Are you doing all you can to add to your faith? Peter has discussed the objective truths that ground our faith: 1) God's power and 2) God's redemptive promises. Peter has assured us that God's power has been released in fulfilling his redemptive promises in the work of Christ Jesus. Grounded in this belief, we are commanded to make every effort to supplement our faith. With this, we begin to look at the subjective qualities that provide the experience of assurance in our faith. However, before we look at the qualities of virtue, knowledge, self-control, steadfast-ness, godliness, brotherly affection, and love we must be sure we are grounding our attempts in the accomplished work of Christ. Once we are grounded in the work of Christ, then (and only then) are we to do all we can to suppliment our faith. Listen as Charlie preaches from 2 Peter 1:5.

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Peter writes 2 Peter 1:1 – 11 to guide believers into assurance of their salvation. He does so as the first point in teaching believers how to discern error in false teachers. The test involves an objective and subjective test. The objective test has two aspects. The first aspect of the objective test is God's power found in 2 Peter 1:3. Today we will look at the second aspect of this test, God's promises. These two aspects will conclude the objective test portion of the test. The subjective portion of the test he will discuss in verses 5 - 7. However, at hand Peter is explaining what we objectively place our faith in, God's power and promises. Listen as Charlie Nason explains God's promises from 2 Peter 1:4.

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Peter begins this book by developing a way to test a persons faith. Are you sure you have saving faith in Jesus Christ? Peter, Paul, and Christ suggest that there is a false belief. In 2 Peter 1:3 - 11, provides the test of genuine faith. Peter explains the Provision, Practice, and Pledge of God. Each of these have impact as a test of the genuineness of a believer's faith. This sermon deals with the Provision of God in verse three. The first provision of God is his divine power. Listen as Charlie introduces the passage (2 Peter 1:3 - 11) and then explains the first provision of God, his power, from verse three.

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Second Peter is one of five books written against false teachers. These books written at the end of the author's ministry displayed a unified concern for teaching truth to a church at risk of being infected with false teaching. These books guide the church into truth and away from teachings that will damage and destroy the church as a lamp stand in the community. This type of teaching is necessary for each individual Christian and each church community. As Peter introduces this book, we find some astounding truths to hold onto. Listen as Charlie Nason preaches from 2 Peter 1:1-2.

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Paul commands believers to flee sexual immorality and to glorify God with their bodies. These two commands are effective only in those who have been cleansed, sanctified, and justified. This is an important starting point. However, once we have started how do we flee sexual immorality and how do we glorify God in our bodies. Paul's answer is that you flee by glorifying. Listen as Charlie Nason preaches from 1 Corinthians 6:12-20.

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Paul sets his cross-hairs on the church and how they as a community are to remain pure and useful. Paul uses the analogy of leaven and corrects a wrong interpretation the church had of his last instruction. These truths from Paul are desperately needed in the church today. Listen as Charlie Nason preaches from 1 Corinthians 5:6 - 13.

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Paul has finished his teaching on Christ and him crucified from the first four chapters. Paul now begins to apply that teaching to a church who is arrogant while there is sin in the church. Paul deals with the church although he is absent from them in body he is present in spirit. Therefore, he urges them to hand the one in sin over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that his spirit might be saved in the Day of the Lord. This passage (1 Cor. 5:1 - 5) is packed. Listen as Charlie teaches from this text.

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What is the difference between judging and evaluating? Paul, in chapter 4, concludes the argument he started in chapter 1. Paul does so by teaching four principles of Going Beyond. First, do not go beyond your authority to judge. Second, do not go beyond the bounds of Scripture. Third, do not go beyond the chronology of God's timetable. Finally, go beyond the debate. Listen as Charlie teaches from 1 Corinthians 4:1 - 21.

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The Apostle Paul continues to teach Christ and Him crucified. In 1 Corinthians 3:5 - 23, he applies that teaching to church leaders and statagies and the ramifications for doing otherwise. Paul explains how a church grounded on Christ and Him crucified is a unifying church. That means the church is a group of individuals who are unified in his/her own thinking, each person is unified in his/her thinking as it relates to the thoughts of others in the church, and finally they bring this unity to the watching world. Listen as Charlie preaches from 1 Corinthians 3:5 - 23.

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In 1 Corinthians 2:2 Paul says he determined to know nothing among you except Christ and him crucified. We have looked at the person of Christ as God, Servant, Human, and Dependent. How do these things relate to the issues Paul is confronting from chapter one verse one to chapter three verse five? We have heard sermons based on these passages but in light of the past few sermons, we will take an overarching look at 1 Corinthians 1:1 - 3:5. This sermon is by Charlie Nason.

