Bethel Church Temple TX Podcast (Sermons)

Ladies Bible Study The Essentials: Living With the End in Mind

Week 6- Amanda Parker

The Harvest Is Ready

Guest Speaker: Pastor Jason Exley from Life Church Midlothian

Ladies Bible Study The Essentials: Living With the End in Mind

Week 5- Panel

Hosts: ReGina Johnston & Jina McAfee

Panelists: Lenora Alexander, Sylvia Hitzegrad, Glennis Lamm, & Ruby Hedin

Sit and Go

September 26, 2021 AM Elwyn Johnston

Matthew 15:29 – 39

Verses of the Week: “Jesus directed the people to sit down”

Matthew 15:35

“Jesus sent them away” Mark 8:9

1. God loves you

“I feel compassion for the people” Matthew 15:32

“I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on

the way.” Matthew 15:32

“they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, seven

large baskets full.” Matthew 15:37

2. Remain with Jesus

“They have remained with Me for three days” Matthew 15:32

“Jesus directed the people to sit down” Matthew 15:35

3. Allow God to do it again

“How many loaves do you have?” Matthew 15:34

“they all ate and were satisfied” Matthew 15:37

4. Be a blessing this week

“Jesus sent them away” Mark 8:9

Ladies Bible Study The Essentials: Living With the End in Mind

Week 4 - Kyli Rose

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Hope Is Here!

September 19, 2021 AM Elwyn N. Johnston

1 Peter 1:3

Verse of the Week: “we have fixed our hope on the living God”

1 Timothy 4:10

1. Look to God

“My soul, wait in silence for God only, for my hope is from Him. He

only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be

shaken.” Psalm 62:5 & 6

“we have fixed our hope on the living God” 1 Timothy 4:10

2. Look to the Word

“I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, and in His word do I hope.”

Psalm 130:5

“The scriptures give us patience and encouragement so that we can

have hope.” Romans 15:4

3. Look to the future

“This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and

steadfast and one which enters within the veil” Hebrews 6:19

Ladies Bible Study The Essentials: Living With the End in Mind

Week 2- Ashton Halvorson & Tiffany Baughman

The Perfect Storm

“ But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you;

and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea

and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts: 1:8

“But the weather changed abruptly, and a wind of typhoon strength

(called a ‘northeaster’) burst across the island and blew us out to

sea. The sailors couldn’t turn the ship into the wind, so they gave up

and let it run before the gale. We sailed along the sheltered side of a

small island named Clauda, where with great difficulty we hoisted

aboard the lifeboat being towed behind us. Then the sailors bound

ropes around the hull of the ship to strengthen it. They were afraid of

being driven across to the sandbars of Syrtis off the African coast, so

they lowered the sea anchor to slow the ship and were driven before

the wind. The next day, as gale-force winds continued to batter the

ship, the crew began throwing the cargo overboard. The following day

they even took some of the ship’s gear and threw it overboard. The

terrible storm raged for many days, blotting out the sun and the stars,

until at last all hope was gone.” Acts 27:14 – 20

“Men,” he said, “I believe there is trouble ahead if we go

on—shipwreck, loss of cargo, and danger to our lives as well.”  Acts

27:10  

1. The Positioned Prophet

 Paul’s Training

“But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for

Christ” Philippians 3: 7

 Paul’s Testimony

“Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times

I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep;

in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils

of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the

city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among

false brethren; in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger

and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness”

1 Corinthians 11: 25 – 28

 Paul’s Timing

“The terrible storm raged for many days, blotting out the sun and the

stars, until at last all hope was gone.” Acts 27:20

“Finally, Paul called the crew together and said, ‘Men, you should

have listened to me in the first place and not left Crete. You would

have avoided all this damage and loss. But take courage! None of you

will lose your lives even though the ship will go down.    For last night

an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside

me,    and he said, “Don’t be afraid, Paul, for you will surely stand trial

before Caesar! What’s more, God in His goodness has granted safety

to everyone sailing with you.”   So take courage! For I believe God. It

will be just as He said.’”   Acts 27:21 - 25

2. Predetermined Perspective

“For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. For if

we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord.

Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.” 

Romans 14: 7 & 8

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ

liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith

of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

Galatians 2:20

“For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Philippians 1:20

“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I

do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto

those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of

the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 1:13 & 14

3. A Perfect Peace

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“You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on

You, because he trusts in You.” Isaiah 26:3

“keep” - tisor - guarding or watching over. 

“perfect” – Shalom, Shalom or Peace, Peace

shalom - rest, but it is also healing, safety, and security,

“minds” – imaginations

“stayed” - like a mattress covering, it is an overlay. 

“And as day was about to dawn, Paul implored them all to take food,

saying, ‘Today is the fourteenth day you have waited and continued

without food, and eaten nothing. Therefore I urge you to take

nourishment, for this is for your survival, since not a hair will fall from

the head of any of you.’ And when he had said these things, he took

bread and gave thanks to God in the presence of them all; and when

he had broken it he began to eat.” Acts 27:33

YOU FEED THEM!

Ladies Bible Study The Essentials: Living With the End in Mind

Week 2 - Kali Kennedy

This Is War

A House UNITED

September 5, 2021 AM David Barnes

Luke 11:17, 18, & 23

For every “House” God has a Purpose!

“INDIVIDUAL” House

 Represents – Personal lives

 God’s Purpose: Fellowship

“FAMILY” House

 Represents – Natural families

 God’s purpose:

o Children under authority of parents

o Husband/Wife to be one before God

“CHURCH” House

 Represents

o Families of Choice

o Church families

 God’s purpose:

o Worship

o Ministry

o Evangelism

o Fellowship

o Discipleship