OUTLINE: Jn 10:11 MSG“I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd puts the sheep before himself, sacrifices himself if necessary. “poured out”from spendo – means to pour out as a libation, i.e. (figuratively) to devote (one’s life or blood, as a sacrifice) (“spend”) — (be ready to) be offered. (Strong’s) Php 2:2-3…make my joy complete by being […]
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OUTLINE: Remember…Good parenting is met with much more back pressure, persecution, and rejection than bad parenting is today. Love is able to overcome all of it. (Ref: Ro 1:30; 2Ti 3:2– “disobedient to parents”) A Shepherd Looks At Psalm 23By W. Phillip Keller “poured out”from spendo – means to pour out as a libation, i.e. (figuratively) to devote
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OUTLINE: “seek”from zeteo – means to run through with the eyes any series or succession of men or things, and so to seek out, search through, make diligent search; to seek in order to find (Thayer). Jas 1:17Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights,
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OUTLINE: God’s Whole PersonGod’s sovereignty, like every other facet of His character, never functions in the absence of grace. He never drops one part of His character while operating in another. He is who He is. Ex 3:14-15, 33:17-19 God’s Whole Person“Learn about Me and My perfect nature, and then you’ll see how all the things of God
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OUTLINE: John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress“God’s grace is the most incredible and insurmountable truth ever to be revealed to the human heart, which is why God has given us His Holy Spirit to superintend the process of more fully revealing the majesty of the work done on our behalf by our Savior.”John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress“He teaches
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OUTLINE: The God of All GraceThere is 100% consistency with any/all OT/NT scripture. Our God is a God of grace, regardless of dispensation/administration/economy. We are able to read our Bibles without being confused about WHO God is and WHY He initiates/responds the way He does. 1Co 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am,Ps
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OUTLINE: Ps 107:6 [Amplified]Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, And He rescued them from their distresses.Ps 107:41 [Amplified Classic]Yet He raises the poor and needy from affliction and makes their families like a flock.The God of All GraceThere is 100% consistency with any/all OT/NT scripture. Our God is a God of grace, regardless
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OUTLINE: Ps 107:6 [Amplified]Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, And He rescued them from their distresses.Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Ps 107(God’s salvation) is available for all who realize their distress and who are anxious to be delivered out of the hands of the enemy that holds them in such terrible bondage. 1Co 14:33for
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OUTLINE: Helping the HelplessAs an extension of Jesus, we reach out to spiritual orphans, and literal orphans. Both are noble activities because they involve helping the helpless, the very thing God loves to do. 1Th 4:8So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.Need Must
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It’s a typical Wednesday morning and the sun has finally decided to show its lovely face after a brief surrender to a patented New England let-me-darken-your-mood storm system. I know, I know, what would become of the green grass and the beautifully budding trees and flowers in the absence of life sustaining rain? Sometimes, I’m