“ The King Will Honor His Son ” Sometimes parables are easily understood. This one could be that way. At least to some of us. But, it is the hearing of Henry explaining it where more detail is added to the understanding. All the better for the children of God.
The guy who shows up at the wedding feast and is asked why he is there is symbolic of the majority of humanity who think they believe in God, who think that they are saved, but in all actuality have no real clue.
All these churches, all these people who think that they are saved, only to find out at the end of the day that they weren't even close. What a wake up call that will be.
Henry does a superb job with this scripture in explaining it so that it can be easily understood.
“ Having One's Eyes Opened ” This is a scripture that very few people truly understand. They think that they do, but it is not how they choose to believe it to be.
Henry takes this very simple scripture and explains it so that anyone who is truly seeking can understand it.
Just because God calls a person, doesn't mean that they go to Heaven or are saved. That's the bitter pill associated with this passage, the one thing that people do not want to accept.
Many are called - but few are chosen. A hard reality to bear.
And, as scripture so aptly explains, you can't sneak into Heaven. God KNOWS who His people are.
The question at the end of this sermon should be - Are you one of His CHOSEN people?
“ The Truth In All It's Glory ” Henry begins this sermon with something that many people are guilty of - thinking that momma or daddy is gonna be waiting on them in heaven.
What Henry explains is that that is in fact not of any importance. What is important is GOD and GOD alone. People don't want to see that. They want to be warmed by the thought that everything that they love on this earth will be waiting for them in heaven. In other words, taking the world with them into heaven. And that so is not happening - not reality.
Henry goes as far as to point out how deceptive some of the better known hymns are that we are so used to singing.
He shows us in this sermon just how confused and misinformed that we really are and that's a scary thought, but well needed in order to come to God - honestly.
It's sermons like this that we should be well thankful for.
“ How To Know Christ ” Most people in this day and time just go along with whatever the preacher is saying. They don't think, they just take the preacher at his word. They don't test the spirits as scripture asks us to do. That's a shame.
Here, Henry explains his own coming to Christ and it wasn't what most people think. He was already an Assistant Pastor when God called him. He was just religious prior to that, doing the same thing most other lost souls do - take the preacher at his word.
It was that wonderful Rolf Barnard who was sent by God to speak one day at Henry's church, during a meeting. And Henry explains the Ethiopian Eunuch in relation to what happened to him that day.
How can we understand God's perfect word if there is no one to explain it or teach us? The short answer is that we can't. Rolf came to explain to Henry, and Philip was sent to explain to the Eunuch.
This is a wonderful sermon with many explanations on some of the most simple things. Henry does a wonderful job.
This sermon is definitely worth a listen. You might learn more than you think.
“ How Does One Come To Christ ” Coming to know Christ is shown in very specific detail in this particular chapter of Acts. The illustration of the Ethiopian Eunuch. You see perfectly what one has to do.
It's all about BELIEVING at the end of day. This is how we come to personally know God and God knowing us - in the belief of the Son. It doesn't get any more simple than that.
Henry gives multiple scenarios in scripture of how various folks come to know Christ and believe. This is a very instructional sermon quite honestly.
Believe.
“ The Mind of A True Believer ” This sermon is not like other sermons by Henry. This one starts off with Henry relating a situation where he is going to visit a long time friend in the hospital and the friend doesn't know who he is.
Now, this friend is supposed to be saved and know God. But, he doesn't recognize a man of God. Strange.
Even in scripture, the sick, the crippled, the infirmed can and do recognize Christ when He comes close. It's the unsaved that don't know Him. Children of God will not lose that capabililty in this world. There is no place in scripture where it indicates that a saved person loses his memory or knowledge of Christ or God. Children of God, the Elect, the true Israel all know Christ and God.
What we fail to realize sometimes is that God has control over every single aspect of us as human beings. There is nothing that happens to us - NOTHING - that God doesn't have complete and total control over. A true believer will not lose the ability to know God, it just won't happen.
I realize that this was a good and dear friend of Henry's and he doesn't want to believe the worst where that friend is concerned, but at the end of the day as the evidence indicates, his friend really did not know God. Or he would have recognized a man of God. It doesn't get any more simple than that.
