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The Great Expectation: Our Identity - 13 Jul 2008
Submitted by La-Aja on Sun, 07/13/2008 - 09:00.
We know that the word Christian actually means Christ-like. However, does the body of Christ have an understanding of how to walk this out?
The identity that God calls us to causes us to separate from things that offend His character. If Jesus is the Life, then all else is death. If Jesus is the Truth, then all else is deception. Jesus Himself claims to be THE WAY. You can look at the 26 other so-called Holy Books (including the Koran, Bhagavad Gita, Talmud, etc) and you'll see that no other religious prophet claimed to be the way. However, Jesus' identity was so crucial that God Himself had to reveal it to Simon Peter.
If Jesus Christ doubted for a second who He was, then He would not have been able to do the things he did. And if we doubt the power we have in Christ - power to say no to ungodliness in this present evil age, power to surrender all that we have to the King of kings, power to be a walking epistle and inspire our generation to live a life worthy of what the True and Living God suffered and endured for us at Calvary - if we doubt this power we must ask ourselves, "do we really believe?"
Listen as Pastor Cox helps Christians everywhere to understand the implications of what being a Christian really means. Let's take our identity back church!
The Great Expectation: Redeeming the Language - 29 Jun 2008
Submitted by La-Aja on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 09:00.
The Bible says that when we accept Christ into our life by believing what He did for us on the cross we become a new creation. However, to put it plainly, we've been conditioned by culture and the media to hate our new life in Christ. When we turn on TV or listen to music or watch a movie we're hearing language that defines Christianity in a negative light.
The devil has manipulated the language of Christianity so that we now have a negative view of ourselves in Christ. We believe that Christ has the victory in the war, but that we will lose every individual battle. We have been programmed that when we fall short to accept the excuse that "we're all sinners" and that "no one's perfect" to the point that we've forgotten that Christ died to give us power over sin. We now have a new life. We are no longer slaves to sin. We are now slaves to righteousness. We will only begin to walk in this newness of life once we understand this great grace given to us, which Christ poured out through his death on the cross.
Listen as Pastor Cox begins to expose what the enemy doing to the language of Christianity, and what the Body of Christ can do to redeem it.
The Great Expectation: God Expects you to Win - June 22, 2008
Submitted by La-Aja on Sun, 06/22/2008 - 21:05.
I have to say: I've been soooo hype to get this podcast out to you all! This is definitely a message that the Body of Christ needs to hear.
When God wrote Christianity HE WROTE VICTORY, NOT DEFEAT! However, most Christians have been taught that they are defeated before they even try to live for God. Have you ever heard this: "aww, we all fall short" or "we won't be holy 'til we enter glory" or "God know's you're going to sin?" MAN! Where's the hope?!? When you look in the Bible you don't see this type of talk, you see examples of victory. Look at King David, when he trusted in the Lord, he was always victorious in battle. The woman that had been bleeding, EXPECTED that when she touched just the hem of Christ's garment she would have victory over her disease.
How can we have victory over sin if we don't expect victory? We know more about what to do when we sin, than what to do to keep us from sinning. It's so sad, before people even trying to live for the Lord they are already content with coming in 2nd or 3rd place. They don't know that God expects us to come in 1st place - to have the victory.
The amazing thing about God is that HE GIVES US HIS POWER, HIS SPIRIT, WHICH ENABLES US TO GET THE VICTORY! Pastor Cox shows you how the very Word of God breaks the chains of defeatism in the Christian's life and gives us His Spirit to overcome our flesh, the world, and the evil one. Amen!
So You Sinned...Now What? - 8 June 2008
Submitted by La-Aja on Sun, 06/08/2008 - 09:00.
When you first get saved it is so exhilarating! You're pumped and ready to witness to everyone you come into contact with. You can just feel the Holy Spirit moving through you and using you. Am I right? You feel like nothing can bring you down.
And then you sin. ugh.
Sin affects us in so many ways. Psychologically, your thoughts begin to change. Emotionally, the shame you feel from knowing the same friends and family you were just witnessing may be aware that you've just sinned, can discourage you from ever wanting to share the Gospel again. And even worse than that, the devil knows that you've sinned and will use that moment of weakness to try and take you out of the faith for eternity.
You hear alot of people say, "well even David sinned" and that is true, but what did David do after sinning? Instead of condemning himself, David prayed for restoration and vowed to teach sinners the Lord's ways (Psalm 51). Listen as Pastor Cox pushes you to get back up and keep running the race of faith even after stumbling. Just imagine how much louder the crowd roars when the team they thought would lose comes up from behind and wins. We too have more influence after getting up. When the enemy thought he had us defeated we come back even stronger!
What is your Right Eye? - 18 May 2008
Submitted by lilcadet101 on Sun, 05/18/2008 - 20:00.
Jesus spoke with so much wisdom and authority. He raised the standard for the Laws of God to a level never before seen, especially lust. Listen as Pastor Cox peers into the historical roots of the words of Christ and exposes the REAL definition of lust. Christ ask us if our we are willing to pluck out our right eye if it would get in the way of being sold out to him. Would you?
Revival Series: What is Love? - 30 Apr 2008
Submitted by TQ on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 20:00.
In the second part of the revival series being held during Wednesday night Bible Study, Pastor Cox speaks about love. There are so many places that we look for love in the world today - in music, movies, friends, family, the opposite sex. But God so loved the world...you know the rest, but do you know His love, do you appreciate His love? How do you respond to His love? Listen as Pastor Cox speaks about how this love can bring about revival.
Revival Series: A Heart of Revival - 23 Apr 2008
Submitted by TQ on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 20:00.David is certainly an important man in the Bible. "A man after God's own heart." So, why did David fall into such a shocking sin against another man, that man's wife and God Himself? After all this is the man who stood for the Lord against Goliath. It wasn't clearly evident how or exactly when, but at some point, David's heart drifted away from the Lord. Even though David was winning military campaigns and prospering as God's anointed, the wheels of his heart were in motion to sin against God.
Has your heart drifted away from God? Maybe nobody else can notice, but you know and God knows that you are not living your life on fire for Him. You may need a revival in your life. Listen as Pastor Cox speaks boldly and encouragingly on this issue.
What Easter Really Means - 23 Mar 2008
Submitted by lilcadet101 on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 20:00.Everyone had a good thing going when Jesus came on the scene. Listen to Pastor Cox as he explains how Jesus ruined things for all of them when he came to the earth to reconcile the world to himself on the cross.
