This excerpt is from: The Holy Spirit As Guide . In the last message I spoke about five ministries of the Holy Spirit in which He continues the ministry of Jesus in our lives. I spoke about Him as teacher, remembrancer, guide, revelator and [...]

This excerpt is from: The Holy Spirit As Guide . Let’s look in 2 Corinthians chapter 3 for a moment. I’d like to read the first three verses. These verses always bless me and they always challenge me. Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do [...]

This excerpt is from: The Holy Spirit As Guide . Now let me give you just a little parable which I’ve used to try and make this vivid to people. I want to say I’m sharing out of my experience. These things are real to me because I’ve been through [...]

I've entitled this particular message The Holy Spirit As Guide. In the last message I spoke about five ministries of the Holy Spirit in which He continues the ministry of Jesus in our lives. I spoke about Him as teacher, remembrancer, guide, [...]

This excerpt is from: How To Find Your Place And then Paul goes on here in 2 Timothy 1:9: ...has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before time [...]

This excerpt is from: How To Find Your Place I believe this is a message which is important for every Christian. There are some messages from the word of God which only concern certain people, but I believe this message, How to Find Your Place, is [...]

This excerpt is from: How To Find Your Place Going back to 1 Timothy 1:9, we find it’s even more exciting. It says: God has saved us and called us with a holy calling... I want to emphasize that your calling is holy. Once I realized what God had [...]

This excerpt is from: How To Find Your Place Now let’s turn to Ephesians 2:8-10, which was the passage that Ruth and I proclaimed. For by grace we have been saved through faith; and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God... I understand that [...]

This excerpt is from: How To Find Your Place And then Paul says that your sacrifice will be acceptable to God and it’s your reasonable service. It’s the least you can do in view of what God has done for you. You see, the first great sacrifice in [...]

This excerpt is from: How To Find Your Place And then he goes on to say, and now this is very important, this is really the climax of what I want to say. He speaks about the body of Christ; that is, all believers. We’re all individual members of [...]

This excerpt is from: How To Find Your Place So my aim is to help you. I believe the best place to turn to in the Bible for the steps to discover what God wants you to be is Romans chapter 12, the first 8 verses. And we’ll look through these [...]

My theme tonight is: How To Find Your Place. I believe this is a message which is important for every Christian. There are some messages from the word of God which only concern certain people, but I believe this message, How to Find Your Place, is [...]

Now, I want to share with you out of Scripture what I learned as a result of that experience. I set my mind to find out what had been accomplished by the death of Jesus on the cross. And I want to tell you: I’m still finding out. It’s an [...]

We’ll quickly do two more aspects. Our time is beginning to run out and I want to just wrap it up in a minute. Jesus - and I’m going to say this - endured our shame that we might share His glory. If you turn to Matthew 27 you’ll find the description [...]

The next one is really part of that. But it’s such an important part, that I deal with it separately. Jesus on the cross endured our poverty, that we might share His wealth. This came to me as a revelation years ago here in New Zealand. I was [...]

Now in the same verses it says: Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. But those are not literal translations. The literal translation is: He has borne our pains and carried our sicknesses and the consequence is: with His wounds we [...]

Now if you go down to verse 10 in Isaiah 53, you’ll find a further unfolding of what was accomplished. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise or crush Him, Jesus. He has put Him to grief; when you make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, [...]

Now just one more and we’re going to close. That’s not the end of the list but it’s the end for tonight. The final exchange is between rejection and acceptance. And here again in ministering to people I have come to the conclusion that rejection is [...]

I think also that I should support it from personal experience. I mentioned earlier this evening that I came to know the Lord in an army barrack room in the British Army in World War II about midnight. I was so much of a ignorant pagan, that I [...]

The next exchange we will turn to Hebrews 2:4. We could turn to many different passages but this I think is the simplest and shortest. Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 4. It's not verse 4, I made a mistake. It's verse 9. Excuse me, I wrote down [...]

Hebrews 10:14, which speaks about what Jesus accomplished by His death on the cross: For by one offering, or by one sacrifice, He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. The one offering, or the one sacrifice, is the sacrifice He made [...]

This is an area which God has led me into in the last four or five years. And because I’m not going to have time to go into it in detail, I want to just recommend to you the same book that I mentioned earlier: How to Pass From Curse to Blessing. [...]

Hebrews 10:14, which speaks about what Jesus accomplished by His death on the cross: For by one offering, or by one sacrifice, He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. The one offering, or the one sacrifice, is the sacrifice He made [...]

We’re going to go on to the scenes of judgment. And as I understand it there are going to be four major, successive scenes of judgment. The first will be before the judgment seat of Christ. The Greek word bema means a platform on which a Roman [...]

It remains in this final session to deal with the final foundation doctrine, eternal judgment. Now, when we speak about judgment we need to realize, that there are two main ways in which God brings judgment on people. The first is His judgments in [...]

Now I want to offer you some suggestions as to, how we can be sure that our service will stand the test of fire. I want to suggest to you three ways, that you can assess your own service. First of all, what is your motive? The only motive that’s [...]

