Now, it's so important to recognize that godly living includes this unfailing dependence upon the grace of God. The believer in Christ cannot be said to be living a truly godly life until he is brought to the bowing of his head and his heart to [...]

Let's get into this today. And get your ears tuned in to this and ask God to anoint your ears so you can hear. Pray for me that I can break it down to a place where you can see it and understand it and get it; and then when we walk out of here [...]

We're going to talk about this issue of, "How do I change my desires, how do I change my appetites, or even how do I change my focus from the world"? And so many people are engaging in different things to do to try to change it on [...]

"Well, Brother Dollar, I need to understand. I was told that entertainment is worldly". And so let's deal with that for a moment. Does entertainment, like movies and games, count as worldly? See, I have to say that because church [...]

Last time we were together I talked to you about how the grace of God teaches us to refuse ungodliness. And we showed you that to live a life of ungodliness is to live a life neglecting God. It is to live a life where you're not regarding God. [...]

So you got the vegetable kingdom. You got the animal kingdom. Now let's look at the rational being, called man. Now, here's the difference here. Now watch this. Man now is created with power of choice and a freedom of will. Created with [...]

If you have your Bibles this morning, go with me to the book of Titus, chapter 2 and verse 11 through 13, the book of Titus chapter 2, and 11 through 13. Now, there are some things you have to catch, some revelations you have to catch, but I'm [...]

Look at 1 Samuel chapter 30, verse 1 and verse 6, in the New Living Translation. 1 Samuel chapter 30, verse 1 and verse 6, in the New Living Translation. I want to take you through just how this worked when even people in the Old Testament did it. [...]

Let's go to the Book of Romans chapter 1 and verse 5 and then at the same time Romans chapter 16, verse 25 through 26. And I'm going to start off in the ESV Version. Romans chapter 1 and 5 in the ESV and Romans 16:25 through 25. One of the [...]

Jesus said, "My yoke is easy," and we're makin' being a Christian hard. We're sweating. Christians shouldn't be sweating, and you sweat all the time. You can't even be who you are because you're so busy [...]

Deuteronomy chapter 28, verses 1 through 13. I'm gonna read some of it here. He says, "And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I [...]

Look at, while we're there, Hebrews 4, verses 3 and 11; Hebrews 4, verse 3 and 11. So I submit to you right now that under the grace of God after Jesus was raised from the dead... I'm not talking about Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. [...]

Deuteronomy 28 and I'm gonna start at verse 1 and I'm gonna read verses 1 through 13 as we talk about understanding New Testament obedience. Deuteronomy 28 and verse 1, he says: "And it shall come to pass, if thou..." Now [...]

Are y'all good? You still love me so far? Well, let's see if I can change that right here. John, John chapter 16, verse 8 through 9. We're still in review. There's a lot of stuff going on and we're still, all right, 16:8-9. [...]

Last week, we began a series just dealing with, you know, I think we called it "Is Your Belief System Offline"? And we focused on how important it is to believe and to understand that, but today we're gonna talk about that part too, [...]

Grace is all about supply, supply, supply, supply. The law is all about demands, demands, demands. The law demands righteousness from a man and man couldn't obtain it because it was a perfect righteousness. The law is demanding something from [...]

Let's begin this morning in the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 28, Deuteronomy chapter 28. Is your belief system offline? Is it possible that you can call yourself a Christian and your belief system be offline? The next couple of weeks, I'm [...]

So for the Galatians and for us today, obeying God was and is a matter of believing the gospel. Obeying God was and is a matter of us believing the gospel. So you can, you see how you got to rightly discern that now because if I go talking to you [...]

How does obedience work in the New Testament? How does obedience work in the New Testament? I ask that question because there's just so much you're going to see about obedience and what it is in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And [...]

Romans 4:16. Now watch this. So how do we appropriate it? How do we take possession of all of this abounding provision that is a part of his unrestricted operation of love? How do we get it? Now, I shared this with you last week. Let's go. He [...]

If you have your Bibles, glory to God. Go with me into the book of Romans chapter 4 and 16. This is, this is something that has been in my spirit all week and I've been sharing it as much as I possibly can. We've been talking about grace [...]

Now, in order to understand a heart that's established in grace, let's look at the opposite of a heart that's not established in grace. See, the alternative to a heart established with grace is a restless and a fearful heart. [...]

Go with me to 2 Timothy chapter 2 and verse 1. We're going to pick up where we left off last week. We've been talking about grace, God's provision for the believer, and all of this started with us defining grace; and that's what [...]

What's been bothering you, God is ready to act in grace. God's ready. Are you ready? I am. Somebody say... amuse me. Say, "I am". It's breaking up the fallow ground of religion. We've been in church so much that our [...]

Well, if you have your Bibles, go with me to the book of Romans, chapter 5, verse 2. I'm gonna read it in the NLT and then the Amplified. Romans chapter 5 and 2. Now, we started a series here. We're talking about grace, God's [...]

