Episodes
Sunday May 30, 2021
Sunday May 30, 2021
Jesus Followers Cannot Live their Lives Without Living in the Indwelled Power of the Holy Spirit, but Consequences May Arise
MESSAGE SUMMARY: God desires us to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit; however, there may consequences when we are in the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus provided us with the gift of the Holy Spirit, and He provides us with a model for walking in the power of the Holy Spirit. there are consequences to us when we live and walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. We are given the Holy Spirit because we are Jesus Followers; and Jesus, through Holy Spirit, empowers, baptizes, and indwells us with His Spirit and His fruits of His Spirit. As Jesus Followers, we will be known by our fruit; therefore, we should have the fruit of Jesus in our lives. In Galatians 5:22-24, Paul describes the “Fruits of the Spirit”: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control . . . And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.".
Wherever the Holy Spirit indwells us, there is God’s energy, action, and power. In Luke 4:18, Jesus tells those worshiping with Him on the Sabbath in the Synagogue that: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he [God] has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.". On the other hand, when we have been anointed, like Jesus, with the power of the Holy Spirit, we, like when Jesus was teaching in His synagogue in Nazareth, receive negative pushback and condescension from our friends, family, and/or the world. Often, the Holy Spirit goes right to the very heart of our sins to get to the controlling issue or problem, thereby disrupting our lives or the lives of others.
Our lives are effected from the Holy Spirit’s indwelling by: 1) the Holy Spirit often leading us to the dry and barren places in our lives so that we learn to trust Him; 2) being tempted even though we have the power of the Holy Spirit; 3) like Jesus, conducting our ministry in the power of the Holy Spirit; 4) having the Holy Spirit helps us to interpret Scripture; and 5) realizing that, often, when we speak in the power of the Holy Spirit, His Word will not be well received, and the listeners’ responses will not be pleasant to us.
Jesus is Lord, and He is still sovereign and on His Kingdom’s throne; therefore, no matter what comes our way when we live in the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus has our backs. However, we cannot live our lives as Jesus Followers without living in the indwelled power of the Holy Spirit. Remember, when we live in the power of the Holy Spirit, God always has the victory!
TODAY’S AFFIRMATION: Today, I affirm that because of what God has done for me in His Son, Jesus, I AM FORGIVEN. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9).
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE (ESV): Luke 4:14-30; Mark 6:1-6; 1 John 2:1-3; 2 Peter 1:21.
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WEBSITE LINK TO DR. BEACH’S DAILY DEVOTIONAL – “On this Memorial Day, We Remember Jesus’ Definition of LOVE: ‘Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends’”: www.AWFTL.org/watch
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Sunday May 23, 2021
Sunday May 23, 2021
Some Jesus Followers Have a Disconnect Between Their Faith and Actual Lifestyles Because the Holy Spirit Is Not Active in Their Lives
MESSAGE SUMMARY: As Jesus Followers, we will be known by our fruit; therefore, we should have the fruit of Jesus in our lives. In Galatians 5:22-24, Paul describes the “Fruits of the Spirit”: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control . . . And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.". With many followers of Jesus, there is a disconnect between what our faith is and our actual lifestyles. Why do we have this disconnect? If we are believers in Jesus, God has given us an incredible gift – the gift of the Holy Spirit. However, the disconnect is that the Holy Spirit is not active in our lives. The Holy Spirit is key to a Jesus Follower’s life, and one cannot be a Jesus Follower without the Holy Spirit.
In Luke 3:15, John the Baptist explains the relationship between Jesus and the gift, from God, of the Holy Spirit: “John answered them all, saying, ‘I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.’". In Luke 3:22 when Jesus is Baptized, He receives the anointing of the Holy Spirit for His earthly ministry.
Jesus needed the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and we need the Baptism of the Holy Spirit too. While Jesus’ Apostles were with Him for three years and observed, directly, Jesus’ ministry, death, and Resurrection, the Apostles needed the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as described, by Jesus, in Acts 1:4-5: “And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, ‘you heard from me; or John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.’".
