Scripture: Titus 2:11-14

Key Takeaways:

+ Isaiah 9:6-7

+ Matthew 1:1

+ Matthew 1: 17

+ Tangible Hope

+ Visible Glory

+ Unimaginable Awe

“We don’t hope that we will see Katy again. We have the hope that we KNOW we WILL see Katy again.” – Holly Rost

+ Hebrews 9:27

+ Matthew 24:36-42

“Joy to the world the Lord is come. Let earth receive her king. Let every heart prepare him room. And heaven and nature sing.”

Scripture: Titus 2:11-14

Key Takeaways: 

+ Christmas is the inbreaking of the age to come into this present age.

+ Mark 10:29–30

·       Satanic age

·       Sinful age

·       Secular age

·       Sensual age

·       Selfish age

+ 2 Timothy 3:1–4

·       Secular age

+ 2 Timothy 4:10

+ Through Jesus, God brings us into the age to come and brings the age to come into us.

+ Galatians 1:3–5

+ Romans 12:1–2

+ God’s saving grace in Jesus doesn’t just forgive sin, it trains and transforms the forgiven sinner.

+ The Beauty of Jesus.

+ The Power of the Spirit.

+ Ezekiel 36:25–27

+ 2 Corinthians 3:18

+ The Loving Discipline of the Father.

+ Hebrews 12:5–11

Scripture: Titus 2:11-14

Key Takeaways:

+ Christmas is the Incarnation of the Son of God

+ John 1:1-2

+ John 1:14

"...the supreme mystery with which the gospel confronts us...lies not in the Good Friday message of atonement, nor in the Easter Sunday message of resurrection, but in the Christmas message of Incarnation. The really staggering Christian claim is that Jesus of Nazareth was God made man - that the second person of the Godhead...took humanity without loss of deity, so that Jesus of Nazareth was as truly and fully divine as he was human. Here are two mysteries for the price of one - the plurality of persons within the unity of God, and the union of Godhead and manhood in the person of Jesus." – JI Packer, Knowing God.

+ 1 John 1:1-3

+ Christmas is the Revelation of the Grace of God.

+ Christmas is the Provision of the Salvation of God.

+ James 2:10

+ Ephesians 2:8-9

+ Titus 3:4-7

+ Christmas is the Invitation to Contemporary Man.

+ 1 Timothy 1:15

Scripture: John 6:26-40

Key Takeaways: 

“Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” – CS Lewis

+ John 6:26

+ John 6:35

+ Long for Him Who is forever

+ John 6:27

+ Ephesians 3:9-13

+ 2 Corinthians 5:21

+ John 6:35-40

+ Ephesians 4:7-10

+ Romans 5:8

+ Long for Him Who is free

+ John 6:30-31

+ Philippians 4:6

+ Bread

+ Believe in Him

+ John 6:27-29

+ Isaiah 26:3

+ Read His Word

+ Psalm 119:105

+ Embrace His Mission

-        What is the mission of God?

+ Matthew 28:19-20

+ Acts 1:8

+ Approach His Throne

+ Hebrews 4:16

+ Delight in Him

+ Isaiah 61:10

“Oh, soul are you weary and troubled? No light in the darkness you see? There's light for a look at the Savior And life more abundant and free. Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace.” – Helen Lemmel

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:23-27

Key Takeaways:

“It was in 1980, that the legendary boxing trainer Cus D’amato discovered the young juvenile delinquent, Mike Tyson. 6 years later as a 20 year old kid, Tyson would destroy Trevor Berbick in 6 minutes to take the crown to initiate the start of his heavyweight reign. For those 6 years, Mike Tyson's daily workout involved getting up at 4am for a 5-mile jog, sparring for 3 hours, doing 2000 sit-ups, 500 pushups, 500 dips, 500 shrugs and about 30 minutes of neck bridges. He repeated this regiment 6 days a week. In short, despite training for ‘only’ six years, the quality and consistency of the work he was doing was enough to match the quantity of work that other fighters do.” ― Reemus Boxing

+ The Purpose of Discipline

“Every action you take is a vote for the person you want to become.” - James Clear, Atomic Habits

1 Corinthians 9:23

+ The Pain of Discipline

Hebrews 12:11

1 Timothy 4:7-10

“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.” ― D.A. Carson

+ The Prize of Discipline

James 1:12

Romans 6:22

1 Corinthians 1:8-9

+ Set your highest joy on Jesus.

+ Set your heart to honor Jesus.

+ Train your mind, body, and soul with grace-driven effort as you wait for Jesus.

Scripture: John 14:25-31

Key Takeaways:

 John 16:33

 [Got Milk Slides]

+ Not the Peace the World Gives

Control

Circumstances

+ His peace

+ The only way you can have the peace of God is to be at peace with God

Romans 5:1

John 16:33

Refuse to fear

Refuse counterfeit saviors

Seek the Felt Experience of the Holy Spirit

Scripture: Ephesians 4:1-6

Key Takeaways:

+ God cares more about The Church than this nation, so order your loves.

Acts 17:26 (CSB)

+ Order our loves according to spiritual principles and spatial proximity.

+ Our Theology is our relational Glue, so don’t seek unity around anything else.

Graphic of Three Circles

Graphic of Three Circles expanded.

+ The Character we display matters more than the vote we cast, so be like Jesus.

+ Jesus is Lord, so don’t freak out whatever happens Tuesday.

Scripture: Galatians 5:13-26

Key Takeaways:

+ Holy Intention

1 Peter 1:15–16 (ESV)

Ephesians 1:4 (ESV)

1 Thessalonians 4:3 (ESV)

1 Thessalonians 4:7 (ESV)

1 Thessalonians 5:23 (ESV)

“Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of God.” – J.I. Packer, Keeping in Step with the Spirit.

“Lord, make me as holy as it is possible for a saved sinner to be.” – Robert Murray McCheyne

+ Holy Conflict

+ Holy Habits

-        Treat your flesh like the enemy it is.

-        Don’t give the flesh an opportunity.

-        Give the Spirit every opportunity.

Scripture: Jeremiah 2:1-13

Key Takeaways:

+ The Essence of Idolatry

Romans 1:22-25

+ The Shock of Idolatry

Sin against Love

Sin against Logic

+ The Cost of Idolatry

Psalm 16:11

+ The Cure for Idolatry

Scripture: Romans 16:25-27

Key Takeaways:

“This epistle is really the chief part of the New Testament and is truly the purest gospel. It is worthy not only that every Christian should know it word for word, by heart, but also that he should occupy himself with it every day, as the daily bread of the soul. We can never read it or ponder over it too much; for the more we deal with it, the more precious it becomes and the better it tastes.” Martin Luther.

+ Live for the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (ESV)

+ Find your strength in the Gospel.

Justification

Romans 3:23-25 (ESV)

Propitiation

Union with Christ

Romans 6:4 (ESV)

Adoption

Romans 8:14-17 (ESV)

1 Corinthians 15:1-2 (CSB)

+ Help take this Gospel to the world.