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Micah – An Introduction

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My Bible study notes for Wednesday night, May 10th. 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. You can find Sermon Notes, Family Devotional Guides, Prayer List, and other resources at our Church Website.

Micah 1:1

An Overview:

Chapters 1-3 – The coming judgement

Chapters 4-5 – The restoration to follow

Chapters 6-7 – The plea for repentance

Time of Ministry: 735-710 B.C.

In the days of:

  • Jotham (739-731 B.C.)
  • Ahaz (731-715 B.C.)
  • Hezekiah (715-686 B.C.)
    • Before his reforms

Setting:

Deals primarily with Judah, but does address the northern kingdoms fall in 722 B.C.

  • Economic prosperity
  • Spiritual decline

Contemporary of Hosea in the northern kingdom and of Isaiah in the court of Jerusalem.

Themes:

Judgment and Forgiveness

  • God will judge disobedience/sinners
  • God will keep his covenant promises (their will be a remnant)
  • Blessings on those that will repent

The Lord, the Judge who scatters his people for their transgressions and sins, is also the Shepherd-King who in covenant faithfulness gathers, protects, and forgives them.

Crossway Bibles, The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2008), 1693.

Key Themes

The character of the sovereign Lord and the sins of his people demand judgment (1:2–5; 2:3; 6:1–2, 9–11). The sentence of God’s “lawsuit” comes in the form of an oppressor (1:15; 4:11; 5:1, 5–6) and by means of covenant curses (6:13–15) rendered for covenant unfaithfulness (6:16).

A Shepherd-King gathers and delivers a remnant (2:12–13; 4:6–8; 7:14, 18). This deliverer, functioning as a new David, will come from the very region under Assyrian control (5:2–5a).

Covenant faithfulness consists not merely in ritual but in the proper expression of the primary forms of love: justice, mercy, and faithfulness (6:8; cf. Matt. 23:23).

The Lord is the focus of worship. The nations will no longer “flow” to false gods (cf. Jer. 51:44) but to Zion to learn of the true Lord and to live in peace (Mic. 4:1–5; 7:12; cf. Isa. 2:2–5).

The liberating light of grace flowing from the Lord’s steadfast love (Mic. 7:18–20) overcomes the ominous sentence due to sin (7:8–9). Forgiveness is grounded in God’s faithfulness to his promises (7:20).

God’s saving acts in the past (6:4–5; 7:14–15) are interpretative analogies for his saving acts in the future (7:19–20).

Crossway Bibles, The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2008), 1694

Matthew 28:1-10 “Resurrection Sunday”

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My sermon notes for Sunday morning, April 17th.  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. The church provides a live stream of the service each Sunday at 10:30 on Facebook. We also provide the services through YouTube by Sunday afternoon.  You can find Sermon Notes, Family Devotional Guides, Prayer List, and other resources at our Church Website.

INTRO:

  • Resurrection Sunday is upon us!
  • Friday at our luncheon we consider Jesus’ words on the cross… IT IS FINISHED John 19:30
  • He completed the task prophesied in the OT. Isaiah 53:1-12
  • He competed the task.  He made all things NEW. Rev 21:5 (already and not yet)
  • That is great news for us today.  To have a relationship with Christ makes ALL THINGS NEW.  WE BECOME AND LIVE A NEW CREATIONS.
  • Let us consider the great truths from the events of His glorious resurrection.
  • Easter Sunday is not an event… it is all about a personal relationship
  • A relationship that offers… Rest, Forgiveness, Victory, Assurance, and Satisfaction

REST

First day of the week – v. 1

  • Lord’s Day. (Friday night, Saturday, Sunday morning – 3 days)
  • Sabbath was a day of rest after the finished work of the OT.  CREATION
  • Lord’s Day is the finished work of the NT.  NEW CREATION
  • Sabbath Rest was a temporary… Jesus is a permanent rest
  • Hebrews 4:9-11

FORGIVENESS

Mary Magdalene – v. 1

  • Much indebted to Christ for the forgiveness of sin.
  • She was so devoted to her REDEEMER
    • THIS IS MISSING TODAY.  WE THINK SO LITTLE OF OUR SAVIOR BECAUSE WE THINK SO LITTLE OF OUR SIN.

VICTORY

Earthquake – v. 2

  • At his crucifixion Matt. 27:51
  • At his resurrection (the aftershock!)
  • It points to the supernatural, the power
  • IT IS FINISHED. Nothing else needs to be done.
  • FAITH IS THE VICTORY.

ASSURANCE

The Angle and the Stone – v. 2

  • Lazarus stone was rolled way by man.  Jesus’s stone was rolled away by God/angels.
  • Lazarus stone was rolled away so he could come out. Jesus stone was rolled away so they could look in
  • Do not fear
  • He has risen
  • Come and see
    • Grave clothes not in disarray (not taken)
    • The language conveys that they were still in the form of a body.  No unwrapping.
    • LAZARUS NEEDED HELP WITH HIS GRAVE CLOTHS, JESUS DID NOT.
  • Go and tell

SATISFACTION

The Words from Christ – v.9

  • Greetings “JOY TO YOU”
  • And they worship Him
  • JOYFUL WORSHIP

John 13 – “Lessons from the Upper Room”

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My sermon notes for Wednesday night, April 13th.  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. The church provides a live stream of the service each Wednesday at 6:30 on Facebook. We also provide the services through YouTube. You can find Sermon Notes, Family Devotional Guides, Prayer List, and other resources at our Church Website.

John 13:1-38

INTRO

  • Jesus is in the midst of “Holy Week”
  • He is in the upper room with the disciples
  • Jesus is teaching and modeling the true life of a servant.
  • 4 Words to consider as we reflect upon the upper room

Serve – vv. 1-20

  • follow my example
  • Master, yet washed their feet
  • We serve one another
  • Mark 10:45
  • Phil 2:5-7
  • Col 3:23-24

Trust – vv. 21-30

  • Troubled in His spirit.
  • In the midst of betrayal
  • Trusting in the will and plan of God.  Not doubting God’s perfect plan. (Jesus trust)
  • Our doing must be for the right reasons…Judas has everyone fooled….was he really trusting God and who Christ was or who he thought Christ needed to be?

Love – vv. 31-35

  • Glorified at the cross
  • A new commandment…Love
  • 1 John 4:20
  • 1 Peter 4:8
  • Rom 12:10
  • 1 John 3:18

Forgive – vv. 36-38

  • Jesus knew He was going to the Cross
  • He knew Peter would deny Him
  • He knew what Peter would become.
  • Forgive, Restore
  • Receive and Go
  • 1 Peter 3:9
  • Col 3:13
  • Matt 6:14-15
  • Eph 4:32
  • Ps 86:5