“ To Give An Account ” Basically, this sermon is regarding the fussing that humans do without any thinking. We as people, are basically spoiled rotten and whine at the least inconvenience. If we say we don't, we lie.
Henry points this out in plenty in this sermon. That's why he opens the sermon up with the statement that he is preaching to himself. He knows he's guilty. Just as guilty as Jeremiah was.
We don't take the time and effort to see the most basic of facts in that God created the saved AND the unsaved to serve HIS PURPOSE. Tell the unsaved that and watch how mad they will get.
We are all God's creation and we serve Him whether we know it or not. To sit and whine like little babies because we don't have this or that, or make the pain stop, etc.. is basically slapping God in the face. It really is when you get right down to it. Just like if we talked that way to our parents. Same thing.
God had to set Jeremiah straight on a few things in order for Jeremiah to see how things really are. We would do well to see things as they really are as well.
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“ Seek God ” Henry makes it simple. True preachers of the Word of God, will preach the Word faithfully and KNOW that God will call the ones that He has chosen. The preachers preach the Word and do nothing more. They cannot do anything more. God is the only one who can give us a new heart. God is the only one who can open eyes and ears. True preachers are nothing more than mouthpieces of God. That's it.
And Henry explains this quite clearly. If you have a question regarding scripture, you take it to God. Pray about it and the answer will be revealed to you. Understanding will be imparted to you. Man cannot help you, only God and God alone can help you.
Well done sermon.
“ Man's Evil Nature ” As humans we only want to hear about how wonderful we are. We don't want to hear the truth about ourselves. God knows our hearts, He knows us. If we were to see ourselvs as God sees us, we couldn't handle it.
Our goal should be trying to get as close as we can to God, because it is God alone who can save us.
Henry does a very good job with this sermon and therer is much to be learned from it.
“ On Being Elect ” The title of this sermon could be considered not exactly accurate in the sense that Henry spends more time talking about false prophets than he does on the Lord collecting His sheep. But, the sermon is still good.
In this world there are many, MANY false prophets. 9 out of 10 churches are falsely led. I know, been through quite a few myself. The preachers want to make the folks believe that everyone goes to heaven and there is no such place as hell. And there you have those with itchy ears - wanting to believe the lies.
Henry does well to point this out and try to help folks to see and understand how deceitful the world is. But, God has His people in His hands and He won't let go of them. He promises us that. We just need to be careful where we step is all and who we listen to.
This is a very good sermon, worth listening to over and over again.
“ How Are We Acceptable To God? ” We think, so many of us do, that if we work hard enough, say all the right things and create a specific image that we will be acceptable to God. WRONG!
Henry explains in this sermon that God cannot accept ANY of us unless we ourselves accept Christ. Christ is the key to acceptance by God.
We are chosen before we are even born, by God, to be His elect. But, it is in His time that He calls us to Himself. We may be young. middleaged or old when He does call us, but it isn't us making the choice, not even close.
But, even as God's chosen, we are still sinners in the flesh and nothing that we can do will please God, it all has to come through Christ.
Most people think they understand salvation, but they really don't, not by the way they express themselves.
Henry did a good job here at explaining and laying out just how salvation really works.
“ Glory To God In The Highest ” To a true believer, glorying only in God should make sense. The things of this world are going to pass away at some point and glorying in ourselves or the things of this world is utterly ridiculous. But, as weakm fleshbag humans, we usually do it.
Henry preaches a very relevant issue when it comes to glorying in anything other than God and how easy it is for us to forget and look to the world - when we should be looking upward.
This sermon serves as a great reminder to look heavenward instead of to ourselves or the world for all of our needs - not just some. God is great, God is all powerful and God deserves GLORY.
“ There Is Only One True Peace ” Henry has a tendency to pull back the curtain on the things that we don't see or recognize in this world and the site is pretty ugly. The lies and deception that are thrust upon us in this world day to day.
Here, Henry points out something very, very important - especially to true believers. There is NO PEACE except that which comes directly from GOD. And we have to ASK for it.
The world cannot give peace. Another human being cannot give peace. Only God can bestow peace when asked to do so. The peace that transcends all understanding.
