I appreciated the word being mentioned in the Sermonette several times, diligently, and as Christians we're to be diligent with our calling. The title of the sermon today is Diligently Add to Your Faith. We've been given the gift of faith. We receive that gift of faith when we receive God's Holy Spirit but as we're going to see as we get on into the sermon we have our job to do and it's to add to that faith. Let's talk a little bit as we get into the 50 scriptures I'm not going to use all of. The false doctrine that has been taught in Churchianity today that you're once saved always saved. Now we know that we have to endure to the end. ...

A Happy Sabbath again, Happy day 21. We're of course counting to Pentecost, we're almost halfway there. It's moving very quickly and I know that I've already mentioned this before but I do love the way that God takes us from one Feast to the next. The way the Plan of God is linked together and each step is pushing us towards the ultimate achievement. We see that right here as we're counting to the Feast of Pentecost. Over the last few weeks and months, we spent hours examining ourselves, evaluating our progress and I'm sure that we all found perhaps things that we need to work on, ways to improve. Ways to be better, knowing we'll have to do that progress report all over again next year. We'll ask ourselves, "Have I made progress, have I taken the greatest leap forward in my ...

All right I want to get into the Sermon here today. I want to cover a topic that might not be popular with some, but this isn't a popularity contest. I feel we need to speak the truth no matter what, regardless of the outcome and so I am going to cover a topic that's not been covered by some for a while. But it's a very important topic and several people have discussed this topic with me in recent months. And we live in a time in human history at the end of the age where there is very little respect for authority. And today I want to talk about government and the Church and what God's form of Church government is and I think that this is something that will be a review for most of you, but for others it may seem a bit self-serving that I'm the guy giving the message on government ...

But I want to begin here in 1st Corinthians 10. Let's go over there, 1st Corinthians 10 in the New Testament, we'll start in Verse 5 and notice what Paul was inspired to write here in this Chapter, 1st Corinthians 10, Verse 5. He says but with most of them and if you at the reference to who the them were he's talking about the ancient Israelites. But with most of them God was not well pleased for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. Now these things became examples to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. So God says, Look, I'm giving these examples in the Bible, in the inspired scripture and these are examples and sometimes in the Bible we see examples of what to do and other times we see examples of what not to do and we can learn a ...

So we are here the Last Day of Unleavened Bread. In preparation for this time the speaking, I pulled up a John Ogwyn sermon back around 1980 and I just love that we can pull up, we can go back into the archives, the HWALibrary and we can access this material. And I love the idea that my father, who worked on the Chesapeake Ohio railroad and he came into the Church in the late 1960s and on in the 70s that his tithes, that he paid way back then are still able to be accessed and the fruit of those tithes and men and women on back in the 50s and 60s that that information is available. And I know we were talking about it last night that that site gets millions of hits a month is what I understand and so I pulled up his sermon and the title of John Ogwyn's sermon was The Meaning of The Last Da ...

The Feast of Unleavened Bread has arrived once again and the journey of our lifetime continues. Our life is but a collection of the things that we think, the things that we say and the things that we do. The summation of what we have achieved, what we have accomplished and how far we have come with the gifts and the opportunities that we've been given. How far have we made it on this journey towards the ultimate promised land? The man or woman that you are today, how does it compare with who we were at our initial calling? Two nights ago we remembered the death and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Yeah we also remembered the death and burial of each of us, the reaffirmation of our covenant with him and in our baptism we accepted the tremendous responsibility to live a life, a totally differe ...

I'd like to start out today in Exodus Chapter 12. You know Israel had seen the works of God, they saw the ten plagues in which they would experience three of those plagues before, with the Egyptians before God himself would protect his people for the next seven plagues. They saw basically a nation destroyed because Pharaoh not wanting, not allowing them to leave to go out and worship their God. So I'd like to start in Verse 12 or excuse me Chapter 12 and we'll go from there and it says, now the Lord spoken to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying this month shall be your beginning of months. ...

Brethren I'd like to begin here in the Book of Leviticus, Chapters 23 and again you know we, this is a reminder for all of us, this is what it's all about. You know Mr. Armstrong always went back to the trunk of the tree and he always talked about the two trees and sometimes he went "Oh the two trees again" you know, but how many people really got it you know and so this is a reminder that God tells us all the time as these times of the year that we participate in God's Holy day and how beautiful it is that we have come to understand God's plan of Salvation. But right here in Leviticus Chapters 23, I'd like to begin in Verse 9 through 15. ...

