One of the things is the greatness of sin. No one can know the greatness of sin until they have felt it because there isn't any way to measure sin, except how it condemns us in our own conscience. The Law of God shows us and we feel the terror in our being. That's what has to happen with us, it has to scare us by our conscience telling us what's wrong. Then we must realize the blood of Christ and its ability to cleanse us. Until we've been washed ourselves, we’ll know nothing about the blood of Jesus Christ. We need to feel it personally… there are two great lessons a person must learn in life and learned by experience before they can be a Christian. First, we must learn that sin is a terrible, awful, evil thing. Second, we must learn that the blood of Christ is a very precious thing. Now you take them and pull them apart and push them back together and you'll see. If you get that, you're going to be on the right track. (Excerpted from the sermon, "Have We Felt It?" August 20, 2023).

Occasionally, we should all think back to the past week to see how much, or rather how little time we spent with God out of the twenty-four hours in the day.  You see, many hours are spent making a living, social life, things done for ourselves.  We spend  a lot of time with our friends on this earth.  How much time do we spend with our best friend in heaven?  We plan for everything: work, play, rest. Do we plan for prayer in our lives?  If not, then we are not in the channels for blessings since we haven't even looked at or pulled up to the table to sit with wisdom, grace and strength.   (From the sermon, "Prayer" June 18, 2023) 

The greatest thing, the hardest thing for us to comprehend is the infinite love of God.  The biggest and most incomparable thing that I will ever experience is the love of God.  It's all because of Jesus Christ our Lord.  There's always going to be a region beyond our understanding when it comes to God's love and because of this there will always be new surprises regarding the height, the length, the breadth and the depth of God's love.  It's a love that surpasses all human knowledge and understanding. . . When we were children, we learned our A,B,C's.  And in learning the alphabet, we found that these letters made up words. Those words make up languages; more words than we can comprehend.  That's the way it is with God's love.  It just goes on and on and on and on.  Just like everything we say and write depends on the alphabet, everything hinges on God's love.  (From the sermon, "The Dimensions of God's Love," March 6, 2022).

Whenever we get nearer to God and really enter into fellowship with Him, what we feel is the opposite of self congratulations. We will never see the beauty of Christ without seeing how much further we have to go. Christian soldiers have to fight with sin every day.  If they truly are people of God, if the Spirit of God is within them, they will want all the strength they can get to maintain their ground and make progress in their spiritual lives. Self contentment is a shirking of the battle.  Some people shirk repentance and holy care by believing they already have the only sanctification they will ever need.  They get justification and sanctification mixed up.  They do good deeds and they think that is all that is needed.  By doing this, they keep themselves away from the necessary work of the Holy Spirit ... they will do the work of the Lord in many ways but they do not want to hear about personal holiness. (from the sermon, "Onward and Upward," January 9, 2022).

Only a small percent of the time since the beginning of recorded history has the world been entirely at peace.  In over 3100 years, only 286 of those have been without war.  There have been 8000 plus treaties that have been broken over this time.  Yet, we want peace in the worst way. In any survey that asks people what they want the most, the number one answer is usually peace.  We dream about it.  We sing about it at Christmas.  But do we think its possible?  Are we doing anything to see that dream come true?  Maybe we have given up on peace.  To cry out for peace in the world today puts us in the minority and to try to be a peacemaker is not always popular.  But listen folks, the alternative to peace is insanity.  At the very least, we need to dream about peace.  (From the sermon, "The Dream We Long For," December 12, 2021). 

So many times we meet people who say that they cannot find peace with God.  They've been told to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, but they misunderstand the command to believe.  While they think they are obeying it, they are really unbelievers.  They miss that peace.  We've got to realize what we're supposed to do when we believe in Jesus Christ.  We've got to have a personal relationship with Jesus.  I mean, He's my buddy. He should be your buddy. You can talk to Him at any time, depend on Him for anything. . . Now we don't like to see people in this shape and we try to comfort them.  What do we say?  Listen folks, we need to tell these people how to get the comfort they are seeking and the peace that they desire instead of just merely sympathizing with them.  If I come by you and you're stuck in the mud with your car, you'd be upset if I said, "You'll be okay, you'll get our eventually. Somebody will come along after a while and pull you out."  No, you want that comfort and peace that comes when you get out of the mud.  That's what we need to do.  (From the sermon, "Getting Right with God", November 7, 2021).

