Enjoying the Journey

(1 John 4:7-12) There are repeated truths woven throughout Scripture for divine emphasis. One of the overarching emphases God makes is love. What's so special about love? (09100250424)  Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 24 April 2025

The most convincing witness of our relationship with God comes from His Holy Spirit indwelling us. This is far greater than some dramatic experience or form of emotionalism. Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 23 April 2025

(1 John 3:21-23) Someone once said, “If you’re doubting your salvation, you’re doubting one of two things: that the Lord can save, or that you’ve trusted Him.” Join today’s episode to learn how to live with certainty. (0998250422)  Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2025

(1 John 3:10-20) Since God is love and lives inside believers, His love should be seen in their lives. Nothing evidences the indwelling Holy Spirit better than the love of God through His children.  (0997250421)  Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 21 April 2025

(Acts 1:9-12) God places a high premium on faith. After all, it is the only thing that pleases Him. If you want to evaluate your belief in God, observe your obedience to Him.  (0996250419)

Transcribed - Published: 19 April 2025

(1 John 3:1-10) The world's use of the word"hope" and the Bible's use of it are vastly different. The former implies some wishful thinking, while the latter suggests a confident expectation. Study this powerful word with us today! (0995250418)  Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2025

(1 John 2:28-29) Jesus is coming soon! Some people will be ashamed when He comes, while others will be afraid. Are you ready to meet God? (0994250417)  Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 17 April 2025

(1 John 2:20, 26-27) If you know Christ as your Savior, His Holy Spirit dwells within you. With Him comes unction and anointing for His will. What do these two words really mean? (0993250416)    Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 16 April 2025

(1 John 2:18-25) The line that divides Christianity from all other religions is what it believes to be true concerning Christ. Claiming a general notion about God does not make you a Christian.  (0992250415)  Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2025

(1 John 2:15-17) Believers are called to live in two worlds at the same time. We are to live in this sinful world but not live like it, for our citizenship is of a greater kingdom! (0991250414)  Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 14 April 2025

(Acts 1:4-8) Waiting time is never wasted time when the one you’re waiting on is God. While you’re waiting, He is working. You can easily measure your faith in God by the way you wait upon Him. (0990250412)

Transcribed - Published: 12 April 2025

(1 John 2:12-14) Growth is indicative of a flourishing walk with God. As your walk with God develops, your assurance of salvation will resultantly develop. Join us as we revisit a forever-fresh text! (0989250411)  Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2025

(1 John 2:12-14) Much like there is evidence of being born physically, there is also evidence of being born spiritually. One evidence of spiritual life is growth, but did you know there is other proof? (0988250410)  Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 10 April 2025

(1 John 2:7-11) It is easy to love those you agree with, but it is quite another to love those you disagree with. However, one evidence of eternal life within you is love for the family of God and those yet to join His family.  (0987250409)  Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 9 April 2025

(1 John 2:5-6) Assurance of salvation is a powerful motivator for a holy life. As we come to a deeper understanding of God's love for us, we will inevitably love Him even more.  (0986250408)  Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2025

(1 John 2:1-4) There is no such thing as a sinless believer! Salvation never rests on the believer's merit but on the Savior's merit alone. Although we cannot be sinless until we see Him, is it possible to sin less? (0985250407)  Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 7 April 2025

(Revelation 5:9-14) God's love is without prejudice. Jesus has impartial intentions to save everyone for an eternal relationship with Him. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved! (0984250405)

Transcribed - Published: 5 April 2025

(1 John 1:8-10) Is your life evidence of God's truth? Agreeing with the truth and behaving according to it are inseparable characteristics of God's children. Christians are children of the truth! (0983250404)  Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 4 April 2025

(1 John 1:5-7) When God created the world, the first thing He created was light. Immediately after, He divided the light from the darkness. One mark of God's children is that they live in the light and despise the darkness! (0982250403)

Transcribed - Published: 3 April 2025

(1 John 1:1-4) Belief in Jesus precedes the new birth into His family. Growth as a child of God depends on the same concept of believing. How can your belief be developed? (0981250402)

Transcribed - Published: 2 April 2025

(1 John 3:1, 9; 4:7; 5:1) There is no greater relationship than being a child of God! A corollary truth is that there is no greater knowledge than knowing you are a child of God. Listen to today's episode to discover how you can know with certainty! (0980250401)

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2025

(1 John 2:3; 5:20) Throughout the little book of 1 John, different forms of the word "know" are used thirty-eight times. In this age of increasing uncertainty and mass confusion, 1 John provides divine insight into the clarifying and purifying knowledge of knowing God. (0979250331)    Visit https://enjoyingthejourney.org/you-can-know/ to download the FREE “23 Birthmarks of the Believer” handout.

