Important Old Testament Events

taken from: Willmington's Guide to the Bible Edition : First by H. L. Willmington.

1. Creation of Adam and Eve (Gen. 1:26, 27; 2:7, 21, 22)
2. Institution of marriage (Gen. 2:23-25)
3. Fall of man (Genesis 3:6)
4. Promise of the Redeemer (Gen. 3:15)
5. Universal flood (Gen. 6–8)
6. Institution of human government (Gen. 9:1-19)
7. Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1-9)
8. Conversion and call of Abraham (Gen. 12:1-3)
9. Giving of Abrahamic Covenant (Gen. 12:7; 13:14-17; 15:1-21)
10. Abraham’s marriage to Hagar (Gen. 16:1-16)
11. The birth of Isaac (Gen. 21:1-8)
12. The flight of Jacob (Gen. 28)
13. The selling of Joseph into Egyptian slavery (Gen. 37)
14. The enslavement of Israel in Egypt (Ex. 1)
15. The call of Moses (Ex. 3:1-10)
16. The ten plagues (Ex. 7-12)
17. The institution of the Passover (Ex. 12)
18. The appearance of the glory cloud (Ex. 13:21, 22)
19. The Red Sea crossing (Ex. 14)
20. The giving of the manna (Ex. 16:4)
21. The institution of the Sabbath (Ex. 16:29)
22. The giving of the Law (Ex. 20:1-17)
23. The completion of the tabernacle (Ex. 40:33, 34)
24. The anointing of Aaron (Lev. 8:1-12)
25. The unbelief at Kadesh-barnea (Num. 14)
26. The death of Moses (Deut. 34:5-8)
27. The Jordan River crossing into Palestine (Josh. 3)
28. The victory over Jericho (Josh. 6)
29. The death of Joshua (Josh. 24:29)
30. The marriage of Ruth to Boaz (Ruth 4)
31. The capture of the ark by the Philistines (1 Sam. 4)
32. The rejection of Samuel by Israel (1 Sam. 8:1-9)
33. The anointing of Saul (1 Sam. 9, 10)
34. The rejection of Saul (1 Sam. 15:23)
35. The anointing of David (1 Sam. 16:13)
36. The capture of Jerusalem by David (2 Sam. 5:9)
37. The recovery of the ark by David (2 Sam. 6:15, 16)
38. The giving of the Davidic Covenant (2 Sam. 7:8-17)
39. The anointing of Solomon (1 Ki. 1:39)
40. The completion of Solomon’s Temple (1 Ki. 6:38)
41. The Israeli civil war (1 Ki. 12)
42. The deliverance of Joash from murderous Queen Athaliah (2 Chron. 22:10-12)
43. The Assyrian captivity of the northern kingdom (2 Ki. 17:6)
44. The deliverance of Jerusalem from the Assyrians (2 Ki. 19:32-35)
45. The death of Josiah (2 Ki. 23:29, 30)
46. The departure of the glory cloud (Ezek. 10:18)
47. The destruction of the Temple of Solomon (2 Ki. 25:8, 9)
48. The Babylonian captivity of the southern kingdom (2 Ki. 25:11)
49. The return under Cyrus’ decree (Ezra 1)
50. The completion of the new Temple under Zerubbabel (Ezra 3)
51. The salvation of the Jews by Esther (Est. 4-7)

Important New Testament Events

taken from: Willmington's Guide to the Bible Edition : First by H. L. Willmington.

A. Gospel Events (Matthew—John)
The Main Highlights of Christ’s Life:
1. His birth (Luke. 2:1–7)
2. The adoration by the shepherds (Luke. 2:8–20)
3. The dedication in Jerusalem (Luke. 2:21–38)
4. The worship by the wise men (Mt. 2:1–12)
5. Flight into Egypt (Mt. 2:13–23)
6. Temple visit at age twelve (Luke. 2:41–50)
7. His baptism (Mt. 3:13–17)
8. His temptation (Mt. 4:1–11)
9. Introduction by John the Baptist (Jn. 1:29)
10. First Temple cleansing (Jn. 2:13–25)
11. Conversion of Nicodemus (Jn. 3:1–21)
12. The choice of the twelve (Mt. 10:1–4)
13. Imprisonment and execution of John (Mt. 14:1–12)
14. Peter’s great confession (Mt. 16:13–20)
15. The transfiguration (Mt. 17:1–13)
16. His triumphal entry (Mt. 21:1–11)
17. Weeping over Jerusalem (Mt. 23:37–39; Luke. 19:41)
18. In the upper room (Jn. 13–14)
19. In Gethsemane (Jn. 18:1–11)
20. His arrest and trials (Jn. 18:12–19:15)
21. The crucifixion (Jn. 19:16–18)
22. The resurrection (Mt. 28:1–7)
23. The ten appearances
24. The ascension (Luke. 24:51)

