Lesson by Scott Shifferd
Recorded December 25, 2016
The Christmas season is a great time to share the Gospel of Christ. Jesus came in the flesh to save the lost. The Gospel of Jesus Christ changes hearts, minds, desires, and behaviors. The Christian knows love because Jesus laid down His life and Christians ought to lay down their lives for the brothers. The focus of a person’s heart upon God’s love may vary, but the Christian must focus primarily upon God’s love. No other person’s love should fill the attention of a Christian and come close to equal with God’s love in one’s heart. Love exists because God exists. Love comes from God because God is love. Those who have been born of God know God and know His love. By love, God indwells within Christians. Can you recognize God’s love? This lesson turns the Christian to see God’s unconditional love. God loves all while yet sinners. There is no way that someone can separate oneself from God’s love.
Scripture Reading: I John 4:7-12 (read by Don Kovar)
Lesson by Scott Shifferd Recorded December 25, 2016
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The apostle Paul recognized that the true God is the God of hope (Rom 15:13). Even from the beginning, God gave hope of salvation when humanity fell in sin. The world causes problems and finds itself hopeless to address those problems. Biblical hope is a confident expectation. Self-pity, resentment, and anxiety hold even believers back from the hope of change. A person cannot change without hope. Jesus Christ is the believer’s hope (1 Tim 1:1). Jesus rose from the dead so that Christian put their confident expectation in God (1 Pet 1:20–21). Furthermore, God gave the Scriptures to give hope. This lesson challenges the believer to hope in a way that produces real change. There are many reasons to expect a life now that is full of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithful, gentleness, and self-control (Gal 5:22–23).
Scripture Reading: Romans 15:4-5 (read by Marcq Rhodes)
Lesson by Scott Shifferd Recorded December 18, 2016 at the Dean Road church of Christ in Jacksonville, FL
In Ephesians 4, the apostle Paul confronted guilt, resentment, and anger. Paul taught these believers to replace anger with the forgiveness for which Christ forgave us. Christians must accept God’s unconditional love and give that love back to God and others. While Christians value the opinions of others greater than their own, the opinions of others is not God’s Word. These do not deserve the Christian’s attention more than the Word of God. Paul spoke about how faith and knowledge of the Son of God produces a mature Christian. The mature Christian finds importance and value in Jesus Christ apart from seeking significance in personal accomplishments or in pleasing everyone else. Christ must become the fullness of the Christian’s life. God is enough for the mature Christian. The apostle Paul urged Christians to renew the Spirit of the mind to put off the old person and put on the new.
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 4:17-31 (read by Christopher Howell)
Lesson by Scott Shifferd Recorded December 11, 2016 at the Dean Road church of Christ in Jacksonville, FL
God’s first mission for the prophet Elijah was to send him to King Ahab of Israel to declare that rain will cease. For Elijah to pray to the LORD for the rain to cease was a direct blow against Ahab and Jezebel’s worship of Baal, the god of thunder, rain, and wind. Ahab pursued Elijah for three and half years because there was no rain. God sent Elijah to Ahab promising that the LORD would send rain on the earth. However, Elijah instructed Ahab to assemble the prophets of Baal and the people of Israel at Mount Carmel, which was a very significant place to glorify God again and pray to God for rain. This message recognizes God’s work through Elijah, Elijah’s character to overcome the worship of Baal, and how Christians can follow the same pattern for overcoming falsehood today.
Scripture Reading: I Kings 18:30-37 (read by Marcq Rhodes)
Lesson by Scott Shifferd Recorded December 4, 2016 at the Dean Road church of Christ in Jacksonville, FL |
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