Approved Workmen

Approved Workmen

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Approved Workmen episodes

  • Passionate for Purity (Part 2) - 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
    I wanted to slow down here just for a bit as we think through some
    principles of sanctification together as a church. Some of our favorite
    studies together over the years have been on the attributes of God
    and salvation and sanctification. It’s just where we live and so it’s
    always good to go back and consider these truths again.
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  • Passionate for Purity - 1st Thessalonians 4:1-2
    Passionate for Purity
    Take your Bibles and turn with me to 1 Thessalonians 4. We arrive at a
    transition in the letter this week. Paul has been dealing with all kinds of
    encouragements so far. It’s been very personal. We’ve gotten to see how God
    worked in birthing this church. We’ve gotten to see how the missionaries
    thought and how they served. We’ve been challenged and blessed on so many
    fronts through this study.
    Now there’s a transition in the letter. Paul begins to dive in with some
    very specific pastoral instructions now. Thus far there’s been little in
    the way of direct commandments and instructions. It has been largely
    biographical—here’s what we went through (autobiography), here’s what you
    went through (biography). Some historical situations in the missionary
    journey and sending Timothy.
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  • Leaving Burdens Before the Lord - 1 Thessalonians 3:11-13
    Grab your Bibles and turn to 1 Thessalonians 3. We will finish out this
    chapter this week. We will slow it down and only cover three verses. But
    these three verses serve as a timely reminder for us.
    This is a short, pastoral prayer.
    Paul has referred to his prayer life already, but now he actually prays. He
    just writes it down. His intercession is: “uncomplicated, but profound.”1
    It is God-centered, it is spiritual in content, it is focused on others,
    and it is an acknowledgment of total reliance upon the Lord.
    Paul has a big, positive view of God’s trustworthiness to get the job done.
    He can do what we can’t. Exclusive confidence. It’s going to bless us as we
    consider how to deal with the burdens we are bearing in life right now.
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  • Steady Faith: An Undervalued Assets - 1 Thessalonians 3:6-10
    Take your Bibles and turn with me to 1 Thessalonians 3. Make your way over
    to 1 Thessalonians 3. We are continuing in this same vein as Paul continues
    to write about his thinking and approach to this church.
    We’ve been learning so much about how the gospel and the word of God works
    to save and sanctify us. We have had a window into what characterizes a
    faithful church as we see Paul write not only instructions to this church,
    but also sharing how he thinks and how he operates in ministry.
    The past couple of weeks have really honed in on the interdependence of the
    Christian life.
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  • The Spiritual Loss Prevention Team
    This morning I invite you to grab your Bible and turn with me to 1
    Thessalonians 3:1-5. Last week we looked at the Return on Investment from
    making disciples. This week we pick up where we left off—Paul’s stream of
    consciousness continues right through the chapter break.
    What’s on his mind today is Loss Prevention.
    Loss Prevention. If you aren’t familiar with the concept it is what it
    says. It’s a team as part of an organization that identifies, what are the
    preventable losses we might face and then let’s prevent them.
    Today we find a spiritual loss prevention team.
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  • The ROI From Making Disciples
    This morning I invite you to take your Bibles and turn with me to 1
    Thessalonians. 1 Thessalonians 2. We will Lord willing finish up this
    chapter together. It feels good to say turn to 1 Thessalonians again—it’s
    been six weeks since we were here last. I want to pick up where we left off
    and hit the ground running.
    As we’ve said, this is such a timely study for us. How God established a
    new church and began to strengthen the ministry. We have been awed at the
    power of God in that place. And we’ve gotten a behind-the-scenes look at
    what drives a ministry.
    The sharing of life. The boldness. The love. The investment.
    As we get started here, I want to remind you that our backdrop here for
    this letter is a church that was founded by missionaries. Missions is
    essential to God’s plan for advancing his kingdom on earth.
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  • Psalm 46 -Standing Firm Amid Uncertainty
    Well in a rather short period of time, things in the world around us have
    change rapidly. And things that you have grown a custom to you as a way of
    life or even been able to bank on have been jeopardized. Suddenly there is
    a long list of what if‘s without very many answers insight. What if this
    goes on for the next year? What if I lose my job over this? What if this
    paves the way for government to play an even bigger role in the lives of
    its citizens? And the list goes on and on.
    And this is good for us.
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  • Thank God for the Ministry of the Word - 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16
    Paul Gives 2 Reactions to the Ministry of the Word (2:13-16)
    1. Expresses gratitude for the reception of the Word (13-14)
    2. Provides altitude for the rejection of the Word (15-16)
    Most of the sermon will be on the first point. It’s content deserves our
    greatest attention.
    1 Thessalonians 2:13-16 (ESV)—13And we also thank God constantly for
    this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us,
    you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the
    word of God, which is at work in you believers. 14 For you, brothers,
    became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in
    Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as
    they did from the Jews, 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the
    prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind by
    16 hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be
    saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has
    come upon them at last!”
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  • The Integrity Behind Fruitful Ministry - Part 3
    Ministry is about God. Ministry is about God. Ministry is about God.
    Priests… serve God and others. A go-between. Worship through service.
    For Paul it starts with the Lord Jesus.
    Sacrificial service…
    No one has greater love than that he lay down his life for his friends.
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