Episodes
Saturday Mar 23, 2019
Romans 9:18-24 ~ An Astounding Display of God's Glory ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Saturday Mar 23, 2019
Saturday Mar 23, 2019
If you are still struggling with the scriptural truth that God has mercy on whom He desires and He hardens whom He desires (Romans 9:18), you need to hear the reason for this that the apostle Paul gives in Romans 9:18-24. In short, it has to do with God’s glory. The final and deepest argument Paul gives for why God acts in sovereign freedom is that this way of acting displays most fully the glory of God—including His wrath against sin and His power in judgment.
Saturday Mar 16, 2019
Romans 9:14-18 ~ The Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Saturday Mar 16, 2019
Saturday Mar 16, 2019
In the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart, God’s Word shows us that God uses evil and evil men to bring about His predetermined purposes. Each time Pharaoh’s heart was hardened and he refused to let God’s people go, it resulted in a further display of God’s power so that God’s name would be proclaimed throughout the whole world. When Pharaoh, or anyone else, chooses to reject the right, he will be hardened in the wrong. That’s what sin and rebellion against God does. It hardens the heart more and more against God.
The second part of the message contains a remarkable insight into how the hearts of the enemies of Jesus were hardened leading up to the cross. Whereby Jesus was delivered over by the predetermined plan of God and was nailed to the cross by the hands of godless men (cf. Acts 2:23).
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Romans 9:14-18 ~ Is God Unjust? ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Is God Unjust?
Romans 9:15-16
For [God] says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.
It’s a question of God’s fairness. If He only chooses some to be heirs of the promise and not others, people say that God is unfair. Yet Romans 9:16 teaches that people are not chosen or rejected because of who they were or what they had done or even would do. How can God elect one person and reject another before they were even born? God’s Word gives us the answers to these kind of questions.
Monday Feb 25, 2019
Romans 9:6-13 ~ The Choice of God ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Monday Feb 25, 2019
Monday Feb 25, 2019
In Romans 9:6-13, the apostle Paul continues to answer objections to what he has been teaching. This time, the God’s word is called into question, “Has the Word of God failed?” Paul answers the basic question, “If the Jews have rejected and crucified Jesus, the Son of God, does that mean God’s purposes were frustrated and His plan defeated?” Has God’s Word failed?
Paul answers literally, “And it is not possible that the word of God has failed.”
Monday Feb 25, 2019
Romans 9:1-5 ~ The Tragedy of Unbelief ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Monday Feb 25, 2019
Monday Feb 25, 2019
In Romans 9:1-5, the apostle Paul answers questions that would have been raised in opposition to what he has been writing in his letter to the Romans.
The first question is, “If God offered salvation to the Gentiles (non-Jews), does that mean that God has forsaken His ancient people Israel?”
The second question is, “If salvation is from the Jews and is first of all to the Jews, why did Israel, including her highest religious leaders, reject Jesus as their Messiah, Savior, and King?”
What about Israel today? Does God still have a plan and purpose for the State of Israel?
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Romans 8:31-34 ~ If God Is for Us, Who Is against Us? ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Before you listen to the message, rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10:
Then listen to the message to move up the scale!
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Romans 8:29-30 ~ The Purpose of Salvation ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Romans 8:29-30 is the clearest and most explicit presentation of the truth that a person who is genuinely saved is eternally saved; that is, he or she cannot lose their salvation. In these two verses Paul reveals the unbroken pattern of God’s sovereign redemption from His eternal foreknowledge of a believer’s salvation to its ultimate completion in glorification.
Friday Jan 25, 2019
Friday Jan 25, 2019
How do you know you are called according to God's purpose (Romans 8:28)?
How do you know that you are one of God's elect (Romans 8:30)?
How do you know that you were chosen before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4)?
The answer is so simple that it might very well surprise you!
Saturday Jan 19, 2019
Romans 8:28-30 ~ The Recipients of God's Greatest Promise ~ Pastor Bill Slabaugh
Saturday Jan 19, 2019
Saturday Jan 19, 2019
Romans 5:5 reads, “The love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us."
When you receive Jesus Christ and trust in Him for the forgiveness of your sins, the Holy Spirit comes to live on the inside of you. Romans 5:5 says that when the Holy Spirit indwelt you, the love of God was poured out within your heart. You enter into a spiritual love relationship with God that lasts throughout all eternity.
The phrase “poured out” refers to the lavish outpouring to the point of overflowing. Someone has said that, “Our heavenly Father does on proffer His love in measured drops, but in immeasurable torrents.”
All the love of God is lavishly poured out within your heart when you receive Christ.
Friday Jan 11, 2019
Friday Jan 11, 2019