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Showing posts with label temptation. Show all posts
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Sunday, 7 February 2021

'THE ROAD OF TEMPTATION'

 

Rev. Don Crisp




By Rev. Don Crisp (Deceased)                                                                                  
Former Pastor of First Baptist Church
Smiths Falls, Ontario


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PODCAST LINK for Sunday, January 31st, 2020: 

(Originally broadcast February 6, 2011) 
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Broadcast Notes:
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 This program is sponsored by the Good News Christian Ministries:  
Rev. Don Crisp:

Today our theme is: 

 ‘The Road of Temptation’

(Deception - Desire - Disobedience - Death)

Reference Scriptures:

1 Corinthians 10:13  - (ESV)

13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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Romans 5:20  ESV

20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

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 Genesis 3:1-7 ESV

The Fall

3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.

He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You[a] shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,[b] she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:1 In Hebrew you is plural in verses 1–5
  2. Genesis 3:6 Or to give insight
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Notes:

The road of temptation involves: 

1. Deception, 2. Desire, 3. Disobedience, 4. Death

Listen to podcast for details...
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Father surround you with his constant and abiding and 
accompanying love.

Rev. Don Crisp and Rev. Dr. Allen Churchill
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Sunday, 12 August 2018

'HANDLING MONEY IN GOD'S HOUSEHOLD

Rev. Jonathan Griffiths

by Rev. Jonathan Griffiths                           
Senior Pastor, The Metropolitan Bible Church,  Ottawa, ON.
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Podcast of CFRA broadcast on Sunday,  
  August 12th,  2018
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Broadcast Title:

  Handling money in God's household
 
Reference passage: 1Timothy 6:1-21  (NIV)
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Rev. Jonathan Griffiths
2176 Prince of Wales Dr, Nepean, ON K2E 0A1
Phone: (613) 238-8182
www.metbiblechurch.ca/
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Sunday, 7 June 2015

'WRESTLING WITH THE WORD'

Rev. Juliet Schimpf
By Rev. Juliet Schimpf   


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Broadcast Notes

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LINK to CFRA broadcast of Sunday, June 7th, 2015) 
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'Wrestling with the Word'
PSALM 119


1.       SITUATING OUR SUFFERING
2.      SURRENDERING OUR SUFFERING
3.      SHINING THROUGH OUR SUFFERING

1.       SITUATING OUR SUFFERING

We as Christians are “between two worlds”—“between two worlds”—“already….not yet”
“In this world you will have trouble.  But take heart!  I have overcome the world.”  (Jesus Christ; John 16:33)

On the one hand, Christ has ushered in the Kingdom of God; Christ is reconciling all things to Himself and making all things new
On the other hand, we still live in a broken world—one full of pain and sorrow:
ROMANS 8:  “For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.  And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.”
THE MESSAGE:  verse 81:  “I’m homesick—longing for your salvation; I’m waiting for your word of hope.”

2.      SURRENDERING OUR SUFFERING

“You are blessed when you find yourself at the end of your rope.”  (The Beatitudes; The Message Translation)
C.S. LEWIS:  “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
Martin Luther:  “[Trials] teach you not only to know and understand but also to experience how right, how true, how sweet, how lovely, how mighty, how comforting God’s word is:  it is wisdom supreme.” 


CS Lewis  “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for correction and it's not so bad.”
Anne Lamott:  “The opposite of faith is not doubt; it is certainty.” 

3.      SHINING THROUGH OUR SUFFERING
2 CORINTHIANS 4  “7But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body.
God is not as concerned about my comfort as He is about my character.
RICK WARREN:  “Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.”
NIV ROMANS 5:3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
Conclusion
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER:  “Only a suffering God can help”—God is not indifferent to human tragedy and pain—We have a God who can relate to us! 
“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”  (Thomas Moore)

Let us pray:

Our Heavenly Father, We thank you that you are the God of all comfort, and my prayer, this hour, is that you would pour out fresh comfort to every listener today.
Every listener is experiencing suffering in some form, be it persecution, be it poverty, be it sickness, be it worry, be it fear. And my prayer, Lord, is that every listener today will situate their suffering in the Word of God; that they will surrender their suffering to the Word of God, and that they will shine through their suffering with the help of the Word of God.
Lord, I thank you that we have your glorious promise: namely, that we have your treasure in our jars of clay, and although we may be pressed, we are not crushed. Although we are persecuted, we are never abandoned. And, although we may be struck down, we are not destroyed.
We thank you Lord, that although our mortal bodies are fading day by day, yet, your resurrection light lives within us.
Help us to shine for your glory. Help the world to see that you are real and that suffering can be overcome, through the love and grace of your glorious Son, Jesus Christ.
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, AMEN.

Rev. Juliet Schimpf
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