon says, “Attend to my words”.   You get connected to God’s words and they connect with you. John Maxwell says that to connect with people when you’re communicating, you have to connect intellectually, verbally, visually, and emotionally.  Intellectually involves the mind. ...

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The Knowledge of God, Rom 11:33

I’m convinced that one of the main reasons so many people are so far from God and so many young Christians are turning from God is that they have no knowledge of God.  They use the name God when they talk about him.  And they talk like they know him. ...

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Try The Spirits, 1 Jn 4:1-6

The subject of 1 Jn 4:1-6 is “try the spirits”.  John exhorts us to believe not every spirit, v.1.  There are four main spirits.  The spirit of man, 1 Cor 2:11.  The Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, 1 Cor 2:11, 14.  The spirit of the world, 1 Cor 2:12,...

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Thrust Out A Little, Lk 5:1-11

In Lk 5:1-11, Jesus preached to a crowd of people on the shores of the lake of Gennesaret.  The people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, Lk 5:1.  And since there were two unoccupied ships nearby, the Lord entered into the one owned by Simon, and “prayed...

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