Disobedience
182: Sheep Without a Shepherd (Walking with Jesus Series: #043: Matt. 9:18-38)
Jesus healed many in Israel and cast out demons as signs, symbolizing the nation’s deplorable spiritual condition and desperate need for healing and restoration. Tragically, Israel rejected the signs and refused to believe. Consequently, the nation wandered as sheep without a shepherd. Pastor Hollandsworth shows how the problem is the same today amongst believers in the Church of Jesus Christ.
165: The Significance of Number 38 (Walking with Jesus Series, #028: John 5:1-15)
On the Sabbath Jesus healed a man at the Pool of Bethesda who had an infirmity for 38 years. Pastor Hollandsworth demonstrates that the religious leadership of Israel missed the critical importance of this sign, and that multitudes of church-age believers are missing it as well.
065: All Israel Will Be Saved and So Will All Mankind (Romans Series #25: Rom. 11:16-36)
To illustrate that Israel’s “time-out” is merely temporary, not permanent, Paul uses the metaphor of wild olive branches (believing Gentiles) being grafted into a cultivated olive tree (Israel), whose branches have been broken off due to disobedience (in rejecting Messiah and His offer of kingdom inheritance). But Israel will repent and be re-grafted back into her national tree. Pastor Hollandsworth points out that “all Israel will be saved,” leading to all mankind being saved, for God’s objective is to commit all mankind to disobedience so He might have mercy on all.