2024 Men's Retreat
Jimmy Downing
Crushed Serpent Through A Crushed Savior—Who Is Now Risen!
May 11, 2024 • Jimmy Downing
Jimmy Downing | 8:12 | Excerpt (from The Substitutionary Sacrifice: Jesus Paid It All) | Jesus Christ crushed the head of the serpent, yet Isaiah 53 states that God the Father crushed Christ—Christ was bruised so that the serpent's head would be bruised. Through the Savior bearing this condemnation for us and then rising again, we have received life and escaped the wrath to come. Glory to God!
Beyond the Public Eye: A Life of Secret Prayer
March 6, 2024 • Jimmy Downing • Mark 1:35, Matthew 6
Jimmy Downing | 41:18 | 2024 Men's Retreat | Session #1 | The sermon emphasizes the importance of prayer, specifically the power and necessity of secret prayer in a Christian's life. The speaker encourages the congregation to seek a personal, intimate relationship with God through prayer, highlighting how Jesus taught about praying in secret rather than for show.
Remembering God's Mercies: A Journey Through Psalm 77
March 14, 2024 • Jimmy Downing • Psalm 77
Jimmy Downing | Session #2 from the 2024 Men's Retreat in Hondo, Texas. Beloved, God has not forgotten to be gracious; He remains so, as I can attest from my recent experiences and from our focus on Psalm 77 today. In many Psalms, the psalmist starts by crying out to God in distress, possibly filled with doubts and in a dark place regarding God. But then, as in this Psalm, there's a shift, and the psalmist starts to recall how God had been gracious to the people of Israel and to him personally.
From Hearing to Doing: Living Out the Word of God
March 18, 2024 • Jimmy Downing • James 1:21–22
Jimmy Downing | Session #3 | All right. James, chapter one. James is one of my favorite books in all of the scriptures. I love how practical it is. I told our folks back home, I said, "If James was from the United States, he'd be from the state of Missouri." James doesn't want to just hear about your faith. He wants to see it. "Show me your faith by your works." We'll start reading from verse 17, and we'll go to 25, but we'll really be focusing on verse 21 and the verses that follow. Verse 17 says, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth." I'm so glad that it was by His will because if it was by mine, it would have never happened. But He made me willing in the day of His power, as He did with you, my beloved brethren, born again by the incorruptible seed of the Word of God. "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." So, of His own will, He brought us forth by the word of truth that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures, new creations in Christ. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, if any woman be in Christ, if any boy or girl be in Christ, they are a new creation. Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. They are new. They have a new nature. They have a new heart. They have new wants. They have a new love. And it's the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Substitutionary Sacrifice: Jesus Paid It All
March 26, 2024 • Jimmy Downing
Jimmy Downing | 2024 Men's Retreat | Session 4 | This Christian life involves actively receiving, believing, and applying the word to our lives. Being like the Bereans, who critically engaged with the scriptures, is crucial. Our faith must translate into action, embodying the teachings of Christ in every aspect of our lives. This commitment to doing the word should not be burdensome but a joyous expression of our love for Christ, mirroring Jacob's labor for Rachel, where his service was fueled by love, making the years seem fleeting.
"I Am Going to Hell" | "You Raised Me in a Cult!" | Two Testimonies
March 22, 2024 • Jimmy Downing
In this video, Jimmy shares about his and his wife's conversion through someone in the Air Force who was providentially placed next to him and boldly gave them the gospel. Then, decades later, his son, who was angry and would say, "You raised me in a cult," came to know Christ.