The Church and Its Future State

Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18  INTRODUCTION: A. Several immediate observations: An event absolutely certain to transpire: “By the Word of the Lord”: vs. 15   An event that will occur when Jesus Christ comes for the Church which is His Body: vs. 15.   An event that...

The Church and Its Future Hope

(Ephesians 4:4)   Definition of the word “Hope.” … (a) Elpis—to look down the corridors of time with the confident assurance of future good. (b) Not a shadow of doubt or uncertainty as we would use the word today. Relationship: there is a relationship between our...

The Church and Its Future Deliverance

(1 Thessalonians 4:13—5:19) INTRODUCTION:       The passage before us is the most important passage in the Pauline Epistles dealing with the deliverance of the Church from the Tribulation period. Additional passages are found in 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 and 2...

The Believer’s Witness Unto the World

By J.C. O’Hair According to the Bible, the unbeliever is dead in sin and the believer is dead to sin. Note how the believer’s transformation is stated in Colossians 2:13 and in several other verses: “And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of...

God’s Plan for Leadership in the Local Church

  “As sheep having no shepherd” (Mt. 9:36). Many churches can be described in this statement employed by Christ to describe the Spiritual decline of the nation Israel. The need then and now is in “leadership.”      Assuming that a church knows and understands its...