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1 Cor 11:23-34 - Eating With God, The Why, The When, and The How-Kevin Williams

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:29:00 +0000

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Testimony - Sebastian Mani

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:19:00 +0000

How an Indian born Roman Catholic became "a true Christian".

Jer 29:11 - God Only Thinks Love Towards His Chosen-Kevin Williams

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:31:00 +0000

Mark 1:1-8+Ezek 3:16-21 - The Uncompromising Preacher-Kevin Williams

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:55:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com We begin a study through Marks Gospel, by looking at John the Baptist, and also the stricter judgement on Preachers and teachers of God’s Word .

Matt 5:1-16 - The Attributes Of Christians, A Biblical Assurance Test-Kevin Williams

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:41:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com We look at the Words of Jesus at the start of the Sermon on the Mount, which describe people who have true saving faith, and we hold these characteristics up as a mirror to test if our lives are consistent with the Bible’s description of a Christian.

Rom 3:21-26 - The Biggest Dilemma In Scripture-Kevin Williams

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:18:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com In this Gospel sermon we see how salvation has always been by faith and not of works. How through the Gospel, God vindicates His great Name to display His justice and how great in goodness He is.

2 Cor 5:17+Rom 4 - Justification, How God Sees the Believer-Kevin Williams

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:32:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com What happens when a Christian sins? How does this affect his or her standing before God? How does this affect how much God loves them? Join us in this sermon as we look at how God sees a believer and the amazing love He bestows upon us. Part 1 of this sermon Regeneration can be found below.

John 3:16 - What Is The Gospel?-Kevin Williams

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:15:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com If you were to ask most Christians what is the Gospel, they’d probably tell you something like: Jesus died on a cross, and rose again so that people can believe in Him and have eternal life. Yet if you were to ask one of the cults like the Mormons, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, or a Roman Catholic or a liberal they’d give you pretty much the same answer. The same words have different meanings to different people, and here we look at what the hearers must understand, to come to know God and be saved, in the proclamation of the Gospel.

2 Cor 5-17 - Regeneration pt 2, God Does Not Save Without Radically Changing The Heart-Kevin Williams

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:53:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com Following on from our Sunday morning sermon The New Birth-No Heart Transplant No Heaven, we now take another look at this vital but misunderstood doctrine of regeneration., and that God NEVER justifies a man without radically changing their heart.

John 2:23-3:15 - The New Birth-No Heart Transplant, No Heaven-Kevin Williams

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:38:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com The New Birth in John 3 is one of, if not the, most misunderstood texts in Christendom. In this sermon we look at:How many professing Christians have a superficial faith that does not save.-How Catholics try to gain authority and respect over people by wearing fancy robes.-How Protestant/Evangelicals are not much better and try to gain authority and respect over people by qualifications.-When a person, no matter how uneducated speaks God’s truth with the power of God upon his life, it cuts like a knife because it is God’s Word.-The rank heresy of the prayer book that teaches the new birth is water baptism, and how there are many people in Hell because they’ve believed this falsehood. -How all ministers who teach baptismal regeneration will have to give an account to God, who will require stricter judgment from teachers. -That the new birth is not making a decision of Jesus. -What the new birth actually is.

Luke 23:39-43 - Baby Dedication Gospel-You're Either Or A Mocker of Christ Or He Is Your All-Kevin Williams

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:33:00 +0000

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Luke 19:1-10 - Behold-You Must Run To The Person Of Jesus Like Zacchaeus-Kevin Williams

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:52:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com In this Gospel sermon, we show there is nothing more important than getting to the person of Jesus Christ, and finding forgiveness and peace with God in Him.

Rom 5:12-19+Gen3 - The Radical Effect of the Fall of Man-Kevin Williams

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:31:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com Whilst many people know about the fall of man, most do not realize, the radical extent of the fall, and just how severe it is. This has implications on how we do church, and how we do evangelism. In this sermon we go through Scripture and let the Word of God speak for itself. This sermon is no.4 in our series “The First and Essential Principles of Christianity.”

Luke 21:33(+Var) The Radical Claims of Christ-Kevin Williams -31 min

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:07:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com In this sermon, No.3 in our series “The First Principles Of Christianity” we look at the radical claims that Jesus made. Many today, claim that Jesus was just a good teacher or a prophet, but deny that He is God, but as we show here, Jesus has not left us with the option of patronising Him.

