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There Is A King In Me

unbound48 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:02:37 +0000

There Is A King In Me

unbound48 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:56:55 +0000

Main Passage: 2 Chronicles 33:10-16

10 And the Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not listen. 11 Therefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylo

n. 12 Now when he was in affliction, he implored the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 and prayed to Him; and He received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

14 After this he built a wall outside the City of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate; and it enclosed Ophel, and he raised it to a very great height. Then he put military captains in all the fortified cities of Judah. 15 He took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem; and he cast them out of the city. 16 He also repaired the altar of the Lord, sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and commanded Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.

The New King James Version

Introduction:

Out Line:

The Predicament Of A Fallen King: 2 Chron. 33:10-11
1. The Doctrine Of The Fall:
2. The Illustration Of The Fall: Adam
3. Zechariah, 13:9 “I will bring the one-third through the fire,
5. And Eve
6. The Application Of The Fall: We All Fall Short

The Affliction Of A Dawning King: 2 Chron. 33:12a
1. The Sanctified Affliction: A Means Of Grace
  1. Illustration: Poison out of the medicine
1. The Crucifixion Of Affliction: Christ Our Example Of Affliction
  1. The Christian Life Is A life Of Suffering
  2. Christ Suffered For Our Sin
    1. That we might not suffer because of our sin rather
    2. That we may suffer in resisting our sin
1. The Fruitfulness Of Affliction: Confession, Either To Salvation Or Damnation

The Brokenness Of A Humbled King: 2 Chron. 33:12b
1. The Means that lead to Repentance: G
3. odly Sorrow
  1. The Law Breaks the sin hardened heart
    1. Illustration: The sewing needle
    2. Application: Have you been brought to a saving knowledge of Jesus?
      1. If so the same way you get saved is the same way you stay saved

The Prayer Of A New Born King: 2 Chron. 33:13a
1. Regeneration: Being Born Again/A New Life/ A New Disposition
  1. Illustration: Christ being conceived in Mary
    1. Expound Christ being formed in you
  1. Application: Has Christ been conceived in the womb of your heart?
    1. Ezek. 36:26-27 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.

The Answer Of The KING Of Kings: 2 Chron. 33:13b
1. He Receives All Who Come To Him in Faith:
  1. John 6:37, Jesus says, “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.”
  2. Romans 8:15 puts it this way, “For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by which we cry out, ‘Abba, Father.’”

Will refine them as silver is refined,

And test them as gold is tested.

They will call on My name,

And I will answer them.

I will say, ‘This is My people’;

And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”

1 Cor. 1:2 Paul says, “To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord,…”

The Restoration Of A Predestined King: 2 Chron. 33:13c
1. Before the foundations of the world: He has had a plan for you
  1. Eph 1:4-5, ” just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,”
  2. Eph 2:10, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we
  3. should walk in them.”

The Affirmations Of An Assured King: 2 Chron. 33:13d
1. If He indeed started something in you He will finish
  1. Phil. 1:6, “

6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;”

Illustration: Rachael, with two nations is her womb

The Accomplishments Of A Redeemed King: 2 Chron. 33:14-16
1. A life in the Spirit is a purposeful
  1. Illustration: Remote in El Salvador

Close by quoting Psalm One and Prayer

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Obtaining True Happiness

unbound48 — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:21:46 +0000

What do I mean when I say the true Christian is happy? Has he no doubts and no fears? Has he no anxieties and no troubles? Has he no sorrows and no cares? Does he never feel pain, and shed no tears? Far be it from me to say anything of the kind! He has a body weak and is frail like other men; he has affections and passions like everyone born of woman; he lives in an ever changing world. But deep down in his heart, he has a mine of solid peace and substantial joy which is never exhausted! This is true happiness.

~ J.C. Ryle

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Self-Confidence & Preaching

unbound48 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:47:39 +0000

…..from one of the greatest preachers of the nineteenth century, James Henley Thornwell:

“It is a great matter to understand what it is to be a preacher, and how preaching should be done. Effective sermons are the offspring of study, of discipline, of prayer, and especially of the unction of the Holy Ghost… My own performances in this way fill me with disgust. I have never made, much less preached, a sermon in my life, and I begin to despair of ever being able to do so.”

Distrust in oneself must mark the preacher. The most-used preachers in the church have always been those who say, ‘No-one knows how to preach.’ A self-confident preacher ought to be a contradiction in terms.