Transcribed - Published: 31 March 2025

(Revelation 5:8) We will not see the answer to some prayers until we kneel at Jesus Christ's nail-pierced feet. Occasionally, God gives us glimmers of those answers here, but one glorious day, we will see them in whole. Imagine what we have to look forward to! (0978250329)

Transcribed - Published: 29 March 2025

(Revelation 5:1-7) It is not a sin to ask questions! The Bible is full of them, and even Jesus Himself asked them. Listen to today's episode to receive the answer to one of Scripture's supreme questions. (0972250322)

Transcribed - Published: 22 March 2025

(Revelation 4:1-11) One million years from this moment, you will be somewhere. Death is merely a door into eternity. You can know where you will be and what will occur after your death.  (0966250315)

Transcribed - Published: 15 March 2025

(Revelation 3:22) While the church anticipates Christ’s soon coming, we must not miss what the Holy Spirit is doing now! Be cautious of being so consumed with future events that you neglect present opportunities. Listen to today’s edition of The Weekend Pulpit as we begin a new study on Christ’s last words to His church. (0960250308)

Transcribed - Published: 8 March 2025

(Hebrews 2:3) One little word reveals the greatness of God's salvation. It is a heart word, a word of joy and soberness. "So" both defies definition and, at the same time, reveals how great salvation is! (0957250305) ----more----   The Power of a Little Word A big truth can be packed into a little word. Have you ever considered the little word? So it's a powerful little word. It's an adjective that can be used in a myriad of different ways, but in scripture. It is used frequently.  The Meaning of 'So' in Scripture For example, John chapter three, verse number 16 says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son." What does that mean? He's so loved. You see the little word, so is a word that defies definition. Really. It's an intensive word. It's a word that says to an extent or a degree that cannot be explained. It cannot be expressed perhaps by finite minds. It cannot even be understood. He just so loved the world. Today in our study, we've come to one of those sows in scripture.  The Greatness of Salvation It's found in Hebrews chapter two and verse number three, where the Bible says, "How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him." I would submit to you that the little word, so here is both a joyful word and a sobering word. At the same time, we're talking about what the Bible says about salvation and God describes it this way. His salvation is not just salvation. It's not even just great salvation. No, it is so great salvation. It is so great that you need it. It is so great that without it you'll be separated from God forever. It is so great that you ought to rejoice when you have it, my friend. You ought to thank God that he saved you, but it's also so great that you ought to be sober about it and realize what a serious, costly thing this salvation is. We're talking today about the greatness of this salvation and if somebody said to me how great is it? I just have to use the Bible word and say, it's so great. An infinite God uses the word so to, to try to relate this truth to finite man. Why is our salvation so great?  The Divine Author of Salvation It's so great because of its divine author. Just this week I've been preaching in the place where I've been ministering from the little Book of Jonah, and I came to that verse. Just last night, Jonah chapter two at verse number nine, it says, "Salvation is of the Lord." Can I remind you that man didn't come up with salvation. Salvation was God's idea that apart from God, we'd all still be lost in our sin would either be in hell or on our way there. But the divine author of salvation is the God of love and mercy and grace. It came to us according to the eternal purpose of God. This was not God coming up with an emergency plan. No. Our sovereign God knew from the very beginning of the world, this was not an afterthought. He knew from the very beginning of the world that we were gonna need a savior. Ephesians one, verse four says, "Before the foundations of the world." Ephesians three verse eleven says, "According to his eternal purpose." Titus 1:2 says, "Before the world began." First Peter 1:20 says, "Before the foundation of the world." It sounds to me like God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. Don't you think that he's been writing this story of redemption? Graham Scragg, he wrote a powerful book on the Bible many years ago and he titled his book, and I love the title, the Unfolding Drama of Redemption. My friend that's really what the Bible is. It is God's redemptive story to man Herbert Locky wrote this deep and far in an untrackable eternity. Its foundations were laid. It's not a thing of yesterday, it will not pass away with tomorrow. The father has endorsed it with his own everlasting ness. Think of that my salvation is rooted in the eternalness of God. He's the divine author that makes it so great.  The Cost of Salvatio

