Washed in the Word

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When we read the Bible we tend to think the real battles are at places like Mt. Carmel where Elijah stood alone against Jezebel’s 850 false prophets. We tend to think that the big battle is the real battle.    The real battle is often not in attaining victory; it is usually in maintaining the victory.  This is Satan’s best-kept secret.  When we have the faith to trust Jesus & muster for the big battle, Satan knows he is defeated.  Satan knows Greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world.  So Satan waits until our guard dissipates then he infiltrates & subjugates.  This is the message of the book of Judges.  In Judges we observe an awful yet predictable cycle: God calls us to obedience, but we detour to procure the allure of the impure.  Inevitably, our straying brings God’s discipline & so we cry out to God & God graciously delivers but a short time later we stray again & the crazy cycle repeats itself.  Therefore, the real battle lies not in attaining victory but in maintaining victory.   Grab your Bible, a pen, & print off the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get washed in the Word!

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Today we meet Gideon.  God will use Gideon to deliver His people from Midianite marauders, but in this deliverance, Gideon’s faith will be repeatedly tested.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print off the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying guided study questions & let's get washed in the Word!

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In 1779 Captain William Jones gave the US Marines one of their most iconic recruitment slogans when he advertised “for a few good men.”   That slogan well serves the sentiment of Judges 4 & 5.  This passage is unique in the book of Judges in that instead of having a person function as the deliverer figure guiding the people into protracted peace instead only here in all of Judges we have two people.  A military deliverer & prophetic deliberator.  Only here in Judges 4 & 5 is this so split.  Only here is there a sort of co-judge and only here is it a female. Deborah is unique not just in her gender and her joint judgeship, but she is also unique in her sterling character.  Unlike Ehud who is deceitful, Gideon who is cowardly, & Samson who is worldly, Deborah is only praised in this passage.  Yet, it seems clear from the tenor of Scripture that in selecting a woman as judge, even an especially righteous woman like Deborah, that selection was itself a judgment.  Chapters 4 and 5 are also unique because the first is written in prose & the second in praise.  The two together tell the tale in full regale.  From these two chapters, we learn invaluable lessons about God, God’s Word, God’s plan, God’s people & a bit about God’s design as it pertains to gender.   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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Satan loves to sideline the saints.  One of his most effective tactics is to keep us from saying “Here I am, Lord, send me.”  When God calls forth from heaven: “Whom shall I send, who will go for us?” Satan whispers “Not you!”  “You are too feeble, faltering, & filthy. You’re unworthy, your gifting is iffy, & your track record is shaky.”  “Better sit this one out & let the ‘real saints’ answer God’s call.”  This is why Jesus says the fields are ripe unto Harvest but the laborers are few.  Not because there are too few Christians, but because there are too few Christians who get off the benches & into the trenches.  Today we are in Judges chapter three surveying two Judges, Ehud & Shamgar answering just one question: Can God Use Me?  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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Today we embark on our journey through the book of Judges.  Judges is one of those books preachers kind of tiptoe around.  It’s a violent book.  All its supposed heroes are deeply flawed.  Some are fairly degenerate, yet God used them to deliver His people - though sadly God’s people quickly stray away into deeper & deeper levels of sin, suffering, & subjugation.   Judges is a book that throws a spotlight on just how low we can go when everyone does what is right in our own eyes.  There is a lot to be learned from this book in our post-Christian age.  We live in challenging days. Sin that only used to hide down back alleys under the cover of darkness now struts down the street in broad daylight.  We, like those in the day of Judges, lack true heroes.  The cultural icons of our age seldom embody humility or morality.  We live in a day when wrong is celebrated & right is castigated.  So far have we fallen that simply sharing the love of Christ is seen by some as hate speech.  Friends, How Did It Come to This?  Grab your Bible, a pen & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & attached study questions & let's get Washed in the Word!

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In our final session in the book of James we shall focus on six questions that pertain to the biblical reality that "True Faith Works on Our Witness."  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Jesus urged us to "always pray & not give up." Yet somehow Satan has dulled us into saving prayers for Sundays & emergencies.   In this our fourteenth session in the book of James we shall discover that "True Faith Works on Our Prayer Life."  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print off the free downloadable study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Patience is not something we always value, but it is something God values.  God is so committed to us developing patience that He providentially permits us to enter into stretching situations so we can cultivate this vital virtue. Why is patience something God actively seeks to cultivate in us?  Because He wants to conform us more and more to the image of Christ.  God wants us to learn patience because God Himself is patient.  If we are going to be like Jesus, if we are going to reflect Jesus to this watching world, then we will need to learn patience.  How does God bless us with godly patience? By putting us in situations that are both prickly & protracted.  No one has to endure ice cream or puppies.  We endure difficult situations and difficult people. Both of which James speaks of in our passage.  Turn with me in the Word of God to James 5:7-12 as we shall see that True Faith Works on Our Patience.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Greed hides itself from its victim. Greed is all too often a cancer that remains undetected in our hearts.    In our text today, God wants to help us scan our hearts before this cancer consumes our souls.  In this our twelfth session in the book of James we shall endeavor to discover that True Faith Works on Our Greed.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & printout the free downloadable sermon outline & study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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James’ entire epistle hinges on the premise that True Faith Works.  James 1 & 2 showed us that True Faith Works on our Perspectives & our Actions.  James 3 demonstrated that True Faith Works on Taming Our Tongues & True Faith Works Us Toward True Wisdom.  James 4 demonstrated that True Faith Works on our Judgmentalism.  Today in our eleventh message in the book of James we shall see that True Faith Works on our Boasting because True Faith Works on our Presuming.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print off the free downloadable sermon outline & study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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