Woodland Christian Church Sermons | Biblical Teaching

This was a Wednesday night study led by the the young men of WCC, focusing on the last words of Jesus to His disciples prior to going to the cross.

John 15:1-8 The True Vine - Kevin Willis

1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

John 15:9-17 Love and Joy Perfected - Derrek Fitzgerald

9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another.

John 15:18-25 The World’s Hatred - Nathan Jackson

18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father. 25 But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

Isaiah 52:13-53:5

13 Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently; He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.

14 Just as many were astonished at you, So His visage was marred more than any man, And His form more than the sons of men;

15 So shall He sprinkle many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths at Him; For what had not been told them they shall see, And what they had not heard they shall consider.

53:1 Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.

3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.

5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

April 13th, 2014

Isaiah 52:13-53:5

Your Savior – Part I

Outline for the Servant Song in Isaiah 52:13-53:12

52:13-15 Summary of & introduction to Isaiah 53

53:1-2 Jesus’ life and ministry

53:3-8 Jesus’ death

53:9 Jesus’ burial

53:10-12 Jesus’ resurrection

Lesson 1: (Part I) Your Savior is also your ________  ____________ (Part II) and ______  ____ the Lord (Isa 30:30, 40:10, 44:3, 51:9, 52:10, 15, 53:1; Lev 16:14-15, 19; Heb 10:4 cf. 1 John 3:5; John 12:37; Rom 10:16).

Lesson 2: (Part I) Your Savior had ____________ beginnings (Part II) and __________ (Isa 53:2; Phil 2:7-8).

Lesson 3: (Part I) Your Savior knew __________________ (Part II) and ______________ (Part III) and carries ________  ______ (Isa 53:3-4; John 1:10-11; Heb 4:15, 5:8; Matt 8:16-17, 9:36, 14:14).

Lesson 4: (Part I) Your Savior took your __________ (Part II) to give you __________ (Part III) and ______________ (Isa 53:4-5; Deut 27:26; Rom 5:1, 10; Col 1:20; Eph 2:14; 1 Pet 2:24).

Lesson 1: Don’t shape God’s Word to your beliefs, let God’s Word __________  ________  ______________.

Lesson 2: Fast during times of ______________  ____________ (2 Chr 20:3; Ezra 8:21; Neh 1:4; Luke 2:37; 4:1; Acts 13:2-3, 14:23).

Lesson 3: You can pray without ______________, but you can’t fast without ______________ (Luke 21:36; Rom 12:12; Eph 6:18; Col 4:2; 1 Thes 5:17).

Lesson 4: (Part I) Fasting is never __________________ (Part II) preventing it from being a “_________________ ____________” (Matt 6:16, 23:23-24; Luke 5:35).

Lesson 5: (Part I) It doesn’t matter what ______  ______ (Part II) but it matters ______  ________ (Matt 15:11; Mark 7:18; Rom 14:17; 1 Cor 8:8; Col 2:16, 20-23; Acts 10:11-16; 1 Tim 4:1, 3; Pro 23:2, 20, 28:7; Rom 13:14; Phil 3:18; 1 Cor 6:12; John 6:35).

Lesson 1: When you fast:

Part I: Don’t be __  ________ (Matt 6:16).

Part II: Do it for the __________  ______________ (Luke 5:33, 18:12; 2 Chr 25:2).

Part III: Do it __________________ (Luke 5:33; Matt 6:17).

Part IV: Do it at ______________________  __________ (Luke 5:34-35; Jam 5:13)

Lesson 2: Make sure you’re __________________  __________ (1 Cor 1:12, 3:4, 4:16, 11:1; Phil 3:17; 1 Thes 1:6; 2 Thes 3:7, 9; 1 Pet 2:21).

Jeremiah 45:1-5

1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the instruction of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, 2 “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch: 3 ‘You said, “Woe is me now! For the Lord has added grief to my sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.”’

4 “Thus you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Behold, what I have built I will break down, and what I have planted I will pluck up, that is, this whole land. 5 And do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for behold, I will bring adversity on all flesh,” says the Lord. “But I will give your life to you as a prize in all places, wherever you go.”’”

Seeking Great Things

Lesson 1: There might be great things God doesn’t want you seeking because:

Part I: You seek them ______ ________________ (Jer 45:5; Jam 4:3; Matt 6:33).

Part II: They’re not __________ ____ ________ (Jer 45:5; 2 Pet 3:10; 2 Cor 4:18; Matt 6:19-20; Job 1:20-21; John 6:40).

Part III: They’re not part of ________ ________ for you.

Lesson 2: (Part I) God ________ ____________ differently than us (Part II) and we should seek great things in ______ ________ (Ezra 3:12; Hag 2:3, 9; 1 Sam 16:7; Zech 4:10; 1 Thes 4:11; Titus 2:3-5).

Ezekiel 18:21-25

21 “But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 22 None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. 23 Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord God, “and not that he should turn from his ways and live?

24 “But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wickedman does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.

25 “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair, and your ways which are not fair?

 

How You Finish

Ezekiel 18:21-25

March 16th, 2014

Lesson 1: God doesn’t remember your past if you repent of:

Part I: ________  ________ (Eze 18:21-22; Pro 28:13; Gal 6:15; 2 Cor 5:17).

Part II: ________  __________________________ (Eze 18:24; Matt 7:23; 1 John 2:19).

 

Lesson 2: Works don’t save you, but they’re ________________  ____  __________ saved (Eze 33:14-16; Luke 19:8; Eph 2:8-10).

Lesson 3: You don’t want God to ____  ________ (Eze 18:25).