Early Church and Epistle Events (Acts—Revelation)

1. Pentecost (Acts 2:1–4)
2. Sermon of Peter (2:14–40)
3. Healing of a lame man (3:1–11)
4. Death of Ananias and Sapphira (5:1–11)
5. Election of the first deacons (6:1–8)
6. Martyrdom of Stephen (7:1–60)
7. Conversion of the Ethiopian eunuch (8:26–39)
8. Conversion of Saul (9:1–19)
9. Conversion of Cornelius (10:1–48)
10. Establishment of the Antioch church (11:19–26)
11. Deliverance of Peter (12:1–19)
12. Paul’s first missionary trip (13:2—14:28)
13. The Jerusalem Council (15:1–35)
14. Paul’s second missionary trip (15:36—18:22)
15. Paul’s third missionary trip (18:23—21:16)
16. Paul’s imprisonment in Rome (28:30)
17. The exile of John to Patmos (Rev. 1:9)

It’s Time”

by: Bro. Michael Bishop Jr.

Key Verses: 2 Chronicles 7:12-18

In the time of heartache, uncertain times, and as the world seem that what can’t happen dose happen, we wonder what to do, what’s next? Many people today look to people like Dr. Phil, or Larry King and many others to find out what is next. Most of the time the Lord Jesus Christ is NOT is not the first source of help but the last source of hope in a world that is looking for some [hope].

2 Chronicles 7:12-18

It is time to Humble Ourselves.

Holman Dictionary: Free from ignorance and pride. Encarta ® World English Dictionary : 1. modest and unassuming in attitude and behavior 2. feeling or showing respect and deference toward other people.

Our pride and ignorance get in the way of our worship. (1st church of the friezador)

To be humble is to be set apart from everyone else and truly be broken for the Lord. Being humble requires us to be obeying to God.

It is Time to Pray: According to the Sprit of God.

As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray. Martin Luther (1483–1546)

Prayer has everything to do with molding the soul into the image of God, and has everything to do with enhancing and enlarging the measure of Divine grace. -form the Necessity of Prayer by Edward M. Bounds. 1st edition. Electronic Edition STEP Files Copyright 1997, Parsons Technology, Inc.

Too many of our prayer life are just too simple, just plan suck and all about us.

According to the NIV Study Bible/Concordance is a conversation with God. The Encarta World English Dictionary states that prayer is a spoken or unspoken address to God. It may express praise, thanksgiving, confession, or a request for something such as help or somebody's well-being. If prayer is a conversation with God, why do we do we do most of the talking? The Bible says to be slow to speak and quick to hear. Many of our prayers goes like this:

“Hey Lord” or “Dear Lord Baby Jesus”, tell Him how much He screw up your life, tell him what you want to do or need to do, curse Him than turn around in your deepest trail and call out to Him for help us. 90% of us do that.

It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. -Mark Twain (1835–1910)

Matthew 6:5-13

Matthew 7:7-8

It is Time to SEEK the Face of God.

Matthew 6:33

Craig Bloomberg, a professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary, states:

“Seeking first the righteous of God implies obedience to all of Jesus commands…” “… ‘Will be given’ dose not specify when God will provide … Without a doubt, most individuals Budgets need drastic realignment in turns of what Christians spend on themselves vs. what they spend on others.”

It is time to Turn away from our Evil ways.

Psalm 139:23-24 ( HCSB ) 23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. 24 See if there is any offensive ways in me; lead me in the everlasting way.

A TWELVE POINT CURE FOR COMPLAINING: How to not let circumstances and attitudes rob you of your joy, contentment, and hope by

by Bill Izard

• Complaining is unbecoming of the true Christian and yet we are proficient at it. The cure is found in these verses. In Christ we are never hopeless or forsaken. Every trial has meaning. Meditate on this cure in order to change both your language and your heart.

