Approved Workmen episodes:

• January 26, 2021Jesus, Lord of Labor - 2 Thessalonians 3:6-12

  A working church displays the worthiness of Christ. Provide for ourselves

  and others.

  It’s no secret that work is very often a challenge. Whether you are eight

  years old learning to make your bed with excellence and do your own

  laundry, and clean up after yourself. Whether you are a student with

  homework assignments and papers to write and exams to study for. Whether

  you work inside the home or outside of the home. Work is hard.

  Work is work. Labor means labor. The expenditure of energy in toil and even

  pain. In carrying out a responsibility to accomplish something.

  Living in a creation that is groaning, and a world that is currently

  suffering under God’s curse doesn’t make matters any easier. Just to make a

  point of it, the Lord saw fit to give me major computer problems this past

  week, with a light seasoning of printer issues and a lack of battery power

  on other devices mixed in just for good measure.

  Work by itself is work. And then trying to do it in some concerted effort

  with other creatures who are various levels of skill and competence in

  addition to their own sinfulness and then the simple challenges of a cursed

  world makes work difficult.

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• January 26, 2021Bank on Gods Character for Your Spiritual Needs - 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

  We begin the end today. The closing chapter of 2 Thessalonians. Take your

  Bibles and turn with me to 2 Thessalonians 3. We are going to come to a

  passage that is filled with rich encouragement and comfort for our souls as

  Paul instructs the church on God’s character that provides for our

  spiritual needs.

  One of the great diseases that plagues the church is a man-centered way of

  thinking about ministry. And salvation. And sanctification. In every

  dimension we can miss the obvious and basic reality that all of these

  things originate with God and they are accomplished in our lives by Him.

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• January 26, 2021When All Around My Soul Gives Way - 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17

  As a child lying in bed at night… having been well instructed in God’s law

  and seeing the darkness in my own heart. I have the distinct memory of, as

  a little boy, praying the sinner’s prayer over and over and over. Not just

  one night, but many nights. Even through tears:

  Lord Jesus, please forgive me of all my sins… come into my heart… I’m sorry

  for my sin. I want you to be my savior.

  I can remember the turmoil. What if I didn’t remember to confess something

  that I did today? What if my motives in praying this prayer are just to

  avoid hell and not be saved?

  And all the nagging questions that would linger after offering up such

  prayers:

  * Do I feel different? Am I supposed to?

  * Did I get the words right?

  * Did I mean it enough?

  * Did it take that time?

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• January 26, 2021Lawlessness, Then Jesus - 2 Thess. 2:1-12 (Part 3)

  Take your Bibles and turn to 2 Thessalonians 2.

  This morning we are going to wrap up this section where Paul is reminding

  the Thessalonians what he previously taught them concerning the Day of the

  Lord. It’s gonna take us right into partaking of communion together.

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• January 26, 2021Four Realities of Encountering the Long Anticipated Messiah - Luke 2:18-40 - 12/20/20

  Well this morning represents the Lord’s Day that we will discuss the

  glories of Christmas. And as we transition into our time of study together

  this morning, I want you to consider for a few moments with me the many

  various shades of Christmas.

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• January 26, 2021Keep Calm & Carry On - 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 (Part 1) -12/13/20

  Theme: Don’t get shaken in your eschatology, you won’t miss anything when

  Jesus comes back. And don’t freak out about evil abounding because it’s

  under his control and accomplishing his purpose until he returns and wipes

  it all out.

  So crucial for our church. Perfectly timed. Perfectly suited.

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• January 22, 2021Hindrances to Exercising Gifts

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• January 15, 2021Fundamental Motives for Service

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• January 08, 2021Bearing Fruit

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• December 29, 2020Lawlessness, Then Christ - 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

  2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 (Part 2)

  “Lawlessness, then Jesus”

  Today we pick up where we left off a couple of weeks ago. I want to dive

  right in. We have a thrilling passage before us today. No one can

  adequately predict the future. But God knows the future and he gives a

  glimpse into what is coming next.

  The study of last things in the bible is known as eschatology. Eschaton

  means last. This is the study of the end times.

  It is technical because it deals with prophecies and predictions. The

  information is scattered throughout Scripture. Different writers use

  different language. We piece things together, but there’s clearly much we

  don’t understand.

  This message is going to be a bit more technical… but hang with me to the

  end. It’s an exciting conclusion to see how all of this ties together

  today.

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