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WHICH WAY

TOPIC: WHICH WAY TEXT; MATT 7:13 Billy Graham t ells of a time early in his ministry when he arrived in a small town to preach a sermon .   W anting to mail a   l ater,  h e asked a young boy where the post office was. When the boy had told him, Dr . Graham thanked him and said “I f you will come to the Baptist church this evening , you  can hear me telling everyone how to get to heave n”   The  boy replied, "I don't think i  will be there. You don't even know your way to the post office ,   h ow are you going to direct me or show me the way to heaven? ”   People have different thinking about what life is ,  and what it means depends on how we understand it .   T he boy in his wisdom  a nd understandings didn't know that this life is a journey . He didn't know that there are two main ways which one leads to death (destruction)  and other one leads to life. He thought  within himself that the man is a sca m...

ATONEMENT FOR SIN

TOPIC:    ATONEMENT FOR SIN TEXT:   leviticus 16:1-34; Hebrews 9:11-14 CENTRAL TRUTH.  Atonement for sin redeems from the authority of sin and God's wrath. MEMORY VERSE: Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 1 Peter 1:18,19 INTRODUCTION From the time of the fall, it had been repeatedly demonstrated that an innocent substitute must bear man's guilt and punishment. God's law, standard of holiness and divine justice demand death for every sin, for the soul that sins must die (Ezek. 18:4.20) The Lord Jesus "the Lamb of God" (John :29) is the consummation of all sacrifices for sin as He shed His precious Blood once and for all, for the sins of many (Heb. 9:22,28). 1. SIN ATONED: Leviticus 16:1-9; 15,16 Prior to the giving of the moral...

THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT

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TOPIC: THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT  TEXT: REVELATION 20:11-15 MEMORY VERSE: “For god shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil” (Ecclesiastes 12:14) CENTRAL TRUTH: Though hand joins in hand, the wicked will not go unpunished.   INTRODUCTION     The great white throne judgment is one of the judgment scenes in history and it is designed by God to bring an end to all evils and evil dowers ever in existence, here all sinners who ever lived and died in ungodliness will be resurrected at the second resurrection after the battle of Gog and Magog at the close of the millennium. They will stand before the great judge who sits upon the Great White Throne to give account of their deeds.     Evil works, every one of it, shall be brought into judgment with every secret thing – no hiding place! Each person “small and great”, will be judged according to his works. God will j...

NEW LIFE FOR A NEW REIGNING

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MEMORY VERSE: " Jesus answered and said unto him, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God". John 3:3 CENTRAL TRUTH: everybody born into the world is a sinner and must come into the saving knowledge of Christ. INTRODUCTION God has always longed to have fellowship with man. He has much love for man, (man was made in His image Gen. 1:27). This love afforded man the privilege of having fellowship with God enjoying His divine presence. But that was until the fall in the Garden of Eden. With the fall, man fell out of favour with God, a great barrier come up between him and God. This result is that man become dead in sins and trespasses (Ephe.2:1). He (she) stared walking according to the course of this world (Ephe. 2:2).man started fashioning his life according to the lust of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. His offspring also became "by nature the children of wrath' (Ephe. 2:3...