Sermon Notes

Teenage Rebellion

What is freedom?

What makes your pet dog free?

Toying with Truth

Attending class, but not really being there.

Merely listening makes us not only disobedient, but deluded.

Justifying faith in never alone in the one justified.

Are 45% of Americans really born again?

Forgetting what you see in the mirror.

Why do you look into a mirror in the morning?

What is a sermon sampler? (Ezek 33:30-32; 2 Tim 3:7; 2 Peter 2:21)

Troubling for Truth

Searching for gold

"God does not reveal the deep things to the casual Christian who drops in for a chat."

George Duncan

What is James contrasting?

Follow the drinking gourd

To willingly follow God's commandments is freedom. (2 Cor 3:17; Ps 119:45)

Freedom to (Gal 5:13; John 8:34-36; 1 Peter 2:16; Romans 8:2)

The promised blessing for doing the word

(Psalm 1:1-3; 19:11; 128:1-2; Luke 6:35; John 13:17; Heb 11:24-26)

Obeying God is not self-denial, but rather self-fulfillment.