Sermon Series: ASL

LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION: WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED? Dr. W. A. Criswell Acts 16:30-31 7-09-78  10:50 a.m.   This is the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, bringing the message entitled: Life’s Greatest Question: What Must I Do to be Saved?  And the answer to that question is God’s disclosed mercy and infinite grace: “Believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” [Acts 16:30-31]. Sin has entered all of our faculties.  We are a fallen race, and a dying people.  And howevContinue Reading

THE GREAT FACT OF THE GOSPEL: JESUS IS ALIVE! Dr. W.A. Criswell Luke 24:36-42 4-19-81        10:50 a.m.   The title of the message today, The Great Fact of the Gospel: Jesus Lives, Jesus Is Alive.  In the closing chapter of Luke, chapter 24 beginning at verse 36, Luke 24:36:   And as the disciples thus spake, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them and saith unto them, Shalom, peace be unto you.   But they thought they were seeing an apparition, a ghost, a phantom.  They were terrified and affrContinue Reading

OUR LORD’S ENTRANCE INTO SUFFERING Dr. W. A. Criswell Hebrews 2:9-18 5-3-81    10:50 a.m.     Now today, Our Lord’s Entrance into Suffering.  It is mostly an exposition of passages in Hebrews 2, in Hebrews 4, in Hebrews 5, and in Hebrews 10:  Our Lord’s Entrance into Suffering. In the second chapter of the Book of Hebrews, beginning at verse 9:   We see Jesus, made a little lower than the angels—made a man—for the suffering of death… that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man.Continue Reading

WAR IN THE SPIRIT WORLD Dr. W. A. Criswell Ephesians 6:12 10-9-83    10:50 a.m.     War in the Spirit World, In Ephesians 6, verse 12, Paul writes: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness in this world, against spiritual wickedness in the heavenlies” [Ephesians 6:12].  The King James Version has placed it in a verbal form, “We wrestle not.”  Paul wrote it in a substantive nominative form, hē palē, “our wrestling,” ouContinue Reading

THE FALL OF LUCIFER Dr. W.A. Criswell Luke 10:18 10-16-83     10:50 a.m.       Now let’s begin: a survey, a summary survey of the life of Lucifer.  In the beginning of unknown infinitude of time, before time was created, before the world and the universe were created, so far as we know, the first revealed act of God was the creation of the angelic hosts.  When you read in the Bible the phrase, “the Lord of hosts,” it refers to the host of heaven: Lord sabaoth, the “Lord of hosts,” the angelic hoContinue Reading

DEMONS, THE HOUNDS OF HELL Dr. W. A. Criswell Ephesians 6:10-18 10-23-83    10:50 a.m.     Demons, evil spirits; there is so much fanaticism and superstition connected with such a topic, and to know the truth of God, the revelation of God, is for all of us a coveted pearl of price, the wisdom of heaven.  So let us begin. The sermon will follow this form.  After the introduction of the fact of demons, evil and foul spirits, we shall follow as briefly as we can their attack against the unbeliever,Continue Reading

THE SATANIC TRINITY Dr. W. A. Criswell Revelation 16:13-16 10-30-83     10:50 a.m.   This is the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas bringing the message entitled The Satanic Trinity.  And you will read it in the sixteenth chapter of the Revelation, verses 13, 14, and 16; Revelation, the last book in the Bible, the Apocalypse.  [The] first word in it starts off with apokalupsis, apokalupsis, “the unveiling” of Jesus Christ in His glorious coming at the consummation of the age.  The apokContinue Reading

God’s Guardian Angels Dr. W. A. Criswell Hebrews 1:14 11-6-83    10:50 a.m.     The first chapter of the Book of Hebrews, verse 14, closes with this word:  the angels, “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be the heirs of salvation?” [Hebrews 1:14].  God’s ministering spirits, the angels, sent forth from His presence to help us, encourage us, strengthen us, comfort us, guide us—God’s guardian angels.  “The angels are they not ministering spirits, protecContinue Reading

WHAT ANGELS LEARN IN CHURCH Dr. W. A. Criswell 1 Corinthians 11:10 11-27-83    10:50 a.m.  When we study the Word of God, it moves into an altogether different world.  The title of the sermon is What the Angels Learn in Church.  First of all, they learn about us.  In 1 Corinthians 11:10, Paul writes, “For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.”  Is that not an amazing statement in the Bible?  The first part of the eleventh chapter of 1 Corinthians concerns hoContinue Reading

THE INTERMEDIATE STATE Dr. W. A. Criswell Luke 23:39-43 2-12-84     10:50 a.m.     Welcome, the uncounted multitudes of you who share this hour with us on radio and on television.  This is the First Baptist Church of Dallas, the oldest church in Dallas; and this is the pastor bringing the message entitled The Intermediate State.  It is the first sermon in the doctrinal series on eschatology, the last things that consummate the age, the second coming of our Lord.  This concerns our death and whatContinue Reading