Equipped Workshop hosted by Lehman Avenue church of Christ

"Love One Another" by Maddox Wilson

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 1:10PM Auditorium Speaker
 
Speaker: Maddox Wilson
 
John 13:34 - 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 15:12 - 12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Ephesians 4:32 - 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
1 Corinthians 13:4-13 - 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Luke 6:31 - 31 And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
1 John 4:11 - 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Matthew 22:36-40 - 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
 
Using a few points Maddox illustrates the importance of love for each other and how we can show this love in our lives. We should follow the example shown by Christ. The power of love is in the actions we take.
 
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsFBdTXL1Vc&list=PL6RXulneS57-f64A4gRQRIrrFFpl2lKuj&index=38
 
Duration 4:57

Youth: "How John Helps Me Be a Better Bible Student" by Justin Rogers

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 11:00AM Tent Speaker
 
Speaker: Justin Rogers
 
General Principles - Read the Bible
Pay attention
Frequency and usage of words
Believe
verb 85x
Noun (belief) - never used in John
World
John 7:7, etc.
Ask Why questions
Thomas not mentioned much in Matthew, Mark, and Luke
Big role in John
Doubting Thomas
Even an apostle was a skeptic of Jesus
Themes in John
Jesus as the Word
Logos vs rhema (John 1:1-3, 14)
Jesus is the wisdom/mental process whereby the world is brought into existence
Jesus as a wonder-worker
Miracles were not the end, but way to end
Water to wine (power over sustenance)
Healing of nobleman’s son (power of distance)
Healing of the lame man (power over the body)
Feeding 5,000
Walking on water (power over water)
Healing the blind man (power over the soul)
Raising Lazarus
Jesus as the Passover lamb
Announced by John (John 1:29)
Explained at the crucifixion (John 19:39 ~ Ex. 12:46, 1 Corinthians 5:9)
Explains the “Last Supper” in John
Teaching Techniques in John
One-on-one conversations
Extended discussions with individuals more than lecture crowds
Opposition from Outsiders
The world?
The Jews? (John 16:2)
Primary persecutors of early Church, not Romans or Greeks
Christian groups? (John 20:25)
Doubting Thomas
“Did God really take on flesh and suffer?”
Oneness of all believers
John 17:20-21 probably means John’s readers are under persecution and are willing to compromise (Revelation 2-3)
Takeaways from John
Jesus is God
John 20:30-31
Jesus is Man
John 6:53-56 flesh and blood
Makes clear he is human
Not a discussion on Lord’s supper?
The Spirit Is Present
Half of the farewell discourse consists of discussions about the paracletos or pneuma tes aletheias (14:15-17)
Obedience is expression of love not oppression
 
Video: https://youtu.be/mPTIjwL36ws?feature=shared
 
Duration 38:45

"The Good Shepherd" by Andrew Itson

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 11:00AM Auditorium Speaker
 
Speaker: Andrew Itson
 
John 10 -
I Am the Good Shepherd
10 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. 2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” 6 This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
7 So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. 17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”
19 There was again a division among the Jews because of these words. 20 Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?” 21 Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
I and the Father Are One
22 At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon. 24 So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” 25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me, 26 but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”
31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” 33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— 36 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38 but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39 Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
40 He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. 41 And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” 42 And many believed in him there.
 
I am The Good Shepherd
The Message of the Gospel is this: God Became Human so That We Would Have a Shield.
Context: So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, Truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep" - John 10:7
On the other side of the door is more freedom not less.
Why do we need a shepherd?
Sheep get lost easily
Sheep are defenseless
Sheep are very stubborn
Sheep are filthy
Everyone has a shepherd
_______ is going to fill the place of shepherd if you don't put Jesus where he says he deserves to be in your life.
The test of a shepherd's goodness comes down to what the shepherd does when life gets hard. - John 10:12-13
What makes him a good shepherd? -
Ownership - John 10:13
God's ownership in Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2     He makes me lie down in green pastures.He leads me beside still waters.3     He restores my soul.He leads me in paths of righteousness    for his name's sake.
4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,    I will fear no evil,for you are with me;    your rod and your staff,    they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me    in the presence of my enemies;you anoint my head with oil;    my cup overflows
 Friendship - John 10:3-4; 14How do I know it is his voice? Your shepherd is whoever gets your ear the most.
Partnership - Luke 15
Passion for the lost - John 10:16; Luke 15
Church leadership has always been about shepherd leadership
Acts 20:28 - 28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
1 Peter 5:1-2 - So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: 2 shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly;
Hebrews 13:17 - 17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Qualities of a shepherd-leader
Example
Trustworthy
Provision / Protection
Sacrificial
Relational
Visionary
 
