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| 2011-04-11 - Names of Jesus (part V) Names of Jesus (continued):
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| 2011-04-12 - Names of Jesus (part VI) Reading about the names of Jesus:
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| 2011-04-13 - Names of Jesus (part VII) Jesus has many names:
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| 2011-04-14 - Names of Jesus (part VIII) Next part of the 'Names of Jesus':
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| 2011-04-16 - Names of Jesus (part X) The different names of Jesus found in the Bible:
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| 2011-04-18 - Names of Jesus (part XII) Jesus' names through out the Bible:
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| 2011-04-19 - Names of Jesus (part XIII) Reading through the Bible relating to Jesus' names:
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| 2011-04-20 - Names of Jesus (part XIV) This day of Jesus' name scriptures:
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| 2011-04-21 - Names of Jesus (part XV) Jesus' name referenced in the Bible:
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| 2011-04-24 - Names of Jesus (part XVIII) Last day of Jesus' name study (Easter):
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| 2011-04-25 - Names of the Church (part I) Starting to study the names of the church as
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| 2011-04-28 - Names of the Church (part IV) More scriptures about the name given to the church:
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| 2011-04-29 - Names of the Church (part V) Church study via names:
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| 2011-04-30 - Names of the Church (part VI) Last day of the study of church names:
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| 2011-05-08 - Names of the Believers (part VIII) Holiness, relating to the believers:
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| 2011-05-09 - Names of the Believers (part IX) More descriptions of believers in the Bible:
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| 2011-05-11 - Names of the Believers (part XI) Other names given to the church:
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| 2011-05-13 - Names of the Believers (part XIII) Last day for believers name study:
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| 2011-05-15 - Names of Satan (part II) More names given to Satan:
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| 2011-05-16 - Names of Satan (part III) Studying Satan's names:
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| 2011-05-17 - Names of Satan (part IV) Names of Satan study:
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| 2011-05-27 - Fearing God - Determines how we live (part I) Fearing God is the most exalted endevors in our life The highest reaches of becoming holy are realized only in the fear of God
The Spirit of God rested on the Messiah with the fear of the Lord and he delighted in it - Isaiah 11:1-3
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| 2011-06-02 - Excuses - Isaiah Isaiah Isaiah 6:1-8
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| 2011-06-09 - Mind of Christ - Intro (part II) Man’s heart must be reshaped to think and act like God’s (continued)
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| 2011-07-25 - Mind of Christ - Servant (part I) I. Jesus came to earth as a servant A. He is spoken of by the prophets as a servant.
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| 2011-07-28 - Fearing God - Infinitely Greater Than Nature Isaiah 40:12 v40:12a - God measures the water in the hallow of his hand We can probably hold about a tablespoon and not for very long 2/3 of the earth is covered in water and in places 6 miles deep Yet God says He holds all that water in his hand v40:12b - God marked off heaven with his breadth of his hand Breadth = the distance from the tip of your thumb to the tip of your little finger, spread apart Ours is somewhere eight inches We can not even calculate the distance across the universe Nearest star beside the sun is 26 trillion miles away v40:12c - Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket? Weighted the mountains and hills? Baskets measurement is around 1/4 of a gallon He holds the dust in such a container and weighs the mountains on a set of scales As we think about these truths we will more and more appreciate God's greatness |
