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Messages with tag - Utopia

Colossians (2011)
38 - Is Sufficient Enough? [B]
Sunday, November 27, 2011
by Robert Dean
Passage: Colossians 2:10-11
Series: Colossians (2011)
Duration: 56 mins 6 secs
As we continue learning more and more about walking in Christ, we must examine how the meaning of life is defined. Is it determined by what gives us our own personal sense of pleasure? When we suffer, do we get the feeling that God is perhaps withholding from us something good we would otherwise experience? And do we think we know what it takes to solve our own problems?

As we grapple with today's worldviews of self-sufficiency, we learn more in this lesson what God's Word means by the word "sufficient."
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Matthew (2013)
20 - How to be Happy - Part 3. Grace, Forgiveness, Mercy [B]
Sunday, January 12, 2014
by Robert Dean
Passage: Matthew 5:7
Series: Matthew (2013)
Duration: 40 mins 54 secs
Me? Be kind, merciful, and forgiving even to hateful, mean-spirited people? That's not possible. Listen to this lesson to learn that the standards of righteousness Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount are impossible under our own efforts but are applicable to everyone who would be a committed believer depending on God's power. See how Jesus displayed mercy when He was on earth in a culture that was cruel and unforgiving. Note the distinctions between grace and mercy and how they relate to God's amazing attributes.
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God's Plan for the Ages - Dispensations (2014)
30 - The Millennium - Part 1 [B]
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
by Robert Dean
Series: God's Plan for the Ages - Dispensations (2014)
Duration: 59 mins 9 secs
"I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony." This Utopian dream of world peace is near and dear to most people's hearts as they long for a day when man will make war no more. The United Nations staggers helplessly from crisis to crisis trying to bring this peace about. Listen to this lesson to learn that only when Jesus Christ returns to this earth after the Tribulation will He set up a thousand-year reign of perfect environment, peace, and justice. See how even when people have everything they could desire, some will still use their volition to choose against God.
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How Should We Then Vote? (2020)
21 - The Devil's Attack: Marxism
Thursday, October 01, 2020
by Robert Dean
Series: How Should We Then Vote? (2020)
Duration: 1 hr 19 mins 53 secs

What is Communism/Marxism and how is it antibiblical? Listen to this lesson to learn how Communism/Marxism began and what its worldview is. Hear a list of books that will help in further study and find out what Karl Marx, the founder of Communism/Marxism, taught. See a chart of the differences between Christianity with its Divine Institutions and Communism/Marxism and find out the meaning of liberation theology.

Links to the books Dr. Dean refers to during this class are available in the slide file.

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Ephesians (2018)
125 - Why the Ascension of Christ is Important in Our Spiritual Life [C]
Sunday, October 10, 2021
by Robert Dean
Passage: Ephesians 4:7-13
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 1 hr 45 mins 27 secs
Are you ready for a little pop quiz? If you’re game, see if you can answer these four questions in your own mind. How many did you get right? Learn from this lesson that the problems we all encounter with people in our life cannot be solved by human solutions but require knowing the truth God has revealed in His Word. Hear a series of questions concerning Christ’s ascension to Heaven that will be answered in coming lessons.
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