Audio sermons from the pulpit of Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church in Maben, Mississippi. Elder David Wise, Pastor.
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We see from the negative example of Lot the importance of four of life’s most important decisions: where to live, where to work, where to worship, and who to marry. Lot’s original decision to pitch his tent towards Sodom was based solely by his eyes, not a priority of worship and fellowship with the friend […] The post Life’s Four Most Important Decisions appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
We can rely upon God’s word, and his faithfulness to his promise and his covenants. Thus, the disciples of Christ need to follow the pattern of the Lord and be men and women of our word – for people to rely upon what we have to say, without having to swear by some other third […] The post Faithfulness to Covenant Commitments appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
In the sermon on the mount, Jesus cuts past a focus on solely avoiding external action of sin, but focuses on a purity of heart. We can easily let hatred and lust run amuck in our hearts, if we do not bring every thought into captivity unto the obedience of Christ. We need to purify […] The post Purity of Heart – Hatred & Lust appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
God’s holiness requires perfect obedience to the law. Even an offense in one jot or tittle (the smallest letter or smallest punctuation mark) is worthy of the Lord’s judgment. Thus, our works and obedience to the law cannot be the means of our righteousness because we would have to be perfect, which we clearly are […] The post Christ’s Perfect Fulfillment of the Law appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
God’s children are called to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world; to shake as salt, and shine as light, not primarily to other believers but to a dark and decaying world around us. We let our light shine that men may see our good works and glorify our Father […] The post Shake & Shine appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
We will all have varying degrees of famine, leanness, and scarcity at different seasons of our lives. How do you respond to famine? Do we respond with faith, trusting God on the right place we are called to – or do we fall into Abram’s example of fear in famine and make bad decisions? Let […] The post How Do You Respond to Famine? appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
It is a special thing to feel the fellowship of Jesus Christ in the midst of suffering, particularly persecution and reviling for Christ’s sake. We study further together the proper way that we should respond to reviling for Christ’s and righteousness’ sake, ensuring we respond to those attacks in a God honoring way. The post Blessed are the Persecuted & Reviled, Part 2 appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
No doubt one of the most clear examples of the upside down (from the world) nature of the kingdom of God is that we can actually be blessed, happy, and rejoice when others persecute and revile us. While no one enjoys reviling, and verbal attacks, it is great opportunity to glorify Jesus Christ by us […] The post Blessed are the Persecuted & Reviled appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
As we begin studying the sermon on the mount, Jesus begins his sermon with “blessings” upon certain attributes displayed in the kingdom, commonly known as the Beatitudes. There is also much to be gleaned from looking at the negative warnings of these (the “woe’s” as they are put in Luke’s gospel account). Let us lay […] The post The Beatitudes appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
For the disciples of Christ who Jesus called to follow him, he had to teach them what life was supposed to look like in the kingdom of God. He had to tear down the misconceptions of these Jewish men that the general culture of the outward show of religion of their day was actually diametrically […] The post What Does Discipleship Look Like in the Kingdom of Heaven? appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
By faith, Abram left his homeland in Ur of Chaldees on his way to the land of Canaan. While he took an uncommanded pit stop in Haran for a bit, he eventually pressed into Canaan. On this journey, we see in Heb. 11, that Abraham was looking for something better than the city that he […] The post Looking for the Better City & Better Country appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
Jesus said the lawyers had taken away the key of knowledge from many children of God and hindered those who were entering in from pressing fully into the kingdom. We need to press through all the hinderances to our discipleship and take the key of knowledge and enter into the fullness of enjoyment of the […] The post The Key of Knowledge appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
In our race of discipleship, we have to run with endurance. Our life is a marathon that requires consistency and steadfastness. We need to lay aside every weight that easily besets us, particularly the yoke of bondage of false doctrine because that will severely hinder our running well. We all get tired and weary in […] The post Running with Patience appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
In the beginning of Babylon created by Nimrod, the pinnacle monument of that kingdom was a tower that they desired to build up to heaven. This tower was a monument to man’s pride and rebellion against God – to build a tower to glorify their own name and to validate their own legacy. As with […] The post The Tower of Babel appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
We study the descriptions of how we are to “walk” in our discipleship. To walk as Jesus walked. To walk in love. To walk in the Spirit. To walk circumspectly. To walk worthy of our vocation wherewith we have been called. The post Walking With God appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
What exactly does the Lord say that he requires of his children? To love God with all our heart, soul, and mind. To fear God. To walk in all his ways and commandments. To serve God with all our heart. To do justly. To love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God. Preached at […] The post What Doth the Lord Require of Thee? appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
Every day we make decisions about how to dress and what clothes to put on, and in like manner in the kingdom of God, we have to make the purposeful decision to put off the flesh that comes naturally and put on the clothing of the elect. To be clothed with humility. To put on […] The post Putting On the Kingdom Clothing appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
In the aftermath of the flood, God gave a token of his covenant, to never again destroy the world by water – with the rainbow. However, it is called an everlasting covenant and we see the rainbow in heaven. This makes us think there is a greater lesson that just the world will not be […] The post The Covenant of the Rainbow appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
The Lord does not desire for us to live on the bare minimum of spiritual bread and water, but he desires for us to partake of the spiritual feast of fat things and wine on the lees. The Lord intends for us to enjoy the fullness of the abundant life, that our joy may be […] The post Feast of Fat Things appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
Jesus Christ is the only satisfaction in this world for the spiritual thirst and spiritual hunger that all of God’s children have after the new birth. We have a tendency to want to hew out broken cisterns that cannot hold water instead of partaking of the fountain of living waters to refresh their spiritual thirst […] The post Living Water & Bread of Life appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
In the flood of Noah, we see that the ark was not a well meant offer and invitation for all of mankind to come into the boat to be saved. Rather the ark was built to the exact dimensions of only eight people, the people that were before chosen by God to be in the […] The post The Lord Shut Him In appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
Elder Kenneth Nowell exhorts to church to endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace and walk worthy of the vocation wherewith we have been called. The post Endeavoring the Keep the Unity – Kenneth Nowell appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
Elder Buddy Abernathy considers an exposition of Eph. 2:8, and salvation is by grace alone, not by our belief or active expression of faith as the means of our eternal salvation or regeneration. The post Through Faith – Buddy Abernathy appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
Elder Kenneth Nowell points us towards the value and blessing of the scriptures, that we can learn from God’s word to receive instruction in righteousness, patience, comfort and ultimately hope from God’s divinely inspired and preserved word. The post Patience, Comfort & Hope in the Scriptures – Kenneth Nowell appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
Elder Neil Honea uses the example of Thomas who after originally doubting makes a strong profession of Jesus as My Lord and My God. We should follow his example and confess Jesus as not just our Creator God, but also as Jehovah God, a covenant keeping God who loves his children. The post My Lord & My God – Neil Honea appeared first on Clear Springs Primitive Baptist Church.