2 Tim 3:16 Undeniable Evidence The Bible Is God’s Word-Kevin Williams

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:47:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com In this sermon, No.2 in our series “The First Principles Of Christianity” we show the certainty that The Bible is the Word of God, with the evidence of:-Archaeology.-The Bible’s many scientific foresights.-The enormous manuscript evidence.-The eye witness testimony.-The Bible’s inbuilt proof of detailed and accurate prophecy.

Rom 1:18-22 God Doesn’t Believe in Atheists, Why Everyone Deep Down Knows God is True-Kevin Williams

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:02:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com In this sermon, part 1 of “First and Essential Principles of Christianity” series, We show that evidence for the existence of God is so clear, that you really have to bury your head in the sand to deny the Creator God of the Bible.

John 2:1-11 Jesus Turns Man Made Religion On Its Head-Kevin Williams

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:51:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com In this first sermon by Kevin Williams since moving to St. Paul’s Church, Fleetwood, we look at: -How Jesus did away with the bondage of man-made rituals and legalism. -Alcohol. If wine was given by God to gladden the heart, but drunkenness is a sin worthy of Hell, then ‘how drunk is drunk?’ How much is okay for a Christian to drink? -There are no Holy buildings in the New Testament.-The Gospel.

Zech 12:10 - Gospel Sermon-Have You Truly Looked on Christ Pierced For You?-Kevin Williams

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:09:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com Question: What do you do if you have been preparing all week to preach a sermon on whether or not the gifts have ceased, and what prophecy and tongues are, and then you have an unexpected influx of lost people in your service that you may never reach again? Answer: You preach the Gospel, because it is the power of God unto salvation.

John 7:31(1) - Repentance From Cessationism-Kevin Williams

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:00:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com Quote:"I really feel cessationists have subconsciously bought into the secular idea of naturalism, which says we’re westerners, we’re far too sophisticated for all that supernatural stuff. I mean, you have to ask the question:Why are there so many miracles by Christians today in places like India, and other parts of the world, but not really in the west? The answer is, because our brothers and sisters in the East, when they're converted, they pick up their Bibles, they read it, and they believe it. There’s nothing in the Bible that says miracles are not for today, and so our brothers in the East, they don’t spend all their time, in fact they don’t spend any time, trying to view the Bible through the lens of 18th to 21st century scepticism, and trying to make the Bible fit nicely within boundaries of naturalism and human reason, trying to make it more palatable to the Western world. Our brothers in the East and in the jungles of South America and so forth, and places like China, they just read the Bible and they believe it. And I got caught up in the cessationist snare for some time, I think it was when long after I got my MacArthur Study Bible and I started getting the study notes mixed up with the text. I'm sure a lot of people have done that with study Bibles. And I do see a lot of people treat study notes as if they’re inspired. But I mean Spurgeon didn’t write a study Bible. Just kidding. But I got caught up in the cessationist snare for some time, but I have since repented of it. And I say snare because it really is dishonest, because, my question to any cessationist is, and I speak from experience here. My question is that: Is it not true that when the cessationists sees, or hears about, the supernatural happening today, he’s already decided he can’t accept it at any cost, and so he or she looks for reasons to suppress the truth, and explain it away? How many times have you done that? Is it not true that a when a cessationist comes to the Bible texts about the gifts, and it seems to imply that these things should be happening now, it gets a little scary and he just refuses to just let the text say what it actually says and so suppresses the truth, and tries to explain it away, saying God doesn’t mean what He says? How many times have you done that?"

2 Cor 5:17 - Justification & Regeneration-God Doesn’t Forgive Someone Without Changing Their Heart-Kevin Williams

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:38:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com In this sermon we look at:-Two vital but misunderstood doctrines of Justification and Regeneration.-How God does not forgive and justify someone without also fixing their bad heart.-How the Christian is commanded to believe right about who they are in Christ and this radically effects our ability to do battle against sin. -We show from Scripture that the Christian does not have two natures.-Why the Christian still battles with sin. -That most Christians have a wrong understanding of what the term “born again” means in John ch 3, and what it actually does mean.-Why unless regeneration happens first, man does not have the ability to repent and believe the Gospel.-That if you will come to Christ for forgiveness then He is willing to save you.

