"Matthew 1:21 says ?You will call His name Jesus, for He will save his people FROM their sins"", but some translate it as if it was ""for He will save his people IN their sins"". However, that isn't the gospel."

"The source of sin is depending on things, people, circumstances rather God. Testimony is proof that you are trusting Him."

"Believing: The illustration of smallpox: Believing the vaccine doesn't cure, only taking it does. Submitting to Jesus' death and dying to our own rights of what we want from life."

Committing your way to the Lord implies taking your hands off your problems and giving them to God.

"Apologetical proofs for the resurrection given on Easter Sunday. If Jesus is alive now, it's imperative that we allow Him to show us His way for us."

"Loving Jesus means stopping what is wrong in your life (sin) and committing yourself afresh to God. If your in doubt about anything, stop doing it!"

Answers given to the problem of why we can't stop doing wrong. Communion is accepting what God has done in the death of Jesus.

Living in the light of Jesus travailing for our souls. We are not our own - we need to give ourselves completely to Jesus.

The challenge to live for Jesus because of His birth and death-we were renewed because of Christ crucifying ourselves.

God's call for us to renew or make a covenant with Him. We are to live no longer for ourselves but only for Him. Jesus died that we might live for HIm.

"The question is: 'Am I willing to change my life orientation and get my peace, joy and security from God rather than the world?' Jesus' death enables us to change if we are willing."

The power of Jesus' resurrection life comes into our lives when we are at the end of ourselves. Life comes out of death in ourselves.

Entire sermon devoted to New Birth.Examples used from Pastor's wife on what true repentance is.The necessity of being real with God and not running from conviction of sin.How to break through to God.

"Confessing and repenting is agreeing with your conscience as to what is wrong in your life. Conscience is God's voice to you. Confess, repent, give yourself to God and He will fill you with His Life!"

We can stop doing wrong things if we choose-a matter of the will. Jesus remakes us into a new person and we can be free from bondage of any kind!

"Are you willing to be changed and let God take control of your life? If you're willing to give up your right to yourself, Jesus will come into your heart and give you His peace."

"What is the goal and aim of your life? Security, family, money?"

Dealing with carnality. Are we willing to resolve to follow God and enjoy His presence? Good questions and answers.

Faith is acting on what you believe-example:tithing. Confession is the way God goes out through you to others.

Jesus uncreated life-giving force will be manifested to you when you begin to serious ask why God has put you here. Examples given from historicity of the resurrection.

Are we accepting beliefs and doctrines about Jesus or are we receiving Himself into us? You become what you really are when your heart is given to Jesus.

"Jesus will give us His uncreated, super-abundant life if we listen to the Holy Spirit and turn from the substitutes we have in our lives. Put away those sins and receive Jesus by faith."

Personal experience of initial salvation-testimony to need for and acceptance of New Birth-further experience of desire for victory and freedom from sin and Baptism with the Holy Spirit.

We are robots-we don't know who we are. We are controlled by outside circumstances. Only God can remake us to what we really should be.

"Prove your faith by aligning yourself with His will. In other words, stop doing wrong. When you submit to God, He gives supernatural life and faith. Put your will where your belief is."

Is there any strain or uneasiness in our lives? This will be removed when we embrace Jesus and submit to His will and seek to obey Him. Jesus wants to bring us into freedom from ourselves.

Jesus death has replaced our evil heart with a new heart that is able to obey and love Him.

"The sinful nature problem illustrated by the story of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. We have to choose between good and evil (Jekyll or Hyde). If we choose evil, it will subtlely take over our life. Jesus death destroyed the old evil Hyde."

The psycho-psuematic affects of self-centeredness-readings from 'Traits of the self life' tract. Jesus death delivers us from the disease of self.

The importance of 'giving thanks in all things' good or bad. God only allows things to affect us for our own good.

Full surrender: what is this bleating of the sheep that I hear?

Our hearts our unclean and we can only be delivered by surrendering all and having faith in Jesus. We try and rid ourselves from besetting sins but only Jesus can do it. Good illusration of the victorious life.

"For us to receive Jesus into our hearts, we must repent (stop sinning) and accept by faith that we have died with Jesus on the cross and that He has destroyed our old sinful nature. Faith is belief plus obedience."

"You'll never go so far down along a certain path that you can't decide today, ""I'll change."" It's never too late to change"

"What must you do to avert God?s wrath against yourself? Amend your life and be in perfect charity with all men. Repent of your sins, receive God?s forgiveness and ask Him to pour His Holy Spirit into your heart so that you can live like Him"

Answers to the defeated life often experienced by people after being born again. God puts His Spirit within us to enable us to live in victory in sin.

Lessons from the defeated life described in Romans 7. The problem is not we can't but 'we won't'! Christ's power through love enables us to change.

Arguments for Jesus' resurrection and it's spiritual implications for us. Faith in Jesus releases His uncreated life which can change our circumstances.

"We will never become free from worry, anxiety and fear unless we accept what God did in Jesus' death. Our lives will lift into freedom when we allow God to direct our lives by full surrender."

"Committment service. How can we experience freedom from worrry, anxiety and the cares of this life?"

Our old life with it's evil tendencies has been destroyed in Jesus death. We can be changed by not trying harder but first believe and then stop doing what God shows us is wrong.

How should the body of Christ do ministry? Practical guidelines and objectives for the church.

Are we still unable to free ourselves from sins that have enslaved us for years. Jesus will deliver you now if you believe and repent.

"The Holy Spirit is a person who speaks to our conscience. If we refuse to listen to and obey His voice, we become immune to His voice and grieve Him."

The need to forsake sin and give yourself wholly to God.

We should meditate on Christ's suffering and death for us to encourage us to forsake the thing that is wrong and dedicate ourselves to God.

"Apologetic argument for Jesus' claim to be God by His resurrection used for analogy to show how we can have new, uncreated life."

Pastor's personal testimony and how the Holy Spirit led him into victory.

How to overcome our defeated selves by believing what the Holy Spirit shows us as regards to Jesus death on the cross to our sinful nature

"Jesus asks us to be honest, uncover our sins and give ourselves completely to Him."

Faith in Jesus and His death on the cross over sin and self enables us to live in victory.

Evidence for the resurrection of Jesus and it's implications for our lives. Jesus ovecame death and can overcome for us in our daily circumstances.

Ted Farcasin and Pastor O'Neill talk of the Welsh (Bob Evans) revival and it's lessons for us today. Obey (put away unconfessed sin and doubtful activities) and surrender.

Dave Krell testimony followed by a call to surrender and prayer by Pastor O'Neill.

God wants us to be at ease and peace with Himself. This is only accomplished when we enter into Jesus death after putting everything on the altar.

"The reason we don't have faith is because our consecration is not complete. There is some way in which we still look to people and things rather than to God. If we hold back anything, faith cannot rise."

"What is the difference between temptation and sin? Temptation comes from without, sin is within, the moment of choice when we consent."

"Jesus supernatural resurrection life comes into us when we give ourselves fully to Him. If we do not, we will continue to live a defeated, carnal life."

The resurrection life of calvary can overcome in any circumstances we face. It only becomes actualized when we have faith in what Jesus did and surrender ourselves to God.

God's resurrection power comes into our lives when by faith we accept the new nature God has created in us.

Jesus' death destroyed the supernatural powers that have a hold on our lives. Faith in His overcoming life in us brings victory.

Worry and fear-fear is negative faith. These are overcome by faith and assurance that God loves us.

Faith is keeping our eyes on Jesus. A good illustration from an air traffic controller.

We can have victory in our circumstances by taking God at His word. Meditate on God?s word. Ask Him to make His truth part of your spirit. God begins to build up and strengthen your spirit so that you begin to be who you are in Jesus

" God has already forgiven you for your sin and regards you as His own child. He will continue to do so until the end of this life. Then, what you choose is what in fact you will get. But until the end of this life, God is not condemning you here"

 What do you need to get deliverance from your personal problems? You need to go ?back to the rock from which you were hewn?. You need to go back to Jesus. Only the person from whom you were made can deliver you.

"Repentance means breaking up your fallow ground, the hardness of your heart. Reading from Finney's list of outward/inward sins."

"Do you speak Easter? When God destroyed death in Jesus, He destroyed the power of everything that leads to death. Thank God with your lips that He has released in Jesus a power that is already beginning to sort out your problems and difficulties."

"What have you done that will count when God asks you the moment after you die to give an account of yourself? Is there anything that you and I can do in this present life that is worth anything the moment after we die? Yes, there are two things."

Are you evading God because you are unlike Him? God has already changed you in Jesus and treats you as His own Son. He asks you to receive that and to love Him back and to begin to walk with Him day-by-day as His own dear child.

God has restored you to His favor AND to his image out of sheer love. Your new life is remade for you- not by self effort. The Holy Spirit will make that real to you when you begin to believe it.

There are some Christians who no longer hear from God. They do all the right things and are very religious. They are faithful but they lack the chief mark of a new covenant believer. They lack the gift and power of the Holy Spirit

"Don't look to scriptures, books or theology to find God but instead come to Jesus by giving your life to Him."

The evil self that wants it's own way cannot be dealt with except through Jesus' death.

A clear illustration of the inner battle of good and evil in our lives as shown from the story of 'Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'. We can't overcome self unless we accept what Jesus did to us on the cross-Romans 6.6.

Christ died for the worst of us. Jesus death freed us from our heredity and circumstances.

The difference between religion of the mind and good deeds and intentions vs. a life surrendered to God and led by the Holy Spirit. Doing good is not enough.

"We are anxious because we don't trust God. Unrest is there because we are living in the old life of sin and death. When we turn from what we know is wrong, God comes into our heart and change our lives."

Encouragement is God coming into your life and strengthening your heart. It's a conviction in your heart that God knows you believe Him and then He comes through.

"We ruin a relationship (father, wife, friend etc) when we criticize them or try and make them into what we want."

"The analogy of eating and drinking Jesus flesh and blood-this is how we obtain life, not through books, reading scriptures etc."

"We profess to be Christians, believe the right things, read the bilble etc. but our hearts are unchanged."

Traits of the self life are outlined. We can be free from our evil hearts when we die to ourselves as Jesus did.

Sermon on how the Holy Spirit guides us and can show us want Jesus wants us to do with our lives.

"God can only be seen in you when you allow Him to replace your life with His. Do people see a good, honest person or do they see Jesus in you?"

We are not fit to stand before Jesus unless we abandon a spirit that is critical and self-seeking. Have the same mind that Jesus had when He died upon the cross.

God upsets our lives through people and circumstances in order to teach us how to trust him.

"Difficulties in preaching the full, real gospel-opposition always follows. People want a 'comfortable' gospel rather than one which challenges to a life of full surrender and freedom and victory over sin."