If you are going through a trial, it is to bring to your attention your self-dependence. That somehow in your life you are depending on you rather than depending on God, and God is committed to make sure there are some trials that will be used to [...]

If you have your Bibles, go with me to the book of St. John chapter 1, verse 17. And we have been bombarding the atmosphere with teachings on grace in our daily confessions on Wednesday night in our Bible studies and on these Sundays. And each time [...]

Colossians 3 and 12, let's go there real quick. Colossians 3:12. I'm excited about these talks, man. Colossians 3:12. "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, [...]

Now, the next couple of weeks, I want to deal with something, I call this inside sanctification, inside sanctification. It's gonna deal with your sanctification and how it has moved on the inside of you. It's really a carryover from [...]

People that'll be most likely to be candidates for renouncing their faith are people who don't get in the Word, don't hear what God says, they're not interested in any of that. It's boring, don't want to have anything [...]

Let's go over to the book of Hebrews chapter 6, verses 4 through 6 in the NLT. Hebrews chapter 6, verses 4 through 6 in the NLT, and when we look at this, I want you to just, kind of, pay attention to what it says. Don't jump to [...]

1 Corinthians 15:56, he said, "The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law". The law strengthens sin. So if you live by the law and the law strengthens sin, do you lose your salvation because you don't understand at [...]

Can sin cause you to lose your salvation? Let's go to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5. 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 and I wanna look at this in the King James and the New Living Translation. 1 Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 23 and 24, first in the King [...]

How great thou art. You understand when I say I got to serve him? I got to praise him. I got to take all of the talking. I got to take all of it, but look at what he has done for you and for me. Look at what, Jesus came as the compensation for what [...]

If you have your Bibles, go with me to the book of Romans chapter 11:6, and Romans chapter 4, and verse 4. Right before we get into this morning's sermon, I wanna tie up some loose ends from last week, and I was just, I went home after church [...]

God's love was expressed through his grace, so grace is God's love in action. Grace is God's love in action. Think about some of the stuff that God has done for you since you've been born again, grace is his love in action. Think [...]

Now, this morning we're gonna begin a series or a part of this series that we're talking about now, we're gonna look at a deeper definition of grace. We need a fuller meaning of grace. I'm teaching you how to live by grace, but I [...]

Growth in spiritual life, growth in your spiritual life can only come by grace. I don't know what you call growth. You know five more extra scriptures. No, no, growth in spiritual life can only come by grace. In fact, look at 2 Peter real [...]

If you have your Bibles, go with me to the book of Titus. Titus. 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus. Now, in this series, I'm gonna be, even those of us who've heard grace teaching for the last ten years, this is gonna challenge even all of that, [...]

We've been talking about the reality of heaven and hell. And last week, we talked about hell. And tonight, we're gonna talk about heaven. It's really, really gonna be an amazing thing for you to join me in the Scriptures tonight to [...]

I'm gonna start a series that it's gonna sound a little awkward, but I'm gonna talk about tonight and next week "The Reality of Heaven and Hell". And the reason why I believe the Spirit of God, he spoke this to my heart, he [...]

Praise the Lord. If you have your Bibles, go with me quickly to Psalms 145:8-9. We're talking about the mercy of God and the power of God's mercy, and tonight, we're going to spend most of our time in the book of Jonah to just show [...]

You know, the easiest thing for us to do sometimes is to blame God for everything that hits us. That's sometimes the easiest thing to do. You know, "God, why didn't you do this"? or "God, why did you let this happen"? [...]

Let's begin in Psalms 145 and verses 8 and 9. I wanna read out of the King James and then the NLT, and we'll talk about the power of God's mercy. I wanna spend most of the time tonight defining that. I need you to get this. I wanna [...]

Mark 14:29 through 31 in the NLT. Let's see this. Verse 29, he says this, "Peter said to him, 'Even if everyone else deserts you, I never will.'" This kind of sounds like Satan. Somebody says, "Well, how you figure that [...]

Today I'm going to try to finish this series up. We've been talking about the trial of faith and understanding the trial of faith. And let's just believe God that we're going to get to that. It's just an amazing end to this [...]

Let's go to Luke 22. Let's get started. Luke 22:31 through 33 in the NLT. Let's look at Peter's trial and let's look at the trial of faith that Peter had. Luke chapter 22, verse 31 through 33. All right, now watch this, 31 [...]

Go with me to the book of 1 Peter chapter 1, and verses 6 through 7. 1 Peter chapter 1, verses 6 through 7. We have been in a series entitled "Understanding the Trials of Faith," answering that question, "Why is it that believers have [...]

Saint John 9:1 and 2, that whole attitude about suffering and persecution and goin' through stuff, that stuff's got to change. We're gon' miss out on somethin' that God's tryin' to do in our lives. And now watch [...]

If you have your Bibles, go with me to the book of 2 Timothy chapter 3, 2 Timothy chapter 3, verses 10 through 12. We're going to look at that in the King James and the New Living Translation. Now, before we get into any of the scriptures, I [...]