August 30, 2020 ~ "Prayers of Confession"

Elder, Ron Padilla

We all need to confess our sin daily to receive God’s forgiveness.

I. What Confession Provides

  A. Confession provides happiness. (v. 1-2)

  B. Confession provides freedom from spiritual anguish. (v. 3-4)

  C. Confession provides forgiveness for all. (v. 5)

  D. Confession provides a stronghold. (v. 6-7)

II. How Confession Changes Our Lives

  A. Confession allows us to disciple others. (v. 8)

  B. Confession allows His will be done, not ours. (v. 9-10)

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August 23, 2020 ~ "Praying the Word"

Pastor Mitchell Cruit

This text is tailored to teach us that the pathway to prayer is joyful meditation on God’s Word.

The Blessed Person’s Way (v.1-2)

The blessed person does not associate with the ungodly. 

The blessed person delights in and meditates on God’s Word.

The Blessed Person’s Fruit (v. 3-4)

The blessed person through joyful meditation on God’s Word is stable through troubled times.

The blessed person through joyful meditation on God’s Word bears fruit in its season.

The End of Two Different Ways (v. 5-6)

The way of the wicked ends in judgment and destruction, while the way of the righteous ends in being known by God. 

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August 16, 2020 ~ "Rock Bottom: Epic Fail"

Pastor Mitchell Cruit                                   This text is tailored to teach us that God accomplishes his purposes not just in spite of our sinfulness, but through our sinfulness.

A. Since God accomplishes his purposes through our sinfulness, we must not mistake giftedness for godliness.

B. God accomplished salvation not in spite of the cross, but through the cross.

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August 9, 2020 ~ "Rock Bottom: No Pinky Promises Necessary"

 

Pastor Mitchell Cruit

This text is tailored to teach us that God brings hope to the hopeless by being a promise-making and promise-keeping God.

Our Hopeless Situation (12:8-13:1)

Living without God has become normal. (12:8-15)

Sin has become invisible. (13:1a)

Oppression has become satisfactory. (13:1b)

God’s Response to Our Hopeless Situation

God makes a promise. (13:2-5)

God gives himself. (13:6-23, cf. Psalm 135:6)

God keeps his promise. (13:24-25)

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August 2, 2020 ~ "Rock Bottom: Ignorance Kills"

Pastor Mitchell Cruit

This text is tailored to teach us that knowing God’s Word  without knowing God’s heart ends in death.

1. There is a danger in reading God’s Word as merely  a factbook… so read God’s Word to know the heart of God.

 

2. The danger in not reading God’s Word is that we won’t know what pleases God… so read God’s Word to know what pleases God.

3. There is a danger in not submitting to God’s Word, so read God’s Word humbly to expose your unbiblical beliefs and practices.

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July 26, 2020 ~ "Rock Bottom: Mercy in Misery"

Pastor Mitchell Cruit

This text is tailored to teach us that apostasy happens gradually not immediately.

Why does apostasy happen gradually not immediately?

    - Because we are our own greatest enemy. (v. 1-2)

    - Because apostasy begins with small compromises. (v.3-5)

Apostasy is forsaking God because we are enslaved to idolatry. (v. 6-10)

Apostasy is using God to support our idolatry. (v. 11-16a)

We can only be delivered by God’s mercy. (v. 16b) 

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July 19, 2020 ~ "Rock Bottom: The Avenger"

Pastor Mitchell Cruit

The Story:

God’s people make a worthless man king.

Mutual destruction is pronounced on worthless men for acting faithlessly.

Biblically unqualified leadership is disastrous for God’s people.

The people revile their worthless king. 

The worthless king seeks vengeance against those who challenged him.

The worthless king is killed shamefully.

This text is tailored to teach us that God avenges every injustice.

Three truths about God’s present judgment:

    Judgment is unseen.

    Judgment comes after a wait.

    Judgment comes through the outworking of human sin.

God avenges every injustice so we don’t have to.

God avenges every injustice, including our own, so we need a Savior King.

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