Randy Bell
28 Jul 2020

Audio Talks

Randy Bell: Pass Your Test, Choose Obedience (audio)

2 Corinthians 4:1-18 (NKJV)
1  Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart.
2  But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
3  But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,
4  whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
5  For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake.
6  For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7  But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
8  We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9  persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed–
10  always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
11  For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
12  So then death is working in us, but life in you.
13  And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,
14  knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you.
15  For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
16  Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
17  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,
18  while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 2:9-11 (NKJV)
9  For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.
10  Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
11  lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

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Randy Bell
28 Jul 2020

Audio Talks

Randy Bell: Liberty and Victory Over Sin (audio)

 

1 Peter 2:15-16 (NKJV) “For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men– as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.”

Romans 6:5-14 (NKJV)
5  For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
6  knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
7  For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8  Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9  knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.
10  For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
11  Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12  Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13  And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14  For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

*This message was recorded in 1998 and transferred from a cassette tape.

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Randy Bell
24 Jul 2020

Audio Talks

The Eternal Fire Rescue Team: Why God Calls You To the Ministry of Reconciliation? (audio)

 

We are called to be friends to our neighbors and enemies in a day of rage and hate.

2 Corinthians 1:1-24 (NKJV)
1  Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:
2  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
4  who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
5  For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.
6  Now if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective for enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer. Or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
7  And our hope for you is steadfast, because we know that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also you will partake of the consolation.
8  For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life.
9  Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,
10  who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us,
11  you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many.
12  For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.
13  For we are not writing any other things to you than what you read or understand. Now I trust you will understand, even to the end
14  (as also you have understood us in part), that we are your boast as you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15  And in this confidence I intended to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit–
16  to pass by way of you to Macedonia, to come again from Macedonia to you, and be helped by you on my way to Judea.
17  Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be Yes, Yes, and No, No?
18  But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No.
19  For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us–by me, Silvanus, and Timothy–was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes.
20  For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
21  Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,
22  who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
23  Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.
24  Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand.

2 Corinthians 5:19-20 (NLT2)
19  For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
20  So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”

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