Transcribed - Published: 5 March 2025

(Mark 1:16-20) Only Jesus could transform ordinary fishermen into soul-winners! However, this transformation required some sacrifice from His disciples. How can one become a fisher of men today? (0948250222)

Transcribed - Published: 22 February 2025

(Mark  1:3-4, 12-13) We all have busy days, but nobody has ever been busier than Jesus was! Although He was everlastingly busy during His earthly ministry, Christ was never so much in a hurry that He neglected prayer. Listen to this episode of The Weekend Pulpit. (0942250215)

Transcribed - Published: 15 February 2025

(Mark  1:3-4, 12-13) We all have busy days, but nobody has ever been busier than Jesus was! Although He was everlastingly busy during His earthly ministry, Christ was never so much in a hurry that He neglected prayer. Listen to this episode of The Weekend Pulpit. (0942250215)

Transcribed - Published: 15 February 2025

(2 Timothy 3:13-17) In an age of deception God's people must know what they believe - and why! We must be ready to share with others, not what we think, but what God thinks. It is time to know and make known what the Bible says. (0938250211/13) ----more---- The Purpose and Profit of the Bible Everywhere I go, it seems that the favorite verse of people today seems to be 2 Timothy 3 and verse number 13, where the Bible says, "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." I hear everybody quoting that verse and talking about how bad things have gotten and the pitiful condition of churches and communities and culture, and there's no doubt that's true. But I want to remind you that verse does not stand alone. That text has a context. As a matter of fact, immediately after the Apostle Paul writes to Timothy, those words, "Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived," he says in the very next verse, 2 Timothy 3:14, "But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them." In other words, yes, there are negatives all around us, but on the positive side, we're supposed to continue in the truth. Yes, this is an age of deception, all the more reason for us to take a strong stand on the truth. Yes, there is a spirit of Antichrist at work in our world that's trying to deceive people. But friends, just because the spirit of the deceiver is at work does not mean that the Holy Spirit has stopped his work. Oh, the spirit of truth is alive and well. He's at work in me today. He's at work in you today. He's at work through the Word today. And that's why God's people need to know what the Bible says. Listen to the verse again, 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 14, "But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned. And has been assured of knowing of whom thou hast learned them. " Learning the Bible The three great principles, the three great truths in that verse. Number one, you have to learn the word. He said, if you're going to live it, if you're going to teach it and preach it to others, you have to learn it. So we must learn what God says. Assurance of the Bible Then, you must develop some assurance about what you're learning. He not only says you've learned it, he said you've been assured of these things. You must develop some deep personal conviction that the Word of God truly is that, the Word of God. It is the revelation of God Himself. It is the truth. And I trust and pray that you're developing a deeper and deeper conviction and confidence in the Word of God. This is the very Word of Truth. And you can trust a God who never lies. As a matter of fact, he says at the end of the verse, "Knowing of whom thou hast learned them." What's that a reference to? He goes on in verse 15 to say, "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." He's saying that faith that was laid for you in childhood. That simple truth that you were willing to accept in your youth, don't ever get away from that. No matter how complicated the world may get, no matter how complex the problems may be, always go back again and again to the simplicity that is in Jesus Christ. Only Christ, only the Word of Truth can cut through the mess and the mayhem of our world and of our lives. Only the Lord can do that. So never forget. Where you learned it and who you learned it from. Timothy had a godly mother and a holy grandmother. Do you remember Lois and Eunice? Never forget those people who gave you this heritage. Never forget the people who taught you the truth. Perhaps there's some hint here as well of Paul reminding Timothy of what he personally had taught him in his youth. You remember how Timothy joined Paul when he was just a very young man. Paul is saying, don't ever forget the things that you were taught early on in your life

Transcribed - Published: 13 February 2025

(Mark 1:4, 15) While repentance is necessary for our salvation, it is equally essential for our sanctification. A Christian who fails to regularly confess his sin to the Lord resultantly fails to grow in his walk with Him. Your faith can be measured by your repentance.  (0936250208)

Transcribed - Published: 8 February 2025

(1 Timothy 6:5-12) Modern Christianity says, "Gain is godliness." Whereas biblical Christianity says, "Godliness is gain." Join us as we conclude our study of stewardship with some key truths to remember.  (0935250207)

Transcribed - Published: 7 February 2025

(Luke 16:1-12, 19-31) You cannot fully understand biblical stewardship without looking at it through the lens of eternity. Eternity clarifies many circumstances and purifies our motives. Put your life in the perspective of eternity. (0934250206)

Transcribed - Published: 6 February 2025

(Luke 10:23-24) Truth is the Christian's most valuable treasure. It is a treasure to be cherished and shared. Learn from today's episode how to receive truth, rejoice in it, and relay it to others.  (0933250205)

Transcribed - Published: 5 February 2025

(2 Corinthians 12:7-10) Stewardship encompasses both positive and negative aspects. Since God is sovereign, we can conclude that even trials are gifts from Him. Instead of trying to change your trials, steward them! (0932250204)

Transcribed - Published: 4 February 2025

(Proverbs 22:1) Every man is given two names: the one he is born with and the one he earns. We all are gifted by God both the opportunity and obligation to develop our reputation. How are you stewarding your testimony? (0931250203)

Transcribed - Published: 3 February 2025

(Mark 1:1-5) Many times we say we want to hear from God but do not ready our hearts to hear from God. When the Word of God declared, our hearts should be prepared. Join Scott Pauley for this first message from Mark 1. (0930250201)

Transcribed - Published: 1 February 2025

(Malachi 3:8-12) Our view of God significantly alters our view of finances. When we realize that God has given us both our wealth and the power to obtain it, we will appropriately steward it according to His will.  (0929250131)

Transcribed - Published: 31 January 2025

(2 Corinthians 5:1-15) God has uniquely fashioned your body to use for His purpose. Many today are obsessed with the abilities and appeals of the body. However, God has designed your body to be His temple, where He resides and presides.  (0928250130)

Transcribed - Published: 30 January 2025

(Matthew 25:14-30) There is no more satisfying approval than the Lord's on your life. God has given you natural and spiritual abilities that He desires you to use for His glory. Whose affirmation are you living for? (0927250129)

Transcribed - Published: 29 January 2025

(Ephesians 5:15-17) Time is the currency of life, and once you spend it, you never get it back. As stewards of time, we have the daily opportunity to waste or invest it. Join us today to learn how to prioritize your time properly. (0926250128)

Transcribed - Published: 28 January 2025

(2 Corinthians 8:1-9) If you are a disciple of Jesus Christ, that is because another disciple once reached you. Now, you are responsible for reaching others with the same message! Have you added any chains to this spiritual link? (0925250127)

Transcribed - Published: 27 January 2025

(Matthew 1:19-25; 2:13-15, 19-23) In the darkest times, God is at work. The coming of Jesus Christ is one of the greatest examples of this. Yet, it is not just a truth for the Christmas season. In your darkest seasons, God will teach you the deepest truths. (0924250125)

Transcribed - Published: 25 January 2025

(2 Corinthians 8:1-9) Are you a giver or a taker? Everything you give is a response to everything God has given you. As God's grace motivates you, aspire to give the way God desires.  (0923250124)

Transcribed - Published: 24 January 2025

(2 Corinthians 8:1-9) Worship is much more than singing or congregating with other believers. It is our response to God's revelation. The worship of stewardship acknowledges that God is God, and we are not.  (0922250123)

Transcribed - Published: 23 January 2025

(2 Corinthians 8:1-9) Stewardship is not so much about your goods as it is God's grace. All that we have and are can be appropriately attributed to His grace! When you have the right view of His grace, you will have the right motive for stewardship.  (0921250122)

Transcribed - Published: 22 January 2025

(2 Corinthians 8:1-9) The Christian life is relational. In Christ, we are connected to believers in a way incomparable to any earthly relationship. How are you stewarding your relationship with your local church? (0920250121)

Transcribed - Published: 21 January 2025

(2 Corinthians 8:1-9) The three "ships" of stewardship are fellowship, discipleship, and worship. They always sail in tandem, and their paths are inextricable. Tune in as we continue our practical series! (0919250120)

Transcribed - Published: 20 January 2025

(Deuteronomy 11) We live in a world that knows very little about love and yet ever longs for it. However, God, who is love, longs for us to love Him. Which side of the battle are you on? (0918250118)

Transcribed - Published: 18 January 2025