As Jesus Followers, we have the Holy Spirit; therefore, the big question becomes: “Does the Holy Spirit have us?”. We receive the “Baptism of the Holy Spirit in our lives” by: 1) seeking God’s will and way in our lives; 2) repenting of our sins; and 3) surrendering and yielding our lives to the Holy Spirit. However, we run into two obstacles to living our lives in the Holy Spirit: 1) sin, because sin is death and sin “grieves the Holy Spirit”; and 2) our quenching the Holy Spirit by being ungrateful and “murmuring against God’s will”.
Have you been Baptized with the Holy Spirit, and does the Holy Spirit have you?
TODAY’S AFFIRMATION: Today, I affirm that because of what God has done for me in His Son, Jesus, I AM FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him! (Luke 11:13).
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE (ESV): Galatians 5:22-24; Luke 1:15; Luke 3:15-22; Luke 2:25; Acts 1:4-5; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:1-4; Ephesians 4:30; Romans 3:23; 1 Corinthians 6:1-11; 1 Thessalonians 5:16.
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WEBSITE LINK TO DR. BEACH’S SERMON VIDEO – “We All Need “Hope” in Today’s World of Fear, Doubt in Our Faith, and Feelings of “Hopelessness”; and God Is this “Hope””: www.AWFTL.org/watch
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Sunday May 16, 2021
Sunday May 16, 2021
Jesus Followers Are Key to Stopping Marriage’s Perversion by Following God’s Plan in Their Families and Marriages
MESSAGE SUMMARY: Introduction from Prior Sermon: It is one thing to know Jesus in our lives, but it is another thing to love and obey Jesus in our lives. In other words, are you willing to let go of controlling your life and turn your life’s control over to the Holy Spirit – God’s will not your will be done? God does not force His will on you. You must seek Jesus to follow Him, and you must follow Jesus “in truth and in {Holy}Spirit”. Therefore, the question becomes not “do you have the Holy Spirit”, but “does the Holy Spirit have you”?
Today’s Message -- Marriage, A Current Assessment: Marriage and the family, in current decades, have been under attack to the degree that marriage is now losing its value in our culture. In Mark 10:6-9, Jesus speaks to God’s plan for marriage: “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.’”
In our culture’s attacks on marriage and the family, we see ten ways in which marriage and the family have been and are being perverted: 1) US Supreme Court’s decision on same sex marriage – as Jesus Followers, we don’t believe the courts have the right to define/redefine marriage as established by God; 2) sex before marriage is becoming the norm; 3) sex outside of marriage has become acceptable; 4) the prevalence of divorce; 5) acceptance of cohabitation; 6) birth of children out of wedlock; 7) multi-spouse marriage; 8) escalation and the acceptance of pornography; 9) the acceptance and practice of abortion on demand; and 10) the acceptable “choosing” one’s own gender by some people. These perversions of marriage and the family are chipping away at the value and importance of marriage and the family in the US – even among Christians. Too many of our Christian young people do not know why they should get married -- this diminution of marriage’s value is a failure, mostly, of the Christian Church.
Many Christians, today, are being deceived and led away from God’s Word by the Evil One (e.g., John 10:10). Therefore, we need to read and understand God’s Word, especially as it relates to His plan for marriage that Jesus posits in His quote from Genesis in Mark 10:6. Throughout history humans have corrupted God’s beautiful plan for His Creation. In Mark 10:7, we see God’s pattern for marriage. In Mark 10:8, we are provided with God’s purpose for marriage; and the product of this “one flesh” is children. By becoming “one flesh” in marriage, the man and women become a “new trinity” – husband, wife, and the Lord. In this “marriage trinitarian relationship”, each child is brought into this family relationship in the same way that we, as Jesus Followers, are brought into our personal relationship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit through the Gospel. In Mark 10:9 we see God’s expressed permeance of marriage.
God’s design and plan for marriage, as presented by Jesus in Mark 10:6,9, is ideal for us as humans, our nation, and our culture: “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female. Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, what therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.’". However, God’s plan is being increasingly perverted. Therefore, what should we do, as Jesus Followers, about these “attacks on marriage”? We can: 1) stand up, speak up and speak God’s truth – Christians need to stop being trampled upon by this divergent culture; 2) model good and Godly marriage and family life to the culture; 3) you teach your children, you not the church/school/government, about God and His plan for marriage and the family; and 4) pray and ask God to intervene in these attacks and to support our seeking to achieve His plan for our own marriage and the family – prayer does change things, and it brings the power of God.
