A Southern Baptist pastor for almost 35 years, I currently serve as Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Angleton, Texas, and post my weekly sermons here. I am grateful to see these messages read in countries around the world, and pray that God will use His word to help individuals to walk with Him daily, and churches to glorify Him with their worship and obedience.
Tag Archives: mediator
“My Redeemer” (Job 19 sermon)
(Palm Sunday/Lord’s Supper service 3-20-16) If you want to make my wife Cheryl groan, just mention the Book of Job. I think she feels like we lived through that book for about two years as a family, and indeed Job … Continue reading
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Tagged I John 2:2, Job, Job 19:25, Lord's Supper, mediator, My Redeemer Lives, Oscar Schindler, Palm Sunday, redeemer, redemption, salvation, sin, umpire
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The Mediator
Sometimes two estranged parties need a third person, sympathetic to both, who can bring them together. Job lamented in 9:33 of his relationship with God: “There is no umpire between us who may lay his hand upon us both.” In … Continue reading
Posted in Devotions/Bible Studies
Tagged Hebrews 2:17, Hebrews 4:16, I Timothy 2:5, intercessor, Jesus, Job 9:33, mediator, umpire
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When You’ve Messed Up: (Part III) Turn to the Intercessor
I Samuel 12 tells us that the people of Israel had “messed up” by asking for a king so that they could be like all the other peoples. God showed them clearly in :17 that this was a sin, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Hebrews, I John 1:9, I Samuel 12:19, I Timothy 2:5, intercession, mediator
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