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Roots of the Faith – Spiritual Disciplines: Bible Intake part 1

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My notes for Wednesday night, Sept 11th. Remember, these are my personal study notes and not a manuscript of the sermon. They are provided as an outline each week for our Tabernacle Church family. Our study over the next few months will be “The Roots of the Faith.” This study will focus on key biblical truths that will transform our thinking and allow us to faithfully live out the Christian life. You can find Sermon Notes, Family Devotional Guides, Prayer List, and other resources at our Church Website.

Spiritual Disciplines

  • Bible Intake
  • Prayer
  • Worship
  • Evangelism
  • Serving
  • Stewardship
  • Fasting
  • Silence and Solitude
  • Journaling
  • Learning
  • Perseverance in the Disciplines

The book that will guide our study: GET IT AN READ IT!!!!! We have a few available at church.

Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, Revised and Updated. (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress; Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2024)

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life – Amazon Link

Bible Intake


Central Idea
 
No spiritual discipline is more important that the intake of God’s Word. Nothing can substitute for it. There is simply no healthy Christian life apart from a diet of the milk and meat of Scripture. Only as we read and study the Bible can we appropriate what God has for us. We do this through hearing, reading, studying, memorizing and meditating on Scripture and by applying what we learn to our daily lives.
 
The Importance of Bible Intake
 
In the Bible we learn the ways and will of the Lord.  We find in Scripture how to live in a way that is pleasing to God as well as best and most fulfilling for ourselves.
 
Questions to Consider
 
How do we grow in our knowledge and understanding?
Colossians 1:9-14
 
How does God speak to us? How do we know God’s will?


 Hearing God’s Word

Romans 10:17; Luke 11:28; 1 Timothy 4:13

  • Preaching/Teaching
  • Corporate Worship
  • Private listening (podcasts, online)


Reading God’s Word

2 Tim. 3:14-17

  • Find the time
  • Find a reading plan
  • Find at least on word, phrase, or verse to meditate on each time you read

Studying God’s Word

Psalm 119:1-176

  • Study Bibles
  • Commentaries


 

Bible Reading Plans for 2024 #NewYearNewYou

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Start each day with a plan to read the Word!

Ligonier Ministries – Bible Reading Plans

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Discipline yourselves for the purpose of Godliness

1 Timothy 4:7–8
Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness;  for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. (ESV)

Long for the Word

1 Peter 2:2–3
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. (ESV)

Grow in your knowledge of the Lord through His Word

2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. (ESV)
READ THE WORD
MEDITATE ON THE WORD

Speak the Word

LIVE THE WORD OUT

Philippians 1:27-30 – “Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Gospel of Christ”

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My teaching notes for Wednesday night, Sept. 15th. Remember, these are my personal study notes and not a manuscript of the teaching. They are provided to help you follow the sermon as you listen each week. The church provides a live stream of the service each Wednesday at 6:30 on Facebook at Tabernacle Facebook Page We also provide the services through YouTube later on Wednesday evening at TAB YouTube

Philippians 1:27-30

Philippians 1:27–30 – [27] Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, [28] and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God. [29] For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, [30] engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have. (ESV)

INTRO THOUGHTS:

  • You could consider this section (1:27-2:18) the heart of the letter to the church at Philippi.
  • vv. 27-30 is the first of four appeals.
  • Paul wanted to hear that the church in Philippi was LIVING WORTHY OF THE GOSPEL
  • That should also be our desire… that we WOULD LIVE WORTHY OF THE GOSPEL

An Appeal to Live Worthy of the Gospel – vv. 1:27-30

How can we live worthy of the Gospel?

  • Live as a proud citizen (romans were proud people)
  • Living a consistent life…based on the Gospel.
    • Gospel saves and transforms
    • Initially and ongoing

Stand firm in one spirit and one mind – v. 27a

  • Make a stand. (Soldier… hold the line. Guard your post)
  • ONE – togetherness
  • Heart and Mind
  • Individually = Congregation. So goes the individual, so goes the church
  • Believing in something!
  • Fighting for something!
  • Our beliefs and convictions.
  • The truths we stand for.

Strive together for the faith – v. 27b

  • Struggle together
  • Once we are unified then…Joining arms and “Living out the Gospel”
  • Work, commitment, our passions
  • Labor of love
  • Something worth the work and effort

Suffer for His Sake – vv. 28-30

  • Not fearful in the midst of persecution
  • Jesus suffered.  If it was good enough for Jesus… it is good enough for me.
  • It will come…the Bible is full of those that have faced the attacks of the enemy.
  • It is an incredible honor to suffer for Jesus sake!
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

Remember, it is not our ability to stand, strive, and suffer that allows us to live the worthy life.

It is not about us… It is about CHRIST

We are only able to Stand, Strive, and Suffer because of the finished work of Christ.