We are blessed to live in an incredible time in history, but the plan and fabric that God designed to keep us together and thriving – marriage and the family – is being perverted. However, we, as Jesus Followers, hold the key to stopping this perversion of marriage though getting our own family and marriage in line with God’s plan and then witnessing and voting to stop this perversion – the time is now.
TODAY’S AFFIRMATION: I affirm that because of what God has done for me in His Son, Jesus, I AM RIGHTEOUS IN GOD’S EYES. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Scripture Reference (ESV): Mark 10:6-9; John 10:10; Genesis 2:21-25.
WEBSITE LINK TO DR. BEACH’S SERMON VIDEO – “Marriage – A Current Assessment (Christ the King Anglican Church; Birmingham, AL)”: www.AWFTL.org/watch
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Sunday May 09, 2021
The Five Needs of Mothers
Sunday May 09, 2021
Sunday May 09, 2021
The Five Needs of Mothers
MESSAGE SUMMARY: Introduction – Resurrection (Part 5): Jesus said, in John 14:6: "I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me.", Our challenge is to lovingly share Jesus' position with others in ways that they can hear and understand -- Jesus wants us to share Him. Followers of Jesus must communicate the Gospel, unspoken, through a life that is lived with joy and Godliness. God will do whatever we ask in His name.
Today’s Message -- Needs of Mothers: On Pentecost, the birthday of the Church, the Holy Spirit was poured out; therefore, everyone is entitled to have a personal relationship with God.
Today is Mother’s Day, and the Five Needs of Mothers include: 1) to know the Lord – to have a personal relationship with God through the Holy Spirit; 2) to be loved by her husband, as Jesus loved His Church; 3) help – assistance in all aspects of their life; 4) encouragement – provide praise and recognition; and 5) appreciation – in no way should mothers develop a sense that they are taken for granted.
A friendship between husband and wife is a context in which a mother’s needs flourish. Key is for mothers and fathers to ask the Lord, through the Holy Spirit, into their lives.
TODAY’S AFFIRMATION: I affirm that because of what God has done for me in His Son, Jesus, I AM FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him! (Luke 11:13).
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE (ESV): John 17:3; Philippians 3:7; John 17:3-5; Ephesians 5:25; 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17; 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.
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Sunday May 02, 2021
Sunday May 02, 2021
God Forgives You and You Are to Forgive Others; By Refusing to Forgive Someone, You Break Your Fellowship with God Making You the Sinner
MESSAGE SUMMARY: In Matthew 25:21-38, Peter asked Jesus how many times one should forgive someone that has wronged them: “Then Peter came up and said to him, ‘Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him’, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything’. ‘And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying’, ‘Pay what you owe’. ‘So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him’, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you’. ‘He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt. When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place. Then his master summoned him and said to him’, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you’? ‘And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt. So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.’”.
When you run into some barriers for forgiving someone else, Jesus, in Matthew 18:15-17, gives us guidelines for dealing with those with whom we believe “Have wronged us”: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16†But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.”.
What do you think about forgiveness and unforgiveness in your life relative to others? In essence, Jesus told Peter that the limit on the number of times we should forgive someone is, basically, unlimited. Like the king in Mathew 18, God's nature is to forgive. Should we not approach the forgiveness of others in our lives like Jesus in order to be Christ-like in our lives while permitting others to see Jesus in the way we live our lives? However, when the servant did not forgive those with a small debt to him, the master withdrew his pardon to his servant for his larger debt. God forgives us just as we forgive others. Unforgiveness, when we refuse to forgive someone, breaks our fellowship with the Lord and we become the sinner.
Archbishop Beach, at the end of this teaching regarding Unforgiveness, discusses questions, from a previous sermon, that we need to ask of ourselves when we come before the Lord in our prayers. The Gospel is based on both the Old and the New Testaments. The Gospel must go forth in the power of the Holy Spirit – the Gospel is a Spiritual message.
TODAY’S AFFIRMATION: I affirm that because of what God has done for me in His Son, Jesus, I AM FORGIVEN. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9).
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE (ESV): Matthew 25:21-38; James 2:13; Matthew 18:15-17.
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