ScriptureStream

By Mark Watson

Just the gospel, plainly spoken. ScriptureStream compiles lessons presented at the Benchley church of Christ, located just north of Bryan, TX. Visit ScriptureStream.com for full notes on each lesson a... more

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August 25, 2024Two Ways to Fall Away in College
Introduction
I Timothy 1:18-20
Keep brethren and sisters at arm’s length but get really close with others.
Acts 2:42-47 – They wanted to be together!
Acts 4:23 – They met with other Christians to talk about being persecuted.
Acts 4:32
Romans 1:12
Romans 15:22
Philippians 1:3
I Thessalonians 3:6
Hebrews 10:24-25
Philippians 1:27
Deuteronomy 13:6-10 – God warned the Israelites of bad influence.
Proverbs 12:26; 13:20; 14:7; 24:1-2
Make schoolwork your primary focus.
I Kings 4:1-26, 32-34
I Kings 7:1
I Kings 10:4-5
I Kings 11:4 – Solomon’s spiritual situation was a disaster.
Romans 6:19
Be careful not to measure your success by secular standards.
Matthew 22:37
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30min
August 25, 2024Deuteronomy 9:1-11:32
Deuteronomy 9
Deuteronomy 9:1-6 – Not due to Israel’s righteousness
Deuteronomy 9:4-5 – They were allowed to take the land because of the evil of the nations that were in the land. God was delivering justice and keeping His promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Titus 3:4
Deuteronomy 9:7-29 – Remembering Israel’s failures
Deuteronomy 9:16-21 – Moses broke the tablets because he was so angry with their sins.
Exodus 32:9-10, 30
Deuteronomy 9:22 – See Numbers 11, 13-14.
Deuteronomy 10
Deuteronomy 10:1-11 – Two more tablets.
First two tablets
God provided tablets – Exodus 24:12
God wrote on tablets – Exodus 31:18
Second two tablets
Moses cut tablets – Exodus 34:1
God wrote on tablets – Exodus 34:1, 28; Deuteronomy 10:4
Deuteronomy 10:12-22 – God’s love for Israel
Deuteronomy 10:12-13 – Compare Micah 6:8; John 14:15; I John 5:3.
Deuteronomy 11
Deuteronomy 11:1-9 – This generation needs to obey.
See Deuteronomy 6:5; 10:12; 11:1; 13:3; 30:6 – Love God!
Deuteronomy 11:10-17 – God will bless the land with rain.
Deuteronomy 11:10-12 – They had to irrigate their crops in Egypt, but in Canaan they would receive rain.
Deuteronomy 11:23-25 – They would defeat stronger nations because God was with them.
Deuteronomy 11:26-29 – See Joshua 8:33-35.
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44min
August 25, 2024John 6
Review of the text
John 6:9-11
John 6:22-27
Figures of speech in John
Physical vs. spiritual
John 3:3-7
John 4:13-14
John 4:31-34
John 7:37-38
John 8:31-36
John 8:38-39, 44
John 6:31-35 – Physical bread vs. spiritual bread.
John 6:44-46 – In v45, it is those who have heard and learned from God that came to Jesus. It was not a miraculous intervention.
John 6:51-58 – Jesus is the living bread from heaven.
The phrases about eating His flesh and drinking His blood are about consuming the teaching that Jesus brought to the world.
I Corinthians 1:22
Observations
Check your motive.
John 6:26, 25, 59-63, 66-68
This is not teaching transubstantiation.
Matthew 26:26-28
This teaching is not in the text. Jesus was still there when He said to eat His flesh.
Drinking blood was not permitted under the Law of Moses.
This is a figure of speech!
You can learn a lot from reading.
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28min
August 21, 2024Abigail and King David
What about David?
Still young – mid 20s
Saul still king
David already anointed
Goliath killed
David on the run from Saul
Saul had 85 priests killed
David spared Saul’s life at Engedi
Samuel dies
I Samuel 25
David just back from sparing Saul
Still hiding out
Considerate of Nabal and his men
Sends emissaries to Nabal
We’ve been good to your shepherds
Let us eat from your leftovers
David itching for a fight
What kind of people did David hang out with?