1. GOD COMMANDS ME NEVER TO COMPLAIN. (Philippians 2:14)

2. GOD COMMANDS ME TO GIVE THANKS IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE. (1 Thessalonians 5:18)

3. GOD COMMANDS ME TO REJOICE ALWAYS, AND ESPECIALLY IN TIMES OF TRIAL. Rejoice in the Lord always.(Phil. 4:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:16; James 1:2)

4. I ALWAYS DESERVE MUCH WORSE THAN WHAT I AM SUFFERING NOW¾IN FACT, I DESERVE HELL. (Lamentations 3:39, Luke 13:2-3.)

5. IN LIGHT OF THE ETERNAL HAPPINESS AND GLORY THAT I WILL EXPERIENCE IN HEAVEN, THIS PRESENT TRIAL IS EXTREMELY BRIEF AND INSIGNIFICANT, EVEN IF IT WERE TO LAST A LIFETIME. (Rom. 8:18; 2 Corinthians 4:19)

6. MY SUFFERING IS FAR LESS THAN THAT WHICH CHRIST SUFFERED, AND HE DID NOT COMPLAIN. (1 Peter 2:23)

7. TO COMPLAIN IS TO SAY GOD IS NOT JUST. (Genesis 18:25)

8. FAITH AND PRAYER EXCLUDE COMPLAINING. (Psalm 34)

9. THIS DIFFICULTY IS BEING USED BY GOD FOR MY GOOD AND IT IS FOOLISH FOR ME TO COMPLAIN AGAINST IT. (Romans 8:28)

10. THOSE MORE FAITHFUL THAN I HAVE SUFFERED FAR WORSE THAN I, AND DID SO WITHOUT COMPLAINT. (Hebrews 11:35-39)

11. COMPLAINING DENIES THAT GOD'S GRACE IS ENTIRELY SUFFICIENT. (2 Corinthians 12:9)

12. THE GREATEST SUFFERING, THE WORST TRIAL OR DIFFICULTY, CAN NEVER ROB ME OF THAT WHICH IS OF GREATEST VALUE TO ME AND MY GREATEST JOY, NAMELY THE LOVE OF CHRIST. (Romans 8:35-39)

30 Sins of the Tongue

by: Richard Baxter

• Blasphemy.

• Teaching false doctrine.

• False application of true doctrine.

• Deriding of serious godliness.

• Forbidding Christian ministers to preach the Gospel.

• Profane swearing

• Perjury.

• Lying.

• Hypocritical representation of self.

• Proud boasting.

• Unseasonable speaking of common things when holy things should be preferred.

• Tempting others to sin.

• Idle talk and a multitude of useless words.

• Handling the word of God in a carnal, playful manner: and not with a style that is grave and serious, agreeable to the weight and majesty of the truth.

• Imprudent, rash and slovenly handling of holy things.

• Reviling and dishonoring of superiors.

• Imperious contempt of inferiors.

• Foolish talk and jesting.

• Filthy speaking.

• Cursing of others.

• Slandering.

• Backbiting.

• Speaking evil of another.

• Stirring up discord.

• Cheating others by defrauding neighbors in bargaining for their own gain.

• Falsely accusing the innocent.

• Passing an unrighteous sentence.

• Flattering and deluding men about the state of their souls.

• Jeering, mocking,deriding or scorning others.

• Idolatry or false worship.

The Muslim Brotherhood: The real cost of freedom and democracy in the Middle East.

Over the past months the stories of freedom and nations over nations has become apparent in the Middle East. One of the uprising governments that promise freedom for people in the region is The Muslim Brotherhood. (MB) Listed is information on the Muslim Brotherhood and what they believe.

1. Creed: Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Quran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying is the way of Allah is our highest hope.

2. Highly Terrorist Group

3. 1991 document Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goals of the Group: MB mission in America is “a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within, sabotaging its miserable houses with their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is mad victorious over all other religions”

4. 5 Phrases of the World Underground Movement plan (taking of the world by MB):

• Phrase 1: Discreet and secret establishment of leadership.

• Phrase 2 : Gradual appearance on the public scene and exercising and utilizing various public activities.

• Phrase 3 : Escalation phase using mass media.

• Phrase 4 : Open public confrontation with the Government using political pressure.

• Phrase 5 : Seizing power to establish their Islamic Nation.

