Delta Church - SPI

1 John 5:13-15

How do you spend time with someone in your life? Say you want to share an afternoon together with a friend, what do you do? What you do is talk to them. And during those times you talk about what matters to you and what matters to them. In the same way, this is how we spend time with God—by talking to Him about things that matter to us, and to Him. When we do this, the Bible calls this prayer. God’s Word is full of promises about prayer. And one of my favorite promises is found in our verses this morning—God has promised to hear and answer the prayers of all who belong to Him.

John 11:1-27

What is the greatest common problem facing the human race? Ask the bible this question and the answer comes back as the “last enemy”—the “fear of death” (1 Corinthians 15:26; Hebrews 2:15). In John 11 this fear is front and center as Mary and Martha watch Lazarus go from life to death. They turn to Jesus and learn from him something more than they ever expected, that Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life. And because this is who Jesus is, I can have eternal life.

Psalm 119:9-11

Even as a child it is possible to fight sin! The psalmist aims his words to the “young man” telling him to guard his heart and treasure up God’s word in heart. Why? So that he might not sin against God. The Bible protects us from sin and there is no better age to learn that as children and youth!

Matthew 2:13-23

Matthew 2:1-12

Matthew 1:18-25

Matthew 1:1-17

Kicking off Advent, we turn to Matthew’s gospel and what we discover is a genealogy. But far from a random list of names, what we have is a declaration of hope. With the birth of Jesus the hopes and fears of all the years are met in Him. This genealogy is rich, pregnant with hope. And it declares the glories of our God whose plan it was to send us his Son so that we might have the sure and certain hope of redeeming grace anchored in Jesus. Main Idea: The hope of redeeming grace is secure because Christ the Savior is born

James 5:11

What is the fuel for genuine Thanksgiving? What James points to in his letter and what the book of Job reveals in the life of Job is that beholding God clearly for who He is…this is the fuel for thanksgiving. When we come to see that the Lord is compassionate and merciful thanksgiving that flow into erupting worship will be the patter of our lives. So on this Sunday before the Thanksgiving holiday we set our eyes on our God in order to fuel our worship with that which endures—who our God is. Main Idea—Our compassionate and merciful Lord is the fuel for genuine thanksgiving.

Job 42:1-17

Job 40:6-42:6

Last week we saw God speak from the whirlwind and address the protests of His suffering servant by reminding Job—“I have the whole world in my hands. I am in control over the continuing presence of evil.” And what we discovered is that this landed on Job with great comfort (40:3-5). But we also said that more must be said about the chaotic evil in our world. After all—but Job has dead children. His fortune has been shattered. His health is hovering on the brink of death. Therefore, enter God’s second speech. What Job still needs to know, and what every sufferer wants to know, is if the chaos and evil and suffering we experience in this world will one day be defeated. Main Idea—God is the Just Warrior who will one day defeat evil.