Let’s look at the next parable which is very similar but somewhat different. The parable of the talents. That’s in Matthew 25:14-30. Matthew 25:14 and following: For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country who called, his own [...]

Now we come to two patterns of judgment, two parables that Jesus related. And I’ve had a difficult time deciding how to deal with this, but I think I’m going to have to read them, take a little while. The first is the parable of the mina, M-I-N-A. [...]

Now I believe the next judgment will be the judgment of Israel, a special people set apart by God. And though they’ve been disobedient, and unfaithful in many, many centuries, God has never finally rejected them. What is the Scripture we say? The [...]

I want to deal with five principles of God’s judgment, all of which are stated, in Romans 2. Romans the second chapter, unfolds five principles of God’s judgment. Now I read the Bible, first of all, in Greek, in the New Testament, and then I read [...]

Then God will judge the other nations. Joel 3:1-2. Time is running out, I’ll have to go quickly. Joel 3:1-2: For behold, in those days and at that time when I bring back, the exiles of Judah and Jerusalem. Notice this refers to the same period. The [...]

So that’s the third judgment, the fourth we’ll only just mention, it’s the judgment before the great white throne referred to in Revelation 20: When heaven and earth have fled away from the face of the One on the throne, and all the remaining dead [...]

Well, we have already made our proclamation so it only remains for me, to bring the teaching. This is the tenth and final session of our series, entitled ‘Laying the Foundation.’ In previous sessions we’ve dealt, with five of the six foundation [...]

The next thing I want to say about the resurrection is it’s the consummation of our union with Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 says this: Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them... (the dead who have been raised) in clouds [...]

People say Well, what will that body be like? Paul deals with that question in 1 Corinthians 15:35-38. But someone will say, How are the dead raised up and with what body... do they come? I’m sure most of us have felt like asking that. Foolish one, [...]

What happened through the death and resurrection of Jesus affected the universe. It also determined the destiny of souls at death. From that time onwards since the resurrection of Jesus the destiny of the righteous is not to go into Hades. It has a [...]

Now we’ve come to the last two of the great foundation doctrines... the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. In this present session I will be dealing with the resurrection of the dead... and then in the following session I’ll be dealing [...]

Now, what happened to Jesus when He died? Jesus was a perfect man. He too had spirit, soul and body. And there’s a different statement... made about each of those three elements in Jesus’ personality. In Luke 23:46... we find out what happened to [...]

Now, the resurrection of Jesus is an absolutely key element... of Christian doctrine. We cannot set it aside and call ourselves Christians. In 1 Corinthians 15:14 Paul says: If Christ is not risen... from the dead then our preaching is vain and your [...]

Now, the next thing that’s very, very important is this: The resurrection of Jesus is the guarantee of our resurrection. That is, if we are totally committed to Jesus. In Colossians 1:18... speaking again about the resurrection of Jesus, Paul says: [...]

Now I want to speak about the importance of the resurrection. We cannot overestimate the importance of the resurrection of Jesus. It is the decisive fact of the history of the universe. The whole history of the universe, not just the human race... [...]

Then Paul gives a list of human witnesses. That is not irrelevant but it's secondary. We’ll just look at that briefly. 1 Corinthians 15:5-8. 4: He was buried, He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. Verse 5: that He was seen by [...]

Our proclamation this morning will be taken from 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24. As usual, we’ll make it personal. Where Paul says you, we say we. This is particularly appropriate because we’re going to be dealing with the events connected with the coming [...]

Now we’ve got to come back to this theme. I next want to point out to you that it’s very important that we have a basic understanding of biblical prophecy. Unfortunately, so many people have been turned off by false flashy, shallow interpretations [...]

Now, we're going to come back to a picture of the close of this age I’m going to make general statements about the kind of things that will be going on as this age comes to a close. I believe we’re very near the close of the age, that’s my [...]

Now, let’s go on to the events that are associated with the return of Jesus. I’ll give you a little list of events, not necessarily in the correct order. Do you know why? Because I don’t really know what the correct order is. I’ve met some Bible [...]

Then will come Jesus judging the Gentile nations. This is pictured in Joel 3:1-2. This is very, very important for us who are not Jewish to understand. Joel 3:1-2: For behold, in those days and at that time (God is speaking) when I bring back the [...]

The next purpose of the laying on of hands is to send out apostles. I don’t know whether some of you think there are only twelve apostles in the New Testament. That is not so. I’ve counted approximately twenty people who were called apostles. There [...]

The rapture is followed by the judgment of Christians. Some Christians don’t realize it but we will be the first to be judged. Peter said judgment must begin at the house of God. What is the house of God? The church. 2 Corinthians 5:10. We’ll come [...]

This is the judgment seat of Christ. Then we come to the overthrow of the antichrist and his forces. Now, in 1 John 4 John speaks about antichrist in three ways: the spirit of antichrist, many antichrists and the antichrist. The spirit of antichrist [...]