| 2011-07-29 - Fearing God - Infinitely Greater Than Nations Isaiah 40:15 surely same as behold Isaiah is saying "Think of this!" and stop and consider and ponder A bucket of water is something a drop is nothing Imagine going to the grocery store to pick up some fruit Once you go through the checkout line and saying "Please wipe the dust off, I don't want to pay for the dust" The concern seems absurd - that is how God sees the nations This is not to say nations are not imposing on a human level - just shows how infinitely greater God is Isaiah 40:16 - all the cedars in Lebanon would not enough for burnt offering Shifts of 10,000 men at a time were involved in cutting trees and floating to Israel's cost This still was not enough to be worthy of the dignity and greatness of God Isaiah 40:17 - Nation as seen before God:
His greatness no one can fathom - Pslams 145:3 We can never comprehend Him but only bow in awe and adoration before Him |
| 2011-07-30 - Fearing God - Control of Rulers Kings and emperors are reduced to nothing before God and are completely subject to His sovereign power - Isaiah 40:23 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; directs it where ever he please - Proverbs 21:1 He controls the destinies of rulers as well as their actions:
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| 2011-08-01 - Mind of Christ - Servant, Washing Feet (part II) The washing of the disciples feet was illustrative of Christ’s life and ministry
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| 2011-08-18 - Fearing God - Transcendent Majesty Isaiah 6 - Repeats Holy 3x - "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty" Hebrew language uses repetition to show emphasis From time to time Jesus frequently add emphasis using "truely, truely" - John 3:3 We never read:
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| 2011-08-19 - Fearing God - No Darkness at All Note: The power when out when I was in the middle of this study God is holy not only from his creation but from sin Be holy, because I am holy - Leviticus 11:44-45 He is light and in him there is no darkness at all - 1 John 1:5 Not only is he the only one, God is totally pure. Isaiah 6 set both God's holiness and our show the only appropriate response to it When God's holiness, his transcendent majesty, and His moral purity.... Our reaction becomes a realization of our own insignificance Even though Isaiah was considered righteous man, his holiness suddenly became "unclean" - Isaiah 6:5 The word "unclean" is significant because it is what the leper must cry out when they walk around - Leviticus 13:34 Isiah saw his sinfulness as moral leprosy |
| 2011-08-20 - Fearing God - Holy Justice, Holy Mercy But God does not leave Isiah devastated We tend to think of justice in a positive sense - child murdered and the community wants to see justice The murder does not want to see justice The wages of sin is death - in this sense we don't want to see justice done God's justice is both holy and perfect God always wants to give mercy He can not be lenient and can not violate His own justice The solution is Christ - he reconciled God's justice and mercy The Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all - Isaiah 53:6 |
| 2011-08-25 - Fearing God - His Unseen Hand God's wisdom is not apparent to us None had the intention of caring out God's plan:
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| 2011-09-11 - Followup: Humility II (part II) What’s in store for the humble person?
Who is it hardest for you to be humble towards? Why? Are you willing to change these things so you can please God? How can I help? Isaiah 66:2 - God is excited about the humble person. How to be humble when you sin:
To clothe yourself with Christ is to clothe yourself with humility. |
2011-10-17 - Genesis 17 - Abram becomes Abraham SummaryGod made a covenant with Abram and renamed him Abraham. He renamed Sarai Sarah and promised them a son. The men were circumcised. ObservationsGenesis 17:9 - As for you, you must keep my covenant Personal ApplicationI know I can one-sided and stubborn in my thoughts and sometimes in my relationships. When I get my mind set to do something, that is the way it is. This can be a strength in some situations but a very big weakness if I am contrary to God's thinking. I need to be humble and allow God to change my thoughts and my ways. |
| 2011-10-21 - Mind Change - God is in control God is in control Today…tomorrow…forever. God is God. Nothing is outside his sovereignty. He cannot lose control. He is never surprised or unprepared. God never asks, “What are we going to do now?” Psalms 2:2-6 - The Lord is not bothered by a united front Psalms 90:2 - you brought the world into being Isaiah 50:7 - LORD helps me, so I am not humiliated |
