1 Peter 1:1-12 – Living Hope What defines you? What is it that gives you your identity? Our better identity 1 Peter 1:1 … God’s elect people. Qu: If you follow Jesus, is your primary identity found in the fact you have been chosen by God to be his? Qu: What would your life begin to look like if you found your…
Amos 9 – Stop Running A people with nowhere to hide – Amos’ vision strips away any thought of escaping the judgment to come. A God of fierce judgment “I will keep my eye on them for harm and not for good.” – Israel does not understand the power of God A God who gives hope in darkness – The last word:…
Amos 8:1-14 – A famine in hearing God’s word If it was illegal to read your bible over this last week from Monday to Saturday could you get charged? When you go away on holidays do you read God’s word? What costs would you be prepared to bear to own and read your own bible? Amos 8 … a famine in hearing…
Amos 7:10-17 – Don’t prophecy here When God confronts you Amos 7:8-9. “And the Lord asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” “A plumb line,” I replied. Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer. “The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will…
Amos 7:1-9 – Judgement And Justice Locusts Fire Plumbline
Amos 6:1-14 – False Confidence “If God is for us, who can be against us?” Judgement comes on God’s people Israel Covenant lawsuit – legal & relational implications God’s judgement on the complacency of Israel God’s judgment on the pride of Israel For us today Australian culture is privileged …. so easy for us to become complacent Do we care about God’s…
Psalm 8 – What Is Humanity? Humanity on its own is nothing V3-4 “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?” V1 “Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the…
3 John – You Should Be A Missionary 1. Where does being a Missionary come from? 2. How does ‘living out the truth’ show itself? 3. How will love show itself in the future? 4. This includes us 5. What will stop you being a missionary?
2 John – False teachers among us United by The Truth The truth about the gospel of Jesus. Filled with joy – v 4 The command to love – v 5 V6 – Love occurs when you walk in obedience to God’s commands. Serious heresy If you reject Jesus as being the Christ then you have nothing left. Verse 9 … ‘the…
06 – Spirit of truth – Receiving the Spirit’s gifts Problems we face … out of the biblical context of what the gift is actually for. Results in – filled with pride – filled with a self focus – a wrong perspective of genuine Christianity The purpose of gifts 1 Cor 12:7 … for the common good. 1 Cor 14:26… to build…