EVERY WORD- With My Whole Heart // Sunday, March 19, 2023 // Jeff Hines, Lead Pastor
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Sunday — March 19, 2023
With My Whole Heart
Every Word
Deuteronomy 8: 1 – 5 (NLT)
“Be careful to obey all the commands I am giving you today. Then you will live and multiply, and you will enter and occupy the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors. 2 Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands. 3 Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that people do not live by bread alone; rather, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 4 For all these forty years your clothes didn’t wear out, and your feet didn’t blister or swell. 5 Think about it: Just as a parent disciplines a child, the Lord your God disciplines you for your own good.
1. Ber Sheva
2. En Avat
3. Wadi Qelt
4. Elah Valley
5. Qumran
Jeremiah 2: 2 (NLT)
“Go and shout this message to Jerusalem. This is what the Lord says: “I remember how eager you were to please me as a young bride long ago, how you loved me and followed me even through the barren wilderness.
1 Corinthians 10: 1 – 5 (NLT)
I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. 2 In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as followers of Moses. 3 All of them ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
6. Kadesh Barnea
7. Marah
Exodus 15: 22 – 27 (NLT)
Then Moses led the people of Israel away from the Red Sea, and they moved out into the desert of Shur. They traveled in this desert for three days without finding any water. 23 When they came to the oasis of Marah, the water was too bitter to drink. So they called the place Marah (which means “bitter”).
24 Then the people complained and turned against Moses. “What are we going to drink?” they demanded.
25 So Moses cried out to the Lord for help, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. Moses threw it into the water, and this made the water good to drink. It was there at Marah that the Lord set before them the following decree as a standard to test their faithfulness to him.
26 He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees, then I will not make you suffer any of the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you.” 27 After leaving Marah, the Israelites traveled on to the oasis of Elim, where they found twelve springs and seventy palm trees. They camped there beside the water.
Joshua 1: 16 – 18 (NLT)
They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. 17 Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you; only may the Lord your God be with you as He was with Moses. 18 Anyone who rebels against your command and does not obey your words in all that you command him, shall be put to death; only be strong and courageous.”
8. Rephidim
Exodus 17: 5 – 7 (NLT)
The Lord said to Moses, “Walk out in front of the people. Take your staff, the one you used when you struck the water of the Nile, and call some of the elders of Israel to join you. 6 I will stand before you on the rock at Mount Sinai. Strike the rock, and water will come gushing out. Then the people will be able to drink.” So Moses struck the rock as he was told, and water gushed out as the elders looked on.
Numbers 20: 1-13 (NLT)
In the first month of the year, the whole community of Israel arrived in the wilderness of Zin and camped at Kadesh. While they were there, Miriam died and was buried.
2 There was no water for the people to drink at that place, so they rebelled against Moses and Aaron.
3 The people blamed Moses and said, “If only we had died in the Lord’s presence with our brothers! 4 Why have you brought the congregation of the Lord’s people into this wilderness to die, along with all our livestock? 5 Why did you make us leave Egypt and bring us here to this terrible place? This land has no grain, no figs, no grapes, no pomegranates, and no water to drink!”
6 Moses and Aaron turned away from the people and went to the entrance of the Tabernacle, where they fell face down on the ground. Then the glorious presence of the Lord appeared to them, 7 and the Lord said to Moses, 8 “You and Aaron must take the staff and assemble the entire community. As the people watch, speak to the rock over there, and it will pour out its water…
You will provide enough water from the rock to satisfy the whole community and their livestock.” 9 So Moses did as he was told. He took the staff from the place where it was kept before the Lord. 10 Then he and Aaron summoned the people to come and gather at the rock. “Listen, you rebels!” he shouted. “Must we bring you water from this rock?” 11 Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with the staff,
and water gushed out. So the entire community and their livestock drank their fill. 12 But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust me enough to demonstrate my holiness to the people of Israel, you will not lead them into the land I am giving them!” 13 This place was known as the waters of Meribah (which means “arguing”) because there the people of Israel argued with the Lord, and there he demonstrated his holiness among them.