David himself a fighter
Lion
Bear
Goliath
Jonathan
David’s mighty men
II Samuel 23
Abigail acts
This is the first she’s heard
Nabal had insulted the greatest warfighter in Israel
Didn’t bother to tell his wife
Now she’s hearing it for the first time
Time to act
No delay
No holding back
David and Abigail meet on the trail
David still fuming
Totally set for a fight
Vows death and destruction
Abigail shows humility and contriteness
Begs David’s audience
Abigail’s plea to David
Plays down Nabal’s importance
He is as his name – foolish folly
No need to heed
Takes blame again
Calls David’s intent sinful – without calling it sinful
Calls all of David’s enemies worthless
Shows that she listens well
Blesses David
Appeals to what David knows well
David relents
Abigail acknowledges David’s kingship
Reminds David of the sinful nature of his quest
Asks David to remember her when God blesses him
David thanks God for sending Abigail to him
Admits his quest was wrong in God’s eyes
Notes the harm he had been determined to do
Aftermath
David takes the gifts, sends Abigail home
Finds Nabal
Feasting, acting the happy drunk
Abigail keeps her silence
Waits until morning
Hangover comes
Abigail tells all
Nabal catatonic
Dies ten days later
Epilogue
David learns from Abigail
Acts quickly at the news of Nabal
Acknowledges being blessed by Abigail’s intervention
Proclaims that Nabal’s death was at God’s hand
Proposes remotely to Abigail
Abigail’s response
Not arrogant at her new position
Totally humble
Quick to go
Begins a life of adventure with David
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42min
August 18, 2024Introduction to Jesus: 10 Quick Facts
[Note: In this lesson, David talks about Jesus in the past tense, referring to His human existence on earth. In the spiritual sense, Jesus still exists and has always existed. -MRW]
Introduction
Matthew 16:13-14
He was a real person who lived 2,000 years ago.
Luke 1:1-5; 2:7; 3:23
Tacitus wrote about Christians in the first century.
He was the Son of God who lived in a human body.
John 1:1-5
Jesus was not simply a wise teacher. He is God’s son.
He introduced a new covenant into the world.
God had a covenant with Israel, which had been in place for about 1500 years when Jesus arrived.
John 1:17
The Old Covenant was meant to be temporary. The New Covenant is better in every way and open to everyone.
Hebrews 8:1-13
He came to be our Savior.
I John 4:9-14
He performed miracles to prove His claims.
Luke 5:18-26
His followers were persecuted and killed.
He was crucified as a sacrifice for our sins.
Mark 15:24-39
Ephesians 1:7
He rose from the dead.
Mark 16:1-8
I Corinthians 15:17
He ascended to heaven.
Acts 1:1-11
His apostles spread their eyewitness testimony.
Acts 1:8, 21
I John 1:1-14
He will judge the world in the end.
Matthew 25:31-46
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27min
August 18, 2024Deuteronomy 6:1-8:20
Deuteronomy 6
Deuteronomy 6:1-9 – Love God and teach your kids.
There is only one God! Love and worship Him only.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 – This section is called the “shema” and is recited day and night by orthodox Jews still today.
Matthew 22:35-38
Some say that the Old Covenant was external and the New Covenant is internal, but God has always cared about the heart.
Genesis 6:5
Kids can smell hypocrisy from a mile away, so you must serve God yourself if you want to teach your kids to do so.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 – Spiritual discussions should happen all the time.
Deuteronomy 6:8-9 – Compare Proverbs 3:3. This was figurative language.
Deuteronomy 6:10-12 – When you get blessed, don’t forget God.
Deuteronomy 6:13-19 – Fear God and obey.
Deuteronomy 6:20-25 – “When your son also asks you …”
Deuteronomy 7
Deuteronomy 7:1-5 – Don’t merge with idolatrous nations.
God had likely sent prophet after prophet to these sinful nations.
Deuteronomy 7:6-11 – God chose you and blessed you, so obey Him!
I Peter 2:9-12 – Christians are now God’s chosen people.
Deuteronomy 7:12-26 – God will bless you, just don’t be ensnared by sin!
Deuteronomy 8
Deuteronomy 8:1-5 – God tested Israel.
Deuteronomy 8:3 – Quoted in Matthew 4 when Jesus is tempted.
Deuteronomy 8:6-20 – Don’t forget God.
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46min
August 18, 2024Conquered: Lessons from the Fall of Israel
Introduction
II Kings 17:5
Genesis 12:7 – Promises to Abraham
II Kings 17 – God’s assessment of what went wrong with Israel.