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayka7hN5DAs
 
Duration 37:43

Youth: "Learning Prayer From Jesus" by Eric D. Garner

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 10:00AM Tent Speaker
 
Speaker: Eric D. Garner
 
The ears of the Lord are open to the righteous.
There are many blessings from being a Christian
Because Christians are in Christ then there must also be an outside of Christ. But there is no condemnation for those who walk in Christ.
2 Peter1:3-4 We have God’s word.
We can have fellowship. 1 John.
We get to worship
We can pray to God and have his attention. Hebrews 4. God talks to us through study but we talk to God through prayer.
Things to learn from Jesus's prayer, Luke 11
Adoration for God. He wants us to view him as a caring father. Ephesians 3:14-15
Make sure to confess. Pray with humility. 1 John 1:9.
Thank God. James 1:17. Everything good comes from God. We are blessed.
Ask for supplications. 1 Timothy 2:1-2 
Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_58d9Xh9E5E
 
Duration 40:28

Leadership / Preaching: "Learning Mentoring and Discipling From Jesus" by Mike Vestal

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 10:00AM MPR 1 Speaker
 
Speaker: Mike Vestal
 
Relationships are precious.
Relationships are hard.
 
Relationships with others will be hard when relationships with God are not what they ought to be.
 
Mentoring - Wise, experienced, and Godly advice from a friend and brother
Some people are very wise, Godly, and experienced but not a friend.
 
Everyone needs someone in their life like this
 
Discipling - a follower, a learner, an understudy, and he seeks to be as close to the mentor as possible
Some people who just follow are groupies and some follow loosely
 
John 1-11
Jesus is ultimate relationship guru
Relationships are precious, but relationships are hard, but not in the Godhead.
 
Hebrews 2:17-18
 
We have to take care of our relationship with God!
 
John 2 
first miracle recorded
"Whatever he says to you, do it," Mary said
Jesus is dealing with desperate people; Jesus is present
Running out of wine was a major breach of protocol and could be taken to court
 
John 3
Jesus is a mentor to religious people
Nicodemus
Sometimes religious people don't get what it means to follow Jesus
We have to get over ourselves
 
John 4
Problem people - women at the well
The two people could not be more apart
Friend of tax collectors and sinners
"Sinners are loved here"
A village comes to near Jesus because of a woman
 
John 5
Verses 1-11 Jesus is a mentor to a sick and lonely man
You will never look at the face of another person that does not matter to God
No one to help me get in the water to get healed
 
John 7
Jesus is a mentor to unbelieving people
His own brothers did not believe in Him
Few are capable of saying more hurtful and harmful things than our own family
 
John 8
Jesus is a mentor to sinful people
Woman caught in adultery
Behold a lamb that takes away the sins of the world
Jesus is bilingual - speaks grace and truth! And so ought we
 
John 9
Jesus mentors mistreated people
Man born blind
Only person that really sees was blind
 
John 11
A mentor to the grieving
Grieved as He hung on cross too
Lazarus is dead
Martha needed truth, a reminder of the resurrection
Mary needed to weep
 
The Seven Desires of Every Heart - book
Psalm 37:4, 43:4
Everyone wants to be heard and understood
Everyone needs affirmation
Who you are and what you do are valued
Psalm 8
Everyone needs blessing, to be cherished
Every person needs safety
We seek to give them that in Christ
Every person needs to be touched
Jesus went out of the way to touch lepers
Every person needs to belong
Every person needs to be chosen
Jesus has chosen us
 
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNS3jBU5z4c
 
Duration 40:55

"The Difference Between Light and Darkness" by Bud Woodall

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 10:00AM Auditorium Speaker
 
Speaker:  Bud Woodall
 
The Difference Between Light and Darkness 
John 9 - 
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
9 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
8 The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” 10 So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” 11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” 12 They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. 14 Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 15 So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” 16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them. 17 So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
18 The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight 19 and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” 20 His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. 21 But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” 22 (His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.) 23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
24 So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.” 25 He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” 26 They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” 27 He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” 28 And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.” 30 The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. 32 Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” 34 They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” 36 He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” 37 Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.” 38 He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. 39 Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.” 40 Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” 41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.
 
