FAITH OVER FEAR // Sunday, January 2, 2021 // Pastor Jeff Hines
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LIKE THE MEN OF ISSACHAR // Sunday, September 19, 2021 // Pastor Jeff Hines
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Sunday — September 19, 2021
Understanding the Times
1 Chronicles 12: 32 (ESV)
Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times,
to know what Israel ought to do
Puritan / Israel Covenant
1. Individual Rights Come from God
2. Individual Accountability to God
Yale University Coat of Arms
Individual Rights Come from God
Individual Accountability to God
Spectrum of World History
Concentrated Power Vs Separated Power
YHWH / God
1. He is watching you
2. He wants you to be just
3. He will hold you accountable
Conscience
Day of Atonement / Yom Kippur
Psalm 103: 12 (ESV)
As far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Hebrews 8: 12 (ESV)
For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more
Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience.
What happened to Israel?
Judges 17: 6 & 21: 25 (ESV)
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
1 Samuel 8: 7 (ESV)
And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.
THE GREAT COMMISSION // Sunday, September 5, 2021
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Sunday — September 5, 2021
The Great Commission
World Missionaries: 26 @ $2,275.00 / $27,300.00
Home Missions: 8 @ $700.00 / $8,400.00
Children
Hill Crest Children’s Home
Child Hope
One Child: 47 Children / $21,982.00
51% of Churchgoers do not know of the Great Commission
Matthew 28: 18 – 20 (NLT)
Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Almost half of practicing Christian millennial say evangelism is wrong
Joshua Project
7,402 Unreached People Groups * 42.5 % * 3.1 Billion People
WHAT YOU GET- WHAT YOU GIVE // Sunday, August 29, 2021
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Sunday — August 29, 2021
What You Get – What You Give
What you get when you receive Christ:
1. Forgiveness
Romans 5: 15 (NLT)
…there is a great difference between Adam’s sin and God’s gracious gift. For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ.
2. Eternal Life
Romans 6: 23 (NLT)
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
3. The Holy Spirit
Romans 5: 3 - 5 (ESV)
…we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
4. Abilities
Ephesians 2: 10 (NLT)
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
Why does God give us abilities?
1. To bring Him glory
1 Corinthians 10: 31 (NLT)
So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
2. To serve others.
1 Peter 4: 10 (NLT)
God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.
3. To be an example to others.
1 Timothy 4: 14 – 18 (NLT)
Do not neglect the spiritual gift you received through the prophecy spoken over you when the elders of the church laid their hands on you. 15 Give your complete attention to these matters. Throw yourself into your tasks so that everyone will see your progress. 16 Keep a close watch on how you live and on your teaching. Stay true to what is right for the sake of your own salvation and the salvation of those who hear you.
4. To build the church.
Ephesians 4: 11 – 13 (NLT)
Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. 12 Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. 13 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.
What should I do?
1. Discover
2. Develop
3. Dedicate
4. Deploy
A Final word:
Romans 12: 3 – 9 (NLT)
I give each of you this warning: Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us. 4 Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, 5 so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other. 6 In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. 7 If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. 8 If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly. 9 Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them…
DANIEL: Being a Christian in Babylon, chapter 12 // Sunday, August 22, 2021
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Chronological Order of Daniel
1 Babylonian Exile
2 Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream
3 Nebuchadnezzar’s Image
4 Nebuchadnezzar’s Pride
7 The Times of the Gentiles
8 The Ram and Goat
5 Babylon falls to Persia
9 Prophecy of the 70 Weeks
6 Daniel in the Lions’ Den
10 - 12 Closing Visions
Daniel 12: 1- 11 (NLT)
“At that time Michael, the archangel
who stands guard over your nation, will arise. Then there will be a time of anguish greater than any since nations first came into existence. But at that time every one of your people whose name is written in the book will be rescued.
2 Many of those whose bodies lie dead and buried will rise up, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting disgrace.
3 Those who are wise will shine as bright as the sky, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever.
4 But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.”
5 Then I, Daniel, looked and saw two others standing on opposite banks of the river.
6 One of them asked the man dressed in linen, who was now standing above the river, “How long will it be until these shocking events are over?”
7 The man dressed in linen, who was standing above the river, raised both his hands toward heaven and took a solemn oath by the One who lives forever, saying, “It will go on for a time, times, and half a time. When the shattering of the holy people has finally come to an end, all these things will have happened.”
8 I heard what he said, but I did not understand what he meant. So I asked, “How will all this finally end, my lord?”
9 But he said, “Go now, Daniel, for what I have said is kept secret and sealed until the time of the end.
10 Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined by these trials. But the wicked will continue in their wickedness, and none of them will understand. Only those who are wise will know what it means.
11 “From the time the daily sacrifice is stopped and the sacrilegious object that causes desecration is set up to be worshiped, there will be 1,290 days.
Matthew 24: 15 (NLT)
“The day is coming when you will see what Daniel the prophet spoke about—the sacrilegious object that causes desecration standing in the Holy Place.” (Reader, pay attention!)
Daniel 12: 12 & 13 (NLT)
12 And blessed are those who wait and remain until the end of the 1,335 days!
13 “As for you, go your way until the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days, you will rise again to receive the inheritance set aside for you.”
