Sermon Topic: Religion

The Religion of the Natural Man

Date: May 30th, 1954  |  Scripture: Acts 28:1-10  |  Topics: Death, False Religion, Paganism, Religion, Shipwreck, Strength

And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold. And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer,Continue Reading


The Kingdom in Power

Date: June 26th, 1955  |  Scripture: 1 Corinthians 4:20  |  Topics: Kingdom, Power, Religion, Transfiguration

For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.


The New Religion:Peace Of Mind

Date: September 18th, 1955  |  Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:1-4  |  Topics: Help, Peace, Philosophy, Religion, Salvation, Trust

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.


What We Were and Did Become

Date: December 9th, 1956  |  Scripture: Ephesians 2:11-22  |  Topics: Faith, Religion, Strangers, Transformation

Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath brokenContinue Reading


Waiting For His Son From Heaven

Date: November 3rd, 1957  |  Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12  |  Topics: Prophecy, Rapture, Religion, Tribulation

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiContinue Reading


A Chronicle of the Lord’s Supper

Date: December 6th, 1959  |  Scripture: Matthew 26:14-30  |  Topics: Blindness, Faith, Last Supper, Religion, Sepulcher

Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him. Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover? And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saContinue Reading


The Purpose of Mission of Christ

Date: January 24th, 1960  |  Scripture: Hebrews 10:4-10  |  Topics: Christ, Deliverance, God's Will, Religion

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasureContinue Reading


Micah’s Manufactured Religion

Date: May 8th, 1960  |  Scripture: Judges 17-18  |  Topics: Emotion, Idolatry, Islam, Religion, Symbols

And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son. And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven imContinue Reading


This Is Real Religion

Date: May 8th, 1960  |  Scripture: James 1:27  |  Topics: Gospel, Prayer, Religion, Visitation, Witnessing

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.


Mixed-Up Religion

Date: February 25th, 1962  |  Scripture: 2 Kings 17:13-23  |  Topics: Baal, Dagon, Religion, Salvation

Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with tContinue Reading