John 7:25-30 - However-Unbelievers Will Accept Any Objection No Matter How Ridiculous-Kevin Williams

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:31:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com In this Gospel sermon we look at:-The evidence for God is clearly obvious.-Why unbelievers will hide behind the most ridiculous objections because they’re not interested in truth.-Why the religion of evolution has left a legacy of bloodshed and racism.-How when devout evolutionists Hitler and Stalin ordered mass genocides they were only being consistent with their religious belief in Darwinism.-Why atheist “internet nerds” who spend all day on the internet attacking God, deep down know Jesus is the Truth.-The Gospel. God’s mercy.

John 7:24+Mat 7:1-5, 15-20 - Judge Not & You'll Still Be Judged. Clearing Up the Common Misconceptions-Kevin Williams

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:19:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com Here we look at the most famous and most quoted verse in all of Scripture, “Judge not that you be not judged.” As well as examining what this verse does teach, we also clear up some of the many misconceptions about what it does not teach. Some may surprise you. Also in this sermon, we look at, who are the ravenous wolves?

John 7:19-24 - Judging Righteously-Kevin Williams

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:25:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com In this sermon we look at: -The historical validity of the Bible. -How Olympic Triple Jumper Jonathan Edwards ‘lost his faith’. -How often good intensions can turn into burdens. -Why excommunicating a Presbyterian from the Lord’s Supper, just because he has a different view on Baptism is wrong. -Avoiding judging according to appearance. -How many have all their doctrines in order, but not their heart.

Jonah 4:1-2 - Prayer-Jonah’s Phenomenal Belief in the Awesome Power of God, A Lesson To Us All-Kevin Williams

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:50:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com "When we think of the Prophet Jonah, we normally look at his disobedience, and his rebellion. And we normally use Jonah as a lesson, or many lessons on how not to do things. But what we often miss, is Jonah’s great faith in God. It is phenomenal. His belief, that all things are possible with God, Jonah’s phenomenal belief in the power of God, is an example for us all. And you’re probably thinking, what am I talking about. Well let’s look at it: Jonah, a prophet of God was commanded by God to go to Nineveh, the most evil nation on the earth and preach repentance. But in his disobedience Jonah went in the opposite direction to Tarshish, And when God finally turned Jonah around with the use of a great storm and a whale. Jonah then goes to Nineveh, preaches repentance. God opens the Ninevites hearts, they all repent, even he animals in sack cloth and ashes. This is the greatest gentile revival ever in the history of the world. But then, in Jonah chapter 4:v1 we get the reason why Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh. When God brought revival and the Nivevites repented and turned to God. It says: “But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he became angry. 2 So he prayed to the LORD, and said, “Ah, LORD, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.” In other words, the reason Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh, was not because he feared for his life. He didn’t care for his life. But was because he knew that God would cause them to repent. Now, Jonah’s obvious uncharitable wrongs aside here, Just think about this: I mean, a modern equivalent would be,A missionary, trying to get out of going to North Korea, Not because, he was worried about his life and that he’d suffer horrific torture. But because he knew that God would cause the whole nation of North Korea to repent and believe the Gospel. Jonah clearly had the type of faith, the belief in the power of God that Jesus told of in Mark 11:23: "Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him." But let me ask you: How often do you pray, and I can include me in this as well, And your prayer is nothing opposed to God’s will, it’s not a selfish prayer like asking God to give you a BMW. It is with the right motive for the advancement of God’s Kingdom. But you pray it with little belief that God will do something? Or how often do we witness to someone not really believing God will save them? When we pray to God, and when we do things for God, sometimes it like we’re writing with a pen, but we’re not expecting any ink to come out. And we’re not really too concerned if it doesn’t. Instead of focusing on Jonah's faults, and there are many, And we have many also, I think maybe it’s time we should start to look as his just phenomenal belief in the great and awesome power of God, and let it be an example to us all. I mean, how many times, do we look at the great and amazing promises that God has given us in His Word for in prayer and in evangelism? And then we spend so much time trying to reason within ourselves that it doesn’t mean what it says it means.

