Love Series Sermon Transcripts - CBCG

1 love Series Sermon Transcripts By Fred R. Coulter 2009 Fred R. Coulter Christian Biblical Church of God Box 1442 Hollister, CA 95024-1442 All rights reserved. Except for brief excerpts for review purposes, no part of this publication may be re-produced or used in any form or by any means without the written permission of the copyright owner. This includes electronic and mechanical photocopying or recording, as well as the use of information storage and retrieval systems.

2 Table of Contents TRACKS Sermon Title Page # 1-2 When All Else Fails, God Loves You 1 3-4 love and New Covenant 11 5-6 Understanding the love of God 21 7-8 love of God 30 9-10 love of God II 43 11-12 love in the Church 53 13-14 love of God Second Calling 61 15-16 love of God in The Law and the Psalms 72 17-18 love of God in the Prophets 83 19-20 love of God in the Gospels 95 21-22 Paul and love 108 23-24 Is the love of God Unconditional? 120 25-26 love & Overcoming Offenses 132 27-28 Godly love vs Carnal love I 143 29-30 Godly love vs Carnal love II 153 31-32 love One Another 162 33-34 How to Make the love of God Work 172 35-36 Passover Preparation I 184 36-38 Passover Preparation II 195 39-40 Passover Preparation III 206 41-42 Passover Preparation IV 216 43-44 Passover Preparation V 226

3 I ve been debating on what should I entitle this Sermon , and I think one title would be: In spite of everything God loves you, or When all else fails remember God loves you, or In spite of all the trials and troubles you may be going through remember God loves you. And all of those are too long and I ll have to shorten it up for the sake of the labels, be-cause to have a three line title just takes up too much time to do all the labels on the tapes. Let s begin with a survey of the world where we are.

4 Let s go to Matthew 24 and let s understand what Jesus told us about the world. And it is a diffi-cult place to live in, and I think that we are going to find that, increasingly, it s going to be a far more dif-ficult place to live in. Here in Matthew 24 it shows how tough the world is going to be. And of course, v 4 says: ..Be on guard, so that no one deceives you. And so right now for the next couple of months we re going to be in the middle of defending the truth in the Bible because there are people out there deceiving others with their various false doctrines.

5 Then it says there are going to be ..wars and rumors of wars. See that you do not let these things disturb you. For it is necessary that all these things take na-tion shall rise against nation, kingdom against king-dom; and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in different [And they re trying to predict the earthquakes now, etc., etc.] ..Now all these things are the beginning of sorrows (vs 6-8). So the question is how can a Christian, living in sorrows, increase in faith?

6 Or put it another way, when the whole stinking rotten world and everybody is against you, it seems, how do you get along in this world? Now you ve felt that, I ve felt that. I ve gone through the whole thing of many different things, some of which I will discuss with you and some of which I won t discuss with you. Because God doesn t necessarily tell us that we have to share our whole lives with each other to the point that and I think that becomes wrong that everybody s privy to eve-rything in your life and then you start judging that person s life, or their performance or whatever, and that s not correct either.

7 So it gets really bad here. It says, Then shall they deliver you up to affliction, and shall kill [that time s coming] ..and you shall be hated by all nations for My name s [That time is already growing and growing and growing.] ..And then shall many be led into sin, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another (vs 9-10). And another place it says the father is going to betray the son; the son the father; the mother the daughter; the daughter the mother; the mother-in-law, and the foes (Mat.)

8 10:37) and the enemies that you re going to face are those of your own household! That s pretty tough when even those in your own household are your ene-mies. Now I ve experienced that, too. And it s diffi-cult. All right, so what do we do now? Do we throw in the towel because it s tough? Look, the Church of Smyrna, they were destined to be killed, and yet God commended them because of their spiri-tual ability. So we need to really understand how we can hold on in times, which are like this, because they re going to get more difficult.

9 And I see some-where down the road two years, three years, five years when all of the international bankers, con-trolled by Satan the devil, are going to call the debt on the nation and we re going to be bankrupt, and we will go down tubes just like the Soviet Union. That day is going to come. There is no getting around it. And we can t run out and stop it and change it, and we can t necessarily change our own particular situa-tion so that we can necessarily survive in it.

10 We have to trust in God and have faith. Then it says, And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive [So it s an ongoing thing] ..And because lawlessness shall be multiplied, the love of many shall grow [And we ve covered this before. How many times in our lifetime in the Church have we read these Scriptures, and have heard sermons based upon these? Many times. How many times, as a minister, have I done it? Many times.] (It says): ..But the one that shall endure to the end, that one shall be saved (vs 11-13).