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God opens and closes a lot of doors! I’m sure we’ve all experienced this in life, where we get opportunities that can only be explained by God, or we’re taken out of situations or relationships that can only be explained by God’s protection! In today’s message, Pastor Jeff will remind you of the most important door…the door of salvation! If you’ve walked through that door, then you know there is nothing and no one else that matters! Jesus is everything, because He gave us everything!

Consistency, endurance, and faithfulness are all godly actions that we need more of! In today’s message, Pastor Jeff will compare the Christian life to a marathon. We’re not to walk, and we’re not to sprint and then stop; we’re to treat it as a LONG run to the Father! Your goal is Jesus, and to get to Him, you need to stay on the narrow path; stay consistent in your obedience! Endure the hardships of this life, all through the power and strength of the Holy Spirit working in and through you!

We can all admit that America is not perfect, and it’s in desperate need of change. Just like Sardis, we’re struggling with our morals, with idol worship, with our own disobedience to God. There is no use or reason to pretend that one side has all the answers or that one side is right; as a nation, America has failed. In today’s message, Pastor Jeff doesn’t want to bash America, but bring some much-needed light to reality… WE NEED JESUS!!! Your families, your neighbors, and your nation need Jesus!!!

Don’t we see the redefining of obvious truths in our world? People walk around thinking they’re different genders or that they’re a literal animal. The truth that God made each and every one of us just as He designed goes out the window so quickly. This spirit of Jezebel is so evident and influential still in today’s society; it continues to encourage the discarding of morals. In today’s message, Pastor Jeff will encourage you to love those people, despite their confusion, and to speak the truth over them!

This spirit of Jezebel is still something that affects people, churches, and communities. Jezebel has this hatred, this ability to manipulate and seduce, and to encourage other people into sexual sin. Jezebel taught that you can live in sexual sin, and God is okay with that.  Obviously, we know that is not true, and yet SO many people still struggle with this. In today’s message, Pastor Jeff will remind you of God’s truth and what HE says about sexual immorality…We are to FLEE FROM IT!

Forgiving and forgetting are usually two different things. Forgiveness is something that you have to actively do, but forgetting can take weeks, months, or even years before that transgression is wiped from your memory. Well, in today’s message, Pastor Jeff reminds us that the Lord chooses to forget our sin! When we accept Jesus’ gift of forgiveness, our slates are wiped clean! We no longer have to bear the guilt of what we have done. What a great burden to have lifted from our souls!

It’s easy to get bored by the details in the Bible. Most of us probably don’t exactly remember the name of David’s great-great-grandfather, or how tall Noah’s Ark was. But Pastor Jeff reminds us today that those details are in Scripture for a reason. In the case of the Tabernacle, God wanted the dimensions and layout of that building to be very specific because it was meant to be a physical representation of Heaven on Earth. There is always a reason behind the small details in God’s Word!

What does being the salt and light mean to you? How are you personally being salty, being different than those you work with? How are you being the light of Jesus when conversations turn to arguments or gossip? In today’s message, Pastor Jeff teaches that our little areas of compromise have allowed people to look down on the church and dismiss it. People never get the chance to hear God’s truth because God’s people are getting in the way. Set aside your own intentions, and allow God to keep you salty!

There is no such truth that you can have the best of both worlds; that you can happily live on the fence, with one foot in Christianity and one foot in the world. It just won’t work out, because there is a serious moral conflict between what the world deems as acceptable and what Jesus commands is unhealthy. In today’s message, Pastor Jeff will teach that the doctrine of Balaam is still working in our current society today. So beware, and be centered on Christ and Christ ALONE!!!

In the book of Acts, Paul and Silas are thrown into prison in the city of Philippi. But instead of complaining to the Lord about their situation, these two faithful servants began to sing praises to the Lord! Soon enough, an earthquake struck, and the prison doors were thrown open! Pastor Jeff reminds us today that the difficult times we face in this life are opportunities for us to grow in faith and patience. Instead of seeing our trials as obstacles, let’s thank the Lord for yet another opportunity to grow!

God doesn’t just know what’s going on in your life now, He knows what’s going on yesterday, tomorrow, last year, and ten years from now! While you and I deal with time as a straight line, the Lord sees the beginning and the end all at the same time. In today’s message, Pastor Jeff wants to teach us that God knows what is going on at all times. When we face trials and tribulations, it’s not because the Lord has abandoned us. He may be using these tough times to make us grow stronger in our faith!

Some hobbies are hard to pick back up when you move on from them for a long time. You may get frustrated when you go to pick up that guitar again, only to realize that you don’t have the same amount of skill that you used to. But Pastor Jeff wants to remind you today that the most important thing you can do is to go back to the basics. If you’ve drifted away from Christ, the easiest way to get back to where you used to be is to return to the things that made you feel passionate for Jesus when you first started following Him!

The difference between the Levite priests and our great High Priest is like the difference between a single match and a lighthouse. A match will provide a little light and burn out quickly. But a lighthouse can cut through the darkness and guide ships safely to shore. In today’s message, Pastor Jeff wants you to recognize that the divide between man and God is too great for us to cross on our own, but our High Priest, Jesus, has bridged that gap forever with His gift of grace!

Every wicked and evil thing in this world has an expiration date! While injustice has reigned in this world for a long time, the Bible also tells us that there is a day coming when Jesus will make everything right. The Kingdom of God is one of justice and peace, and it will never come to an end! Pastor Jeff reminds us today that the image of a King of justice and peace has existed since the book of Genesis, when Abram encountered Melchizedek, who, in his own right, was a king of justice and peace.

This world is full of surprises! Every single day, someone finds out that they’re expecting a child after years of infertility, a long-lost relative comes home, or an unexpected promotion happens in the workplace. But Pastor Jeff wants you to understand today that none of this comes as a surprise to God. As Jesus directs the apostle John to write letters to seven churches in Asia Minor, you’ll learn that Jesus already knows everything that was going on in their congregations, and He knows everything going on in your life.