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| | Weep for yourself by Erlo Stegen
Topic: Repentance
Scripture(s): Luke 23:27-31 | | Description: Here the Lord Jesus is carrying the Cross on the way to Golgotha. A great crowd surrounded Him, some with love and pity, but others with hate and mocking Him. And then there were those who were just inquisitive, wanting to see what was going on.Along the way there was a man called "Simon of Cyrene". When Jesus’ strength was failing under the Cross, they looked for a person to carry the cross and they got Simon to carry the Cross. He was, according to some Bible commentators, the father of Alexander and Rufus who became members of the New Testament church. He didn’t want to but he was forced to. He was born in North Africa. Through his carrying the Cross there was blessing upon his children. It’s a pity when Africans say that Jesus is for the white people. We find so other instances where Jesus identifies with those of Africa, like in this instance, and also when Joseph had to flee to Egypt because Herod wanted to kill the baby Jesus, Africa gave Jesus refuge.
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| | What Keeps Revival Back? by Erlo Stegen
Topic: Revival
Scripture(s): 2 Chronicles 7:13-15, Colossians 2:15 | | Description: This verse contains a challenge and a wonderful promise. God speaks directly to his people, not the gentiles but to the believers. "If my people return to me and humble themselves, they will receive forgiveness of sin." God sees the sin and if people repent of their sin, God will heal their land. This text is an inspiration to every believer. The challenge is that the world is in our hands. If we repent and get right with God, our land will be healed and restored. We are not to point to the sin of other people but to ourselves and if we repent the Lord will heal our land. God requires that we humble ourselves. This word was said to Solomon where God said, "If my people will humble themselves and turn from their wicked ways, I will heal the land." Things can be turned around if people have an ear to hear what God says.
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| | When Grace Comes by Erlo Stegen
Topic: Grace
Scripture(s): Luke 1:57-80 | | Description: This matter of the birth of John the Baptist is amazing. Jesus said of him that there were none born of women greater than he. He was filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother’s womb. Even his birth was miraculous. His father Zacharias and mother Elizabeth were well advanced in age, well past child bearing age. But then God revealed Himself to Zacharias that they would bear a son and call him John, meaning the "grace of God". The birth of John was prophesied many years before. Isaiah who lived about 740 BC prophesied of his birth and so too Malachi, about 540 BC. One could have a whole sermon on Isaiah’s prophesy and another of Malachi’s. They prophesied how that John would be the forerunner of the Messiah.
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| | When the Spirit is Poured Out by Erlo Stegen
Topic: Holy Spirit Outpouring
Scripture(s): Joel 2:28-32 | | Description: Here the Lord says that He will pour out His Spirit on all flesh in the last days. That includes everyone, black and white, all nations. We live in an evil time. It’s as if the devil is let loose, and pours out his filth on everyone. It’s as if the spirit of immorality and prostitution is let loose. It’s like Sodom and Gomorrah. But even though things are like that, it’s wonderful that God promises that He will pour out His Spirit on all flesh. And it continues to say that your sons and daughters will prophesy. There are things in the Bible which confuse people. Like the word prophecy is misinterpreted as being like fortune telling, saying who made your child sick, or who cast a spell on you, etc. But that’s not prophecy; that is occultism. Prophecy is to publicly expound the Word of God. So you need to discern the difference between prophecy and fortune telling.
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| | Without spot or wrinkle by Erlo Stegen
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Scripture(s): 2 Corinthians 11:2 | | Description: There is the way of the world and God's way of holiness. The world gets engaged with a party, drinking and boozing, but we as Christians do it in God's house with prayer and in holiness. Some say that there are many ways to celebrate an engagement. Yes, there certainly are many ways to hell but only one way to heaven. The ring the young man gives to his future bride is a token and promise that he will keep himself pure for her until the day of marriage; in receiving the ring, the girl makes the same promise. Young people should live like Mary the mother of Jesus. When the angel told her that she would bare a son, she replied, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?” (Luke 1:34) She lived a holy and pure life as we read in 1Cor 7:34, “The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit.”
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| | You will Reap what you Sow by Erlo Stegen
Topic: Sowing
Scripture(s): Galatians 6:7 | | Description: In the Bible the preachers and ministers of the Gospel are the stars. What a pity when they go lost and are wandering about, while in charge of congregations. Yet they promote the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah were totally burnt to ashes that there was not a trace left, and so it will go with those who practice this sin of homosexuality and these preachers who promote this lifestyle and lead others astray. There are so-called Christians who are just like these people in Jude, uprooted trees, wild waves of the sea, without fruit, twice dead. They cast up the foam of their own shame. The blackest darkness is reserved for them forever. Such ministers will reap a double hell, forever.
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