Deuteronomy 4: 10 – 12 (NLT)
There has never been another prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. 11 The Lord sent him to perform all the miraculous signs and wonders in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh, and all his servants, and his entire land. 12 With mighty power, Moses performed terrifying acts in the sight of all Israel.
LIKE A SHEPHERD- With My Whole Heart pt 5 // Sunday, March 12, 2023 // Jeff Hines, Lead Pastor
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Sunday — March 12, 2023
1. Tabernacle Replica
Genesis 2: 2 & 3 (NLT)
On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.
Exodus 31: 13 (NLT)
Tell the people of Israel: ‘Be careful to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you from generation to generation. It is given so you may know that I am the Lord, who makes you holy.
2. Abu Simbel
3. Holding a Man by the Hair
4. Preparing to Strike
5. Prepared to Pierce
6. En Avat
Exodus 3: 1 - 4 (NLT)
One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro,
the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up.
3 “This is amazing,” Moses said to himself. “Why isn’t that bush burning up? I must go see it.”
When the Lord saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
“Here I am!” Moses replied.
Exodus 3: 7 – 12 (NLT)
Then the Lord told him, “I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live. 9 Look! The cry of the people of Israel has reached me, and I have seen how harshly the Egyptians abuse them. 10 Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?”
12 God answered, “I will be with you. And this is your sign that I am the one who has sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God at this very mountain.”
Ephesians 2: 10 (NLT)
… 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.
Deuteronomy 18: 15 – 22 (NLT)
Moses continued, “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. 16 For this is what you yourselves requested of the Lord your God when you were assembled at Mount Sinai. You said, ‘Don’t let us hear the voice of the Lord our God anymore or see this blazing fire, for we will die.’ 17 “Then the Lord said to me, ‘What they have said is right. 18 I will raise up a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell the people everything I command him. 19 I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to the messages the prophet proclaims on my behalf. 20 But any prophet who falsely claims to speak in my name or who speaks in the name of another god must die.’
21 “But you may wonder, ‘How will we know whether or not a prophecy is from the Lord?’ 22 If the prophet speaks in the Lord’s name but his prediction does not happen or come true, you will know that the Lord did not give that message. That prophet has spoken without my authority and need not be feared.
7. Ber Sheva
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9. Wadi Qelt
10. En Avat
11. Elah Valley
12. Qumran
Psalm 77: 20 (ESV)
You led your people like a flock
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 78: 52 (NLT)
…he led his own people like a flock of sheep,
guiding them safely through the wilderness.
Isaiah 40: 11 (NLT)
He will feed his flock like a shepherd.
He will carry the lambs in his arms,
holding them close to his heart.
Psalm 95: 7 & 8 (ESV)
For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture,
and the sheep of his hand.
Today, if you hear his voice,
8do not harden your hearts…
MAKE ROOM - With My Whole Heart pt 4 // Sunday, March 6, 2023 // Jeff Hines, lead pastor
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Sunday — February 19, 2023
Make Room
How did God help the Hebrews remember the teachings and experience of Sinai?
How do you keep the fire of Sinai alive?
How do you maintain the passion the farther you hike, the hotter it gets, the more tired we become?
Not for days, or 40 Years,
But FOREVER…
1. Timnah
2. Replica of Tabernacle
3. The Altar
4. The Bronze Sea
5. Inner Court
6. Inside the Inner Court
7. Menorah
8. Shew Bread
9. Altar of Incense
10. Altar of Incense Top View
Exodus 33: 20 (NLT)
…you may not look directly at my face, for no one may see me and live.
11. The Vail
12. Ark of the Covenant
Two Parts
1. Box: Acacia Wood overlaid with Gold… Held the Tablets of the 10 Commandments
2. The Mercy Seat: Lid and Cherubim carved from a solid piece of Gold…
God lived between the Cherubim and spoke to Moses from there…
What is God trying to say from this sanctuary?
Exodus 25: 8 (NLT)
Have the people of Israel build me a holy sanctuary so I can live among them.
