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The Israelites were obedient They began to build the temple God promised to provide Remember their original problem forgot their purpose forgot their true allegiance Being obedient to Darius and the Lord was practically the same both wanted the temple but only One was worthy of obedience Likewise, we…

Provision sneaks up on you We talked about obedience to the Lord recognizing that our worldly shortfalls usually have a spiritual source We also talked about reprioritizing your life in a biblical manner Primarily, placing the Lord and worship above everything Many of us know what we have to do But many…

Last week we discussed the concept of covenant and how we are in a covenant relationship with the Lord. In that covenant relationship, God has promised to uphold his end of the covenant, but we must be careful to uphold ours. As a saved, but still imperfect people, we will violate the covenant from time…

For the last two months, we have been in Revelation looking at the seven churches in Revelation 2-3 , discovering some warnings that Christ gave to the churches. Today, we are going back in time to the land of Israel during the reign of king Solomon. Turn your Bibles to the book of 2 Chronicles chapter…

THE SETUP FOR CHAPTER 3 We continue our journey through the upside down story of Jonah. A story where people who aren’t followers of Yahweh call out to Him and offer sacrifices to Him and Jonah, a prophet of Yahweh, who runs from Him. A story where God speaks to a fish. Last week we focused on Jonah’s…

We are returning to our study of the book of Acts today. We took two weeks to talk about Palm Sunday and Easter, so now over the next two Sundays we will finish the book of Acts. If you followed the reading plan, you already finished reading the book. But if the last two weeks were kind of a whirlwind,…

I read a story the other day about a man who was late for church… As he snuck in the back of the sanctuary, he asked one of the men standing there: “Is the sermon done yet?” The man responded: “The sermon has been preached, but it has not yet been done.” The sermon isn’t done when it has been preached,…

This Week’s Theme: Christians Are Called to Obey the LORD This Week’s Word is Obedience : A willingness to submit oneself to the will of God and to put it into effect. Memory Verse: Matthew 12:50 “50 For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”” Essence of the…

Solomon concludes his search for wisdom under the sun with nothing more than empty admonitions to take action rather than doing nothing. But in the end, he says, it's all meaningless. But wait, there's more! A mystery editor concludes the book with an extraordinary turn around: you can exhaust yourself with endless worldly wisdom, or you can take the simple path. What is that simple path, and how do we tread it today?

The Church, and especially its Bishops, with all their sins, weaknesses, and failings is the continuation of the Seventy-two and their mission. Note the parallels with what Jesus tells the disciples and, by extension, the Church in Matthew 28:

Obedience to God: Trust in God Provisions of God Testimonial of God

In this passage Jeremiah is told not to marry or father children. However, the instruction seems directed at Judah as a whole. To provoke Judah into asking why the Lord's Judgment is so severe.

Introduction Over the past several weeks we have been studying the book of 1 Samuel. Today we come to chapter 12. This chapter begins the second of two parallel passages. Chapters 12-15 parallel the structure that we found in chapters 8-11. Both sections include: The warnings about requesting a King—8…

A GOD OF SECOND CHANCES And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord . Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three…

When rooted in God's Word, our faith is ready made for all the challenges that lay ahead.

An Authentic spiritual life is defined not by ethnic heritage but by love for God and for others.

Paul told the Church at Philippi how not to be anxious through biblical thinking and putting that thinking into action.

All of our passages show a pattern of obedience to God/Jesus or Jesus' obedience to his Father, which results in suffering and persecution and ends with identification with the crucified Christ. This is the normal pattern of Christian life.

Today, we will see that reconciliation calls for our responsibility to live in obedience to God.

Peter is so eager to establish our identity (because it’s the basis for so much of what he says in the book), he blurts it out before he even gets to the greeting. We are a chosen, alien dispersion (insiders with God and outsiders in the world). That status was preplanned in eternity past by the Father, brought about now by the Spirit, and it’s all for the purpose of us obeying and being cleansed for our disobedience.

John 14: 22 “Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it you’re going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”” How can Jesus be real to us and not the world? Our Love for Him (He doesn’t demand obedience first) Revealed in our obedience to Him Love God Deuteronomy 6:5 “Love the Lord your…

ME (A hook): As I was trying to come up with an illustration to begin this sermon about Obeying Better, I was sitting at home typing away, While my wife, Stephanie, Was grooming our dog, Forest. She was cutting her hair, Trimming her nails, Giving her a bath, And brushing her. Now, Forest really isn’t…

Do we choose to walk with God or do we choose to walk away from God?

The Lectionary Readings - Pressure from the world means nothing. We must always serve God, not the world.