Has The Cross Changed You

Portsmouth Ohio

The bridge that crosses the Ohio River in to KY from Portsmouth OH

The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. It is approximately 981 miles long and is located in the eastern United States.

The bridge from the West Porstmouth to KY

The Fruit of Ministry is the Purpose of Preaching

Spiritual Fruit Purpose of Ministry 1 of 4 from charles e. whisnan t on Vimeo.

Charles E. Whisnant, November 15, 2009. From Romans 1:11-12 Spiritual Fruit Purpose of Ministry 1 of 4.

Paul is saying the preaching and teaching is not the end in its self, but the means to the end. The desired result is seeing produce in the believer fruit of love and labor and service unto the LORD.

While I really love preaching and teaching, its only the means whereby people might get the Word of God which in turn might strengthen them to love Him and Worship Him and Serve Him.

Monday Morning News

Johnny E. Edwards singing and playing

Charles E. Whisnant, Speaking Sunday Night

Bill Bower leading the singing

The ADULT BIBLE STUDY HOUR
Charles speaking Sunday Morning

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Monday Morning News'

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My life is Christ's. Sunday is the Lord's Day. Well much of the week is given to study and preparation of the Word and getting ready to teach and preach each week.

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Sunday at the 10 a.m. hour, I address several topics:

Critical Thinking. We need to take the responsibility to learn to think right.

• Learning without thought is labour lost. It is the mind that makes the body. Time discovers truth. They know enough who know how to learn. Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

True Guilt and False Guilt. Outline was provided

• HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND BIBLICAL GUILT AND HOW DO WE DEAL WITH TRUE GUILT AND FALSE GUILT

SUNDAY MORNING SERMON WAS FROM \

Romans 1:11-12

THAT IS, THAT I MAY BE COMFORTED TOGETHER BY THE MUTUAL FAITH BOTH OF YOU AND ME.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren that oftentimes I purposed to come to you also, even as among the Gentiles.

HOW DO I SERVE THE LORD? HOW CAN I HAVE A TRUE SPIRITUAL ACTIVITY AND ATTITUDE TOWARD MY WORSHIP OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST?

Outline and video of the message is shortly coming to this website and on growbylearning.com

SUNDAY EVENING SERVICE

Philippians 1:9 -10

9 wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name: 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.

AT THE NAME OF JESUS

The notes and video of this message is shortly coming this week.

Bill Bower lead the singing. And Johnny Edwards sung and played the piano. And they both blessed our hearts in worship

The Purpose of Ministry is Fruit in Romans 1:12-13

Romans Outline 11 15 09

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Number 1,200 since August 2003 Amazing

I hardly believe this but this is my 1200 posting on Blogger since August 2006.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. —

While I understand that the public can read any of my Blogger's Post, I don't write with the idea that I need to please my readers, I would rather know what I write is pleasing to the Lord and that I can go to sleep at night.

The Unregenerated Human Nature Needs God's Grace

Since faith is infinitely beyond all the power of our unregenerated human nature, it is only God who can give the spiritual ears to hear and eyes to see the beauty of Christ in the gospel. God alone disarms the hostility of the sinner turning his heart of stone to a heart of flesh. It is God, the Holy Spirit, alone who gives illumination and understanding of His word that we might believe; It is God who raises us from the death of sin, who circumcises the heart; unplugs our ears; It is God alone who can give us a new sense, a spiritual capacity to behold the beauty and unsurpassed excellency of Jesus Christ. The apostle John recorded Jesus saying to Nicodemus that we naturally love darkness, hate the light and WILL NOT come into the light (John 3:19, 20). And since our hardened resistance to God is thus seated in our affections, only God, by His grace, can lovingly change, overcome and pacify our rebellious disposition. The natural man, apart from the quickening work of the Holy Spirit, will not come to Christ on his own since he is at enmity with God and cannot understand spiritual things (1 Cor 2:14). Shining a light into a blind man's eyes will not enable him to see, because eyesight first requires a set of healthy eyes. Likewise, reading or hearing the word of God alone cannot elicit saving faith in the reader (1 Thess 1:4, 5) unless God plows up the fallow ground of our hearts and the Spirit "germinates" the seed of the word, opening our eyes to see Christ's true beauty and excellency and uniting us to Him through a Spirit-wrought faith. So the problem of conversion is not with the Word or God's Law but with man's prideful heart. The humility required to submit to the gospel is, therefore, not prompted by man's will but by God's mercy (Rom 9:16) since no one can believe the gospel unless God grants it (John 6:63, 65). As an example of how the Spirit uses the means of the spoken word to disarm closed hearts, the Book of Acts records the work of the Holy Spirit during the preaching of the apostles and, in one instance, states that "the Lord opened her [Lydia's] heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul," (Acts 16:14). The Spirit must likewise give all His people spiritual life and understanding if their hearts are to be opened and thus respond to Christ in faith.