1 Corinthians 3: 16 (ESV)
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Exodus 25: 1 The Lord said to Moses
Exodus 30: 11 The Lord said to Moses
Exodus 30: 17 The Lord said to Moses
Exodus 30: 22 The Lord said to Moses
Exodus 30: 23 The Lord said to Moses
Exodus 31: 1 The Lord said to Moses
Exodus 31: 12 The Lord said to Moses
7 Times God spoke concerning the building of the Tabernacle…
7 times God spoke in the Creation Narrative…
Compare the 7th sayings:
Genesis 2: 2 & 3 (NLT)
On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.
Exodus 31: 13 (NLT)
Tell the people of Israel: ‘Be careful to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you from generation to generation. It is given so you may know that I am the Lord, who makes you holy.
This is a New Creation…
Genesis: And God saw…
Exodus: And Moses saw…
Genesis: And God saw that it was good…
Exodus: And Moses saw that it was good…
Genesis: All the work of creating was complete…
Exodus: And Moses completed the work…
Genesis: And God blessed all he had made…
Exodus: And Moses blessed all THEY had made…
WITH MY WHOLE HEART - pt 3- Make Room // Sunday, February 19, 2023 // Jeff Hines, Lead Pastor
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Make Room
1. Timnah
2. Replica of Tabernacle
3. The Altar
4. The Bronze Sea
5. Inner Court
6. Inside the Inner Court
7. Menorah
8. Shew Bread
9. Altar of Incense
10. Altar of Incense Top View
Exodus 33: 20 (NLT)
…you may not look directly at my face, for no one may see me and live.
11. The Vail
12. Ark of the Covenant
What is God trying to say from this sanctuary?
Exodus 25: 8 (NLT)
Have the people of Israel build me a holy sanctuary so I can live among them.
1 Corinthians 3: 16 (ESV)
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Genesis 2: 2 & 3 (NLT)
On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.
Exodus 31: 13 (NLT)
Tell the people of Israel: ‘Be careful to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you from generation to generation. It is given so you may know that I am the Lord, who makes you holy.
WITH MY WHOLE HEART - pt 2- Build // Sunday, February 12. 2023 // Jeff Hines, Lead Pastor
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Sunday — February 12, 2023
BUILD
1. Timnah, Israel
2. Small Egyptian Temple
3. Abu Simbel, Egypt
4. Leading the Charge
5. Kadesh Camp
6. Amwun Division
7. Winged Representation of Horus
8. Ark of the Covenant
9. Tabernacle Replica
Exodus 25: 8 (NLT)
Have the people of Israel build me a holy sanctuary so I can live among them.
Exodus 33: 14 (ESV)
My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.
WITH MY WHOLE HEART - A Place of Remembrance // Sunday, February 5, 2023 // Jeff Hines, Lead Pastor
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Sunday — February 5, 2023
A Place of Remembrance
Exodus 25: 8 (NLT)
Have the people of Israel build me a holy sanctuary so I can live among them.
How would God’s people and remember Him?
Exodus 6: 6 – 8 (NLT)
“Therefore, say to the people of Israel: ‘I am the Lord. I will free you from your oppression and will rescue you from your slavery in Egypt. I will redeem you with a powerful arm and great acts of judgment. 7 I will claim you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God who has freed you from your oppression in Egypt. 8 I will bring you into the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as your very own possession. I am the Lord!’”
Exodus 6: 9 (NLT)
So Moses told the people of Israel what the Lord had said, but they refused to listen anymore. They had become too discouraged by the brutality of their slavery.
Exodus 15
11 “Who is like you among the gods, O Lord— glorious in holiness, awesome in splendor, performing great wonders? 13 “With your unfailing love you lead the people you have redeemed. In your might, you guide them to your sacred home. 17 You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain— the place, O Lord, reserved for your own dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established. 18 The Lord will reign forever and ever!”
What impact did the Hebrews newly acquired knowledge of God have on their hearts?
What picture of hope and their future relationship with God begin to emerge?
Exodus 19: 3 – 8 (NLT)
Then Moses climbed the mountain to appear before God.
The Lord called to him from the mountain and said,
“Give these instructions to the family of Jacob; announce it to the descendants of Israel: 4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians.
You know how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
5 Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant,
you will be my own special treasure from among all the peoples on earth;
for all the earth belongs to me. 6 And you will be my kingdom of priests, my holy nation.’ This is the message you must give to the people of Israel.”
