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The Doctrine of Responsibility     Listen     Download
January 8, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- “The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.” --When we preach the doctrines of grace, particularly predestination and election, the first question that pops into a lot of people’s head is, “If God ordains everything, if everything happens because of God’s solemn decree from the foundations of the world, how then can man be held responsible for his own actions?  Is man responsible for his own sin? How can God rightly judge a sinner, and sentence him to eternity in Hell when God Himself foreordained and predestined from the foundation of the world that He was not going to extend grace and mercy to this particular person?”

The Doctrine of Separation     Listen     Download
January 15, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.” (Romans 16:17-18) - I am pleased to continue with this important sermon series on the Doctrines of the Bible. Our purpose is to show that the Doctrines of the Bible are a complete system, a systematic worldview, and they are critically important to our Christian walk on this planet. In these apostate days, the overwhelming view that Doctrine is unimportant and “doctrine divides” has overtaken the professing church. Our willingness to embrace good doctrine, and our desire to honor God by our obedience to scripture, will be made manifest through the study of Scripture.

The Doctrine of the Assembly of the Saints     Listen     Download
by Michael Bunker -- This sermon will be posted in print format at some point ....

The Doctrine of Authority     Listen     Download
January 29, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” (Proverbs 29:2) - There is much being said now within apostate Christendom about “authority”, most of it is fanciful and bizarre, and it is most often used to manipulate professing Christians into believing that they are actually receiving something for their tithes and offerings. Apostate Christianity (particularly the hyper-charismatic movement) has really hit on a brilliant con...

The Doctrine of Original Sin
February 26, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- “For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” (Romans 5:19) - The enemies of God have gathered their forces and they have focused their attack on the foundational doctrines of the true Christian faith. We will endeavor to prove the Doctrine of Original Sin from the scriptures so that this critical Christian Doctrine will continue to stand as a bulwark against all those who would attempt to destroy faith...

The Doctrine of Faith
March 26, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” (Pro 3:5) – To trust in the lord with all the heart, the heart of man must necessarily be replaced. A heart transplant is in order, for the scripture says: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jer 17:9) So it is necessary that the sinner receive that which God alone can give, as He says: “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.” (Eze 36:26)...

The Doctrine of the Papal Antichrist     Listen     Download
May 5, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- Identifying that “man of sin”, called the Antichrist, has become a favorite project for all those who put their interests and energies towards the task of studying eschatology. A public steeped in the post-modern culture of “reality television” and real-time despotic villains cannot help but be fascinated with the concept of a soon approaching, intrinsically evil, all-powerful world leader. Since most of those who call themselves “Christians” today are woefully ignorant of history, and are naturally inclined to believe whatever pabulum is spewed upon them from millionaire pop-prophecy teachers and the pop-theology pimps in the pulpits of America, it is natural that many disturbing eschatological mythologies would sprout up in such fertile ground...

The Doctrine of Justification     Listen     Download
July 7, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- We start our study on Justification with a simple (but much misunderstood and contorted) linear listing of chronological events. It is not possible that we can study Justification, until we have first looked at those elements that God tells us precede it…
1.) God’s Purpose
2.) Foreknowledge (prior affection)
3.) Predestination
4.) Calling (effectual)
5.) Justification
6.) Glorification
7.) Eternal Victory in God...

The Doctrine of Repentance     Listen     Download
July 21, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- The Bible teaches that Repentance is a gift. Yet it is also a necessity for the remission of sins. How does the Doctrine of Repentance affect the believer and the unbeliever? And how has the institutional church replaced REAL repentance with an emotional fake? ....

The Doctrine of Incorporation     Listen     Download
July 28, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- The Bible teaches plainly that the true Church of God is a Body, begotten by God and created in order to serve the Head of that Body which is Jesus Christ (Eph. 5:23). Each body may only naturally have one head, lest it be known as some freakish beast or a monster, striving against itself with contrary wills....

The Doctrine of Total Depravity     Listen     Download
August 4, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- This is a study of man's depravity and the gravity of the fall. ...