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The Person of Christ is God. The Person of Christ came to serve God in service to humanity as a prophet, priest, and king. The Person of Christ came to serve from a human nature, even though he himself is God and so possesses a divine nature. The Person of Christ accomplishes all that he does in a human nature in the power of the Holy Spirit. Listen as Charlie Nason unpacks the accumulation of these last three sermons in this one. This understanding is what drove Paul to determine to know nothing except Jesus Christ and this one crucified. The sermon begins in John 14:10 - 11.

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One of the modern attacks on the teaching of Jesus as the God/Man is that the church did not have a clear and unified stance on the divinity and humanity of Christ until the fourth or fifth century. Is this a fair accusation? How are we to respond to it today? What does the Bible teach about Christ as the God/Man and what does that mean practically for Christians today? Charlie Nason will answer these questions as he preaches from Hebrews 2:14 - 18.

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Have you heard of the show Undercover Boss? In like manner, the person of God came as the Christ and served humanity and specifically his people. During his life time he was not esteemed as a very important man and yet as God he was holding together every molecule of the universe. He was the ultimate undercover boss as God veiled in flesh. He served in three major roles: 1) Prophet, 2) Priest, and 3) King. Listen as Charlie Nason explains how Jesus served in these areas and what is means for us today. He will begin in Mark 10:45.

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Paul says he determined to know nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified ( 1 Cor. 2:2). To examine who Jesus is we will look at John 1:1-3. In his prolog John shows how the person of Christ is in fact God himself. Listen as Charlie Nason explains how shows this and how this basis grounds Paul's thinking about the world.

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There is a bumper stiker that reads, "Its not a measure of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society!" The church ought to listen to this advice. To what do we compare our spiritual health. If we can crawl while others can't move are we healthy? Paul explains spiritual health in the church of Corinth by exposing how some are being fleshly or merely human and not spiritual. Listen as Charlie Nason expalins Paul's point and perscription regarding being spiritual and not fleshly.  

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How can a modern 21^st century church believe in the miraculous? How can we believe that Jesus died and rose from the dead in a physical body? In fact, we believe much more than that. We believe that this risen Jesus is God in the flesh. We believe that the resurrection proves that Jesus is really God. We believe that the resurrection proves that man is in sin as the Bible says and we are in desperate need of this risen savior. We believe all that the Bible teaches us as literal and true. To believe in the resurrection is as hard to do as it is to rise from the dead itself. John explains how hard it was for Jesus' disciples to believe and in this explanation shows us how one believes. Charlie Nason will walk us through John chapter 20.

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Palm Sunday Jesus rode into Jerusalem with a riotous crowd saying:

Matthew 21:9 (ESV), ⁹ And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

 

Mark 11:9–10 (ESV), ⁹ And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! ¹⁰ Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!”

 

John 12:13 (ESV), ¹³ So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”

The people were wrong! They misunderstood what the Messiah was entering Jerusalem to do. They believed he was going to establish his earthly kingdom. However, he was there to conquer a much more deadly foe than Rome. He was there to conquer sin and death, which had been reigning since the Fall of humanity in Adam. Charlie Nason will explain What's All the Fuss by explaining Genesis 3.

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When and how does someone come to understand? When does comprehension of truth enter into the mind of a person? Paul explains how true spiritual wisdom is produced in a believer. The wisdom and power of Christ and him crucified are not innate in humanity. It has to be produced. Paul explains how. This sermon, by Charlie Nason, is from 1 Corinthians 2:6 - 16.

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In 1 Corinthians 1:26 - 31, Paul continues to expose the foolishness of human wisdom and the weakness of human power in comparision to the wisdom and power of God. If human wisdom is foolishness than is Godly wisdom irrational to humans? How is the power of God displayed? In this sermon Charlie Nason answers these questions.

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Paul says that the word of human wisdom and strength is nullified by the word of the cross. Humanity languishes helpless at the foot of the cross. A person cannot think of a solution for the dilemma nor has the strength to implement one if it were available. Humanity lays dead at the cross until he hears the life-giving call of God. How does one distinguish between mere human wisdom and the word of the cross. Paul outlines the answer in these few short verses. The sermon by Charlie Nason is based on 1 Corinthians 1:18-25.

NOTE: THE RECORDING OF THE SERMON STOPS APPROXIMATELY 5-10 MINUTES BEFORE THE SERMON ACTUALLY ENDED. Sorry for the inconvenience. You can read the finishing of the last point and the conclusion at Sermon Notes (http://www.forministry.com/USCASOBCOBCB2/English/SermonNotes.dsp). The notes are only avaliable from 3/3/10 - 3/9/10. If you are listening after this date and would like the final notes and conclusion please email me at charlie.nason@sbcglobal.net. Thank you.

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