A Virtuous Woman, Prov 31:10-31

A virtuous woman is known by: Her excellent character – Prov 31:10, 29 – she is virtuous.  She is moral and chaste, and these give her power.  Jesus had the power to heal.  When he healed the woman in  Mk 5:30, he knew in himself that virtue had gone out...

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Guile, Ps 32:2

Guile is defined as craft, cunning, duplicity, and deceit.  It is found in the man and is manifested by what he says. Ps 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.  So, it is in you, in your...

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The Only Potentate, 1 Tim 6:15

Paul wrote to Timothy that Jesus Christ is “the blessed and only Potentate”.  A potentate is one who possesses great power as a sovereign, monarch, or ruler.  A sovereign is one possessing supreme political power and authority.  A monarch is a person who reigns over a kingdom.  One that holds...

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Where is Your Confidence? Ps 118:8-9

Where is your confidence?  Is it in men, princes, gold and silver, your flesh, or the Lord? Is your confidence in men – Ps 118:8 – during perilous times not only can men fail you, they can turn on you.  Study the Bible and history and you will see repeated...

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Lessons in Comforting

Lessons in Comforting Job 2:11-13 How to comfort someone who is in great despair can be a very tricky thing. Most of the time we simply do not know what to say or do. Here we will look at the book of Job and how his three friends came to...

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Jonathan’s Proof of Love for David 

1 Samuel 18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. Vs 3 “because he loved him as his own soul”.  Introduction: After David’s victory over Goliath in...

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Don’t Envy Sinners, Prov 23:17-19

Don’t envy sinners.  One of the greatest safeguards against straying from the Lord, when you are a young Christian, is to “let not thine heart envy sinners”.  When I was a teenager, envying sinners caused me to turn away from the Lord so I could pursue what they were doing....

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A Very Present Help, Ps 46:1-3

[THERE IS NO AUDIO FOR THIS MESSAGE DUE TO A POWER FAILURE DURING THE SERVICE] In Ps 46:1-3, the Psalmist describes conditions in the earth that are horrendous, unlike anything that we have ever seen.  And he says that, despite these things, “Therefore will not we fear”.  The reason they...

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No Part Dark, Lk 11:33-36

In Lk 11:33-36, Jesus used the illustration of a lighted candle to teach his disciples about seeing him and having their whole bodies full of light and having no part dark. In the context of this passage, Jesus had just rebuked this evil generation for seeking a sign, Lk 11:29-32. ...

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