2013-07
2013-07
Sunday Jul 28, 2013
Ephesians 2 - Chad Beck, 7-282013
Sunday Jul 28, 2013
Sunday Jul 28, 2013
Guest speaker Chad Beck, Sunday AM July 28.
Sunday Jul 21, 2013
John 5 v1–18 “Jesus Heals on the Sabbath” Cameron Jungles 07-21-13
Sunday Jul 21, 2013
Sunday Jul 21, 2013
Saturday Jul 20, 2013
“God’s Vengeance” The Message of Obadiah - Cameron Jungles - 7-3-2013
Saturday Jul 20, 2013
Saturday Jul 20, 2013
Wednesday Jul 17, 2013
Micah - ameron Jungles - 7-17-2013
Wednesday Jul 17, 2013
Wednesday Jul 17, 2013
Justice and Mercy: The Message of Micah (Eastside
Baptist/Wed PM/July 17, 2013)
The Message of Micah
Ø Setting
and Context
Ø Structure
& Message
Ø Important
Themes
Ø “Jesus
Lens” and New Testament Application
Setting and Context
Ø Micah
– prophet from Judah
§ From
Moresheth – 25 miles Southwest of Jerusalem.
Ø 740
to 686 B.C. during reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, & Hezekiah
Ø Final
decline and fall of Israel, defeated in 722 by Assyria.
Ø Judah
was characterized by:
§ Religious
corruption
§ Social
oppression
§ Economic
injustice
§ Personal
vice and deception
§ Political
intrigue and treachery
Structure & Message
Ø Heading
(1:1)
§ Micah
– “Who is like Yahweh?”
§ 7:18:
“Who is a God like you?”
Ø First
Series of Threats against Samaria and Jerusalem (1:2-16)
§ Yahweh,
the Divine Warrior
§ Samaria
destroyed for idolatry
Judah
into exile for its sins
Ø Reasons
for Judgment (2:1-11)
§ Social
injustice
§ False
theology that gives the people what it wants to hear
Ø First
Word of Hope (2:12-13)
§ Regathering,
Messianic King
Ø Second
Series of Threats and Reasons (3:1-12)
§ Judgment
on leaders/prophets who helped to promote injustice
§ Judgment
on Jerusalem/Zion
Ø Second
Word of Hope (4:1-5:15)
§ Return
after exile, Messianic King born in Bethlehem (5:2).
Ø God’s
Case against Jerusalem (6:1-16)
§ Yahweh
takes Judah to court.
§ Religious
rituals will not be a defense against guilt of injustice
Ø Micah’s
Lament (7:1-7)
§ Micah
mourns the coming fall of Jerusalem, but ends w/ hope.
Ø Third
Word of Hope (7:8-20)
§ Hope
for the future
§ Return
from exile and center of hope for the nations
§ Prayer
for God to lead his people as a righteous Shepherd-King.
Important Themes
Ø God
will judge his people because of their covenant violations.
Ø God
will defend the poor and the oppressed, and those who take advantage of them
will be judged.
Ø God
expects his people to share his heart in his concern for the poor and
oppressed.
Ø Religious
rituals will not make up for lack of righteousness, justice, and love of
neighbor.
Ø God
will justly punish, but he is also merciful and will restore a remnant by grace
through his Davidic Messiah.
Ø Yahweh
is the God of all the nations.
“Jesus Lens” and Application
Ø God
mercifully did not abandon his people; he promised to restore them, forgive
them, bring them out of exile, and bless them with a Messiah King in the line
of David.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the
transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy.
Micah 7:19
You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our
sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
Micah 7:20
You will be faithful to Jacob, and show love to Abraham, as
you pledged on oath to our ancestors in days long ago.
“Jesus Lens” and Application
Ø God
demonstrated his concern for the poor, oppressed, and weak by sending his Son
to minister among them and give his life for them.
Ø God
desires faith, true worship, love, mercy, humility, and obedience from his
people.
Micah 6:6
With what shall I come before the LORD and bow down before
the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a
year old?
Micah 6:7
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten
thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the
LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with
your God.
Sunday Jul 14, 2013
Wednesday Jul 10, 2013
God’s Mercy to Outsiders: The Message of Jonah - Cameron Jungles - 9-10-2013
Wednesday Jul 10, 2013
Wednesday Jul 10, 2013
God’s Mercy to Outsiders: The Message of Jonah (Eastside
Baptist/Wed PM/July 10, 2013)
The Message of Jonah
Ø Setting
and Context
Ø Structure
& Message
Ø Important
Themes
Ø “Jesus
Lens” and New Testament Application
Setting and Context
Ø Jonah,
son of Amittai
§ From
Gath Hepher, 2 Kgs 14:25
§ Prophet
to Israel (N. Kingdom)
Ø During
reign of Jeroboam II
§ Prosperous,
spiritually dark
§ Enemy
Assyria in decline, but the threat still present.
Structure & Message
Ø Jonah
runs from God.
Ø Jonah’s
prayer and rescue
Ø Jonah
goes & Nineveh repents.
Ø Jonah’s
anger & God’s question
§ Narration
of events, not prophetic oracles
§ Lesson
in story and final ?
Jonah runs from God.
Ø Jonah’s
reluctance is rooted in righteous motives.
Ø But
he fails to understand God’s boundless mercy.
Ø Irony:
Jonah runs from God; pagan sailors sacrifice to God.
Ø God
rescues undeserving Jonah
Jonah’s Prayer & Rescue
Ø Prayer
from inside the fish
Ø Prayer
for deliverance, formed as a “Psalm of Thanksgiving”
Ø Irony:
Jonah is thankful for the salvation he does not deserve, but unwilling to warn
others who are undeserving.
Jonah goes & Nineveh repents.
Ø Jonah
responds to 2nd call.
Ø “40
days till’ doom’s day!”
Ø City-wide
demonstration of repentance and sorrow
Ø Irony:
Jonah presumed on God; pagan Ninevehites only hope (9).
Ø God
relents (Jeremiah 18:7-8)
Jeremiah 18:7-8
If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be
uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its
evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
Jonah’s Anger & God’s Question
Ø Jonah
is angry at God, because he is compassionate!
Ø Jonah
would rather die than see Nineveh spared.
Ø Jonah
waits for the fire to fall!
Ø An
object lesson
Ø A
question with no answer
Jonah 4:10
But the LORD said, "You have been concerned about this
plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and
died overnight.
Jonah 4:11
And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh,
in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot
tell their right hand from their left--and also many animals?"
Important Themes
Ø God
is the Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer of all peoples.
Ø God’s
compassion is boundless.
Ø God
will bless all peoples through his blessing to Abraham’s descendants.
Ø God
has mercy and compassion on whom he wills; we are not in a position to question
the extent of God’s mercy.
Ø God
is the sovereign Lord, and every force of nature does his bidding.
“Jesus Lens” and Application
Ø The
ultimate display of God’s compassion for the nations was the death, burial (3
days), and resurrection of Christ.
Ø The
gospel message is for the nations, and whoever believes is spared God’s
judgment.
Ø There
is no sinner beyond the reach of God’s compassion and grace.
Ø We
may not run from our commission to share the good news with people who may seem
to be far away from grace.
Sunday Jul 07, 2013
Sunday Jun 30, 2013