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How You Can Demonstrate Powerful Faith in God

Podcast: Light on Life Season 7 Episode 17

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How You Can Demonstrate Powerful Faith in God

How can a person demonstrate a strong, vibrant faith in God? Jesus displayed how in His encounters with the enemy. It’s sad, but some people think that there is no Satan. That he is just some red-suited Halloween costumed figure who only comes out in October. The Word of God teaches otherwise. Perhaps the following story will be instructive to them. Once there was a boxer who was being badly beaten. Battered and bruised, he leaned over the ropes and said to his trainer, “Throw in the towel! This guy is killing me!” The trainer said, “Oh, no, he’s not. He’s not even hitting you. He hasn’t laid a glove on you!”At that point, the boxer wiped the blood away from his eye and said, “Well, then, I wish you’d watch that referee. Somebody is sure hitting me!” 1 There is an enemy loose on planet earth who’s trying his best to lay his gloves on you. Rebuking darkness is the path to overcoming satanic hindrances and you can do it in Jesus’ Name.

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#S4-020: Humility: How to Put On God’s Glory Suit [Podcast]

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Do You Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus? [Encore Podcast]

Podcast: Light on Life Season 7 Episode 15

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Do You Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus?

One of my favorite shows from yesteryear was Get Smart. It was a show about a goofy secret agent. One of the popular catchphrases for the show was ‘would you believe.’ Maxwell Smart would say when he got caught by the bad guys, ‘would you believe.’ Here’s some of the dialogue. “I happen to know that at this very’ moment, eight Coast Guard cutters are converging on this boat. Would you believe seven? Six? How about two cops in a rowboat?” Or, At this very minute, 25 Control agents are converging on this building. Would you believe two squad cars and a motorcycle cop? How about a vicious street cleaner and a toothless police dog? Or, I once trained a girl to swim across the English Channel five times. Would you believe four times? Would you believe three times across the Mississippi? How about twice around the bathtub? Once around the bathtub? Or, in a short while, General Crawford and a hundred of his crack paratroopers will come crashing into this landing. Would you believe J. Edgar Hoover and I0 of his G-men? How about Tarzan and a couple of apes? Bomba, the Jungle Boy? Or, at this very moment, 100 highway patrolmen with Doberman pinschers are surrounding this entire area. Would you believe four deputies and a bloodhound? How about a Boy Scout with rabies? The question arises, ‘do you believe in the Resurrection of Jesus? Do you believe it just like the Bible says it, or do you believe a watered-down ‘Maxwell Smart’ version of the events surrounding Jesus’ death?

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Three Things Jesus Did that You Can Do

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Here’s How You Can And Should Pray About Worry [Encore Podcast]

Podcast: Light on Life Season 7 Episode 14

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Why You Can and SHould Pray about Worry

The Bible instructs us to deal with worry. Why? Worry is a sin plain and simple. God is all out against His children worrying. A child does not worry all day long whether his house will be there when he gets home from school or whether his parents will have a meal for him that evening. Children do not worry about such things, because they trust their parents. In the same way, we as Christians should trust our heavenly Father to supply what is best for us.1 How do you pray about worry? That’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why It’s Never Wise to Not Obey God’s Will for Your Life

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What’s the Benefit of the Resurrection of Lazarus

Podcast: Light on Life Season 7 Episode 13

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What's the Benefit of the Resurrection of Lazarus?

So in today’s podcast, we venture in John chapter eleven to look at the concept of bodily resurrection, precisely that of Lazarus. Resurrection means to be raised from the dead (John 5:28, 29). The word is used in different ways in the Bible. Lazarus was raised from physical death (John 11:43). This is a resurrection, but it is not part of the resurrection that occurs when we receive our new bodies when Christ returns (1 Thess. 4:13–18), on the last day (John 6:39–44) when the last trumpet is blown (1 Cor. 15:51–55). Lazarus died again.1

Even though there are differences between the two resurrections, we shouldn’t dismiss the lessons that the bodily resurrection of Lazarus yields. There are many benefits that we can glean from understanding this Jesus miracle of God. Some of those lessons are our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why It’s Important to Flow in Faith’s Domain

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Who Are You According to Jesus?

Podcast: Light on Life Season Seven Episode Twelve

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Who Are You?

