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  • How to have a Generous Heart
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    How to have a Generous Heart
    Dave Sawyer
    https://hopecn.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/How-to-have-a-Generous-Heart.mp3

    Learning to have a generous heart through the foundation of giving, the early church​ developed the mindset of Christian giving​.

    • Start giving – give proportionately​
    • Give willingly – be spirit-filled​
    • Give sacrificially – a worship to God​
    • Luke 12:32 (ESV)​ -“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give to the needy.”​
    • Acts 10:4 (NIV)​ – “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God.”​
      • 56 min
    • The Power of the Cross – Guilty or Justified? (p3)
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      The Power of the Cross – Guilty or Justified? (p3)
      Charles Celestin
      https://hopecn.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/The-Power-of-the-Cross-–-Guilty-or-Justified-p3.m4a

      Let’s understand, the masterfulness of Sin and its inherent sickness in us, so we can know why we need to be redeemed by God the perfect Judge. Are we guilty of Justified?

      39 min
    • The Power of the Cross – Made Right with God (p2)
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      The Power of the Cross – Made Right with God (p2)
      Mark Waterfield
      https://hopecn.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/The-Power-of-the-Cross-–-Made-Right-with-God-p2.m4a
      Jesus is our gift of righteousness.

      God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Cor 5v21

      – Not about being good or religious – can forget what the gospel truly is!

      – A most succinct summary of the gospel – 1 Cor 15v1-4. We must be continually reminded…

      – Opposite of the gospel is idolatry from which flows all other sins

      Differences between Religion & the Gospel….

      1. Religion – God will not love me until I obey its rules

      Gospel – I am loved so that we might obey him

      2. Religion – Checklists to judge people

      Gospel – All have sinned & fallen short of the glory of God

      3. Religion is about what you DO

      Gospel – All about what Jesus has DONE for you (grace)

      4. Religion is about getting from God

      Gospel – We get God our greatest treasure

      5. Religion focuses on the external

      Gospel – concerned with your internal self (col 3v5)

      6. Religion – we lack assurance

      Gospel – Blessed assurance in Christ (1 John 5v11-14)

      7. Religion does not work – despair or pride

      Gospel – humbly confident & joyful life. Salvation is a gift from Jesus

      Gift of righteousness through faith – not rule-keeping! (Eph 2v8-9)

      Luther the ‘Great Exchange’

      Salvation is through the grace of God alone – a gift of righteousness

      34 min
    • The Power of the Cross – The Blood (p1)
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      The Power of the Cross - The Blood (p1)
      Mark Waterfield
      https://hopecn.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/The-Power-of-the-Cross-The-Blood-p1.m4a
      The Cross is the symbol of Christianity ​

      (1 Peter 1v18-19)​ /

      • ‘Most wretched of all deaths’ ​
      • Prolonged & drawn-out agonizing death ​
      • It is the most horrific form of execution known to man​
      • ‘excruciating’ means ‘from the cross…’​
      • Public spectacle to the world

        • Jesus is our New Covenant Sacrifice​

        Jesus our New Covenant Sacrifice​
        • The theme of blood fulfilled in Jesus​
        • John ‘Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes​
        • away the sin of the world!’ (John 1v29)​
        • The last Supper – Matt 26v26-28​
        • Crucifixion – a ‘bloody mess’
          • By his blood….​
          • Made right with God (Romans 3v24-5)​
          • Cleansed/made clean (1 John 1v7)​
          • Set Free (Revelation 1v5)​

            • All mankind has a choice – Jesus blood or your blood?

            (Revelation 14v19-20)​ / (Hebrews 10v12-14)​

            Live in the Power of the cross​
            35 min
          • Divine Encounters – Jesus Revealed (p5)
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            Divine Encounters – Jesus Revealed (p5)
            Mark Waterfield
            https://hopecn.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Divine-Encounters-–-Jesus-Revealed-Part-5.m4a
            https://youtu.be/IdKTTVdbXjw

            Revelation 1v9-20

            Divine Encounters​
            • So often happens in the context of pain & suffering
            • So often happens in a different environment
            • Often happens when we are ​‘in the Spirit’ (2 Corinthians 12 v3-4)​ / (Rev 4v2) / (Rev 17v3) / (Rev 21v10)
            • Reveal something new about who God is ​
            • Reveal & Glorify Jesus!​
              • 41 min
            • Divine Encounters – Jesus Transfigured (Part 4)
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              Divine Encounters – Jesus Transfigured (Part 4)
              Alex Banks
              https://hopecn.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Divine-Encounters-–-Jesus-Transfigured-Part-4.m4a

              As Christians, our divine encounters should be all about Jesus – will often reveal more about Jesus than about us​.

              We aren’t Moses / Gideon / Isaiah. We aren’t the “main character”, Jesus is​.

              A divine encounter should point us to Jesus

              43 min
            • Divine Encounters – Isaiah Called (p3)
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              Divine Encounters – Isaiah Called (p3)
              Mark Waterfield
              https://hopecn.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Divine-Encounters-–-Isaiah-Called-p3.m4a

              Isaiah 6:1-9

              Even in the darkest or ordinary times. The most unlikely of us from a place of grief, pain & suffering can encounter God.

              Divine Encounters​…
              • So often happens in a place of grief, pain & suffering
              • So often happens from a position of grief, pain & suffering
              • Something old needs to die for something new to be born
              • Bring new revelation of Jesus​
              • Always prepare & equip us to go!​
                • ‘Here am I Lord – send me’​
                36 min
              • Transforming Streams of Living Water
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                Transforming Streams of Living Water
                Mark Waterfield
                https://hopecn.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Transforming-Streams-of-Living-Water.mp3

                Ezekiel 47:1-12

                Psalm 126

                From this Church flows the transforming life-giving river of God to the world. We must learn how to be the flow God wants to channel through daily. Let us exercise the river of God’s grace.

                37 min

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