Displaying Christian Sermons by tag: Christ
Sarah Jakes Roberts - Sermon: Is Your Seat in Christ Under Water? You’ve been drowning for far too long, struggling with your circumstances — suffering storms, winds, floods, and more — but you can still burn. You are a burnt offering to God being rained on by life, but your fire cannot be doused, it cannot be extinguished, and it can still burn fervently. You need to get back to where God would have you be and back to where He’s taking you. The fire of God started from a flicker, then grew to a flame, and then to a wildfire. If you release it, it will last forever!
Tony Evans (October-17-2021) Watch Sunday Sermon: Jesus the Christ. Throughout the New Testament, the word Christ is spoken over 500 times, but have you ever thought about what that word really means? In this lesson, Tony Evans explains that the word Christ is really the Old Testament word Messiah, which means "Anointed One." Discover the Biblical significance of what it means for Jesus to be the Anointed One in the three most-important categories: Prophet, Priest and King.
Joseph Prince (October-08-2022) Daily Devotional: Anchor Your Identity in Christ
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Romans 8:37
Several years ago, I preached a message on how the devil sometimes uses the first-person pronoun to plant thoughts in our heads to deceive us.
For example, he doesn’t say, “You have an eating disorder” or “You have an addiction.” The devil uses the first-person pronoun to sow thoughts such as these in your mind: “I have an eating disorder” or “I am addicted to pornography.”
He makes you think that you are thinking those thoughts of defeat. He wants you to believe that is who you are.
Upon hearing this message, a man named Walter, whom the devil had used this strategy on and trapped in a destructive addiction for many years, went home after church, locked himself in his room, and for the first time declared out loud, “I am not an addict!” He chose to reject this evil mind-set in the name of Jesus.
He related this: “At that very moment, I felt something powerful happen inside me. I don’t know how to describe this. It was as if life became spectacular because of the love of God, and I couldn’t contain the feeling.”
After making that confession out loud, Walter said, “My addiction stopped. I just lost all interest, and I don’t feel even a little bit tempted. All the wrong desires are gone, and best of all, I know I love Jesus more than ever before and I can’t live without Him. I am renewed. I am reborn. I know that everything is in His control, and I am blessed and forgiven.”
Wow! What an amazing testimony of God’s power and goodness in this brother’s life. With just one declaration, he broke the mental stronghold that the devil had placed him under for many years.
That is truly the power of right believing. If you can change what you believe, you can change your life, just like this brother did.
Are there lies about your identity that you believe in today? Break the power of those lies by declaring your identity in Christ.
Say out loud, “I am a child of God. I am healed, forgiven, righteous, and holy in Christ Jesus.” Instead of believing the devil’s lies when he uses the first-person pronoun strategy against you, speak your true identity in Jesus.
Rick Warren (October-07-2022) Daily Devotional: You’re Needed in the Body of Christ
“Just as there are many parts to our bodies, so it is with Christ’s body. We are all parts of it, and it takes every one of us to make it complete, for we each have different work to do. So we belong to each other, and each needs all the others." Romans 12:4-5 (TLB)
In the Bible, the church is often called the “body of Christ.” What Jesus Christ did when he was here in his physical body, he wants his followers to continue to do today. We are the body of Christ here on Earth.
The Bible says, “Just as there are many parts to our bodies, so it is with Christ’s body. We are all parts of it, and it takes every one of us to make it complete, for we each have different work to do. So we belong to each other, and each needs all the others” (Romans 12:4-5 TLB).
Everybody is needed in the body of Christ. It takes every one of us to make it complete.
It’s like a jigsaw puzzle. When you put together a puzzle and one piece is missing, what are you going to notice? The one missing piece.
That’s the way it is in the body of Christ. Everyone is needed.
You may say, “I’m just a toenail in the body of Christ.” Have you ever lost a toenail? You notice it. I once dropped a 12-pound weight on a toenail. It was just a tiny part of my body, but I sure noticed it was missing for about six months.
Never confuse prominence and significance. Something can be prominent but not significant.
My nose is prominent, but it’s not significant. I could lose my nose and keep on living the rest of my life. But, inside me, there are things no one ever sees, like my liver, heart, and lungs. They’re not prominent, but if I lost them, I’d die.
You may not feel prominent in the body of Christ, but you are significant. There are many parts, and each one of them is needed. We all have important work to do!
Talk It Over
- Think of a time when you were disconnected from the body of Christ. How did it impact your life?
- What significant, but not prominent, role are you playing in the body of Christ? What is your attitude toward your service?
- How can you encourage others in the body of Christ to use their gifts to serve each other?