The INTERNET is full of surveys and questionnaires that you can take to help you understand who you are. Tony Evans chimed in on this topic with the following illustration. He said, ‘I’ve got three envelopes: a big one, a smaller one, and a smaller one yet. I’ve also got a slip of paper. The Bible says that we are in Christ and that Christ is in us. The smallest envelope has “Tony Evans” written on it. The slip of paper has “Jesus” written on it. The Bible says that when Tony Evans accepted Jesus Christ, Christ came inside of Tony Evans. Christ, the slip of paper, is inside the envelope that represents Tony Evans, but not only is Christ in Tony Evans, but Tony Evans is in Christ. The slip of paper Christ is in Tony Evans, but when Tony Evans accepted Christ, Tony Evans came inside of Christ. I put the Tony Evans envelope into the Christ envelope. Now, the Bible says that Christ is in God. So we’re going to slip the Christ envelope into the God envelope. So to now get to Tony Evans, you’ve got to go through God, and then you have to go through Christ, and after you’ve gone through God, and gotten through Christ, then you get to Tony Evans. However, when you’ve gone through God, and gotten to Christ, and think you’ve have gotten ahold of Tony Evans when you open up Tony Evans, he’s full of Jesus Christ. So I am in Christ, Christ is in me, Christ is in God, God is in Christ, so I am well covered by Jesus Christ and His heavenly Father.’ 1 Identity, knowing you are. That’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

Why Doing the Word of God Is The Ticket to Success

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Why You Don’t Have to Be Sick in Light of the Bible [Encore Podcast]

Podcast: Light on Life Season Seven Episode Eleven

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Why You Don't Have to Be Sick in Light of the Bible

With everything that is happening with the Corona Virus, we need to remember that the Bible teaches us that we don’t have to be sick. On January 17, 1993 Duane Miller was healed of throat condition that reduced his speech to a raspy whisper. While teaching his Sunday school class from Psalm 103 at the First Baptist Church in Brenham, Texas, Duane reaffirmed his belief in divine healing and that miracles had not ended with the Book of Acts. The miracle happened when he got to verse four, which says ‘who redeems your life from the pit’. On the word ‘pit’, his life changed. The word was completely clear. He paused, startled. He said a few more words—all in a normal clear tone—and stopped again. The class erupted with shouts of joy, astonishment, and sounds of weeping. God completely healed him. 1

How’s that for a healing testimony? While he read the Word, he received health. Doesn’t that match the scripture in Proverbs 4:20-22?

Proverbs 4:20–22 (KJV) — 20 My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh.

Get ready to be healed today.  We are going to be reading some healing verses, God may choose to heal you this way this day as we discuss “Why You Don’t Have to Be Sick in Light of the Bible”.  So, hook your faith up to His Word today. All this and more on this week’s Light on Life.

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How You Can Minister Healing As Jesus Did

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How to Overcome Darkness by Following the Light of the World [Encore]

Podcast: Light on Life Season 7 Episode 10

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How to Overcome Darkness by Following the Light of the World

Light versus darkness. Good versus evil The good guys versus the bad guys. The age-old theme has been on stage since the opening act of Eden. I mean what more can be said that hasn’t already been written, talked about, or had movies made out of? The theme goes back to the no-contest conflict between the Most High God and Satan. There must be something to it because Jesus puts the spotlight on it yet again in John eight. How to Overcome Darkness by Following the Light of the World, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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How to Be Up in A Down World

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What Are the Benefits of Oneness with the Godhead?

Podcast: Light on Life Season 7 Episode 9

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What Are the Benefits of Oneness with the Godhead?

We are in John chapter 10, and we are going to start at verse 24, and the thing we are going to focus on is this statement Jesus made in verse 30: ‘The Father and I are one.’ There are some benefits of oneness with the Godhead and Jesus lays those benefits out for us in these verses. We want to look at those benefits today. You know the lower that an object goes into a body of water, the more pressure there is. If a diver goes down deep enough, their jaws will even lock because of the pressure. If a boat sinks down far enough, the pressure of the water that deep will tear that boat apart, and the boat will collapse … unless it is pressurized. Submarines are pressurized. They have a balance of pressure on the inside to combat the pressure from the outside. Many people are collapsing on the outside because they don’t have enough pressure on the inside, and the pressure on the inside comes from the confession of Christ! The Spirit of God pressurizes Christians on the inside so that they can handle the world on the outside.1 And so some of the things that God put in us internally, some of the benefits, if we know them if we realize them if we walk in the light of them, will us combat the pressure that we deal with on the outside from the world. So, that’s our focus today: What Are the Benefits of Oneness with the Godhead? All this on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why Doing the Word of God Is The Ticket to Success

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Why God’s Enormous Freedom Idea Is Super Superior

Podcast: Light on Life Season 7 Episode 8

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Why God's Enormous Freedom Idea Is Super Superior

We are going to talk today about freedom, what it is, and why God’s idea of it is super superior. Freedom is a big issue for all of the inhabitants of planet earth, human, animal, vegetable, and mineral. At the University of Oklahoma, for many years, a project was underway to teach a fifteen-year-old female chimpanzee named Washoe to talk by combining sign language with simple recognition. This story intrigued me because two of my children attended the University of Oklahoma.