Quit trying to be like the world.
II Kings 17:7-13 – Israel started living like the people of the land who God had punished for living that way!
II Kings 17:19 – Israel was then a bad influence on Judah.
Acts 2:38-40 – “Be saved from this perverse generation.”
Philippians 2:14-15
Judges 2:12
Israel started to blend in with the sinful world.
Romans 12:2 – We must become what God wants us to be.
James 4:4
I John 2:15
Get back to God’s word.
II Kings 17:12-13; Exodus 20:4 – God’s instructions on this were clear.
Jeremiah 7:1-10
We have a good amount of control over what influences us. It is our choice how much we read our Bible!
Luke 8:19-21
Proverbs 30:5
Psalms 119:101-104
God will definitely punish.
II Kings 17:18-23
Deuteronomy 4:25-27
Joshua 23:14-16 – God promised they would be punished.
II Peter 3:7-9, 17-18 – God doesn’t want anyone to be punished but He is just.
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31min
August 14, 2024Timothy
What do we know about him?
No biographical sketch in scripture.
Mentioned 24 times in scripture in most translations
Acts – 6
Romans – 1
I Corinthians – 2
II Corinthians – 2
Philippians – 2
Colossians – 1
I Thessalonians – 3
II Thessalonians – 1
I Timothy – 3
II Timothy – 1
Philemon – 1
Hebrews – 1
Sometimes referred to as Timotheus (Roman version of his name)
Translations often render this as simply Timothy.
Who was Timothy?
Lystra – Acts 14
Paul there in about AD 48
Healed a lame man
Stoned and left for dead
Returned in about AD 50
Encountered Timothy
Acts 16:1-2
Timothy – well spoken of
How did he get to be like that?
Had a faithful mother – II Timothy 1:5
The faithfulness of his grandmother and mother were instrumental in forming Timothy’s faith.
The foundation of his faith was the word of God. II Timothy 3:14-15
Still young, probably young in the faith
Had confessed Christ before many witnesses
I Timothy 6:12
Timothy’s enlistment
Acts 16:3-5
Paul adds Timothy to his team
First puts controversy behind them
Went about disseminating the Jerusalem decrees
Success!
Timothy grows
Paul’s trust for Timothy increases
Sent with another (Acts 19:22) to Macedonia from Ephesus
Sent to troubled congregation (I Corinthians 4:17)
Left behind to teach at Ephesus
Paul greatly attached to Ephesus (Acts 20)
I Timothy 1:3-4
Paul warns Timothy to oppose the arguments of the Gnostics
I Timothy 6:20
Paul had predicted such in Acts 20:28-30
Trusted emissary – I Thessalonians 3:2, 6
Paul sends Timothy to Thessalonica
Check on them
Strengthen and encourage them
He returns a good report
Following sound doctrine – I Timothy 4:6
Sincere faith – II Timothy 1:5
Constant encouragement by Paul to continue progress
Letters of 1st and 2nd Timothy
Required complete involvement
I Timothy 4:15-16
Timothy’s journeys and sojourns
Passed through “the cities” issuing the decree
Phrygia and Galatia – forbidden to preach in Asia
Down to Troas – Macedonian call
Across to Philippi – conversion of Lydia, Paul, and Silas in prison
On to Thessalonica and more trouble, then to Berea
Trouble in Berea
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38min
August 11, 2024 What You Need to Learn at School This Year
Introduction
Learn how to think.
Learn how to work, even when it’s hard and unfair.
Learn how to manage your time.
Learn how to encourage the kids in younger grades.
Learn how to avoid pride.
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28min
August 11, 2024Deuteronomy 4:1-5:33
Deuteronomy 4
Deuteronomy 4:1-14 – You need to obey!
Deuteronomy 4:15-31 – Idolatry
Deuteronomy 4:32-40 – God (end of first speech)
Deuteronomy 4:41-43 – Interlude (eastern cities of refuge)
Deuteronomy 4:44-49 – Introduction to Moses’ second speech.
Deuteronomy 5
Deuteronomy 5:1-5 – God made this covenant with us.
Deuteronomy 5:6-21 – Repeating the 10 commandments
Deuteronomy 5:22-33 – The people were afraid.
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45min

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