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

Main Idea: Jesus isn’t looking for spiritual subscribers but surrendered followers.

Main Question: What’s the difference between spiritual subscribers and surrendered followers?

• Spiritual subscribers resist Jesus’ authority to the degree that it threatens their own.
• Spiritual subscribers reject truth to the degree that it endangers their image.

Revelation 6

Main Pont: To know Jesus correctly we must know scripture correctly.

• The truth of Scripture leads us from hoping in Jesus to trusting in Jesus.
• Every part of Scripture points to Jesus.
• We should study Scripture expecting God to do something amazing.