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The Believers

Dave Harris | April 30, 2005

Belief is a powerful motivator, but it is not complete by itself even when someone believes what is true. Unbelief, that is, not believing whether true or not, epitomizes someone who is right in his own eyes. One of the lessons we should apply from observing the Days of Unleavened Bread concerns whether or not we believe God. Israel of old, in spite of God’s miraculous intervention on their behalf, did not believe God, and those adults who were delivered out of bondage failed to enter the promised land because of their unbelief.

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The Fall of Jericho

Norbert Link | April 30, 2005

Moses had died. God had not used Moses to bring the people into the Promised Land. Rather, a new leader — Joshua — was sanctified by God to do so. The fall of Jericho has great prophetic and symbolic meaning for us today. Jericho fell on the last day of unleavened bread, after the Israelites had been “baptized” in the river Jordan, had been circumcised, had eaten the Passover, and had circled the city of Jericho for seven days — beginning with the first day of unleavened bread. The fall of Jericho and the conquest of the Promised Land do not just stand for coming out of sin, but they also include entering into God’s righteousness. The events surrounding Jericho’s fall also show God’s warning to this world for 6,000 years, and they symbolize the destruction of this present civilization — modern “Babylon” — and the beginning of the Millennium.

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We Must Walk Out of Egypt

Edwin Pope | April 24, 2005

God has called us for obedience to His Way. Through the blood of Christ our sins which are past have been covered. However, we must not continue in the ways of this world. We are to be walking with God away from this world’s ways. This will require God’s Spirit and the Faith of Jesus Christ working within us. If we are successful in our calling, we will walk with God throughout eternity.

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The Anatomy of Sin

Rene Messier (Canada) | April 24, 2005

This sermon goes into the effects of sin on the human mind and how important it is to replace sin with righteousness especially during the days of unleavened bread.

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Rejoice Always

Norbert Link | April 23, 2005

The fruit of the Holy Spirit includes joy (Galatians 5:22). Therefore, if we are true Christians, we will show, overall, godly joy in our lives. There will be, of course, set-backs, but if we are always down, always depressed, always unhappy and miserable, we are lacking this important character trait of God’s mind and nature. Especially during this time, we are reminded that we are to come out of sin (symbolized by leaven), and that we are to replace sin with righteousness (symbolized by unleavened bread). This means, too, that we are to replace sadness with joy. Paul tells us that we are to rejoice always (1 Thessalonians 5:16).

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Put On The Lord Jesus Christ

Edwin Pope | April 16, 2005

We are instructed in the Holy Scriptures to examine ourselves just prior to the Passover to determine if we are going or have gone astray from the calling we have received and to get our lives square with God.

We must remove ourselves from the old way of life, which we have followed prior to baptism, and put on the new way – the way our Lord Jesus Christ lived as a physical human being.

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Looking to God

Norbert Link | April 9, 2005

How committed are we to God? How much trust do we really place in Him? Is there anything that could cause us to lose sight of God and fall into error? What would it take for you to begin to waiver? You may think, this could never happen, but we are warned that those who think they stand must be careful lest they fall.

Is our trust in God based on conditions? On circumstances perhaps, or on the trust that other people have? The true faithful heroes of the Bible had unconditional faith — regardless of what others might have done — and we must grow into that kind of trust as well.

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Woe to Them!

Dave Harris | April 2, 2005

There is something that happens far too often in the Church of God, and that is that people reject God’s calling! God’s Word records examples of those who have disobeyed as a warning to us. The early Church of God also experienced false teachers who brought in deceptive doctrines and overthrew the faith of some. The unfortunate consequences of such rebellion to God are maters of life and death–and that for all of eternity!

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Wisdom Has Built Her House

Edwin Pope | March 26, 2005

Do we look upon ourselves as wise? God inspires Paul to reveal that “…the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God” (1 Corinthians 3:19). Having had our eyes opened to God and to His Wisdom, how can we ever look at our lives and come to the determination that we are wise?

In fact, Christ said of Himself (in the flesh) He was able do nothing! And without the sacrifice of Christ, the grace of God, and the revealed knowledge which we receive as the Called of God, we would never attain to the wisdom, which God desires that we achieve.

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Our Reward and God's Heavenly Books

Norbert Link | March 19, 2005

In recent sermons, we discussed God’s “book of life” and other heavenly books, including the “book of remembrance.” What do these books have to do with people who have not yet been called? What do they have to do with the forgiveness of our sins and our reward? And finally, what does the Bible mean when it says that we all will have to appear, after our death, before the judgment seat of Christ? What kind of judgment will take place for us, and what kind of judgment will those experience who will be called during the Millennium and the Great White Throne Judgment period?

