Intercession and Spiritual Warfare Pastor Keith Hassell Introduction Intercessors are a great gift to the body of Christ. As a pastor I am thankful for every person who feels a special calling to intercede for me and for the church I pastor. I recognize that intercessors have played a key role in what…

Intro We are back after a week break in our series called “Back to the Basics: Knowing why you believe what you believe.” We are now looking over this point: 8. That every believer is a new creation in Christ, and is called to walk in the Spirit, to die unto sin, and to live unto righteousness, and thereby…

Title: Victoriously Living Over the Flesh Theme: Mortifying the Flesh “Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. Ro 8:13 For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the…

Galatians 5:16–18 introduces the passage by setting forth the nature of Spiritual Warfare between the flesh and the Spirit. In this we see 1) The Warfare Command (Galatians 5:16), 2) The Warfare Conflict (Galatians 5:17), and 3) The Warfare Caution (Galatians 5:18).

Introduction - Christian Enemy #1 Are you familiar with the phrase “Public enemy # 1?” Most of us are. I did some research on the term and discovered that most of what I thought about it is folklore. I thought the FBI or US Marshalls had a list of the top criminals they are looking for with one being…

Dead Men Walking Ephesians 2:1-3 Introduction A man went to visit his well to do friend who had been taken ill. When he showed up at the door, the butler at first refused to let him in stating that the man will ill and could not be disturbed. “Nonsense,” said the friend. “It’s all in his mind. He just…

One last introductory lesson before examining the elements one at a time. (Click on author’s name for earlier lessons) Freedom from the flesh and legalism. Natural man tries to cope with the flesh in two ways 1. Moralists try to suppress the flesh with rules and laws. 2. Libertines celebrate the flesh…

Introduction: Soon after becoming a Christian, a person discovers that living the Christian life is not a bed of roses. Actually it is quite a battle, with a real struggle against three foes: 1. An external enemy: the world 2. An internal enemy: the flesh 3. An infernal (hellish) enemy: the Devil John…

Parkdale Grace Fellowship Sunday AM, April 6, 2008 1 Corinthians 3:1-4 Carnal Christians The world often accuses Christians of being hypocrites and unfortunately we’ve all witnessed many examples of professing Christians behaving just as badly as unbelievers and sometimes we have been guilty ourselves.…

Bridging the Gap from what I Know to what I Do (1 of 3) nv 5/18/08am – Romans 7:7-25 OS: Two preachers were on the roadside with a sign that read, "The End is Near - turn around now before it’s too late". A passing driver yelled "leave us alone you religious nuts". Then the preachers heard a loud splash.…

Date: 19th August 2007 (Sunday AM) Ref: A0328 Place: Kambah P.S. Title: Which Wolf Are You Feeding? Text: & Gal 5:16-26 Illust: An old Cherokee Indian chief supposedly told this story to his grandson: "A fight is going on inside me. It is a terrible battle – between two wolves. One wolf represents fear,…

Step 1: We admitted that we were powerless over our dependencies and that our lives had become unmanageable.

Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is blove, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 7gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25…

Introduction As we continue in this new year, we want to look at ways that we can see a “new us” come about… something better than before. Last week, we talked about the importance of being “born again” and how that is the best decision that we could ever make. It would be really nice if we could just…

Good Morning, I Hope you had a great 4th July.… One of the Holidays that we know how to celebrate well as a nation is Independence Day....... Have you ever wondered how money gets spent over the Holiday? Well Wallethub.com had some interesting numbers... Apparently, we spent about… $6.8 Billion : on…

INTRODUCTION: Have you ever done something… And thought your parents were going to figuratively kill you? Maybe it was an accident… Or maybe it was outright sin and disobedience. Maybe you didn’t think you were going to get caught … and then you were. But nevertheless, you were afraid of what your parents…

Christians are at war with the world,the flesh and the devil. Satan enpowers the world to attack believers externally ,persecuting ,deceiving and seducing them. Internally, sinfulness frustrates the efforts of believers to serve God fully.

They are not particularly the words one wants to hear over the phone when you are told there is a parent holding on the phone… I picked up the phone and the mother ask, “ what did you do to my child? ” Her daughter was elementary age Her daughter a few weeks prior had been at our camp Her daughter while…

Freedom: 1959 was the year of my birth – I am a child of the 60’s! Although I was just a child, there was a great social movement by youth in the 1960’s – a reaction against what they perceived to be the failure of the older generation that had led to two world wars, corruption, oppression and a world…

Christ came to free us from the slavery to sin and death, to give us life in His Name. When we trust Christ we not only receive salvation, but we are given the Holy Spirit. And when the Holy Spirit lives in us He bears fruit in our lives. True followers of Christ will see fruit of the Spirit growing inside of themselves.

Date: 18th January 2009 (Sunday AM) Ref: A0420 Place: Kambah P.S. Title: The Anointing Text: & Exodus 30:22-32 Illust: Walk through almost any shopping centre & you will find a candle shop or some other form of ‘well being’ / New Age’ store selling essential oils, fragrances like lavender, sandalwood,…

In order to achieve your hearts wise and honorable desires without, your worst enemy within must be defeated.

Theme of Galatians - 1:4 – Delivered from this present evil world Galatians 5:1 – Deliverance from Legalism Galatians 5:13 – Deliverance from the Flesh The “Fruit of the Spirit” directly answers the problem of the flesh, and indirectly answers the problem of legalism. Our battle with the flesh: Illustration…

Philippians 9. You may recall, that the last part of this letter [P] we were looking at was dealing with personal details and arrangements – Paul was telling the church how he was going to send Timothy and Epaphroditus to them, and then come himself. Now he suddenly changes tack, from these personal…

Key Topics Explain why Paul might mention these things here. “Paul, this sort of teaching will lead people to lead lawless lives. Where will God’s glory be there?” Paul needs to explain righteous living is not excluded from the Christian life, but it has a different motivation. From love, not achievement.…