David Buffaloe
Sinner now Saint because my
Savior and Lord Jesus loves meSearch
-
Recent Posts
- IF January 24, 2023
- His Eye Is On The Sparrow January 22, 2023
- The Danger of Prayerlessness January 20, 2023
- O Lord, O Lord, Help Us! January 17, 2023
- The Christian Target January 15, 2023
Yesterday’s Word
Categories
- 1 Chronicles
- 1 Corinthians
- 1 John
- 1 Kings
- 1 Peter
- 1 Samuel
- 1 Thessalonians
- 1 Timothy
- 2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles
- 2 Corinthians
- 2 Peter
- 2 Timothy
- abortion
- Acts
- Almighty God
- Amos
- Baptist Distinctives
- Belong To God
- Bible Study
- Blaming God
- Blood of Atonement
- Children
- Christmas
- Christmas Sermons
- Church
- Colossians
- Communion
- Covid-19 Sermons
- Cross of Christ
- Daniel
- Deuteronomy
- devil
- Dispensational Truth
- Disrespect
- Easter Messages
- Ecclesiastes
- Empty Tomb
- Ephesians
- Exodus
- Ezekiel
- Faith
- Faith Of Our Fathers
- Faithfulness of God
- Fearing God
- Five MUSTS Of Faith
- Following Disciples
- Following Jesus
- Foundation Series
- Funeral
- Galatians
- General
- Genesis
- Gethsemane
- giving
- Glory To God
- God's Children
- gospel
- grace
- Great Commission
- Habakkuk
- Haggai
- Hebrews
- Holiness
- Holy Spirit
- Hospitality
- humble
- Isaiah
- James
- Jeremiah
- Jesus
- Job
- Johanan Sermons
- John
- Joshua
- Judges
- Lamb of God
- Law Of God
- Leviticus
- Living God
- love
- Love One Another
- Luke
- Mark Sermons
- Matthew
- Memorials
- Men and Women
- Micah Sermons
- Mother's Day
- music
- MUSTS Of Christianity
- Names Of God Series
- Nehemiah
- Numbers
- obedience
- Order
- Philippians
- Politics
- praise
- prayer
- Praying Like Jesus Series
- preaching the Gospel
- pride
- prophecy
- Proverbs
- Psalms
- Racism
- Rapture
- Resurrection
- Revelation
- Revivals
- Romans
- running with Jesus
- salvation
- Satan
- Sermon Series "Red Letters"
- Sermons Preached
- serving God
- Shared Blogs
- sin
- singing
- sinners
- Slave For Christ
- Spiritual
- Spiritual Gifts
- Strictly Blog
- Suffering
- Taking Advantage Of or Bullying
- Testifying
- topical
- trials
- Trusting God
- VBS
- Vision
- Witnessing
- Zechariah Sermons
Sermons On My Site
Tag Archives: prayer
The Danger of Prayerlessness
Several years ago I heard Pastor Adrian Rogers say:
“Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.”
That is so very true! The Bible warns us that …
Romans 6:23 The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
God gives us life as a gift from Him. Physical life is a precious gift, and spiritual life is a wondrous, miraculous gift. Jesus Christ gave Himself for our sins. The Bible says:
2 Corinthians 5:21 {God the Father} made {Jesus Christ} to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
Jesus Christ was and will always be within Himself SINLESS. Yet God made Him to be SIN, that we might be made RIGHTEOUS. Sin will kill you! When Jesus taught us to pray, part of that “Lord’s Prayer” says:
Matthew 6:12-13 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Saved by Grace, the Christian is supposed to daily call out to God for “our daily bread”. We are sustained not by the POWER of our hand, but by the PROVISION of our Heavenly Father. We pray for our bread. But we also pray “forgive us our debts”. We daily look at the garden of our lives, and pull out any weeds of sin by prayer. We CONFESS our sins to God. The Apostle John said:… Continue reading
Posted in Judges, Sermons Preached
Tagged obedience, prayer, prayerlessness, salvation, sin kills, unequal yoke, wages of sin
Leave a comment
God Will Bring Thee Into Judgment
No matter how old you get to be before you pass from this life, this life always seems too short a time. The Apostle Paul said in:
Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Colossians 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, {outside of God’s Kingdom}redeeming the time.
