Big Questions - All Authority... in Heaven and on Earth
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God has chosen you and me not simply to be religious, but to be disciples. We are to follow Jesus faithfully, grow in the knowledge and love of Him, and share with others the powerful things He has done so that they become disciples too!
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Questions - Week 13: Is Marriage Outdated?
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In this message we will look at what the Scriptures have to say about marriage, analyze concerns and questions raised in our day, overview the cultural changes that have led to many questioning the value and benefit of marriage, and do so from a Christian worldview. We will also take a look at some secular contemporary research and what it indicates. Common Reactions: 1. The culture has changed: - Married Couples comprised: 1950 — 78% of all US households 2020 — 47%...
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Kings & Prophets: From Solomon to Jeremiah - Week 4
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Our study opens with a look at Civil War between Rehoboam and Judah vs. Jeroboam and Israel (931-910 BC). 1 Kings 12:1 We read that Rehoboam went to Shechem, “for all Israel had gone there to make him king.” Shechem was an historic site for the nation from about 500 years early when Levitical priests recited the blessings and the curses from Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim. Shechem is the city near these two mountains. In verses 3 and 4 we read that Jeroboam challenges Rehoboam. Reheboam goes to 2 advisory boards. One was the elders that had served under his father, Solomon. They...
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Big Questions - Lord and God! Jesus' Amazing Claims
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Lord and God? A great moral teacher? A very good man? What claims did Jesus actually make about His identity?
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Big Questions - Stop Doubting and... Believe!
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Faith is essential ... but in what do place our faith? The scriptures make it clear that we are to place our faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, the Savior of all the nations, and the Hope of all the earth!
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Big Questions - Receive... the Holy Spirit!
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When Jesus says to His disciples, "Receive the Holy Spirit," it is not a "one-and-done" activity. He desires us all to live continually in the Spirit!
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Dig Deeper - Week 1: In the Beginning
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Genesis 1:1 - “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Let’s look at the words “God” and “created.” in this verse in Hebrew the word used for God is a plural noun and created is a singular verb. What day did God create the world? It says God created everything in 6 days and He rested on the 7th day, the Sabbath, and that is Saturday. Which means the first day of creation was on Sunday. What was the day of the week that God began a new creation? That was on the day Jesus arose from the grave. The Bible tells us this was on the first day of the week, on a...
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Big Questions - All Nations: How Close Are We?
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From Genesis to Revelation, God's plan remains the same - to reach all nations and bring people back to Him. How close are we to seeing that happen? Why is belief in Jesus growing at such an astounding pace in much of the world, but not in Europe and North America?
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Big Questions - Israel Reborn: How Significant is it?
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The nation of Israel was reborn suddenly in 1948, and the Jewish people have returned to the Promised Land in great numbers after 1900 years of exile. What does show about God's faithfulness and promises? What does it mean to believers in the Messiah?
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Questions - Week 12: Does God Exist?
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Does God exist? The Bible has described this as a reality for thousands of years. Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” ⁃ There was a beginning ⁃ There is a God ⁃ God created everything This is looked at as a religious belief, but it is increasingly a scientific fact as the scientific world sees that the creation had a beginning. ⁃ Natural knowledge of God ⁃ Nature - Romans 1:20 “For since the creation of...
info_outlineScriptures Genesis 6-9, John 14:6, Matthew 24:37, 2 Peter 3:9-11, Isaiah 65:17.
God provides remarkable glimpses of Jesus in the Old Testament. In Genesis 6-9, we discover that an object can be a foreshadowing of Jesus. What does the Ark of Noah show us about both God's judgment and His saving Grace?
Pastor opens today’s teaching with a reminder that the Old Testament speaks very powerfully about God’s plan in Christ Jesus, our Savior and also that God knows the end from the beginning and has left every generation with a clear witness of His goodness, His mercy, His grace and His holiness. Pastor opens with prayer asking the Lord to help us see the signs of Jesus’ coming, the signs of God’s goodness, the signs of God’s faithfulness and that we would bow before God in worship and praise and serve Him with our lives.
The Ark was a massive vessel built for one purpose - to save lives. But what does this object have to do with foreshadowing Jesus?
Noah was a man who boldly proclaimed truth in his generation and who by faith built an ark as God had commanded him. His generation was a corrupt generation. - times that sound ominously similar to much of what we are experiencing in our world today. Noah found favor with God and God tells him to build an ark as it will save your lives.
God gave us a tangible expression of His grace and mercy and love in the person of Jesus, his only son, just as the ark of Noah was a tangible expression that God would provide a way out. God didn’t simply say build an ark, He gave Noah a divine plan, His plan, His purpose. The plan for the ark contains ONE door. There was one way into the ark - the place of safety, just as Jesus is the door, the ONE way to salvation. John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.’” One Door is the door to life, the door to the Father, the door to safety and deliverance, and that door is Jesus. The story of Noah’s Ark is not simply a story about the past, it is a foreshadowing of the future!
As we see things taking place around us, things that are ominously similar to things in the days of Noah, we are reminded of what Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.” (Matthew 24:37). You and I do not want to miss what God has to offer. We do not want to trade a little temporary joy for eternal regret. What God calls us to is eternal joy and it’s found in Him who is the ark of safety, the door to life, the hope of the nations. It’s Jesus.
The ark of Noah was New World transport. Noah and his family went from the judgment and wrath of a holy God in a sinful world to a new world, a new world that had been washed and cleansed. It was just a shadow of what had been, but it is a foreshadowing of what is to come. Here’s what the Scripture says. This is what the apostle Peter wrote II Peter 3:9-10, he says, “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead, he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.” Then Peter goes on. He says, verse 11, “Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.”
The ark of Noah was the means by which God delivered Noah and his family from the old world into a new one. Jesus is the means by which God delivers us from a world that has fallen into a new heaven and a new earth. That is the promise of the Scriptures, not just in the New Testament, but in the Old. The prophet Isaiah quoted the living God by saying, “See, I am creating a new heaven and a new earth.” (Isaiah 65:17).
Jesus made it clear that He is the means by which we are brought to that new world. It is an incredible gift and it is something you and I do not want to miss. Noah’s Ark is a reminder that God once judged the world by water. The Scriptures declare a day is coming when the world will be purged and cleansed by fire. In the nuclear age that does not sound so far-fetched anymore does it?
The day is coming when He will judge the world, but also remake it, and there is only one door and one means of safety into that new world and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. He is foreshadowed in the ark of Noah. He’s coming back soon. His called you and me is to repent, turn to Him, experience the fullness of His Holy Spirit, and the joy of knowing that not only is my debt paid, but life awaits me.
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