Joyce Meyer (October-06-2021) Daily Devotional: Let Christ Live Through You
Some people need to unlearn some things before they can start learning what God wants for them. For example, some people try to manipulate others with their self-pity or anger. They believe these emotional tools will get them what they want from others. Some people who have been hurt or abused feel that they have to take care of themselves because nobody else will.
Both attitudes display the common fear, "What about me? What about me?" But Paul offers us a life-changing principle to follow: I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2:20 NIV). When Christ lives through you, you will enjoy every day of your life.
Prayer Starter: Lord Jesus, help me get myself off my mind and allow You to live through me so that I can enjoy every single day of my life, no matter what. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Watch Motivation - Before The Second Coming Of Christ, This Needs To Happen
Daily Devotional (October-05-2022) OUR HERITAGE IN CHRIST
Scripture Reference: Colossians 1:12 - Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. ESV] -
The life of the believer should be full of Thanksgiving because Jesus did all for us to walk in them by faith. why do many believers spend little time given thanks to God and more times praying to finish what Jesus finished on the cross for us ?The answer is unbelief in the finished work of Christ.
Most believers spend more time praying on generational curses, Ancestral curses, sending wrath, fire, thunder, lightening etc unto their enemies, praying against demons etc which is not vital in our kingdom (kingdom of light). Somebody said what? Buddy you heard me right, just try not to be an African or superstitious in your mind when you read the bible.
Look at the opening scripture, you will see that we are to give thanks to God always because he has qualified us to share the same inheritance of the saints in light..
Generational curses, ancestral curses etc are never inheritance of the saints. The inheritance of the saints are the glory of God, the kingdom of God and of his Christ, the blessings of God, etc. This and many more are what .we share as new creatures in Christ Jesus.
Now the real children of Abraham, then are those who put their faith in Christ Jesus. We enjoy all the blessings in Christ Jesus. We have been blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places and not curses.. Now wonder he became poor for us to become rich and also became curse for us and redeemed us from every curses for us to enjoy all the blessings of Abraham.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us - for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree” so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith. Galatians 3:13- 14 ESV
Beloved, you are not under any generational curses, generational covenants, ancestral curses etc, Christ redeemed us from them all. You are already blessed so start walking in the blessing by faith, Jesus never preach generational curses neither the apostles did preach it,it wasn't a custom of the church, their message was redemption, let's take off the veils. even in the old testament God rebuked this generational curses stuffs let us look at Jeremiah 31” In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.”
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.” Jeremiah 3l:29 - 31 this is the very clause of the new testament
Lastly this is what God told Ezekiel
Ezekiel 18 “ The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,” what mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As l live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Jesus is our redemption. Hallelujah
John Hagee Watch Sermon: The Difference Between The Rapture and The Second Coming (Full Episode). John Hagee joins Matt and Laurie Crouch on TBN's Praise to discuss the Rapture and the Second Coming of Christ. Listen as they unpack why we need to be talking about the impact of End Time events.
Amir Tsarfati (September-16-2021) Watch Message: We are Ambassadors of Christ. Lately, it seems that the church has more hatred than love, division than unity, and talks more about this world than Jesus. This should not be so. We are Christ's Ambassadors, and while we are here, we should be pointing others to Him!
Joseph Prince (September-15-2022) Daily Devotional: Only Christ's Atonement Satisfies God
. . . if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins . . . 1 John 2:1–2
Today, Jews still observe Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement. As the name suggests, it is a day set aside to make atonement for one’s sins. But for Christians, this beautiful feast points to Jesus and what He did for us on the cross. Because of His sacrifice, all our sins have already been perfectly atoned for. That is why, should we sin, we know that “we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins.
Now, it does not say that if anyone repents, we have an Advocate with the Father. It says that if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father. The moment a child of God sins, straightaway, his Advocate, Jesus Christ, goes into action to pray for and protect him.
What about repentance then?
The word “repentance” is metanoia in the Greek, which means to change one’s mind. For example, you used to believe that Jesus was just a good man. Then one day, you repented and believed that He is the Son of the living God, who died for your sins and rose again on the third day, and you gladly took Him as your Savior.
Bible repentance is not this idea of hitting or punishing yourself to atone for your sins. Don’t turn it into a human work, like the man who went to a priest to confess his sins. When they were done, the priest asked the man, “By the way, what do you do for a living?” The man replied, “I’m a contortionist,” and proceeded to give a demonstration. Another man came along wanting to confess his sins. When he saw the contortionist all twisted up on the ground, he said, “If this is repentance, forget it!” and ran off!
My friend, there is no need to climb the Himalayas or whip your back bloody to atone for your sins. No amount of self-punishment or crying can atone for them. Your sins have already been punished fully in the body of Jesus. Only His finished work satisfies God. So change your mind and simply believe that Jesus alone is the propitiation for your sins!