Lesson 4: It only matters ______  ______  ____________ (1 Kin 11:4; 2 Chr 25:27, 26:16; Phil 3:12-14; Heb 12:1).

Encouragement for Discouragement – Part II

Lesson 1: (Part I) We can find encouragement by thinking of God __________ ________ ____ (Part II) and by ________________ ______, (Part III) which we have to _________________ __________________ to do. (Jer 20:11-13; Deut 31:6; Hag 1:13; Matt 28:20; Psa 118:6; Isa 41:10; Rom 8:31; Psa 42:5, 11, 43:5)

Lesson 2: (Part I) Discouragement __________ and ________, but don’t let it:

(Part II) keep you from ______________ ______ Lord

(Part III) keep you from your __________________________

(Part IV) leave you ________________

(Jer 20:14-18; Num 11:15; 1 Sam 1:7; 1 Kin 19:4; Ecc 3:1; Pro 25:20; Psa 35:13-14; Rom 12:15; Job 2:13; 2 Sam 18:33-19:8; 1 Thes 4:13; Pro 23:18; 1 Pet 1:3).

Jeremiah 20:11 

11 But the Lord is with me as a mighty, awesome One.

Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and will not prevail.

They will be greatly ashamed, for they will not prosper.

Their everlasting confusion will never be forgotten.

12 But, O Lord of hosts,

You who test the righteous,

And see the mind and heart,

Let me see Your vengeance on them;

For I have pleaded my cause before You.

13 Sing to the Lord! Praise the Lord!

For He has delivered the life of the poor

From the hand of evildoers.

14 Cursed be the day in which I was born!

Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!

15 Let the man be cursed

Who brought news to my father, saying,

“A male child has been born to you!”

Making him very glad.

16 And let that man be like the cities

Which the Lord overthrew, and did not relent;

Let him hear the cry in the morning

And the shouting at noon,

17 Because he did not kill me from the womb,

That my mother might have been my grave,

And her womb always enlarged with me.

18 Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow,

That my days should be consumed with shame?

Jeremiah 20:7 O Lord, You induced me, and I was persuaded; You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I am in derision daily; everyone mocks me.

8 For when I spoke, I cried out; I shouted, “Violence and plunder!” because the word of the Lord was made to me a reproach and a derision daily.

9 Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him, nor speak anymore in His name.” But His word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, and I could not.

10 For I heard many mocking: “Fear on every side!” “Report,” they say, “and we will report it!” All my acquaintances watched for my stumbling,saying, “Perhaps he can be induced; then we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Encouragement for Discouragement – Part I

Lesson 1: (Part I) Discouragement can make us __________ ________ God (Part II) so we think of ________________ (Part III)

but ________ ________ keeps us going (Jer 20:7-9; John 6:66-68).

Lesson 2: (Part I) ______________ __________ can be discouraging (Part II) or ______________________ (Jer 20:10; Pro

12:18; Psa 57:4; Jam 3:6; Eph 4:29; 1 Thes 5:11; Heb 3:13).

Lesson 3: Be encouraged by __________ ______________ (Matt 16:14; Jer 20:7 cf. Matt 27:31, Luke 18:32, 22:63; Jer 20:10 cf.

Luke 11:54; Jer 11:19 cf. Isa 53:7-8; Jer 26:11 cf. Matt 26:66; Jer 26:15 cf. Matt 27:14; John 1:11; Isa 53:3; Psa 22:6; Jer 12:3,

17:18, 18:23 cf. Luke 23:34).

Luke 5:30-32

30 And their scribes and the Pharisees complained against His disciples, saying, “Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

31 Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 32 I have not come to call therighteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

He Came for the Sick

Luke 5:30-32

February 16th, 2014

Lesson 1: (Part I) You might not know __________  ________ (Part II) but ______  ______ reveals it (Luke 5:30, 18:11; Rev 3:17; Hos 12:8; Pro 16:2, 30:12; Rom 3:20, 5:20, 7:7).

Lesson 2: Be a physician, not a __________  ____________ (Luke 5:31; Pro 13:20, 14:7; 1 Cor 15:33; 2 Cor 6:14; 1 Tim 1:15; Rom 5:8; Gal 6:1).

Lesson 3: Jesus can’t heal the self-righteous because (Part I) they don’t want what ____ ____________ (Part II) and they won’t do

what He ____________________ (Luke 5:32, 16:15, 18:9; Matt 3:15, 5:3, 6; Isa 55:1; Rom 7:15, 10:14; Jer 10:23).

Lesson 4: Self-righteousness is shooting at the __________  ____________ (Luke 18:9; Rom 10:3).

Luke 5:27-29

27 After these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” 28 So he left all, rose up, and followed Him.

29 Then Levi gave Him a great feast in his own house. And there were a great number of tax collectors and others who sat down with them.

 

A Real Follower of Jesus

Luke 5:27-29

February 9th, 2014

 

We can learn from Levi/Matthew’s example…

Lesson 1: He followed with __  ______________ (Luke 5:28, 9:57-62; Matt 19:16-22).

Lesson 2: He followed ______________________ (Luke 5:9-11; Acts 9:5).

Lesson 3: (Part I) He followed __________________________ (Part II) and did it ________________ (Luke 5:29, 14:28-33; Mark 1:18; Phil 3:7-8; 1 Pet 1:8-9).

Lesson 4: He wanted His ______________ to ____________ Jesus too (Luke 5:29; Psa 51:13).

Lesson 5: Jesus is still calling people to ____________  ______ (1 Cor 1:26-29; 1 Tim 1:12-16).