Approved Workmen

Approved Workmen

By Jake LiedkieReligion & SpiritualityChristianity
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Approved Workmen episodes

  • Jesus, 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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  • Bank 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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  • When 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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  • Lawlessness, 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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  • Lawlessness, 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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