Steve Keil - Elder's teaching references for 07/01/2021

Isaiah 24 - A Father’s Warning

Life Lesson (verse Isaiah 24:)

what God ‘favors’ • Renters, not owners • Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly with God • Marriages are to be an example of Christ and the Church • Children raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord

Statement (verse Isaiah 24:)

Why does God say so much about end times? Ezekiel 33:1-11

Life Lesson (verse Isaiah 24:)

God our Father and Jesus Christ our Brother are our LOUDEST fans – “Come on, you can DO THIS!!!”

Isaiah 24:4 NKJV

The earth mourns and fades away,
The world languishes and fades away;

Romans 8:22 NKJV

For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

Isaiah 24:18b NKJV

For the Windows from on high are open,
And the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Genesis 7:11b NKJV

…on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Isaiah 24:22 NKJV

They will be gathered together,
As prisoners are gathered in the pit,
And will be shut up in the prison;
After many days they will be punished.

Revelation 20:1 – 3 NKJV

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.

Isaiah 24:23b NKJV

For the Lord of hosts will reign
On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
And before His elders, gloriously.

Revelation 21:1 – 2 NKJV

And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”

Ephesians 6:8 – 9 NKJV

knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.
And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.

Colossians 3:22 – 25 NKJV

Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. 23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no partiality.

I Timothy 6:9 – 10 NKJV

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Micah 6:8 NKJV

He has shown you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justly,
To love mercy,
And to walk humbly with your God?

Ephesians 5:25, 33 NKJV

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 6:4 NKJV

And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Matthew 8:10 NKJV

When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!

Mark 6:6 NKJV

And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.

Philippians 2:12 – 13 NKJV

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

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