“ Great warning. ” Blessed message: Christians, and especially ministers of the Gospel should not play with sin. God will discipline those who do that.
“ Great warning. ” Blessed warning. It is true: we live hard times, unthinkable some centuries ago. temptation and sin is so available. But Christ called us to purity. His power can help us to live in His will.
“ Great Sermon! ” If I made a list of the top 5 sermons that I ever heard over 39 years that deals with a saved person's struggle with sin this MP3 would be in it. To say this MP3 is a tremendous sermon would be understatement of the highest order.
If you think you are a Paul the Apostle type and you don't need to deal with sin your life make sure not to download this MP3.
“ Great lessons. ” Blessed lessons from this comparison between the actings of demons and those of sins in people's life. They have the same nature. Good and needed warning.
“ Blessed Gospel. ” Blessed proclamation of the true state of man, living in independence to God, in selfishness, and of the true salvation only in Christ and in His sacrifice for sin.
“ Great Sermon! ” I scanned through the Movie a couple of days ago because my dad was watching a program on TBN (The Blasphemous Network) about how the movie had saved so many people. I told my daddy what I knew of the movie such as the numerous Catholic references, but I think he chose to believe the so called witnesses on the program. The Bible tells us it is through the preaching of the word that men are saved. This movie was all in Aramaic with no subtitles. There is a very eerie scene, not to mention unBiblical, with the actor portraying the Lord in the garden and Satan appearing to him. The actor is really an actress since Gibson has a woman playing the role of the Devil. She did look very demonic. Also, Mary is shown as co-redemptress as the Catholic institution teaches. She helps him as he falls under the cross. I truly believe the "churches" that have shown and continue to show this horrible film are already being judged with even more spiritual blindness. May God very soon judge his people with the refiners fire and turn us back to Him and His truths.
“ More helpful principles ” A charitable use of the tongue requires that we speak the truth in love; that we not flatter; and that we not gossip or slander. The section on gossip and slander is especially vivid, with word pictures from the Bible depicting the slanderer as a flame-thrower, a farmer sowing corrupt seed, and more.
“ Helpful message ” Primarily focuses on a charitable concern for others: that we are to do good when we can, not delaying, not declining and hoping someone else will do it. Also, not to ever devise evil. The message mentions the prior stages before we reach the point of actually devising evil: a bitterness not put to death, leading to lack of communication, coldness and finally to actual plans to harm. It's sobering to realize what may come of attitudes not dealt with in their early stages.
“ Very helpful material! ” Contact, communication, candor, constancy, and love . . . the essential elements of meaningful, intimate, constructive friendship. Face-to-face contact to be preferred; time must be set aside for friendship; disclosure of one's thoughts, dreams, troubles, challenges needed; retreat, withdrawal, avoidance not to be practised; initiative to be taken; truthfulness always--and this does not mean indiscretion or haste, but it does preclude all disingenuousness; loyalty required . . . and Jesus Christ's friendship with his disciples the example for us.
“ Wise Foundations ” The foundations of friendship in the nature of God: God is triune. In the creation of man: not good for Adam to be alone. Sin destroys friendships; but sin also underscores the vital need for friendships. In a world of sin with sinful hearts we need to have and to be faithful friends who "exhort one another daily . . . lest anyone be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin." Lonerism isn't biblical or safe. A powerful biblical incentive to do the work of biblical friendship.
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