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  • 6/28/15 “Living in Christ” Colossians 3:1-17

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    6/28/15 “Living in Christ” Colossians 3:1-17
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    Colossians 3:1–17

    3:1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

    5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

    12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

    (ESV)

  • 5/10/15 1 Corinthians 1:18-31

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    1 Corinthians 1:18–31

    18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written,

      “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
        and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

    20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

    26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

    (ESV)

  • 4/12/15 “God Is For Me: Victory In Jesus” Romans 8:31-32

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    4/12/15 “God Is For Me: Victory In Jesus” Romans 8:31-32
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    Romans 8:31–32

    31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

    (ESV)

  • Special Message from Mr. Eric Willise Wowoh of C.A.N. mission to Liberia

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  • 1/4/14 “Gospel Hope: Sinking Roots, Showing Fruit” 2 Kings 19:30

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    1/4/14 “Gospel Hope: Sinking Roots, Showing Fruit” 2 Kings 19:30
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    2 Kings 19:20–37

    20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. 21 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him:

      “She despises you, she scorns you—
        the virgin daughter of Zion;
      she wags her head behind you—
        the daughter of Jerusalem.
    22   “Whom have you mocked and reviled?
        Against whom have you raised your voice
      and lifted your eyes to the heights?
        Against the Holy One of Israel!
    23   By your messengers you have mocked the Lord,
        and you have said, ‘With my many chariots
      I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
        to the far recesses of Lebanon;
      I felled its tallest cedars,
        its choicest cypresses;
      I entered its farthest lodging place,
        its most fruitful forest.
    24   I dug wells
        and drank foreign waters,
      and I dried up with the sole of my foot
        all the streams of Egypt.’
    25   “Have you not heard
        that I determined it long ago?
      I planned from days of old
        what now I bring to pass,
      that you should turn fortified cities
        into heaps of ruins,
    26   while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
        are dismayed and confounded,
      and have become like plants of the field
        and like tender grass,
      like grass on the housetops,
        blighted before it is grown.
    27   “But I know your sitting down
        and your going out and coming in,
        and your raging against me.
    28   Because you have raged against me
        and your complacency has come into my ears,
      I will put my hook in your nose
        and my bit in your mouth,
      and I will turn you back on the way
        by which you came.

    29 “And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 30 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 31 For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD will do this.

    32 “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it. 33 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the LORD. 34 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”

    35 And that night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 36 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at Nineveh. 37 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

    (ESV)

     

  • 12/7/14 Micah 5

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    Micah 5

    5:1   Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops;
        siege is laid against us;
      with a rod they strike the judge of Israel
        on the cheek.
    2   But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
        who are too little to be among the clans of Judah,
      from you shall come forth for me
        one who is to be ruler in Israel,
      whose coming forth is from of old,
        from ancient days.
    3   Therefore he shall give them up until the time
        when she who is in labor has given birth;
      then the rest of his brothers shall return
        to the people of Israel.
    4   And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD,
        in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God.
      And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great
        to the ends of the earth.
    5   And he shall be their peace.
      When the Assyrian comes into our land
        and treads in our palaces,
      then we will raise against him seven shepherds
        and eight princes of men;
    6   they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,
        and the land of Nimrod at its entrances;
      and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian
        when he comes into our land
        and treads within our border.

    7   Then the remnant of Jacob shall be
        in the midst of many peoples
      like dew from the LORD,
        like showers on the grass,
      which delay not for a man
        nor wait for the children of man.
    8   And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations,
        in the midst of many peoples,
      like a lion among the beasts of the forest,
        like a young lion among the flocks of sheep,
      which, when it goes through, treads down
        and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
    9   Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries,
        and all your enemies shall be cut off.
    10   And in that day, declares the LORD,
        I will cut off your horses from among you
        and will destroy your chariots;
    11   and I will cut off the cities of your land
        and throw down all your strongholds;
    12   and I will cut off sorceries from your hand,
        and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;
    13   and I will cut off your carved images
        and your pillars from among you,
      and you shall bow down no more
        to the work of your hands;
    14   and I will root out your Asherah images from among you
        and destroy your cities.
    15   And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance
        on the nations that did not obey.

    (ESV)

  • 11/23/14 Opelousas Community Thanksgiving Service “Always Thankful” Psalm 100:4

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    11/23/14 Opelousas Community Thanksgiving Service “Always Thankful” Psalm 100:4
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    Psalm 100:4

    4   Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
        and his courts with praise!
        Give thanks to him; bless his name!

    (ESV)

  • 11/23/14 “Sacrificial Giving #2: Extravagant Love” Mark 14:3-9

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    11/23/14 “Sacrificial Giving #2: Extravagant Love” Mark 14:3-9
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  • 11/16/14 “Scriptural Giving: Sacrificial Joy” Mark 12:41-44

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    11/16/14 “Scriptural Giving: Sacrificial Joy” Mark 12:41-44
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  • 11/9/14 Nehemiah 1

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    11/9/14 Nehemiah 1
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    Nehemiah 1

    1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.

    Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the citadel, 2 that Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews who escaped, who had survived the exile, and concerning Jerusalem. 3 And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”

    4 As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven. 5 And I said, “O LORD God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 6 let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father’s house have sinned. 7 We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses. 8 Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples, 9 but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’ 10 They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand. 11 O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”

    Now I was cupbearer to the king.

    (ESV)