| 2011-10-22 - Mind Change - God will provide God will provide No matter what the need. He cares. He allows us to have needs. He sees our needs. He meets them all. Isaiah 58:11 - He will give you renewed strength Matthew 6:31-32 - Father knows that you need them Philippians 4:19 - God will supply your every need |
| 2011-10-29 - Mind Change - Joy Joy, not suffering, will be eternal. Pain is bearable when it leads to something. We are on our way to everlasting joy. “The toils of the road will seem nothing when we get to the end of the way.” Isaiah 51:11 - Everlasting joy will crown their heads Isaiah 61:7 - Everlasting joy will be theirs Romans 8:20-21 - Creation itself will be liberated |
| 2011-11-01 - Mind Change - God works for your good In all things God works for your good. No exceptions and no lapses. Even in what happened yesterday. Even in something that caused great pain. Even in something that dashed your hopes. All things means all things. Isaiah 49:15-16 - Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you Jeremiah 29:11 - I have plans to give you a future filled with hope Romans 8:28 - In all things God works for the good of those who love him |
| 2012-02-06 - Ministry - Compassion: The Heart of Jesus John 11:33-35 In a world so full of pain, hardship and suffering the compassion of Jesus lights the world. It is a comfort to know that "our God is full of compassion". Psalms 116:5 Jesus was deeply moved by people's suffering. Jesus sincerely cared and invested his heart in others. Does the hardship of others cause us to invest our hearts or harden them? Do we imitate Jesus' heart? We can learn to be compassionate only when we have allowed Jesus to comfort us. 2 Corinthians 1:3-7
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| 2012-03-03 - Fear of Failure - Failure to speak the truth by Adesha Johnson - Ministry Intern: San Francisco Church of Christ Isaiah 59 Failure to speak the truth does not have to be fatal A character sin in my life is deceitfulness. I'm insecure and will often turn to something other than God to find security. Ironically, when I'm in this state, I really feel like I'm doing the right thing! Isaiah 59:1-21 opened up my eyes to the inner workings of deceit. Verse 13 shows how deceit begins and ends. First, I rebel against the Lord by having shorter prayer and bible study and not turning to him as soon as I've sinned. Second, I start lying about how I'm doing and feeling. It's at those times that I find myself easily embittered at people around me. My bitterness is a direct result of the guilt I feel because of my deceit. Here's the bottom line: The Lord loves the truth! Decision: To be truthful daily in regards to sin, guilt and how I am feeling and to continue studying out Truth in the scriptures. |
| 2012-03-04 - Fear of Failure - God Sticks By Us When We Fail by Rhys Kiaaina - Region Leader: San Francisco Church of Christ Isaiah 49:15 Whenever I fail, I feel like I am being left behind. That somehow God has left me. But Scripture says God remembers. He will not forget me. If we are separated, the reality is that I have left Him. Whenever I fail, I doubt God's motives. I think He is angry with me and disappointed in me. But God has you and I engraved on the palm of His hand. Isn't that incredible? He's got a tattoo of you and me on the palm of His hand! God made a decision a long time ago that He would stick by us for life! Whenever I experience failure, I get the 3-D's: Depressed, Distracted, and Discouraged. I focus on what I have failed to do, rather than what God is able to accomplish. God's love is deeper than a mother's for a child. There is no reason for me to get discouraged because God has always "got my back". Decisions:
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| 2012-10-14 - Prayer of the Righeous - Carrying Me Parable of the Lost Sheep illustrates Jesus comfort he want to provide He carries his lamb close to his heart - Isaiah 40:11 God's journey toward us:
Arms of comfort At Lazarus' death, the angels tenderly bring him to God - Luke 16:19-22 A child who is not regularly cuddled is deeply damaged As a mother conforms her child, so I will comfort you - Isaiah 66:13 Sometimes we doubt and ours lives are frantic and full of activities and without the peace of God Mary and Martha - Martha was too busy with the details of life to spend time with Jesus - Luke 10 |
