Satan, Dragons and Deamons

The words that we speak show the condition of our hearts.

The sign of Jesus is sufficient.

Main point: the Righteous heart doesn't search for a new sign; it looks to Jesus.

Revelation: The Triumph of the Lamb

Main Question: What hope is there for people who are broken and hurting?

• Jesus freely gives us the very thing we’re trying to earn.
• Jesus doesn’t withhold His love until we fix our mess; He loves us in the midst of our mess.

Main Idea: Jesus is hope for the hopeless.

Main Idea: We must not let the rules of man prevent

the work of God.

Main Question: How do our rules and traditions

prevent the work of God?

• God doesn’t need us to supplement His silence.
• We must not forsake the spirit of the law in our attempts to uphold the letter of the law.

Main Idea: We won’t go and tell until we come and

see.

• Many are seeking to follow the teachings of a dead teacher instead of seeking a relationship with a living Savior.
• People will oppose the resurrection to the degree that it threatens their lifestyles.

Main Idea: We must own the blame of the cross in

order to receive the blessings of the cross.

Main Question: What is the blame, and what are the

blessings of the cross?

• The severity of Jesus’ suffering shows the seriousness of sin.
• He was forsaken in order to end our separation.
• Death has died in the death of Christ.

Main Idea: We must commit ourselves wholeheartedly to Jesus because indecision leads to

condemnation.

Main Question: What are the main ways we try to avoid a wholehearted commitment to Jesus?

• We cannot transfer a decision God has called us to make.
• Fascination with Jesus must not be confused with faith in Jesus.
• God will not be satisfied with half-measures when He’s called us to make a wholehearted

decision.

Main Idea: Those who are truly connected to Jesus by faith will never walk away from the faith.

Main Question: What are the warning signs that we’re not truly connected to Jesus by faith?

• If you’ve settled for being religiously connected rather than spiritually converted, you’re in danger of deconstructing.
• If you lack the fruit of the Spirit, you lack the Spirit of the fruit.

James 1:19-25