There are many people devoted to darkness. There is darkness all around us - John 3:19.
"It's not about the man being healed, it's about the light of the world giving him his sight" 
"It's not about us, it's about Him."
We need the light of Christ; the light of the world.
Someone know how to turn on the light to get your life going in the right direction.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVV0ZnAEvKE
 
Duration 39:50

Into The Word: "Where Does John 7:53-8:11 Fit, Or Does It Fit?" by Bart Warren

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 9:00AM MPR 4 Speaker
 
Speaker: Bart Warren
 
John 7:53 - 8:11 (ESV)
[THE EARLIEST MANUSCRIPTS DO NOT INCLUDE 7:53–8:11.]
The Woman Caught in Adultery
53 [[They went each to his own house, 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 4 they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5 Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” 6 This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 7 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. 9 But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 10 Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”]]
 
Problem:
Why are these brackets and footnotes here?
 
No missing verses controversy
Those searching the ancient manuscripts and trying to be faithful
In year 1611, KJV was made with about 25 manuscripts
Now we have about 5,000  manuscripts
Thankful for those who have found these manuscripts
2 Peter 1:3
Psalm 19:7
Proverbs 30:5
Acts 24:14
 
Where does it fit historically?
Textual criticism
Original manuscripts were copied by hand on perishable material
Seeks to retrieve original texts from manuscript descendants
We have so many manuscripts, experts believe the original text can be found
A few things that sound ominous
NIV archeological study Bible - no early New Testament text or early church father includes this text
Incorrect
Daniel Wallace - inclusion of this text is a tradition of timidity should be removed
Incorrect
This passage found 5 different places in ancient manuscripts
Possible explanations to stay
Widely believed to be a true story about Jesus that was preserved through oral tradition then written down later
David Chapman - while earliest Greek manuscripts omit, some testimony of early fathers includes
Bruce - has all earmarks
Case for inclusion
Decasalia (sp?)
Ditimis the Blind - story of the adulterous found in certain gospels
Codex D includes
Greek orthodox includes
Catholic includes
Leon Morris - can profitably study
Wayne Jackson - widespread evidence
How does this passage fit theologically?
Does not mention how many caught her?
Need more than one witness
Insincere accusers are trying to test Jesus
Where's the man caught in the act?
Unfair trial
The trap is:
If execute - violates Roman law
If doesn't execute - violates Old Testament law
Jesus' First response is quiet time
Let them think
What does it mean - let him without sin, cast the first stone
Does not mean No one can charge because we are all sinners
Take the plank out of your own eye
The sick need a physician
Jesus didn't forgive her here but opened the door for forgiveness
We don't know what happened to the woman.
Video: https://youtu.be/IPVyod_goZA?feature=shared
 
 
Duration 39:27

Youth: "How Faith Will Help Me" by Andrew Itson

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 9:00AM Tent Speaker
 
Speaker: Andrew Itson
 
Faith That Will Survive - Lessons from Young Eutychus
Don't fight sleep in a window seat.
Acts 20:1-6 - After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. 2 When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. 3 There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews[a] as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia. 4 Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. 5 These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, 6 but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.
Troas is like subway station in that it is always an intersection on the path to somewhere else.
Acts 20:7 - 7 On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread,
Change is proof of the resurrection.
Acts 20:7-8 - Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. 8 There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.
In the room, there was proof of expectation.
Acts 20:9 - 9 And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.
"Deep Sleep" scenarios..
Acts 20:10-11 - 10 But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.” 11 And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.
We easily get annoyed with distractions, but maybe the distraction is the main thing.
What can we learn from young Eutychus? The dangers of falling asleep spiritually.
1 Peter 5:8 - Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
1 Corinthians 16:13 -  Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
Signs you are sleepy:
Little to no desire to pray
Loss of appetite for The Word
A desire to only be served, not to server
Avoiding accountability
Comparing yourself to other people
Isolated from a community of believers
Be careful WHERE you rest.
Eutychus showed up: Sometimes you are tired because of trying.
Our goal should not be tired-free living. Our goal is to be tired for the right reasons.
Intention gets you into the room. Attention keeps you in the room.
Pursue spiritual things while you are young.
Colossians 2:6-7 - Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
Psalm 92:12-13 - The righteous flourish like the palm tree    and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.13 They are planted in the house of the Lord;    they flourish in the courts of our God.
Built up = level up
Acts 20:10 - But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”
Fall on the fallen.
It takes an incredible amount of time and energy to walk alongside someone who is on both sides of the road.
"Ronnie's data loved me into the church" - Sandra Missildine
How am I handling the "Eutychuses" among us?
How to fall on the fallen:
There's a  time to talk and a time to be quiet. There's a time to speak the truth, and a time to let the truth speak for Himself.
Falling on the fallen means we embrace them.
We are to fall on our faces before the Father's throne.
Ministry is about coming down from your upper room.
Acts 20:12 - And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.
God saw value in continuing Eutychus' life.
Don't fight sleep in a window seat.
Speaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=186fCdmVs3w
 