Sadly, the Muslim Brotherhood is already pass Phrase 3. Even in churches in the Bible Bleat are allowing the Christians and Muslims to worship in the same church (different times, of course) are coming together. The MB is after to make everyone a Muslim and to follow their law.

The Authorship of the Pentateuch

Notes taken from Dr. Ron Meeks Old Testament I class.

1. The various views of authorship

• One author alone-The Traditional View: Hebrew, Samaritan, and early Christian tradition all regard Moses as the author or compiler of the Pentateuch. The one-author view acknowledges that Moses wrote the entire Pentateuch, apart from the account of his own death in Deut. 34.

• Documentary Hypothesis of Source Theory: A theory developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that divided the material in the Pentateuch into four major blocks and sought to relate these to one another and to the course of Israelite History. The theory assumes that Moses did not composed the Pentateuch but that it was the product of various periods in Israelite history. This theory is built upon the 5 pillars of documentary analysis.

1. Use of different names (of God)

2. differences in language and style

3. contradictions and divergences among various texts

4. duplication and repetition of material

5. The evidence of literary seams suggesting the combination of various sources. (Gentz, The Dictionary of Bible and Religion, 276-277)

• One author with later editors: This view acknowledges Moses as (1) the compiler of existing written sources into what is now know as Genesis and (2) the author of the bulk of the other four books of the Pentateuch. This approach is a viable conservative to the multiple authorship theories characteristic of most modern critical scholarship without rejecting the divine inspiration of the Old Testament.

• Oral Tradition, Multiple authors, and later editors: This hypothesis assumes that the oral transmission of Israelite historical foundations and folklore was foundational to the composition form. These small literary units were then collected and finally compiled into the five books of the Pentateuch.

1. Arguments for Mosaic Authorship

• Claims from within the Pentateuch (Ex. 17:14, 24:4, 34:27, Num. 33:1-2, Deut. 31:24)

• Claims from other O.T. Books (Josh. 1:7, Judges 3:4, 2 Chronicles 25:4, Ezra 6:18, Mal. 4:4)

• Claims from Jesus and the New Testament Writers (Matt. 8:4, Mark 7:10, 10:5, Luke 20:37, John 5:45-47, 7:19)

• Internal Evidences consistent with Mosaic Authorship

1. Eyewitness details appear in the account of the Exodus which suggest and actual participant in the events, but which would be altogether beyond the ken of an author who lived centuries after the event.

2. The author of Genesis and Exodus shows a thorough acquaintance with Egypt.

3. The author of the Torah shows a consistently foreign or extra-Palestinian viewpoint so far as Canaan is concerned.

4. The atmosphere of the Exodus through Numbers is unmistakably that of the desert, not of an agricultural people settled in their ancestral possessions of a thousand years.

5. There is a most remarkable unity of arrangement which underlies the entire Pentateuch and links it together into a progressive hole.

• The Qualifications of Moses

1. He had the education and background for authorship.

2. He would have personal knowledge of the climate, agricultural, and geography of Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula such the author of the Pentateuch patently displays.

3. He would have the incentive as the founder of the nation.

4. He had the time to compose the documents.

Is your home a Gospel Center Home? Painful Parenting Questions to ask.

by Rick Thomas

• How dose the Gospel affect you?

• Are your children seeing and experiencing your humility because of the Gospel?

• Are your children becoming more aware of the amazing truth of the Gospel?

• Ask your children how they see you. Do they see you more as a critical person or a grateful person?

• Do you live as though you deserve better?

• Do you live your life as though your worst problem in life has been resolve and the rest of your life is a gift.

• Are you more tempted to force your child to be kind?

• Ask your spouse or a close friend how they have observed you with your children, especially in the area of kindness.

• Do your children instinctively serve others?

• Without thinking, do they instantly respond with a servant's heart?

• Do your children willingly and with joy give up their rights and opportunities in order to bless and serve others?

• Do your children seek to make others great while also rejoicing when good things come to others?

• Are you modeling these things before your children? Do they see these characteristics in you?

• How often do you confess your sins to your children and ask for their forgiveness?

• Do your children readily and humbly confess their sins and seek forgiveness from those they have offended?

• Is your home characterized as a confessing and repenting home?

Multiple “Choice” Questions

 Mike Adams

• Morally speaking, is having an abortion really just like picking a scab?

• If abortion is not murder because the fetus is not a person than why make it “safe, legal, and rare”?

• Do you have a similar desire to make scab-picking safe, legal, and rare”?

