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September 18, 2020 Reading Plan Mark 13-16 Psalm 101 102 1. Write John 17:17 three times. 2. Read Psalm 141. 3. Find Bethlehem on a map. 4. How long is the Jordan River? 5. List the disciples. 6. Write the books of the Bible in order. 7. Answer the following:
3. Why did Solomon turn away from God when he was old? 4. What is the “chorus” in Psalm 136 which is repeated in every verse? 5. In what city was Jesus brought up as a child? 6. Which female judge described herself as “a mother in Israel”? 7. After the angels had announced the birth of Christ and left the shepherds, what did the shepherds do? 8. According to Peter, what “covers a multitude of sins”? 9. In prison, for whom did Joseph interpret dreams? 10. To what preservative does the Lord compare his disciples? 11. What was Jesus’ first miracle? 12. Who spotted Moses in the Nile placed in an ark of bulrushes? 13. Who was Bathsheba’s first husband? 14. Why were Daniel’s three friends thrown into the fiery furnace? 15. Out of the ten lepers who Jesus healed, how many came back to say thank you? 16. What did Jesus say the sellers had turned his house of prayer into? 17. In the New Jerusalem where are the names of the twelve tribes written? 18. How often was the year of the Lord’s release? 19. Which tribe of Israel looked after the religious aspects of life? 20. Where was Paul when he wrote the letter to Philemon? 21. Who preached, “Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand”? 22. What was the name of James’ and John’s father? 23. What bird did God provide to the Israelites for meat in the wilderness? 24. Who closed the door of Noah’s ark? 25. “Hate stirs up strife”, but what does love cover?
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September 17, 2020 Reading Plan Mark 13-14 Psalm 101 1. Write John 17:17 three times. 2. Read Psalm 141. Wednesday
September 16, 2020 Reading Plan Mark 11-12 Psalm 100 1. Write John 17:17 three times. 2. Read Psalm 141. 3. Outline Psalm 141. 4. Read Psalm 141:3 Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips. David is asking God to set a guard over his mouth and to keep watch over his lips. What did David know about his mouth? 5. Does your mouth get you into trouble? When? Why? Have you prayed about it? 6. What is David asking for in verse 4? 7. I want to go back to the Sunday school lesson and our position in Christ. Some of you talk a great game about your position in Christ, but when we examine your words, you are all about the Law. You speak more of the position of the law in your life and the life of others. You judge others much more than you judge yourselves, and you shake the law at them like the good Pharisee that you are becoming. Here is a novel and great idea STOP IT! You have been set free from the condemnation of the law through the grace of God. Your faith has made you a child of the kingdom. Why do you bask in the glory of your salvation and freedom, while condemning others using the law-making claims that this sin or that sin has no redemption? Hypocrite, why don’t you pick your own sin and claim there is no salvation for that sin. Or do you dare boast that there is no sin in you, that you are sinless. Liar, as you attempt to make the Word of God a liar as well. There is but one sin that exists with that sentence and that is blaspheme against the Holy Spirit. Galatians speaks clearly to those that so quickly want to return to the law. Let us read Galatians 3. 3 Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? 3 Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? 4 Have you experienced so much in vain—if it really was in vain? 5 So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? 6 So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” 7 Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. 8 Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” 9 So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. 10 For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” 11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.” 12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.” 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.” 14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit. My question will come soon, but let me add one more thing about our position in Christ. We are to love our position in Christ. It is a gift from God by grace nothing we earned and it completely changed who we are. It has made us righteousness in the sight of God. Remember from the video for Sunday School last week some of you are going to stand before God and try and tell Him how good you were and how well you obeyed the law. However, if you are standing on how well you obeyed the law, you will be standing accursed. We are to love who Christ has made us, yes we are to love ourselves in regards to who we are in Christ and the position we hold. Why do I have, and will forever have access to my Father in heaven? Very simply, because I am in Christ. Your question: Do you think your Father in heaven still thinks of you as a filthy rag? Perhaps that is why many have the need to call others filthy rags and condemn them, because they cannot see themselves as Christ sees them, nor can they see those around them the way Christ sees them. My lens can never be that I am a filthy rag anymore. I have been bought with a very big price. I am a warrior in the Kingdom of God, He has placed inside me, His Spirit. Am I perfect? Not yet! But have I been perfectly purchased and perfectly positioned in Christ. That changes