Life is so very short. We think it to be long, but the older I get, the faster the years seem to go. The Apostle realized – as James said:
James 4:14 … what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
In the Book of Ecclesiastes we read the words of the wisest man who ever lived outside of Jesus Christ, a man named Solomon.
Solomon asked God to give him “wisdom” so that he might rule Israel. God told Solomon (1 Kings 3:12):
“I have given you a wise and understanding heart. There was never anyone like you before, nor shall there be anyone like you after you are gone”.
That’s a fantastic promise! We think people like the late Steve Jobs were genius’, or the current Bill Gates. They are nothing compared to Solomon. Solomon was given divine wisdom and divine knowledge. If we should listen to anybody, we should listen to Solomon. Solomon looked back over his life, and offers words of wisdom to… Continue reading
Posted in Ecclesiastes, Sermons Preached
Tagged Following Christ, God Is Faithful, Jesus Christ, love, prayer, salvation
Leave a comment
Mary said …
We have always lived in a world that has two views of God. The first view is the Subjective View of God. This is the most popular concept of God. In the Subjective View we believe that God exists for our benefit. This view creeps into the pulpits of many different Churches, even Baptist Churches. I have heard preachers say,
“God created Adam because God was lonely and needed a companion. After creating Adam, God saw that “it is not good that the man should be alone” (Genesis 2:18), so he made Adam a helper called Eve.”
What is foolish about this statement is that God has never been alone. In Genesis 1:26 God – the Hebrew Elohim – said “Let US make humanity in OUR image, after OUR likeness”. God has never been alone. God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is complete in Himself. God created angels. He did not create out of a need for us. God created us for another reason, a reason the antichrists hate. God did not create us because He somehow had to do so or else He would suffer.
The Second View of God is the Objective View. In the Subjective View we say that God created us because He somehow needed us. In short, God exists because we exist. But the Objective View of God is that God created us because we need Him. We are incomplete without God. God made us in His image and in His likeness so that we could worship Him as God, and glorify Him for Who He is.
When we walk away from God we rip a hole in our very lives. We are made in the likeness, the image of God. We are not gods, but we were made to imitate and glorify Him.
Humans were created by Grace and Love flowing from God – but God does not need us to complete Himself. God lacks nothing. Our creation is an extension of God’s goodness…. Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Christmas Sermons, General, Luke, Sermons Preached
Tagged Faith, God Is Faithful, gospel, Incarnation, Jesus Christ, mary, prayer
Leave a comment
Who Has Your Heart?
What is IN the spiritual heart is manifest in what you OUTWARDLY do. Religion cannot fix a heart problem.
Our Lord Jesus put it this way. Jesus chastised the religious Pharisees of his day – because they twisted the Word of God to make allowance for their sinful practices. Their are many in our world who do that today – you might be one of them! Jesus told the Pharisees:
Matthew 15:7-9 (ESV) You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: 8 “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 9 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
Preach: Jesus said of the Pharisees, “their heart is far from Me”. God gave us His Word, the Holy Bible, to show us His Standard and His Savior. We are to follow His Savior Jesus Christ with all our hearts. We are to love God with all our hearts. Jesus came to this earth not just to heal our physical bodies, but to fix our heart problem. He said:
Matthew 15:10-11, 17-20 (ESV) … “Hear and understand: 11 it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.” … 17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? 18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 20 These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
When we look around our America today, around our homes, in our schools, what do we see? Certainly there are good things out there. Certainly there are good people. But I’ll guarantee you, there were a lot of “good” people who stopped traffic to pick up and, yes, steal money that was not their own. They did not earn that money. They had a heart problem.
Jesus came, not to be a Hero, a conquering King,
but to be a Healer of our hearts…. Continue reading
Posted in Luke, Revivals, Sermons Preached
Tagged Following Christ, God Is Faithful, gospel, Jesus Christ, love God, prayer, revival, salvation
Leave a comment
A Couple Of “F” Words You Need To Know
Salvation is a FREE GIFT from God. I agree with this statement. It is supported by the Scripture. The words “FREE GIFT” are only found together in these texts:
Romans 5:14-18 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. 15 But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses unto justification. 17 For if by one man’s offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Salvation is a FREE GIFT from God. It is purchased by Jesus, delivered by the Holy Spirit, and planned by God the Father. However, we need to be careful that we are defining the word “FREE” as GOD DEFINES “FREE”, and NOT as SATAN DEFINES “FREE”.
