Family Life Baptist Church Sermon Audio

Peter knew, for a fact, that the fear of death that had caused him to deny Jesus was baseless. The resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ taught Peter that people actually do not die; rather, they simply go somewhere else to live.

We must learn to accept rebuke calmly, consider the objective content of the rebuke, be slow to take offense, but always be ready for repentance and reconciliation.

We ought not let childhood things negatively influence our behavior. It is not ours to look back at the slights we feel from our history, but to move on to our destiny.

When we decide that we are ]good Christians^, we have the tendency to develop either disdain or anger for those that are not, even as Moses showed his disdain for his fellow Israelites by calling them ]rebels^. We have to be vigilant to be neither disdainful of nor angry with one another in order to overcome evil with good.

Rationality and logic, wisdom and knowledge are wonderful things to have, but you can have all of those things and still come to naught. But the attribute that is necessary to make rational thought profitable is love.

It does not matter that which you have done to displease the Lord, because there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus. There is only the admonition to start following Jesus' commandment today. And Jesus' commandment is to love one another.

It has taken me 60 years, but I have finally figured it out. If you want to be exalted in heaven, love someone sacrificially here. And the best place to start is at home, with your husband or wife.

We that plan to go into the Kingdom of Heaven need to remain vigilantly on watch for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ at all times, as He is coming at an hour that we do not expect.

If we believe in Jesus Christ, meaning, if we believe that Jesus Christ actually existed, that Jesus Christ is a Wonderful Counselor and that we should do as Jesus Christ instructs us, that Jesus Christ was sent by God, and that Jesus Christ is actually God in the flesh, our primary act of belief in Him is fulfilling His commandment to love one another.

God has ordained that a person's primary relationship is supposed to be between themselves and their own spouse, not with a mother or with a child. A child is supposed to bond to their own spouse and create their own family, hopefully, without interference from their mother.

The Church was born out of death. Jesus Christ died on the Cross. If we learn nothing else from our belief in Jesus Christ, we should learn that we are going to live forever.

The Bible teaches that that there are two aspects to faithfulness. One can be unfaithful to a spouse by having sex with someone other than the spouse, or one can be unfaithful to a spouse by depriving them without consent for a time.

A woman appealing to a man is the design of male/female relationships. Didn't you have to appeal to your husband to get him interested in you in the first place? Then, when you became girlfriend and boyfriend, didn't you have to be appealing to him to convince him to give you that ring?

God does not command us to feel an emotion. God commands us to act; to give ourselves to one another sacrificially, even as He gave His Son to us sacrificially. The emotion that we colloquially call love is our reward for giving ourselves.

Jesus Christ has paid our penalty, so we don't have to continue to find someone to blame for our circumstances and we don't have to continue to justify that which we do by making it someone else's fault.

Jesus Christ did not come to condemn us, but He did come to admonish us stop listening to the foolishness of the devil and disobeying the instructions of God.

Every time we decide to ]do our own thing^ rather than following God's instructions, we ultimately learn, by our own experience, that God's instructions are correct and our ]thing^ is wrong.

God commands that we live, not by the excitement of sexual or emotional attraction, but by the stable principle of commitment.

Jesus saved the day at a wedding at the behest of the mother whom He loved, because Jesus' ministry was not about ceremonial law or sacrifices, but about love.

When we find that our plans are in conflict with the plans of God, we ought make the conscious choice to follow God, as Mary did.