Washed in the Word

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Steven Wright used to say: “right now, I’m having amnesia & de ja vu at the same time.  I think I have forgotten this before.”  Fred Allen used to say: “I always have trouble remembering three things, faces, names &… whatever that other thing was.”Caroline Rhea used to say: “I constantly walk into a room & I don’t remember why, but for some reason, I think there is going to be clue in the fridge.”  We are in 2 Timothy 2 today.  Specifically, we will be zeroing in on verses 8-13.  These verses call us to remember five things that will be of immeasurable value to us as we strive to shine for Jesus.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & download the sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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How do we build the Kingdom of God?  On an ultimate level, we don’t.  God does.  Yet on another level, we are Christ’s ambassadors.  We are His witnesses.  We are called to make disciples of all peoples. Tragically, many have chosen not to be kingdom builders but kingdom barnacles. Some saints sit, soak, & sour in our services, but other brothers roll up their sleeves & get their hands dirty in the work of the ministry. So how do we build the kingdom of God? In 2 Timothy 2,   God uses three commands & three illustrations to show us how to build the kingdom of God.  Grab your Bible, a pen, and download the sermon outline & accompanying study guide, and let's get Washed in the Word!

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Today we begin our journey together through the last letter of the Apostle Paul.  This is his last word to his protégée Timothy.  If Christianity is going to flourish not perish...we must pass it on! If the light of the gospel is not to be extinguished in our land in our day it will be by God’s sovereign grace upon us & our humble faithfulness to "Pass It On!"  Grab your Bible, a pen, & download the sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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When we first began our study in Judges we saw a sad slide from the faithfulness of Joshua’s generation to an utter disregard of the things of God in the next.   We saw that compromise leads to consequences.  That neglect leads to regret & that rejection leads to God’s wrath. Today, we go to the last word regarding the dark days of Judges. I’m sad to say that today we come to the most sordid story in all of Scripture.  It is scandalous, savage, sickening & entirely true.  This is what happens when the people of God reject God’s Word & everyone does what is right in their own eyes.  The result is the utter breakdown of the family, sexuality, society, & unity & it produces a flurry of increasingly desperate & degenerate decisions where each “solution” is worse than the problem that necessitated it.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying Study Guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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We all have a God-sized hole in our souls.  We were created to worship, but we also want to be our own gods. How do we reconcile these competing impulses? An easy answer is to refashion god into a god of our own making & liking.  In the beginning, God made man in His image & ever since we have been trying to return the favor.  We would like a god who is there for us, who cares for us, but one who demands very little of us.  We would like a deliverer but not a judge.  A savior but not a lawgiver.  We would like a God powerful enough to rescue us but naïve enough for us to be able to manipulate.  In our day it has become quite fashionable to fashion our own spirituality.  To say “my Jesus” would never teach that.  Yet in Scripture, biblical Jesus does do that, say that & command that.  So instead, we worship a personal Jesus, a Jesus of our own imagination.  The thing is, imaginary friends cannot save you from real enemies & imaginary Jesus cannot save you from real sin, or hell itself.   Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying Diving Deeper in Scripture Together Study Guide and let's get Washed in the Word!

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Samson is arguably the most famous person in the book of Judges. So today we will tread well-worn Scripture in revisiting Judges 16.  We shall see Samson at his most audacious & salacious.  We will then witness Samson humbled & handed over to those he was supposed to be the deliver from.  This self-centered sot will become a sickening site.  For a cuddle with a damsel Samson, the able, will become Samson the pitiful while the Philistines heckle yet God will be merciful & allow Samson a final pummel over his rivals.  In our text today we shall see how low we can go when we squander our gifts & pursue our own agendas.  But in this story, there are echoes of a greater story.  Samson’s failures only magnify Jesus’ triumph.  Turn with me to Judges 16 as we endeavor to discover "How Low We Can Go & then Hallelujah, What a Savior!" Grab your Bible, a pen, & download the free sermon outline & Diving Deeper in Scripture Together Study Guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Today we come to Samson, the last judge chronicled in the book of Judges. Samson was a he-man with a she weakness.  Samson is probably the most well-known of all the Judges & yet he is the least heroic, least obedient, & least commendable.  Samson is far from a paragon of virtue & so his judgeship demonstrates the sad state of affairs when everyone does what is right in their own eyes. In Judges, it becomes hard to find a hero among the zeros.  Samson for the most part is a zero, but within the Samson story, there is a hero.  That hero is God.  For even in the dark days of judges, even when Samson is largely a disgrace, God’s grace is still present, lavish, & triumphant. 

Turn Judges 13 as we endeavor to discover "Disgrace and Grace from the Sordid Story of Samson." Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying Diving Deeper in Scripture Together Study Guide and let's get Washed in the Word!

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In our modern marketplace leadership books, seminars, & courses abound.  But in Jeremiah 6:16 The Lord says: "Stand by the roads, & look, & ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; & walk in it, & find rest for your souls." Today we shall examine a topic that is overstudied from a passage that is too often understudied.  We will be in Judges 12 today as we endeavor to discover "Leadership Lessons From Slighted Scriptures."  Grab your Bible, a pen, & download the free sermon outline & Diving Deeper in Scripture Together Study Guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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After a fast footnote about Tola & Jair our main story opens with a sad indictment in Judges 6:6 "The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD..."  We have seen this pattern throughout the book of Judges.  God saves His people under a deliverer judge & the very next generation wanders away from the Lord.  What is new here is not the pattern, but the progression.  For when Othniel was sent to deliver God’s people in Judges 2 it was because they prostituted themselves to the chief Canaanite deities, Baal & Ashtaroth.  Eight chapters and a string of judges later, God’s people have widened their sphere of idolatry so that now in Judges 10, they serve the Baals and the Ashtaroths, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the LORD and did not serve him.  Grab your Bible, a pen, and download the free sermon outline & Diving Deeper in Scripture Together Study Guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Galatians 6:7  says: "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows."  The God of Nature is the God of Scripture.  The God of Nature has made it clear that if you sow pumpkin seeds you get pumpkins not petunias.  This immutable law extends to our actions.  We reap what we sow.  Sometimes there is a long gap between one’s sowing & one’s reaping.  Sometimes some folks seem to get away with sowing for decades, but eventually, indeed in eternity if need be, we reap what we sow. Today we are in Judges chapter 9.  Judges 9 chronicles the sad sordid story of one of Scripture’s scoundrels.A man named Abimelech.  A man whose Machiavellian manner motivated him to climb the leadership ladder by committing mass murder. A man who would not hesitate to burn alive 1000 people & instead of being sobered by his horrors, he attempts the same feat a few miles down the street.  Judges chapter 9 does not chronicle a judge, but a judgment.   Yet, the Holy Spirit devotes 57 verses to his story.  Why would God devote so much ink to someone who basically stinks?  To make us think.  God gives us Judges 9 as a warning about reaping & sowing. Grab your Bible, a pen, & download the free sermon outline & Diving Deeper Study Guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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