Approved Workmen

Approved Workmen

By Jake LiedkieReligion & SpiritualityChristianity
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Approved Workmen episodes

  • Living a Pure Life - Psalm 119:9-16
    It’s a wisdom Psalm. Reads much like the Proverbs.
    This Psalm is all about the relationship of the child of God to the word of
    God and the God of the word. The relationship of the child of God to the
    word of God and the God of the Word.
    The second stanza is the beth stanza. It corresponds to the letter “b” in
    English. So, every first letter of every word in the Hebrew starts with the
    letter “b.” It’s like the Bible in Sesame Street Edition.
    As we come to the second stanza, the first two verses in particular are
    very familiar to you if you’ve spent time in the church. All about how to
    get more of God and more of his ways in your mind and more of his power in
    your life?
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  • Satisfied in God - Psalm 119:1-8
    One of the priorities especially in America is to be happy. Americans have
    a reputation around the world for at least being interested in happiness.
    We want to smile and laugh and express ourselves. Certainly, on the
    spectrum there are other cultures that are far less expressive, more stoic.
    But happiness is sometimes elusive. And the state of American happiness
    right now is trending downward. One researcher from the World Happiness
    Report (seriously) wrote last year prior to COVID and the social unrest we
    are facing in 2020:
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  • Magnify the Greatness of God - Psalm 115
    Take your Bibles and turn with me to Psalm 115. Psalm 115. Well we love to
    open the Scriptures together each week and hear from the Lord. We depend
    upon it. We need preaching because God’s Word is our only authority.
    Jesus emphasized preaching in his earthly ministry. When people began to
    follow Jesus to get their physical needs met, he called a timeout.
    Mark 1:38 (NASB95) He said to them, “Let us go somewhere else to the towns
    nearby, so that I may preach there also; for that is what I came for.”
    So, it thrills our heart.
    For me it’s a joy because I get to discover and share. I don’t have to make
    anything, I’m like a miner digging and then sharing what’s already there.
    But this week was a great discovery for me. Psalm 115, at least the
    beginning of it has been a favorite of mine for nearly 20 years. It was on
    my list for this summer.
    When I first began my career years as a small business owner, I had big
    aspirations to take a company global. I had a list of international
    metropolitan markets that I wanted to enter. I had more imagination than
    brains.
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  • Safety in Your Father's Hand - Psalm 31
    You are the product today of yesterday in many ways. Proverbs repeat the
    themes of sowing and reaping. Huge principle in parenting and in life.
    You can’t neglect your physical body and then be suddenly ready for action
    when the moment is required. What you eat. Whether you exercise. Imagine
    it’s a beautiful day and out of nowhere someone says, “hey let’s go on a
    hike—the view’s incredible, it’s gonna be about 8 miles.” In that moment
    all you’ve got is what you’ve got.
    You can’t speed train in the car on the way to the trail head. Rather, the
    culmination of your previous days is your preparedness for that moment.
    So, it is in our life with God.
    When the difficult days come unexpectedly and descend upon us, we have
    whatever we’ve prepared for. Whatever we have cultivated as the pattern of
    our life. You have either been learning to depend upon God and his
    promises, or you have been cultivating secret distrusts of the Lord.
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  • Real Repentance - Psalm 51
    Psalm 51 is no doubt one of the most familiar Psalms for us. Luther said it
    was the most frequently sung of all the Psalms.
    It deals with something that is universally experienced—how do we as the
    people of God deal with our sin? It is ever-present with us. We find it
    there on a daily basis lingering and lurking alongside us and dampening our
    desires to please the Lord.
    And so, we need help in dealing with sin rightly.
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  • Praise to the Worthy One - Psalm 33
    Three instructions that are going to benefit God’s people. We love to
    praise God. We need help praising God. So here are three helps for our
    souls as we seek to trust him on the inside and praise him on the outside.
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  • King Jesus Triumphs Over All - Psalm 2
    If I were to name a theme right now as I see the tenor of my own heart and
    I speak with many of you there is a restlessness among God’s people.
    There’s unrest that is being fueled by unrest around us. And in times like
    this we want to take our thoughts and set them squarely back on the person
    of Jesus Christ.
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  • Excel in Love and Diligence - 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12
    Picking up right where left off last time in a section that deals with some
    areas of practical living as a Christian. We’re in a letter to a young
    church which is vibrant and yet vulnerable. On fire for the Lord but
    needing to be shored up as we always can expect as the people of God.
    Chapter 4 marked a shift where Paul begins to deal with the theology and
    practice of the Thessalonians. And he exhorts them to excel in three areas
    of their life. Pay close attention in these three areas:
    * Sexual purity
    * Love
    * Honorable living
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