W. A. Criswell Sermon Library

The World’s Greatest Blunder

June 8th, 1986 @ 10:50 AM John 1:12 Creation, Possession, Purpose, Redemption, Satanic Influence, Volition, John 1986 - 1989, 1986, John

…glory of God. And how often does he succeed! The story of a Samson is that; the story of a Saul is that; the story of an Iscariot is that. Do you often think of the hiss—the hiss—the Satan’s hiss in Satan’s name, in the very word “sin,” in “sodomy,”…

Final Rewards-In Hell or Heaven

November 21st, 1976 @ 7:30 PM Matthew 16:27 Bema, Damnation, Great White Throne, Heaven, Hell, Judgment, Salvation, Favorite Sermons, 1976, Matthew

…don’t dare in public, of what men and women do sometimes with children. Last week, there was brought before the courts here in Dallas an unspeakable couple, who had led a little girl to commit sodomy as they took pictures of the child. God wrote it down: think of the…

Christ in Hades

December 9th, 1973 @ 8:15 AM 1 Peter 3:18-22 Ark, Baptism, Cross, Incarnation, Preaching, Spirits in Prison, 1 Peter 1973 - 1974 (early svc), 1973, 1 Peter

…the apostle is saying: he is saying in the days of the antediluvians, the world was full of sin, and of blood, and of violence, of crime and iniquity, sodomy – the world as you see it now. When you describe in the Bible, look in the Bible, the description…

Our God A Consuming Fire

March 6th, 1960 @ 7:30 PM Hebrews 12:29 Holiness, Judgment, Mercy, Reality, Reincarnation, Wrath, Hebrews 1959 - 1960, 1960, Hebrews

…[Numbers 20:8-12; Deuteronomy 32:48-52; Acts 5:1-11; 1 John 5:13-17]. When Manasseh the king of Israel, the son of Hezekiah, built on one side of the temple houses of sodomy, consecrated men, and on the other side of the temple houses of prostitution, consecrated women, the wrath of God came down;…

Revival or Revolution

October 20th, 1963 @ 8:15 AM Deuteronomy 30:19-20 Death, Destruction, Judgment, Repentance, Revival, Revolution, Sodom, 1963, Deuteronomy

…us, appealing beyond any men we ever saw in our lives. Now bring them out. Bring them out. We’ve committed ourselves to an orgy of sodomy tonight, bring them out!” [Genesis 19:4-5]. And Lot walked outside and stood on his porch and said, “Men of Sodom, men of Sodom, I…

My Country

June 29th, 1986 @ 8:15 AM Psalm 33:12 America, Founding Fathers, Freedom, Immorality, 1986, Psalm

…terror and crime on our city streets to tear our cities apart. We have secular humanism to tear our schools apart. We have sodomy and AIDS to tear the moral fabric of our people apart. We have cults, strange and weird, to tear our churches apart. What is the hope…

Advantages and Disadvantages of a Long Pastorate

October 2nd, 1983 @ 8:15 AM Philippians 3:12-14 Biographical, FBC-Dallas, History, Pastor, 1983, Philippians

…is progress in war and in the instruments of war. There is progress in bitterness and in hatred and in national confrontation. There is progress in sodomy. In the days of my ministry, I have seen sodomonic communities, vigorous, clamorous; in San Francisco one that will number almost three hundred…

The Coming of the Lord Secretly and Openly

March 12th, 1961 @ 10:50 AM Revelation 1:7 End Times, Jesus, Second Coming, Revelation 1961 - 1963, 1961, Revelation

…sodomy, the Lord snatched Lot away . As compromised as Lot was, the judgment could not fall upon that city until he was…

The Smiting of God’s Glory

June 26th, 1977 @ 7:30 PM Acts 6-7 Acts, Glory, Martyrdom, Stephen, Acts 1976 - 1979, 1977, Acts

…says sodomy is wrong! It always will be—always has been and always will be—until the Lord Jesus comes again. Now that is the Christian faith. “But I don’t like that.” “You don’t like Jesus.” “I don’t like that.” “Then, you don’t like the Bible.” And you sure wouldn’t like Stephen….

The Children of Old Man Adam

November 19th, 1986 @ 7:30 PM Genesis 6:1-11 Corruption, Fallen, History, Idolatry, Sin, 1986, Genesis

…to a land of sodomy that was burned up by the fire and brimstone of the judgment of God. In 1500 BC Moses is sent because of the oppression of God’s children under Pharaoh. In 1000 BC are recounted the wars of David and the Philistines [2 Samuel 8:1, 21:15]….

