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2nd Peter Chapter 1

August 18, 2013

Allen Daniels

Subject: I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

Text: 2 Peter 1:11-21

2 Peter 1:19-21 ⁽¹⁹⁾ We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: ⁽²⁰⁾ Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. ⁽²¹⁾ For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

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Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

August 11, 2013

Randy McCarthy

In this sermon, Randy continues his discussion of the authenticity and reliability of the New Testament, and identifies four facts accepted by essentially all historians, secular and Christian, concerning the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. (Luke 24:13-35)

These facts are:

Jesus was buried in a borrowed tomb owned by a member of the Sanhedrin;
The tomb was discovered to be empty by a group of women;
Multiple people with different backgrounds claimed to have personally encountered the resurrected Jesus; and
The gospel preached by the early Christians was absolutely contrary to the disciples’ own expectations concerning the Messiah.

The best explanation for these and other facts is that God raised Jesus from the dead exactly as described in the NT Scriptures.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 39:14 — 10.9MB)

This is a continuation of the previous week’s topic “The Authenticity and Reliability of the New Testament“.

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Authenticity of the New Testament

August 4, 2013

Bill McCarthy

Subject: (Introduction) – The Holiness of Jesus

Text: 1Timothy 4:16

Randy McCarthy

Subject: The Authenticity and Reliability of the New Testament.

Randy cites to the early Christian creed in 1 Cor 15:1-8 and the writings of several secular historians and church fathers that confirm the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. From these and other evidences it is conclusive that the New Testament books we have today were written before the close of the first century AD and accurately reflect real events that took place exactly as described in the Bible. Statements by scoffers today that Jesus probably didn’t ever live at all, and that the NT books were written hundreds of years later, are absolutely false and cannot be reasonably supported by the overwhelming evidence that proves otherwise.

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The Year of Jubilee, Liberty, The Passover

July 28, 2013

Randy McCarthy introduced services reading from Proverbs 16:7

Mark Wattenbarger

Subject: The Year of Jubilee, Liberty, The Passover

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The Holiness of God | Consolation

July 21, 2013

Bill McCarthy

Subject: The Holiness of God

“In looking at the world of Christendom, it is very striking to me how lacking there is for the Holiness of God.”

Text: Ex 3:1-6; Isa 6:1-8; 2 Sam 6:1-7

“…put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.”

” …Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.”

“…….Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.”

Allen Daniels

Subject: Consolation

Text: Romans 15:4-5; Phil 2:1

“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:”

“If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.”

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