2. Expecting the Impossible

3. Impossible: God to Lie
(Titus 1:2) in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began, (NKJV)

4. Expecting the Impossible: Expecting diligent evangelistic work for the Lord if there is no love…
Love For the Lost (Romans 10:1) Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. (NKJV)

5. Expecting the Impossible: Expecting diligent evangelistic work for the Lord if there is no love…
Love For the Brethren: (1 Peter 2:17) Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. (NKJV)

6. Expecting the Impossible: Expecting diligent evangelistic work for the Lord if there is no love…
Love For the Lord: (Matthew 22:37) Jesus said to him," 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' (NKJV)

7. Expecting the Impossible: Love Without Concern.
(Acts 2:44-47) Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need. So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

8. Expecting the Impossible: The Christian Life Without Sacrifice, or Hardship
(Luke 14:26) "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. (NKJV) (Luke 14:33) "So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple. (NKJV)

9. Expecting the Impossible: The Christian Life Without Self-Denial
(Matthew 16:24-27) Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? "For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.

10. Expecting the Impossible: The Christian Life Without a Life of Sacrifice
(Romans 12:1) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

11. Expecting the Impossible: The Christian Life Without a Life of Chastening
(Hebrews 12:6-9) For whom the LORD loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives." If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? (NKJV)

12. Expecting the Impossible: The Christian Life Without aLife of Chastening
(Hebrews 5:8-9) though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, (NKJV)

13. Expecting the Impossible: The Christian Life Without a Life of Chastening
(Zechariah 13:8-9) And it shall come to pass in all the land," Says the LORD, "That two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, But one -third shall be left in it: I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will say, 'This is My people'; And each one will say, 'The LORD is my God.'" (NKJV)

14. Expecting the Impossible: The Christian Life Happiness Without Holiness
(Hebrews 11:24-26) By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward. (NKJV)

15. Expecting the Impossible: The Christian Life Happiness Without Holiness
(Proverbs 16:20) He who heeds the word wisely will find good, And whoever trusts in the LORD, happy is he. (NKJV)

16. Expecting the Impossible: Being Saved Without Being an Obedient Christian
(1 John 1:5-10) This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. (NKJV)

17. Expecting the Impossible: Being Saved Without Being an Obedient Christian
(Hebrews 5:9) And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, (NKJV)

18. Expecting the Impossible: Being Saved Without Being an Obedient Christian
(1 John 2:3-6) Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. (NKJV)

19. Expecting the Impossible: Being Saved Without Being an Obedient Christian
(James 2:14-26) What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well Even the demons believe--and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, …

20. Expecting the Impossible: Being Saved Without Being an Obedient Christian
… that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." And he was called the friend of God. You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

21. Heb. 11:6 “without faith it is impossible to please” God
Expecting the Impossible: Being Saved Without Being an Obedient Christian
Heb. 11:6 “without faith it is impossible to please” God

22. Expecting the Impossible: Being Saved Without Being an Obedient Christian
(Matthew 7:24-27) "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: "and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. "But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: "and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall." (NKJV)

23. Expecting the Impossible: Being Saved Without Being an Obedient Christian
(Acts 17:30) "Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, (NKJV)

24. Expecting the Impossible: Being Saved Without Being an Obedient Christian
Rom. 10:17 “faith comes by hearing…the word of God” John 8:24 Jesus said, “I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."

25. Expecting the Impossible: Being Saved Without Being an Obedient Christian
(Acts 2:38) …Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins… (1 Peter 3:21) There is also an antitype which now saves us--baptism …

26. Expecting the Impossible: Being Saved Without Being an Obedient Christian
(Romans 10:9) …if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. (NKJV) (Matthew 4:4) But He answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'" (NKJV)

27. Expecting the Impossible: Being Saved Without Being an Obedient Christian
(Hebrews 12:15-17) looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears. (NKJV)