• If a woman were raped and got pregnant, which one would you kill a) the baby, b) the rapist, or c) both?

• Are you comfortable with the fave that “a” is the only answer you may choose according to (the present interpretation of) the Constitution?

• Abortion advocated frequently focus on the size of the fetus. Why is that relevant?

• Do tall people have more rights than short people?

• Do men have superior rights relative to women given that men are, on average, larger that women?

• Is fetal lack of self-awareness a justification for abortion?

• Is murder permissible when the victim is sleeping unaware of the surrounding environment?

• Dose the high infant mortality rate in Third World nations justify infanticide in Third World nations?

• Does the spontaneous termination of life by nature justify the intentional termination of life by man?

• Are humans beings inherently more valuable than other animals such as dogs?

• Should a woman abort a baby because it may be expensive and time consuming to raise a child adulthood?

• What give human beings more value that dogs?

• Should a woman be able to kill a puppy because it may be expensive an time consuming to feed and care for a dog?

• Is it morally permissible for a woman to have an abortion if she has pets? In other words, is it wrong to decline care for her baby while providing care for animals?

• Does secular humanism assume that humans are inherently different from other life form? If not, why is it called humanism?

• Should religious leaders interject their religiously-based opposition to the death penalty in debates over public policy?

• Should religious leaders interject their religiously-based opposition to abortion in debates over public policy? If you answered “no” to this question and“yes” to the previous question please explain your inconsistency

• Dose the “right to choose” comes from man or God?

• If man grants rights can he also take them away?

• It have been said (by three Supreme Court Justices) that “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” Dose that mean a woman can define a baby's rights out of existence because a woman is more powerful than a baby?

• Or dose that mean a man, can define a woman's rights out of existence because, in a patriarchal society, a man is more powerful than a woman?

25 Questions to ask before Wasting Another Sunday Morning

• What is man's biggest problem?

• What must a man must do to inherit eternal life?

• How do you deliver the salvation message?

• How hard is it to become a Christian?

• How often do you talk about sin, righteousness and judgment?

• How seeker sensitive is your church?

• Do you dump down your sermons?

• What is your mixture of topical vs. expository preaching?

• Do your sermons emphasize theology or are the relevant?

• Describe your youth programs?

• Describe your evangelism programs.

• What church growth model do you follow?

• How much do you give to missions and the hungry?

• Do you believe the Bible contains no errors or contradictions?

• Do you believe in a literal 6 day creation?

• Do you believe in a literal hell and eternal punishment?

• Please define repentance.

• When you distribute the Lord's Supper, do you emphasize the need to examine yourself?

• Can a person who is living in persistent lifestyle of sin inherit eternal life?

• Do your church exercise church discipline?

• Do Sunday school teachers, nursery, and youth volunteers fill out an application to answer questions about their core beliefs, or are all volunteers accepted?

• What are the essentials of the faith?

• Do you have a cross in your sanctuary?

• How often do you preach the Gospel?

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The Most Superficial and Me-Centered Church Evaluation Questions Ever!

• When I enter do I hear laughter?
  

• Are people greeting me as a job or joy?

• Does the place look like they were expecting me?

• Are people buzzing as they greet each other?

• Is there spirited music playing as people gather?

• Dose the music move me?

• Do the people on stage look real and engaged?

• Are the announcements short, strategic and to the point?

• Is there a printed outline with scripture already printed on it?

• Does the pastor smile?

• Does the message title promise a relevant topic I am interested in?

• Does the pastor speak with humility and authority?

• Do I feel the presence of God?

• Are people listening and engaged?

• Is the service no more than 71 minutes?

• Does it (time) pass by fast?

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5 Types of “Bones” in the Church

from: http://thebiblechristian.com/

1. Wishbones: Folks always wishing for better things, but never willing to work and pray for them. ( If you always looking to plug in to the church, it may be your “calling” that thing you wish was taking place)

2. Jawbones: The gossiping kind that keep the church in turmoil.

3. Funny bones: like the bone in the elbow that throws a person into a tizzy when it hurt. They are touchy, wear their feelings on their sleeves, and are always talking about leaving the church. (We need to be preaching the Gospel to ourselves daily)

4. Dry bones: Orthodox but dead as fossils.

5. Backbones: The spiritual support of the church that keeps the body standing. (about 10% of all folks in the church)

5 More Types of “Bones” in the Church

from Todd Friel

1. Crabby Bones: Conservatives who haven't applied their theology to their hearts.

2. Cheeky bones: Conservatives who complain about everything theology.

3. Humor bones: Pastors who put on shenanigans instead of services.

4. Them bones: Everyone is a problem, except themselves

5. Sissy Bones: Conservatives who refuse to name the names of false teachers.

10 Thief's stealing time in your life.

• Thief 1. consists of idleness or sloth.

