• Sunday, October 12th, 2025
James 1:17-18 (NASB)
17 Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. 18 In the exercise of His will He gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.
Theme: God, who is the wonderful, wondrous Giver of physical and spiritual life, should receive continuous gratitude from us as His new creations.
1) Who God is >> His Wonderful Character (1:17)
2) What God does >> His Wondrous Works (1:18)
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• Sunday, April 10th, 2022
14And when they came back to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them.15 Immediately, when the entire crowd saw Him, they were amazed and began running up to greet Him.16 And He asked them, “What are you disputing with them?”17 And one person from the crowd answered Him, “Teacher, I brought You my son, because he has a spirit that makes him unable to speak;18 and whenever it seizes him, it slams him to the ground, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and becomes stiff. And I told Your disciples so that they would cast it out, but they could not do it.”19And He answered them and *said, “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to Me!”20 And they brought the boy to Him. When he saw Him, the spirit immediately threw him into convulsions, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth.21 And He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.22 It has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to kill him. But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!”23But Jesus said to him, “‘If You can?’ All things are possible for the one who believes.”24 Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”25 When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again!”26 And after crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, “He is dead!”27 But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him, and he got up.28 When He came into the house, His disciples began asking Him privately, “Why is it that we could not cast it out?”29 And He said to them, “This kind cannot come out by anything except prayer.”
Sermon Theme/Outline: Jesus teaches a critical lesson about the necessity of faith to access God’s power and accomplish what seems impossible.
I. The Lack of Faith and Spiritual Power (9:14-19)
II. The Lord’s Demonstration of Spiritual Power (9:20-27)
III. The Lesson about Prayer and Spiritual Power (9:28-29)
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