Jesus Speaks to Us About Purposelessness

November 10th, 1985 @ 10:50 AM Luke 12:18 Despair, God's Will, Hopelessness, depression, Jesus Speaks, 1985, Luke

…promiscuity, AIDS, sodomy, giving life to nothingness, worthlessness, purposelessness. I see it, and it is unspeakable tragedy.” God’s gifts are so precious and so wonderful. His creations—and all of us have an endowment, all of us—created for some wonderful cause, some of us for this, some of us for another,…

We Begin our 45th Year

October 2nd, 1988 @ 10:50 AM Numbers 27:15-28 Anniversary, Biographical, Church, FBC-Dallas, History, 1988, Numbers

…would dare attack us; and our enemies do the same. There is progress and advancement in evil. There is progress and advancement in sodomy, venereal disease. And the whole world is beginning to cower before the awesome spread of AIDS. You never heard of AIDS a few years ago. I…

The Children of Old Man Adam

June 29th, 1988 @ 7:30 PM Genesis 6:1-7 Corruption, Depravity, Fallen, Salvation, Savior, Sin, Genesis 1988 - 1989, 1988, Genesis

…sodomy in the country to which he journeyed [Genesis 19:4-5]. · In about 1500 BC the story is of Moses and Pharaoh and the Israelite oppression. · In about 1000 BC is the story of David and the Philistines and the Philistine wars. · In about 800 BC is Ahab…

My Country

June 29th, 1986 @ 10:50 AM Psalm 33:12 America, Founding Fathers, Freedom, Immorality, 1986, Psalm

…movies to tear our families apart. We have an increasing abortion to tear the very wombs of our mothers apart. We have crime and terror on our streets to tear our cities apart. We have secular humanism to tear our schools apart. We have sodomy and an epidemic of AIDS…

The Glorious Gospel

June 8th, 1958 @ 7:30 PM 1 Timothy 1:11 Doctrine, Glory, Good News, Gospel, 1 Timothy 1958, 1958, 1 Timothy

…Timothy 1:6-7]. Then he speaks of the law there as a righteous man doesn’t need it [1 Timothy 1:9]. Man who’s saved and converted – no need to pass any law for him. It’s for people who are “disobedient, ungodly, unholy, profane, murderers, whoremongers, people that are guilty of sodomy,…

We Begin Our Fortieth Year

October 2nd, 1983 @ 10:50 AM Philippians 3:12-14 Biographical, FBC-Dallas, History, Pastor, 1983, Philippians

…bitter confrontations between nations. There is advancement and progress also in the evil of sodomy. When I began this ministry here, I never heard of a sodomonic community. And yet in the city of San Francisco they’ll have two hundred fifty thousand members of that community. They have a Sodom…

Revival or Revolution

April 21st, 1968 @ 8:15 AM Deuteronomy 30:11-20 America, Prayer, Repentance, Revival, Revolution, 1968, Deuteronomy

…we may know them,” sodomy, “know them” . And the men of Sodom said, “Who made thee a ruler over…

In the Last Days

March 16th, 1975 @ 8:15 AM Isaiah 2:1-5

…by the stacks. Sodomy with little boys, little boys used for sodomitic purposes, pictured, pictured, pictured, and all of the rest that goes into a life of depravity and destruction. So they war against such pornography, and they take it to the courts, and they take it to the courts,…

In the Last Days

March 16th, 1975 @ 10:50 AM Isaiah 2:1-5 America, Communism, Crime, Decadence, Decline, Economics, End Days, Morality, Isaiah 1975 - 1976, 1975

…magazines, magazines portraying, depicting, presenting sodomy with little boys. So he says, “By the help of God, this is not right!” And they take it to the courts, and the courts go up to the Supreme Court, and it’s laid before the Supreme Court: “Look, these are children, these are…

The Tragedy of Those Times

May 15th, 1960 @ 8:15 AM Judges 19, 21 Homosexuality, Infidelity, Sorrow, Tragedy, War, Judges 1960, 1960, Judges

…Sodomites in Israel. Isn’t it a funny thing? I never heard of that, I was never introduced to that until I came to Dallas. It’s a vile sin of civilization and mostly of city life; sodomy. “Oh, no,” said this old man, “Here is my daughter, and here is the…

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The World’s Greatest Blunder

Final Rewards-In Hell or Heaven

Christ in Hades

Our God A Consuming Fire

Revival or Revolution

My Country

Advantages and Disadvantages of a Long Pastorate

The Coming of the Lord Secretly and Openly

The Smiting of God’s Glory

The Children of Old Man Adam

Jesus Speaks to Us About Purposelessness

We Begin our 45th Year

The Children of Old Man Adam

My Country

The Glorious Gospel

We Begin Our Fortieth Year

Revival or Revolution

In the Last Days

In the Last Days

The Tragedy of Those Times

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