The Shock of the Gospel and Human Responsibility | Romans 9:30—10:14
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Scripture: Key Takeaways: God did not promise salvation to every ethnic Israelite, but only to those he sovereignly chose to be recipients of his saving love (). Israel did not respond to Jesus in faith (). Because the Gospel is so shocking, many people are offended by it and stumble over it. Because the Gospel is so shocking, it takes a work of God to believe it. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them. — John Calvin
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God's Glory in Election | Romans 9:14-29
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Scripture: Key Takeaways: God’s ultimate aim in all that he does is the manifestation of and magnification of his glory. In Election, God Displays his perfections in the manifestation of his Mercy (9:15). “The stunning thing for Paul is not that God rejected Ishmael and Esau but that he chose Isaac and Jacob, for they did not deserve to be included in his merciful and gracious purposes. Human beings are apt to criticize God for excluding anyone, but this betrays a theology that views salvation as something God...
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Unconditional Election | Romans 9:1-16
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Scripture: Key Takeaways: 1. God did not promise salvation to every ethnic Israelite, but only to those he chose to be recipients of his saving love (). 2. Generally speaking, Israel did not respond to Jesus in faith (). 3. God faithfulness to Israel is seen in that there is a believing remnant (). 4. God’s faithfulness to his promise to Israel will one day be seen in greater measure when God saves Israel in great numbers (). The Doctrine of Election “3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,...
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Does God Keep His Promises? | Romans 9:1-13
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Scripture: Key Takeaways: Does Israel’s spiritual condition mean that God doesn’t keep his promises or that God can’t accomplish his purposes? Not every physical descendent of Israel truly belongs to Israel.
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Good Questions | Week 4: Why Do You Call Me Lord And Do Not Do What I Say? | Luke 6:46-49
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Scripture: Key Takeaways: “Our commitment to Jesus can stand on no other foundation than a recognition that he is the one who knows the truth about our lives and our universe…Could we seriously imagine that Jesus could be Lord if he were not smart? If he were divine, would he be dumb? Or uninformed? Once you stop to think about it, how could he be what we take him to be in all other respects and not be the best-informed and most intelligent person of all, the smartest person that ever lived? He is not just nice, he is brilliant…‘Jesus is Lord ’can mean little in...
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Good Questions | Easter | Week 3: Why Do You Seek The Living Among The Dead? | Luke 24:1-12
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Scripture: Key Takeaways: Jesus did rise from the dead and Christianity is true, and you must honestly face it. OR Jesus did not rise from the dead and Christianity is false, and you can completely forget it. Jesus did not die. (“Swoon Theory”) The disciples were deceived. The disciples were deceivers. You won’t find Jesus among the dead. You won’t find life away from Jesus.
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Good Questions | Week 2: Why Do You Spend Your Money On What Is Not Bread? | Isaiah 55:1-9
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Scripture: Key Takeaways: The greatest things we need are found in a relationship with God. “What causes us to be fickle is the realization that our present pleasures are false, while failing to realize that absent pleasures are also vain.” Blaise Pascal. The Greatest things we need are completely free. Anything that would lead you away from God, or rise above him, is an enemy to your joy. “...in the past couple of years, I have noticed a happiness pattern that relates to politics. Namely, the people most in...
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Good Questions | Week 1: Where Are You? | Genesis 3:1-15
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Scripture: Key Takeaways: Hide from God Cover Up Make Excuses and Shift Blame Face Ourselves Face God Receive Grace Come, ye sinners, poor and needy, Weak and wounded, sick and sore Jesus ready stands to save you, Full of pity, love and pow'r. I will arise and go to Jesus, He will embrace me in His arms In the arms of my dear Savior, Oh, there are ten thousand charms. – Joseph Hart (1759).
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The Love of God and Christian Assurance | Romans 8:31-39
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Scripture: Key Takeaways: God is for us and is greater than anyone or anything against us. God will give us every small thing we need, because he has already given us the Greatest thing we need “Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; —but the Father, for love!’ Octavius Winslow God will always accept us in Jesus no matter what accusations are brought against us. Jesus, Thy robe of righteousness; My beauty is, my glorious dress; ‘Midst flaming worlds, in this arrayed, With...
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All Things for Good | Romans 8:28-30
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Scripture: Key Takeaways: The bad things will all be turned to good. The good things can never be taken away from you. “What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it—the fact that he knows me.. I know him because he first knew me, and continues to know me. This is momentous knowledge. There is unspeakable comfort—the sort of comfort that energizes, be it said, not enervates—in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge...
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2 Timothy 3:10-17
Sermon Points
• A Christian Believes in the Bible’s Truthfulness
• A Christian is Changed by the Bible’s Message
• A Christian Lives by the Bible’s Promises
+ Know the promises
+ Believe the promises
+ Rely on the promises
+ Pray the promises
+ Meet the conditions of the promises
+ Wait for the fulfillment of the promises