Bible Talk: What We Believe: Ministry and Spiritual Gifts.

Romans 11:33 – 12:8 

Ephesians 4:1-166 

14 July 2019

David Simmons

 God gives spiritual gifts

for ministry

to build the church

God gives spiritual gifts

If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides 

1 Pet 4:11 

But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. This is why it says: 

“When he ascended on high,

he took many captives

and gave gifts to his people.” 

Eph. 4:7-8

For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. 

Rom 12:4-

God gives spiritual gifts

for ministry

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 

1 Peter 4:10

God gives spiritual gifts

for ministry (serving)

don’t give up meeting together, 

as some are in the habit of doing, 

but encouraging one another—

and all the more as you see the Day approaching. 

Hebrews 10:25

whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. 

Mark 10:43-45

whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. 

Mark 10:43-45

God gives spiritual gifts

for ministry (serving)

to build the church

 …to equip his people for works of service, so thatthe body of Christ may be built up 

Eph 4:12

until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. 

Eph 4:13

What Now?

Time To Serve

I urge you, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. - Rom. 12:1 

I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. - Eph 4:1

What Now?

Make Time To Serve

Bible Talk: Malachi : The Penultimate Prophet.

Malachi 1:1-13 

Malachi 3:1-5 

7 July 2019

Neil Atwood

How we got here

Who is this God?

Israel's God is the 
Lord almighty

“When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? 
When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals, is that not wrong? 
Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? 
Would he accept you?" says the LORD Almighty.
Malachi 1:8

“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors…
Jonah 1:10

The charge sheet

“You have wearied the Lord with your words. And you don't even know how. 
You ask how have we wearied him. 
Here's how. By saying "Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them, or by asking "Where is the God of justice?
Malachi 2:17

“So I'll come to put you on trial. 
I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud labourers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, 
and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me," says the Lord Almighty”
Malachi 3:5

“…You are under a curse-your whole nation-because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
Malachi 3:8

Where does that leave us?

God is still a mighty king

A labour of love

Serve from your heart

Bible Talk: What We Believe: Our Beliefs about the Church

Ephesians 2:11-22;
3:14-21

Hebrews 9:11-14; 
10:19-25

30 June 2019

David Simmons

What is church?

The context of church

you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you used to live 

Ephesians 2:1-2

remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 

Ephesians 2:12

What is church?

The creation of church

What is church?

The end of church

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb. 

Revelation 7:9-10

don’t give up meeting together, 

as some are in the habit of doing, 

but encouraging one another—

and all the more as you see the Day approaching. 

Hebrews 10:25

Why go to church?

because we ought to

because we need to

because we want to

Bible Talk: What We Believe: Our Beliefs about the Assurance of Believers

Bible Talk: What We Believe: Our Beliefs about the Assurance of Believers.

Jeremiah 31:31-40 

Romans 8:28-39 

23 June 2019

Josh Wheeler

Can we be sure?

1.  Reason to Doubt

2.  Reason to be Sure

3.  Putting it together

4.  Three Doubts

5.  Building our Faith

3 Doubts:

1.  Not Enough Faith

2.  Not Godly Enough

3.  Not Feeling it

Building our Assurance

Bible Talk: What We Believe About Jesus Return and Final Judgement.

John 5:21-30 

Revelation 20:11 – 21:8  

16 June 2019

Roger Cunningham

Desire for justice

The judge, judgement & justice

For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

Acts 17:31

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, 

John 5:21-22

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

1 Thessalonians 4:16

… people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,

Hebrews 9:27

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

2 Corinthians 5:10

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. 

Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.

Revelation 21:11-12

The judge, judgement & justice

For God does not show favoritism.

Romans 2:11

Judged on our response to him

Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

Romans 6:29

 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned. By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

Romans 5:28-30

Judged on our response to him

Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation,

2 Peter 3:15

Receiving eternal heaven or hell

They will go away to eternal punishment, 

but the righteous to eternal life

Matthew 25:46

Receiving eternal heaven or hell

Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. For we live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 

2 Corinthians 5:6-9

Be wise, be comforted and be watchful

“Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn.  If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to everyone: ‘Watch!’”

Mark 13:35-37

Bible Talk: What We Believe : Salvation.

Bible Talk: What We Believe : Salvation.

Ephesians 1:3-14 

Ephesians 2:1-10 

9 June 2019

Roger Cunningham

Salvation from death & wrath

Salvation by grace

Salvation received

They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10

Salvation received- Repentance

Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death

2 Corinthians 7:10

Salvation received

-      Repentance

-      Faith

Faith is – 

Strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof.

Complete trust or confidence in someone or something.

Oxford English Dictionary

The world

Faith + Works => Salvation

Salvation unites us with Christ

Salvation for good works

God’s Word

Salvation + Faith => Works

Salvation for good works

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17

Bible Talk: What We Believe : The Holy Spirit.

