Lost Mountain Baptist Church

Week 2 of Micah: "The Breaker"

Executive Pastor, Jake Turner

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism - A belief system that embraces the existence of a God who demands little more than to be "nice," with the central goal of life to be happy and feel good about oneself.

Micah Ch. 2:1-13, Galatians 6:7-8, Micah 5:2-4

The Dimmer Switch Principle: When we respond to the light we have, we get more. When we ignore the light we have, we get less.

"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." A.W. Tozer

Matt. 5:21-26, Exodus 20:13, Jer 17:9, Proverbs 29:22, Proverbs 14:16, James 3:8, Proverbs 15:18, Eph 6:12,

In week 4 of The God You Thought You Knew, Executive Pastor Jake Turner shows us in Matthew 5 how the command to "not murder" finds its root in anger. In his sermon he addresses 3 questions: What is anger, What does anger do, and What do we do with anger?

Matthew 7:1-7

John 3:16-17, 12:46-48; Galatians 6:1-6

“Do not assume the place of God by declaring you have the right to stand in judgment over all—do not do it, in order to avoid being called to account by whose place you usurp.” —Don Carson

“Be careful not to measure your holiness by other people’s sin.” —Martin Luther King

Matthew 6:1-9; 16-18

Week 7 of The God You Thought You Knew

“Never confuse the perfect love of Jesus with my imperfect attempt to follow him.” —Philip Yancey  

“Prayer should not consist of heaped up phrases, idle repetitions, and the ridiculous assumption that the probability of an answer is in proportion to the total number of words in the prayer.” –John Stott

Matthew 6:19-34, 1 Timothy 6:10, Colossians 3:1-2

In week 8 of The God You Thought You Knew, we see Jesus make a direct connection between our heart and our finances.

“Kingdom Focus"

“Lack of uncompromising trust in God is not only an affront to him, it is essentially pagan” -D.A. Carson

“We have not known Thee as we ought,

Nor learned Thy wisdom, grace, and power;

The things of earth have filled our thought,

And trifles of the passing hour.

Lord, give us light Thy truth to see, 

And make us wise in knowing Thee.”

-T.B. Polluck

Matt. 5:38-48

Matt. 5:27-37, Ephesians 5:25-27, Philippians 4:8, Mark 7:21-23, Matthew 19:3-10, Galatians 2:20 

In week 5 of The God You Thought You Knew, Pastor Matt Jeffreys takes a look at the most controversial and misunderstood passage in the entire Sermon on the Mount.

Quotes:

“This is not a prohibition of the normal attraction that exists between men and women, but of the deep-seated lust which consumes and devours.”

 -D.A. Carson

“In the Jewish society of Jesus’ day, as for most times in human history, the consequences of divorce were devastating for the woman. Except for some highly unlikely circumstances, her life was, simply, ruined. No harm was done to the man, by contrast, except from time to time a small financial loss and perhaps bitter relationships with the ex-wife’s family.” -Dallas Willard

 “Jesus prohibits human beings from calling on heaven or earth when making a vow or taking an oath because both are the exclusive domains of God, created by God, sustained by God, and exist primarily for the glory of God.” -Sinclair Ferguson

Matthew 7:24-29

In week 13 of The God You Thought You Knew...

Matthew 7:24-29

Deuteronomy 30:15-18

Proverbs 10:25

Psalm 128:1

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” —Anonymous 

Matthew 7:15-23

In week 12 of The God You Thought You Knew...

Matthew 7:15-23

“We may be saved by faith, but we are judged by works. Every judgment scene in the Bible is a judgment by works.” -Scot McKnight 

“What a person believes must sooner or later manifest itself in what he or she does.” -D.A. Carson

Matthew 7:12

Matthew 22:36-40

Galatians 5:22-26

John 15:5

2 Corinthians 5:14-16

“Cheap grace is grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In week 11 of The God You Thought You Knew...

Matthew 7:13-14, John 10:7-10, 14:6 Acts 4:8, Mark 10:29-30, Psalm 1, Romans 6:23  

“This is not a matter of more or less successful attempts to follow the lifestyle of the kingdom of heaven, but being either in or out—saved or lost.” —R.T. France

“No one can follow Christ who has not first denied himself.” —John Stott

“Christ’s hard and narrow way is also to be welcomed as his ‘easy yoke’ and ‘light burden.’” —Chrysostom 

“What is immediately striking about these verses is the absolute nature of the choice between us. We would prefer to be given more choices, or better still to fuse them all into a conglomerate religion, thus eliminating the need for any choice. But Jesus cuts across our easy-going syncretism. He will not allow us the comfortable solutions we propose. Instead, he insists that ultimately there is only two possibilities to choose from.” —John Stott