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FAMILY NEWSPLEASE SIGN UP! One week from today we will be setting up our booth at the Cass County Fair, and one week from tomorrow we will need to have workers at the booth to greet visitors and maintain supplies. There is a clip board in the lobby with time slots for Monday through Saturday with each slot being three hours. We need two people in each slot. Some of us with flexible schedules are waiting to fill in the missing slots, but we need to spread the load around. You will have a free pass in and do not need to know anything to work the booth. PLEASE DO IT TODAY IF YOU HAVE NOT SIGNED UP YET! THANKS to everyone who helped with the highway clean up. We got it done before it got hot, even with some regulars out of town. Our thanks to Samantha Wheeler for taking a load of kids to Camp Indogan. She even called some kids that had never been before and got them to go. Thanks to all the men who have been working on the water problems under our building. A lot of hours have been spent with the insurance company, engineers, and government personnel. Hopefully we can start construction to get our classrooms back in service soon. TODAY'S LESSON
INTRODUCTION — What is your view of the Bible?
A. World view — “Western Culture Myth Relic”
I. BELIEVING GOD'S WORD IS TRUE IS IMPORTANT.
B. Christian view — Word of God with power — Hebrews 4:12. Is shown in many ways — practical guide — evidence C. Psalm 119* — a special evidence 1. An acrostic — 22 sections, 8 verses per section
2. Each section begins with the same Hebrew letter. 3. Section 1 — Each verse contains a synonym for God's Word A. Verse 14 — What value do we place on God's word? What is our guide in life? Verse 72, 97
II. GOD'S WORD KEEPS US FROM SIN.
B. Verse 24 — What is your counselor — who guides you? A. Verse 9 — See SONG: How Shall the Young Secure Their Hearts?
III. GOD'S WORD GIVES SOLID STANDARDS TO LIVE BY.
B. Verse 112 — What is in your heart? “What's wrong with … doesn't work. A. Music, movies, TV, media — No clue about standards
IV. GOD'S WORD HELPS US WHEN LIFE GETS HARD
B. Fixed standards are needed for all of us. Islam, i.e. (verses 89, 142, 144, 160). A. Verse 50 — Are you ready for tragedy? Death?
V. GOD'S WORD GIVES US A PURPOSE.
B. Verse 67 — Does it take a tragedy to motivate you? (Verse 71 and 143) A. Why do you exist? Why is there something instead of nothing? Does “survival of the fittest” work? (Verses 104 and 128)
VI. LEADS ME TO THE RIGHT KIND OF PEOPLE.
Verse 63 — 1 Corinthians 5:9-13, 15:33
VII. IT GIVES ME SAFETY AND SECURITY — TRUST.
B. Verse 79 — We are called to reject evil in the world. A. Verse 105 — Who do you trust?
B. Verse 165 — When and how do you get peace? C. 2 Timothy 4:6 — A goal for all of us. * For the Scriptures for Psalm 119 listed in this outline, please go to the BibleGateway site to view the Scriptures! THE BACK PAGEOUR EMPHASIS — THE BIBLEOur lesson today is on the Bible and why we need to use it as a guide to our lives. We live in a culture and in a time when the teachings of the Bible are being challenged on every front. God's teaching about morality, about the family, about sexual behavior, and about how we view every human being — born, unborn, young, old, and handicapped; all of these things are being attacked. Movies and television denigrate morality and entertainment personalities live in defiance of God's standards and plan for the family. Morality is being discarded in the name of personal rights and medical issues. The World Health Organization (WHO) has just issued a claim that sexual predators and sexual abuse are caused by medical issues and so a sexual predator is not morally responsible for what they do to a child or a woman. How that affects criminal acts remains to be seen, but it will at least mitigate punishment. It is important to understand that the church has answers to all of this, not by our political stance or from a tradition, but rather from what the Bible says about all of these issues. People try to discard the Bible as a book of ancient myths and stories that is out of date for modern man; but, the evidence that the Bible is true and is the best way to live is massive in the twenty-first century. Christianity has been attacked on the basis of human teachings, and most of those teachings have been in opposition to what Jesus taught, and the actions done in the name of Christianity have been condemned in the Bible. The list of examples is huge — the Crusades, the KKK, slavery, the suppression and abuse of women, celibacy, mercenary activity, etc. Our emotional response is to throw up our hands and say “I can't do anything about all that,” but change begins with one small step, and education is the start of what can become global change. Our Cass County Fair booth on what the Bible says is a start. The lesson we are studying from Psalm 119 will hopefully encourage us to realize that we can initiate change and with God's help that change will grow and we can in fact change the world. — John Clayton Our sign by the street!
Scripture links/references are from BibleGateway.com. www.dowagiaccoc.org |