Bible Talk: What We Believe : The Holy Spirit.

John 15:26 - 16:15 

Ephesians 1:3-14 

2 June 2019

David Simmons 

Holy Spirit: the other guy?

the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 

Genesis 1:2

Jesus and the Spirit

But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 

John 16:7

The Spirit today

Regeneration

&

Sanctification

Regeneration

conviction of sin

When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment

John 16:8

Regeneration

•      conviction of sin

•      believe in Jesus

•      sealed by the Spirit

And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,  

Ephesians 1:13

who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession — to the praise of his glory.

Ephesians 1:14

Sanctification

•      preparation

•      growing in holiness

•      progressively

Regeneration

&

Sanctification

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Romans 8:11

                                     Wow!

                                     What Now?

What has God been teaching you lately? and stories to share.

Bible Talk: What We Believe : Jesus – The Person and Work of Christ.

John 1:1-18 

Hebrews 2:5-18 

26 May 2019

Roger Cunningham

God become man

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 

John 1:1-3

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:14

Fully God

For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form

Colossians 2:9

Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—

Hebrews 2:14

God become man

Prophet              Revealer

Priest                 Redeemer & Intercessor

King                    Ruler

Prophet              Revealer

No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God andis in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.

John 1:18

In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.                                                       Hebrews 1:1-2

Prophet              Revealer

Priest                 Redeemer & Intercessor

For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 2:17

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Mark 10:45

King           Ruler

regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, 4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 1:3

God become man

Bible Talk: What We Believe : Humanity.

Bible Talk: What We Believe : Humanity.

Genesis 3:1-24

Romans 5:12-19

19 May 2019

David Simmons

Humanity

Creation

God created mankind in his own image,

in the image of God he created them;

male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:27-28

God blessed them and said to them,

“Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Genesis 1:27-28

Creation

Fall

“you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Genesis 2:17

autonomy

= self law

“ I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.”

Luke 12:4-5

Creation

Fall

total depravity

total inability

“For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”

Romans 8:7–8

Heidelberg Catechism

A.D. 1563

2. Q: What do you need to know in order to live and die in the joy of relationship with God?

2. Q: What do you need to know in order to live and die in the joy of relationship with God?

‘proto euangelion’

the first gospel

Bible Talk: What We Believe : The Bible.

Bible Talk: What We Believe : The Bible.

Psalm 119:1-16,
then 105-112 

2 Timothy 3:10-17
then James 1:19-25 

12 May 2019

Roger Cunningham

The Bible

How we view the Bible

Jesus’ view: 

The supreme authority

Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

Matthew 22:29

He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.

He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Luke 24:44-47

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

John 14:26

“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.

John 15:26

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3:16

God-breathed

In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.

Hebrews 1:1-2

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:14

Transformational

... from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:15

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16

Without error

Sufficient

As a result the church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted, does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honoured with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence”

Roman Catholic Church Catechism   1992

Self-authenticating

How should we respond?

Read it

Be transformed by it

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:2

Sit under the supreme authority of it

Bible Talk: What We Believe : Our Beliefs About God.

Psalm 96:1-13 

John 14:1-27 

28 March 2019

Roger Cunningham

Big questions

Our worldview

We are all theologians

Our beliefs about God

He’s the one true God

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Deuteronomy 6:4

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Deuteronomy 6:4

I am the Lord, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God.

Isaiah 45:5

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live;

1 Corinthians 8:5-6

He’s the creator God

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1

I am the Lord, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself,

Isaiah 44:24

He’s the sovereign God

Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.” The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.

Psalm 96:10

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Timothy 1:17

Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:22

He’s the saving God

And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;

Exodus 34:6-7

One God, in three persons

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.

1 Corinthians 8:5-6

Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.

John 14:9

One God, in three persons

Relationships are at the heart of the universe

The author has authority

Glorify God

Westminster Confession

Question 1:

What is the chief end of man?

Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever.

Bible Talk: Easter: Disciples: Loved Hated, Helped

John 15:9 – 16:4a 

2 Corinthians 2:14 – 3:3 

28 March 2019

David Simmons

Disciples are Loved 

Disciples are Hated 

Disciples are Helped

Disciples are Loved 

 LovedbyJesus

   =

LovelikeJesus

I have loved you

      remainin my love

           keep my commands

                 Loveeach other

                      as I have loved you

Disciples are Hated 

 Disciples are Helped

 For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life.

2 Cor. 2:15-16

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose”

Jim Elliot, 1956 

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. 

John 16:33 

Bible Talk: Easter: Our Life Giver

John 2:13-22

John 20:19-31

21 March 2019

Roger Cunningham

* Spoiler Alert *

The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”  John 2:18

Jesus is in charge

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” John 2:19

Jesus is in charge

In charge over life and death

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?” John 11:25-26

In charge over life and death

Our life giver

Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.  John 20:30-31

Our life giver

Bible Talk: Easter: God’s love on Good Friday

John 19:1-16a 

John 3:16-21

19 March 2019

David Simmons

John 3:16

Who did God love?