The Doctrine of Irresistable Grace     Listen     Download
August 11, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- We move forward in our study of God’s beautiful, unchangeable doctrines to the Doctrine of Irresistable Grace. We find it to be the doctrine that is most easily provable from scripture, but one of the most neglected and rejected doctrines in our modern apostate age. Let us read a statement of this doctrine found in the Westminster Confession of Faith: "All those whom God has predestinated unto life, and those only, He is pleased, in His appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by His Word and Spirit, out of that state of death, in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ....

The Doctrine of Limited Atonement     Listen     Download
August 28, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- A discussion on the prevailing views of the scope of the Atonement and how the Limited Atonement view is the view taught throughout scripture....

The Doctrine of Perseverance     Listen     Download
September 1, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- It has become the way of the modern religious world to scoff at God’s faithfulness and promises without fear. Witness the anger and scorn that enters at once into the voice of those scoffers voice when they snarl, “Ahh, you must believe Once Saved Always Saved.” I can understand why the carnal heart scoffs at all of God’s wondrous and mysterious works. God plainly declares that “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jer. 17:9). How can the carnal, religious mind receive that which must be accepted spiritually?....

The Doctrine of the Trinity, Part 1 of 3     Listen     Download
September 8, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- In examining the nature of God, there are many introductory elements we must examine.  In this study on the Trinity, we will eventually get to the nuts and bolts of scripture, and we will prove the doctrine completely out of Holy Writ, but our attention must be called to some realities that must be faced concerning our attempts to examine the nature of God.  First, let us confess that our desire is to know God TRUTHFULLY....

The Doctrine of the Trinity, Part 2 of 3     Listen     Download
September 15, 2003, by Michael Bunker -- Most Christians will not spend much time at all digging deeper into the mystery of the Trinity of God.  Those who have always believed it, will sometimes refuse to examine it, considering it somewhat cumbersome and confusing.  But in so doing, they rob themselves of a tremendous blessing, and they deprive themselves of numerous benefits that would surely accrue to their accounts if they would just give themselves to the study of God's Word.  I can promise you that if you will study this issue prayerfully, God will bless you in untold and uncounted ways.  What is it to study God, but to fellowship with Him?  And what is it to gain knowledge of God, then to partake in the glorifying of Him?....

The Doctrine of the Trinity, Part 3 of 3     Listen     Download
September 22, 2003 by Michael Bunker -- We have progressed through this study on the Trinity of God, in a way that might seem backwards to some.  Rather than defend the doctrine in the usual way, with doctrinal statements and copious footnotes, we hoped to begin our defense FIRST by proving that the Trinity has to be true from every other level of truth and experience.  We examined the “always wasness” of the persons of the Trinity, and we examined in depth the agencies that the Godhead performs on our behalf today.  We hold that the Trinity doctrine is true, not just because historical scholarship says it is true, or because it is patently Biblical, or because it has been the orthodox belief of God’s true church throughout antiquity; we believe that the Trinity doctrine is TRUE TRUTH in that it is both true and rational....

The Doctrine of Regeneration and Conversion
March 15, 2004 by Michael Bunker -- This is primarily going to be a discussion on Regeneration, but in discussing that critical doctrine, it is necessary that we also discuss the difference between Regeneration and Conversion, and the many horrible errors and confusions that are being perpetuated from the pulpits of modern apostate “christianity” today on the topic.  Paul teaches that all men (without exception) were once “children of wrath” (Ephesians 2:3); fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and that there was nothing to make us differ from the heathen and the reprobate (1 Cor. 4:7).  If a man replies, “Well, my election as a sheep made me different from the goats from before my birth”, I would ask him to reconcile that belief with the plain statements of scripture that tell us that every man MUST BE BORN AGAIN in order to see the Kingdom.  I would say to that man that his election had no effect on him at all prior to his regeneration, and that it was a reality that existed in the mind of his Creator, but did him no earthly good at all. ...


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