Hello all:
Like so many people, I have attended many different denominational churches in my life, setting through sermons that were, for the most part, uplifting and inspirational. When I have talked to the minister later on, they told me that they believed that their sermons had their origin in God. Sermons on friendship, pride, the Ten Commandments, the Pauline Epistles, life situations in general or just lessons that the minister believed he/she were inspired to give.
The majority of those ministers used Bible verses to emphasis their sermons. They took verses from both the Old and New Testaments and often combining them to get their point across. They took lesson from their own life, their family, and the life of men and women they have known or from the lives of historical people. They took lessons from men who fought in the various wars and conflicts in the world. Those ministers took the time to prepare a sermon that they believed that their congregation needed to here. Sermons on subjects that were impressed upon them by God or the Holy Spirit from the writings of various philosophers and men of high education like Aristotle, Plato, Einstein and others.
Some ministers have said that they had prepared a sermon on one subject, only to be impressed to talk on another subject at the last minute. The wording of their sermon they believed was from God. They truly believed that they were being taken over by God to deliver a sermon that was needed by someone on that particular Sunday morning or maybe several people in the congregation.
You may have read some of the articles on this blog that have reminded you of a sermon that you have heard, and believed that they are directed directly at you. If so, then they have done their job to remind you of something in your life at that time, or to get you to think and spur you into action to do something about a possible problem in your life, or personality. The subject of the article may help all of us stay on our spiritual path.
God bless
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There are Bible verses that are very important. Mark presents the Good News or Gospel. John the Baptist came out of the wilderness preaching the Gospel that was recorded in the book of Mark. John the Baptist said, “I indeed baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” (Mark, 1:8) In Mark, 1:15, Jesus said, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” At the beginning of Mark, John the Baptist and Jesus were not talking about the death and resurrection that most people attribute to the Gospel. The Gospel was the Holy Spirit is within us. Spirit and we are one represents the actual Good News, and it is the message presented by the Spiritualist Church.
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