Duration 42:26

Women: "The Woman Caught in Adultery" by Kathryn Baker

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 9:00AM MPR 1 Speaker
 
Speaker:  Kathryn Baker
 
The Woman Caught in Adultery" - John 8:2-11
John 1:14 - 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John is compelling us to behold Jesus. In each encounter with Jesus. He gives exactly what is needed, that couldn't be otherwise provided.
The woman
Lonely - No one to take up for her
Exposed - sins came to light
Used - in the peoples' scheme
Afraid
Hopeless - she could have been stoned.
On her worst day, Jesus provided what she needed. She felt loved. Jesus gave her grace.
The mob - saw Jesus that encountered that woman but they saw him as a threat.
used people as tools to advance there own agenda
scrutinize and condemn others
superficially appealed to the rule of law.
challenge the goodness of God.
Forgiveness / Mercy / Grace - always are the characteristics of God - Deut. 17:6-7.
John 7: 24 - Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.
As ugly as the mob was - Jesus provided them what they needed - truth, grace, opportunity to leave.
Can you relate to the woman or the mob?
Behold Jesus
Patient when others are quick to condemn.
Don't underestimate the silence of Jesus here - Prov. 10:19
See a soul where others see only a sin.
Jesus gives light where others rejoice in darkness.
Jesus judged softly where others judged hypocritically - John 2:25; Heb. 14:13
Jesus knew their plan because he knew their heart.
Concerned for our future while others focus on our past.
Aren't you glad that -
Jesus gives us what we can't provide for ourselves.
Jesus is not quick to condemn and to jump (Joshua 5:13-14) on someone's side.
Jesus doesn't shame and humiliate us like we sometimes do to others.
Jesus gives hope for all of us.
 
 
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79X9yprE-Eg
 
Duration 34:32

"The Truth Will Set You Free" by Wade Webster

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 9:00AM Auditorium Speaker
 
Speaker:  Wade Webster
 
Three Truths of the Truth - (John 8:32)
Truth is Personal
Gal. 6:5 - For each will have to bear his own load.
Rom. 2:6-9 - He will render to each one according to his works: 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
 
Prov. 23:23 - Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Col. 1:5-6 -5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, 6 which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth,
1 John 2:21- I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
Heb. 10:26 - For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
2 Tim. 2:15 - Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Eph. 6:14 -  Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
1 Pet. 1:22 -Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
3 John 1:3 - For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.
Truth is Perceivable
John 18:37-38; cf. - Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” 38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.
Mat. 27:18 - For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.
1 Tim. 2:3-4 - This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 Tim. 4:3 - who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
2 Tim. 2:25 - correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
2 Pet. 1:12 -Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
1 John 2:21 - I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
Psa. 119:79 - Let those who fear you turn to me,    that they may know your testimonies.
Psa. 125 - Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,    which cannot be moved, but abides forever.2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,    so the Lord surrounds his people,    from this time forth and forevermore.3 For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest    on the land allotted to the righteous,lest the righteous stretch out    their hands to do wrong.4 Do good, O Lord, to those who are good,    and to those who are upright in their hearts!5 But those who turn aside to their crooked ways    the Lord will lead away with evildoers!    Peace be upon Israel!
John 14:6-7 - Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Phil. 3:10 - that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
2 Tim. 1:12 - which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.
2 Tim. 3:15 - and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Truth is Powerful
Heb. 4:12; cf. - For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Psa. 33:9 -For he spoke, and it came to be;    he commanded, and it stood firm.
 
Rom. 1:16 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
1 Thess. 2:13 - And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
John  15:3 -  Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
John 17:17 - Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
Acts 20:32 - And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
Jam. 1:21- Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
 
John 8:33-36 -They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave[a] to sin. 35 The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
Rom. 6:17-18 - But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
 
Jam. 1:25 - But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
 
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4wyzLbWR6s
 
Duration 38:04