Main Idea: When our zeal for God isn’t grounded in the truth of God, it ends in disaster. Main Question: How does misguided zeal lead to disaster?

A misguided view of God always leads to misguided zeal. When your zeal for God is disconnected from the character of God, it leads to destruction.

Main Idea: God thins the ranks to deepen our faith.

Main Question: How can we trust God when He

thins the ranks in our lives?

God thins the ranks not to punish us with

loss but to position us for growth.

God strengthens our faith not by saying

something new, but by helping us finally

believe what He has already said.

Main Idea: Before God uses you publicly, He first purifies you privately.

Main Question: How does God purify us to be prepared to answer His call?

• Before revival can happen around you, repentance must happen within you.
• God examines private obedience before entrusting public influence.
• When God confirms your purification, He commissions you with a purpose.

Main Idea: God calls unlikely people and equips them with His presence to accomplish His purposes.

Main Question: How can we discern and answer the call of God?

• When God burdens you with a cause, it’s often because He’s already been preparing you to be part of the solution.
• When calls you to a purpose, He sends you with His presence.

True faith depends on only one person: Jesus.

True faith understands that God is sovereign over everything.

True faith will lead us to join in the fight.

Main Idea: God shows us how to choose overwhelming joy over overbearing judgment.

• God's love for His children is stronger than our sin and rebellion.
• God's love for His children is patient enough to let us learn from our choices.
• God's joy for our future exceeds the shame of our past.
• It's possible to be in the house of the Father but not yet in the family of the Father.
• The heart of God is joy in repentance not judgment for past choices.

Main Idea: God calls His people to stop feeding the flesh and, by His strength, put it to death.

Main Question: How do we put the flesh to death?

• In order to kill the flesh, you must use the sword of God’s Word.
• We overcome the flesh through the victory of God’s Savior.

Main Idea: If we don’t learn from the cycle of Judges, we’ll fall into the pattern of Judges.

Main Question: What causes us to fall into the pattern of Judges?

• When we allow small areas of disobedience, it often leads to large areas of disaster.
• One generation’s compromise becomes the next generation’s standard.

Main Question: Who will be at the Son’s wedding feast?

• Being invited isn’t the same as being in.
• Those we expect to be included at the feast might actually be excluded.
• The invitation is radically inclusive, but entrance is distinctly exclusive.

Main Idea: Many are invited into God’s kingdom, but only those clothed in the righteousness of Christ may join the celebration.

Revelation 21