Sermons and classes from our weekly church of Christ services
Episodes
Friday May 17, 2024
Friday May 17, 2024
April 20, 2024 - Saturday 3:30 MPR 4 Speaker
Speaker:David Sproule
Teacher Selection
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(Page 6 of notebook)
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Everyone Needs to Teach.
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Not Everyone Needs to Teach (in a Classroom).
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There Needs to Be a Selection Process.
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Elders have some responsibility to guard the flock
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Teacher Preparation
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(Page 7 of notebook)
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Class #1: Introduction to Teaching at This Congregation
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Teach
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Teach the Bible
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Class #2: How to Be an Effective Bible Class Teacher
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Have a deep reverence for God
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Soberly be reminded of your responsibility
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Only teach what fits you
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Don't teach what you don't know
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Some topics don't need to be taught by some people
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Only teach what fits the students
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Only each what you have made your own
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Realize each class is important
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Don't forget your goal
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Class #3: General Principles for Preparing Bible Class Lessons
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Pray
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Let Bible explains itself before consulting commentaries
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Keep it in context
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Thoroughly study and prepare in advance
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Class #4: Preparing a Textual Study for a Bible Class Lesson (See Lesson 8)
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Class #5: Preparing a Topical Study for a Bible Class Lesson (See Lesson 9)
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Class #6: Preparing a Character Study for a Bible Class Lesson (See Lesson 10)
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Class #7: General Principles for Presenting Bible Class Lessons
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Use your notes
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Don't raise questions you can't answer
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Lean on the mature, knowledgeable Christians in the class for support.
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Might be a sister offering wisdom in class
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Wrap up the class in a nice package
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Class #8: Students Presenting Textual Bible Studies
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Class #9: Students Presenting Topical Bible Studies
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Class #10: Students Presenting Bible Character Studies
Teacher Evaluation
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Evaluation Is Essential to Ensure Excellence in Our Education Efforts.
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Talk to the Teacher.
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There Needs to Be an Evaluation Process.
Teacher Appreciation
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Showing Appreciation Is Biblical.
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Showing Appreciation Is Effective.
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Showing Appreciation Is Simple.
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Publicly
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Short notes
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Annual Teacher Appreciation Banquet
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The Blessing of Being a Bible Class Teacher
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Many Excuses Are Offered to Avoid Being a Bible Class Teacher.
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The Blessings & Benefits from Being a Bible Class Teacher Are Innumerable.
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The Blessings of Being a Bible Class Teacher Far Outweigh the Excuses.
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Will You Accept the Challenge of Being an Effective, Loving, Passionate Bible Class Teacher?
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rLQj7kurnY
Duration 40:51
Friday May 17, 2024
Friday May 17, 2024
April 20, 2024 - Saturday 2:30 MPR 4 Speaker
Speaker:David Sproule
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There has always been a need for Bible teaching in the church.
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Sharing of Paul's letters
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The condition of our society and homes emphasizes a need for Bible teaching.
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Large number of broken homes
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What is the cannon, universal need of every person today?
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The Bible and, therefore, Bible education is essential in the church.
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In the Old Testament, teaching God's word was done regularly.
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In the life of Jesus, teaching God's word was done regularly
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In the New Testament, teaching God's word has done regularly
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Jesus instructed His disciples to teach others,
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We see the emphasis of the early church on teaching,
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We see certain teachers and certain students identified
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The Bible Gives Ample Authority for Teaching the Bible to Children & Adults.
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The Bible says that “faith comes by hearing” (Rom. 10:17).
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All that the church does must be done by the authority of Christ.
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While Teaching the Bible Is Required, the Method Used in the Bible School Is Expedient.
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An expedient aids in carrying out God’s will in a manner in which He has authorized.
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The expedient itself must be authorized, but it does allow for options in its implementation.
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Thus, the church must teach the Bible, and it can do so in a way that best fits that congregation.
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The day
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The time
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The format
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The schedule
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The curriculum
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Each congregation is unique.
