2025-01-12 - Fellowship (week 2) - Jack Spender
2025-01-05 - Fellowship (week 1) - Jack Spender
2024-12-15 - Faith - Jack Spender
2024-12-08 - The Man of Sin - Walter Gomez
2022-06-26 The Christian Wardrobe with Ed Sarabia
Notes:
What did Bible characters wear? John the Baptist wore a camel hair jacket and leather belt. Elijah wore a similar outfit. The priestly, Levitical outfits are well described in the Old Testament.
Colossians 3:12-15. Garments to wear among friends.
Put on = wear
These garments are not physical. They have spiritual value.
“As the elect of God” - these garments are for the believer
Put on “bowels of mercy,” i.e. a heart of compassion. Do not be calloused toward people in need.
Put on forbearance. We are all different with different personalities. Do we feel frustrated and critical of the differences in others? Do we value the ways our strengths can help others and how their strengths can help us?
Put on forgiveness. Do we cultivate a willingness to let go of wrongs done against us? Do we release the “right” to inflict consequences on another person?
Colossians 4:14. Above all, put on love. (see also John 13:35)
When we put on garments, people do not see our nakedness. They see what we are wearing. They identify us by the type of clothing we wear. Do our spiritual garments identify us as Christians?
It’s hard to love someone we don’t know.
It’s hard to know someone we don’t interact with.
Let’s get to know each other!
What are you wearing today? Are you wearing a heart of kindness? Do others see kindness and patience when they see you? Are you clothed in humility?
Ephesians 6:10-17. Garments to wear when facing enemy forces.
Put on the WHOLE armor of God. Put it all on. Do not wear partial armor. Partial armor leaves the soldier vulnerable.
The Wardrobes of the Christian (Recap)
Personal, private. Romans 13:14
Public, among friends. Colossians 3:12-15
Public, facing an enemy. Ephesians 6:10-17
2022-06-19 The Kinsman Redeemer with Walter Gomez
Notes:
Elimilech’s brother, Salmon, had married Rahab. Boaz was the son of Salmon and Raham
Christ’s great compassion, mercy, and love motivated Him to redeem us. This redemption required great resources. It required His blood. He alone had the recources to pay the debt for redemption.
Around the cross, people were not thanking Jessu for His sacrifice. He endured the wrath of God alone.
When Abraham was about to sacrifice Isaac, God intervened. There was no intervention between Jesus and His sacrifice.
From the time of Jesus’s birth, people tried to kill Him. To this day, people reject Jesus.
Jesus knew he would be rejected and suffer death on the cross. He came anyway because of His love for us.
Jesus touched the dead, the lepers, the sick. Others would not touch these people because it would make them unclean. Nothing could contaminate Jesus.
Jesus could turn water to wine, walk on water, heal the sick, and multipy food because creation is subject to the creator.
The Lord has turned our mourning to dancing. He has paid our debt. He has redeemed us.
The Mature Christian with Ed Sarabia
Psalm 51 with Jonathan Good
What is the passage actually saying?
Am I coming to this scripture with an assumption of what it means and what it is addressing?
Am I missing what God is saying because of my presuppositions?
What is the basic, literally meaning of the words and phrases?
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old. Hidden sin eats from the inside out.
Defining Key Words
Mercy - stopping down as a father kneeling to look at his son eye-to-eye.
I cannot come up to You, God my Father. Will You come down to me?
Loving-kindness - the attribute of God’s pity
Because You have pity, will You stoop down to me.
Blot - to smooth over with oil
Lord, will you smooth over my transgressions to remove the friction between me and Thee?
Takeaways
We need to come to God with our sins. When we do, the sin is dealt with, forgiven, and moved on from.
After we have reconciled with God, there is a washing that continues after the singular event is dealt with.
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The Good Shepherd (part 1) with Dan Uhrlass
Truth in 2 John with Walter Van Wyck
Truth -- true, nothing concealing, nothing hidden.
Fidelity (high faithfulness) -- the state of being the case
John 8:23-25
Can things come in that overshadow and cloud the truth we are walking in?
Confess = agree (Yes, I robbed the bank.)
Repent = to turn away (I'm sorry I did that.)
Jesus -- Jehovah is Salvation
Christ -- Messiah, anointed one (as a proper name)
What can hinder love? Pride, jealousy, lack of forgiveness, bitterness, discouragement, etc.
Our love toward each other is to be protected so it is not battered or diminished.
Jesus is not a way,
He is the way.
Jesus is not a truth,
He is the truth.
Jesus is not a lifestyle,
He is life.
Acts 4:24-29, Ps 2:2. Hebrews 1:8, Ps 45:6-7. Jn 12:3, Jn 4:25-26, Jn 1:14, Heb 4:15, 1 Jn 3:5, 1 Jn 2:22, 1 Jn 2:26, 1 Jn 4:2
