Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Theme:

Text:

• John 1:14, 16
• Colossians 1:19, 2:9-10
• Ephesians 3:14-19
• 2 Corinthians 3:18

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Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Theme: Gather, Grow, Go

Text: Ephesians 3:8-21

Notes:

1. Gather
   • gathering is the reality of Christ’s love
     • God exists in relationship
     • God calls us into that relationship
   • Christ our brother
     • Rom 8:29
     • Heb 2:11
2. Grow
   • growing is the response to Christ’s love
   • just as with plants, good roots are necessary for survival and growth
     • we must be rooted in Christ
     • seek to know Christ and His love
     • I seek to help others do the same
3. Go
   • going is the revelation of Christ’s love to the world

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Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Theme: Gospel-Rooted Joy and Change

Text: Romans15:13

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Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Theme:

Text: Romans 15:14

Notes:

1. “Full of goodness”
   • Christlike character
     • moral excellence
     • 1 Peter 3:10
   • Goodness delights in the character of Christ
   • Goodness is developing the character of Christ
     • God expects progression, not perfection
       • Progress in Christlikeness will require intentionality and effort
       • The world is always pushing against us–if we are not pushing forward we will be pushed back
       • As God works in each of our lives, He uses our respective strengths to help one another’s respective weaknesses
     •  Goodness is defending the goodness of Christ
       • We seek for God to be glorified and turn away from and seek to change those things that dishonor Him
       • “…Christ could not sit idly by while God’s character was impugned”, –Jerome
       • Galatians 6:1-2
       • Jude 1:20-23
       • Hebrews 10:24-25
2. “Filled with all knowledge”
   • specifically, gospel knowledge
3. “Able to instruct one another”
   • able to counsel, confront, and encourage

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Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Theme: Contentment

Text: Philippians 4, 1 Timothy 6

Notes:

1. Focus on godliness
   • “godliness with contentment is great gain”
   • Deuteronomy 8:18, “the Lord your God…it is he who gives you power to get wealth”
   • God is both the source and the object of our joy and contentment
   • Godly contentment doesn’t preclude wise and holy ambition–it simply precludes making wealth the source or object of our happiness
2. You can’t take it with you, but you can send it ahead
   • 1 Timothy 6:7, “we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.”
   • Luke 16:9, “make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth,”
3. Learn to live without so that we can learn to live with
   • 1 Timothy 6:8, “if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.”
   • We learn to focus on spiritual joy when we are distracted by things
   • “The soul that is only content with things will never be content”
4. We must watch our desires
   • We must avoid distraction from present reality
   • We must avoid attempting to fill soul emptiness with temporal wealth
   • We must avoid seeking status in temporal wealth
5. Craving wealth always ends badly
   • 1 Timothy 6:9, “those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.”
   • Jeremiah Burroughs, ‘The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment’, having much is more dangerous than having little, because you can afford harmful temptations
   • When you cling tightly to things it hurts more when they are taken away
   • Wealth tempts us to be prideful
   • Wealth tempts us to oppress others
   • Micah 2:1-2
6. Wealth tempts us to trust ourselves
   • Hosea 13:6, “but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.”
   • Contentment results in generosity
   • 2 Corinthians 9
   • Matthew 6:19-27

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