Sermons on Gabriel
SPIRITUAL WARFARE AND POLITICS
SPIRITUAL WARFARE AND POLITICS Michael P. Andrus Introduction: Nothing is clearer in Scripture than the fact that there are supernatural beings who interface with our world and impact our lives. Angels are mentioned at least 275 times in at least 34 books of the Bible. Demons are mentioned in all but four NT books and many times in the OT. We are all familiar with these words from Ephesians 6:12: “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against…
Luke 1:5-25, 57-80
Introducing the Introducer Introduction: Today I want to begin a new preaching series that will probably take us through the entire year of 1997 except for a couple of short interruptions. The series will be on the life of Christ. The recent preaching Paul and I have done on a few of the parables of Jesus whetted my appetite to dig deeper. We are going to use the gospel of Luke as the basis for this series, though we will borrow from Matthew and…
Luke 1:26-38
Introducing the Savior As we launched a new series on the life of Christ last Sunday, we were introduced to John the Baptist, the one whom God called, even before his birth, to introduce Jesus to the Jewish people as their Messiah. He would be the voice of one calling in the wilderness; he would come in the spirit and power of Elijah; he would turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of…