Eyewitness to Majesty

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1 Session One Introduction Majestic Revelations Luke 1:6-25 & Luke 5:1-11 When the Lord Reveals His Majesty ~ 1. The revelation of can impact the. 2. The revelation often the inner condition of our. 3. The revelation always has a. We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Peter 1:16

2 Session Two Week One Loving Requirements For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgement Of God rather than burnt offerings. Hosea 6:6 We acknowledge our love for God by ~...And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly 1. based on the Word of God and based on the heart of God. Matthew 9:13, Romans 3:23, James 1:27...and to love mercy based on our inadequacy and based on other s deficiency. Colossians 3:13, James 1:27...and to walk humbly with your god. Micah 6:8 3. based on Jesus sacrifice and based on God s sovereignty. Philippians 2:5-8

3 Session Three Week Two Met with Silence Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1 Sometimes our prayers are met with silence because~ 1. It is not the right. There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NASB) 2. We are not asking with the right. All a man s ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the Lord. Prov.16:2 3. We are not asking for the right. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, he hears us. 1 John 5:14 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God s will is his good, pleasing, and perfect will. Romans 12:2

4 Session Four Week Three Pleasing Faith And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek him. -Hebrews 11:6 Our faith is evident when~ 1. We are willing to take in order to seek our Lord. 2. We are willing to be as we interact with our Lord. 3. We are willing to as we follow our Lord. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6

5 Session Five Week Four A Majestic Education We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Peter 1:16 1. Our desire to avoid can threaten God s. 1 Peter 1:6-7, James 1: Our dependence upon can undermine God s. Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 55: Our determinations about can impact our interpretation of God s. The Son is the radiance of God s glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful Word. After he head provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. Hebrews 1:3

6 Session Six Week Five The Greater Glory When he heard this, Jesus said, This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God s glory so that God s Son may be glorified through it. -John 11:4 God is glorified through our lives when ~ 1. The emotions of the do not deter us from the work God has deemed. Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him. John 11: The fear of does not distract us from our commitment to. As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me... John 9:4a 3. The knowledge of God s does not make us indifferent to people s. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Romans 12:15 4. The intimacy of God s does not hinder our ability to make our relationship. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me. John 11:42

7 Session Seven Week Six Tempting Desires Do not love the world or anything in the world. For everything in the world the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does comes not from the Father but from the world. 1 John 2:15a,16 (NIV 84) 1. Satan is deliberate about the of our temptations. Luke 4:2, 13 Cravings of the sinful nature - 2. Satan often tempts us to outside God s will by appealing to our hungers. Luke 4:3 The lust of his eyes 3. Satan often tempts us to him by appealing to our hunger for. Luke 4:7 The boasting of what he has and does 4. Satan often tempts us to the approval of people by appealing to our hunger for. Luke 4:9 When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time. Luke 4:13

8 Session Eight Week Seven Precious Faith To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours. 2 Peter 1:1b Through our faith in Jesus~ 1. We are granted divine to live a life. 2. We are offered divine to ensure that change is. 3. We have access to a divine that impacts for Christ. Goodness, knowledge, self control, perseverance, godliness, mutual affection (kindness), and love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:8

9 Session Nine Week Eight Spiritual Sacrifices As you come to Him, the living Stone rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to Him you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:4-5 We offer spiritual sacrifices to God ~ 1. Through the dedication of our as well as our. So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Romans 12:1 MSG 2. Through the declaration of His and His. Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. Hebrews 13:15 3. Through our devotion to acts of and to. Make sure you don't take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good; share what you have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts of worship a different kind of "sacrifice" that take place in kitchen and workplace and on the streets. -Hebrews 13:16 MSG

10 Session Ten Week Nine Defining Deliverance Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all. Psalm 34:19 1. As God delivers us from afflictions ~ We recognize His and our faith is. Now I know for sure that the Lord has.rescued me - Acts 12:11 2. As God delivers us through afflictions ~ We rely upon His and our faith is. Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has rescued His servants...for no other god can save in this way -Daniel 3:28,29 3. As God delivers us by afflictions ~ We are rewarded with His and our faith is. Look, he said, I see heaven open and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God. -Acts 7:56

11 Session Eleven Week Ten Answering the Call For we are God s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 1. Jesus is calling you to. Mark 1:17 Come, follow me, Jesus said, and I will make you fishers of men. 2. Jesus is calling you to. Matt. 14:31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. You of little faith, he said, why did you doubt? - Matthew 14:31 3. Jesus is calling you to. John 21:15-19 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. Mark 10:45 Then He said to him, Follow me! -John 21:19b