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Congregation: Palm Beach Lakes church of Christ
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The congregation has a strong history of children’s Bible classes
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We desired and talked about writing our own curriculum for years
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Finally, the dream became more than just a dream
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December 2009 - The Initial Meeting: An Idea Sparked
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January 2010 - The Concept Presented: A Curriculum Adopted
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Mid 2012 - The Elder Challenge: A Target Set
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January 2013 - The Teaching Begins: A Work in Progress
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August 2019 - The Curriculum Finished: A Dream Realized
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We wanted a curriculum that truly fit our needs
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A program that would teach the Bible
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A program that focused on Bible education over entertainment
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A complete program that was not a collection from various sources
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A consistent direction, format and appearance throughout
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An engaging program that got the parents involved at home each week
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We wanted an immersive experience
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From the moment the kids entered their hallway
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When they walked into their classrooms
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We wanted just a few weeks in each classroom to keep them engaged
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We wanted a complete teaching resource
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Something that would make it easier for our teachers to prepare and teach
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Something that would make it easier for members to agree to teach
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Something that would guarantee consistency of lessons from teacher to teacher
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The Curriculum Committee – Writing “Stepping into the Bible”
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We sat down as a group, with open Bibles, and identified Bible lessons to teach
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We ended up identifying 280 Bible lessons to be part of the curriculum
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We decided to do away with the 13-week quarter system
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We wanted the children to rotate classrooms (in Bible scenes) on a frequent basis
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We decided that each age group would be taught in each classroom for four weeks
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Each classroom represented a particular division of Biblical narrative
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Four lessons were grouped together to be taught in each room
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We called these 4-week teaching rounds, “Sessions”
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We decided that we would rotate every four weeks through the five classrooms
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Each age group would have an opportunity to be taught in each classroom
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The total time for these rotations would be 20 weeks, which we called, “Semesters”
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Finally, an internal “writing” committee began creating each lesson plan
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Each lesson plan was intended for all age groups – tailored by the teacher to their specific class
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The Classroom Committee – Creating the Environment
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Design and decorate FIVE classrooms for each semester, with each classroom representing an immersion into one of the 4-lesson sessions
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Create some kind of picture-based timeline in the room
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Realized a need for time (two weeks) between semesters to change each classroom
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The Hallway Committee – Immerse Upon Arrival
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Transform the entire hallway where our children’s classes meet
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Bible stories to come alive on the walls, covering every square inch
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Tell the story of the Bible from one end of the hallway to the other
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Include some 3-D elements coming out of the walls
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The Teaching Resources Committee – Reinforcing the Lessons
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Each classroom to be stocked with visual aids to help enhance teaching the lesson
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Ample selection of handwork for the children that corresponded to the Bible lesson
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Songs that would fit and reinforce each lesson
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Make Wednesday nights special, providing additional lesson reinforcement
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Each binder has four lessons (for each classroom)
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Intended to give teachers “everything” needed
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Teacher Instruction
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Lesson Plan
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Handwork
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Songbook and flash drive
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Intended to unify our educational efforts
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Intended to ensure consistency
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Intended to be easily adaptable to all ages
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Take Home Review Sheet (picture)
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Objective
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Scripture Reference
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Memory Verse
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Lesson Facts
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Review Questions
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Narrative
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Discussion Questions for Older Kids
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Wednesday Night Highlights
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Suggested Songs (pictures)
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16 Semesters
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Customized numbering system: Semester.Session.Lesson
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280 lessons of original material
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8 Old Testament semesters (with 1 review semester)
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8 New Testament semesters (with 1 review semester)
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2-week mini-session
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Rotation every four weeks
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mBFZooJPFg
Duration: 45:43
Friday May 17, 2024
Friday May 17, 2024
April 20, 2024 - Saturday 2:30PM Auditorium Speaker
Speaker: John Moore
John 12 -
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
12 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. 3 Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, 5 “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.” 6 He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
7 “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. 8 You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.”
9 Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 10 So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well, 11 for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and believing in him.
Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King
12 The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. 13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,
“Hosanna!”
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Blessed is the king of Israel!”
14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:
15 “Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion;
see, your king is coming,
seated on a donkey’s colt.”
16 At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that these things had been done to him.
17 Now the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word. 18 Many people, because they had heard that he had performed this sign, went out to meet him. 19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”
Jesus Predicts His Death
20 Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival. 21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.” 22 Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus.
23 Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
27 “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name!”
Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” 29 The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.
30 Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit, not mine. 31 Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out. 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” 33 He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.
34 The crowd spoke up, “We have heard from the Law that the Messiah will remain forever, so how can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”
35 Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going. 36 Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light.” When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.
Belief and Unbelief Among the Jews
37 Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. 38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet:
“Lord, who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
39 For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:
40 “He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their hearts,
so they can neither see with their eyes,
nor understand with their hearts,
nor turn—and I would heal them."
41 Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him.
42 Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved human praise more than praise from God.
44 Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 45 The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me. 46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.
