Intern Graduation - August 9, 2013

OPEN

   ·      First day of internship

o   Communication

o   Courtesy

   ·      Graduation from college

   ·      A few things I’ve discovered along the way

o   Take this thing seriously

o   Lifelong learners

o   God wants to do more than you could possibly imagine, so don’t box yourselves in.

o   Faith (RISK) will be the hardest thing you’ll ever do… and the most rewarding things you’ll ever do.

2 Timothy

    ·      One of Paul’s most personal letters

o   1:2 – beloved child

o   beloved or dear son

o   the son I love so much (MSG)

    ·      Took it and re-wrote it to one of my kids in the faith.

    ·      Today, I think it could both challenge and uphold each of you as you move into the next phase of ministry.

  

Four Themes that are Foundations for Ministry

     1)    God’s Spirit has empowered each of you for greatness.

a.    1:5-7

b.    Faith

c.     Laying on of hands

d.    Power

e.    Love

f.      Self-Control

g.    Holy Spirit protection (vs. 14)

      2)    God’s grace has empowered each of you to multiply your ministry.

a.    2:1-2

b.    Grace from the cross

c.     Grace for everyday life

d.    Grace to give away

      3)    God’s holiness has empowered each of you to live differently.

a.    2:21-22

b.    HOLY (whole) because He is holy!

c.     Flee your personal lusts/die to self

d.    Pursue God’s gifts

                                               i.     Righteousness

                                             ii.     Faith

                                            iii.     Love

                                            iv.     Peace

e.    Pursue them with others

  

      4)    God’s word has empowered each of you to be ambassadors of righteousness.

a.    3:16-4:2

b.    God’s word is all about righteousness

                                               i.     Teaching

                                             ii.     Reproof

                                            iii.     Correction

                                            iv.     Training

                                              v.     Wholeness/Completeness

                                            vi.     Equipping

c.     God’s word is alive for you to use

                                               i.     All the time

                                             ii.     Sharpen people

                                            iii.     Steer them back on coarse

                                            iv.     Build them up

                                              v.     Always do it in love!

Busy week of teaching...

Been in the WORD a ton this week... so good! Spending time sharpening, so that I can teach others is just amazing. Thank you Father.

Lots of teaching opportunities... hoping to see lots of seeds take root in people's hearts.

TUESDAY 6th - Funeral message
FRIDAY 9th - Intern graduation message
SUNDAY 11th - Galatians week #3 message

Keep these in your prayers friends as Holy Spirit opens me up to talk & opens up audiences to receive it.

Blessings,
Adam

GALATIANS podcast for week #2

Friends, here's last week's audio. Looking forward to sharing for at least an hour this weekend!

Week #2 Podcast

August 4, 2013 - Galatians week #2 DETAILED NOTES

INTRO

·      Review week #1

Wrap up of Galatians 1

God Calls Paul

·      Read 1:11-24

·      (KEY) 1:12 For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

·      Man’s Revelation v. God’s Revelation

o   Peter’s revelation at the Great Confession (The Rock).

o   James appeared to after Christ’s death (1Corinthians 15).

·      Paul and the gospel

o   God did the work.

o   God did it by grace.

o   God did it through Christ.

o   God did it for the sake of others.

o   God did it for His glory.

Parallel Passages in Galatians

·      Galatians 2:2, 2:5, 2:7, 2:14, 3:8, 4:1

Galatians 2

JUSTIFIED: Faith v. Works

Council of Jerusalem

·      Acts 15

·      It is important to start here in order to understand what the church leaders had decided before the writing of this letter.

Gospel of Grace to the Gentiles

·      Read 2:1-10

·      KEY VERSES

o   2:4 Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery— 5 to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.

o   2:9 and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

·      What is this gospel of grace going to the Gentiles?

o   Gift from God.

o   The true Christian has experienced an inner circumcision of the heart (Colossians 2:10-11) and does not need to submit to any physical operation (Philippians 3:1-3).

o   We all come to Jesus through faith alone.

o   Reminder of “gospel” from week 1.

o   Grace is the same Hebrew word as “Favor” and in both OT & NT denotes a gift given from a supreme being to one who cannot return the favor back… so in human terms: it can only be received and never earned.

o   Ephesians 2:1-10 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

o   The enemies of the gospel of grace tell us that man is saved by faith in Christ PLUS something:

§  Good works

§  10 commandments

§  baptism

§  church membership

§  religious ritual

§  Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

Peter and Paul

·      Read 2:11-14

·      Not unlike what Paul was experiencing with the Judaizers, he begins to encounter among the leadership that first supported him.

·      Peter begins to act like the “older brother.”

·      (KEY) 2: 14 But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

·      Colossians 3:11 – in Christ, there are NO racial, social or economic barriers

·      Paul’s rebuke

o   Peter was denying the unity of the church.

o   Peter was denying that faith was enough for acceptance.

o   Peter was denying freedom from the law, the truth of the gospel and even grace itself.

NEXT WEEKEND

·      Justification

·      And Righteousness!