English Sermon: True Holiness

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True Holiness

“and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
— Ephesians 4:24 (NIV)
“For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Therefore do not be partners with them.”
— Ephesians 5:5-7 (NIV)
“I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in him.”
— Psalm 40:1-3 (NIV)
“So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.”
— Ephesians 4:17-19 (NIV)
“This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.”
— 1 John 1:5-10 (NIV)
“save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.”
— Jude 23 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: God's Dream Church: House of Prayer

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God's Dream Church: House of Prayer

“It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
— Matthew 21:13 (NIV)
“these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.””
— Isaiah 56:7 (NIV)

1. How the Church Should Pray- In One Accord

Acts 1:14 "They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers."

2. Praying Church Founded On Doctrine And Fellowship

Acts 2:42 "They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer."

3. Church Has A Season of Prayer

Acts 3:1 "One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon."

4. Pray That Ministers Have The Boldness To Preach

Acts 4:30-31 "Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus. After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly."

5. Pray For The Right Leadership

Acts 6:6 "They presented these men to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them."

6. Pray For The Persecuted

Acts 12:5 "So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him."

7. Pray For The Sick

Acts 5:13-16 "No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed."

English Sermon: Desperate for the Lord

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Desperate for the Lord

“Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.

So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
— John 20:1-2 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: I know a man in Christ

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I know a man in Christ

“I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.”
— 2 Corinthians 12:2 (NIV)
“3. And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows—

4. was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell.

5. I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses.

6. Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say,

7. or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

8. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.

9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”
— 2 Corinthians 12:3-9 (NIV)