Rom 7:13-25 - The Early Church View of the Romans 7 Man in the Often Ignored Context -Kevin Williams

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:46:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com In this sermon we show that: -The early church view of the Romans 7 man (a view also held by Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Paul Washer, Charles Leiter, Tim Conway and the Apostle Paul) is correct. -That the usage of present tense in Rom 7 is “historical present tense”, and how many claim it isn’t by the usage of circular reasoning, ignoring the context, and making Rom 7:14 into a separate, new section, despite v14 starting with the word “for” which is a conjunction, directly joining it to verse 13. -How there is a consistent and repeated pattern from Rom 6:1 which goes all the way to Rom 7:25 of: Question, Strong Denial, Short Answer, and fuller explanation of the short answer. -How many common interpretations of Romans 7 completely ignore the question being asked by Paul in v13, and give an interpretation that has absolutely nothing to do with the question being asked. -That the Romans 7 man is clearly not a parallel to Galatians 5. -That the Christian is a life of victory and not of defeat. -The dangers of the “wretched Christian” view.

2 Cor 5:17 - Justification & Regeneration, Believe Right In Order To Live Right-Kevin Williams

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:02:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com If you hold to some Pagan-Roman Catholic idea that you go in and out of favour with God based on your performance, then you will either be very miserable when you fail or proud when you think you’ve succeeded. In this sermon, preached in Workington, we look at two vital and closely tied together doctrines of Justification and Regeneration. -How God’s love towards the believer does not change with our performance. -Why the believer is never under condemnation from God ever. -How God Never justifies a person without changing their heart. -Why the new birth in John 3, (regeneration) must happen before a man is able to repent and believe the Gospel. -Why some professing Christians constantly slur others as legalists. -The difference between true Christianity and all other religions. -Why Christians still battle with sin. -That the Christian life is not one of defeat, but one of victory over sin. -You must believe right in order to live right.

1 John 5:13 - Biblical Assurance of Salvation- Kevin Williams

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:54:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com Do you face death with total peace of mind and certainty of the joy of being with Jesus in Heaven or are you unsure what will happen to you? Do you know the person of Jesus Christ or does He just seem like some kind of distant Deity to you? Many people today offer a false assurance of salvation which is not Biblical because it is not based on God's Word. Eternity in Hell is a long, long time to be wrong about whether or not you are truly saved. Join us as we go through the Epistle of 1 John, and see if you have assurance of Heaven, based on God's Word. (Note: although this sermon preached in Fleetwood, was almost word for word the same sermon preached at Puritan Fellowship the same day, we uploaded this version, even though the audio quality is less because we felt the Spirit of God was upon this message in a greater way.)

John 7:19a+Gal 3:24(2)- If You Miss Christ In The Law, Then You Miss Everything-Kevin Williams

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:07:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com Galatians 3:24 teaches us, the Mosaic Covenant is our Schoolmaster to lead us to Christ, yet many today, especially in Evangelism circles wrongly remove this verse from its context to use as a proof text to claim the only way to witness is to use the Ten Commandments and then the Gospel. As a result of this, in an effort to run from the error of the modern purpose driven gospel that plays down sin, many run to an error at the other extreme and downplay the use of large sections of Scripture, and reject any form of witnessing that isn't in a neatly packaged 'Ten Commandments and then the gospel' format.Now whilst there is nothing wrong with using the Ten Commandments in witnessing, it is a fine thing, the context of Galatians 3 is clearly that the Mosaic Covenant with all its sacrificial systems, prophecies, foreshadows and types is what leads us to Christ, and the "law of the Lord which is perfect converting the soul is the whole Bible.In this sermon we also look at Christ in the Old Testament.

John 7:19a+var - Different Meanings of the Word 'Law'-Kevin Williams

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:57:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com In this sermon, (which is the foundation for next week’s study), we look at the many different meanings and applications of the word “law” in the Bible. How so often the context is ignored by Christians, to try to make the word ‘law’ mean one thing when the context is saying something else. Also what is the Christians relationship to the Ten Commandments?

John 7:17-18 - Only The Wicked & Dishonest Reject Jesus-Kevin Williams

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:13:00 +0000

www.PuritanFellowship.com In this sermon we find that anyone who has ever made an honest effort to find God will believe the Bible, but people reject God's Word because of their own wickedness. Also:-Whilst being outwardly immoral is the sign of a lost person, being outwardly moral is not necessarily the sign of a saved person.-How not correcting a brother who’s in sin, is being arrogant, and people who refuse to confront sin are seeking their own glory.-The Word Faith cult teaches the same lie that Satan told in the Garden of Eden.