47 “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day. 49 For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken. 50 I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”
John looks at John 12 and reflects on why Mary anoints Jesus.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jCaxUkincU
Duration 41:38
Thursday May 16, 2024
Thursday May 16, 2024
April 20, 2024 - Saturday 1:30PM Tent Speaker
Speaker: Scott Cain
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Trust in an individual
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a lot of description of Jesus in John
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Jesus' Facts (John 1:1-14)
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Jesus’ Rationality (John 1:1-3)
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Jesus’ Identity (John 1:1-17)
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“The World”
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Jesus
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In the Beginning
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Eternal
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With God
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Distinct from the Father
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Was God
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Deity/Godhead
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All… Made by Him
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Creator
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Flesh… dwelt among us
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Human
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Only begotten
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Son of God
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Grace and Truth
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Brought Grace and Truth
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Jesus’ Reality (John 1:14)
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John bases his description of Jesus on evidence
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Gnostics - made up, what they claim they knew
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Ex. Dualism: spiritual =good and humanity = bad
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Jesus wasn’t actual physical
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Others claim Jesus was physical but not deity
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Know-it-alls that didn’t know anything
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Jesus’ Forgiveness
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John 1:29 words of John the Baptist
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Isaiah 53:4-7 suffering servant
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“It’s not ok, but it’s going to be ok”
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John 12:32
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Model of forgiveness (Personal and moving passages on forgiveness)
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John 5:14 (general forgiveness)
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John 4:17-18, 21 (woman at the well)
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John 8:7, 11 (woman caught in act of adultery, failed to catch her accomplice)
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John 13:38; 21:17 (Peter will deny Jesus 3x) why did Peter go back to tomb a 2nd time? Peter wept bitterly over his own actions.
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Every time sin happens, someone made a choice
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Motive of Forgiveness (John 3:16)
Jesus’ Friendship (John 15:13)
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Out of Friendship…
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He died for me (John 15:13)
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I live for Him (John 15:14)
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He shared His Father’s Will (John 15:15)
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I have His Father’s Ear (15:15, 16:27)
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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4ESJBRbG2k
Duration 41:43
Thursday May 16, 2024
Thursday May 16, 2024
April 20, 2024 - Saturday 1:30PM MPR 1 Speaker
Speakers: Kathy Pollard and Carla Moore
During the Equipped Workshop Kathy and Carla thought it would interesting to have a live crossover episode of their popular podcast Looking Up! With Kathy and Carla
Along with some normal parts of their podcast, the two ladies start reviewing past notes from the margins in the book of John in their bibles.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-RAWFsdQJc
Duration 42:09
Thursday May 16, 2024
Thursday May 16, 2024
April 20, 2024 - Saturday 1:30PM Auditorium Speaker
Speaker: Justin Rogers
A Friend of the Family
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Divine absence
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THE IRONY OF “LAZARUS”
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DIVINE ABSENCE ENHANCES GOD’S GLORY (V. 4)
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DIVINE ABSENCE DOES NOT SIGNAL A LOSS OF CONCERN (V. 5)
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Personal confrontation
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MARTHA—FAITHFUL FRUSTRATION (VV. 20-27)
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MARY—PERSONAL INSULT (VV. 28-32)
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- Emotional Savior
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JESUS IS EMOTIONAL (V. 33)
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JESUS IS “SKEPTICAL” (V. 34)
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JESUS IS JUDGED (V. 36-37)
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Astonishing miracle
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MARTHA’S INTERRUPTION (VV. 38-40)
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JESUS’ PRAYER (VV. 41-42
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LAZARUS’ RESURRECTION (VV. 43-44)
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“Things are not always as they seem”
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Conflicts in the narrative
-Problem of pain
-Problem of persecution
-Problem of people-pleasing
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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w80FGksOLIo
Duration 38:51
Thursday May 16, 2024
Thursday May 16, 2024
April 20, 2024 - Saturday 1:10PM Auditorium Speaker
Speaker: Maddox Wilson
John 13:34 - 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 15:12 - 12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Ephesians 4:32 - 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
1 Corinthians 13:4-13 - 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Luke 6:31 - 31 And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
1 John 4:11 - 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Matthew 22:36-40 - 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Using a few points Maddox illustrates the importance of love for each other and how we can show this love in our lives. We should follow the example shown by Christ. The power of love is in the actions we take.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsFBdTXL1Vc&list=PL6RXulneS57-f64A4gRQRIrrFFpl2lKuj&index=38
Duration 4:57
Thursday May 16, 2024
Thursday May 16, 2024
April 20, 2024 - Saturday 11:00AM Tent Speaker
Speaker: Justin Rogers
General Principles - Read the Bible
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Pay attention
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Frequency and usage of words
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Believe
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verb 85x
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Noun (belief) - never used in John
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World
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John 7:7, etc.