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Mercy Mixed With Affliction

unbound48 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:55:40 +0000

God intermixeth mercy with affliction: he steeps his sword of justice in the oil of mercy; there was no night so dark, but Israel had a pillar of fire in it; there is no condition so dismal, but we may see a pillar of fire to give light. If the body be in pain, conscience is in peace, –there is mercy: affliction is for the prevention of sin, –there is mercy. In the ark there was a rod and a pot of manna, the emblem of a Christian’s condition, mercy interlined with judgment.

Thomas Watson

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Psalm 119:1

unbound48 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:08:47 +0000

Psalm 119:1 NASB

“How blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord.”

*How blessed or highly favored and truly happy are those…

Favor is from on high. Being connected to the Almighty in sweet fellowship with the Lord makes one blessed and truly happy. These blessed ones are those whose way is blameless. Above reproach.

Meaning: not sinless but by His grace they sin-less. These are those who keep close accounts with their master and who do not let outstanding debts pile up unaccounted for. Their way is blameless. They take full responsibility for their sins and deal with them before their Lord regularly.

Their way is His way in spite of their weaknesses. These are those rare creatures who walk-live by-and are governed by the law of the Lord. They’re no longer under law but by His empowering grace they are enabled to walk in the law of the Lord and because of Jesus they fulfill it.

By: Steve E. Chavez

Filed under: Christian Doctrine Tagged: Almighty, Christ, God, Grace, Jesus, Law, Lord, New American Standard Bible

Amazing Grace

unbound48 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:52:07 +0000

“It is grace at the beginning, grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lay on our deathbeds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us at the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace.”

–By D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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To Die Is Gain!

unbound48 — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:40:22 +0000

To Die Is Gain!.

Many persons profess to receive much comfort from the hope that they shall not die. Certainly there will be some who will be “alive and remain” at the coming of the Lord, but is there so very much of advantage in such an escape from death as to make it the object of Christian desire? A wise man might prefer of the two to die, for those who shall not die, but who “shall be caught up together with the Lord in the air,” will be losers rather than gainers. They will lose that actual fellowship with Christ in the tomb which dying saints will have, and we are expressly told they shall have no preference beyond those who are asleep. Let us be of Paul’s mind when he said that “To die is gain,” and think of “departing to be with Christ, which is far better.” This Psalm 23:1-6 is not worn out, and it is as sweet in a believer’s ear now as it was in David’s time, let novelty-hunters say what they will.”

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No Universal Peace Until Christ Appears

unbound48 — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:49:21 +0000

Let us not be carried away by the common idea, that the world will be converted before the Lord Jesus returns, and the earth filled with the knowledge of the Lord. It will not be so. There is nothing in Scripture to justify such expectations. Let us cease to expect a reign of peace. Let us rather look for wars. Let us cease to expect all men to be made holy by any existing instrumentality–schools, missions, preaching, or anything of the kind. Let us rather look for the rise of Antichrist Himself. Let us understand that we live in a day of election, and not of universal conversion. There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears. There will be no universal holiness until Satan is bound. It may cost us much to hold such opinions as these. But there is not a church or congregation on earth, whose state does not show that these opinions are true, and that while “many are called, few are chosen.” It may bring on us the unkind remarks and the unfavorable judgment of many. But the end will prove who is right and who is wrong. For that end let us wait patiently. Let us labor, and teach, and work, and pray. But let it not surprise us if we find our Lord’s word strictly true – “Narrow is the way which leads unto life, and few there be that find it.” (Matt. 7:14)

~ J.C. Ryle

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Hello world!

unbound48 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:21:56 +0000

“Whosoever drinketh of water that I shall give him shall never thirst.” It is clear from this that true religion must come to us as a gift. The water that I shall give him, says Christ. There is no suggestion as to digging deep with much learning into the bowels of mysterious truth to find the water for ourselves; this priceless draught is freely handed out to us by our Redeemer, without our bringing either bucket or line. There is no hint in the text that we are to purchase the lifegiving water; it is presented to us without money and without price. There is no allusion to a certain measure of fitness to qualify us for the draught, it is purely a gift to be received by us here and now.

Our Lord Jesus told the woman that had she known the gift of God she would have asked and he would have given. Sinner as she was, she had only to ask and have. There is no other way of obtaining eternal life but as the free gift of sovereign grace. The divine life is not in us by nature, it cannot be produced in us by culture, nor infused into us by ceremonies, nor propagated in us by natural descent, it must come as a boon of infinite charity from heaven, unpurchased, undeserved. Wisdom cannot impart it, power cannot fashion it, money cannot buy it, merit cannot procure it, grace alone can give it.

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