Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Text: Acts 24

Theme:  Enemy of the Bible: The Procrastinator

Notes:

The Gospel demands urgent action because time is limited, and the enemy is fighting against us

The Mind of a procrastinator

1. They are curious but not serious.
2. They are spiritual but not Biblical.
3. They choose convenience over expedience.
4. They are more concerned about the sensual and temporal than the spiritual and eternal things.
5. They Avoid conviction whenever possible.

Why you shouldn’t procrastinate

1. You don’t know when the moment of opportunity will pass.
2. You don’t know when you will die.
3. You don’t know when Christ will return.
4. The more you know, the more you are responsible for.
5. Now is the time to respond to God’s goodness.

Speaker: Pastor Jeremy Herbert

Theme: Freedom that Lasts

Text: Mark 5:1-20

Notes:

Jesus Christ delivers desperate sinners who will declare His salvation to others.

1. We see a slave who is desperate
2. We see a savior who delivers.
3. We see a servant who declares.

Live it out

1. Remember our Savior suffered to serve.
2. Remember that God uses imperfect servants.
3. Remember that we are most like Jesus when we bring gospel hope to desperate people.
4. Remember we were delivered to declare.

Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Text:  Hebrews 1:1-4

Theme:  Jesus Christ, the King

Notes:

Preacher: Jeremy

Herbert

Text:

Theme: Christ, Prophet, Priest, King

Notes: As Priest,  He is God’s reconciliation.

Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Text:  Acts 24

Theme:

Notes;

The gospel demands urgent action because time is limited, and the enemy is fighting against us.

1. They are manipulated by satan.
2. They are motivated by earthly pursuits and sensual desires.
3. The will malign our character.
4. They will misrepresent the facts.
5. They will mislead people.
6. They will mistake our dependency as weakness.

Live it out!

1. Jesus has already defeated satan.
2. Jesus is building his church and hell can’t stop it.

Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Text: Acts 22:1

Theme:

Notes:

Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Text:  Genesis 3:8

Theme:  Shame and the Need to escape

Notes:

When we deal with the shame biblically, we can break free from the cycles of alienation, fear and escape

Shame is the deep sense that you are unacceptable because of something you did, something done to you, or something associated with you. You feel exposed

1. Humiliation- we feel naked and exposed
2. Contamination- we feel dirty or unclean
3.  Alienation- we feel like an outcast or outsider

Shame–> Alienation–>Fear–>Escape

God’s answer for shame from sin we commit is…

Repentance and faith which results in cleansing and restoration.

1 John 1:9

Psalm 31, 32, 38

1 Cor 7

2 Sam 11-12

God’s answer for shame from sin committed against us is…

Know that Christ hears, helps, and heals.

Exodus 3:9

Acts 9

“Disgrace is the opposite of grace. Grace is love that seeks you out even if you have nothing  to give in return. Grace is being loved when you are or feel unlovable. Grace has the power to turn despair in to hope. Grace listens, lifts up, cures transforms and heals.”

“Christ doesn’t deny our painful emotions…He seeks to heal them. Grace transforms and heals; and healing comes from hearing God’s Statements to you, not speaking your own statements to your self. God’s grace  to you dismantles the beliefs that give disgrace life. Grace re-creates what violence destroyed.”

-From  “Rid of my Disgrace: hope and healing for Victims of Sexual Assault.” -Justin and Lindsay Holcomb

God

‘s Answer for  shame from inherent sin is…

Understanding our “already, but not yet” state while embracing our new identity and His transforming power.

2 Cor 3:18

Live it out!

1. Identity: I am crucified with Christ. (Galatians 2:19-21)
2. Unity: I don’t do this alone.
3. Reality: I can live differently by faith. (1 John 3:20)
4. Fidelity: Christ will always love me.

Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Text:  Genesis 3:7-11

Theme:  Shame and the Need to Escape it

Notes:

When we deal with shame biblically, we can break free from the cycles of alienation, fear and escape

Shame- Feelings associated with (but not limited to) failure, public exposure, disgrace, embarrassment, social rejection, ridicule and dishonor.

“Shame is the deep sense that you are unacceptable because of something you did, something done to you, or something associated with you. you feel exposed and humiliated.” -Ed Welch

1. Alienation: we feel like an outcast or outsider.
2. Exposure: we feel naked and exposed.
3. Contamination: we feel dirty or unclean.

Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Text: Acts 21: 27-40

Theme:  The Church on Fire

Notes:

1. Christ gives us compassion.
2. Christ gives us consistency.
3. Christ gives us courage.
   1. Christ gives u the courage to expect, endure and embrace suffering well.
      1. Expect to suffer for Christ.
      2. Embrace suffering with purpose.
      3. Endure suffering with joy.