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Sermon Notes • Matt Hardy • Psalm 42 | Oh My Soul Why Are You Cast Down, Oh My Soul? “We should, in general, reassure Christians suffering from depression that most often their damaged spiritual relationships and feelings are not the cause of the depression, but the consequence of it.” “I’m Not Supposed to Feel Like This” Psalms 32:1-4 1 Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. 3 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah Psalms 52:3-5 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Philippians

Sermon Notes • Mark Schledorn • Psalm 139 | How Well Do You Know the God Who Knows You So Well Exodus 20:18-19 “Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.” John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal live. John 3:17-18 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be save through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. In light of the cross, God’s inescapable knowledge of me becomes “He knows me!” God’s inescapable presence becomes “He is with me!” And God’s inescapable power becomes *“He is for me!” * Zephaniah 3:17

Sermon Notes • Joel Fair • Psalm 146 | Praise the Lord *I Three Looks at the Psalm * A. Literary Work of Art B. Liturgy of the Psalms C. Exposit View II Application A. Praise the Lord! B. Participate in the story C. Hallelujah Isaiah 61:1-3 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified. Colossians 1:15-17 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and

Sermon Notes • Matt Hardy • Paul In Rome *1) God is Sovereign and will accomplish his will * a) The spread of his word b) The salvation of his people c) The glory of his name 2) There is no promise that life will be pleasant for us here a)  This is not your best life now b)  Sorry Joel Osteen Everyday is not a Friday c)  Jesus, Paul, Peter, Stephen, all the disciples d)  The Millions of martyrs around the world since *3) We are called to endure * a)  2 Timothy 4:6-8 4) Acts is a story about God a)  Not about Peter, Paul, or Stephen b)  God Alone is faithful and good 5) A call to the faithfulness of the ordinary by example of the extraordinary a)  We are called to obedience in the everyday Philippians 1:12-13 12 I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, 13 so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonme

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Miguel Medina • **Suffering Breeds Servanthood CONSEQUENCE COMFORT Paul was able to comfort his co-travelers because: * 1. He sought God’s presence at all Cmes * 1. He knew to Whom he belonged * 1. He lived to serve his Savior * 1. He trusted God’s faithfulness COUNSEL R. Kent Hughes “ACTS - The Church Afire” “Paul was mature in Christ but was still being shaped through trials. We are often objective-oriented but God is process-oriented. We just want to get to Rome, but God is even more interested in how we get there.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon “There is no attribute more comforting to His children than that of God’s sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe trials, they believe that Sovereignty has ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them.”

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Mark Schledorn • 1. What is Paul’s goal? 2. How does he achieve that goal? 3. From where does he get the power to achieve his goal? Reasonable proof * Jesus performed myriad miracles * Jesus appeared to many following His resurrection, including more than 500 at one time * Many of Jesus’ followers were martyred for their Gospel proclamation 1. What is Paul’s goal? To share the Gospel with everyone with whom he comes into contact. 2. How does Paul achieve that goal? By identifying with the lost and appealing to their reason. 3. From where does he get the power to achieve his goal? From the knowledge that he forgiven, accepted and adopted into Christ. He knows to whom he belongs. Acts 26:6-7 “I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers, to which the twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king! Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?” Ephesians

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Joel Fair • I. Paul before the Council/Sanhedrin 22:30-23:11 II. The Lord reveals himself to Paul again 23:11 III. A Plot to Kill Paul and God’s Rescue 23:12-35 IV. Paul and the Governors 24:1-25:12 V. Application A. Compelling Story But how does it Apply to Me? B. God is Sovereign and in Control C. As We Proclaim the Truth of God’s Word We WILL Experience Trials D. Be Glad and Rejoice Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” 2 Corinthians 11:23-28 Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequ

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Joel Fair • Acts 21:37 - 22:29 Pauls Identity as a Witness to the Gospel We are witnesses who both observe and proclaim. Acts 1:8 Paul uses his identity as a Jew to create an avenue to proclaim his identity as a Witness Paul Confirms his Identity as a Witness of Jesus Like many other cases in the Gospels and Acts the healing from the blindness was the proof of the spiritual healing Matthew 9:4-8 Paul is Given the Will, Voice and A Sight of the Righteous One Colossians 1:13-14 1 Timothy 1:12-17 Paul Embraces the Call to Proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Romans 9:30-10:4 I often ask why I do not proclaim Christ with this same conviction? It is because I do not believe the Gospel that I am sharing. Paul did not deny his identity but leveraged them for the telling of the Gospel. Jew of Jews / Greek / Educated / Roman All of these were used so that he would be able to Proclaim the Gospel. Witness was his greatest Identity. Galatians 2:20 What identities do we have that we, like Paul, can lever

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Joel Fair • Question #1 What is the title of our series through Acts? WITNESSES Question #2 What were the apostles in the book of Acts? WITNESSES Question #3 What are we called to be in the world today? WITNESSES Question #4 Whose gospel are we called to be a witness to? JESUS Acts 1:8 Matthew 28:18-20 Five things to look at in the passage that Paul is revealing in his missionary life and his address to the elders at Ephesus Remember the Encouragement Paul gave Remember the Example Paul Set Remember the Gospel He Preached Protect the Flock Do it all in Relationship I. Paul’s Encouragement - Vs 1-12 A. Vs 1 - After encouraging them B. Vs 2 - Given them much encouragement C. Vs 7-11 - The sovereignty of God to save and resurrect (Same sovereignty throughout all of Acts to both give and take life) 1. Remember Peter raising Dorcas from the dead in Acts 9 2. Ananias & Sapphira were killed in Acts 5 3. Even the air we breathe is a gift we think we are entitled to D. vs 12 - Not

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • 1. THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN THE BAPTIST What the passage tells us: • The Effectiveness of John the Baptist’s ministry • Necessity that Jesus is the Christ. • Relationship between the Holy Spirit and faith in JESUS as the Christ. The passage raises a few questions: • What is the difference between the baptism of John and the Baptism of Jesus? • What is the relationship between the timing of these disciples’ belief, their baptism and the Holy Spirit coming on them? • Is the Holy Spirit coming on them in this way something that should always happen when a person believes? 2. INTRODUCTION TO THE RIOT 3. NO LITTLE DISTURBANCE • This line of business of ours will come into disrepute • The temple of the great goddess Artemis will be regarded as nothing • Artemis is about to be brought down from her grandeur 4. GREAT IS ARTEMIS OF THE EPHESIANS 5. PAUL WISHED TO GO 6. THE TOWN CLERK 7. THE GOSPEL CONFRONTS CULTURE Are there any teachings in the scriptures that you need to allow

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • 1. PRISCILLA AND AQUILA 2. PRISCILLA AND AQUILA WITH APOLLOS 3. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES? 4. CORE-TIME CHRISTIAN MISSION 1 Corinthians 3:6 I, [Paul], planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. Romans 16:3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus 1 Corinthians 16:19 The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord. 2 Timothy 4:19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. Skye Jethani, wrote an article entitled “Mission and Recession” 1) It would mean helping people to see the missional dignity of ordinary work; communicating that their jobs matter to Christ and his kingdom, not just what happens within the walls of the church. 2) It would mean elevating the role of family and household relationships as vehicles for spiritual growth and missional engagement. 3) It would mean not extracting people from their lives and communit

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • v16-21 - A CITY FULL OF IDOLS v22-28 - YOU ARE VERY RELIGIOUS 1. God does not live in temples 2. God made the nations 3. God made mankind for himself v29-31 - GOD IS NOT US THE REALITY OF RESURRECTION Colossians 1:15–16 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. Kent Hughes The Epicureans believed that everything happens by chance, and death is the end—extinction with no afterlife. They believed there are gods, but those gods have nothing to do with the world. They were practical agnostics who believed pleasure is the chief end of man and that a simple lifestyle is the most pleasurable. The Stoics were pantheists, believing that everything is god and that whatever happened to them was their destiny. Consequently, they sought to live with apathy and detachment—

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • THE STORY THE GOSPEL THE NOBILITY They received the word with eagerness They examined the scriptures daily They believed Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son … 1 Corinthians 15:17–19 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. Mark 16:6 At the tomb they found an angel who said: Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here.