7 So Moses returned from the mountain and called together the elders of the people and told them everything the Lord had commanded him.
8 And all the people responded together, “We will do everything the Lord has commanded.” So Moses brought the people’s answer back to the Lord.
Do you think the Hebrews fully understood the kind of relationship God desired to have with them?
Exodus 19: 16 – 19 (NLT)
On the morning of the third day, thunder roared and lightning flashed, and a dense cloud came down on the mountain. There was a long, loud blast from a ram’s horn, and all the people trembled. 17 Moses led them out from the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 18 All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in the form of fire. The smoke billowed into the sky like smoke from a brick kiln, and the whole mountain shook violently. 19 As the blast of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God thundered his reply.
How do you think you would have felt standing their witnessing this event?
Do you think this experience would influence the Hebrews faith and commitment to “do everything the Lord has commanded.”?
How long do you think this experience would impact the Hebrews?
Exodus 32: 1 (NLT)
When the people saw how long it was taking Moses to come back down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron.
“Come on,” they said, “make us some gods who can lead us. We don’t know what happened to this fellow Moses, who brought us here from the land of Egypt.”
GENEROUS // Sunday, January 22, 2023 // Jeff Hines, lead pastor
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Sunday — January 29, 2023
Generous
2 Corinthians 9: 11 (NLT)
…you will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous.
And when we take your gifts to those who need them, they will thank God.
Proverbs 1: 25 (NLT)
The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.
Psalm 112: 5 (NLT)
Good comes to those who lend money generously and conduct their business fairly.
“A heart touched by God, gives generously, and starts with the tithe.”
I Always ONLY Ask you to be obedient!
2 Corinthians 9: 7 (NLT)
You must each decide in your heart how much to give.
And don’t give reluctantly or in response to pressure.
“For God loves a person who gives cheerfully.”
Giving is still LESS than during the Great Depression!!!
If every church attendee in America tithed = $165 billions more !!!
Matthew 23: 23 (ESV)
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Luke 3: 11 (NLT)
… If you have two shirts, give one to the poor.
Luke 6: 29 (NLT)
… If someone demands your coat, offer your shirt also.
Luke 19 Zacchaeus…
I will give half my wealth to the poor, Lord, and if I have cheated people on their taxes, I will give them back four times as much!”
Salvation has come…
Mark 10: 21 Rich Young Ruler…
Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor,
and you will have treasure in heaven.
Luke 14: 33 (NLT)
So you cannot become my disciple without giving up everything you own.
Leviticus 27: 30 (NLT)
One-tenth of the produce of the land, whether grain from the fields
or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord and must be set apart to him as holy.
If you can’t live on 90%, You can’t live on 100%
~ Dave Ramsey
Give to God what is right, Not what is left.
~ Pastor Adrian Rogers
I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling.
I always saw more prosperity and happiness among those families who tithe than among those who didn’t.
~ Sir John Templeton
WHY CHRISTMAS? // Sunday, December 11, 2022 // Jeff Hines, lead Pastor
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Sunday — December 11, 2022
Why Christmas
1. Christmas Tree
2. Santa
3. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
4. Frosty the Snowman
5. Buddy the Elf
Genesis 3: 1 – 13 (NLT)
The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”
2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied. 3 “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”
4 “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman. 5 “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”
6 The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her.
So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too. 7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves. 8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees. 9 Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.”
11 “Who told you that you were naked?” the Lord God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?”
12 The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?”
“The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.”
Genesis 4: 8
Cain kills Able = Jealousy
Genesis 4: 23
Lamech (Descendent of Cain)
kills a young man an is Unrepentant
Genesis 6: 1 - 8
Human Corruption / Evil Increases…
Genesis 6: 9 - 8: 19
God sends the Flood…
Genesis 8: 20 – 9: 28
God re-establishes dominion
Genesis 11
Tower of Babel
Humans are Self-Sufficient
Colossians 1:16 (ESV)
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things were created through him and for him.
Psalm 24: 1 (NLT)
The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him.
Psalm 5: 4 (ESV)
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.
