The Webster Bible Church Podcast

The Quest For A Queen - Esther 2:1-23

Transformative Truth:
The best and worst of men can’t change the Master’s plan.

Girls Gathered  vv 1-11

Esther Esteemed  vv 12-18

Plot Precluded  vv 19-23

Lessons Learned

 

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Party Hearty - Esther 1:1-22

Transformative Truth:
With the exception of God, might does not make right.

The King's Predominance - Esther 1:1-4

The King's Parties - Esther 1:5-9

The King's Problems - Esther 1:10-12

The Proclamation - Esther 1:13-22

With the exception of God, might does not make right.

Practical Considerations
1. A look at our society
2. A look at our selves
3. A look at our Savior

True Confession - Psalm 51

Speaker: Noble Armstrong, Elder

Scripture: Psalm 51:1-19

Transformative Truth:
True confession involves seeing your sin for what it is, seeing God for who He is, and seeing yourself for who you are.

In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 1 Samuel 11:1

When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. Psalm 32:3-4

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Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned. Romans 5:12

21 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. 22 Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23 For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. Exodus 12:21-23

29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. John 19:29

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15

True confession involves seeing your sin for what it is, seeing God for who He is, and seeing yourself for who you are.

18 And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is in the tent of meeting before the Lord, and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 19 And all its fat he shall take from it and burn on the altar. 20 Thus shall he do with the bull. As he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. And the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven. Leviticus 4:17-20

13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Hebrews 9:13-14 22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. Hebrews 9:13-14 and 22

7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 7-9

Grace Alone - Ephesians 2:8-10

Title: Grace Alone

Speaker: Bill & Lori Smith, ABWE Missionaries

Scripture: Ephesians 2:8-10, Romans 11:5-6, Psalm 130

Transformative Truth:  
Receive Grace... Live by Grace... Share HIS Grace

SOLO GRATIA (GRACE ALONE)
God’s grace is _____________________ favor. (Gen. 6:8)
God’s grace is _______________________ sin debt _________________________________ (Rom. 6:23)
God’s grace is through ____________________ alone. (John 14:6)
God’s grace can’t be _______________________. (Eph. 2:8,9)
God’s grace is ______________________________________. (John 1:29)
We need to _________________________________________ His Grace.
We need to _______________________________________ by His Grace.
We need to _____________________________________ share His Grace

Part 2: I'll Live For The Lord - Here's How - Psalm 116:10-19

Transformative Truth:
Believers “pay back” the Lord by magnifying his inexhaustible goodness.

10. I believed, even when I spoke: "I am greatly afflicted"; 11. I said in my alarm, "All mankind are liars."

10. I believed, so [therefore] I spoke: "I am greatly afflicted"; 11. I said in my alarm, "All mankind are liars."

The gratitude we show God is itself a gift from God.

I'll live for the Lord, and here's how:

1. I will celebrate: I will lift up the cup of salvation.

2. I will supplicate: I will call on the name of the Lord.

3. I will congregate: I will worship in the presence of the Lord's people.

4. I will consecrate: I will dedicate myself to the Lord's service. 

Believers "pay back" the Lord by magnifying his inexhaustible goodness.

Part 1: I Love The Lord - Here's Why - Psalm 116:1-9

Transformative Truth:
Tell others publicly why you love the Lord personally.

"I love the Lord," and here's why:

1. He has heard me Psalm 116:1-2

2. He has rescued me Psalm 116:3-6

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him. - Hebrews 5:7-9

9 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. 10 For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. 11 For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, 12 saying, "I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise." 13 And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again, "Behold, I and the children God has given me." - Hebrews 2:9-13

Tell others publicly why you love the Lord personally.

The theological truth is that every experience of being rescued from death (the experience of Psalm 116) - whether being saved from dying or being raised from the dead - is possible only because of the death and resurrection of Christ. Psalm 116 is ours in Christ, as those who died with him and are raised with him (Rom. 6:1-11).

"I love the Lord," and here's why:

1. He has heard me.

2. He has rescued me.

3. He has cared for me. Psalm 116:7

The Pleasure Of Public Worship - Psalm 122

Transformative Truth:
It is a great privilege to praise God with his people.

You have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless thousands of angels in a joyful gathering. You have come to the assembly of God's firstborn children, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God himself, who is the judge over all things. You have come to the spirits of the righteous ones in heaven who have now been made perfect. You have come to Jesus, the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks of forgiveness instead of crying out for vengeance like the blood of Abel. - Hebrews 12:22-24

Yet she on earth hath union with God the Three in One, and mystic sweet communion with those whose rest is won: O happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we, like them, the meek and lowly, on high may dwell with thee.

Their Delight in Jerusalem Psalm 122:1-2

Their Description of Jerusalem Psalm 122:3-5

Jerusalem, built as a city should be, solidly united, where the tribes, the LORD's tribes, go up to give thanks to the name of the LORD. - Psalm 122:3 
Christian Standard Bible

Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? - 1 Corinthians 3:16

In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. - Ephesians 2:21-22 NIV

Their Dedication to Jerusalem Psalm 122:6-9

"How lovely is the sanctuary in the eyes of those who are truly sanctified!"

It is a great privilege to praise God with his people.

Lift Up Your Eyes! - Psalm 121

Transformative Truth:

You are kept safe as you journey through life with Jesus.

 

 

Reality #1: The Lord is all-powerful. 

 

Resolution A: I will look to the Lord for strength.

 

Resolution B: I will look to the Lord for stability.

 

Reality #2: The Lord is ever-watchful.

 

Ramification A: I have shade in the midst of difficulty.

 

Ramification B: I have a shield in the midst of danger.

 

You are kept safe as you journey through life with Jesus.

God Bless Us! - Psalm 67

Transformative Truth:
The church is God's channel of blessing to the nations.

1. The Request for God's Blessing

The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. "So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them." - Numbers 6:24-27

2. The Reason for God's Blessing

3. The Results of God's Blessing 

"Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man."

4. The Realization of God's Blessing

The Most Important Question - Psalm 15

Transformative Truth:
Only the morally perfect get to enjoy God’s presence.

The Question Asked (v. 1)

The Question Answered (vv. 2-5)
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