We’re continuing now in Romans 8 exploring our destination at the end of this long pilgrimage. We looked in our previous session, we focused on the statement that God, through the sacrifice of Jesus, put away sin that the righteous requirement of [...]

God determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit. - Psalms 147:4-5, NIV There the Scripture gives us a beautiful picture of the measureless wisdom, knowledge [...]

Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. - Proverbs 3:9-10, NIV There are various ways that we can honor the Lord. We can [...]

Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me... I will sing a new song to you, O God. - Psalms 144:7-9, NIV Have you ever noticed how many times in the book of Psalms it speaks about singing a new song? What are some of the reasons [...]

We have now completed the 10 stages of our Roman pilgrimage and we stand now at the entrance to our destination which is, as I’ve told you before, Romans 8, a beautiful unfolding of the nature of the Spirit controlled Spirit filled life of the [...]

In our last three sessions we’ve been working our way through stage 10 of our pilgrimage which is the last stage, the stage before we reach our destination. That concerns the relationship of the believer to the law. This will be our final session in [...]

In our previous session we examined in some detail the very surprising statement that the law brings sin right out into the open. So, far from giving us victory over sin, it actually strenghtens sin, and provokes sin out of us which is a statement [...]

This is an excerpt from: Do You Realize How Valuable You Are? Now I want to go to the next parable and this is my closing thought. And this is where it comes down to you. So we go on in Matthew 13: 45–46. This is the parable I love. I know there [...]

This is an excerpt from: Do You Realize How Valuable You Are? When I was a very new Christian, about two years old in the Lord. The British army I was in the medical corps posted me to the Sudan. The Sudan, believe me, is a tough country. As a [...]

I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence; I possess knowledge and discretion. To fear the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech. - NIV Wisdom comes to us in the Scripture sometimes as a person and speaks [...]

My son, do not despise the LORD’S discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in. - NIV Discipline is a mark of love. Many have gone astray in our contemporary culture and [...]

This word is taken from Psalm 23. David begins the psalm by acknowledging the Lord as his shepherd. Then in verse 5 he says to the Lord: "You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup [...]

The word is from Psalm 23, a psalm of David. David begins the psalm by saying: "The LORD is my shepherd, I shall lack nothing." NIV. Then he speaks about all the provisions that come to him as being the one whom the Lord shepherds, and in [...]

This particular Word is a word spoken by the psalmist to the Lord: "Yet thou art holy, O Thou who art enthroned upon the praises of Israel." - NASB. What a beautiful revelation that is when we realize that the throne that God sits upon is [...]

In our last session we entered into the final stage of this pilgrimage before we reach our climax and our goal which is Romans 8. We began to study Romans 7 which is the chapter that deals with the relationship of the believer to the law. I warned [...]

This is an excerpt from: Do You Realize How Valuable You Are? There’s a passage in 1 Corinthians 15, which is very exciting to me. 1 Corinthians 15 Verse 45 and following. And so it is written, The first man, the first Adam and you know Adam in [...]

This is an excerpt from: Do You Realize How Valuable You Are? I want to turn to a Scripture in James chapter 4 verse 5. Now there are as many different ways of translating this verse as there are translations, but I will give you what I believe to [...]

The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God my Savior! - Psalm 18:46, NIV That’s a very important statement. The Lord lives. God is alive. Do you realize that? God is alive. It’s related that once in the life of Martin Luther, his wife [...]

To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd. - Psalm 18:26, NIV There’s a deep, abiding principle there that the way we [...]

At the end of our last session we came to the end of stage 9 of our pilgrimage. Stage 9 dealt with God’s program for the old man which we stated was execution and in the final session we dealt with how to apply that solution in our own lives. I [...]

This is a clip from the full sermon: Do You Realize How Valuable You Are? So Adam and Eve were created for one supreme purpose to have fellowship with God. And the record makes it clear that God came each evening into the garden it says in the wind [...]

As for me, I shall behold Thy face in righteousness; I will be satisfied with Thy likeness when I awake. - Psalm 17:15 NASB What beautiful words, what a beautiful expectation the expectation of every true believer, one that extends beyond the end [...]

I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. - Psalm 16:7 NIV I can echo those words of David. I know what it is to have access to the Lord’s counsel. I value the counsel of the Lord above that of all human wisdom. [...]

In our previous two sessions we’ve been looking at stage 8 of our pilgrimage which is God’s solution for the old man and we saw that that solution is summed up in one word: execution. But the mercy of God lies in this: that the execution took place [...]

This is an excerpt from: Do You Realize How Valuable You Are? I always have, I am so glad to have Jenka here, because I think like an African in many ways having spent a good part of my life in Africa. And We Europeans, we’re sort of rather a long [...]

