Preparing for the Lord’s Day. Sunday Morning Srv.: “The Origin and Expansion of Nations unto the Glory of Christ!” (Gen. 10-11) Description: “It might surprise you that the lengthy, 500-year genealogy of Genesis 10 and 11 is one of the most exhilarating and exciting sections of Scripture, but it is. Within this “Table of Nations” we see, like a giant funnel, the sprawling nations narrow down to one line—Abraham’s line from whom will come the Messiah. Behind the noise of God’s anger, Babel’s judgment and the clamor of scattering nations a solitary song is sung. It’s the song of salvation, steady and strong, and it will only grow stronger until Shiloh comes. In wrath God remembers mercy (Hab. 3:2). Scripture Reading: Ps. 16 Evening Srv.: No evening service due to VBS preparations. Please use this time to honor the Lord’s Day but making Christ the special focus of family discussion and worship. Last two “Mature Members Moments: Become an Expository Listener: Listen for the main point of the text to apply to your life. The impact of the main point will be greater when we familiarize ourselves with the text, prepare our hearts through prayer and generate discussions of the passage after the sermon with fellow Christians and our own family. Everyone is a Theologian: Whatever we dogmatically think about God is theology. The question is not “will you become a theologian?” but “what kind of theologian are you?’ With every exposition of God’s Word we develop a better understand of who God is which directly impacts the way we understand his nature and his dealings with us. Learn to love sound doctrine! Read theology. It is our heirloom to protect. Without it all we have are flimsy speculations as to who God might be and one cannot have a relationship with that kind of god. It is popular today for churches to speak negatively about doctrine and then turn around and claim that God can be referred to in the famine gender, or that he surrenders his authority to man on earth or that he will never send anyone to hell. Those are incredibly doctrinal statements. To speak negatively of doctrine is just another way the listeners’ ears are being tickled. We cannot escape the fact that we are theological beings. The Christian’s duty is to have sound doctrine. We are already doctrinal theologians. “If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, 4 he is conceited and understands nothing.” (1Ti 6:3-4 NAU) “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.” (2Ti 4:3-4 NAU) “holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict.” (Tit 1:9 NAU) “But as for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine.” (Tit 2:1 NAU)
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