• The most important question ever asked: “What must I do to be saved?”
• Acts 16:22-33 – The jailer did not know anything about salvation, but once he was taught (Romans 10:17), he knew he needed to repent and be baptized.
• Acts 2:36-38 – These people had believed in God all their lives, but they had not yet obeyed Jesus. Believing in God was not enough.
  • Acts 2:20-21 – Joel prophesied that people would need to call on the name of the Lord to be saved. This involved repenting and being baptized.
• Acts 22:6-16 – When Saul came to understand that Jesus was the Messiah, he still had to find out what to do to be saved.
  • Acts 22:16 – Calling on the name of the Lord involved being baptized!
• Matthew 7:21 – Believing in Jesus is not enough!
• Romans 6:12-13 – We must use our bodies as instruments of righteousness until God.
• What must I do to remain saved?
  • Philippians 3:13-14
  • Always press on toward the goal!

• I Peter 3:1-20
• I Peter 3:1-2 – “In the same way” here points back to I Peter 2:21-25, referring to how Jesus died so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. Wives should likewise die to sin and live to righteousness, not only for their own benefit, but also to be a good influence on their husbands.
• I Peter 3:6 – Women can be metaphorical children of Sarah if they follow her example in living righteously.
• I Peter 3:7 – Paul is not saying that women are weaker – just that husbands should treat them with love and care as though they are weaker.
• I Peter 3:10-12 – Compare I Peter 2:24.
• I Peter 3:18-20 – Christ taught people who were in a prison of sin, just like Noah did in his time.

• II Corinthians 11:8-33
• II Corinthians 11:8-9 – Notice that Paul’s example here shows churches sending money to him directly. This is an important pattern because it allows the church that is sending the money to maintain control of it. If other churches had sent money to the Corinthian church to support Paul, they would have ceded control of the money, which breeds all sorts of problems and breaks the autonomy that should exist between local churches.
• II Corinthians 11:19 – Paul is being sarcastic here. Gladly tolerating the foolish certainly doesn’t make anyone wise!

• Numbers 12:1-15
• II Samuel 3:29
• II Chronicles 26:16-21

The horrors of leprosy

The horrors of sin

Symptoms can take a long time to show up.

Hebrews 3:13

Contagious if untreated, but requires long term sustained contact

I Corinthians 5:6; 15:33; II Corinthians 6:17

Lose the ability to sense pain

I Timothy 4:2; Hebrews 3:13

Injuries due to lack of sensation

Ephesians 4:19

Paralysis

Romans 3:10-12; II Peter 1:8; Luke 14:34-35

Blindness

II Peter 1:9; I John 2:9-11; II Corinthians 4:3-4

Irreversible nerve damage

II Samuel 12:13-14

Terminal

James 1:15

• Prognosis
  • Early diagnoses and treatment usually prevent disability - Ecclesiastes 12:1; James 5:19-20; Hebrews 12:13
  • Important to finish the entire course of treatment - Philippians 3:12-14
• The cure
  • Comes from God – II Kings 5:1-3, 7; Matthew 11:5
  • Through baptism – II Kings 5:10-14; Acts 22:16
  • Life after leprosy – II Kings 5:15; Mark 1:40-42; Acts 22:15

• Timeline:
  • 607 B.C. – Habakkuk
  • 605 B.C. – Chaldea captures Jews (3 deportations)
  • 597 B.C. – second deportation
  • 586 B.C. – third deportation. Judah is conquered.
• Overview:
  • The book of Habakkuk is a dialog between man and God.
  • Question 1: Habakkuk 1:2-4 – Why do you allow all this wickedness among your people?
    • Answer (Habakkuk 1:5-11) – An army will come to punish Judah.
  • Question 2: Habakkuk 1:12-17 – Using the Chaldeans seems even more unjust because they are even more evil!
    • Answer (Habakkuk 2:2-20) – God gives a detailed description showing that he knows just how evil the Chaldeans are, and he pronounces five woes upon them.
  • A prayer of Habakkuk (Habakkuk 3:1-19)
• Lessons:
  • Sincere questions lead to solid faith!
    • Habakkuk 2:2
    • Judges 6:13, 39
    • Habakkuk 2:1 – Habakkuk 2:1 – Habakkuk was ready to listen to God’s answer.
    • Acts 17:11-12 – Many people believed after studying out their questions!
    • Romans 1:20
  • The righteous will live by his faith!
    • Habakkuk 2:2-4, 18-20
    • Habakkuk 3:16-19 – Habakkuk was sick waiting for destruction for come.
    • Romans 1:16-17
    • Galatians 3:9-11
    • Hebrews 10:36-39