How did God love?

Why did God love?

Who did God love?

whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them. 

John 3:36

The Lord is not slow to fulfil his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, 

not wishing that any should perish, 

but that all should reach repentance.” 

2 Peter 3:9

But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

Luke 13:3, 5

How did God love?

In the beginning was the Word, 

and the Word was with God, 

and the Word was God.

John 1:1

How did God love?

Now this is eternal life: 

that they know you, the only true God, 

and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

John 17:3

John 3:16

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; 

and that is what we are. 

1 John 3:1

We must believe in Jesus

We must love perishing people

Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

John 20:30-31

We must believe in Jesus

We must love perishing people

Bible Talk : Daniel : Hope for the wise

Daniel 10:1-21

1 Peter 1:1-12 

14 April 2019

Roger Cunningham

 Is God in control?

 More difficulties to come

 Allow your expectations to be shaped by God

History is under His control

He will raise the dead

“What must we do to do the works God requires?” Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

John 6:28-29

He will raise the dead

In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade.

1 Peter 1:3-4

Hope shapes how we live now

With others who trust Jesus

With those who don’t trust Jesus

What else might it mean for you?

Bible Talk : Daniel : Lord Hear and Act

Daniel 9:1-19 

Daniel 9:20-27

7 April 2019

David Simmons

Daniel’s Prayer

What prompted Daniel to pray? v1-3

‘ This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfil my good promise to bring you back to this place”’ 

Jeremiah 29:10

Daniel’s Prayer

What does Daniel pray? 

v4-19

Confession

v5-14

Petition 

v15-19

“I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

Exodus 9:16

God’s Answer

v20-27

Q: When did God do all this?

A: Jesus 

“For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ.”

2 Corinthians 1:20

Prayer shaped 

by the Word of God

A - Adoration

C- Confession

T- Thanksgiving

S- Supplication

Bible Talk : Daniel : Prepared for the end in sight.

Daniel 8:1-27 

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

31 March 2019

Roger Cunningham

Jesus is Lord

A recurring pattern

How long?

An end will come

God with us

Get in touch with reality

With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:11-12

G-athering as God’s people

R-eaching Others

O-beying Jesus

W-illing Giving

T-alking to God

H-earing God Speak

Bible Talk : Daniel : The Everlasting Kingdom.

Daniel 7:1-14 

Acts 4:23-31

24 March 2019

Roger Cunningham

What sort of reactions?

A dramatic change

Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds

Daniel 1:17

… “Surely your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery.”

Daniel 2:47

A dramatic change

The four beasts

The throne room of God

What’s it all mean?

World history is going somewhere

Jesus is our ruler & judge

We will rule with him

What the world is coming to

Bible Talk : Daniel : Faith that takes you to the lion’s den.

Daniel 6:1-28

Revelation 20:11 – 21:4

17 March 2019

Josh Wheeler

Who are you counting on to save you?

Is God okay with shifting morals occasionally to get by? Or does he want us to suffer for standing firm in our faith?

It pleased Dariusa to appoint 120 satrapsb to rule throughout the kingdom, with three administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel.

vv. 1–2

The administrators and the satraps tried to find grounds for chargesa against Daniel

v. 4

anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next thirty days, except to you, Your Majesty, shall be thrown into the lions’ den.

v. 7

A. Compromise

B. Stand firm

 he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God

v. 10

Daniel would rather be thrown to his certain death, than compromise his faith

So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions’ den

v. 16

“My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouth of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight.” 

v. 22

“For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end.

He rescues and he saves; he performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”

vv. 26–27

A Challenge,

A Hope

Everyone will hate you because of me…

Mark. 13.13

Challenge:

Look to Jesus

to save you and

stand firm in your faith!

Hope:

God will save us

Everyone will hate you because of me…

But the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.

Mark. 13.13

Hope:

God will save us

“‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.””

Revelation 21.4

Hope:

God will save us

So who are you counting on to save you?

The powers of this world.

Or the living God who rescues and saves?

Bible Talk : Daniel : The Lord, pride and humility

Daniel 5:1-16

Daniel 5:17-31

10 March 2019

Roger Cunningham

Why is humility so important?

Authority

Judgement

The Lord rules over all

Humility

The heart is deceitful above all things
    and beyond cure.
    Who can understand it?

“I the Lord search the heart
    and examine the mind,
to reward each person according to their conduct,
    according to what their deeds deserve.”

Jeremiah 17:9-10

Christ Jesus, Who, being in very nature God,
    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;

rather, he made himself nothing
    by taking the very nature of a servant,
    being made in human likeness.

And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death—
        even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:5-12

Humility

“God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”

1 Peter 5:5

In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

Acts 17:30-31

Humility