Warsaw International Church - Sermon Notes & Articles

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Harry on “The Law Of Sin And Death” (Romans 7:22 – 8:16; 1 John 1:8 – 2:2) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel: Today’s message should have been called “The Spirit’s Power Within Us, Part Two”. And in actual fact, it will be precisely that, because we’ll be looking some more at the Holy Spirit’s power – but this week in connection with what Paul calls the “law of sin and death”. In fact, in our opening verses from Romans 8, he talks about two laws: the law of sin and death, and the “law of the Spirit”. We can also call them the spirit of satan and the Spirit of Christ. Two eternally opposed spirits.   God created us good , the Bible tells us. But at some time in the past, we disobeyed God and went our own way. Actually, the disobedience consisted in not believing God. That’s why, as I said last week, unbelief is the greatest and most basic sin. In the Garden of Eden, the snake says to Eve: “Don...

by A. E. Reinschmidt The Christ-centred life is a life of trusting in Christ. It is only by trusting Christ with one’s whole heart that one is able to make the great turn from self to abide in Him.   Through trusting, every blessing comes; through ceasing to trust, those blessings are lost.   A constant, unwavering trust is absolutely necessary, if one would keep Christ in the centre of one’s life. Constancy of trust is as vital to our spiritual life and health as a constant heartbeat is to our physical life and health. We are all afraid of physical heart failure, but how few Christians there are who are alarmed by spiritual heart failure!   When you cease to actively trust – that is spiritual heart failure, and this means spiritual death. It means Christ dethroned, and self enthroned again! “ Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee. Trust ye in the Lord forever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength...

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Harry on “The Spirit’s Power In Us (1)” (1 Corinthians 12:3; John 15:26; John 16:8-11; Titus 3:5; John 4:14) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel: Last week I was comparing God’s work of salvation of a person’s soul with the cleaning of a dirty cup. The cup represents us, who the Bible tells us are desperately wicked, and stained with sin. If God wants to dwell in us, He can’t do so, unless our cup is cleaned. I was saying that the One who cleans up our stains is Jesus Christ – and He does that in two stages. Firstly, His atoning death on the cross is like the washing-up liquid that removes all stains. And it is indeed effective in making us clean; but in itself it’s not enough, unless someone is using a cloth to scrub away the stains, and make the cleansing real. So a strong hand is needed – and that strong hand is Jesus Part Two. In other words, His Holy Spirit, who comes to us and has the power to re...

 by Dwight Moody (1837-99) My friends, will Christ ever be more willing to save you than He is now? Will He ever have more power than He has now? Why not make up your mind to be saved while mercy is offered to you?   I remember a few years ago, while the Spirit of God was working in my Church, I closed the meeting one night by asking any that would like to become Christians to rise, and to my great joy, a man arose who had been anxious for some time. I went up to him and took him by the hand and shook it, and said, "I am glad to see you get up. You are coming out for the Lord now in earnest, are you not?"   "Yes," said he, "I think so. That is, there is only one thing in my way."   "What's that?" said I.   "Well," said he, "I lack moral courage. I confess to you that if such a man [naming a friend of his] had been here tonight I should not have risen. He would laugh at me if he knew of this, and I don't beli...

Last Sunday’s sermon was preached by Pastor Harry on “The Source Of Our Salvation” (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ezekiel 36:26-27; Ephesians 5:25-28) . The sermon and the whole service can be watched on our WIC YouTube Channel: When I was younger, I used to think that the Bible was a book about everybody. In a sense it is, because it tells us about everybody’s sickness – and everybody’s destiny. But above all, it’s a book that many people will open, try to read, and quickly close again and leave on the shelf, because it doesn’t speak to them. The message of the cross is foolishness to them. That’s because the Bible is first and foremost about God’s people. It’s about God’s chosen people: the people who are called, not just by name, but by My name: God’s name. In a literal and symbolic way: the people of Israel.   In the old days, God made an agreement or covenant with the Israelites. He said: “You are My chosen people; and therefore, if you keep My laws and commandments, I will bless yo...

  by Joshua Bradley (1819) Have you hungered after a spiritual awakening in your life? Then the following questions should stir your heart with a new sense of earnestness for the great power of God to set you ablaze.   1.   Have you ever seen yourself by practice and inclination to be a lost sinner? Have you seen that your own will and heart is the fountain of your sin, that in the natural, there is no good thing in you? Has a picture of this led you to realize you cannot help yourself and that you must be altogether indebted to Christ for your salvation, and to the Holy Spirit for the strength and motivation to correctly perform your Christian duties?   2.   On what have you based your acceptance with the Lord? Is it based on your reformed lifestyle, on your sorrow for your sins, on your prayers, on your tears, or on your obedience and Christian observances? Or has it been on Christ alone, as your all in all?   3.   As far as you can tell,...