• Thief 2. Excess of Sleep.

• Thief 3. Inordinate adorning of the body.

• Thief 4. Unnecessary pomp and extravagance in household furniture and domestic entertainments.

• Thief 5. Needless fasting, gluttony and drinking.

• Thief 6. Idle talk.

• Thief 7. Vain and sinful company.

• Thief 8. Excess of Worldly cares and business.

• Thief 9. Vain, ungoverned and sinful thoughts.

• Thief 10. Unsanctified, ungodly heart; for this loses time, whatever men are doing-- because they never intend to do anything for the glory of God.

How to Train your Child to Worship

from: The Rev. Dr. Brian M. Abshire

• Train them to worship at home.
  

• Teach them that worship is about praising God, not entertaining man. (It not about us put about Him)
  

• If your kids can't sit still, it is not a fidgeting problem,” but a “parenting problem.”
  

• Make the sanctuary a quiet place for worship preparation, not Christian high fives.
  

• Don't allow kids to escape worship with trickery: potty runs fidgeting, naughtiness.
  

• Don't take young children to a nursery, use the cry room... with the sermon pump in.
  

• Don't let your children distract themselves with the hymnal, guest cards, or crawling.
  

• No toys (or coffee) in the sanctuary.
  

• Don't let your kids entertain others during worship.
  

• Doodle? No. Draw pictures of the sermon? Yes.

Five reasons why God leaves sin in His people.

Source: Wretched TV

• God leads sin in His people- to promote their humility. Pride springs from inordinate self-love – which is odious to God, for it robs Him of His glory. Since God will be glorious unto His saints, He subdues their pride – by leaving that in them which humbles their hearts.

• As God left some of the Canaanites in land – to prove Israel, so He leaves sin in us – to humble us. Sin has a continual abasing influence, bringing us to realize more and more our utter insufficiency and complete dependence upon God.

• Sin has an evangelical influence, for it serves to make us more conscious of the perfect suitability of the great Physician for such lepers as we feel ourselves to be.

• Sin's presence has a God-honoring influence, for it brings the renewed soul to marvel increasingly at His “long-suffering to us” (2 Peter 3:9)

• Sin's presence should promote a spirit of forbearance to our fellows: we ought not to expect less failure in them – than we find in ourselves.

Sings you are not awakened in the Gospel

Jared Wilson

• The gospel doesn't interest you – or it does, but not as much other religious subjects.
  

• You take everything personally.
  

• You frequently worry about what other people think.
  

• You treat inconveniences like minor (or Major) tragedies.
  

• You are impatient with people.
  

• In general, you have trouble seeing the fruit of the Spirit in your life.
  

• The Word of God holds little interest.
  

• You have great difficulty forgiving.
  

• You are told frequently by a family member of friend that you are too controlling.
  

• You think someone beside yourself is the worst sinner you know.

Are you a Snarly Christian?

• Are you easily offended by other believer's behavior?
  

• Are you apt to be suspicious of them?
  

• Are you more apt to judge them?
  

• Are you more apt to gossip about them?
  

• Are you more apt to NOT think the best about them?
  

• Are you willing to humble yourself and serve them?
  

• Do you ever say, “Yes, he is a believer, but...”
  

• Do you ever say “Wow, and I thought he was saved.”
  

• Do you ever break fellowship with this person?

Distinguishing Marks of a Quarrelsome Person

by Kevin DeYoung

• A quarrelsome person is habitually disagreeable and decisive.

1. You defend every conviction with the same degree of intensity.

2. You are quick to speak and slow to listen.

3. You are not looking to learn in a conversation, you are looking to defend, dominate and destroy.

4. Your only model for ministry is the showdown on Mount Carmel.

5. You never give the benefit of a doubt.

6. You put the worst construction on everything.

7. You have no unarticulated opinions.

8. You are unable to sympathize with your opponents.

9. Your first instinct is to criticize. Your last instinct is to encourage.

10. Your “thing” is the only grid you see through.

11. You derive a sense of satisfaction from being rejected an marginalized.

12. You are always in the trenches with grenades strapped to your chest, never in the mess hall with ice-cream and ping-pong. (Not having fun in ministry)

13. You have never change your mind on an important matter.

“The Once of year Lifestyle”

Michael Bishop Jr.