| 2012-10-15 - Prayer of the Righeous - Wiping Away Tears When suffering hits us we can either drop to our knees in prayer or run from God Paul chose to run toward God and saw suffering as an opportunity to rely on God - 1 Corinthians 1:8-9 Suffering is a language God understands Jesus was a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering - Isaiah 53:3 Because of this, he is able to help those who are being tempted - Hebrews 2:18 The gospel is the story of God's suffering He made the world, the world reject him Parable of the Talents tells the story of God's rejection - Matthew 21 When God was only left with the option of sending his Son, he did - Matthew 21:35-37 We murdered him and understood what it meant to not be whole Because God has given men freedom to choose, there is suffering on earth When we suffer, we have a chance to draw closer to God There is unique bond between those who are suffering and comforter - Matthew 5:4 |
| 2012-10-17 - Prayer of the Righeous - Treasuring Us We are jewels in the hand of God - Isaiah 62:3 He is rejoicing like the woman in the Lost Coin parable - Luke 15:9 Are worth much more than sparrows - Matthew 10:31 Like young people in love carving their names to profess their love, God has engraved you on the palms of his hand - Isaiah 49:16 He gave his own son in exchange for us - Isaiah 43:4 Who else would do this? He world does always treasure us like jewels
God saw us for who we really were and yet treasures us like jewels in his hand. |
| 2012-10-20 - Prayer of the Righeous - Singing to Me Zephaniah 3:17
Nature rejoices in God's presence - Psalms 98:7-8 God promises that nature will rejoice in our presence - Isaiah 55:12 Faithful servants are invited to come share in the master's happiness - Matthew 25:23 The very nature of heaven is to share the happiness of God for all of eternity Joy is one of the fruits of the Spirit - Galatians 5:22 Our prayer needs to be an outpouring of joy and thanksgiving before a joyful, singing God He loves to hear us being happy My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song - Psalms 28:7 |
| 2012-11-02 - Centrality of the Heart (part II) The Christian life is a love affair of the heart It can not be lived primarily as a set of principles What must we do? Love the Lord your God with all of your heart - Luke 10:26 The truth of the gospel is intended to free us to love God If we ignore our heart and only try to live out our religion solely as correct doctrine or ethics, our passion is crippled What God cares about is the inner life, the life of the heart - Matthew 23:25-28 Our heart is the key to the Christian life - Isaiah 29:13 Paul - the hardness of the heart is behind all the addictions and evils of the human race - Romans 1:21-25 Above all we are to guard our heart It was from the longing of our hearts that most of us first responded to Jesus What changed? It is possible to recover from the lost life of the heart - we must leave what is familiar and comfortable Change our heart and go back to when we lived with our heart, a heart of a child - Mark 10:15 |
| 2013-01-01 - Prayer of the Righeous - God is a Consuming Fire (part I) God is a consuming fire who should be feared - Hebrews 12:29 He is God who wants us to love him and not idols - Deuteronomy 4:24 God is a blessed and only Ruler, king of kings and lord of Lords - 1 Timothy 6:15 Our problem is that we think God is like us Societies throughout history have developed their own relgions based off God's which human resemblance:
Our Father is without blemish or stain The paradox of God: He says to not be afraid but at the same time to have a humble, contrite spirit - Isaiah 66:2
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| 2013-03-06 - Prayer of the Righeous - More Powerful Than We Can Imagine (part II) Two different responses to God's power: 1. Moses doubted God's power to feed the 600,000 men 2. Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego faced the furnace John the Baptist described God's power and man's insignifiance - Matthew 3:3
Imagine trying to asking a clerk compensate for dust when weighing an item for purchase - it would be absurd How do you current view God? |
| 2013-09-11 - Men Leave Childhood Behind We need to choose to let go of childishness and foolishness Clinging to childhood while growing into manhood is like trying to run in opposite directions at the same time aka the “Peter Pan Syndrome” Teen years are often wasted and fathers have become silent. Rather than initiating serious conversations with wiser men, they goof off with fools in sports bars Too many men want the freedoms, rewards, and privileges of manhood but only the responsibilities of boyhood Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ - Ephesians 4:14-15 Do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature - 1 Corinthians 14:20 The noble man makes noble plans, and by noble deeds he stands - Isaiah 32:8 |
