Sunday, March 29, 2020

You Don't Fit

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DATE: Sunday PM, March 22, 2020
SERMON BY: Dr. John Waterloo
SERMON TITLE: You Don’t Fit   
SERMON THEME: Believers Do NOT Fit in the World
SERMON SERIES: 1Samuel
SERMON VERSES: 1Samuel 29:1-11; John 15:18-25

Why don’t we fit? — God has condemned this World!    
* We are IN the World (physically) but not OF the world (spiritually); we have a different community    
* We use a different language; we talk about spiritual things using spiritual terms    
* We have a different philosophy; we THINK different (Biblical Worldview)    
* We have different standards! (1Peter 4:4) — Purity, Modesty, Godliness, Integrity, Honesty, Separation    

Consequently, The world hates and persecutes Christians because…    
* The World is INTOLERANT!  The world touts tolerance, but it does not practice true tolerance.  The world hated Jesus… without a cause!    
* We remind the World of their sin and their eventual judgment; we are an offense to the World    
* Misery loves company.  The hopeless world hates Christians because Christians have HOPE!    

We don’t fit into the World, but…    
* Do we fit into the Family of God (? Do we fit in the local family, the local NT Church? (1Corinthians 2:14)    
* Stop being a hypocrite!  Don’t try to fit into the World.  If we are trying to fit into this lost and dying world, then we are being a hypocrite.    
* We are to love the people of this world because Jesus loved the World (the people, not the system).  Remember that before we knew Jesus we were OF this World.

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Consulting with a Witch!

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DATE: Sunday AM, March 29, 2029
SERMON BY: Dr. John Waterloo
SERMON TITLE: Consulting with a Witch!
SERMON THEME: Where Do We Get our Information?
SERMON SERIES: 1Samuel
SERMON VERSES: 1Samuel 28:7-18

Where you get your information MATTERS!  Saul brings about his own demise… through REBELLION and seeking information from WITCHCRAFT

1. Remove iniquity from our lives so we can have God’s presence and guidance
2. Seek and then follow godly counsel before you become desperate!
3. Who are you placing your trust in?
   • How much time do you spend with what source?
   • Who do you run to first?
   • You demonstrate who you trust, by what you do!

In Desperate times…
   * we need a Savior!
   * we need to seek the Savior FIRST
   * we need to avoid Satan’s minions
   * we need to make sure our sources is sure: the TRUTH of the Word of God!


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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

When Things Come to a Halt

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DATE: Wednesday PM, March 25, 2020    
SERMON BY: Dr. John Waterloo
SERMON TITLE: When Things Come to a Halt
SERMON THEME: In Stillness, God will do Great Things
SERMON SERIES: Edifying the Body
SERMON TEXT: Acts 24:24-25:12; Exodus 14:13, 14; Numbers 9:8; Psalms 4:4: Psalm 46:10

How do we handle solitude? — Some of our greatest works are accomplished when we are still
* Stillness helps us see things in a proper perspective; perspective is a byproduct of solitude and contemplation, not busyness.
* Stillness allows you to hear from the master (1Kings 19:11-12)
* Stillness allows you to prepare for what is ahead

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Sunday, March 22, 2020

Being Content in Every Situation

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DATE: Sunday PM, March 22, 2020
SERMON BY: Dr. John Waterloo
SERMON TITLE: Being Content in Every Situation
SERMON THEME: Whatever Your Lot, Abide… until God Permits a Change
SERMON SERIES: Edifying the Body
SERMON VERSES: 1Corinthians 7:17-24; Philippians 4:10-12; 1Timothy 6:6-8; Hebrews 13:5

* Learn to be content. It’s a choice!
* Be content with our necessities.  Learn to live with less!
* We can be content no matter what, because we still have Jesus. Jesus will never leave us or forsake us!
* Be content with being flexible.  Life is change!

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A Time to Fear!