everything. Do I love me, I hope so because I have to love my neighbor as myself. I love that David S. Wilson is written in the Book of Life. I was a filthy rag, but by the grace of God and His tender mercies, He saved me. I have been saved by grace through faith. And now He gazes upon me and says I have made you new. What do you mean new? I am no longer a filthy rag. No, you are my Son. I died that you might live. I desire that you live abundantly. A filthy rag has been replaced with a beautiful Robe. Tell people of My love, and show them my mercy, and forgive as I have forgiven you. Speak truth in love and walk always in the Spirit. You see Jesus turned the world upside down because He purchased us with His blood. He did not purchase us, only to look at us and say, you filthy rags. What are the dangers of trying to preach salvation shouting primarily works, and condemning primarily by works? Truthfully, how do you view yourself? Is it more about how you live or more about your position. Tuesday
September 15, 2020 Reading Plan Mark 9-10 Psalm 99 1. Write John 17:17 three times. 2. Read Psalm 141. 3. Write down your action steps to your takeaways from Sunday’s sermon. What actions do you have to put in place because of what you heard from the Lord? 4. Who wrote Psalm 141? 5. David says I cry out to you, when a parent hears a child cry they hear more than the cry. They hear the words of the cry. They understand the needs of the child through the cry. Expand on this statement and the spiritual application of this as it applies to Psalm 141 and the concept in the general throughout the Bible to crying out. 6. David speaks of his posture in the midst of his prayer. Discuss the lifting of his hands and what that signifies. 7. For incense to work you have to burn it. I want to connect the scripture you read throughout the Bible about your prayers and prayer in general being as incense to God. Are your prayers on fire? Define the word fervent. Look up the verse in James regarding fervent and then discuss prayer from the concept that it has to be on fire. Monday
September 14, 2020 Reading Plan Mark 7-8 Psalm 98 1. Write John 17:17 three times. 2. Read Psalm 141. 3. Write down your takeaways from Sunday’s message. Please write it down and email it to me at theway.dwilson@gmail.com. Psalm 141 Lord, I cry out to You; Make haste to me! Give ear to my voice when I cry out to You. 2Let my prayer be set before You as incense, The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. 3Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips. 4Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, To practice wicked works With men who work iniquity; And do not let me eat of their delicacies. 5Let the righteous strike me; It shall be a kindness. And let him rebuke me; It shall be as excellent oil; Let my head not refuse it. For still my prayer is against the deeds of the wicked. 6Their judges are overthrown by the sides of the cliff, And they hear my words, for they are sweet. 7Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave, As when one plows and breaks up the earth. 8But my eyes are upon You, O God the Lord; In You I take refuge; Do not leave my soul destitute. 9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, And from the traps of the workers of iniquity. 10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, While I escape safely. 4. What does the psalmist ask God for in verse 1. 5. Write down what the psalmist is asking for in each verse. 6. Define and discuss incense. What is to be as incense to the Lord? 7. When is the psalmist asking God to hear his voice? Wednesday
September 9, 2020 Reading Plan Matthew 25-26 Psalm 93 1. Write John 17:17 three times. 2. Read Ephesians 6. 3. Write down your action steps to your takeaways from Sunday’s sermon. What actions do you have to put in place because of what you heard from the Lord? 4. Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Discuss the concept of “putting on” the armor of God. What does the armor of God protect you from? 5. Ephesians 6:13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. What are you to do with the armor of God in Ephesians 6:13? Discuss what taking up the armor of God does for you. 6. Ephesians 6:11 says put on the armor of God, Ephesians 6:13 says take up the armor of God, what does verse 12 say and how do all three verses work together? 7. The very first word in verse 14 says STAND. Discuss this word as it pertains to the armor of God. Tuesday
September 8, 2020 Reading Plan Matthew 23-24 Psalm 92 1. Write John 17:17 three times. 2. Read Ephesians 6. 3. Write down your takeaways from Sunday’s message. Please write it down and email it to me at theway.dwilson@gmail.com. 4. List all of the armor of God. 5. We are instructed to put on the full armor of God. What does that tell you about life on this earth? Is it a picnic or a battle? We definitely would approach each differently. 6. Most people and yes even wikipedia get the connection of the armor of God and Paul’s experience twisted. They assume that Paul is guided by the Roman Soldier’s attire as he describes the armor of God. In fact, most of the illustrations shown in our children’s church lessons and t-shirts and posters and so forth show this example. I would challenge you to look deeper than that. Actually Pauls inspiration for the armor of God is tied to the old testament writings regarding God’s attire as He rescues His people. Read Isaiah 59:17. Now read Isaiah 59. What is it about? 7. Why is it so important that you put on the full armor of God? |