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| 1988 An Apprentice in Humility |
Story of Dart first going to Ambassador College in 1958. Humility has 2 handmaidens: failure and correction. How and why Jesus corrected and chastised the disciples. Jesus not only humbled them when they fell short, he threw cold water on their successes. As Jesus was humble, they were His apprentices – they weren’t to exalt themselves, esteem themselves better than others, or order others around. A critical part our training is to learn humility, which is the willingness to serve others; minister means servant. The greatest challenge is to humble oneself as a little child. There is no greater exercise in humility than forgiving from the heart. Why it was necessary for Peter to be humiliated. While this might sound like a downer of a sermon, it is actually quite inspirational. |
| 1988 Elements of Deceit |
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| 1988 Frozen Images |
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| 1988 Prophecy or Apocalypse |
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| 1988 What We Know About the Passover |
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| 8837 Identity or Idolatry |
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| 8815 A Closet Never Cleaned Out |
Are you troubled by negative thoughts? Everything you perceive stays in your heart forever. Dart discusses the conscious and subconscious mind and it’s incredible capabilities, dreams, visualization, the purpose of animal sacrifices. We can’t purge anything from our mind. This is what we are. We can fool ourselves to justify bad behavior, even to the point we think its true. This is what the Bible means when it talks about the heart. Persistent prayer can rearrange the closet, change the heart. How to get a pure heart in spite of all the garbage we have put into our mind. |
| 8852 Islam in History and Prophecy |
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| 88-02-06 Less Than Your Love |
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| 88-05-22 Pentecost |
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| 88-07-16 Learning Thru Suffering |
If anyone can give an uplifting sermon on suffering, it is Ron Dart-- Why did Christ have to suffer? Discussion of the stake (cross) and it's use as a form of torture. "A Christ who does not suffer cannot be a savior." We, too, may very well suffer for Christ, as we were crucified (tortured) with Him. Overcoming the flesh involves pain and torture; we must suffer with Him to be an heir as He is. What does it mean to learn how to suffer? Even Jesus learned obedience through the process of suffering -- can we learn without it? It isn't necessarily that we've done anything wrong. Christ left us an example that we should suffer, even while doing right, and after we have suffered, we will be made perfect and settled. |
| 88-08-13 Did Jesus Know? |
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| 88-08-27 Did Jesus Know? II |
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| 88-09-12 Trumpets 88 |
No man knows the day or the hour. Do not be deceived. Dart speaks on the return of Jesus Christ. Be alert, awake, prepared, ready. Why? Five of the virgins were not prepared. It more than just avoiding sin. (Apologies for the audio anomalies. They were my mistake in encoding and not on the original recording.) |
| 88-10-01 God's Sabbaths |
Is violating the sabbath worse than murder? The sabbath was given that we would know God. Part of knowing someone is knowing what they do and the annual sabbath holy days show us what God is doing. As Israel introduced idols and compromised the Sabbath, they lost sight of who God was and what His standards were. This ultimately led to all sorts of evils, including child sacrifice. Dart shows the Bible lesson that people can so lose track of God, that they can kill their own children and think it pleases God. The sabbath is there to remind us of who God is, what He is doing, and what He stands for. This includes the annual sabbaths. People lose track of God not abruptly, but with a subtle corruption and it seems the first thing corrupted is often the sabbath. We in the United States have forgotten God’s sabbaths, His laws, His statutes, and we have aborted 22 million babies (as of 1988) and hardly batted an eye. Israel suffered sever punishment for this and it all starts with forgetting His sabbaths. |
| 88-11-12 Christ In The World |
Why did God go to Sodom? Has He come to earth other times, too? Have we encountered angels unaware? Has Jesus come many times and experienced the world in the flesh? Is that what Isaiah 53 is about? Is it possible that when we feed the hungry and clothe the naked that this is more than metaphorical? Many questions, and Dart gives an intriguing sermon on Jesus coming in the flesh and experiencing the world and the possibility that He as been doing this multiple times since the creation of man. Dart teaches that Jesus was and is far more involved in the world (and the redemption thereof) than we might think, including suffering and experiencing it. He isn’t just sitting in heaven watching events. Also, we know that He does live in us when we suffer, when we strive to overcome, when we sin. |