Place: Mt. Nebo United Methodist Church, Ackerman MS

Date: 5-1-2011

• Romans 8:3-17

1. Unforgiving sin build up in our lives and we life in darkness

• Romans 8:5-8

• Romans 6:20-23
  

• 1 John 3:8-10
  

• Roughly 13% of Jesus teachings and half of his parables are in reference to hell, judgment, or punishment. “The existence of hell, the instruction by Jesus of hell should reveal to us how sinful sin truly is and how rebellious we really are,” - Mark Driscoll

• Isaiah 66:24 ( NKJV ) ²⁴“And they shall go forth and look Upon the corpses of the men Who have transgressed against Me. For their worm does not die, And their fire is not quenched. They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”
  

• It matters not how spiritual a church may profess to be, if souls are not saved, something is radically wrong, and the professed spirituality is simply a false experience, a delusion of the devil. People who are satisfied to meet together simply to have a good time among themselves are far away from God. Real spirituality always has an outcome. Oswald J. Smith (b. 1889)

• When was the last time you truly felt the Sprite of God move?

1. With the Sin in our life, true Worship takes a Back seat.

• John 4:10-26

  Worship is not:

  A. Geography … it can be done anywhere.

  B. Race … the woman was a Samaritan.

  C. Anything and everything … Jesus said, “You worship what you do not know.” There is such a thing as wrong worship.

  D. Terminology … the main word here means to “bow down,” but we dare not get lost in mere lexical studies.

  E. Enthusiasm … ”inspirit” means something different than “clap your hands.”
  

• If you are singing a song in church and thinking about your neighbor, you are not worshiping Christ. If you are sitting during a prayer and thinking about your fantasy team, you are not worshiping Christ. If you are listing to me preach today, but you wondering when I'm going to finish this sermon, you are not worshiping Christ. You worship the One True God when you focus on Him.

• How often Christians assume they have worshiped God simply because they have been in church! We are told that the church building is “God’s house” (an inaccurate designation borrowed from the Old Testament temple) and conclude that worship must take place there! Not necessarily. God was not pleased with the worship at Jerusalem (the Holy City). Nor is he impressed with beautiful cathedrals. Erwin W. Lutzer (1941– )
  

• Worship leads to a further disclosure of God. The point of John 4 is not to give us a manual of personal evangelism. As the woman talks about worship with Jesus, He is revealed. First she sees Him to be just a man, then a prophet, then the Messiah, and finally the Savior of the world.
  

• If worship and preaching the gospel is not the focus of what we do for Christ, we are wasting our time. Many people think that we need more talking and lest singing. The point of singing is not to fill time in the worship gathering. The point is to worship the One and Holy God, to give thanks and honor to Him for what we did not acquire.
  

• Knowing Jesus Christ as your Savior is a relationship not a theological virtue. Like any other relationship, we cannot experience the fullness of Christ if we don't take the time to Praise Him, to SING to Him, to study about Him, and talk about Him. If we are not doing these things, we are better off entering the Pits of Hell.

1. There is only one way for forgiveness .

• Romans 8:14-17
  

• 2 Corinthians 5:20-21
  

• Romans 5:8-10
  

• 1 John 1:9

• It is the Savior, Jesus Christ, though Grace alone, by faith alone, and by serving Him in a way that glorify Him and Him alone that we are save for the Pitts of Hell! We cannot “do this” and “do that” to get save.
  

• If we are not continuing killing the sin in our lives, than the sin will kill you.

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7 Tough Questions to ask your Friends when it come to Accountability

from Steven Altroggw

Have you consistently pursuing the Lord through scripture reading an prayer?

Have you diligently pursued your wife/husband this week?

Have you seen any persistent patterns of sin in your life recently?

Last week you confessed struggling with [insert sin] . Have you taken steps to fight it this week?

When you gave into [insert sin], what were you believing about God in that moment? What were you believing about yourself?

What is the truth that you need to believe in this situation?

When you had the conflict with [insert person], what were you craving at that moment?