Well Brethren, getting a sermon here when I was a kid growing up in the Church and I came in with my folks. They got a little background here, my folks got divorced in 72 and dad got custody every week and a half, every other week he got custody of me and I started going to church then and then in 74, he got full custody of me, so a little background there and so my dad remarried and I've got a great stepmom, she's awesome and a lot of stuff that I learned, my stepmom and my dad taught me what church-wise and how to live. My mom was there too and she was awesome as well and she taught me rules and taught me the right way to live and everything else but I was very blessed growing up and to be in God's church so early at 10 years old. I'm 59 now if you do the math, but it's gone by ...

The title of the sermon today is: What is The Prophesied "Falling Away"? and it's a topic that has been under discussion in recent years. There are a number of ideas floating around out there in different organizations regarding this but I want to address the topic kind of head-on and say "Look, what do we believe, what does the Bible teach?" Sometimes when I'm giving a sermon, I'll say "Look this is what we've always taught", I might say "This is what the Bible says" and it's also what we always taught on the topic that we are going to address today and I will try to get in the habit of doing that every time saying not only is it what we taught, but it's borne out very clearly in the scriptures, it's what the Bible shows and what it tells us and so when I cover the topic tod ...

Let's get into the sermon here today. I've had a lot of questions in recent months about tithing and I thought, well, most recently even people have asked, "Look, can I use some of my second tithe to get on a plane, I live in the middle of nowhere, I want to join up with other people for the upcoming Spring Holy days and Passover?" Can I get a plane ticket, can I rent a hotel and pay for my food as I'm out of town?" Yes, the answer is absolutely, that is what your second tithe is for so you can observe all of God's Holy days and Festivals and there are a lot of questions I hope to answer in the sermon today. The ones that I've been asked, I'll answer, if you have further questions you can talk to me or your local Pastor and they can help you with those questions on specific thi ...

Today I want to talk about the first step in God's master plan of salvation for mankind. I want to talk about the Passover. A lot of people have been asking for a sermon on tithing, we'll get to that, they've got questions, we'll cover all three tithes and what the bibles has to say, but I've been getting several questions about the Passover and how do we prepare and so I want to talk about that today. I think all of you know that God's annual festivals and Holy Days have tremendous spiritual meaning and they not only bring God's people together for Holy Convocations or as we heard in the sermonette Commanded Assemblies but more importantly they reveal His great Master plan by which he is fulfilling his purpose for humanity and each step of the Holy days is another step in th ...

A lot has been happening this week with the weather, as you all know, it's been a pretty exciting, I think everywhere we've seen across the country has been a unique time. I know just in Tennessee it's the most snow we've ever seen ever since I've been there. Not this time but even before that when we lived back in the two thousands, kind of shocking to see all this happening and then what's happening down in Texas and all over the Southwest, it's a lot happening. A lot that's continuing to remind us that things are very delicate, it could happen so quickly about how fragile life is ...

Today I want to not focus on Passover as I said I'll be doing that in the Bible Studies on Friday night, we're in that gospel account of John and we're about to get in to the last hours of the life of Christ and John dedicates a huge portion of his gospel account to the final hours and days of the life of Jesus Christ. So I'll plan to cover a lot of things on that Friday night Bible Study, and if you can tune in do so. Regarding the Passover, I'm sure we will have other Ministers that give messages on this too in preparation, but I thought today I will go ahead and talk about the Days of Unleavened Bread, the second step in the Master Plan of Salvation for mankind ...

Well one of the most difficult things to do is to be honest with ourselves. We're often our own biggest fans, we know what that's like, we kinda like ourselves and so it can be difficult to examine, to do the things that God has asked us to do. We like who we are, we end up focusing on the mistakes and short comings of others. The problem is there is none, not one that is fine just the way we are. We are not ok just the way we are and again that can be a tough conclusion to come to, the second we begin to think that we have gotten off track, we have not yet inherited all power and glory, it's a fact. We have not yet inherited all power and glory. ...