Our Right of Passage

I. The Wonderful smell of roses!
A. My inmost being...Ps. 139:13-17; Prov. 18:14
B. Raise your head and...Job 38
C. Do you know?...Job 39
D. Most generous hands...Ps. 145

II. Hunger and thirst, the great value!
A. Hear me and live!...Isa. 55; John 4
1. Give me this water!...John 4:15
2. Leaving her water jar...John 4:28
3. They urged him!...John 4:40
B. Are you really?...Matt. 7:7-11
1. Were they really?...John 7:25-44; John 8:42-47
2. Even the dogs...Mark 7:24-30; Luke 19:1-10

III. The War "Within"
A. I will be safe...Deut. 29:9-21; Jer. 14:1-13
B. Paul's struggle...Rom. 7:7-24

IV. The need to persevere!
A. Draw near to Yahweh...Heb. 10:19-39

SONG: Voice of Truth by Casting Crowns

The Natural Man

I. So Natural...
A. Yeast or Leaven...Matt. 16:5-12
B. Tablets of Stone...Ex. 24; 32:1-35
C. The Queen...1 Kings 10; 11:1-13

II. Lamp of the Body
A. Our Eye...Luke 11:33-36
B. Symptomatic...Matt. 6:19-34
C. Their eyes...Gen. 25:24-34; Matt. 4:1-4

III. The Spiritual Man vs. The Natural Man!
A. Listen carefully...1 Cor. 2:6-16
B. Follow Me!...Luke 9:57-62; Mark 1:14-20; Gen. 12:1-5
C. The Next Level...Heb. 5:11-6:1; Matt. 5:13-16
D. Great Wealth!...Matt. 19:16-24

IV. Who Then?
A. With Yahweh...Matt. 19:25-30
B. No More Night!...Rev. 22:1-6

SONG: STRONG TOWER by Kutless

Different Paths - Are We Choosing Wisely?

I. "Get Out of Her!"
A. The Mother of harlots and You!...Rev. 18; Matt. 23:23-38
B. Rejoice, saints, apostles and prophets!...Rev. 18:20-24
C. The beast and ten horns...Rev. 17

II. "I No Longer Call You Servants..." YAHWEH CONFIDES!
A. "You are my friends if"...John 15:9-16:4
B. Yahweh's Way...Gen. 18:16-33; Amos 3:1-7; 1 Pet. 4:12-19
C. A Special Time!...Rev. 11:1-14; Matt. 17:1-13; Malachi 4:1-6

III. None of us knows!
A. Why have you?...Ps. 74; Lam. 5
B. Both supply and support gone!...Isa. 3; Hos. 2:1-13
C. The curse!...Deut. 28:15-68
D. Finally...Hos. 2:14-23

IV. In the Streets!
A. High Visibility...Prov. 1:20-33; Rom. 1:18-23
B. Welcome back, my love!...Isa. 54

Song: Something Glorious by Revive

Why?

I. Why So Much Spiritual Confusion?
A. Naughty by Nature...Gen. 6:1-13; Ps. 14:1-3; Isa. 59:1-16
B. More Crafty...Gen. 3:1-4; Job 1:6-12; 2:1-6; 1 Chron. 21:1-4

II. Why Not Just Destroy Satan Now!
A. Cleaning and Refining...Gen. 6:1-2; Job 42:7-16; Rev. 20:7-10; Rev. 2:8-11
B. The Biggest Stage...Rev. 13:11-18; 19:11-21; 20:1-3

III. Why Does the Price Seem So Great?
A. Famished!...Gen. 25:29-34; Ex. 24:1-18; 34:1-20; Ps. 73:1-16
B. Do the "good" perish with the bad?...Matt. 2:13-18; Luke 13:1-5; 2 Sam. 12:24-25; Rom. 9:10-15
C. Answers...Ps. 73:16-28; Matt. 10:24-42; Ps. 33:12-15

IV. Why Remain in the Struggle?
A. Legacy of strength and...John 5:16-18; 4:31-34; Phil. 2:5-11
B. Be wise my...Prov. 27:11; Heb. 12:7-11; Phil. 2:12-17
C. Feast of Feasts...Isa. 25:6-9

SONG: Divine Signature of Yahweh by Needtobreathe

These Necessary Things

I. A Requirement OR not...
A. A sharp dispute!...Acts 15:1-4
1. Peter's take...Acts 15:5-11; 10:1-48
2. Barnabas, Paul and James...Acts 15:12-21; Gal. 3:1-24
B. Final decision...Acts 15:22-29

II. Yahweh's law regarding blood...
A. Before the law...Gen. 9:4,5
B. Exceptions?...Lev. 7:22-27; 17:10-14; 1 Sam. 15:22, 23; Mark 8:34-37

III. Idolatry and Fornication
A. Repulsive!...Ex. 20: 3-6; Num. 25:1-16
B. Remembering Esau...Heb. 12:16, 17; Gen. 25:21-34; 27:30-38
C. Guilty as a people...rev. 18:1-24; 17:1-18; Matt. 23:23-38

IV. When Yahweh Returns...
A. Awake O Zion...Isa. 52:1-15
B. Law from Zion...Isa. 2:3-5; 1:26, 27

SONG: What Faith Can Do by Kutless

Clasping Hands

I. Joy Beyond Compare!
A. Full of knowledge...Isa. 11:1-11
1. Transforming power...Isa. 2:3-5; Heb. 4:12-13
2. The Blessed...Matt. 5:3-10
B. In just a little while!...Ps. 37:9-11
1. The Time...Zeph. 2:2, 3
2. The Action!...Jonah 3:1-10; 2 Chron. 34:14-33

II. Something More!
A. Taking Care of Business...Ps. 125:3; Num. 25:1-16; Num. 16:1-50
B. Not so much!...1 Sam. 2:12-17, 22-36
C. Judgement Rendered!...1 Sam. 4:1-21

III. Clasping of Hands?
A. The Abandonment...Isa. 2:6-9
B. Nothing new...Ezra 9; 10:1-16
C. Breaking up!...1 Cor. 5:1-13; 2 Cor. 6:14-18; James 4:4
D. Talk is cheap!...Matt. 18:15-18
E. Undersanding Mercy...Matt. 18:21-25

IV. Drawn by Yahweh
A. He is able...Isa. 59:1-15
B. Power of Repentence...Isa. 59:16-21

SONG: WHILE I'M WAITING by John Waller

Not Like Us!

Not Like Us!

I. The Greatest! 

 A. Yahshua replied: Matt. 22:34-38 

 B. Eternal Life...John 17:3, 25, 26 

 C. Essential...John 6:43-47; 8:42-47; Matt. 11:25-27 

 II. Like Yahweh!...Isa. 40:10-31 

 A. What a man sees...1 Sam. 16:1-13; 1 Kings 20 & 21 

 B. Manasseh...2 Chron. 33:1-20 

 C. "Don't let this upset you"...2 Sam. 11; 12:1-14 

 III. The Faithful City! 

 A. Take yourself...Hos. 1:1-11 

 B. Again!...Hos. 3:1-5 

 C. Discipline, reformation and redemption...Isa. 1:1-31 

   1. Cities burned...v.1-15 

   2. Yahweh's offer...v. 16-29; 24-26 

   3. Zion restored!...v. 26, 27 

 IV. Gracious and Compassionate 

A. "Call on Him in Truth...Ps. 145 

 B. "He is patient with you"...2 Pet. 3:8-14