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Month: May 2016

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John’s Case for Christ – Part 2

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Key Scripture: John 2

  • The Predicament: Ran out wine
  • Culturally this would have shown that he may not be able to plan for the future or provide for his wife
  • Mary turn to Jesus to solve the problem
  • Solution: Jesus turns water into wine
  • Result: head waiter says they had saved the best wine for last
  • Purpose: A message for the Church from then until now
  • Better wine is yet to come everyday
  • never stop learning about Jesus…never stop letting him do something new in you everyday
  • Stop looking at the past and being content
  • There is new wine for you everyday
  • Will you let the Lord do a new work in you everyday?
  • Do you get convicted by the Holy Spirit everyday?
  • Do you surrender to that?
  • Do you react to this?
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John’s Case for Christ – Part 1

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Key Scripture: John 2

  • Overview of the book of John
    • John 1: Verbal Testimony
    • John 2-12: Public Ministry
    • John 13-17: Private Ministry
    • John 18-21: Jesus’ Death, resurrection, and post resurrection appearances
  • John alternates between the word of Christ and the works of Christ
  • 9 major miracles are recorded in John
    1. Water into wine
    2. healing dying man
    3. Cures a paralyzed man
    4. creates food for thousands
    5. walks on water
    6. sight for the blind
    7. Raises a man from teh dead
    8. creates a meal
    9. Raises from the dead
  • John 20:30 – There are other signs not recorded
  • John 21:25 – There are too many miracles to record
  • As we look at John 2 and the Miracles of water into wine we can learn many things
  • Jesus is the creator – He created wine out of nothing
  • It happened at a wedding…one of the most important events that happened back then
  • Weddings are a public convent with God
  • Bible calls weddings “the grace of life”
  • Not Grace that saves but common grace
  • Joseph isn’t mentioned (more on this next week) but he is probably dead by this point
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Removing the Leaven from Your House

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Key Scripture: Exodus 12

  • Leaven (Yeast) symbolized the power of sin in our lives
  • Why use Yeast to symbolize sin?
    1. Bread with yeast in it tastes better (sin “tastes” good too)
    2. Doesn’t take much yeast to change the shape of the dough (doesn’t take much sin to change us)
    3. Yeast makes the loaf look like it contains more than it does (sin can do the same)
    4. Yeast cause the bread to eventually mold and decay from the inside out (so does sin)
  • How can we keep the world out of our house?
  • Don’t be mislead by some common misconceptions
    • You can have a different morality than your children (Children will imitate your actions)
    • A little bit of sin won’t hurt (it doesn’t take much to take root in your life)
    • Removing sin from your life will save you/your family (you still need Jesus)
    • As soon as I feel worthy I will live for God (let Jesus in and he will help you clean)
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Mother’s Day 2016

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Listen in to today’s Mother’s Day Service. Hear from our panel of mothers and hear Pastor CJ share his Mother’s Day message.

Scripture reference: 2 Samuel 21

  • Joshua had made a covenant with the Gibeonites back in Joshua 9
  • Saul had broken that covenant and Israel was experiencing famine because of it
  • King David goes to God and God tell him it is because they broke the covenant
  • David goes to the Gibeonites and asks what he can do to make it right
  • They asked for 7 of Saul’s sons
  • David hand them over and they were hung
  • Rizpah protected the body’s of her sons from birds and beast for 5-6 months during the hottest part of the year
  • King David heard of this act of faithfulness and bravery
  • David had Saul’s bones and the son’s bones buried in a place of honor
  • While this is a tragedy in the Bible, there are still things we can learn from it
  • Rizpah accepted her son’s had done wrong and were punished but she was still their mother
  • She still loved them and fought for them to be honored/buried
  • She stood her ground and God honored that faithfulness
  • Don’t give up on the next generation…God has placed you in the office of Mother
  • Instead stand up and bring honor to their family
  • There is hope for this nation with mothers like this
  • Brave mothers DO make a difference
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Parenting in Perilous Times

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Parenting in Perilous Times

Scripture reference: Judges 13:1-25

  • The enemy is trying to get us to destroy ourselves
  • We need to trust in God in raising our children and protecting them
  • How do we raise our kids in today’s perilous times?
  • 4 traits of successful parents
    1. They recognize thier privilege (v. 2-3)
      • Kids are a gift from God
      • Psalms 127:3-5
    2. They recognize thier responsibility (v. 4-5)
      • Guide and direct the children
      • Ephesians 6:4
    3. They model the behavior they want their children to follow
    4. They set limits for their children and follow-through with those limits