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DATE: Sunday AM, March 22, 2029
SERMON BY: Dr. John Waterloo
SERMON TITLE: A Time to Fear!
SERMON THEME: What or Whom Should We Fear?
SERMON SERIES: 1Samuel
SERMON VERSES: 1Samuel 28:1-6

What Saul SHOULD have been afraid of… and what WE should BE afraid of…
* The loss of God’s favor, guidance, and protection! — The Lord had departed from Saul because he had rebelled against and abandoned God, he had killed the prophets, and he had driven David away.  God had removed His empowerment from Saul!  When we rebel in sin, He will remove his empowerment and guidance from us!
* Sinning before God, willfully, and flagrantly!  Saul knew better, but let his pride drive his rebellion (Hebrews 10:26-31; Matthew 10:26-28)
* The coming Tribulation period (Revelation 6, The Seals) - The lost are full of fear because of the current uncertain times, but it can’t even be compared to what will happen during the Tribulation, and especially the Great Tribulation.
* Dying, without God’s forgiveness and spending eternity in the Lake of Fire!

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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

An Opportunity to Prove Our Faith

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DATE: Wednesday PM, March 18, 2020    
SERMON BY: Dr. John Waterloo
SERMON TITLE: An Opportunity to Prove Our Faith
SERMON THEME: Turning Trouble into Tested Faith and God's Glory
SERMON SERIES: Edifying the Body
SERMON TEXT: James 2:14-26; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 91; 1Peter 1:6-9

You say you possess saving faith?  Then prove it by your good works!  Put your faith to work.

How can we put our faith to work?
* SHARE your faith!  A tempestuous time such as this is an opportune opportunity to share our soul- and heart-peace.  We are NOT living in fear!
* PROVE your faith… by loving our neighbors
* AVOID schisms
* TRUSTING GOD through the crisis (Psalm 18:2; Psalm 91)
* MANIFEST to ourselves where our faith stands?  Just how mature are we?  Trials are meant to build us up.
* GROW in our personal relationship with Jesus!  It’s our turn to step up!

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Sunday, March 15, 2020

Sleeping with the Enemy

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DATE: Sunday PM, March 15, 2020
SERMON BY: Dr. John Waterloo
SERMON TITLE: Sleeping With the Enemy
SERMON THEME: David Grows Weary, Focusing Upon the Circumstances and His Emotions
SERMON SERIES: 1Samuel
SERMON VERSES: 1Samuel 27; Galatians 6:9; Hebrews 12:1-3; James 4:4

We must have adequate physical and emotional rest... lest we faint.  The biggest dangers of weariness is COMPROMISE or GIVING IN. When David compromised and fled to the Philistines, he endangered...

* His Faith
* His Fellowship
* His Family, and even
* His Future


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Deja Vu - Another Opportunity to Kill Saul

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DATE: Sunday AM, March 15, 2029
SERMON BY: Dr. John Waterloo
SERMON TITLE: Deja Vu - Another Opportunity to Kill Saul
SERMON THEME: David Again Refuses to Yield to Temptation and Trials
SERMON SERIES: 1Samuel
SERMON VERSES: 1Samuel 26; 1Peter 1:6, 7;

* Be vigilant to avoid temptations... by practicing separation!
* We must expect trials! They are a guaranteed part of life.
* We must toughen up spiritually, and take the World’s abuse, and then learn how to rebound from failure.
* Walk the Walk, and quit pretending and being a hypocrite!  Our walk is much more important than our talk!

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CHOIR SPECIAL: The Wonder of the Cross

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Choir Special: The Wonder of the Cross
March 15, 2020
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Putting the Mountaintops in Perspective

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DATE: Wednesday PM, March 11, 2020    
SERMON BY: Bro. David Barbee
SERMON TITLE: Putting the Mountaintops in Perspective
SERMON THEME: Experiences are Wonderful, but Christ’s Work is Performed, and Spiritual Maturity is Accomplished in the Trenches
SERMON SERIES: Guest Speakers
SERMON VERSES: Matthew 17:1-9, 14-21, 24-27; 18:1-4, 15-17; 2Peter 1:16-21; 2Corinthians 12:7-10

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Sunday, March 08, 2020

Revealing the Lies

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DATE: Sunday PM, March 8, 2020
SERMON BY: Bro. Tim Russell
SERMON TITLE: Revealing the Lies
SERMON THEME: Beware Our Deceitful, Seducing, and Demonic World
SERMON SERIES: Keep the Faith
SERMON VERSES: 2Timothy 2:16-18; 4:3-4

Paul teaches us to take out the trash, e.g.,
* Pointless debates
* Doctrinal perversions (heresy)
* Cultural perversions and confusion (substances, perverted sexuality and immorality, identity, etc.)

