OUTLINE: Ac 17:11 ASVNow these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.Ac 17:11 AMPNow these [Jews] were better disposed and more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they were entirely ready and accepted and […]
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OUTLINE: “equipping the saints”It’s not a pastor’s job to spoon feed his sheep. It’s his job to push them to “work out their own salvation with fear and trembling” (Php 2:12b), often challenging them with “difficult” messages. The true test lies with the disciple, not the teacher. <— Learn this! “Give a man a fish and he eats
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OUTLINE: The Source of ConfidenceWe have confidence in the things we fear the most. Ask yourself, why would we have confidence in them in the absence of fear? We have confidence that there’s something to fear/respect, something real and powerful (e.g., God). Fear Is a Learned BehaviorInjury is an experience, something we learn about. Once
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But by the grace of God I am what I am… — 1 Corinthians 15:10 What does this mean??? I’m so tired right now…I can’t believe God has got me writing to you in my current estate (I speak in physical and emotional terms); but, then again, if history has proven anything to me, I
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: 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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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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OUTLINE: “the LORD has not given you”Anything “spiritually appraised” (1Co 2:14) requires God’s intervention, by/through grace. Without this grace, we don’t have “eyes to see, nor ears to hear” (Deu 29:4) the Truth, even though we may read it and comprehend it in a natural way. Mt 11:15“He who has ears to hear, let him
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OUTLINE: “born again to a living hope” 1 Pe 1:3By grace through faith, believers enjoy an abiding knowledge of their eternal life being a reality; that being a child of God means absolute salvation and guaranteed sanctification. (Ps 43:5; 146:5; Ro 15:4, 13; 2Th 2:16-17) When Doubts Creep InWhen you get them, call them out
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