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Lead Us not...

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Lead Us Not Into Temptation... Date: May 27, 20 12 Scripture: Matthew 6:13 from the series The Sermon on the Mount Introduction A few decades ago psychologists conducted a very interesting experiment to determine how human beings respond to temptation. Here's how it worked. A psychologist would leave a small child, say four or five years old, alone in a room with one marshmallow on the table in front of him. Before he left, the tester would say to the child, "I'm going to leave the room for a few minutes. As you can see, there's one marshmallow here in front of you. That's your marshmallow. You can eat it if you want, but if you don't eat it and instead, wait until I get back, you can have two marshmallows." Well, the results were as funny as they were predictable. Some of the kids obviously believed in delayed gratification, because they were able to hang in there and enjoy two marshmallows. But many of these children just coul...

Forgive Us Our Debts...

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Forgive Us Our Debts... Date: May 20, 2012 Scripture: Matthew 6:12, 14-15 from the series The Sermon on the Mount Introduction About eleven years ago God Spoke through a man of God Pastor T.T. Matthew that i will build my house on the top of a mountain in 2003-thanks to the help my mother gave-and also to the gracious assistance of the former owners,  I was finally able to built my first home at Srirampura behind Jakkur Airport. I still remember the excitement of moving day back in 2003. We rejoiced as we lugged all our furniture into the house, because after twelve years of renting, there would be no more landlords! This house was ours! I walked the property singing the theme song from Exodus: "This land is mine... God gave this land to me..." because this fraction of an acre was my fraction of an acre!   But later that first night I must co...