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Ask Why questions
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Thomas not mentioned much in Matthew, Mark, and Luke
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Big role in John
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Doubting Thomas
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Even an apostle was a skeptic of Jesus
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Themes in John
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Jesus as the Word
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Logos vs rhema (John 1:1-3, 14)
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Jesus is the wisdom/mental process whereby the world is brought into existence
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Jesus as a wonder-worker
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Miracles were not the end, but way to end
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Water to wine (power over sustenance)
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Healing of nobleman’s son (power of distance)
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Healing of the lame man (power over the body)
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Feeding 5,000
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Walking on water (power over water)
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Healing the blind man (power over the soul)
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Raising Lazarus
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Jesus as the Passover lamb
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Announced by John (John 1:29)
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Explained at the crucifixion (John 19:39 ~ Ex. 12:46, 1 Corinthians 5:9)
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Explains the “Last Supper” in John
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Teaching Techniques in John
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One-on-one conversations
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Extended discussions with individuals more than lecture crowds
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Opposition from Outsiders
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The world?
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The Jews? (John 16:2)
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Primary persecutors of early Church, not Romans or Greeks
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Christian groups? (John 20:25)
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Doubting Thomas
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“Did God really take on flesh and suffer?”
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Oneness of all believers
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John 17:20-21 probably means John’s readers are under persecution and are willing to compromise (Revelation 2-3)
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Takeaways from John
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Jesus is God
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John 20:30-31
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Jesus is Man
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John 6:53-56 flesh and blood
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Makes clear he is human
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Not a discussion on Lord’s supper?
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The Spirit Is Present
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Half of the farewell discourse consists of discussions about the paracletos or pneuma tes aletheias (14:15-17)
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Obedience is expression of love not oppression
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Duration 38:45
Saturday May 11, 2024
Saturday May 11, 2024
April 20, 2024 - Saturday 11:00AM Auditorium Speaker
Speaker: Andrew Itson
John 10 -
I Am the Good Shepherd
10 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. 2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” 6 This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
7 So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. 17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”
19 There was again a division among the Jews because of these words. 20 Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?” 21 Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
I and the Father Are One
22 At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon. 24 So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” 25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me, 26 but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”
31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” 33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— 36 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38 but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39 Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
40 He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. 41 And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” 42 And many believed in him there.
I am The Good Shepherd
- The Message of the Gospel is this: God Became Human so That We Would Have a Shield.
- Context: So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, Truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep" - John 10:7
- On the other side of the door is more freedom not less.
- Why do we need a shepherd?
- Sheep get lost easily
- Sheep are defenseless
- Sheep are very stubborn
- Sheep are filthy
- Everyone has a shepherd
- _______ is going to fill the place of shepherd if you don't put Jesus where he says he deserves to be in your life.
- The test of a shepherd's goodness comes down to what the shepherd does when life gets hard. - John 10:12-13
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- Ownership - John 10:13
- God's ownership in Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
3 He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows
- God's ownership in Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
- Friendship - John 10:3-4; 14
- How do I know it is his voice? Your shepherd is whoever gets your ear the most.
- Partnership - Luke 15
- Passion for the lost - John 10:16; Luke 15
- Ownership - John 10:13
- Church leadership has always been about shepherd leadership
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- Acts 20:28 - 28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
- 1 Peter 5:1-2 - So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: 2 shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly;
- Hebrews 13:17 - 17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
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- Qualities of a shepherd-leader
- Example
- Trustworthy
- Provision / Protection
- Sacrificial
- Relational
- Visionary
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayka7hN5DAs
Duration 37:43
Saturday May 11, 2024
Saturday May 11, 2024
April 20, 2024 - Saturday 10:00AM Tent Speaker
Speaker: Eric D. Garner
The ears of the Lord are open to the righteous.
There are many blessings from being a Christian
- Because Christians are in Christ then there must also be an outside of Christ. But there is no condemnation for those who walk in Christ.
- 2 Peter1:3-4 We have God’s word.
- We can have fellowship. 1 John.
- We get to worship
- We can pray to God and have his attention. Hebrews 4. God talks to us through study but we talk to God through prayer.
Things to learn from Jesus's prayer, Luke 11
- Adoration for God. He wants us to view him as a caring father. Ephesians 3:14-15
- Make sure to confess. Pray with humility. 1 John 1:9.
- Thank God. James 1:17. Everything good comes from God. We are blessed.
- Ask for supplications. 1 Timothy 2:1-2
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_58d9Xh9E5E
Duration 40:28