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Genesis 28:10-18(ESV)

10)Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran.

11)And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.

12)And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!

13)And behold, the LORD stood above it and said, “I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.

14)Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

15)Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

16)Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.”

17)And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”

18)So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.

John 1:43-51(ESV)

43)The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”

44)Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

45)Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

46)Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

47)Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”

48)Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

49)Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”

50)Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”

51)And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

Luke 3:18-20

18 So with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people. 19 But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done, 20 added this to them all, that he locked up John in prison.

June 16th, 2013

Luke 3:18-20

Giving and Receiving Correction

Lesson 1: Correcting people ____ ____________ (Luke 3:18, Pro 27:5-6, Psa 141:5, Ecc 7:5)

Lesson 2: Poor responses to correction include:

________ __________ (Gen 3:11-13, 1 Sam 13:11-12, 15:15-21)

______________ __________ (Luke 3:20, Pro 9:8a, 15:5, 12, Amos 5:10, 1 Kin 22:8, Gen 4:4-8)

______________ (1 Kin 20:42-21:6)

Lesson 3: Your response to correction __________ or __________ ______ (Pro 8:33, 13:18, 15:31-32, 29:1).

Lesson 4: Let Christ’s example ________________ ______ (Isa 53:7, Matt 27:12-14, 1 Pet 2:23).

Luke 3:15-17

15) As the people were in expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Christ,

16) John answered them all, saying, "I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

17) His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."

2 Chronicles 33:1-20(ESV)

1)Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

2)And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

3)For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

4)And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.”

5)And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

6)And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

7)And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever,

8)and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses.”

9)Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.

10)The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention.

11)Therefore the LORD brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.

12)And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

13)He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.

14)Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into the Fish Gate, and carried it around Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.

15)And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.

16)He also restored the altar of the LORD and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.

17)Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

18)Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

19)And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.

20)So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house, and Amon his son reigned in his place.

Luke 3:10-14

10) And the crowds asked him, "What then shall we do?"

11) And he answered them, "Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise."

12) Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?"

13) And he said to them, "Collect no more than you are authorized to do."

14) Soldiers also asked him, "And we, what shall we do?" And he said to them, "Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages."

Luke 3:7-9 (ESV)

7)He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

8)Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

9)Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

Luke 3:1-6 (ESV)

1)In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

2)during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

3)And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

4)As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ​​​​​​​‘Prepare the way of the Lord, ​​​​​​​make his paths straight. ​​​

5)​​​​​​​​Every valley shall be filled, ​​​​​​​and every mountain and hill shall be made low, ​​​​​​​and the crooked shall become straight, ​​​​​​​and the rough places shall become level ways, ​​​

6)​​​​​​​​and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’” ​​​

Daniel 9:24 (ESV)

24)“Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

Daniel 9:27 (ESV)

27)And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

The following slides where used in Pastor Scott's sermon:

Matthew 27:15-26 (ESV)

15)Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted.

16)And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.

17)So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”

18)For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.

19)Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.”

20)Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.

21)The governor again said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas.”

22)Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!”

23)And he said, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”

24)So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves.”

25)And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

26)Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.

Daniel 9:26 (ESV)

26)And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.