Since 1966, this chimpanzee learned 140 signs. Finally, the project directors decided that Washoe was prepared to “conceptualize.” This meant that instead of merely imitating some humans words, the chimp would express thoughts of her own. Now, understand, Washoe was a pampered animal in the university’s laboratory—well-fed, physically comfortable, safe from harm. She had security. And yet, when she was able to put words together on her own into a phrase, these were the first three—and she has repeated them repeatedly—”Let me out.” 1 Freedom is our focus today, why God’s idea of it is better than yours. All this on this week’s Light on Life.

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How to Deal with Thieves and Robbers Jesus Style

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What Makes Jesus the Good Shepherd

Podcast: Light on Life Season 7 Episode 7

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What Makes Jesus the Good Shepherd

What makes Jesus the Good Shepherd? That is what defining traits separate good shepherds from n0t so good ones? In our country, we do not realize the intimacy of a shepherd with his flock as they do in Syria and parts of Southern Europe. It was my daily delight every day for many weeks and a dozen times a day, to watch a shepherd who had this almost incredibly close communion with his flock. Many times have I accompanied him through the green pastures and by the stream. If my shepherd wished to lead his sheep from one field to another, he went before them, and he was usually singing.

He led them with a song or with a sweet, low, wooing whistle like the call of a bird, and the sheep raised their heads from the herbage, looked at their guardian and guide, and followed on. I have heard his song and his low birdcall by the watercourse, and have seen the sheep follow his course over the rocky boulders to the still waters, where they have been refreshed. At noon he would sit down in a place of shadows, and all his flock crowded around him for rest. At night, when the darkness was falling, he gathered them into the fold.

We must realize an intimacy like this if we wish to understand the shepherd imagery of the Old Book. The communion is so intimate that the shepherd knows if one of his sheep is missing.1 What Makes Jesus the Good Shepherd, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why Following Jesus is Difficult, Risky, and Adventurous

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How to Deal with Thieves and Robbers Jesus Style

Podcast: Light on Life Season 7 Episode 6

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How to Deal with Thieves and Robbers Jesus Style

Jesus shared much with his disciples on the subject of thieves and robbers. I ran across this remarkable story of the prayer life of Rev. Thomas Bradbury, who successfully overcame some robbers. It turns out that Rev. Thomas Bradbury was remarkable for punctuality in the time he devoted to family worship. One evening when the bell had rung, the servants went up to prayer and forgot to shut the area door near the street. Some men observed the door open, and one of them entered the house to rob it. Creeping upstairs, he heard the old gentleman praying that God would preserve his home from thieves. The man was thunderstruck and unable to persist in his plan to rob the house.

He returned and told the circumstance to his companions, who abused him on account of his timidity. Still, he was so affected that, sometime after, he related the incident to Mr. Bradbury, and gave his heart to God. 1 Isn’t that an exciting story? That’s our great God at work. How to deal successfully with thieves and robbers, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Just Who Is Jesus to You?

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Why Shepherds and Sheep are Super Powerful God Ideas

Podcast: Light on Life Season 7 Episode 5

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Why Shepherds and Sheep Are Super Powerful God Ideas

Jesus weighed in on the subject of shepherds and sheep in John, chapter ten, as David did in Psalm twenty-three. One unknown soul, waxing eloquent on the same topic of shepherds and sheep, wrote the following trying to mimic David’s famous Psalm.

The TV set is my Shepherd.
My spiritual growth shall want.
It maketh me to sit down and do nothing for his name’s sake because it requireth all of my spare time.
The TV it keepeth me from doing my duty as a Christian because it presenteth so many good shows that I must see.
It restoreth my knowledge of the things of the world and keepeth me from the study of God’s Word.
The TV leadeth me in the paths of failing to attend the evening worship services and doing nothing in the kingdom of God.
Yea, though I live to be 100, I shall keep on viewing television as long as it will work, for it is my closest companion.
Its sound and its picture, they comfort me.
It presenteth entertainment before me and keepeth me from doing important things with my family.

The TV fills my head with ideas that differ from those outlined in the word of God.

Surely, no good thing will come of my life because my television offereth me no good time to do the will of God; thus, I will dwell crownless in the house of the Lord forever.1

Shepherds and sheep, why they are super powerful God ideas, is our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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How to Carefully Navigate Sacred Space

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