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • 1. THEY WENT TO THE TOMB 2. THEY WERE PERPLEXED 3. THEY FAILED TO REMEMBER 4. THEY RETURNED AND TOLD 5. PETER ROSE AND RAN 6. THE LORD JESUS The resurrection is not about a better way to live until we die. The resurrection is about the promise that though we will die, yet we will live. Tim Keller A faith without some doubts is like a human body without any antibodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person’s faith can collapse almost overnight if she has failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection. Kent Hughes All Resurrection-denying churches look for Jesus “among the dead.” They love the example of the dead Jesus. They preach his courage, his conviction, even his faith. Sentimentali

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • Matthew 9:5–6 For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.” Psalm 85:10 Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; 
righteousness and peace kiss each other. A. W. Pink “Who can forgive sins but God only?” (Mark 2:7). But you say, Christ was God. Truly; but man also—the God-man. He was the Son of God that had become the Son of Man with the express purpose of offering himself as a sacrifice for sin. And when the Lord Jesus cried “Father, forgive them” he was on the cross, and there he might not exercise his divine prerogatives. …
Hence it was that hanging there as our representative, he was no longer in the place of authority where he might exercise his own divine prerogatives, therefore takes he the position of a suppliant before the Father. A. W. Pink: What is the ground on which a Holy Go

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • 1. THE SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY 2. GOD PLANTS HIS CHURCH 3. CHURCH PLANT CORE TEAM 4. WHEN PREACHING CONFRONTS CULTURE 5. WHAT MISSIONARIES DO IN DISTRESS 6. THE OUTWORKING OF GRACE AND FAITH 7. RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES Philippians 4:4–7 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 1:8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God 2 Timothy 1:12 … But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed Philippians 1:3–5 I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • 1. v1-5 - ANOTHER TRIP TO JERUSALEM 2. v6-11 - EXPLAINING THE ISSUE 3. v12-21 - THE RESOLUTION OF THE CHURCH Ephesians 2:19–22 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • **THE MIRACLE & THE MESSAGE BLASPHEMY ZEAL FOR GLORY: Paul and Barnabas’ Reaction CONFRONTING THE CULTURE** Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • 1. THE GOSPEL of Jesus, Peter, Stephen, and Paul 2. TRAVEL NARRATIVE 3. THE HISTORY OF THE MESSIAH 4. THE MESSAGE OF SALVATION 5. THE GOOD NEWS IN THE SCRIPTURES 6. BLESSED FRUIT 7. GROWING CHURCH AND GROWING CONFLICT 8. Do you know the gospel? 9. Do you believe the gospel? 10. Do you continue on in the grace of God? To summarize Paul’s preaching of the gospel: 1. The gospel is according to the scriptures. 2. The gospel is forgiveness by faith alone. 3. To reject the gospel is to reject the work of God. Hebrews 3:7–8 Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, Acts 2:23 this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed Apostles’ Creed I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended

Sermon Notes • Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe • 1. Serving 2. Seeking 3. Sending 4. Implications: a. Prayer b. Fasting c. Work Acts 14:26–28 [They returned to Antioch], where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled. And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles. And they remained no little time with the disciples. Acts 9:15 he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. John Calvin The question of building the kingdom of Christ among the Gentiles was such an important matter that the teachers of Antioch had good reason to ask God earnestly to make them equal to the task.