| 2015-02-06 - Racing for the Bottom What do you think you are doing, building a beautiful tomb for yourself - Isaiah 22:16 Some have a "do what ever it takes" attitude toward raising up the ranks Shebna discovered the quickest way to the bottom by using his high position to promote himself God gave him everything he needed to become a great servant but he used it for himself God wants to be the center of all your plans, God gave us gifts to exalt him not ourselves |
| 2015-03-18 - Overcoming Inadequacy ISAIAH It's over, I am doomed - Isaiah 6:4-5 Isaiah looked into the mirror of God's perfection and saw his own inadequacy starting back at him He knew he wasn't fit to serve God, much less stand in his presence God sent an angel and tocuhed his lips with coal and pronounced his guilt removed and sins forgiven - Isaiah 6:6-7 Isaiah changed and boldly called out, "Here I am. Send me" - Isaiah 6:8 |
| 2015-04-21 - A Choice I will not test the Lord like that - Isaiah 7:12 Ahaz, the ungodly king of Judah, found himself in a dilemma of equally difficult alternatives Assyria, a dominate power of the day, was a growing treat to Judah, Israel, and Syria His choice was to side with his enemies - Israel and Syria or Assyria and trust God would work things out or side with Assyria Ahaz made an unwise chose to side with Assyriaw which had disastous consequences for Judah - 2 Kings 16:7-9
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| 2015-05-25 - Suffering Servant All of us have strayed away - Isaiah 53:5 Jesus Christ was the perfect example of that kind of giving Isaiah saw this example of a humble, suffering servant from his own time He depicts a man who willingly subjected himslef to unspeakable suffering on the behalf of others How does Jesus' selfless giving motivate you? |
| 2015-05-27 - Always Prepared Beginning with this same scriptiure, Philip told him the good news about Jesus Be Prepared and the Boy Scout motto and is good advice when you meet someone who wants to know what your life of faith is all about Philip met an Ethiopian eunuch and he had some very direct questions concerning the writtings of Isaiah Philip was ready with the answers The man from Ethiopia, like many in our world today, want answers reguarding God and his own destiny If someone asks about your Christian hop, always be ready to explain it - 1 Peter 3:15 Are you prepared? |
| 2015-06-06 - Man of Hope Even when there was no hope, Abraham kept hoping of becoming a father of man nations - Romans 4:18 Hope - a sense of expectancy even when the circumstaces suggest packing it in and giving up At age 100 years Abraham still had no children Humanly speaking, Abraham had every reason to wonder if God had forgotten his promise Abraham remained convicted God would keep all his promises God blessed Abraham and his wife with a son - he became a father of many nations Those who trust in me will never be put to shaem - Isaiah 49:23 Has God given you an yet-to-be-fullfilled promise? Have you grown weary in waiting? |
| 2015-11-14 - No Middle Man I have always been faithful, single-minded, always doing what pleases you - 2 Kings 20:2-3 Hezehiah had been deathly ill for some time and was setting all his affairs in order because his illness was terminal - 2 Kings 2:1 Isaiah had a special connection to God and it would be tempting to plead his case directly with Isaiah When Isaiah told Hezehiah he was about to die, he went to his private place of prayer and talked directly to the Lord Hezehiah didn't ask to extend his life but reminded God he had been a good and faithful servant God decided to extend Hezehiah's life Hezehiah's willingness to straingth to God saved his his life |
| 2018-03-30 - The Orginality of Jesus No one in Jesus' day raise the question of whether he was original or not No personality like that of Jesus had ever been encased in flesh before Jesus began by reading a scripture in Isaiah that others had read but they did not understand it meaning Religion is partly ceremony and partly ethics Jesus emphased mercy instead of sacrifice Accent in his teaching was full of assurance, certainty and authority He never hesitated, speculated, or showed any indication of a wavering mind - I tell you the truth Jesus was the complete man He was differernt from all other men that had ever been and he said so |
