Providence Baptist Church

Sunday Evening

God’s Encounter

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Revelation 3:14-22

God wants you to directly connect with Him.  Laodecia was a wealthy town, but the water had to be pumped in so that water was lukewarm.  It became useless.

We become useful because we separate ourselves by means of a personal relationship with Jesus.  Spending time with Jesus is connecting you with pure water.

3 Things Happen When We Are too Far from the Source

  1.  Our disciplines are weakened.   Repentance is to change which way you are going.  Constantly making adjustments.  Repentance should be a constant way of life.  An encounter with God will bring discipline to your life.
  2. Destroys your prayer life.  Prayer is the roadmap, our communion with God.  The Bible says, “Pray continually.”
  3. We lose our worship.  We need to return to a life of worship.  A piped encounter with God is a source you cannot get from someone else.

2 Problems:

We see ourselves wrong and we see ourselves as other people see us.  One of the dangers that we have as a church is we don’t see what is God’s and what is ours.

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The Truth About How to Get to Heaven – Part 2

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John 3:16

Acts 26:19-20

Repentance should be continued.

5 Elements of Saving Faith

  1.  Historical – The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
  2. Personal
  3. Verbal – you speak it out.  When you have faith in him.  We believe He is with us.
  4. Practical – Living for him.
  5. You will continue in it.

Mark 13:13

Finish faithfully = Crown of Life

James 1:12

Obstacles to Your Faith

  1.  Persecution – Matthew 13:20-21
  2. Cares – Matthew 13:22
  3. Allure of Wealth – Matthew 13:22
  4. Personal Sin
  5. Bad influences

What does it take to remain faithful and go to Heaven?

What It Takes

  1.  A firm decision.
  2. A reality check.

But your old self shows up, or something or someone comes between you and the church.  You may also experience doubt because of personal failure.

Matthew 10:36

HE was there in the beginning and He will be there at the end.

Philippians 3:12-14

The journey is about trust!

 

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The AntiChrist

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The Spirit of the Antichrist is present now.  The AntiChrist is known in the Scripture by 38 different names.

AntiChrist means to oppose, to replace.  Every chapter in 1 Thess. talks about the coming of Jesus.  There is a moral freefall taking place in our world.  We know that Satan lies and he is a deceiver.

We as the church are restraining the power of the Antichrist.  The strategy of the AntiChrist:

  • an outpouring of spiritual deception to insight the world to rebel against God. – 1 Thess. 2:1-12

No one on the earth knows the timing of the coming of the Lord.  Rev. 3:10  We are in the hour of the preparation of the church of Jesus Christ.

Timeline Events of the Coming of Christ

  1.  A growing rejection of God’s word and a rebellion of God’s laws.
  2. The spreading of the gospel by the church through the power of the Holy Ghost.
  3. The rapture of the church is going to happen instantly.    In the last days, the Spirit of the AntiChrist will produce the rise of false prophets.  The Rapture is a selected rapture.  It is a private event.  Acts 16:31-32

You will know false preachers by:

  1.  They deliver sermons.  They are more concerned about sermon than a message from God.
  2. They are distanced from God.

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End Times Prophecy By the Letter – LGBTQIA – Part 2

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John 8:3-11

  1.  Jesus did not mark her as an adulterer but he talked about what she did.
  2. He forgave her.
  3. He sent her away with a warning, “Go and sin no more!”

Why is this such a tremendous sin?

There are sins that Scripture tells us are an abomination.  You can find these in the following Scripture:

Genesis 19

Leviticus 1, 20

Judges 19

Romans 1

1 Corinthians 6

1 Timothy 1

Revelation

All sin has the same wages – death.

Abomination is found 76 times in 69 verses.

Divided into 2 sections – prior to the cross – under the law.  After the cross – under grace.

Proverbs 15:8

Websters 1828 Edition defines “abomination”  – extreme hatred, something that is detestable.

  • His hatred is based upon what it does to his children and to creation.
  • He hates it because of what that sin does to the person He created.
  • The sins have destructive qualities toward hurting others.

7 Abominations

  1. Idol Worship
  2. Human Sacrifice (abortion)
  3. Witchcraft
  4. Corruption
  5. Gender Mixture – Deuteronomy 22:5
  6. Homosexuality – LGBTQIA & Incest – Leviticus 18:22
  7. Desolation – Matthew 24:14-15

Hell is an endless duration of wrath.  Wrath of abomination.

Romans 1:24,26, 28

God gives them a false peace.

3 Stages of the Judgment of God

  1. Sexual deviance – pornography
  2. Homosexual revolution
  3. Depravity – Hatred of God & Debauchery

The judgment of God is at the door.

God’s wrath is about to be poured out.