This is a very enlightening sermon and even as a long standing true believer, there are things to be learned here. Well worth the listen.
“ What Is Peace? ” Alot of people think that there isn't much to be learned from the Old Testament, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Jeremiah was a very sensitive prophet, he wept over his people and their refusal of God. They preferred to follow the law instead of God. Yes, God laid down the law, but God was over the law and the people just couldn't get their heads around that aspect of it.
Jeremiah was a troubled prophet who needed to learn that in God lay true peace. To find peace was to find relief in a sense, but more importantly sanctuary with and in God.
And how do the true believers find peace? Look to God, for He will not let one of His own slip from His mighty hand. It's simple, you just need to have FAITH. And Jeremiah needed not only to be shown that, but to understand it.
“ What Will You Do When the Horses Come? ” Poor Jeremiah! He has always been one of my favorite prophets. He wearied the Lord with his concerns and questions regarding mankind. And the Lord had to finally pose the questiion to Jerermiah of "If you can't run with the footmen, then what will you do when the horses come?
In other words - if you can't handle these things then how are you going to handle much more difficult things Jeremiah?
Jeremiah cared. He cared about his people, but he had to be made to see that this world was not his home. These things of this world are fleeting and unimportant. Care about the Lord and what He wants, not man and what he wants or doesn't want.
We have the same issues to deal with today. A very enlightening sermon by Henry.
“ A Very Critical Question ” Henry again uses Simeon as his main example here. When Simeon was led by the Holy Spirit to the temple at the exact moment that Christ was being brought by His parents. He held Christ in his arms and declared that he had seen God's salvation and prophesized to Mary and Joseph about what Christ was here to do.
Henry also references other passages of scripture as well, noting that the correct term to be used is to DEPART. That DEATH or TO DIE is only that of the flesh dying in order for a sinner to be reborn.
This is a very long and involved sermon. Not boring, just very long and involved. You have to pay attention here because Henry moves quickly and covers much ground.
Suffice it to say that by the end of the sermon it can be said that a man is ready to die (DEPART) when he has come to know the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal savior.
Henry does note during the sermon that the Apostles always referred to Christ as LORD while He was here on earth and they only referred to Him as Jesus when writing about Him.
Henry also notes that to recognize God is one thing, but to KNOW Christ personally is just as critically important. You cannot have one without the other.
“ Human Goodness Is Fiction ” This is one thing among many that Henry points out in this sermon and I agree with him. Christ himself said that NONE IS GOOD SAVE GOD! That's a fact.
Henry also points out in this sermon that
Human righteousness opposes the grace of God. Human righteousness is a hindrance to salvation. Human righteousness is an abomination to God. Human righteousness will keep a man from Christ for as long as it can.
These are definitely things to think about very seriously. We don't bother to consider just how decieved we really are in this world. Once our eyes are opened and we begin to see just how hideous this place really is do we look more seriously to God.
Thank God for Henry.
“ Ready To Depart ” The one thing that Henry points out in this particular sermon is the difference between the saved and the unsaved in how they respond to leaving this world.
It's painfully simple to understand, but we don't catch on to it that easily.
The saved will say that they are ready to DEPART. The unsaved say they are ready to DIE.
Scripture shows (and Henry points this out) that there is no death in the sense of how humans refer to it. There is but one death - the death of the sinful flesh. The death of sin and the birth of the new man in Christ. It doesn't have anything to do with physical death.
This is a very informative sermon and I learned things that I did not know to which I am very thankful that God chose to reveal them to me through this sermon.
A true blessing.
“ Excellent Question ” It is an excellent question. Most people (99%) are in mortal fear of death. And the funny thing is, the ones that say that they are saved and are that scared of death? Well, you have to wonder if they really are saved, because if they were and they love the Lord like they say they do....well, one would think that they would be eager to be with their Lord in Heaven. One would think.
Henry has preached quite a few sermons on this particular scripture and I plan to listen to all of them. Why? Because very simply, I don't fear death, I can't wait to get home to Paradise! So, his sermons will be words of encouragement for me.
Too bad more folks can't get a handle on this subject of death.
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