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The Importance of Sound Doctrine Part 3: Avoiding Shipwreck – Pastor Chris Black

1Timothy 1:18-20
Paul charges Timothy in the text, meaning he lays the responsibility upon him, according to the prophecies that came beforehand concerning him. The Spirit of God revealed things through the prophets of the early church that were to be both educational and an exhortation to help Timothy in the spiritual battles he would face. Paul’s charge was concerning two points to avoid a shipwreck of faith. He said, “holding faith, and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck”. Then he uses two examples, Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom we find out later had gone in the ditch doctrinally, saying that the resurrection had passed already. Their blasphemies had overthrown the faith of other saints, not in the Lord, but in the resurrection. Paul said he had delivered them to Satan, meaning that he had excommunicated them from the local church.

Only Perfect People Go To Heaven – Pastor Chris Black

The nature of God is holiness – God is love, light, life, merciful, gracious, just, jealous, righteous, and a God of wrath and judgment but all these attributes are controlled by His holiness. Habakkuk 1:13 says that He cannot look upon iniquity so God cannot nor will not tolerate sin.
Perfection is His standard – That’s what He requires. Adam and Eve only had to sin once for death to pass upon them and to get displaced from the garden of God. Lucifer only had to want his will instead of submitting to God’s one time and he fell like lightning from heaven. That is the kind of God we will all face someday.

Song of Solomon Session 4 – Pastor Chris Black

Last we week we went through chapter 3, where the Shulamite recalls a dream she had about her shepherd that prompted her to go look for him in the night. When she finds her beloved, she embraces him and brings him to her mother’s house to meet her family. Solomon then returns to Jerusalem in a great royal parade and astonishes the crowd that is blown away by his majesty.
The beloved Shepherd has followed the court and comes to Jerusalem because the Shulamite is still somewhat captive in Solomon’s pavilions. They speak briefly to each other in this passage.

The Song of Solomon Session 3 – Pastor Chris Black

The Song of Solomon is a love poem about a Shulamite farm girl that Solomon has set his sights on winning her affection; but she’s already in love with a shepherd. Solomon is the king of Israel, already married and extremely wealthy. The Shulamite is a common yet beautiful woman who works on her family’s farm. The shepherd is mysterious in that he just appears at times in the poem, yet the Shulamite describes in him in the highest esteem, and she proclaims her great love for him. He also speaks of the Shulamite in glowing and romantic descriptions.

The Pruning Season – Pastor Chris Black

In the text we just read, Jesus likens himself and his followers to a vineyard. He called himself the “true vine” or we would say root. He is the life source for all of the saved. He called his followers “branches” because of our connection and dependence on him. Just after he says that he is the true vine, he says “and my Father is the husbandman”. That’s not a term we use today; we would call him the farmer or the gardener. The husbandman owns the land on which he labors, it all belongs to him