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The House of God

Dave Harris | March 12, 2005

The Biblical account of the House of God is a story of building and dedication as well as one of destruction and then rebuilding–all culminating at center stage in the ultimate purpose of God. Along with the record of literal physical structures serving as dwelling places for God, the Word of God reveals the spiritual aspect in which Christians are called the temple of God. As we approach the time of the end, prophecy indicates that we may well see yet another attempt to establish a temple in Jerusalem.

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Responsibilities in Judgment

Edwin Pope | March 5, 2005

Who is responsible for judgment? Where does judgment lie in the overall panorama of God’s Great Purpose? Are we to make judgments today as the people of God?

The process of judgment is ongoing, as we work toward the calling we have received, according to God’s Plan! We know we are not to make judgments based on appearance. We know that when we do judge, that judgment must be based on God’s Will, and that judgment cannot be made without knowledge. We know that we cannot live according to God’s Way without judgment.

The Father has placed all Authority for judgment in Jesus Christ. The process for judgment has been established by God. Christ has prepared His Throne for judgment. And judgment is on the House of God, today!

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Predestination and the Heavenly Books

Norbert Link | February 26, 2005

In a recent sermon, we discussed the Book of Life and its relevance for predestination. There are additional heavenly books which, too, have meaning for the concept of predestination. These books reveal God’s limitless powers, wisdom and foreknowledge. They show us that we have to accept, in faith, God’s clear revelations in His Word, even though we may not fully understand how, exactly, God works out His plan and purpose. We must never limit God by saying it can’t be so, because we are unable to grasp HOW it can be so.

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Restoration

Rene Messier (Canada) | February 19, 2005

A look at what has been restored to the church under the leadership of Mr. Armstrong over the years and how truth and understanding was added to the church by God through him.

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Thy Kingdom Come

Brian Gale (United Kingdom) | February 19, 2005

The world has nothing to offer in comparison to the Kingdom of God and an integral part of a Christian’s life is to pray for the Kingdom to come. We should yearn for this momentous event which will usher in a time that true believers have longed for down through the ages – a time when death has been vanquished, every tear has been wiped away, there is no night, and that the sum total of human misery will have been eradicated

This sermon looks at five different points which should focus our minds on what should be of utmost important to us.

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Haters of God

Dave Harris | February 12, 2005

The Biblical account of the House of God is a story of building and dedication as well as one of destruction and then rebuilding–all culminating at center stage in the ultimate purpose of God. Along with the record of literal physical structures serving as dwelling places for God, the Word of God reveals the spiritual aspect in which Christians are called the temple of God. As we approach the time of the end, prophecy indicates that we may well see yet another attempt to establish a temple in Jerusalem.

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What Does God Require?

Edwin Pope | February 5, 2005

A Christian is presented in Scripture as one who is a true follower of Jesus Christ. But what does that entail? What does that require?

The Scripture tells us such a one is to “fulfill all Righteousness”! It further shows that Righteousness includes all of God’s Commandments; including God’s Law, His Statutes, His Judgments, His Testimonies, and His Precepts. These are all to be incorporated into our everyday lives, thus helping to form our very character – our being!

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Predestination and the Book of Life

Norbert Link | January 29, 2005

The Bible clearly teaches the concept of “predestination”; that is, that God predetermined or preordained something about us. What is it? And how long ago did this “pre-determination” occur?

The Bible also teaches the existence of the Book of Life, in which our names are written down. When does God list our names in that Book? And what, if anything, is the relationship between the existence of the Book of Life and predestination?

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Who You Are!

Dave Harris | January 22, 2005

Who a person is goes beyond superficial descriptions or evaluations. Even our own view of who we are may be incomplete or wrong! God, alone, knows each one of us in ways that far surpass our own understanding. Who we are is ultimately determined by whether we obey and serve God or whether we are disobedient and rebellious to God. The final test of who we are is embodied in our practice of Christianity.

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Life of David, Part 4

Norbert Link | January 20, 2005

In the last installment of this sermon series, we will discover more undisputable proofs in the life of David, showing that human fighting and killing in war is wrong in God’s eyes. Some have tried to argue that David did not sin when he fought in war, as he only allegedly sinned in the “matter of Uriah.” This interpretation is blatantly wrong. David admitted on numerous occasions that he had sinned in many different ways. He was not permitted to build the temple, as he had been a man of war who had shed blood. He also sinned when he numbered the army, in preparation of war. David learned, at the end of his life, that human warfare is wrong. He will be teaching man, in the Millennium, the way to peace — and man will not learn, under his rule, to fight in war anymore. We must learn the same today.

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