Many of God's children live in fear.  They suppose that some day, somewhere, they'll have to pay the penalty for their sins.  But the good news is that Jesus was judged in our place.  That's why we have to hang in there with Him.  Hebrews 9:26 says, "Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world, but now He has appeared once for all at the end of the age to do away with the sins by the sacrifice of Himself."  See, there is no more of that every year sacrifice on the Day of Atonement.  Now Christ did it once for all.  It's over with, it's a done deal.  We're saved.  (From the sermon, "The Three Facets of a Christian's Judgment", October 10, 2021).

The Lord's Supper is a memorial.  He said, "Do this in remembrance of me."  We memorialize men with fancy statues and extravagant memorials.  Just think about what we see when we go to Washington, D.C. - the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, the Vietnam and World War II memorials, just to name a few.  And when we visit any graveyard, we see tombstones and other memorials to those who are buried there.  Today we come here to see the memorial of Jesus Christ.  But there's no marble stone or monument, just simple bread and juice.  As we look at Jesus' memorial, we see that His farewell gesture was a simple meal of fellowship; simple elements and a simple command, "Do this in remembrance of me."  (from the sermon, "Looking Out the Window", October 3, 2021). 

People who are "sleepwalking" may be doing a great deal for the Lord, but they're asleep.  By their outward actions, you'd think they were wide awake.  They look like they are doing very well.  These are the ones Jesus was talking about when He said, "I never knew you."  Sleepwalkers walk where they never would go when they are awake.  Christians who sleepwalk appear very devout, but they do it out of habit without paying attention to what's going on around them (from the sermon, "It's High Time", September 19, 2021).

"You can't blame the seed for a bad harvest.  If you plant bad seed, you will reap a bad harvest.  If you want a good crop, plant good seed."  From the sermon "What Goes Around Comes Around," July 11, 2021

James says, "Receive with meekness the engrafted word."  Receive is an instructive word in the Gospels.  Its the door which opens to God's grace for it to come in.  We are not saved by works.  We are not saved by what we give to God, but by what He gives to us.  (From the Sermon, "Before, During and After" July 18, 2021)

Since we're fighting against enemies in the spiritual world, we need special equipment for both offense and defense.  God has provided us the whole armor of God and we don't dare leave out one part of that armor.  We don't dare leave it out.  For you see, Satan looks for the unguarded area where he can set up a stronghold.  A stronghold is a power or a force that dominates what is weaker than itself.  (From the sermon, "Weapons of Our Warfare" May 16, 2021)

Just like a magnet draws steel,  Jesus actually draws us to Himself.  Now, He didn't say He's gonna draw all people to Victory Fellowship, or to any church for that matter.  No, He didn't say that.  He said, "I will draw all people to me," to Him, that is to Himself.  And we come to Christ only because Christ comes to us. (From the sermon, Heavenly Magnet, Earthly Pull, June 6, 2021)

God gives us things that cling. Have you ever noticed the sweet pea?  It has little hooks on it.   The sweet pea vine was designed to grow upward.  Every child of God has these hooks to grow up on.  They're our thoughts, desires and hopes with which we hook onto Christ and His promises.  Be assured that all you have to have is this "clinging faith," it's a simple form of faith. In fact, it's the heart of all faith.  If you're looking unto Jesus Christ for the grace that comes from God, you have clinging faith (from the sermon, "Ingredients of Our Faith," June 13, 2021).

Live one day at a time.  You know, if you live one day at a time, you're never disappointed.  Go making plans for twenty days down the road and when they don't come about, you're disappointed. If you don't make those plans and let God handle it, He'll work it out perfectly for you (From the sermon, "First Things First," August 15, 2021).

When we observe the Lord's Supper, memory and hope mingle in a common glory; memory of the Lord's life freely given for us and hope of the Lord's return and of His final reign. (From the sermon "What We Receive from Communion," July 4, 2021)

The fountainhead of hope is Christ crucified, dead, buried, risen and coming back again.  This is a hope of full salvation.  When we believed in Christ, we became free from all condemnation.  In addition to that,  Jesus destroyed the power of sin over us. . . And because we love righteousness, which comes through Christ Jesus, we will walk in obedience.  Our hope is that one day, we will be presented holy and blameless, without spot nor wrinkle, cleansed from all guilt and the tendency toward sin.  Now that's blessed hope! (from the sermon, "Fly with the Eagles," September 5, 2021)

Whenever the Holy Spirit is found in a church, we will find spiritual worship, worship given by mind and heart.  Broken and contrite hearts are still the best sacrifice that we can give God. . . there are two states and each person here is in one or the other, there's no middle place.  We are either in the flesh or in the spirit.  (from the sermon "Life Threatening Deficiency," August 29, 2021)