This is an excerpt from: Do You Realize How Valuable You Are? We’re going to begin with a proclamation. We always begin by proclaiming a Scripture. This one is taken from 1 John chapter 4 verse 16. We have known and believed, the love that God has [...]

We’re going to begin with a proclamation. We always begin by proclaiming a Scripture. This one is taken from 1 John chapter 4 verse 16. We have known and believed, the love that God has for us. God is love and he who abides in love abides in God, [...]

The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times - Psalm 12:6, NIV The words of the LORD those are the words that are brought to us in Scripture. They’re flawless, they’re without error. They are [...]

In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: Flee like a bird to your mountain? - Psalm 11:1, NIV What is your place of refuge? Are you disturbed when people challenge you? Are you disturbed when you look at the uncertainty of the [...]

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. - Hebrews 11:6 NIV If I were to ask you what’s the most important thing what’s the thing [...]

In our previous session we commenced stage 8 of this pilgrimage which is at the beginning of Romans 6 and we looked at Paul’s answer to the suggestion that we might go on living in sin in order that grace might abound. Paul disposed of that [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Two Harvests I want to turn to one closing passage. Let me say this, too. I think it will affect the way you speak to people if you believe in the judgment of God. I don’t have time to go into this from the Scripture. [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Two Harvests I want to go on with the picture of harvest. I want to point out to you something that I haven’t yet touched on. There’s going to be more than one harvest. There’s going to be a harvest of mercy and there’s [...]

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man, that you care for him? - Psalms 8:3-4, NIV When we look around us at the vastness [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Two Harvests Now in Matthew 9, Jesus makes a very, I would say, tragic statement. We’ll begin at verse 36 because again it’s a question of vision. Jesus saw people differently from His disciples. When Jesus saw the [...]

We are now commencing stage 8 of our pilgrimage which will deal with the first part of Romans 6 In the previous session we dealt with the second half of Romans 5 and a very elaborate complicated comparison between Adam and Jesus. I won’t try to [...]

From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. - Psalm 8:2, NIV. One thing we notice in the psalms of David is that he says a great deal about his enemies. If ever a man [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Two Harvests And then we move on into the New Testament and I’m going to read a passage that I read in the previous session. Matthew 13:39, just one very simple statement. 'The harvest is the end of the age.' [...]

In our previous session we worked through the first half of Romans 5 which was stage 6 of our pilgrimage and was headed Five Experiential Results of Being Justified by Faith. Those five results that we studied together were as follows: One, peace [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Two Harvests Let’s go on to Jeremiah 5:23–24. Jeremiah is rebuking the people of his day in Israel. Because they were not aware of what God was doing; they were wrapped up in themselves. In their own carnal concerns. [...]

"Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows." - Galatians 6:7-8, NIV. There’s a warning against deceiving ourselves, imagining that we can sow one thing in life and reap something different, imagining that we can [...]

"For surely, O LORD, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield" - Psalm 5:12, NIV. That’s one thing very sure God blesses the righteous. A lot of things today that we used to count on, we’ve found no [...]

This is a clip from the full sermon: The Two Harvests Harvest is a major theme of scripture that runs right through from the first book to the last. I think it’s first introduced in the time of Noah with God’s promise to Noah that as long as the [...]

Morning by morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; morning by morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation. NIV How do you begin each day? Does your day begin with a scramble, with a flurry, with trying to do three different things at [...]

In our previous two sessions we’ve been looking at Romans 4 and we’ve been focusing mainly on the example and the pattern of Abraham and his faith. We’ve seen the conditions that Abraham had to fulfill in order to become the father of a great [...]

Harvest is a major theme of scripture that runs right through from the first book to the last. I think it’s first introduced in the time of Noah with God’s promise to Noah that as long as the earth remains, seed time and harvest will continue. But I [...]

This is an excerpt from: Take Heed That You Are Not Deceived Paul wrote two things to the Corinthians, in 2 Corinthians chapter 3, 2 Corinthians 3: verses 12 and 13: "Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech", [...]

I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety - NIV. One of the beautiful revelations of Scripture is that sleep is a gift of God for His beloved. And so David could say, in the midst of pressures and war and [...]

We’re continuing now with our study in Romans 4. In the previous session we looked at the first half of the chapter which establishes the fact that the two great fathers of Israel, Abraham and David, both received righteousness from God on the basis [...]

We’re beginning now, stage 5, in this pilgrimage that we’re making of which the destination is Romans 8. We’ve covered a lot of ground, but we have a lot of rather difficult country still to cover before we get into our destination. In the previous [...]