“ Excellent job on difficult subject! ” The co-existence of God's sovereignty and man's responsibility in salvation is one of the most difficult topics in all of scripture. But both truths are evident in scripture and Pastor Sukhia does an excellent job in his presentation of this topic. We cannot deny God's sovereignty- for to do so would be denying the true God. But we must also remember our responsibilities in spreading the gospel so that God can touch the hearts of his elect. This is a message all believers should hear. God bless Pastor Sukhia for spreading the truth.
“ Great Sermon! ” A great, great sermon. If I were to hand pick 5 sermons on Election to recommend to an Armenian Brother in Christ, this would be one of them.
“ Great Sermon! ” A rewarding message that greatly enrichs and renews through scripture to the glory of God. This message is filled with scripture that speaks to the heart and mind and must reside within to quicken us with the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit with which all believers are sealed (Ephesians 1:13).
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“ Great Sermon! ” A deep message that we should listen to
on a regular basis to see where we
stand with God and the world. We need
to keep the Holy Bible open throughout
the day to stengthen us every day because the daily temptations are with
us always and we need to look to
the Holy Spirit for direction and
guidance.
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Subscription is free (and easy) simply by browsing iTunes for the Liberty PCA podcasts.
“ Great Sermon! ” Not only was this message well researched and cited Biblically, but the manner/style of the presentation kept me on the edge of my seat. The Doctrine of Election has never been better outlined and presented.
“ The Gospel in a Nutshell ” Have you ever doubted the truth of John 3:16 by wondering how God could really love the world when there are so many disasters, poverties and miseries in it? Here Pastor Sukhia effectively addresses these questions by first focusing on an often-overlooked word in this verse: perish. Pastor Sukhia gives us the good news of John 3:16...but first he paints us the necessary backdrop in order for us to better appreciate the magnitude of God’s good news.
We’re all members of a condemned race of tainted sinners and we are all perishing because every one of us has rebelled against and disobeyed our Creator. We may not like this fact, but we are utterly powerless to change it because it’s our nature. (1 John 1:8)
God’s holy nature requires Him to be a just judge and therefore He can’t even look upon iniquity. He must – and He will – punish sin.
To rightly appreciate the incomparable goodness of John 3:16, we must have a correct biblical understanding of the unspeakable horror of what it means to perish. This is the awful (but true) portrait of our predicament – and it’s against this backdrop that Pastor Sukhia lays out the glorious good news of the gospel.
“ God’s Oft Ignored Attribute: His Perfect Justice ” Growing up I lost count of the number of times I heard pastors focusing on God’s great love to the exclusion of His other equally important attributes. That’s why I’m so grateful to Pastor Sukhia for faithfully proclaiming the whole counsel of God – which necessarily must include God’s infinite justice and abhorrence of sin.
Of course God is loving, merciful, compassionate and longsuffering – virtually every churchgoer knows that. But here Pastor Sukhia explains that God’s holiness means He cannot even look upon iniquity. "It is God’s nature to be holy just as it is fire’s nature to consume."
It is because God is a righteous judge that He must punish our sins. Christ spoke on more occasions about hell than heaven. This message effectively reminds us there can be no doubt about God’s justice; and consequently it also reminds us of mankind’s desperate need for a Saviour.
“ Great Sermon! ” Pastor Sukhia absolutely amazed me as he examined this seemingly straightforward verse.
This message showed me the biblical truth that, from the opening chapter in the first book of the N.T., God worked out His consistent plan of salvation: that Jesus is eternal God; that mankind can’t save themselves and is utterly hopeless apart from God’s intervention; that Jesus didn’t just make salvation “possible” for a representative group of people but rather He DID SAVE every single person chosen from before the foundation of the world; and that He paid for specific sins committed by specific people.
No doubt this verse will be a part of many Advent sermons this month; however, most teachers probably will not be as thorough as Pastor Sukhia in plumbing the depths of Scripture in order to reveal the gospel message.
Thank you…and please keep these kinds of messages coming!
“ Defending the Infallibility of Scripture ” Like a meticulous defense attorney, Pastor Sukhia lays out a mountain of evidence pointing to the inescapable conclusion that the entire Bible from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 is inspired by God. For those questioning this biblical truth, he diligently lays out the consequences of such thought: if there’s even the possibility of just one error in the Bible, then it didn’t come from God. As a result, there could well be thousands of errors. If we can’t trust what God says about the creation of the world, then how can we trust what He says about salvation? This message reminds us that the Bible doesn’t just contain God’s Word…it IS God’s Word. In times when an increasing number of traditional mainline churches are chipping away at the inerrancy and infallibility of scripture, Pastor Sukhia proclaims the biblical truth concerning the inspiration of the Bible.
“ Great Sermon! ” I've heard this familiar story since my childhood. Until I heard this message I didn’t think I could garner new insights from it…but I did. Pastor Sukhia took an O.T. story deeply etched into my mind and enabled me to look at as though it was the first time. He took a three thousand year old story and made fresh and relevant applications to my life today.
What did I take away? All of us have a choice…we can bow to the pressures of a society that increasingly is squeezing Christ out from every corner of our lives or we can remain faithful to what God tells us in His Word and deliberately purpose in our hearts not to defile Him.
Pastor Sukhia reminded me in this message that incomplete obedience is nothing more than disobedience. That was something I needed to hear. It’s one of the principle themes in Daniel 3, but my blind eyes didn’t see it until Pastor Sukhia opened up God’s Word.
“ Great Sermon! ” FINALLY! A pastor who tells us the unvarnished truth about ourselves – just like the Bible. In my years I’ve heard too many pastors (for whatever their reasons) preach diluted gospels from their pulpits…unwilling to acknowledge the biblical truth about mankind’s total depravity and consequently unable to demonstrate the common need all of us have for a Saviour.
Today, it may not be politically correct to boldly preach the true gospel of the Bible but thankfully - and by God’s grace - there are still faithful pastors out there preaching the whole counsel of God.
If you’re edified by messages from the likes of Donald Grey Barnhouse and James Montgomery Boice, then I believe you’ll also be edified from Pastor Sukhia’s messages.
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