ODCC Sermons

Teaching

- The Historical Context

- The Situation

- The Chorus

- Presence

- Plea

Reproof

- Finding salvation apart from God

- Seeing God in the large and small

- Failing to pour your heart out to God in prayer

- Becoming an accuser rather than encourager

- Focused only your own individual problems instead of a concern for the church at large and the kingdom of God

- Failing to see the real enemies

Correction

- The Son of David, Jesus Christ

- Christ is our shield, glory, and lifter of our heads

Training in Righteousness

- Remember that not only your real enemies are Satan, sin, and death, but that YOU were an enemy of God

- Resolve everyday, to cry out to the Lord

- Resolve to meditate on and long for heaven

Can Women Be Deacons by ODCC Sermons

Teaching

- What is a Deacon?

- What is the difference between Deacons and Elders?

- Good Repute (v. 8)

- Not Double-Tongued (Speech)

- Not addicted to much wine (Self-Control)

- Not greedy for dishonest gain (Stewardship)

- Spiritual (v. 9)

- What is the Mystery of the faith?

- Holding

- Clear conscience

- Wisdom (v. 10)

- Test of time

- Blameless

- Good Leader (v. 12)

- Husband of one wife

- Managing their children well

- Managing his whole household well

- Do Deacons need to be married?

- Good Reasons (v. 13)

- Good Standing

- Great Confidence

Reproof

- Deacons in Korean Churches

Correction

- Cleansing your conscience

Training in Righteousness

1. Keep short accounts with God

2. How am I doing in the 4 areas?

3. Who is qualified to be a deacon in our church?

4. Pray for the process

Outline:

Teaching

1. The Setting (v. 1)

2. The Proposal (vv. 2-4)

3. The Selection (vv. 5-6)

4. The Result (v. 7)

Reproof

1. Trying to grow by any means other than the word of God

2. Edification and evangelism are inter-related

3. Pastors and elders who do too much

4. In Acts 6 are these actually Deacons?

Correction

- Jesus was the first deacon

Training in Righteousness

1. Resolve to glory in the humility of Christ

2. Resolve to be a humble servant like Jesus

3. Pray for the pastors and elders that we would be faithful in devoting ourselves to pray and the the ministry of the word

4. Ask the Lord who should be deacons in our church

5. Pray for our church that every member would receive the same care

Teaching/Reproof

1. The Practice of Prayer in Acts

2. The Practice of Prayer by Jesus

3. The Teaching on Prayer by Jesus

A. The Manner of Prayer (Luke 18:1-8)

B. The Meat of Prayer (Luke 11:1-4): Identity, worth, mission, provision, relationships, struggles

C. The Motive of Prayer (Lk 21:36)

Correction

- Jesus always lives to make intercession for you (Heb 7:25)

Training in Righteousness

- Resolve to start your prayer in Jesus name

- Resolve to pray the way Jesus taught us to

- Resolve to regularly pray together

Reflection Questions:

1. Teaching: What does today's passage say? What does it teach us to believe?

Is there something you still do not understand?

2. Reproof: How does this text reprove sin in your life?

3. Correction: How does it correct you and lead you to glory in Christ?

4. Training in Righteousness: What can you resolve to change in your

life as a result of today’s Scripture?

Teaching

1. What does it mean to break bread?

2. How often did they break bread?

3. Where did they break bread?

4. Did they eat anything in addition to bread?

5. In what manner did they eat?

Reproof

- If you could ask God for anything, what would you ask him for?

- Turning stones into bread

Correction

- His body was given for you

Training in Righteousness

1. The Elders will consider having communion more often

2. Resolve to hunger and thirst for righteousness more than food or anything else in this life

3. Resolve to eat with other members of the church at least once a week

4. Resolve to eat with a non-believer regularly

Reflection Questions:

1. Teaching: What does today's passage say? What does it teach us to believe?

Is there something you still do not understand?

2. Reproof: How does this text reprove sin in your life?

3. Correction: How does it correct you and lead you to glory in Christ?

4. Training in Righteousness: What can you resolve to change in your

life as a result of today’s Scripture?

Teaching

- What is fellowship?

- Five Essential Element of Biblical Fellowship

1. Faith

2. Unity

3. Sacrificial generosity

4. Lots of time

5. Worship

Reproof

- Fellowship that is based on common interest rather than our common Savior

- Division and disunity in the body

- Stinginess with your possessions, your home, and your time

- Wasting time together doing meaningless, worldly activities instead of worshipping together in Christ

Correction

- Let your inadequacy in your fellowship with one another, be cause to glory in the perfection of your fellowship with God in Christ Jesus

Training in Righteousness

- How is our church doing in fellowship as a whole as biblically defined?

- If you see a weakness in our church…by God’s grace be part of the solution, not the problem

Teaching

- Devoted Themselves

- Apostles' Teaching

- What is an apostle?

- What was their teaching?

- Prophetic

- Personal

- Practical

- Powerful

Reproof

- Distorting the Apostles' Teaching

Correction

- Apostles' Teaching Centers on Christ

Training in Righteousness

- Repent of sinful neglect of Christ

- Repent of re-crucifying Christ by your sin

- Resolve to be in awe at the glory of Christ

- Resolve to talk more about Christ than self

- Resolve to study God’s word like a Berean

- Resolve to meditate on God’s word day and night

- Resolve to obey God’s word like a wise builder

For the Lord Himself Will Descend from Heaven!

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

I. Introduction

- The First Advent vs. The Second Advent

- The foreshadowing

- Those who were waiting for the consolation of Israel

- The Day of the Lord

- Would you be ready for the Second Coming of Christ?

II. Body

1. Context

A. Paul’s remembrance for The Thessalonians

a. Work of faith

b. Labor of love

c. Steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus

B. The reputations of the Thessalonians

a. The kind of reception Paul received

b. How they turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

c. To wait for his Son from heaven

C. Paul’s messages

a. Admonish the idle

b. Help the weak

c. Encourage the fainthearted

2. Teaching

A. Ignorance

B. Grief

C. Christian Hope

- Where do we find hope?

- Our hope is found in Christ and what He has accomplished

a. Christian Hope in the gospel

b. Christian Hope in God

c. Christian Hope in the Word of the Lord

d. Christian Hope in the Return of the Lord/The Resurrection

e. Christian Hope in the Name of Christ

f. Christian Hope in the Rapture

g. Christian Hope in the Reunion with the Lord

3. Reproof

A. Have you turned to God from the idols to serve the living and true God?

B. Have you been laboring the labor of love?

C. Have you been waiting for the Second Advent of the Lord?

4. Correction

A. “Therefore encourage one another with these words”

5. Training in righteousness

- Colossians 3:1-17

A. Seek the things above

B. Set your minds on the things that are above

C. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you

D. Put on love

E. Let the peace of God rule in your hearts

F. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly

G. Do everything in the name of the Lord

H. Giving thanks to God the Father through him

Worship the Kings

Teaching

1. The arrival of the Magi (2:1-2)

2. The agitation of Herod (2:3-8)

3. The adoration of the Magi (2:9-12)

Reproof

1. The worship of Mary

2. You can be so near Christ, and yet so far away

3. False worship

Correction

Jesus is the perfect leader

Training in Righteousness

1. Repent of your prideful worldliness

2. Repent of your spiritual laziness

3. Rejoice at the coming of Christ

4. Renew your mind daily with the Gospel