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The Life Of David - Only A Boy Named David - 1 Samuel 16:1-13

God often uses the least likely to accomplish his purposes.

 

ONLY A BOY NAMED DAVID

1. "Stop mourning and get moving."

 

And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you."
1 Samuel 13:13-14

 

"I have provided for myself a king." Versus "Make them [the people] a king."

 

2. Stop judging by appearances and develop a God-perspective.

 

For the eyes of the LORD roam throughout the earth to show himself strong for those who are wholeheartedly devoted to him.
2 Chronicles 16:9

 

This is the LORD's declaration: I will look favorably on this kind of person: one who is humble, submissive in spirit, and trembles at my word."
Isaiah 66:2

 

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed. He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of the Lord's favor has come....
Isaiah 61:1-2

 

He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
Isaiah 53:2-3
  

Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure. All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him."
Matthew 11:25-27

 

God often uses the least likely to accomplish his purposes.

Understanding The Ordinances - Part 3 - The Lord’s Supper

[God] has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his Son, who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins.
Colossians 1:13-14

 

[Jesus] is the one who has rescued us from the terrors of the coming judgment.
1 Thessalonians 1:10

 

This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
1 Corinthians 11:25

 

The Essence of the Lord's Supper

 

The Lord's Supper is a thankful remembrance of Christ and his death, symbolized by the bread and cup, that nourishes us spiritually, brings us into communion with God and one another, and fills us with joyful anticipation of the glory to come.

 

1. The Lord's supper is a thankful remembrance of Christ and his death.

 

2. The Lord's Supper nourishes us spiritually.

 

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.
John 6:53-57 

 

3. The Lord's Supper brings us into communion with God and one another.

 

The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation [koinonia, "sharing, communion, fellowship"] in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
1 Corinthians 10:16-17

 

But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you.... When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.
1 Corinthians 11:17-18, 20

 

For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks 
judgment on himself.
1 Corinthians 11:29

 

Walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 5:2

 

4. The Lord's Supper fills us with a joyful anticipation of the glory to come.

 

Key Errors Concerning the Lord's Supper

 

1. Transubstantiation

 

He did not enter heaven to offer himself again and again.... But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.... Christ was offered once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many.
Hebrews 9:25-26, 28

 

2. Consubstantiation

 

3. The Mere Memorial View

 

Our Experience of the Lord's Supper 

 

The Lord's Supper is a thankful remembrance of Christ and his death, symbolized by the bread and cup, that nourishes us spiritually, brings us into communion with God and one another, and fills us with joyful anticipation of the glory to come.

 

Seven Master Lessons For Life - Proverbs 30

1. 1-14 / There are UNIVERSAL & UNRELENTING temptations.

2. 15-16 / There are UNFILLABLE voids in people’s souls.

3. 18-19 / There are UNFATHOMABLE mysteries in life.

4. 21-23 / There are UNFITTING realities in life.

5. 24-28 / There is UNTAPPED wisdom in Creation all around you.

6. 29-31 / There are UNLINKED similarities in life.

7. 32-33 / There are UNAVOIDABLE consequences to our thoughts and actions.

Understanding The Ordinances - Part 2 - Baptism

Understanding the Ordinances: Baptism Part 2

 

Jesus came and said them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. 
Matthew 28:18-20

 

The Essence of Christian Baptism

 

Baptism is the church's act of affirming a believer's profession of faith in Christ with the symbolic application of water.

 

Key Errors Concerning Christian Baptism

 

1. The Roman Catholic View

 

Ex opere operato "by the work worked"

 

Because baptism was considered to effect the forgiveness of sins, and because infants are born with Adamic guilt and corruption (original sin), they must be baptized in order to be saved. With this theology firmly in place by the beginning of the fifth century, infant baptism became the official practice of the church.
- Gregg R. Allison

 

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God's gift - not from works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9

 

2. The Lutheran View

 

Of Baptism they teach that it is necessary to salvation, and that through Baptism is offered the grace of God, and that children are to be baptized who, being offered to 
God through Baptism are received into God's grace.
- The Augsburg Confession Article 9, "Of Baptism"

 

3. The Reformed Paedobaptist View

 

10 So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority. 11 When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision - the cutting away of your sinful nature. 12 For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead.
Colossians 2:10-12 NLT

 

Entrance into Old Covenant community

 

Involuntary Physical External

 

Entrance into New Covenant community

 

Voluntary Spiritual Internal

 

Baptism is the church's act of affirming a believer's profession of faith in Christ with the symbolic application of water.

 

Our Experience of Christian Baptism

 

1. Baptism honors the Lord.

 

2. Baptism strengthens your faith.

 

3. Baptism helps you share your faith.

 

 

Understanding The Ordinances - Part 1 - Baptism

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. ... And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes,
they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
Acts 2:42, 46-47

 

"If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples." 
- Jesus Christ (John 8:31)

 

There were many priests under the old system, for death prevented them from remaining in office. But because Jesus lives forever, his priesthood lasts 
forever. Therefore he is able, once and forever, to save those who come to God through him. He lives forever to intercede with God on their behalf. 
Hebrews 7:23-25 NLT

 

There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 2:5

 

You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:5

 

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."
And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins."
Matthew 26:26-28

 

1. The Essence of Baptism

 

Baptism is the church's act of affirming a believer's profession of faith in Christ with the symbolic application of water.

 

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that,
just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:3-4

 

Baptism ... now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 3:21

 

 

 

God Speak - Psalm 19

God has revealed Himself through General Revelation in creation and through Special Revelation in the Scriptures.

 

General Revelation

 

Special Revelation

The Secret Of Contentment - Psalm 16

True, lasting contentment is found in the refuge of Christ and the joy that the Lord provides.

 

1. The Place of Refuge (v.1)

 

2. The Voice of Confidence (vv.2-8)

 

3. The Path of Life (vv. 9-11)

The Reality Of Hell - Revelation 20:1-15

"The tendency of modern times has been to take punishment out of eternity or eternity out of punishment."
- John Gerstner

 

The Eternal State We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment
and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace.

 

What happens at one's death? Does Hell even exist? What happens in Hell? Questions from Skeptics 

 

Revelation 20:1-15

 

What happens at one's death?

The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
And he called out, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.
Luke 16:22-24 (ESV) 
 

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. 
Ephesians 2:8-10 (ESV)

 

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 
1 Peter 2:24 (ESV) 

Does Hell even exist?

 

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. 
Matthew 25:46 (ESV)
 

Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Matthew 7:13-14 (ESV)

 

What happens in Hell?
 

Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' 
And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'
Matthew 7:21-23 (ESV).

 

Questions Raised by Skeptics How does God's nature and His attributes reconcile with the Biblical concept of Hell?

 

Is God unjust to send "good" people to Hell?

 

How then shall we live, in light of the reality of Hell?

 

Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 
2 Corinthians 6:2 (NIV) 
 

"If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees,
imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for."
Charles Spurgeon

 

Grace Leads To Godliness - 2 Peter 1:1-15

I Am Not Ashamed - I Know Whom I Have Believed - 2 Timothy 1:8-12