DA Brown - Associate Pastor's teaching references for 12/12/2021

Acts 17 - Wonderful Blessing for You!

Life Lesson (verse Acts 17:)

It’s helpful to know why you believe what you believe about Jesus, and how to share those Scriptures with others.

Life Lesson (verse Acts 17:)

God gives you specific spiritual gifts and talents to be influential, to persuade, to urge others to follow Him.

Life Lesson (verse Acts 17:)

If you’re struggling with envy, stop, retreat, ponder and consider what God has called you to and if you’re walking in it.

Statement (verse Acts 17:)

Do you write things down? Do you ponder it later? Do you seek to apply it? Do you discuss it with others? Do you listen to other teachings to pursue what God is saying to you?

Life Lesson (verse Acts 17:)

Turn the frustration, disappointment and pain of the broken world around you into motivation and passion to share the great news of redemption found only in Jesus.

Statement (verse Acts 17:)

God made the world.

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Lord of heaven and earth

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Does not dwell in temple made with hands

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Gives life

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Boundaries of our dwellings

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Seek Him

Life Lesson (verse Acts 17:)

Our most essential needs have been provided, they are wonderful blessings from God.

Statement (verse Acts 17:)

Will you mock God’s love toward you, or join and believe?

Micah 5:2 NKJV

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, [Though] you are little among the thousands of Judah, [Yet] out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth [are] from of old, From everlasting.”

Exodus 12:46 NKJV

“In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break one of its bones.

Exodus 12:21-24 NKJV

21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover [lamb.] 22 “And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip [it] in the blood that [is] in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that [is] in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning. 23 “For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike [you.] 24 “And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever.
 

Psalms 16:9-10 NKJV

9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will rest in hope. 10 For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

Isaiah 7:14 NKJV

“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

Isaiah 50:3-6 NKJV

3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, And I make sackcloth their covering.” 4 “The Lord GOD has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to [him who is] weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned. 5 The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not rebellious, Nor did I turn away. 6 I gave My back to those who struck [Me,] And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.

Matthew 12:38-40 NKJV

38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.” 39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

2 Corinthians 5:9-11 NKJV

9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things [done] in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 11 Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.

Luke 14:15-24 NKJV

15 Now when one of those who sat at the table with Him heard these things, he said to Him, “Blessed [is] he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!” 16 Then He said to him, “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many, 17 “and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, ‘Come, for all things are now ready.’ 18 “But they all with one [accord] began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’ 19 “And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’ 20 “Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ 21 “So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here [the] poor and [the] maimed and [the] lame and [the] blind.’ 22 “And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’ 23 “Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel [them] to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 ‘For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.’ ”

Romans 12:1 NASB

Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

Exodus 33:15-17 NKJV

15 Then he said to Him, "If Your Presence does not go [with us], do not bring us up from here. 16 "For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who [are] upon the face of the earth." 17 So the LORD said to Moses, "I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name."

Exodus 20:17 NKJV

17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that [is] your neighbor's."

Job 5:2 NKJV

2 For wrath kills a foolish man, And envy slays a simple one.

Proverbs 14:30 NKJV

30 A sound heart [is] life to the body, But envy [is] rottenness to the bones.

Romans 13:13 NKJV

13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.

1 Corinthians 3:1-3 NKJV

1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual [people] but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able [to receive it], and even now you are still not able; 3 for you are still carnal. For where [there are] envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like [mere] men?

James 3:16 NKJV

16 For where envy and self-seeking [exist], confusion and every evil thing [are] there.

1 Corinthians 13:4 NKJV

4 Love suffers long [and] is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

Acts 17:16-17 NKJV

16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols. 17 THEREFORE he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the [Gentile] worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there.

Isaiah 42:5 NKJV

5 Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, Who gives breath to the people on it, And spirit to those who walk on it:

Matthew 11:25 NKJV

25 At that time Jesus answered and said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from [the] wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.

1 Kings 8:27 NKJV

27 "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!

Genesis 2:7 NKJV

7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Job 12:23 NKJV

23 He makes nations great, and destroys them; He enlarges nations, and guides them.

Deuteronomy 4:7-8 NKJV

7 "For what great nation [is there] that has God [so] near to it, as the LORD our God [is] to us, for whatever [reason] we may call upon Him? 8 "And what great nation [is there] that has [such] statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day?

Psalm 139:7 NKJV

7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?

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