The Truth of the Word reveals the lies of the World!  How do we discover the Truth?
* Study the Word - do your very best (a workman who is not ashamed)
* Rightly dividing the Word - Beware manipulating scripture to supposed say what it does not say!
* Faithfully sit under the preaching of Godly pastors and teachers

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The Recipe for Peace

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DATE: Sunday AM, March 8, 2029
SERMON BY: Bro. Lynn Schuyler
SERMON TITLE: The Recipe for Peace
SERMON THEME: God’s Steps to Conquer Anxiety
SERMON SERIES: Standing in the Gap
SERMON VERSES: Philippians 4:6, 7

When we worry, we...
* burn our “engine” unnecessarily
* waste our time

Paul’s recipe for peace
* Be careful for nothing - Quit being anxious; we must allow God be as big as He is!
* Pray about it - Make specific, slow-down-your-life requests (Supplications), with a thankful attitude/mind (Thanksgiving). Part of our prayers should be praise!
* Let it rise! - Don’t suppress our cares, but release them to God!  Otherwise, our cares can erupt forth dangerously, and cause damage. God has got this!

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CHOIR SPECIAL: Never Once

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Choir Special: Never Once
March 8, 2020
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Wednesday, March 04, 2020

The Great Blindness

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DATE: Wednesday PM, March 4, 2020    
SERMON BY: Dr. John Waterloo
SERMON TITLE: The Great Blindness
SERMON THEME: Beware Becoming Spiritually Blind Like the World
SERMON SERIES: Edifying the Body
SERMON VERSES: 2Kings 6:8-23; 2Corinthians 4:1-6

* Things aren’t always as they seem!
* The spiritually blind will live in fear; God has not given us the spirit of fear
* Christians are more and more giving into fear because of their spiritual lethargy

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Sunday, March 01, 2020

One Act of Anger, Pt. 2

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DATE: Sunday PM, March 1, 2020
SERMON BY: Dr. John Waterloo
SERMON TITLE: One Act of Anger, Pt. 2
SERMON THEME: The Danger of Contention and Strife
SERMON SERIES: 1Samuel
SERMON VERSES: Proverbs 13:10; 15:18; 16:28; 17:19; 18:6; 21:9; 22:10; 26:17, 20, 21; 27:15; 29:22; 30:33

* Proverbs 17:14 - Don’t start it! The Pandora’s Box concept.
* Proverbs 15:18 - Take a break and cool down!
* Proverbs 17:1 - Materialism will never make up for a contentious relationship.
* Proverbs 20:3 - Just quit fighting and MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!

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One Act of Anger

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DATE: Sunday AM, March 1, 2020
SERMON BY: Dr. John Waterloo
SERMON TITLE: One Act of Anger
SERMON THEME: The Danger of Anger
SERMON SERIES: 1Samuel
SERMON VERSES: 1Samuel 25:13-17; 32-35; Proverbs 16:32;19:11; James 1:19-20

Dealing with an angry person - Anger must be met with humility (a soft answer turner away wrath)

Causes of ones own anger
* No honor in reacting in human wrath-anger springs from the bosom of fools
* Pride is the root of most anger
* Bitterness poisons our souls and makes us mean-spirited
* When others reveal our personal faults and sins
* Generalizations, such as hating and entire people group

How do I avoid the pitfalls of anger?
* Swift to hear!
* Slow to speak! - The tongue is a fire!  Life and death are in the power of the tongue!
* Slow to wrath!

1. Anger is deadly and is destroying all that God has planned for us
2. We must repent (turn away; forsake) from anger
3. We must restrain our rage by the power of the Holy Spirit

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CHOIR SPECIAL: Cornerstone

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Choir Special: Cornerstone
March 1, 2020
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