5 - Humility

Showing Comfort

2 - Mask Mandates and the Church (Part 2)

Part 2

1. Would the Real Caesar Please Stand Up?

   Be Subject to Your Rulers (1 Peter 2:13-14; Matthew 22:17-21)

   Sphere Sovereignty

2. Dangers to Guard Against

   Being Defined by Masks

   Vilifying Those Who Disagree

1 - Mask Mandates and the Church (Part 1)

Part 1—Strength, Weakness, and Fear

1. Talking About Differences

   • Ephesians 4:15—Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

   • Romans 12:10—Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

   • 1 Corinthians 13:2—And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

2. The Stronger Serve the Weaker (Romans 14)

3. Fear Not (Deuteronomy 31:8)

4 - Perseverance

4 - Truthfulness

3 - Trust

2 - Courage

1 - What is Virtue?

Identity

5 - Wisdom, Repentance, and Life (Job 42:1-17)

Biblical wisdom teaches us that repentance is the road to grace and life.

1. Wisdom and Repentance (vv. 1-6)

   1. Now I See (vv. 1-5)

   2. The Way of Wisdom (v. 6; cf. v. 10)

2. Restoration (vv. 7-17)

   1. The Recognition of God’s Friendship (vv. 2-6)

   2. Restoration of Job’s Honor (vv. 7-9; cf. Job 29:6-30:15)

   3. The Restoration of Job’s Wealth (vv. 10-17; Job 29:2-5)

   4. The Restoration of Life (42:10ff)

3. Vindication

   1. The Vindication of God’s Grace

   2. Suffering and Wisdom

4 - Wrestling with God (Job 38:1-41:34)

God finally gives Job his audience and demonstrates that Job’s words have been both foolish and sinful.

1. Round One (38:1-40:5)

   1. A Battle of Wits (38:1-3)

   2. God’s Wisdom Demonstrated…

      1. …on the Earth (38:4-21)

      2. …in the Heavens (38:22-38)

      3. …in Animals (38:39-39:30)

   3. The Silence is Broken (Sort of) (40:1-3)

   4. Job Remembers His Place (40:4-5)

2. Round Two (40:6-41:34)

   1. “We’re Not Done” (40:6-14)

   2. A Battle of Champions (40:15-41:34)

3 - Why? (Job 2:11 - 3:26)

Job loses his way (of wisdom) because he seeks to make sense of his suffering with the logic of this world.

1. Job’s Counselors (2:11-13)

   1. Job’s Trials Continue

   2. A Funeral for the Living (vv. 12-13; cf. 1 Samuel 31:13)

2. Preferring Death to Life (3:1-26)

   1. The Despondency of Job (3:1-10)

   2. Accusation Without Cursing (3:1-10)

   3. Despising the Day He Was Born (3:11-19)

   4. To Die is Gain? (3:20-22; cf. Philippians 1:21-26)

   5. Finding Fault with God (3:23-26)

2 - Job’s Wisdom Tested (Job 1:6 - 2:10)

Job serves as a demonstration that, by grace, God is able to preserve sinful man against the attacks of the devil, something righteous Adam could not do on his own.

1. The Accuser & the Accused (1:6-22)

   1. The Heavenly Assembly (v. 6-12)

   2. Job’s Trial & Response (vv. 13-22)

2. The Accuser Returns (2:1-6)

   1. The (Next) Heavenly Assembly (vv. 1-6)

   2. Job’s Patient Wisdom (vv. 7-10)

1 - Who Was Job? (Job 1:1-5)

Job was a real man who lived sometime around the time of the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) who, though not sinless, sincerely sought after God, understanding his need for a Redeemer

1. Would the Real Job Please Stand Up

   1. What do you think of when you think of Job?

   2. Theodicy (the Problem of Evil / Suffering)

   3. Type of Christ

2. Background

   1. Wisdom Literature (Proverbs 1:7; Ecclesiastes 12:13)

   2. Historical Context

   3. Recording

3. How it All Began

   1. Blameless and Upright (v. 1-3; cf. Genesis 1:28)

   2. Sinful (v. 4-5)

   3. A Picture of Christ First Petition and the First Commandment

Membership Vows

Membership vows are an invitation for the church to partner with you on your Christian journey and to hold you accountable to your vows.

Vow #1—Do you believe the Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, to be the Word of God, and its doctrine of salvation to be the perfect and only true doctrine of salvation? 

• Membership vows are an _____________ for others to hold you ___________ to _______ _________.

Vow  #2—Do you believe in one living and true God, in whom eternally there are three distinct persons—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit—who are the same in being and equal in power and glory, and that Jesus Christ is God the Son, come in the flesh?

• Membership vows mean that you believe there is ______ God in _______ persons and that Jesus is _________, become __________.

Vow #3—Do you confess that because of your sinfulness you abhor and humble yourself before God, that you repent of your sin, and that you trust for salvation not in yourself but in Jesus Christ alone?

• Membership vows mean that you understand that you are ______________ who needs ______________ from ______________ and ______________.

Vow #4—Do you acknowledge Jesus Christ as your sovereign Lord, and do you promise that, in reliance on the grace of God, you will serve him with all that is in you, forsake the world, resist the devil, put to death your sinful deeds and desires, and lead a godly life?

• Being a Christian means that you are seeking to live in ______________ to God and encouraging ______________ to do the ______________.

Vow #5—Do you promise to participate faithfully in this church's worship and service, to submit in the Lord to its government, and to heed its discipline, even in case you should be found delinquent in doctrine or life?

• Membership vows are for those who ____________ and ____________ participate in worship with their ___________, ___________, and ____________. (Hebrews 10:24-25)

• Membership vows are for those who ____________ their responsibility to ______________ the church family with the ______________ God has given them. (1 Peter 4:10)

• Membership vows are for those who are ready to submit their ______________ and ____________

The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

6 - A Biblical Understanding of Fear

5 - A Biblical Understanding of Fear

4 - A Biblical Understanding of Fear