- Bad habits to break:
- Selfishness
- Retaliation
- Complaining
- Worldliness
- Pride
- Laziness
DL
December 08, 2010
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DW
December 05, 2010
- All authority is specified to a certain degree.
- In order to do what is authorized, I need to comply to the degree at which things are authorized.
- Genesis 6:14 - God commands Noah to build an ark of gopher wood.
- Applications
- Musical worship in the New Testament
- Ephesians 5:19 - Command to sing
- The work of the church
- God authorized the church to provide for needy saints. II Corinthians 8:3-4
- God authorized the church to provide for worship and edification. I Corinthians 14:3
- God authorized the church to provide for the preaching of the gospel. I Corinthians 9:11
- Musical worship in the New Testament
- Choosing specifics
- Authority to choose a specific is included in the authority for the gospel.
- We are not authorized to choose a specific that is outside the bounds of the general command.
- We cannot violate some other Bible principle (Matthew 15:4.
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CW
December 05, 2010
- Miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit
- These gifts were prophesied about in Joel 2:28-29.
- Miracles are acts that break or are outside the laws of nature, which shows divine intervention by God. Spiritual gifts are therefore miracles.
- Different gifts:
- Wisdom (I Corinthians 1:18-31
- Knowledge
- Faith
- Healing
- Working of miracles
- Prophecy
- Discerning of spirits
- Speaking in unknown tongues (Acts 2:8-11
- Interpretation of tongues
- Speaking in tongues was not an uncontrollable ecstatic utterance. It was a language that could be interpreted and understood.
- The gifts of the Holy Spirit were unified in source and purpose.
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DL
December 01, 2010
- What are your thoughts? What influences your thoughts?
- Unkind thoughts
- Selfish thoughts
- I Peter 2:1-2
- We must control our thoughts.
- Philippians 4:7-8
- Some good habits - to be formed
- Daily Bible reading
- II Timothy 2:15
- Daily prayer
- I Thessalonians 5:17
- Regularly meeting with the saints
- Psalm 122:1
- Helpfulness, friendliness, unselfishness, etc.
- Galatians 6:10
- Daily Bible reading
- Some bad habits - to be broken
- Unkind words
- Selfishness
- Retaliation
- Complaining
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JJ
November 28, 2010
- Some think the Spirit is given by measures.
- Some think “filled with the Spirit” is speaking of miracles. (Ephesians 5:18
- When used figuratively, “filled with the Spirit” speaks of motivation (cause and effect).
- Luke 4:28-29
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