Preaching Against Sexual Sin Without Dirty Joking (Ephesians 5:4, 12)
Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place…For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.
–Ephesians 5:4, 12 (ESV)–
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David Wilkerson, “Wild Donkeys.”
—. Set the Trumpet to Thy Mouth (World Challenge, 1985), ch. 2.
—. Racing Toward Judgment (Spire Books, 1976).
—. Hope for Homosexuals (Teen Challenge, 1964).
Dr. John R. Rice, Adultery and Sex Perversion (Sword of the Lord, 1978).
—. What Is Wrong With the Movies? (Sword of the Lord, 1938).
Dr. Hugh Pyle, The Truth About the Homosexuals (Sword of the Lord, 2000).
Dr. Jeff Amsbaugh, Pay-Per-View: The Double Cost of Pornography (Sword, 2008).
Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments (Banner of Truth Trust, 1965), 2.7.
Richard Baxter, A Christian Directory, “Directions Against Fornication” (1.5).
It’s Time for Some Hardcore Preaching Against Sin!
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and shew my people their transgression.
–Isaiah 58:1 (KJV)–
Arminian Conditional Election vs Calvinist Reprobation (Romans 9)
Occupy your mind with Christ and His Gospel in order that you may know your sin and His grace, and then wrestle with your sin, as Romans 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 have taught you to do. After you have arrived at the eighth chapter and are subjected to crosses and sufferings, you will be rightly taught how comforting predestination is, as explained in Romans 9, 10, and 11. For outside of a condition of suffering, cross-bearing, and mortal anguish, a person cannot contemplate predestination without injury to himself and without harboring a secret grudge against God. Therefore Adam must be quite dead before a person can bear to listen to this teaching and drink of this strong wine. Beware, then, of drinking wine while you are still a suckling infant. There is a proper limit, time, and age for every doctrine.
–Martin Luther–
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Martin Luther, Commentary on Romans (Kregel, 1982).
Jack W. Cottrell, “The Classical Arminian View,” in Perspectives on Election (B&H, 2006).
Randolph S. Foster, Objections to Calvinism As It Is (Schmul, 1998), chs. 2-3.
John Wesley, Calvinism Calmly Considered, 2 vols (Schmul, 2002).
—. “Free Grace: Against the Favoritistic False Doctrines of Calvinism.”
Adam Clarke, Clarke’s Commentary, 6 vols (Schmul, n.d.).
God Warns Against Mixture: The Separation of Born Again Believers from the World – Bill Wiese
Soul-Hot Holiness Preaching: There’s Lots of Reasons to Do It
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and shew my people their transgression,
and the house of Jacob their sins.
–Isaiah 58:1 (KJV)–
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it;
for their wickedness is come up before me.
–Jonah 1:2 (KJV)–
Truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord,
and of judgment, and of might,
to declare unto Jacob his transgression,
and to Israel his sin.
–Micah 3:8 (KJV)–
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee
with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
–Hebrews 1:9 (KJV)–
Among them that are born of women
there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist.
–Jesus in Matthew 11:11 (KJV)–

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They say the darkest moment
Is right before the light, before the light
When nothing makes sense anymore
They say that in times of storm
You must gather what remains without letting it perish
Everything that is no longer needed falls away
When an end arrives, it all began
When the sun comes out, you’ll see
Every cloud has a silver lining
My grandfather told me that
He told me that
Every cloud has a silver lining
My grandfather told me that
Look at this miracle
Here we are together again
You give us the vision to understand
When an end arrives, it all began
When the sun comes out, you’ll see
Every cloud has a silver lining
My grandfather told me that
I’ve battled through life
Every cloud has a silver lining
It is comes, it comes
–Puya, “No Hay Mal Que Por Bien No Venga”–
(translated)
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Dr. John R. Rice, Why Preach Against Sin? (Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1985).
Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries (Bethany House, 1979).
The Use and Misuse of the Word Pharisee – Good Fight Ministries
Spirit-Filled Living and God’s Eternal Plan (Romans 8)
What the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
–Romans 8:3-4 (NIV)–
The Spirit helps us in our weakness.
We do not know what we ought to pray for,
but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people
in accordance with the will of God.
–Romans 8:26-27 (NIV)–
Those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
–Romans 8:29-30 (NIV)–
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Jack W. Cottrell, “The Classical Arminian View,” in Perspectives on Election (B&H, 2006).
Randolph S. Foster, Objections to Calvinism As It Is (Schmul, 1998), chs. 2-3.
John Wesley, Calvinism Calmly Considered, 2 vols (Schmul, 2002).
Peter Denies Jesus (John 18:12-27) – Jonny Ardavanis
REALLY, REALLY GREAT PREACHING.
–J.B.–
Confronting Catholic and Protestant Easy Believism (Galatians 6)
The works of the flesh are evident:
sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery,
enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions,
divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these.
I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who
do such things WILL NOT INHERIT
THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
–Galatians 5:19-21 (ESV)–
The one who sows to his own flesh
will from the flesh reap corruption,
but the one who sows to the Spirit
will from the Spirit reap ETERNAL LIFE.
–Galatians 6:8 (ESV)–
The times of ignorance God overlooked,
but now he commands
all people everywhere to REPENT.
–Acts 17:30 (ESV)–
SUBMIT yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
–James 4:7 (ESV)–
Strive for peace with everyone,
and for the HOLINESS
without which no one will see the Lord.
–Hebrews 12:14 (ESV)–
