Intro

6:20-6:30—FELLOWSHIP/CHECK-IN

6:25—START COUNTDOWN

6:30-6:35—WELCOME & PRAYER

6:35-6:45—GAME (Prophecy??)

6:45-6:50—ANNNOUNCEMENTS

New Adult Leader—Emma Sloan

Girls Bible Study (Sunday, Jan 24th) after church

Guys Bible Study (Sunday, Jan 24th) after church

Mission SD 2021—Sign-up

New Series—Minor Prophets-Major Messages

Big Group

6:50-6:57—Bible Project Video—Habakkuk

6:59-7:02—PRAY

7:02-7:20—MUSIC—Jami Minton

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7:20-7:25—THE GOSPEL & DISMISS

Big Group—Binders

7:25-7:45—MESSAGE—The Talents

7:45-7:55—SG PRAYER TIME

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Lord, here we go again!

Pray.

Think myself empty.

Read myself full.

Write myself clear.

Pray myself haught.

Be myself.

Forget myself. (From Alister Beggs)

Lord, let this message be a beacon for you. Let me be forgotten and invisible. Let them see and know you, only you. “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.” Psalm 19:14

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The gospel is the good news that God, the loving Creator, sovereign King, and holy Judge of all, has looked upon men and women wonderfully and uniquely made in His image who have rebelled against Him, are separated from Him, and deserve death before Him, and He has sent His Son, Jesus, God in the flesh, the long-awaited King, to live a perfect and powerful life, to die a sacrificial and substitutionary death, and to rise from the grave in victory over sin, Satan, and death. The gospel is a summons from God for all people in all nations to repent and believe in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins, turning from all idols to declare allegiance to Jesus alone as King and trust in Jesus alone as Lord. All who turn from Jesus will experience everlasting, horrifying suffering in hell, while all who trust in Jesus will experience everlasting, satisfying communion with God in heaven. (Secret Church 2020, David Platt, Radical.net) For now, Jesus remains in heaven, changing the world one person at a time, but one day he will return and judge the world in righteousness. He will remove from this world all sin and all causes of sin and he will restore the cosmos to a state of peace, prosperity and flourishing and all those who have received him as their Lord and Savior will participate in his rule and enjoy his goodness forever.

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PRAY

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Minor Prophets—Major Messages

Family example--

Mom/Dad

Children

Oldest

Youngest

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Before we get into the book, I want to first talk about the inerrancy of Scripture and prophecy.

Unique among all books ever written, the Bible accurately foretells specific events-in detail-many years, sometimes centuries, before they occur. Approximately 2,500 prophecies appear in the pages of the Bible, about 2,000 of which already have been fulfilled to the letter—no errors.

(The remaining 500 or so reach into the future and may be seen unfolding as days go by.) Since the probability for any one of these prophecies having been fulfilled by chance averages less than one in ten (figured very conservatively) and since the prophecies are for the most part independent of one another, the odds for all these prophecies having been fulfilled by chance without error is less than one in 10 to the 2000th (that is 1 with 2,000 zeros written after it)!

The acid test for identifying a prophet of God is recorded by Moses in Deuteronomy 18:21-22. According to this Bible passage (and others), God's prophets, as distinct from Satan's spokesmen, are 100 percent accurate in their predictions. There is no room for error.

https://reasons.org/explore/publications/tnrtb/read/tnrtb/2003/08/22/fulfilled-prophecy-evidence-for-the-reliability-of-the-bible

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Prophecy Major Prophets

-Isaiah

-Jeremiah

-Ezekiel

-Daniel

Minor Prophets

-8th Century BC—Hosea, Amos, Jonah, Micah

-7th Century BC—Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah

-6th Century BC—Joel, Obadiah, Haggai, Zechariah

-5th Century BC—Malachi

Prophet--

“a mediator who claims to receive messages directly from a divinity, by various means, and communicates those messages to recipients.”

Redditt, Paul L. Introduction to the Prophets. Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008. Print.

The weight of bearing news

Jonah—(about 793-753 B.C.) King Jeroboam

Jonah means:

Micah—(about 750-700 B.C.) Kings Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah; About the same time as Isaiah

Micah means: Who is like Yahweh

Nahum—(663-612 B.C.)

Nahum means: