Sunday-AM-Sermons

Dr. Clifton Black – The Church in the Last Days – Perilous Times are Here

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Times have always been perilous, but I am convinced that this is The Perilous Times.

The Word of God teaches us that in the “last days perilous times shall come.” I stand before you today to proclaim that never before in the history of man has such potential existed for our own destruction. Hydrogen bombs are so powerful that they require an atomic bomb to detonate them! Scientists claim that if a large hydrogen bomb ever exploded in our earth’s atmosphere, the shock waive could cause an imbalance, which would bring civilization, as we know it, to a standstill.

We have never seen a time quite like this.

Prominent intellectuals and their equally prominent fellow travelers in the media teach that every value and every culture are equally valid. And the result is the secular media has become open “despises of those that are good, ” constantly showing Christianity in a negative light and refusing to depict any Christian as intelligent, warm, considerate, or loving.

America was founded on a strong belief in the guiding hand of God, yet that belief is being pushed aside by those who have a religion of selfinterest and selfindulgence. The message of the last decade in America has been “do your own thing” and “just be happy,” yet we suddenly have awakened to a nation where prayer is yanked out of schools, nativity scenes are forbidden in our parks, and songs about Jesus cannot be sung at any public school Christmas celebration.

Child of God, if we are going to be the Church in the Last Days, we must have a hope beyond the scope of human limitation! But, listen to me today, we are never going to experience that hope as long as we are content to look, and to live, in the natural all the time and live the Christian life according to our feelings.

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Dr. Clifton Black – The God of Another Chance

081813AM2 from Mountain Grove Church on Vimeo.

The Game is Never Over When You Are Playing With the God of Another Chance

Imagine yourself competing in a Championship baseball game. It is the final game of the play-offs, and your team is behind by one run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning. The fans cheer excitedly while you step into the batter’s box. With all of the determination and purpose you can muster, you concentrate on the pitcher and what kind of pitch he is throwing.

Suddenly, you see his arm in motion, and in an instant you swing the bat, you feel the contact, and you know that you might have the distance. But as you make your turn at first base, you see the outfielder leap to the top of the fence and make an unbelievable catch, and your heart sinks and you realize that you have lost forever the chance to score and win the championship.

The cheers quiet down to a rumble, and the crowd files out of the stadium. You wish you could turn back the clock so you could have another chance to score and change the outcome! But of course that’s impossible. So with an aching feeling inside, you take a deep breath and come to grips with reality: You have been defeated.

Sometimes making a mistake in life feels so final, and you too feel as if you have been defeated. Especially when you make a serious mistake. You think, “I’ve missed it, and I won’t ever have any more chances to succeed. It’s all over for me.”

But the “game of life” is not like a game in which you only have one chance to win before it’s over. No, when you make a mistake in life, with God, you get another chance!

It is so great to live life knowing that you are never defeated. Even if you fall, there is someone there to pick you up. He is The God of Another Chance.

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Dr. Clifton Black – Christian Freedom – 6

081113AM2 from Mountain Grove Church on Vimeo.

Overcome the grip that inferiority, insecurity, and inadequacy have on your life. Be set free by understanding your christian freedom.

Dr. Clifton Black provides sound biblical teaching through his years of extensive study and knowledge of the word of God. This week we continue our intensive study of our christian freedom.

Today’s message will bring to a close this series concerning Christian Freedom. We have seen that Satan will bind us, and shackle us, with emotional feelings and attitudes, many of which we were programmed with from childhood, in order to keep us from becoming the person God wants us to be, and from achieving and accomplishing the things that God has set out to accomplish in our lives

We have talked about how our thinking becomes programmed by those around us, until we allow the feelings of rejection, the lack of love, resentment, and bitterness, whatever it might be, to dominate our lives. We have seen how our minds conceive our relationship to God because of what some preachers have taught, until we begin to think things on the basis of what we have heard, or what we have been taught, or what we have felt, instead of on the basis of the Word of God.

So what does Satan do? He takes a committed Christian and convinces that Christian of their insecurity, of their inferiority, and of their inadequacy.

Listen to this weeks message as again we will delve into God’s word to help put an end to our feelings of worthlessness and begin to walk in all of God’s promises.

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Dr. Clifton Black – Christian Freedom – 5

080413AM2 from Mountain Grove Church on Vimeo.

Overcome the grip that inferiority, insecurity, and inadequacy have on your life. Be set free by understanding your christian freedom.

Dr. Clifton Black provides sound biblical teaching through his years of extensive study and knowledge of the word of God. This week we continue our intensive study of our christian freedom.

As we continue our study in this area of Christian Freedom, we have come to realize that the real reason that many Christians live in spiritual bondage, burdened down with fear and uncertainty, shackled with an attitude of unforgiveness and bitterness, is because they have never really understood who they are “in”Christ Jesus. You see, until we understand who we are in Christ Jesus, and until we can see ourselves as God our Father sees us, then we will always be subject to some type of spiritual bondage that Satan sends our way.

We have seen that if we are going to experience the Christian’s freedom, to be all that God has called us to be, and to achieve all that God has for us to achieve, we must “know the truth (which is the Word of God) and the truth shall make you free.” The truth of the matter is that we have many Christians today who are trying as hard as they can to live the Christian life, and it seems like the harder they try to live for Christ the worse it gets! The problem that most Christians have is that we are trying to do what some preacher says is right, or what some writer says in right, but the answer is right here in the Word of God, and that is the last place most of us look.

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Dr. Clifton Black – Christian Freedom – 4

072813AM2 from Mountain Grove Church on Vimeo.

Overcome the grip that inferiority, insecurity, and inadequacy have on your life. Be set free by understanding your christian freedom.

Dr. Clifton Black provides sound biblical teaching through his years of extensive study and knowledge of the word of God. This week we continue our intensive study of our christian freedom.

This is the fourth message is the series called “Christian Freedom.” We are talking about God setting us free of the bondage that shackles us, imprisons us, keeps us from becoming everything that God wants us to be, and accomplishing those things that God would have us to accomplish.

And all of us know that deliberate, known, sin will put us in bondage. So we
know how to deal with that through confession and repentance. But there are some other forms of bondage that we are looking at, and asking God to show us how we can be free. For example, the sense of insecurity that plagues so many people. The feeling of inferiority. The attitude of inadequacy. A sense of worthlessness, or not really belonging.

And so, we are looking into the Word of God to see how God gives us freedom from the area of bondage that plagues our lives and keeps us from having the peace and joy of the Christian life.

Today we are going to center our attention around three great truths. We have seen the first one, and that is our position “in” Christ. We have seen that when we we are saved, our position in Christ is unchanging and eternal. Therefore, we can have a true sense of security “in” Christ.

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