When Satan says something is “FREE”, he means,
“absolutely without consequence”
Illustrate: Yet Satan’s “FREE” is often a lie. The other day, I was leaving a discount market and heard that there was a large box of FREE items at the front door. I, like everyone else, loves FREE stuff. So I went out front and, accompanied by a mother and her daughter, went through that box. I found what I expected – junk! But I picked up a few things. I picked up a set of coasters with my “preferred pronouns” on it…. Continue reading
Posted in 1 Peter, Sermons Preached
Tagged Faith, follow Christ, Following Christ, free gift, God Is Faithful, gospel, praise, prayer, salvation
Leave a comment
The Joy Of The Lord Is Your Strength
When Ezra came from Babylon, King Artaxerxes allowed him to come with a large expedition. Why? Because “the hand of the Lord his God upon him”. Ezra sought God’s will in all that he did. As a result, God supplied Ezra with all the people and craftsmen needed to get the job done. The “Nethinims” were servants that assisted the “Levites” and “priests” in the services of the sanctuary. Why did God bless Ezra in his endeavor? Because
Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
Ezra did not seek our his own will, nor did he allow his heart to harden. In America we have hardened our hearts against God. In our Churches they are “OUR” Churches and not God’s. We have allowed our hearts to harden against God’s direction. … Continue reading
Posted in Nehemiah, Sermons Preached
Tagged Following Christ, God Is Faithful, gospel, Jesus Christ, love, prayer
Leave a comment
Working For God
Please turn with me in your Bibles to Nehemiah chapter 2. 1&2 Samuel, 1&2 Kings, 1&2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah. Nehemiah is the Cup Bearer or the Butler of the King Artaxerxes (a Persian King and conqueror of Judah). God has moved on the heart of Ezra and Zerubbabel to lead Jewish exiles back to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple. Some 12 years later some of these exiles return to King Artaxerxes palace and tell Nehemiah that the walls of Jerusalem are destroyed, and the gates burned with fire.
When the walls of the nation are fallen and the gates burned, the criminal element rule the nation. The walls must be rebuilt if righteousness will return!
Nehemiah seeks first God’s permission to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls. Receiving permission from God, Nehemiah asks King Artaxerxes for help – who willingly gives it! Nehemiah travels to Jerusalem, surveys the damage done, then gathers the refugees in exile to present the facts to them. We read:… Continue reading
Posted in Nehemiah, Sermons Preached
Tagged Following Christ, God Is Faithful, love, prayer, serving God, unity
Leave a comment
Being A Good Soldier Of Christ
Unless believers pass on Bible truths to the next generation, the Gospel light cannot continue to burn. The Books of Timothy were written by the Apostle Paul to pass on Biblical truths in a world covered with darkness.
Paul met Timothy (or his Roman name, Timotheus) in Acts 16 during his second missionary journey. We read:
Acts 16:1-3 Then came {Paul} to Derbe and Lystra: {located in Southern Asia Minor & Turkey} and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, {or Timothy} the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, {Eunice} and believed; but his father was a Greek: 2 Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. 3 Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.
Timothy gave his life to the Lord, and committed to following the Apostle Paul as he moved to start new churches. Though Timothy’s mother Eunice and grandmother Lois were believing Jews (see 2 Timothy 1:5), Timothy’s father was a Gentile. Because of this Timothy had never been circumcised. Though the Apostle believed that:
Colossians 3:11 … there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Circumcision is not necessary for salvation. Nonetheless, Paul asked Timothy to be circumcised since he had a Jewish mother, so that his lack of circumcision would not hinder his ministry among the Jews. Many of the Pharisees would not even listen to an uncircumcised person. There’s a principle in this that we need to understand. … Continue reading
Posted in 2 Timothy, Sermons Preached
Tagged Faith, Following Christ, God Is Faithful, gospel, love God, prayer, salvation
Leave a comment
bibleteacher.org 